MLB Thread

[dkb]

3 hours ago, rippleintime17 said:

It's still SO early. I'm not just saying this because my team is having a slow start. It really is SO early. You don't want to see a team get too deep into a hole but right now, the team with the most wins is the Colorado Rockies. No offense to the Rockies, who have great players, or their fans, who hang on every season, but they do this every year. One year, they'll do it for good again but are the Reds and the Marlins and the Rockies going to win their divisions? Probably not. The beginning of the season is great because every team has a chance. The teams that aren't that great, the teams that start slow, the teams that are projected to do well! 

As for me specifically, I keep in mind that the Giants started 3-9 in 2015 and stayed competitive all season. The 2014 Pirates were 10 games under .500 in May and still ended the season 14 games over with a playoff spot! And there's plenty more like this. Breaaaathe everyone. It's early yet.

Thank you @rippleintime17 for the positivity!!! 

[theatremouse]

19 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

Question for Mets fans: when does Familia come back? The team has lost three straight, including two walk-offs and an eighth inning barrage that counts as the Marlins' last at-bat.

Eligible the 20th but I read something that I now can't find suggesting they won't bring him back before Friday probably.

[mojoween]

More history time!

On April 17, 1951 the Yankees lineup featured Rizzuto, Mantle (who started his first game at 19 years old and went 1 for 4 with a RBI single and a run), DiMaggio, Berra and others but that wasn't even the best part...it was the debut of Bob Sheppard as the PA announcer.

Derek Jeter's last game at Yankee Stadium was memorable in so many ways but Sheppard getting one more play at the mic will always be the most poignant to me.

[MyAimIsTrue]

10 hours ago, mojoween said:

it was the debut of Bob Sheppard as the PA announcer.

Even this non-Yankees fan loved Bob Sheppard!  In fact when my fiancé and I get married next winter we want to play some famous sports calls before the ceremony (it's a second marriage for both of us so we can't take it too seriously) and the Voice of Bob has to be one of them.

[Lantern7]

To review: The Mets have lost four straight, Jose Reyes is hitting .100, and the team is supposed to give away his t-shirt on Friday. See, this is why you can't center promotions around players before the season. If the Mets' luck was worse, Matt Harvey would have needed Tommy John surgery on both arms before his garden gnome game on Saturday.

Oh, and Bart gave up a homer in seven innings and nothing else.

[DXD526]

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Jose Reyes is hitting .100, and the team is supposed to give away his t-shirt on Friday. 

The Mets are infamous for their t-shirt blunders. My favorite was when they had a Marlon Byrd t-shirt night...on the day he was traded.

[Bort]

Empire State Building lit up with the colors of all 30 MLB teams last night

[MyAimIsTrue]

I love that!!

[navelgazer]

Ichiro hits a home run leading off the ninth versus the Mariners.  I could just cry.  The Mariners made this possibly last visit by Ichiro as an active player into something of a media/fan event, very classy.  

Edited April 19, 2017 by navelgazer

[mojoween]

Did he have a beautiful smile on his face when he crossed home plate? 

(I mean duh he's beautiful anyways so how could his smile be anything but)

[navelgazer]

27 minutes ago, mojoween said:

Did he have a beautiful smile on his face when he crossed home plate? 

(I mean duh he's beautiful anyways so how could his smile be anything but)

I really think he did as his teammates congratulated him.  This page has a couple of videos that maybe show that.  

http://deadspin.com/ichiro-socks-first-pitch-home-run-in-what-might-be-his-1794474746

ETA:  I used to get into trouble calling men "beautiful."  I'm so glad we're past that now.  

Edited April 20, 2017 by navelgazer

[theatremouse]

Mets' bullpen is starting to feel awfully 2009 to me and I don't like it.

[Silver Raven]

Man. Bumgarner is 0-3.

[Lantern7]

3 hours ago, theatremouse said:

Mets' bullpen is starting to feel awfully 2009 to me and I don't like it.

Well, Familia is coming back for the weekend. And Jay Bruce blasted two homers tonight to snap the losing streak. He ended up taking a curtain call for the crowd and he was wearing a crown in the clubhouse afterward. Now . . . why do the Mets have to play two 8 p.m. games at home in the span of three weeks?

[Moose135]

8 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

Well, Familia is coming back for the weekend.

I was listening to the game last night on Sirius - tuned in just in time to hear Bruce's second HR.  The announcers were saying Familia will be back tonight, and that Terry Collins planned to use him in the game to get him some work.

[theatremouse]

Yeah, I posted before the second Bruce homer. I still don't like seeing runs given up in the 8th and 9th, especially this many days in a row. They pulled off a win, but it's not a good pattern. I hope Familia is more of his April self than his September self upon his return.

[jennifer6973]

Eh, I hope he's the September version myself, and I hope CB Bucknor doesn't follow the Nats up to NY, God Bless the teams that have to deal with him next.

[rippleintime17]

16 hours ago, Silver Raven said:

Man. Bumgarner is 0-3.

A good example of why pitcher wins are a terrible way to assess how a pitcher is actually doing.

[prican58]

I know it's early and the Yankees could very easily have last years April show up again in June but I am so enjoying these games right now. Aaron Judge's HR last night was tremendous and in this replay it's fun to watch Austine Romine's reaction in the dugout at the end at about :40.

http://web.yesnetwork.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=1303442983

[Bort]

Oh, I know, I don't want to get too excited because it's early, but the Astros are 11 and 5, y'all! I'm just all excited and hand-flappy right now.

[prican58]

Yes, we all need to chill and just enjoy the ride. If your team was supposed to be good but isn't yet, just be patient. It could still happen. And those of us who are flying high when expectations were about 70-85 wins, we just have to expect that a hard landing may be on the horizon.

Edited April 21, 2017 by prican58

[mojoween]

OMG I just saw the news about MadBum and my jaw figuratively hit the floor.  What a dope.

"Giants place Bumgarner on DL with bruised ribs and grade 1 or 2 left shoulder AC sprain after dirt bike accident"

[jennifer6973]

I bet his next contract will have a codicil saying he is not allowed to do anything dangerous during the season.  (They were just discussing this on MLB Now)

Sorry Giants fans.

[Silver Raven]

6 minutes ago, mojoween said:

OMG I just saw the news about MadBum and my jaw figuratively hit the floor.  What a dope.

"Giants place Bumgarner on DL with bruised ribs and grade 1 or 2 left shoulder AC sprain after dirt bike accident"

Dammit.

[rippleintime17]

Ohhhhh, Madison. I suppose we're lucky that we had this much time without any kind of injury (it's his first DL stint EVER) but this still stings. 

39 minutes ago, jennifer6973 said:

I bet his next contract will have a codicil saying he is not allowed to do anything dangerous during the season.  (They were just discussing this on MLB Now)

Sorry Giants fans.

I don't know. Bum is not your typical dude. He owns and runs a ranch, where he ropes cattle daily, rides horses, chops down trees and carries them around on his shoulders, etc. His potential for injury has always been high. It sucks that it happened on something he was doing for fun but I'd be surprised if that changes much. Just hoping he actually is able to fully come back from this.

[MVFrostsMyPie]

When it rains it pours. Or freezing drizzles like the game against the rockies. Oh and apparently the team bus backed into a parked car. Usually I use baseball as a distraction from life, but continuing from last season into this season, be had to distract myself from baseball with life. 

The one highlight for today was the dodgers losing.

[mojoween]

I turned on the TV for the first time today a little while ago and it was naturally on YES and they were showing Game 4 of the 96 Series.  My son (born in 97) asked me who won and I said I didn't know and he said how could you not know?  I said well your father and I had been married for three months and most likely we were playing Magic The Gathering or D&D at that time.

It's amazing how we lived like cave people back then.  I had no idea what inning it was or the score or how may pitches Bielecki had or what his velocity was or what the count was.

It's not as much of a big deal nowawadays but twenty years ago seeing Straw and Boggs as Yankees was weird.

[smittykins]

Hey mojo, can you find today's game anywhere?  I know it's on WPIX, but usually one of the Syracuse or Rochester stations picks it up, and I don't see it.  I have to listen to it on the At Bat app. #FirstWorldProblem

[mojoween]

It was on My 43, channel 6 or 7 in Syracuse if I'm remembering correctly.

Which is a bummer because now that I'm out and about, I have to use At Bat because it's not on FOX Now.

Edited April 22, 2017 by mojoween

[smittykins]

I didn't think to look there(it's generally 3, 13 or 16 on my system).

ETA:  I'm totally losing it over Carlos Peña's description of Aaron Judge on MLB Tonight.

Edited April 22, 2017 by smittykins

[jennifer6973]

I saw an interesting fact today (for me a Nats fan):

Out of the last 55 games at Citi Field the Nationals have beat the Mets 41 times.

[mojoween]

@MVFrostsMyPie on a scale of 1 to MadBum on a dirt bike how angry does this make you?

[MVFrostsMyPie]

Ha! I'd say unfortunately he has at least 1 parent whose phone he borrowed that has terrible taste in phone covers (and baseball teams) but another parent who at least knows how to dress the kid properly. 

[Lantern7]

Weirdness: Mets will be hosting the Braves from Tuesday-Thursday. That's where they opened the season three weeks prior. Huh?!?

Thursday is a getaway day game: Matt Harvey vs. Bartolo Colon. I probably won't go, but I'll think about it. With the Mets' luck. Bart would hit two grand slams.

[bosawks]

Lord knows I love the Sox but that Machado stuff was crap today.

Farrell, it's April, calm it the eff down!

[ebk57]

2 hours ago, bosawks said:

Lord knows I love the Sox but that Machado stuff was crap today.

Farrell, it's April, calm it the eff down!

I was there (it's going to be that season where the Os lose every Sunday game.  Sigh...).  All I kept yelling during the whole thing was "I have dinner reservations!"  Because I did.  Thank goodness, because if dinner hadn't been fabulous, the day would have been a total loss.

[Ms Blue Jay]

On 4/20/2017 at 7:58 PM, kariyaki said:

Oh, I know, I don't want to get too excited because it's early, but the Astros are 11 and 5, y'all! I'm just all excited and hand-flappy right now.

Haha and the Blue Jays are worse than the opposite of that.  Oh, lordy lordy.

The game today (vs Angels) was more fun than all of the other games I've watched this season combined.

[jennifer6973]

I loved that Marcus Stroman had a complete game.

 

I also loved that THE NATIONALS SWEPT THE METS.

and I think the Yankees lost today to the Pirates.

Sorry about your bad luck team Mets fans.

[Bort]

The Astros can't seem to make a sweep happen but winning every single series thus far works for me.

[Lantern7]

Terry Collins is in his seventh year as manager of the Mets. Has his gig ever been in jeopardy? I'm aware that the team is basically a MASH unit, but I would think Sander Alderson may have (figuratively) stroked an axe a few times.

[catrox14]

I'm just here to say...the Rockies are in 1st place in the NL West, and have a legit bullpen, swept the Giants and damn this feels good!!!

[MVFrostsMyPie]

Don't jinx your team. Or do, I'd be okay with that. :) You never know who could get traded or injured in the next few months.

[catrox14]

9 minutes ago, MVFrostsMyPie said:

Don't jinx your team. Or do, I'd be okay with that. :) You never know who could get traded or injured in the next few months.

HA! Well hopefully none of them are going dirt bike riding anytime soon. I did feel bad for MadBum, that sucked.

I'm not saying Rocktober 3.0 just saying after the craptastic past few seasons it's pretty nice to be on top thus far.

[MyAimIsTrue]

Apparently the Braves can't beat anyone not named the Padres.  Sure they may have a shiny new unnecessary stadium at the middle of a major interstate interchange in the 'burbs but they still have a shitty team.  I'm sure the novelty will wear off quickly.

[Moose135]

10 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

Terry Collins is in his seventh year as manager of the Mets. Has his gig ever been in jeopardy?

I remember there were rumblings (and more) going into 2015 that he wouldn't be around much longer if things didn't change.  Getting to the World Series certainly helped his cause.  Given that most of their vaunted pitching staff has seen extended time on the DL, some of the big bats Alderson has brought in have had their ups and downs, and Jose Reyes is your best option at third base, Terry gets some leeway here.

[attica]

On 4/22/2017 at 2:24 PM, mojoween said:

My son (born in 97) asked me who won and I said I didn't know and he said how could you not know?

If it's a game from twenty years ago still being shown on teevee, isn't 'who won' kinda self-evident?

[mojoween]

Ha!  You never know, they could have been showing the entire series, including any games they may have lost.

[xaxat]

The Yankees never lose on Yankee Classics. 

(Seriously. They don't air Yankee losses.)

Edited April 24, 2017 by xaxat

[MVFrostsMyPie]

12 hours ago, catrox14 said:

HA! Well hopefully none of them are going dirt bike riding anytime soon. I did feel bad for MadBum, that sucked.

I'm not saying Rocktober 3.0 just saying after the craptastic past few seasons it's pretty nice to be on top thus far.

Yeah. I have to say, it's not terribly difficult right now to sweep a team whose star pitcher is out for months, whose manager was hospitalized for heart issues, whose star catcher got a concussion from getting beaned in the head during opening week, whose star shortstop lost his sister-in-law and will be going on bereavement leave for half of the dodgers series, and whose outfielders got injured by crashing into walls, one breaking his clavicle, the other spraining his shoulder, and luckily so far the right fielder only having a bruised knee.

But hey, it's only April. or something. At least there's Warriors games to switch to.

[catrox14]

3 minutes ago, MVFrostsMyPie said:

Yeah. I have to say, it's not terribly difficult right now to sweep a team whose star pitcher is out for months, whose manager was hospitalized for heart issues, whose star catcher got a concussion from getting beaned in the head during opening week, whose star shortstop lost his sister-in-law and will be going on bereavement leave for half of the dodgers series, and whose outfielders got injured by crashing into walls, one breaking his clavicle, the other spraining his shoulder, and luckily so far the right fielder only having a bruised knee.

But hey, it's only April. or something. At least there's Warriors games to switch to.

FWIW, I would be celebrating whatever team the Rockies swept. So I'm not just picking on the Giants here.  

The Rockies didn't  have their starting ace whose out with a broken toe, two of their big bats are injured. CarGo was plunked in his hand on pitch and is playing with a contusion or a broken finger for all we know. 

The difference this season thus far is the Rox bullpen being much better than expected. I think it's going to be an interesting battle in the NL West this year.