What I'm really looking forward to is Keith Law's tweet about David Price's history of post-season mastery.
― clemenza, Monday, 29 October 2018 03:56 (five years ago) link
From 30k feet in the air Iām screaming congrats to my @RedSox baby!!!!!!!! World Series Champs! Turn up one time for the one time šš— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) October 29, 2018
― call all destroyer, Monday, 29 October 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
Over the course of the whole season, didn't LA have a better record than the Astros last year?
ā clemenza, Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:53 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh yeah, and so did the Indians (who had the better run differential and pythWL).
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 29 October 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
cora used the off days of his entire starting staff to create a whole new bullpen.
Yeah, no doubt.
― timellison, Monday, 29 October 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
I'll always think of this as the year when Jacob deGrom was the best player in the sport.
ā a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Morbs love you but I mean did you see Mookie Betts.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 29 October 2018 04:01 (five years ago) link
def best nonpitcher this year
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 October 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
(except, if he'd been healthy, y'know Trout)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 October 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link
*health is a skill*
― call all destroyer, Monday, 29 October 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link
congratulations to successful millionaire Steve Pearce on winning a new car. the car was assembled by minor-league journeymen working a second job— Jeff Sullivan (@based_ball) October 29, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 October 2018 04:25 (five years ago) link
^^^^
― gbx, Monday, 29 October 2018 04:38 (five years ago) link
The 2014 Tigers have won the World Series:
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2018/10/28/world-series-2018-detroit-tigers/1760627002/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 29 October 2018 06:31 (five years ago) link
https://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_835w/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/14/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_dom7_spts.jpg
― Andy K, Monday, 29 October 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
ā call all destroyer, Monday, October 29, 2018 12:10 AM (eleven hours ago)
lol the guy hurt hist wrist sliding into 3rd base
― k3vin k., Monday, 29 October 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
k3v, have you bought yr Machado pinstripes yet?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 October 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
as much as I enjoyed ragging on him these playoffs I'd love machado on the yanks lol
― k3vin k., Monday, 29 October 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
hopefully they stay away from kershaw if he hits free agency
― k3vin k., Monday, 29 October 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
6 straight division titles for the Dodgers, just to show you how weak the NL West is.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
oh we've moved into "The Dodgers actually SUCK" mode now, huh?
The postseason actually dummies up fans somewhat. Sometimes I think it should be abolished.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
champion tbd by metrics
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
Hey, I predicted LA would win at least two games at home!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
in the recent tradition of american politics, first you lose, and then everyone wants to lock you up
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-dodgers-might-be-in-actual-legal-trouble/
(discussed weeks ago, i know, but worth keeping in mind that the dodgers' real villains are worse than machado)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
a number of them may be former employees -- Kapler?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
Steve Pearce Outlasts David Freese in Battle of Former Pirate Greats
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
The East has had the lowest winning percentage three of the last four years.
― timellison, Monday, 29 October 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
Just out of curiosity, I was going to look at all the five-game WS and see how many times a starting pitcher with two wins did or didn't win MVP. I stopped early on the 2008 Series:
Cole Hamels (2008) - 1-0, 13 IP, 10 H, 3 W, 8 K, 2.77 ERADavid Price (2018) - 2-0, 13.2 IP, 7 H, 6 W, 10 K, 1.98 ERA
Ryan Howard (2008) - 3 HR, 6 RBI, .286/.375/.762Steve Pearce (2018) - 3 HR, 8 RBI, .333/.500/1.137
Pearce clearly had a better Series than Howard; but Price just as clearly had a better Series than Hamels. Hamels won MVP, Price didn't.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link
An explanation from one of the five voters:
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/red_sox/2018/10/inside_the_vote_for_world_series_mvp
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
yeah and dodgers put up a fight last year against the astros, so not sure what albert is on about
feel like a lot of you dudes get bogged down with the numbers a lot
― F# A# (ā), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:37 (five years ago) link
ā timellison, Monday, October 29, 2018 6:02 PM (two hours ago)
he meant the NL
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:39 (five years ago) link
I'll read as much of this as holds my interest, but "lack of star power" in the cut line is mystifying. For starters, you've got Betts, Sale, Kimbrel, Price, Kershaw, Machado--there are four-to-six HOF'ers right there. Then you move onto Bogarts, Jensen, Puig, etc. Exactly how many stars was whoever wrote that line (probably not the writer) hoping for?
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/10/red-sox-world-series-2018-mlb/574162/
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
Yes, he said the NL, so I assumed he was referring to the NL. I'm not sure the NL West is a particularly terrible division.
― timellison, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link
From the Atlantic article:
"The average baseball game stretched for three hours and four minutes this season, 10 minutes longer than it did at the beginning of the wild-card era."
Come on, ten minutes is a big deal?
― timellison, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link
it is when the game is already interminable to begin with
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
ā timellison, Monday, October 29, 2018 10:20 PM (forty-nine minutes ago)
meaning the NL overall *oh brother*
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 30 October 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
So if I were to say "Division title for Milwaukee this year, just to show you how weak the NL Central is," it would then be clear that I was not actually referring to the NL Central, I was referring to the whole league?
― timellison, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
This is news? People who don't like baseball don't like ten minutes more of baseball?
― timellison, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
baseball would be great with a pitch clock and multiball bonuses
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link
That Atlantic article is the worst POS piece on baseball you'll ever see, I don't even have the words.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 04:46 (five years ago) link
i'm guessing i would find A Star Is Born more interminable than Game 3.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 11:18 (five years ago) link
https://cdn.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screenshot-2018-10-30-at-12.55.16-PM.png
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
Millions of viewers or percentage of audience?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
the obvious solution is to make sure the cubs win every year
― na (NA), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
percentage of audience (they're tv ratings, which are correlated with % of audience, i think: https://jalopnik.com/how-tv-ratings-work-1795820157)
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
i guess the 1989 plunge was because a lot of the viewing audience was dealing with the earthquake?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
i'm guessing interest was way down after the long delay in resuming. (10-12 days?)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
This goes back a little farther:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/wstv.shtml
Series with better ratings that '86: '73, '75 (barely), '77-'81. Even with the Yankees and Dodgers, surprised '81 was so high after the strike and split-season.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
i guess the 1989 plunge was because a lot of the viewing audience was dealing with the earthquake?ā Karl Malone, Tuesday, October 30, 2018 2:19 PM (forty-five minutes ago)i'm guessing interest was way down after the long delay in resuming. (10-12 days?)ā a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius)
ā Karl Malone, Tuesday, October 30, 2018 2:19 PM (forty-five minutes ago)
ā a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius)
In the area where both teams played there were 63 deaths, 3,757 injuries & $6B* in damage ($12+B today) due to the earthquake, which may make one reevaluate your priorities.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
ā clemenza, Monday, October 29, 2018 8:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
She meant the Yankees i think.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
I swear when teams with a strong fanbase across the continent do well, like the Red Sox or Cards or Dodgers or Yankees, journalists yearn for the end of big teams and ugh always the same franchises and ugh payroll is so unfair. Once the Royals win the World Series however, the same journalists will cry for 'national teams' and wish baseball was more like the NFL where every american citizen cares for the Packers or something.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
baseball is one of the most complainy sports out there
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
well actually i think it's its main strength, baseball allows a self-criticism I would love to see in other sports.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link