MLB 2025 Except the Yankee's

[BringMetheHeadofLeonLett]

***** every team that's not the Dodgers

 

I mean, God bless you and yours

[4merper4mer]

2 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:

***** every team that's not the Dodgers

 

I mean, God bless you and yours

Dodgers gifted another game yesterday by umpires.  They’re the Taylor Swift of MLB.

[BringMetheHeadofLeonLett]

3 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:

Dodgers gifted another game yesterday by umpires.  They’re the Taylor Swift of MLB.

No, that's always the Yankees. 
 

The Dodgers are built on pitching.  But it is a bit fun to see things weirded out for once. 
 

It's always been pitching, and fantastic scouting, and positional coaching.  
 

Say anything you want, but the Dodgers have been built fundamentally sound every year since 1950. 

[4merper4mer]

32 minutes ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:

No, that's always the Yankees. 
 

The Dodgers are built on pitching.  But it is a bit fun to see things weirded out for once. 
 

It's always been pitching, and fantastic scouting, and positional coaching.  
 

Say anything you want, but the Dodgers have been built fundamentally sound every year since 1950. 

Calling what the Dodgers have been doing the last 10 years or so as “building” is not correct.  Buying?  Sure.  Who is the best pitcher they’ve developed since Kershaw?  Their pitching coaching has wrecked more elbows than a bad plumber.  

[SinceThe70s]

@4merper4mer You're a Cardinals fan right? What's up with "The Lou" is that a thing - maybe a Brock connection? From the outside looking in gotta question the marketing guys.

[4merper4mer]

11 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:

@4merper4mer You're a Cardinals fan right? What's up with "The Lou" is that a thing - maybe a Brock connection? From the outside looking in gotta question the marketing guys.

 

11 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:

@4merper4mer You're a Cardinals fan right? What's up with "The Lou" is that a thing - maybe a Brock connection? From the outside looking in gotta question the marketing guys.

St. LOUis.  They took it from some rap song.  At least the uniforms aren’t crazy bad like most of the city connects.  

[SinceThe70s]

7 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:

 

St. LOUis.  They took it from some rap song.  At least the uniforms aren’t crazy bad like most of the city connects.  

 

Totally got the LOU part, no clue on the rap song so thanks for that. LOU vs. Loo gave me and my son a chuckle last night. And agreed for the most part on the city connects. We actually like the Mets city connects, but many are god-awful. And while we're on topic for unis the Cardinals road blues are one of my faves.

[Pete]

 

[US Egg]

 

[Pete]

On 5/5/2025 at 10:48 AM, US Egg said:

 

I played softball for years with friends.  Our pitcher, Suds, had a decent sized nose.

Also, he was slow as molasses. Suds hits a slow dribbler towards third. Third baseman had a cannon for an arm. Suds was running fast as he could, trying for an infield single.  3rd basemen runs up, fields the ball, and unleashes the fastest throw, delivers just inside first baseline, Suds was about to touch first base, and BAM!   It hit Suds nose, blood everywhere, Suds went right down.  It was a bloody mess.  It was an awful sound, the ball impacting, the nose snapping.  Poor Suds. He took it like a champ.  

 

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[US Egg]

Hunh?

 

 

[Mike in Horseheads]

On 5/7/2025 at 4:31 PM, US Egg said:

Hunh?

 

 

I hate all of these new stats!

[US Egg]

2 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

I hate all of these new stats!

They’re cheapening one of the grandest things in sports. It’ll now be less of an achievement in certain instances? 
 

Totally ***** logic.

[Mike in Horseheads]

31 minutes ago, US Egg said:

They’re cheapening one of the grandest things in sports. It’ll now be less of an achievement in certain instances? 
 

Totally ***** logic.

Another brilliant fuking idea from Rob Manfred

[SinceThe70s]

59 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

I hate all of these new stats!

 

I don't hate all of the new stats but this one is remarkably bad.

 

It was either last year or the year before Lindor was having a really bad start to the season and my son broke out some new age stat that was a measure of how hard he was hitting the ball with the premise being he was making solid contact even though his batting average was abysmal. He ended up going on a tear the rest of the year and I filed it under things that make you go hmmm.

 

I also like WHIP for pitchers, but for the life of me I can't wrap my head around OPS. And one stat that feels totally made up is WAR.  

[SinceThe70s]

1 hour ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

Another brilliant fuking idea from Rob Manfred

 

Back to this stat, wtf? Are they going to include whether the wind was blowing in or blowing out in the calculation? Relative humidity? I need to better understand what constitutes a true HR. And while we're on the topic of HR's another pet peeve of mine is the disappearance of the HR fence. It used to be a lot simpler and satisfying to know right away whether it was a HR - it was either over the fence or it wasn't. These days there are too many times where we wait on instant replay to determine whether we're happy or sad on what used to be a definitive play.