Author Topic: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON! (Read 50118 times)

catfish1957 · « **Reply #400 on:** October 09, 2018, 01:19:25 am »

Quote from: Bigun on October 08, 2018, 09:44:20 pm

Astros Win!! Astros Win!! Astros Win AGAIN!!!

Channeling your inner Loel Passe? Or was that Milo?

EasyAce · « **Reply #401 on:** October 09, 2018, 01:54:06 am »

Quote from: catfish1957 on October 09, 2018, 01:17:27 am

(1) Yankee's bullpen? You don't think the Astros bullpen is 100% better? Last year we didn't hardly have a bull pen at all, as evidence AJ's use of starters in relief. This year the pen is rock solid and now have a reliable closer in Osuna, vs. last year's head case Giles.

(2) Not much change in Houston? We added a No. 2 pitcher who might be No. 1 in 2/3 of the rest of the League (Cole). I'll venture we have the best 1-2 starting punch in baseball (Verlander / Cole) . Our No. 3 is a recent Cy Young winner too btw. The ALDS was prime example of that level of dominance.

In any case, you underestimated us last year, so I don't mind if you do it again.

Like you quoted.... "You never know" We'll know soon.

@EasyAce

Except for Gerrit Cole this team is pretty much the same as last year's World Series winner, and Verlander/Cole are a terrific 1-2 punch. But, yes, the Yankee pen is better this season:
the ERAs for the five main Yankee pitchers was 2.80 next to those of the Astros being 2.88, but the Yankee pen had a better walks/hits per inning pitched rate than the Astros pen and the Yankee pen's fielding-independent pitching rate---basically, that's your ERA without your defense factored in---was 2.68, with the Astros' pen showing a 3.08 FIP. Both pens surrendered a comparatively few home runs this season: 29 for the Yankees' five main men; 30 for the Astros'. Where the Yankee pen might be vulnerable is if they have to go to other than their five main guys, but that's their only vulnerability, and it's possible the Yankees may leave a couple of those guys off the ALCS roster if they get there. Both these bullpens are awfully close to each other, but I'd have to say the Yankees have the slight edge there especially if they have to come into a game early. The Astros pen is good if they have to get into a game early, but the Yankee pen is just a little bit better. They don't look so good today with the Red Sox battering the Yankees 10-1 in the fifth as I write, but overall they're just a little more solid.

If the Astros get the Red Sox in the ALCS, it'll be little contest---the Red Sox bullpen is a band aids-and-string mess comparatively. The key for the Astros against the Red Sox, I repeat---get their starters out of the way early and get into the Red Sox bullpen early, and often. If they do that it'll be a short ALCS; the Red Sox's bats won't be kept too quiet even against the Astros' best pitchers, but the Astros can win against the Red Sox if the Sox have to go to the bullpen too early.

Elderberry · « **Reply #402 on:** October 10, 2018, 03:37:03 am »

Boston Wins, barely.

EasyAce · « **Reply #403 on:** October 10, 2018, 07:13:08 am »

Quote from: Elderberry on October 10, 2018, 03:37:03 am

Boston Wins, barely.

@Elderberry
A blowout is well and good but there's nothing like a little hair-raiser to keep a team honest.

Now we'll see if the Red Sox's bats can overcome their half-shaky bullpen (the two guys who relieved earlier tonight were sharp, maybe the best pen men the Sox have, but the rest of the pen is rickety enough, and I'm pretty sure the Red Sox won't think about sending too many other starting pitchers to the pen ;) ) and find ways past the Astros' effective starters. Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole are no pushovers. During the season the Red Sox lost the series with the Astros three games to four, and the scoring difference between them was only three runs, advantage Astros. But you never know what might happen when a League Championship Series comes into play.

DCPatriot · « **Reply #404 on:** October 10, 2018, 07:44:20 am »

Since I was eight years old, I've grown to HATE the Yankees.

Growing up in Buffalo, NY we cheered for the Brooklyn Dodgers....the perennial underdogs.

GD Yankees seemed to always be willing to break the bank in salaries in an effort to gain the advantage.

It tickles me to this day to see Yankees going home early in the ALDS.

Payback for that little kid Jeffry Meier, who grabbed that fly ball at the wall in right field. Bastards.

Bigun · « **Reply #405 on:** October 10, 2018, 02:47:54 pm »

Quote from: EasyAce on October 09, 2018, 01:54:06 am

Except for Gerrit Cole this team is pretty much the same as last year's World Series winner, and Verlander/Cole are a terrific 1-2 punch. But, yes, the Yankee pen is better this season:
the ERAs for the five main Yankee pitchers was 2.80 next to those of the Astros being 2.88, but the Yankee pen had a better walks/hits per inning pitched rate than the Astros pen and the Yankee pen's fielding-independent pitching rate---basically, that's your ERA without your defense factored in---was 2.68, with the Astros' pen showing a 3.08 FIP. Both pens surrendered a comparatively few home runs this season: 29 for the Yankees' five main men; 30 for the Astros'. Where the Yankee pen might be vulnerable is if they have to go to other than their five main guys, but that's their only vulnerability, and it's possible the Yankees may leave a couple of those guys off the ALCS roster if they get there. Both these bullpens are awfully close to each other, but I'd have to say the Yankees have the slight edge there especially if they have to come into a game early. The Astros pen is good if they have to get into a game early, but the Yankee pen is just a little bit better. They don't look so good today with the Red Sox battering the Yankees 10-1 in the fifth as I write, but overall they're just a little more solid.

If the Astros get the Red Sox in the ALCS, it'll be little contest---the Red Sox bullpen is a band aids-and-string mess comparatively. The key for the Astros against the Red Sox, I repeat---get their starters out of the way early and get into the Red Sox bullpen early, and often. If they do that it'll be a short ALCS; the Red Sox's bats won't be kept too quiet even against the Astros' best pitchers, but the Astros can win against the Red Sox if the Sox have to go to the bullpen too early.

I think the Astros bullpen is leaps and bounds better this year than it was last year. But that's just me I guess.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #406 on:** October 10, 2018, 04:10:55 pm »

Quote from: Bigun on October 10, 2018, 02:47:54 pm

I think the Astros bullpen is leaps and bounds better this year than it was last year. But that's just me I guess.

Dang straight. Last year AJ had to pull out secondary starters as relievers to win the WS.

Thankfully Ken Giles is at least a 1000 miles from anywhere we play.

Bigun · « **Reply #407 on:** October 10, 2018, 05:17:18 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on October 10, 2018, 04:10:55 pm

Dang straight. Last year AJ had to pull out secondary starters as relievers to win the WS.
Thankfully Ken Giles is at least a 1000 miles from anywhere we play.

and

again!

musiclady · « **Reply #408 on:** October 10, 2018, 05:24:23 pm »

Quote from: Bigun on October 10, 2018, 02:47:54 pm

I think the Astros bullpen is leaps and bounds better this year than it was last year. But that's just me I guess.

They sure did a number on the Indians.

GrouchoTex · « **Reply #409 on:** October 10, 2018, 05:38:38 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on October 09, 2018, 01:19:25 am

Channeling your inner Loel Passe? Or was that Milo?

With all of the apostrophes, I'm thinking Milo....

EasyAce · « **Reply #410 on:** October 13, 2018, 10:41:34 pm »

Game One---two passed balls, two errors. Game Two---Bats with the bases loaded and one out in the top of the seventh . . . and dials Area Code 4-6-3. I'm beginning to think that having Yasmani Grandal on your National League Championship Series team is a lot like having Bonnie and Clyde run your police department.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #411 on:** October 14, 2018, 04:20:13 am »

ALCS Game 1- Houston 7 Boston 2. Houston leads series 1-0.

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Bigun · « **Reply #412 on:** October 14, 2018, 01:15:26 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on October 14, 2018, 04:20:13 am

ALCS Game 1- Houston 7 Boston 2. Houston leads series 1-0.

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GrouchoTex · « **Reply #413 on:** October 15, 2018, 02:42:31 pm »

1-1 Series now.
Coming back to Houston for 3 games..

catfish1957 · « **Reply #414 on:** October 15, 2018, 02:45:15 pm »

Quote from: GrouchoTex on October 15, 2018, 02:42:31 pm

1-1 Series now.
Coming back to Houston for 3 games..

Last night was painful. Not one of A.J.'s best moments.

TomSea · « **Reply #415 on:** December 12, 2018, 02:25:55 am »

A day late but on December 10th, 1951, Joe Dimaggio retired from baseball. He started playing for the Yankees in 1936,

https://babalublog.com/2018/12/10/my-father-used-to-tell-me-about-the-day-that-joe-dimaggio-retired/

It's a baseball mad country even still, Cuba that is. I listened to some Cuban shortwave this summer and they'd report the scores. I'm pretty sure this was "Radio Marti" which is NOT the Cuban government or in Cuba but an outreach originating from the USA to Cuba.

EasyAce · « **Reply #416 on:** December 16, 2018, 07:16:42 pm »

A's OF Piscotty wins Tony Conigliaro Award

Stephen Piscotty became an Athletic in the first place when the Cardinals, knowing his mother was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, elected to send him closer to home so he could be near her. When he returned to the A's after her death this past May, Piscotty was in the lineup against the Red Sox in Boston and, in his first plate appearance after bereavement leave for his mother's death, hit one over the Green Monster. Piscotty ended the season with career highs in home runs (27) and runs batted in (88). (It was also the first time Piscotty ever played in Fenway Park.)

That was Piscotty tapping his heart for his mother, as he rounded third after he hit that home run. He said the heart tap was his mother's way to say "I love you" after the disease compromised her speech.

And this was the home run . . .

Sorry...

To hit a home run in his first at-bat [back] like that, there was something in the air. Probably Gretchen.---A's manager Bob Melvin.

Piscotty with his mother when he was a kid rooting for the A's. The story is that when she was pregnant with him, she would hold a music box against her stomach---it played "Amazing Grace." Piscotty himself says that's his favourite song; he would play it for his mother frequently during the last months of her life.

EasyAce · « **Reply #417 on:** December 16, 2018, 07:37:02 pm »

Found a classic clip, from 1966:

Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry (then with the Giants) pitching to Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente (Pirates) and making Clemente think he's getting his grease . . . (provoking then-Pirates manager Harry [the Hat] Walker to arguing and getting tossed by the umps) . . .

Sorry...

skeeter · « **Reply #418 on:** December 16, 2018, 08:22:42 pm »

THIS is the proper way to be ejected.

Sorry...

EasyAce · « **Reply #419 on:** December 16, 2018, 08:31:21 pm »

Quote from: skeeter on December 16, 2018, 08:22:42 pm

THIS is the proper way to be ejected.

Sorry...

@skeeter
That was puppy chow!

Sorry...

skeeter · « **Reply #420 on:** December 16, 2018, 10:26:37 pm »

Hilarious. Extra style points for sure!

Polly Ticks · « **Reply #421 on:** December 17, 2018, 11:07:36 am »

The double-handed kiss at the end was quite lovely.

Slip18 · « **Reply #422 on:** December 18, 2018, 03:45:09 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on October 09, 2018, 01:19:25 am

Channeling your inner Loel Passe? Or was that Milo?

Oops! I am late.

I lost five buckaroonies thinking the Dodgers would beat the Astros! Last year I won a buck, but I was never paid.

Go figure...

And now Goldy is with the Cardinals. Jake Lamb takes over at first plate. I will be rooting for the Cardinals only because of Goldy. He deserves a ring. Miggy Montero got his when he joined the Cubbies.

Ahhhh, baseball. Hopefully, this move of ours @Cyber Liberty will be finished by Spring Training. LOL!

Baseball rules!

catfish1957 · « **Reply #423 on:** December 18, 2018, 03:49:03 pm »

Quote from: Slip18 on December 18, 2018, 03:45:09 pm

And now Goldy is with the Cardinals. Jake Lamb takes over at first plate. I will be rooting for the Cardinals only because of Goldy. He deserves a ring. Miggy Montero got his when he joined the Cubbies.

I was really hoping the Astros would have signed Goldschmidt. It would have given them maybe the greatest MLB infield of all time.

1B- Goldschmidt
2B- Altuve
SS- Correa
3B- Bregman

Alas...not so lucky.

Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #424 on:** December 18, 2018, 03:50:38 pm »

Quote from: Slip18 on December 18, 2018, 03:45:09 pm

Oops! I am late.

I lost five buckaroonies thinking the Dodgers would beat the Astros! Last year I won a buck, but I was never paid.

Go figure...

And now Goldy is with the Cardinals. Jake Lamb takes over at first plate. I will be rooting for the Cardinals only because of Goldy. He deserves a ring. Miggy Montero got his when he joined the Cubbies.

Ahhhh, baseball. Hopefully, this move of ours @Cyber Liberty will be finished by Spring Training. LOL!

Baseball rules!

We'll be done, and we will have moved away from where the Spring Training is played.

Poll

Which current Major League Baseball parks have you been to for a game?

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