2025 MLB Thread

[Sports_Freak]

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

To this point, I gotta believe that Dan Wilson mismanaged the Mariners out of the Series.

Agreed. But Toronto against the mighty Dodgers? L.A. in 6. Just because Toronto has HFA. It wouldn't surprise me if the Dodgers sweep.

[SoCalTiger]

4 hours ago, chasfh said:

To this point, I gotta believe that Dan Wilson mismanaged the Mariners out of the Series.

I agree. He almost let the Tigers advance pitching to Carpenter as well.

[SoCalTiger]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Agreed. But Toronto against the mighty Dodgers? L.A. in 6. Just because Toronto has HFA. It wouldn't surprise me if the Dodgers sweep.

Dodgers are rolling four maybe five games max.

[gehringer_2]

20 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

Dodgers are rolling four maybe five games max.

we can hope they peaked too soon.

[SoCalTiger]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

we can hope they peaked too soon.

Indeed but doubtful. Maybe best they win so they don't bid on Skubal ?

[Hongbit]

Jays in 5 

LA’s starters drop back from otherworldly to just really good.  Toronto takes advantage of the Dodgers sus bullpen.   Bichette coming back turns out to be huge as Toronto’s bats come alive.  

[IdahoBert]

I was a Dodgers fan for one year in 1982 when I was laid up from a motorcycle injury and it was the only baseball on the radio where I lived. I loved Fernando, but always knew Garvey was a prick. Vin Scully was great.

But that short-lived Bleeding Dodger Blue part of me has long since expired. I’m pulling for Toronto for lots of reasons, but I don’t have much hope for them. 

[chasfh]

Tell you what I'd love to see for Game 1, which we sometimes see during Stanley Cup playoff games:

Rather than [RecordCompanyName] recording artist [ArtsitName] singing the Canadian national anthem while the crowd respectfully stands at attention, I hope the the stadium AV folks considers cuing up the song for the crowd and then letting them belt it out unaccompanied by music. Can you imagine 40,000+ people lustily belting out "O Canada" at the top of their lungs and then erupting afterwards with the biggest cheer you've ever heard?

Man, I get chills just imagining it.

Edited October 21 by chasfh

[Tenacious D]

6 hours ago, chasfh said:

To this point, I gotta believe that Dan Wilson mismanaged the Mariners out of the Series.

Was thinking the same thing last night.  Seattle had the more talented team, but we had the better manager.

[CMRivdogs]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

Tell you what I'd love to see for Game 1, which we sometimes see during Stanley Cup playoff games:

Rather than [RecordCompanyName] recording artist [ArtsitName] singing the Canadian national anthem while the crowd respectfully stands at attention, I hope the the stadium AV folks considers cuing up the song for the crowd and then letting them belt it out unaccompanied by music. Can you imagine 40,000+ people lustily belting out "O Canada" at the top of their lungs and then erupting afterwards with the biggest cheer you've ever heard?

Man, I get chills just imagining it.

Is Nancy Faust available. Would the Sox be up to loaning her out for game one? That along with the fans belting O Canada would be awsome

[papalawrence]

3 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

I was a Dodgers fan for one year in 1982 when I was laid up from a motorcycle injury and it was the only baseball on the radio where I lived. I loved Fernando, but always knew Garvey was a prick. Vin Scully was great.

But that short-lived Bleeding Dodger Blue part of me has long since expired. I’m pulling for Toronto for lots of reasons, but I don’t have much hope for them. 

You were a Dodgers fan?!

 

 

 

J/K

[lordstanley]

The Jays won their 2nd World Series in October 1993. No Canadian-based team has won a Stanley Cup since then but here are the Jays back to compete for another championship. 

[oblong]

Eugenio had a beef. Saw the ump cam where he told him “that was the same ****ing pitch you called a ball”

[casimir]

23 hours ago, Biff Mayhem said:

I dislike the facade that fox sports is putting on. Everyone with a brain can tell Arod, Jeter and Papi aren’t buddies and probably can’t stand each other. It’s so contrived and fake how they try to pretend those guys are old friends. 
 

The handoffs where they refer to each other by name are completely awkward. 

I avoid watching them.  They're awful, at least the few times that I watched them.

[casimir]

19 hours ago, Biff Mayhem said:

When it’s not my team, I’m interested in stories. I like the story of Seattle never making it to a World Series in their entire 48 year history. 
 

I took the same pleasure with the long losing streaks of the Cubs, Sox and Sawks. Then they all blew it by winning. 
 

So I have Seattle, which doesn’t matter except October of 25 so it’s not a sustained enjoyment, and I have Cleveland 1948. I thoroughly enjoy that. 

I've got an amount of sympathy for that 2001 Seattle team that won 116 games and lost to the Yankees 4-1 in the ALCS.

[casimir]

4 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Is Nancy Faust available. Would the Sox be up to loaning her out for game one? That along with the fans belting O Canada would be awsome

https://lostballparks.com/pages/most-first-day-listens

30 minute interview with Faust.

Edited October 21 by casimir

[IdahoBert]

3 hours ago, papalawrence said:

You were a Dodgers fan?!

 

 

 

J/K

It was a more benign version of that brainwashing scene out of A Clockwork Orange. 

[Screwball]

4 hours ago, oblong said:

Eugenio had a beef. Saw the ump cam where he told him “that was the same ****ing pitch you called a ball”

Doesn't change the point, but I don't see a 5 bubble in the strike zone.

ON EDIT; Now I do. I didn't look way up there.

Edited October 22 by Screwball

[papalawrence]

56 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Doesn't change the point, but I don't see a 5 bubble in the strike zone.

ON EDIT; Now I do. I didn't look way up there.

And he was leading off the inning. Was a huge call

[lordstanley]

Interesting to hear manager Schneider say he was expecting Speier to be brought in so when he found out it instead was Bazardo vs. Springer he really liked that matchup 

 

[lordstanley]

The full original broadcast is on YouTube and I think I will watch some of it tonight. One of my early baseball memories. Remember that winter ordering with my parents' help the black and white 20 minute silent highlight film of the '75 Series which we played on a projector in our basement.

[oblong]

7 hours ago, lordstanley said:

The full original broadcast is on YouTube and I think I will watch some of it tonight. One of my early baseball memories. Remember that winter ordering with my parents' help the black and white 20 minute silent highlight film of the '75 Series which we played on a projector in our basement.

That was also the same night that a new show on NBC debuted, hosted by George Carlin, called NBC's Saturday Night.

Perhaps you've heard of it?

 

[casimir]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

That was also the same night that a new show on NBC debuted, hosted by George Carlin, called NBC's Saturday Night.

Perhaps you've heard of it?

 

I think about Carlin's baseball vs football skit when seeing how football fields and stadium get seemingly cushier and more advanced.

[chasfh]

20 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

I was a Dodgers fan for one year in 1982 when I was laid up from a motorcycle injury and it was the only baseball on the radio where I lived. I loved Fernando, but always knew Garvey was a prick. Vin Scully was great.

But that short-lived Bleeding Dodger Blue part of me has long since expired. I’m pulling for Toronto for lots of reasons, but I don’t have much hope for them. 

I agree that the Dodgers are the betting favorites, and it could be fairly argued they are a better team. But in the end, it’s a bat-and-ball game where luck has a huge hand in determining the outcome. Besides that, Toronto and LA have similar team RC+, the Jays have superior defense, and they’re getting Bo Bichette. OTOH, the Dodgers have a much better and deeper pitching staff, and I would think it’s a done deal that Shohei is pitching Game 3 next Monday (which, of course, I am going to miss watching with a rescheduled softball playoff night to play). I don’t foresee a boring blowout.

[papalawrence]

Okamoto is posting from Japan. Struggled with upper velo, but looks intriguing. Plays 3b, 1b and OF. Good k and bb rates. Perhaps Harris will kick the tires

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