Fman99 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 5:54 amI came home and went to bed fully expecting a game 6 and return trip to Cali. So a pleasant surprise to wake up and find out they lost lol

Interestingly that is too bad due to the fact that the Dodgers have still yet to win a World Championship in Chavez Ravine since 1963!

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 12:09 pm Still, it'd be kind of embarrassing to play all or part of the season as a guest of a division rival.

Then again, much of their “fanbase” is made up of transplanted members of those divisional rivals’ fanbases ;)

It looks like the Blue Jays Spring Training complex in nearby Dunedin is currently the leading candidate to be a temporary home for the Rays. Like The Trop, it's on the St. Pete side of the bay, as is the Phillies' Clearwater park. The Yankees train on the Tampa side, plus, they're the Yankees. Sti...

Ryan Thompson for #2?

Pedro Astacio comes to mind about #5

You can look #4 up! Casey Stengel

3 is Bobby Bo

This series is uninteresting because there’s no juice to the matchup. No underdogs, no surprises, no teams that have engineered a turnaround. This is an uncompelling and uninteresting series regardless of how one feels about the teams. Gotta say, this is the first time I've heard the argument that ...

He was a fun addition to MLB. Can you hear the guns Fernando comes to mind when he got shelled in a game which was rare. Very good pitcher. I remember a Fernando/Fernandez game which was a classic big dark haired guys with similar names who struck out a lot of guys game. I think Sid won but I’m not...

Tommy Lasorda had no such scruples and even in his rookie year was showing signs over over-work. As noted, he was driven into the ground by 26. The screwball is a brutal pitch on the arm for a reliever. For a starter logging 250+ innings per season, it was crippling. Its why we, nor the A’s faced h...

Jason Turnbow’s They Bled Blue is also another good read/listen on that 1981 Dodger season.

MLBS (I’m pretty sure) Erik Sherman’s Daybreak At Chavez Ravine is a great read, or listen as I did, for a great overview of Fernando’s life and career. Focusing of course on the Dodgers’ efforts to gain the adoration of the Latin American communities that hated them ever since communities were disp...

4 is not Tom Phoebus ;)
I think I told that story earlier here, TL;DL Richard Neer of WFAN once was convinced someone talking about the 1960s Oriole who had a hell of a rookie season was being silly with Seaver’s name and was really talking about Seaver

3 is El Sid

Todd Zeile for 4

Nieuenweis for #5?

3 HoJo?

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2024 11:57 pm Well, The World Series is going to be at least half-boring.

Better hope it’s not a repeat of 1904 or 1994! ;)

OE, already guessed…RMPL

What is the earliest a long term contract has ever been extended? ;)

Kind of curious actually. And I’m not counting restructuring so you get paid years after the contract technically ended.

They should also name an official list of MLB All-Stars from 2020, even if no game was played. They did create an unofficial list, but Baseball Reference and the like don't recognize it. Who has? The Sporting News made one in 1945 (or was it ‘44), picked by the skippers, and that unofficial pair of...

Centerfield wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 11:44 am NLDS: Philadelphia. 2007, 2008

I would extend that all the way to the end of that run…SHOULD HAVE BEEN US DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!

Also just add forever 1988 to a Dodger LCS matchup. Even though we are 2-0 in series against them since, getting revenge on them will never be over! ;)

Of course rooting against the Yankees. It's kinda strange that I'm actively hoping to rematch the Royals in the WS but I'd want no part of a rematch with the Yankees. Yeah, I do know one legit Royal fan IRL, a former co-worker who grew up there, but the Met fanbase, specifically in the region of th...

In the current format there have been three years of best-of-3 wild card rounds, 12 series in total. The Mets were involved in the only two that went three games. All ten of the others were 2-0 sweeps. I think it’s more incredible to think that the division winner is now 2 for 6 in these series! An...

Other than DAMN HE’S STILL AROUND Perez behind the plate, I’m pretending this is the 1976-1980 Royals vs the Yankees