2026 MLB (Non-Tigers) Thread

[oblong]

2 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

If they are twins, I think he has a solid defense.

If that’s the case then yeah. Especially if he could see things not working out. Might be worth losing your job over.  They can never take it away from you.   That’s up there with walking on the moon in feats that nobody can top at a cocktail party. 

[IdahoBert]

12 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

maybe shouda just joined the LDS?

 

Sister Wives. 

[gehringer_2]

7 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Sister Wives. 

exactly. Sister Wives, Wive's Sister. Sounds close enough to me.

[Tenacious D]

23 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Sister Wives. 

If Salt Lake City ever gets a baseball team, I hope that is the team name.

[Tenacious D]

Pablo López (Twins) getting his 2nd TJ surgery.  A bad team takes another hit.

[IdahoBert]

Bill Mazeroski died. He’s noted for his game 7 1960 World Series 9th inning walk off homer against the New York Yankees. I had both of these baseball cards when I was eight years old. But like my innocent youthfulness, they have also departed. I had already become a Tiger’s fan by the time these cards came into my possession in 1961. I knew the Yankees were the main enemy because they were always ahead of the Tigers in the standings in 1961. 

[CMRivdogs]

20 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Bill Mazeroski died. He’s noted for his game 7 1960 World Series 9th inning walk off homer against the New York Yankees. I had both of these baseball cards when I was eight years old. But like my innocent youthfulness, they have also departed. I had already become a Tiger’s fan by the time these cards came into my possession in 1961. I knew the Yankees were the main enemy because they were always ahead of the Tigers in the standings in 1961. 

Maz was an integral member of that Pirates team that  broke the 33 year drought for the Pirates. To an eight year old kid from Western Pa (somewhere between McKeesport and Irwin) Maz was probably my favorite player. 

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Just wanted to add my with had a conference in Pittsburgh in 2024, while she had meetings I took a pilgrimage to the old Forbes Field site. It's part of the Pitt Law school, I believe, or at least home plate is implanted there. Left Field wall is nearby,  

Edited Saturday at 03:49 PM by CMRivdogs

[IdahoBert]

37 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Maz was an integral member of that Pirates team that  broke the 33 year drought for the Pirates. To an eight year old kid from Western Pa (somewhere between McKeesport and Irwin) Maz was probably my favorite player. 

My brother-in-law who died at age 92 last year grew up in Shenandoah Pennsylvania and was a high school baseball pitcher to whom the Pittsburgh Pirates offered a contract right out of high school and I’m assuming he would’ve started in a class D league had he accepted.

He declined the offer because he was smart, good at math and science, and he instead joined the US Air Force during the Korean War becoming an electronics engineer. He did this to get the G.I. bill so he could go to college and ended up working for IBM and writing code and stuff all the rest of his working life.

He was an astute baseball fan, and when I went to games with him, his focus was so intense you were eveloped in his bubble of enthusiasm and perspicacity.  

[guy incognito]

I feel kind of sheepish admitting this, but as someone who wasn’t around for his playing days my first association with Maz is him being the guy who hit into the triple play that Oscar missed while Felix had him on the phone about franks and beans. (”Take your frankfurters and… !”)

 

[Biff Mayhem]

22 hours ago, guy incognito said:

I feel kind of sheepish admitting this, but as someone who wasn’t around for his playing days my first association with Maz is him being the guy who hit into the triple play that Oscar missed while Felix had him on the phone about franks and beans. (”Take your frankfurters and… !”)

 

That’s a deep cut. 

[IdahoBert]

Nick Castellanos is playing first base today in the February 25 game in Peoria in cactus league competition with the Padres vs. the Angels. Apparently the Padres and the Mariners share the same ballpark. A small scattered crowd is there. Pretty much no one in the stands and almost no one on the berm.

And as before in a previous game I checked out in this ballpark, the camera work is strictly minor league. Nick did somehow drive a run and score a run although with no hits but I’m too lazy to look up why.