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1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Just asking because the conversation right up to your post was about Mike Trout, and he did have a potential claim to that at one time. 

This thread is taking some strange turns.

First, Trout's career is over.  Then he's the greatest player in the history of the game.  

Another home run by Trout tonight.  His 6th homer.  He now has a 166 wRC+  His career is over.  

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Without Javy’s slide being overturned—without his heady swim move around Salvy’s tag attempt—he’s called out and we’re still watching baseball right now.

Without Perez's home run, we are still watching baseball now too.  Maybe not me!  But everyone else would be.  

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Maybe he got a note. Thankfully Dan didn’t get the same note.

BTW, here to say Javy’s slide was arguably the difference between winning and losing. For sure, it’s the reason we’re celebrating a win at this very moment instead of watching yet another inning.

Awesome slide by Baez, but Perez's home run was also the difference.  

34 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Have you been lately?  Dublin in particular is one of the more expensive cities in Europe.  Not Switzerland expensive but still a bit spendy. 

Living is smaller Irish towns can be affordable though.  If I were retire to Ireland, it would be that.  

2 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

I also remember kids on the playground using the n word while saying eenie meany miney moe...catch a _____ by the toe.

Yeah, I heard that one in the 70s too.  

1 minute ago, diaspora04 said:

Good deal for McGonigle, too, because he will still be reasonably young when this deal ends.

yes, He'll be able to sign a massive contract at that time.  

1 minute ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

very rich now.

 

Awesome deal for the Tigers.  I have more confidence in McGonigle continuing his success that any young Tiger in a really long time.  He's got great talent and the baseball smarts to know how to use it.  

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

n word was still in very wide currency in '50s America.

I had friends that used it in the early 70s.  Whenever a fight broke out among us, they would shout out "Fight, fight, n***** and a white".  I never thought it was funny and knew it was wrong.  I don't know whether that was a common expression at the time or whether it was just them.  I had some friends from weak familiies.  My house was was the main gathering place for my group of friends.  I figured out out later it was because my parents were nice to them.   

When Von Hayes went to the Phillies. Pete Rose said: "I was suprised to find out that you were white because everybody told me how fast you were." To give the devil his due, Rose was not racist though.  He reportedly went out of his way to befriend Black players at time when things were still segregated.  

5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Already spiking the football on Gage Workman to the full credit of Al Avila, are we? 😁

The second and fifth round picks were pretty good!

11 hours ago, romad1 said:

This is insane...from his 1976 season. 

 

I have always suspected that his career ending injury had more to do with the insane number of innings he pitched as a rookie more than overcompensating for his Spring training knee injury. 

47 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

What if Dingler is great?

McGonigle is getting all the attention, but Dingler has been really impressive too going back to last year.  Both are players who have a good chance at being players who play in multiple allstar games.  

14 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

I would have thought a few of you old farts would have mentioned when Fidrych beat the Yankees on Monday Night Baseball in ‘76.

Other than 1984, That might be #1 for me.  

2 hours ago, Edman85 said:

I don't know who "they" is, but in the myriad national podcasts/ outlets I read, some behind paywalls, I have heard 80 hit thrown around about him but don't remember by whom.

I have heard 70 and 80.  80 is rarely every even thrown around, so just the mention is significant.  

16 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Feel kinda bad for the guy. He never got to play on a contending team.

He did play in one playoff series in 2014, but they got swept the Royals.  That shows that he is mentally weak and lacks the RBI mentality.  

10 minutes ago, diaspora04 said:

Insufficiently gritty?

He just plays to pad his stats and increase the number of MVP and HoF votes he gets.  

Trout hit two home runs tonight.  His wRC+ is up to 156.  For what it's worth, he also leads the Majors in runs scored.  

2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

not sure if 2022 was talking about McG or Ranier but either way I agree I never remember Collins being treated as that much of a deal. IIRC Iorg did get a fair amount of hype but it was pretty short lived because he never lived up to any of it. they kept pushing him up the system but he never really had a year that merited a promotion anywhere.

yeah, I now see he was talking abour Rainier.  Iorg got some hype from some local writers but was never that highly regarded in serious projections.  Most of the hype was about his defense.  

1 hour ago, tiger2022 said:

He's 20 years old so projecting him to be amazing in the future is really tough. Not saying he won't be but lots of 20 year old top prospects (he'll be 21 in July) in A ball never make it to the majors.  

Over the years the Tigers have had so many can't miss prospects like Tyler Collins, Cale Iorg and guys like that.

 

 

Tyler Collins and Cale Iorg are you comps for McGonigle? You're just messing with us now.  

2 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

53 AB’s?  Man, that’s cold

He also has an OBP of .400 and an OPS+ of 128.  Lots of red on statcast too.  He's not what he used to be, but it's not terrible.  When I read that post, I assumed he had a serious injury.  

1 minute ago, NorthWoods said:

I don't have an actual list I just know that one would be on it.   I have fond memories from nearly every era.

The 1967 heartbreaker solidified me as a fan for life.

1968 was special for an 8 year old kid, I loved every one of those guys and still do.

1972 the last hurrah of the 68 boys.

1981 oh so close with the kids

1984 the magical season

1987 the beartrap....then heartbreak.

2006 the drought is broken

2011-2014 trying to get Mr. I his WS win

2024 shocking the world

Lots of history there to pick from, would be fun to point out personal favorites and see if there's a consensus?   

1976 needs to be in there too.  

9 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Offensive on so many levels... so many levels

He managed to mock and insult Christians on both Easter and Orthodox Easter.  

18 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

Name checks out.

Late career Tanana was similar to Kenny.  Age and guile killing them.

 

Tanana's career was fascinating.  He was a young fireballer early in his career, lost it and then re-made himself into a crafty lefty.  He wasn't the only one to do that, but I don't think too many pitchers had quite the contrast in his career that he did.  It would be like Skubal losing it and then becoming Kenny Rogers.  

1 minute ago, Screwball said:

You can never have enough pitching. Ever. That is all.

That's the truest statement you can make about baseball.