Heck yes!!
Those were 4 great games.
Hopefully this next series with KC is similarly exciting.
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Those were 4 great games.
Hopefully this next series with KC is similarly exciting.
DanielOcean
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I absolutley love Caballeros style. It reminds me how I played. Dude gets me talkin like Uncle Rico to my children. Dannyocean," how much you wanna bet I can throw this baseball over them mountains?"
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DanielOcean
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Hey Mr 2000. There you go. Alrighty then. 
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Julio now with 4 straight 4 hit games (16-20) 
Actually 17 for 20. I believe that is the first time anyone has had 17 hits in 4 consecutive games. Who do these guys think they are? They've got guys balling that nobody has heard of.Julio now with 4 straight 4 hit games (16-20)
I posted before the game was over, 17-21 now. The record was 16 hits over 4 games, set in 1925. This dude is on a serious heater. GoMs.
Same.
I was beyond thrilled when he said my name in a voice over.
Hopefully the Ms can keep the momentum going and nail down the wildcard. What a run for Julio.
OK, I'm not an M's fan, never have been. I haven't seen a single minute of M's baseball this season primarily because Direct TV blacks out any games involving Seattle. I used to sometimes turn them on and if Dave Simms wasn't announcing would actually watch them. This year I don't have that option. I hear guys bragging about their favorite teams and then find that some teams they are bragging about are bloody awful. (Kansas City, 24.5 games behind with a <0.01 chance of winning the World Series) And hope springs eternal for the M's with a lifetime winning percentage of around 47% and no winning culture in place.
So I'll brag about the Dodgers. I have followed them since about 1948 when they were Dem Bums in Brooklyn. Longer than most of you have been alive, how many have followed the same team for 75 years? Today they are the best organization in baseball and the envy of most franchises for how well they are run and how they treat their players. One cause of their success is a superior farm system that has produced several Rookies of the Year over time and the reason their trades often work out so well, they just have a lot of outstanding trading capitol in the pipeline that other teams are well aware of. In the past 10 years they are the winningest team in baseball and routinely draw over 3 million fans a year to Dodger Stadium-the 3rd oldest stadium in the country and still one of the finest.
This season they started off horribly with their entire starting pitching staff on the IL and a bullpen that couldn't throw a strike across the plate with a beach ball. They truly looked like a .500 team back then but brought up some promising young rooks from the minors, made some astute trades, got rid of some dead weight and then saw the entire pitching staff start to recover. Their superstars are playing like superstars, some of the veterans they added have performed above their pay grade and a rookie center fielder is looking like a superstar in the making. A rookie pitcher is winning most of his games using a 102 mph fast ball to make his off speed pitches more effective. He looks like a potential Don Drysdale if he continues to improve. So now the machine has all of it's gears and has been fun to watch, I think they are something like 17-2 so far in August and gone from 3rd place in their division to a commanding 12 game lead at this point.
Will team chemistry and talent take them to the World Series this year? Maybe not, there are some really good teams this year, probably at least 5 that have the means to win. But I don't expect the Dodgers to fold this year like they did last year after winning 111 games, they have an itch they still need to scratch.
I pay the big bucks to have MLB on my giant TV as I wanted to see the Dodgers play for a change. For all the years I watched just network or ESPN they carried almost every Yankees-Red Sox game and seldom ever a west coast game and even more seldom the Dodgers. I am so sick of the Yankees-Red Sox that I will never watch them but now have up to about 27 feeds a day from various teams around the country. I can cherry pick the games I want to see and more importantly-the announcers I want to listen to. I watch some games with teams I am not really interested in because the announcers are so good that that they can make any team interesting. Guys that use the pronoun "We" as if they were part of the team just drive me crazy, they are so bush league. They didn't learn anything from Vin Scully. But I have to take the bitter with the sweet and the bitter is that now the mush mouthed Orel (Oral!) Hersheiser is doing the color commentary on most Dodger games. He is a crashing bore that fancies himself entertaining and cool and damned if they don't just pander to him. Admittedly he was a great pitcher but once he opens his mouth the magic is over. We miss you Vin....
So I'll brag about the Dodgers. I have followed them since about 1948 when they were Dem Bums in Brooklyn. Longer than most of you have been alive, how many have followed the same team for 75 years? Today they are the best organization in baseball and the envy of most franchises for how well they are run and how they treat their players. One cause of their success is a superior farm system that has produced several Rookies of the Year over time and the reason their trades often work out so well, they just have a lot of outstanding trading capitol in the pipeline that other teams are well aware of. In the past 10 years they are the winningest team in baseball and routinely draw over 3 million fans a year to Dodger Stadium-the 3rd oldest stadium in the country and still one of the finest.
This season they started off horribly with their entire starting pitching staff on the IL and a bullpen that couldn't throw a strike across the plate with a beach ball. They truly looked like a .500 team back then but brought up some promising young rooks from the minors, made some astute trades, got rid of some dead weight and then saw the entire pitching staff start to recover. Their superstars are playing like superstars, some of the veterans they added have performed above their pay grade and a rookie center fielder is looking like a superstar in the making. A rookie pitcher is winning most of his games using a 102 mph fast ball to make his off speed pitches more effective. He looks like a potential Don Drysdale if he continues to improve. So now the machine has all of it's gears and has been fun to watch, I think they are something like 17-2 so far in August and gone from 3rd place in their division to a commanding 12 game lead at this point.
Will team chemistry and talent take them to the World Series this year? Maybe not, there are some really good teams this year, probably at least 5 that have the means to win. But I don't expect the Dodgers to fold this year like they did last year after winning 111 games, they have an itch they still need to scratch.
I pay the big bucks to have MLB on my giant TV as I wanted to see the Dodgers play for a change. For all the years I watched just network or ESPN they carried almost every Yankees-Red Sox game and seldom ever a west coast game and even more seldom the Dodgers. I am so sick of the Yankees-Red Sox that I will never watch them but now have up to about 27 feeds a day from various teams around the country. I can cherry pick the games I want to see and more importantly-the announcers I want to listen to. I watch some games with teams I am not really interested in because the announcers are so good that that they can make any team interesting. Guys that use the pronoun "We" as if they were part of the team just drive me crazy, they are so bush league. They didn't learn anything from Vin Scully. But I have to take the bitter with the sweet and the bitter is that now the mush mouthed Orel (Oral!) Hersheiser is doing the color commentary on most Dodger games. He is a crashing bore that fancies himself entertaining and cool and damned if they don't just pander to him. Admittedly he was a great pitcher but once he opens his mouth the magic is over. We miss you Vin....
Most comments on those amazing young Royals are just a little tongue in cheek, hardly anything to brag about at this point.
Go Royals
Go Royals
Ive - Do you get the Root Sports channel 687? That's how I watch the M's on DirecTV.
DanielOcean
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ThatGuyRyRy
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Julio is the real deal. His hot streak did this to his stats
Julio Rodriguez 4 days ago compared to now
Avg: .256
.278
OBP: .319 .337
SLG: .432 .463
OPS: .751 .800
wRC+: 111 125
fWar: 3.7 4.8
That’s one of the most insane 4 game jumps I’ve ever seen lmao
Julio Rodriguez 4 days ago compared to now
Avg: .256
.278OBP: .319
.337SLG: .432
.463OPS: .751
.800wRC+: 111
125fWar: 3.7
4.8That’s one of the most insane 4 game jumps I’ve ever seen lmao
I think I saw a stat he hit more in 4 games then the Yankees did in the same stretch....Julio is the real deal. His hot streak did this to his stats
Julio Rodriguez 4 days ago compared to now
Avg: .256
OBP: .319
SLG: .432
OPS: .751
wRC+: 111
fWar: 3.7
That’s one of the most insane 4 game jumps I’ve ever seen lmao
Da Yankees is ded! Dey need a manager.....
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