ThatGuyRyRy
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And now with Dan Wilson and Edgar back as hitting coach we are prepped and ready to sit with that nostalgia for however long or next playoff drought is going to last...
Baseball 2024
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See where that young whippersnapper from Texas, Witt Jr, is hitting over .400 in his own ballpark for the year. Currently .350ish which means he’s just mediocre on the road (
). It appears that the last one to do that was some guy named Buns or Bones, or something to that, then a bunch of guys in that Little League park in Denver. For your sake I hope the Yankees don’t come calling in a couple of years. I remember when KC was the Yankees’ Fourple AAAA minor league team back in the 50s & 60s.
I'm pretty sure the owners would like to see them winning also. It would bring in even more money. I'm pretty sure they are not the type to go fishing to not catch fish.
I read that privately they gave him the last road trip to turn things around. I would imagine that he knew he was gonna get the axe by about game 6 of the trip.
We'll see what a rookie manager can do.
I suppose both things could be true, he might have known it was a possibility and still found out officially from a news report and not Dipoto himself.
This was from an article in The Athletic:
M's could have done a lot better here. It says elsewhere that Dipoto has spent over half of his career in baseball with Servais. From teammates on the Rockies, front office with the Angels, to the past 9 years with the M's. You'd think that the guy deserved a heads up call before it happened.
And that doesn't even get into the problematic leak that the M's front office has somewhere.
A shakeup was inevitable. I hope Servais lands on his feet. My main complaint with him was that he ran-out veteran players (like Mitch Garver) for too long while they were tanking; not sure why you would pinch-hit or DH someone with a BA < .170. But I'm a guy that chases ghosts with a fly-rod so grain of salt rule applies.
Here's to the next version of the M's. Wilson and Martinez will be fun to see in the dugout and it'll be interesting to see if they're interim or longer-term pieces. I'll proudly wear my Julio and Crawford jersey's at least until the playoffs. Then I'll probably root for an outlier like those amazing young Royals, or just watch football and hockey.
Go Mariners
Erich
Here's to the next version of the M's. Wilson and Martinez will be fun to see in the dugout and it'll be interesting to see if they're interim or longer-term pieces. I'll proudly wear my Julio and Crawford jersey's at least until the playoffs. Then I'll probably root for an outlier like those amazing young Royals, or just watch football and hockey.
Go Mariners
Erich
Blackdogfishing
Steelhead
Do the Ms owners want their team to win- why of course. But will they spend the money to increase the likelihood of winning or winning the world series? NO.
And why- because just as I said, the owners know their fans will enable them. Enable them to still make money because enough fans seem content with the bobble heads and fireworks etc. Until the fans stop spending the team will continue to be mediocre at best. There is a good article in the Athletic about the Phillies’ owners passion for trying to win the World Series. It is a lot more fun to watch a team like the Phillies who at least you know are doing within reason all they can to win.
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A memorable game at Dodger Stadium last night! Tampa Bay led 3-0 most of the night but were tied up late by a 3 run Dodger home run. The next innings were nail biters with both teams threatening to score but falling short. During this time Ohtani stole his 40th base of the season, a tremendous accomplishment for such a big man. Not many 6'4'' guys are suspected of being base stealers but Ohtani is breaking a lot of molds in his brief MLB career so far.
The game remained tied into the bottom of the ninth with some spectacular defense keeping the Dodgers from winning it. They loaded the bases with 2 outs and it looked like extra innings for sure but Ohtani was batting and he rose to the occasion by hitting a grand slam on the first pitch! It was his 40th home run of the year making him only the 6th man to ever go 40/40 in a season and he did it over 20 games earlier than it had ever been done before. Both in the same game. It was the most dramatic home run I have seen since an injured Kirk Gibson beat the A's in 1988 with a walk off shot on a 3-2 count in the bottom of the 9th.
The game remained tied into the bottom of the ninth with some spectacular defense keeping the Dodgers from winning it. They loaded the bases with 2 outs and it looked like extra innings for sure but Ohtani was batting and he rose to the occasion by hitting a grand slam on the first pitch! It was his 40th home run of the year making him only the 6th man to ever go 40/40 in a season and he did it over 20 games earlier than it had ever been done before. Both in the same game. It was the most dramatic home run I have seen since an injured Kirk Gibson beat the A's in 1988 with a walk off shot on a 3-2 count in the bottom of the 9th.
There are some folks who seem to take particular joy in dumping on umpires, well, I am going to highlight some outstanding umpiring. Last night home plate umpire John Tumpane initially called a foul tip/strike 3, but he immediately took and inspected the ball and changed his call to a foul ball after finding dirt on said ball (although replay is not allowed for balls and strikes, the replay from multiple angles did show it to be the correct call). On the next pitch, Salvador Perez slammed for a 2-run home run - never would have happened had Tumpane not done a simple, but often unrecognized bit of solid umpiring - now there will be folks who will say I'm just saying this because it helped the Royals and while it did help the Royals, I would still call it a great job had it been for the opposing team (Guardians). The Umps are far better than many want to give credit for, we only highlight the bad calls but fail to recognize the 95% that are the correct.
Cheers and Go Royals
Cheers and Go Royals
FinLuver
Native Oregonian…1846
Ya calls ‘em as ya sees ‘em…
And then something like this happens and erases all the good feels.
Yeah, but what happened next, and this was obviously a game that was already way out of hand - had no bearing whatsoever on the outcome
Go Royals
ifsteve
Steelhead
They do not get even close to 95% of balls and strikes correct. Not even close. Robo umps can't get here soon enough.
These are all of the games played yesterday, check the "acc" column
Out of all pitches not receiving a swing, MLB average is 94% called correctly.
Yesterday's Mariners game, in which I thought the ump was overly generous on the outside corner, but went both ways
Beat me to it, thanks
Go Royals!!!
Go Royals!!!
