Baseball 2025
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Yes, those amazing young Royals dropped their opener in extra innings. On the bright side, they're only 1 game back of the division lead
, so ...Go Royals!!!
Kid did a little better than season tickets, the card went for $1.11 Million...
Cheers to him...
Watching baseball just got more difficult. After seeing how smooth and quickly it was to challenge bad calls behind the plate in spring training, seeing bad calls go without challenge in the regular season is vexing as hell. Watching a guy walk on strike 3 or strike out on ball 4 just makes little sense when a solution already exist.
As near as I could tell, it took less than 10 seconds to determine if a call was good or bad. If they used that system on every pitch it would be instantaneous. The outcome of so many games is determined by bad calls, it is just a shame to see a promising rally snuffed out by a guy that was struck out on ball 4. Maybe next year.....
As near as I could tell, it took less than 10 seconds to determine if a call was good or bad. If they used that system on every pitch it would be instantaneous. The outcome of so many games is determined by bad calls, it is just a shame to see a promising rally snuffed out by a guy that was struck out on ball 4. Maybe next year.....
Not just you...
Man, the Dodger/Tiger game tonight was a real classic!! The Dodgers were behind most of the game but came back to tie then took a 1 run lead into the 9th only to have Detroit tie it up with 2 outs. A fantastic play at the plate sent the game into extra innings and once again Detroit took the lead with 2 outs and lead 5-3 going into the bottom of the 10th. LA tied the game with 2 quick runs and put runners on 2nd and 3rd bringing Mookie Betts to the plate. He had already given the Dodgers the lead with a solo home run and then blasted another 3 run shot for a walk off 8 to 5 win! Just two weeks ago he was so sick that he lost 18 # and at 160 now hasn't gained it all back yet but was strong enough to muscle two shots over the wall and win the game. Amazing!
Who was the Numb Nuts that said there is no good baseball until the playoffs? First week of the season and several outstanding games have been played already with the Dodgers having 3 come from behind games out of 4. I'm luvin Spring!!
Who was the Numb Nuts that said there is no good baseball until the playoffs? First week of the season and several outstanding games have been played already with the Dodgers having 3 come from behind games out of 4. I'm luvin Spring!!
Gyrfalcon22
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Dodgers are going to win 80% of their games -which comes out to 130 wins. Unless catastrophic injuries happen over 1/4- 1/2 of their roster, I don't see why not?
They are that stacked.
If injuries happen they'll buy best pieces available at trade deadline or find out Randy Johnson has been throwing and killing pigeons in AZ, and ready as a closer.
4-0 already means 126-32 rest of the way.
116 wins is old news, old standards.
Go Giants! : \
They are that stacked.
If injuries happen they'll buy best pieces available at trade deadline or find out Randy Johnson has been throwing and killing pigeons in AZ, and ready as a closer.
4-0 already means 126-32 rest of the way.
116 wins is old news, old standards.
Go Giants! : \
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A 4-0 start means absolutely nothing, there are still 158 games to be played not including post season. This is baseball-shit happens. Last season the Dodgers had their entire starting rotation down at one time. Guys get injured, go into slumps, the June Swoon occurs and the dog days of summer etch into the lineup with the attendant decline in performance. By September a fast start will probably be forgotten having been replaced by: "What have you done for me lately?"
Playing almost every day for 7 months is grueling, the travel grinds you down, the various time zones screw with your sleep, there is little time to recover from injuries and many are dealing with nagging issues well before the end of the season. It is an endurance test that only a few can pass. It takes the NFL nine years to play 162 games and even with a week between games those guys are hard put to finish a season healthy. So don't start handing out World Series trophy's just yet, it takes remarkably good fortune to win even 110 games in a season, I think the record for wins in a season is safe at this point.
Playing almost every day for 7 months is grueling, the travel grinds you down, the various time zones screw with your sleep, there is little time to recover from injuries and many are dealing with nagging issues well before the end of the season. It is an endurance test that only a few can pass. It takes the NFL nine years to play 162 games and even with a week between games those guys are hard put to finish a season healthy. So don't start handing out World Series trophy's just yet, it takes remarkably good fortune to win even 110 games in a season, I think the record for wins in a season is safe at this point.
Gyrfalcon22
Legend
I'll still stick with 130 : ).
Not betting, not hoping. I am sort of disgusted with the Dodgers payroll. Roberts is a good manager and may rest guys, but this is the 73-9 Warriors or the 72-10 Bulls, and better on paper than the surprise 116 win Mariners. Maybe San Diego or other team they play often will take a bite out of them some, and for sure, they could get in huge slumps, but so can everyone else.
I am curious about if Ohtani does pitch a lot, and if he gets the stop sign on stealing as much?
We'll check back in when they break 120 wins (not stirring up anything, just a friendly congrats to Dodgers fans at that point).
Not betting, not hoping. I am sort of disgusted with the Dodgers payroll. Roberts is a good manager and may rest guys, but this is the 73-9 Warriors or the 72-10 Bulls, and better on paper than the surprise 116 win Mariners. Maybe San Diego or other team they play often will take a bite out of them some, and for sure, they could get in huge slumps, but so can everyone else.
I am curious about if Ohtani does pitch a lot, and if he gets the stop sign on stealing as much?
We'll check back in when they break 120 wins (not stirring up anything, just a friendly congrats to Dodgers fans at that point).
So good to see a very rabid fan not thumping his chest at accomplishments and success. After all it is but a game. Guess that's why they always say "Play Ball."
The Dodger payroll probably can't be helped, they average around 52,000 fans per game over an 81 game home schedule, a half a million more fans than the next best team. As one-sided as their spending regimen is, it is probably a wake-up call for the rest of baseball. Dodger owners are dedicated to one thing-winning-something that all teams should be dedicated to and many are. But there are too many owners that own a baseball club as a page in a portfolio or a "Look what I've got!" ego trip. I think a lot of you guys are familiar with a Pacific Northwest team that has been around for almost 50 years and has a winning percentage of .477 over that period, not a good indication of a desire to win. Perhaps if some of the high powered businessmen that can afford to own a ball club would treat their purchase more like a business than a glamorous hobby things would be different.
Gyrfalcon22
Legend
Edited to not take hope away from the new season for local fans : )
Yankees flashing some crazy numbers right now in today's game.
Yankees flashing some crazy numbers right now in today's game.
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Nine home runs, count them, nine. A Yankees record. Judge with 3, off to a decent start.
Go Royals
Gyrfalcon22
Legend
3 pitches into the game, 3 home runs. Incredible.
That's worth a real chuckle, Pat!
Any response to the new bats? They seem like a brilliant idea to me since they are well within the configuration specified by MLB. Moving the mass closer to the batters hands seems to be a way to increase bat speed whereas having the main mass at the end of the bat would appear to result in more of a pendulum effect that would be slower to accelerate. Add to that the tendency that most batters have to grip the bat right down at the knob and you have the recipe for a longer slower swing. Whatever the reason, batting averages have fallen considerably in the past 25 years from around .268 in the early part of this century to .243 last year. That is a huge decline, I think there were only 8 guys in all of baseball that hit .300 or more last year. So I'm all for anything that will improve batting averages and make the game more interesting.
Bat speed may be somewhat analogous to swing weight in a fly rod, move the center of inertia closer to the batters hands and the bat speeds up, remove mass at the tip of a fly rod and swing weight decreases. I don't know if it is a macho thing or what but choking up on a bat gives better control and more bat speed yet few do it. A guy named Barry Bonds did it (along with some illegal drugs).
Bat speed may be somewhat analogous to swing weight in a fly rod, move the center of inertia closer to the batters hands and the bat speeds up, remove mass at the tip of a fly rod and swing weight decreases. I don't know if it is a macho thing or what but choking up on a bat gives better control and more bat speed yet few do it. A guy named Barry Bonds did it (along with some illegal drugs).
Nothin' against the bats, and I want to see balls put in play. Slow bats mean strike outs given the increased pitch velocity over that last decade plus - hope this helps.