MLB 2019

[SeanDMan]

9 hours ago, Maxx said:

But what a lovely reception the crowd gave him!

 

7 hours ago, Meacon said:

I didn't watch the game, but apparently two women very clearly flashed their boobies from behind home plate during the game tonight. 

Are these related?

[The Buscher]

Brewers bench coach Pat Murphy has emerged as a mystery candidate for the Mets job, but Andy Martino of the Daily News quickly jumped onto Twitter to say that Murphy is not the "bombshell candidate" he referenced last week.

Naturally though, he still won't reveal who the bombshell candidate is because it would give away his source.  Which in and of itself is another example of why sports journalism has gone to crap.  If someone wants to tell you something off the record for your own knowledge, that's one thing.  But you're generally not supposed to report on that kind of stuff at all.  If you choose to report something, you're doing your readers a disservice by purposely withholding information.

[Meacon Keaton]

Yeah if you have something to report and don’t report it, then you’re not a reporter. Just another twat online playing “I know something you don’t know.”

[MalaCloudy Black]

18 hours ago, Meacon said:

I didn't watch the game, but apparently two women very clearly flashed their boobies from behind home plate during the game tonight. 

And they caught lifetime bans from MLB for it.

 

[Taxation is Theft]

Pirates have fired GM Neil Huntington. Much deserved after the Archer trade. 

[Meacon Keaton]

3 hours ago, Rey Cloudy said:

And they caught lifetime bans from MLB for it.

 

Buncha' titty-hatin' fascists...

[The Buscher]

I’m rooting against the Nats but they had one of the worst calls of all time called against them only for Rendon to immediately respond by going deep.  He’s earned every penny he’s going to get this winter.

Really does feel like the type of moment that will carry a team to a title.  Unreal that the home team might lose every game.

If nothing else I can’t imagine Scherzer not pitching a gem tomorrow after everything he went through on Sunday.

[Meacon Keaton]

First time a World Series has gone seven games with the road team winning each game. Homefield advan-what?

[GhostMachine]

They said that there were only two times in the 114 previous World Series that road teams won the first five games, but I don't remember what years they said. I wonder if road teams have ever won the first six or all seven?

[RoHitman Reigns]

5 hours ago, GhostMachine said:

They said that there were only two times in the 114 previous World Series that road teams won the first five games, but I don't remember what years they said. I wonder if road teams have ever won the first six or all seven?

No road team has ever won all six to begin, MLB app answered that nice and easy for me.

Strasburg will be the first to go 5-0 in the post season in terms of wins as Randy Johnson and Francisco Rodriguez both are 5-1.

Tonight's matchup is also the first time we shall have two pitchers who have won Cy Young awards going against one another between Scherzer and Greinke. This should be interesting.

[GhostMachine]

What stunned me is that Verlander is now 0-6 in the World Series. If he never wins a World Series game, that may hurt when its time for Hall of Fame voting on him. At least his first year or two of eligibility.

Hoping the Nationals win tonight, but won't be too upset if the Astros do.

 

[Meacon Keaton]

There’s no way his World Series record prevents him from being voted in the Hall.

And apparently this is the 1420 series among the MLB, NHL, and NBA to go seven games and it is the very first where the road team has won the first six. So not just baseball, but the first time in the three major sports that do best-of-seven.

[GhostMachine]

I didn't say it would prevent him from getting in. Just that he might not be in on his first or second ballot because of it.

[Meacon Keaton]

225 wins+ and 3000+ strikeouts over the course of his career is more important than 0-6 in the World Series I feel. And who knows how many more of those wins and K’s he will get before he’s done. Six losses won’t negate a whole career of greatness. If he was a borderline HoF pitcher, yes, but not for Verlander.

[RoHitman Reigns]

So far this is the least watched Series in history averaging only 11.6 million viewers even being worse than when San Fran swept Detroit

[The Buscher]

It’s been known for a while that the FOX sand the league are not happy campers if at least one team from New York, LA, Chicago, or Boston doesn’t make it.

[Maxx]

Who needs Harper?

6 hours ago, Meacon said:

225 wins+ and 3000+ strikeouts over the course of his career is more important than 0-6 in the World Series I feel. And who knows how many more of those wins and K’s he will get before he’s done. Six losses won’t negate a whole career of greatness. If he was a borderline HoF pitcher, yes, but not for Verlander.

He fact that he has a World Series ring negates his 0-6 record entirely.  

[Lowerdeck]

Good for Washington, getting their first championship

[The Buscher]

I don’t hate the Nats anywhere near as much as the Braves or Phillies, but a division rival winning a title is always going to feel sickening to me. The only time it hasn’t was the Marlins in ‘03 and that’s just because the Yankees were the most hateable team ever then. I’d have rooted for this year Yankees over the Nats easily.

Probably will never see a Mets championship in my lifetime.  Oh well.

[gunnar hendershow]

Definitely won't see an Orioles title now. This is now a Nationals market and when the lease is up on Camden Yards in 2 years they'll pack up and go somewhere giving them a new stadium and an exclusive market.