2025 MLB Thread

[VegasTiger]

On 10/4/2025 at 8:16 AM, Motor City Sonics said:

Has anything been built at that stadium location in Las Vegas. 

 

I was just reading and watching stories about what's going on in Las Vegas and that city is crumbling.      International tourism is way way down and with sports gambling being legal in so many states the lure if Vegas is not nearly as strong.  Looks like the A's picked a really bad time to move to Las Vegas.      I am left wondering if it's still going to happen or if they A's may look elsewhere.   We know Nashville and Salt Lake City would love to have teams and the timetable for expansion keeps getting pushed back (nothing will happen until the Rays and A's have permanent locations cemented).     I would love to see the A's in Vegas fall apart because John Fisher is a scumbag, but aren't most owners? 

You need to find a better place to get your news. Vegas down 10% goes from 1,000,000,000 to 900,000,000

Edited October 5, 2025 by VegasTiger

[VegasTiger]

And it's not crumbling. Don't know where that comes from.

[tiger2022]

Every time I have been to Vegas there has been a bunch of people there.  Hardly crumbling. 

[oblong]

6 hours ago, VegasTiger said:

And it's not crumbling. Don't know where that comes from.

I get Vegas related content pushed to me that pushes this narrative.  Yet when I read the comments people push back.  I know people who go there and say it’s pretty normal for them. 

[VegasTiger]

3 hours ago, oblong said:

I get Vegas related content pushed to me that pushes this narrative.  Yet when I read the comments people push back.  I know people who go there and say it’s pretty normal for them. 

Boomers like me are no longer the desired demographic. Sour grapes.

[IdahoBert]

5 hours ago, VegasTiger said:

Boomers like me are no longer the desired demographic. Sour grapes.

Is substantial progress in the building of the stadium occurring? That’s all I’m really interested in.

I doubt Vegas is going to crumble into something akin to Blade Runner 2049. 

[1776]

The new Rays ownership is scheduled to hold a press conference tomorrow morning. It should be very interesting. 

[IdahoBert]

3 minutes ago, 1776 said:

The new Rays ownership is scheduled to hold a press conference tomorrow morning. It should be very interesting. 

Oh wow. “Very interesting” is perhaps an understatement  

[VegasTiger]

8 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Is substantial progress in the building of the stadium occurring? That’s all I’m really interested in.

I doubt Vegas is going to crumble into something akin to Blade Runner 2049. 

I find it hard to believe that all of these people in very high positions are being hoodwinked for some unknown purpose by Fisher. It could be my intense desire for the Tigers to come here. Substantial progress? Maybe?

https://www.mlb.com/athletics/las-vegas-ballpark/construction-cam

[IdahoBert]

13 minutes ago, VegasTiger said:

I find it hard to believe that all of these people in very high positions are being hoodwinked for some unknown purpose by Fisher. It could be my intense desire for the Tigers to come here. Substantial progress? Maybe?

https://www.mlb.com/athletics/las-vegas-ballpark/construction-cam

Thank you so much. I don’t have a vested interest in the failure of this project although I understand how people in Oakland must feel. 

[oblong]

[IdahoBert]

Tropicana Field’s roof is being repaired and should be finished by December, and all the repairs - with a new artificial turf, surface - should be done by April 6, 2026.

https://www.fox13news.com/news/tropicana-fields-new-24-roof-panels-take-six-days-each-fully-install.amp

[lordstanley]

Dodgers’ bullpen rearing its ugly head. 

[IdahoBert]

Dodgers win, and Phillies screw the pooch failing in their comeback. 

[monkeytargets39]

Pretty amazing how much better Andrew Vaughn is playing since he was traded to the Brewers

[papalawrence]

24 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Dodgers win, and Phillies screw the pooch failing in their comeback. 

I hate the Dodgers

[IdahoBert]

3 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

I hate the Dodgers

I just dislike both teams - the Dodgers less so - but the part of me that is entirely petty and envious and resentful wants the Phillies to lose because I don’t want Dombrowski’s successes to be rubbed in our faces again. 

[oblong]

The Phillies have increased their win total each year but have regressed in the postseason at the same time. 

[IdahoBert]

I can’t honestly blame DD specifically but we went from losing one World Series 4-1 to losing the next one 4–0. So there’s a pattern of sorts going on here.

[IdahoBert]

In the second game of the series between the Cubs and the Brewers, they’re trading three run homers. What an idea, hitting a home run that counts for three runs, three whole runs. Wow that would be something. That’s like living in a dream world.

[papalawrence]

Brewers up 2 games to 0. Counsell jumped too soon. 

[Tiger337]

12 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

I just dislike both teams - the Dodgers less so - but the part of me that is entirely petty and envious and resentful wants the Phillies to lose because I don’t want Dombrowski’s successes to be rubbed in our faces again. 

I have always had a soft spot for the Phillies because my father was a Cardinals fan and we used to listen to Cardinals/Phillies games on the Radio when I was a kid.  The Philadelphia station had a strong signal and it was one of the few stations where we could listen to Cardinal games.  That was before I knew that WJR had a strong signal too.  

[oblong]

I liked the Phillies because of Mike Schmidt. Of course I rarely saw him play on TV. Then I hated them because that’s where Parrish went after he left the Tigers. Looking back of course he had to do it. 

[CMRivdogs]

17 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I have always had a soft spot for the Phillies because my father was a Cardinals fan and we used to listen to Cardinals/Phillies games on the Radio when I was a kid.  The Philadelphia station had a strong signal and it was one of the few stations where we could listen to Cardinal games.  That was before I knew that WJR had a strong signal too.  

The Cardinals flagship was KMOX, another 50 thousand watt powerhouse. I'm not sure if the nighttime signal reached Massachusetts though.

[Tiger337]

Just now, CMRivdogs said:

The Cardinals flagship was KMOX, another 50 thousand watt powerhouse. I'm not sure if the nighttime signal reached Massachusetts though.

We were able to pick that up occasionally, but it was never very clear. If we moved the radio in the right position we could hear games fade in and out of static.  We often had to guess what was happening in the game based on the crowd noise, broadcaster intonation and timimg of commercials.  Philadelphia was really strong though and Harry Kalas had such a memorable voice.