mtutiger Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 19 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said: Will the White Sox finish with a worse record than the 2003 Tigers? 1962 Mets? Games 25 thru 45 for the 2003 Tigers below: Had themselves a nice 4 game winning streak after starting 3-25.... mostly at the expense of the O's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Can you imagine a better way to get the youngs flocking to MLB than highlighting players’ charitable endeavors and talking about their parents? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gehringer_2 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 On 4/25/2024 at 4:00 PM, mtutiger said: Games 25 thru 45 for the 2003 Tigers below: Had themselves a nice 4 game winning streak after starting 3-25.... mostly at the expense of the O's The White Sox have only played 3 games against teams below 500 and won all three. They have room to normalize up. OTOH, the Royals are 5-10 against winning teams. Unfortunately, Cle is 11-7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdahoBert Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 The AL has 9 teams at .500 or above and the AL Central has 4 of them, the White Sox being the only sub-.500 team, and even they swept 3 games this weekend from the Rays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdahoBert Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 1 hour ago, oblong said: None of them appear to be wearing ladies underwear. Not that there would be anything wrong with that, as Jerry Seinfeld would say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 (edited) 1 hour ago, IdahoBert said: The AL has 9 teams at .500 or above and the AL Central has 4 of them, the White Sox being the only sub-.500 team, and even they swept 3 games this weekend from the Rays. The WhiteSox losses had held the division under 500 as a whole until the this week - Central is now 72-68. And the O's may just have lost Kimbrel. /. ..pffffffft!.../ Edited April 29 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 13 hours ago, oblong said: It looks like they'll make the change back next season according to what I've read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 19 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: It looks like they'll make the change back next season according to what I've read It seems kind of absurd with all the special uni's they do in a year now that they don't have the ability to start slip streaming them in immediately, but of course it would be more obvious to fans that a change was being made to do it in season and that would be more embarrassing for the league, which is the best reason I can think of it's going to be a "wait for the off season" move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 MLBPA's press release made a point to absolve Fanatics in this and point the finger at Nike. Probably true as what I've read is fanatics just made what Nike told them to make. But worth mentioning the investment MLBPA has in fanatics and that business relationship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 13 minutes ago, oblong said: MLBPA's press release made a point to absolve Fanatics in this and point the finger at Nike. Probably true as what I've read is fanatics just made what Nike told them to make. But worth mentioning the investment MLBPA has in fanatics and that business relationship. I blame software. No... really. In the pre IT era, if you designed a product and it worked, you pretty much left the design alone and as people wore out their old one they would buy a new one and you had steady sales. No problem. But SW doesn't wear out. So SW writers have to keep churning versions or go broke even if they add nothing useful. Net result is the idea of constant product change just for sake of change is embedded more into American business practice that it should be. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 58 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: I blame software. No... really. In the pre IT era, if you designed a product and it worked, you pretty much left the design alone and as people wore out their old one they would buy a new one and you had steady sales. No problem. But SW doesn't wear out. So SW writers have to keep churning versions or go broke even if they add nothing useful. Net result is the idea of constant product change just for sake of change is embedded more into American business practice that it should be. Truth. that extends to the corporate world as a whole. Every few years we're "upgrading" to the latest and greatest. Whether it's HR software platforms or hosting websites or simply where we store our shared files, i.e. shared drives, Sharepoint sites, OneDrive.... it's maddening. I have files all over the place now and I can't keep up. I'll spend half a day just cleaning up bookmarks. It's people just making work for themselves. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 I haven't seen much response on Max Scherzer's proposal for "bad umpires". Basically a ranking system for umpires... https://www.mlive.com/sports/2024/04/max-scherzer-offers-unique-solution-to-deal-with-mlbs-bottom-umpires.html Quote Following a rehab start for the Round Rock Express on Wednesday night, the former Tigers’ ace suggested that MLB should use an electronic strike zone to rank umpires. Then, after review, the worst get sent down to the minors while the best get to stay in the big leagues. Quote “For me going forward, how I’ve conceptualized what the electronic strike zone should be used is we need to rank the umpires. Let the electronic strike zone rank the umpires, and then we need to have a conversation about the bottom 10 percent or whatever you want to declare what the bottom is and talk about relegating those umpires to the minor leagues and getting the best umpires in the game.” “That way that the umpires are going up against themselves. There’s still a human element of how you rank umpires. It’s amongst themselves. Policing the bottom is the way to go. When I’m out there pitching, if you told me I have the 10th best umpire or the 75th best umpire, you don’t really notice much between them because they’re really good at their jobs. The umpires are actually really good. It’s really the bottom umpires we all have a problem with. If there was a mechanism to make the umpires on the bottom better, I think that would be a better to address this.” I have a feeling the Umpire Union will have something to say about this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 (edited) The challenge system is the way to go. I think the problem is that the K zone will get smaller and it will stress pitchers even more and that is probably not something they want to happen. So what do you do to rebalance the game for the pitchers a little if you take away the advantage they now have because hitters are kept guessing by erratic umpires? Or maybe you just let scoring go up. It's happened before. Nothing intrinsically bad about a 7-6 ball game. Edited April 30 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Mike Trout, off to a great start, tears a meniscus and will need knee surgery. Timetable unknown. Not expected to be season ending. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40059347/angels-superstar-mike-trout-needs-knee-surgery-sources-say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casimir Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Catching up on some buzz from around the league.... Pest control hero saves Dodgers-D-backs game from bees Removes bee nest. Sticks around to throw out the first pitch. Not a bad day at the office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Minnesota - notched its 10th straight win today (courtesy of the Palehose), but Buxton, whose OPS over the win streak is 945, tweaked the same right knee that kept him out half of last season attempting to steal 2nd, and had to leave the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports_Freak Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 Cool story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 5 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said: Cool story. Not even sure what the point is of building a ball diamond with a house taking up half the outfield. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger337 Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 This is hilarious. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports_Freak Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 9 hours ago, gehringer_2 said: Not even sure what the point is of building a ball diamond with a house taking up half the outfield. A home run hits your neighbors roof! TBH, I would also not be too happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 This post is being dropped here, only because it just hit my happy spot when I saw it today. 🙂 Sometimes, tuning in to a baseball game, even if it’s just playing in the background while I’m doing stuff, brings me such a sense of calm. 🤷♀️ =============================== “[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.” ― A. Bartlett Giamatti 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious D Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 14 hours ago, Sports_Freak said: Cool story. Just give her season tickets to shut her up. Probably just going to use it for some backyard whiffle ball games. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 28 minutes ago, smr-nj said: This post is being dropped here, only because it just hit my happy spot when I saw it today. 🙂 Sometimes, tuning in to a baseball game, even if it’s just playing in the background while I’m doing stuff, brings me such a sense of calm. 🤷♀️ =============================== “[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.” ― A. Bartlett Giamatti I have that essay bookmarked. The way he writes about Bernie Carbo is how I want to be remembered. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyMarsh Posted Saturday at 09:54 AM Share Posted Saturday at 09:54 AM Scouring the box score and I noticed that Buck Farmer is STILL pitching in the big leagues with the Reds, out of curiosity I clicked on his profile and I was shocked to learn that he is only 33 years old. Jeez did we call him up when he was 16 or something? Feels like he has been around forever and should be alot older. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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