Yankees finish the season with an AL-best 94 wins.
This has been a weird season. No team has been “great”.
This has been a weird season. No team has been “great”.
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Which should make for interesting and entertaining playoffs...I hope.
And the Dodgers had the NL leading 98 wins. So no team over 100 even though since the short COVID season, at least 3 teams every year had been over 100.
Chaos, rooting for chaos.
The Giants have sacked Farhan Zaidi. That's good! I half expected them to muddle through with him for another season. Glad he's gone.
The Giants have replaced him as President of Baseball Ops with... Buster Posey. That's... uhhh... I don't really know what to expect. Hope the Giants know what they're doing here. I'm certainly happier going with the new guy who knows the organization versus a retread hire from outside.
The Giants have replaced him as President of Baseball Ops with... Buster Posey. That's... uhhh... I don't really know what to expect. Hope the Giants know what they're doing here. I'm certainly happier going with the new guy who knows the organization versus a retread hire from outside.
Pete Rose has passed.
Can't dismiss the Posey appointment out of hand, but it will be interesting to see how he fares.
Ultimately, the players have to perform, and unless he suits up again, his influence on them will be limited.
If the emphasis changes, and is redirected toward strengthening the farm system and developing players, like Zaidi was supposed to, it could work. The free agents/spare parts/castoffs strategy obviously did not.
Can't dismiss the Posey appointment out of hand, but it will be interesting to see how he fares.
Ultimately, the players have to perform, and unless he suits up again, his influence on them will be limited.
If the emphasis changes, and is redirected toward strengthening the farm system and developing players, like Zaidi was supposed to, it could work. The free agents/spare parts/castoffs strategy obviously did not.
Pete Rose deserved his lifetime ban, but probably deserves to be in the hall of fame.
Betting on baseball is the ultimate sin in MLB. Shoeless Joe Jackson probably deserves the HoF himself, but will never be inducted, same with Pete Rose.
I still think baseball will eventually forgive the Steroid Era and induct Bonds, Clemens, etc., but betting on baseball will remain a no-go zone.
And yet MLB is getting into bed with legalized sports books, which is a bad and very hypocritical move IMO.
I still think baseball will eventually forgive the Steroid Era and induct Bonds, Clemens, etc., but betting on baseball will remain a no-go zone.
And yet MLB is getting into bed with legalized sports books, which is a bad and very hypocritical move IMO.
Oh it's a total double-standard in every sense of the word. MLB was high and mighty about setting a no-betting precedent with Pete Rose BUT supporting sports betting at the fan level is ok...come on. Pick and lane and stick with it. Can't have it both ways.
Absolutely infuriates me... ... More proof of Money talks bullsh*t walks...
Regarding betting on baseball as a player or manager and then having the league support and actively promote betting on baseball is some BS to the highest level. I completely agree with @pachyderm money talks...
RIP. Pete "Charlie Hustle" Rose...
On another note... Playoff Baseball is here:
Wildcard is up first:
Tigers vs Astros
Royals vs Orioles
Mets vs Brewers
Braves vs Padres
RIP. Pete "Charlie Hustle" Rose...
On another note... Playoff Baseball is here:
Wildcard is up first:
Tigers vs Astros
Royals vs Orioles
Mets vs Brewers
Braves vs Padres
And the Dodgers had the NL leading 98 wins. So no team over 100 even though since the short COVID season, at least 3 teams every year had been over 100.
Chaos, rooting for chaos.
The White Sox would like to have a conversation with you... oh wait... you meant Wins... my bad...
I'm in!!Chaos, rooting for chaos.
Love to see DET/SD World Series with DET winning again!
That would totally fry the mlb execs!
Houston is out!!! Thank you!!!!
Bud Selig, who presided over the Steroid Era, is in the HoF, and MLB was only too happy to ride the McGwire/Sosa Derby bandwagon.
I assign only a limited amount of significance to the Halls of Fame, industry awards, and that type of thing. There are strong candidates who are omitted, or never win, and admittees/winners who could be questioned.
At least with something like the Oscars, each specific category is voted on by members of that branch, all of whom vote for the bigger categories. That, of course, doesn't ensure that every vote is considered, sincere, or not influenced by irrelevant factors, but at least structurally, it is a vote of peers…of a very exclusive club.
The Baseball HoF is voted on by media members, who do have at least of decade of experience and membership in the writers' association, but have never played the game. They deserve a voice, but the voice? And the way some of them talk and pontificate?
They take themselves, and the HoF way too seriously, for what is a subjective popularity contest, as are other awards.
I don't need to see a HoF plaque to know that a player was good; they accomplished that on the field, and any extra recognition is secondary.
Yeah, I actually got to watch that game and they squandered quite a few chances.
Wow... So we are back to Dodgers and Padres... This should be a fun one.
The White Sox would like to have a conversation with you... oh wait... you meant Wins... my bad...
Yeah they blew apart the notion that every team will win 60 and lose 60 and it's the other 42 that matter.