Yeah, I actually like Philly (well........maybe not South Philly) - but really........isn't it just an adjunct to the quaint, charming burg of Camden (or that whole swath of riverside NJ?) across the river?
Don't know who Philly's CF is now..........but sometimes I swear he moves around out there a bit like Dykstra.
Padres couldn't fire Melvin as they just hired him .
But they didn't want him either. Giants come to the rescue
and say hey we want him. Padres now accepting application's
for manager.
Remarkable comeback by the Rangers last night to walk it off. Game 2 tonight from Arlington.
That was quality, intense baseball last night.
I am shamed to admit that I turned it off and went to bed, after the Rangers failed to score in the eighth. Reasons: I figured the closer was going to be money. I was sick with acute bronchitis and it was getting late. Not my dogs in the fight anyway. I said reasons, but these aren't excuses. No true baseball fan am I, apparently.
Arizona hammered Texas in Game 2. Total carnage.
Game 3 just finished. Texas won 3-1. Fun series!
That strike called on Moreno in the 9th was abysmal.
MLB Fans Rip World Series Umpire for His Dreadful Performance in Game 3 (msn.com)
Instead of having a guy on base we had a ground out.
That one *was* horrible. ~7-8 inches outside, if not 9-10. Just another example of what I posted earlier in this thread. [Sorry for not using cm; baseball is such an American game, and American baseball fans are notoriously non-metric.]
Perhaps if Perezchica had tripped Walker, it would have turned out differently.
I am going to love it, in a couple years (three at the most), when due to the robot ball/strike ump I don’t have to watch the catcher hauling every single pitch toward the strike zone and then freezing hoping to have fooled the guy.
Walter Johnson won 38 1-0 games. 😯
No player who started the Sept. 9, 1963 game for the Colt .45s was over age 21. 😯
Breaking!!: Dodgers move to Toronto!!!
Shohei Ohtani: Two-time AL MVP agrees to deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers | CNN
I'd not trust JP Morosi, even on the witness stand, even swearing on his life, even swearing upon his grandmother's virginal (pre-marital) reputations.
Ohtani: Two more MVPs.
Dodgers: No WS titles next half-century.
"No player who started the Sept. 9, 1963 game for the Colt .45s was over age 21. "
I tried to find that game on Retrosheet.org, but it says Houston didn't even play that day. Neither the day before or after, or 1962, seemed to work either.
Interesting, formalhaut. I got that from one of my old '60s Topps baseball cards I was perusing. One of those blurbs on the back they used to have. I *think* I was careful to transcribe the info correctly, as I'm usually quite careful on such things. So.........I have no explanation. Would be nearly impossible to find that card again without hours of effort, so I'm not gonna try. But I've found those things to generally be accurate. Obviously I found it to be a stunning 'stat', which is why I posted it. Puzzling.........
Edit: I just went to that site, which I'd never used before, and no.......no game for Houston is listed for the 9th. But they did play the 10th, in Connie Mack (losing 16-0). And a cursory check shows at least 3 guys over 21 played that day. So now, I'm very curious how that blurb was generated.
Further edit: They did play that date in '62, against the Mets, but again, at least 3 players over 21. Game was called after 7 innings, tied, due to curfew.
FURTHER further edit.........
They actually hosted the Cubbies on that Sept. 8, but at least 4 of these starters were over 21, and I didn't check them all:
So...............either that blurb was wrong, or I mis-transcribed what was on that card. Very likely the card was wrong, imo.
(Hope the link works. And baseball-almanac.com also shows they didn't play on the 9th.)
Ken Johnson apparently pitched 8 innings for the win. Johnson is noteworthy as being the only hurler to lose a complete-game, 9-inning no-hitter - which he did the following April in Colts Stadium.
MLB's oldest living player celebrates 100th birthday
Recently read:
"Nolan Ryan struck out 107 batters who were born after his MLB debut."--MLB Throwbacks
Wow.
Another factoid: Babe Ruth dated 216 women born after his MLB debut.
Speaking of Baseball, sad to read about Bob Uecker passing away. Such an understated sense of humor. Perfect for baseball.
Somebody - one person - did NOT vote for Suzuki to be inducted into The Hall 😳. Off with his head!!
I think one can make a case both ways, on both. Years ago, I would have said 'no' on Sabathia, too, but I can see the thesis. And he got 86+% of the vote, which speaks pretty loudly.
1. Did you read that whole article?
2. Sabathia has retired, right? To me, his qualifications are what they are. "Later", they're got gonna have changed. I know what you're saying, but that shouldn't matter. Either he's deserving or he's not. It's not like he's somebody from the '20s or '30s where perspective has dramatically 'evolved'.
Well, the BBWAA should have been doing something about this (some meathead not voting for an obvious HOFer) long ago. Maybe if player X gets 99+ percent of the vote, but not from you, you lose your right to vote and it goes to someone else.
Ichiro is almost right up there with the two biggest tragedies in this regard (I’m talking about Aaron and Mays). Ichiro might hold one of those records that may never be broken- most hits in one season. It’s 262. Baseball reference shows the pictures of the leaders in this category and they are almost all from the early days (when players actually hit .400) except for Ichiro. 262! No one even gets to 200 any more.
Oh, and he could play defense. The first time ESPN aired the Mariners their opponent (might have been the Yankees) had a player on 3rd with less than 2 outs. The announcers were talking about Ichiro’s arm and that he had a good reputation but would it hold up in MLB? The answer came quickly. The next batter flew out to right field; the runner tagged and ran; and Ichiro threw a laser to the plate beating the runner by five feet for the easy tag.
As to Sabathia, he’s clearly a HOF pitcher for how the game is played now. I wouldn’t quibble with anyone who didn’t vote him in his first year of eligibility, but he should get in early in his eligibility so I’d likely have said yes to him too his first year.
I'd reserve FIRST vote to very few (but OF COURSE Ichiro qualifies as First Ballot HOFer).
That's what I thought you meant. And while you're entitled to your opinion, of course, my point still stands. He's either worthy or he's not. This "first ballot" stuff seems like some sort of tiered award, without calling it that. Do you think the ballots that the BBWAA use intend for voters to think along those lines? I think it's more a sort of 'culture' that's been gradually inculcated into the voting. It's kinda like having a waiting room for heaven. Or it's like the nominees have to somehow "earn" their admission yet again by paying their dues of sweating out their purgatory time. To be clear.............I don't think it should be a "now or never" kind of thing. There *are* reasons to re-evaluate careers. But to blatantly withhold approval because they don't deserve "first ballot" status seems totally artificial to this observer.
Interesting follow-up(s):
https://apnews.com/article/hall-of-fame-suzuki-sabathia-wagner-42ce5b8538fc6f697cd35d1972367e1b
This is actually pretty interesting:
https://apnews.com/article/laundry-tips-stains-c355dbf7fdd8488ea90ba016775f046e
I wish they would have revealed their "secret sauces". I have discovered a few over the years, but it would be nice to know the professional list.
R.I.P.
Served WWII as radio operator, won three WS in early fifties with Mickey, Yogi, and the boys.
Tragedy has befallen NY OF Brett Gardner and his family...sincere condolences, we wish them all well...https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gardnbr01.shtml...it sounds as if the kid were a clubhouse favorite of Boone and Girardi a few years back...
No Major League pitcher is worth $25,000,000.
Maybe, $15,000,000 if they are really, really good.
I might give Sandy Koufax, in his prime, $18,000,000 if he were pitching today. Might.
Might as well say that Ken Jennings is not worth $4 million a year. Even though Alex Trebek was making more than four times that much for the same job.
Tomorrow: THE GREATEST DAY IN ALL OF SPORT (one man's opinion)...although I think it was "officially" last Tuesday with Manfred-like stuff that went down way way East...
...and I get to click MLBTV.com as if it were a morphine drip...
It's too early for baseball; should never begin until, oh, mid-April, unless they play all games in the South (including CA) before then. Not to mention..........................March Madness is FAR superior, as are the Olympics. Baseball had it's glory days; strikes and steroids ruined it for most of us.
Yeah, it has been almost all downhill since they started juicing the ball back in '21.
That's always fascinating history/fat-chewing fodder. "In the latter year [1908], the Chicago White Sox hit three home runs for the entire season, yet they finished 88–64, just a couple of games from winning the pennant.[4]
Think about that. Mind--blowing.
Pitching duels are boring.
Home runs are exciting.
Duh.
Wrong. But you can think that.