2025 MLB Thread

[casimir]

4 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

Back in the 70's Bristol was the Tigers rookie league (like the FCL today) but I do not know which Bristol...def not CT

Looks like Bristol, VA per Alan Trammell’s bbref page.

[Screwball]

10 minutes ago, casimir said:

They’ve been doing this for a while.  I’m pretty sure Riley Greene did this the last time they were on ESPN.

Did you see the all star game?  Clayton Kershaw was talking while pitching.  Literally in the moment.  Now, granted, that’s an exhibition game and he was only in there for two batters.  But he was a blast on his short time on the mic.

Thank you, I had no idea. I honestly can't believe this. 

This seems like baseball 101. I almost had my head taken off by a batted ball and I WAS paying attention - and it wasn't hit by some guy on ESPN Sunday Night baseball - it was just little Ralph from down the street.

I'm old and a traditionalist. What have they done to the game I once loved? When I think they can't find new lows...

And don't get me started on how if I chose to watch these games I have to buy them through a gambling site so I can hear and read gambling stuff all game while they mention the available pitching staff who are not suspended for potential gambling violations.

Carlin would have a ball with this stuff. WTF?

[Tiger337]

20 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Thank you, I had no idea. I honestly can't believe this. 

This seems like baseball 101. I almost had my head taken off by a batted ball and I WAS paying attention - and it wasn't hit by some guy on ESPN Sunday Night baseball - it was just little Ralph from down the street.

I'm old and a traditionalist. What have they done to the game I once loved? When I think they can't find new lows...

And don't get me started on how if I chose to watch these games I have to buy them through a gambling site so I can hear and read gambling stuff all game while they mention the available pitching staff who are not suspended for potential gambling violations.

Carlin would have a ball with this stuff. WTF?

Wait until they have home run derby instead of extra innings to settle tie games.  They are seriously considering it.  

[TigerNation]

1 hour ago, Screwball said:

Thank you, I had no idea. I honestly can't believe this. 

This seems like baseball 101. I almost had my head taken off by a batted ball and I WAS paying attention - and it wasn't hit by some guy on ESPN Sunday Night baseball - it was just little Ralph from down the street.

I'm old and a traditionalist. What have they done to the game I once loved? When I think they can't find new lows...

And don't get me started on how if I chose to watch these games I have to buy them through a gambling site so I can hear and read gambling stuff all game while they mention the available pitching staff who are not suspended for potential gambling violations.

Carlin would have a ball with this stuff. WTF?

You can watch the games for free if you want.

[CMRivdogs]

9 hours ago, Shinzaki said:

Back in the 70's Bristol was the Tigers rookie league (like the FCL today) but I do not know which Bristol...def not CT

It was Bristol, Va. It just depends on which side of the main road whether it’s Va or Tennessee 

[Tiger337]

9 hours ago, TigerNation said:

You can watch the games for free if you want.

How do we do that?

They really aren't that expensive, but I don't like paying MLB and then getting endless promotion and encouragement of gambling in exchange.  

[TigerNation]

24 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

How do we do that?

They really aren't that expensive, but I don't like paying MLB and then getting endless promotion and encouragement of gambling in exchange.  

Thetvapp.to

[Tiger337]

2 minutes ago, TigerNation said:

Thetvapp.to

Thanks.

[papalawrence]

3 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

It was Bristol, Va. It just depends on which side of the main road whether it’s Va or Tennessee 

Dan Meyer was tearing it up

[Tiger337]

15 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

Dan Meyer was tearing it up

I remember that well.  I'd check my Sporting News each week and see him flirting with a .400 BA.  He ended up batting .396. I thought he was going to be a stud.  

[Dan Gilmore]

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/yankees-sign-pitcher-kenta-maeda-to-minor-league-contract-assign-him-to-triple-a-affiliate-200002283.html

 

[papalawrence]

10 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I remember that well.  I'd check my Sporting News each week and see him flirting with a .400 BA.  He ended up batting .396. I thought he was going to be a stud.  

Me too. Meyer and Leon Roberts.

[Tiger337]

13 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

Me too. Meyer and Leon Roberts.

Yes, I always connect those two players!

[gehringer_2]

32 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Yes, I always connect those two players!

yup - our 1975 outfield for the next 10 years lasted exactly one. Roberts gone after one season and Meyer after only two.

[Tenacious D]

51 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

Me too. Meyer and Leon Roberts.

So much unfulfilled hope. They were the precursor to Tram, Lou, Gibby, Big Wheel, etc. 

[lordstanley]

Oh dear, Yankees' pen blow another game. Not Bednar this time. But after the Rangers score 1 in the 9th to tie it, deadline acquisition Jake Bird serves up a 3-run home run walkoff in the 10th to lose it. After tonight the Yankees will be 5.5 games behind Toronto and 3 games behind Boston in the East, and they're only 1.5 games up on Texas for the final wildcard. They're not in a shoo-in to make the playoffs. 

[IdahoBert]

I’m just happy that with the newfound intimacy established between MLB and NASCAR, the case has been made for baseball to be mentioned in the same breath with all the real sports like professional wrestling, wet T-shirt night, and dwarf tossing. 

[IdahoBert]

6 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Yes, I always connect those two players!

 

6 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

yup - our 1975 outfield for the next 10 years lasted exactly one. Roberts gone after one season and Meyer after only two.

 

6 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

So much unfulfilled hope. They were the precursor to Tram, Lou, Gibby, Big Wheel, etc. 

Wow, I completely missed that era for the most part. I was in my early 20s, 2000 miles from local Detroit media, baseball was just a distant memory of childhood and something I’d left behind, and I hadn’t looked at the sporting news for years and spent every weekend hiking with friends in the mountains and deserts of Southern Arizona.

I did go to a few AAA games in Tucson at that time and I remember in 1975 wearing my Tiger‘s cap at a game and people walked up to me and honestly offered their condolences, one baseball fan to another. 

[davidsb623]

9 hours ago, papalawrence said:

Me too. Meyer and Leon Roberts.

And stud Ron LeFlore in CF between them.  OF of the future I thought for sure!

[IdahoBert]

Somehow someway these perfect teams full of homegrown superstars that played their way into the majors and stuck together for years as a band of brothers never really happens. 

[Tiger337]

3 hours ago, davidsb623 said:

And stud Ron LeFlore in CF between them.  OF of the future I thought for sure!

And Tom Veryzer at shortstop!

[gehringer_2]

6 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Wow, I completely missed that era for the most part.

You picked a good time to miss. Some very nondescript teams.

[papalawrence]

Thompson and Kemp were also favorites of mine back then

[Shinzaki]

Tim Corcoran and Dave Stegman were guys that never made it despite the high hopes for them

[IdahoBert]

2 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Somehow someway these perfect teams full of homegrown superstars that played their way into the majors and stuck together for years as a band of brothers never really happens. 

It did kind of happen in the mid-1980s for the Tigers, but the hopes that this would be something that would last 10 years or so doesn’t seem possible, especially under the conditions of today of rampant inequality in what some teams can afford to spend and what other teams can’t.