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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #100 on: April 19, 2024, 09:23:40 am »
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #101 on: April 23, 2024, 02:52:58 pm »
"It aint what you don't know that kills you.  It's what you know that aint so!" ...Theodore Sturgeon

The idea that somebody looked at a purple onion and called it a red onion really bothers me.   

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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #102 on: April 23, 2024, 09:21:57 pm »
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #103 on: April 23, 2024, 10:22:16 pm »
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #104 on: April 25, 2024, 10:46:02 am »


“During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.”
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The idea that somebody looked at a purple onion and called it a red onion really bothers me.   

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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #105 on: April 26, 2024, 07:56:37 pm »
Ahem...  :judge:
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #106 on: April 26, 2024, 08:11:29 pm »
Ahem...  :judge:

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I sense you're trying to say something, but the graphic is too small for me to make it out. Maybe someone with younger eyes can figure it out.


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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #107 on: April 26, 2024, 08:25:05 pm »
@jmyrlefuller

I sense you're trying to say something, but the graphic is too small for me to make it out. Maybe someone with younger eyes can figure it out.
Just noticed some sniping going on... and that was just a "bang the gavel" graphic as a warning to get back in order. (Though it appears that already happened.)
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #108 on: April 26, 2024, 09:18:45 pm »
@jmyrlefuller

   Just because you started this thread doesn't make you the hall monitor.

How about you Kiss Our Azz?

Hey there @DCPatriot I see you're being your usual kind self.  *****rollingeyes*****  Lighten up.  Life's too short.

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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #109 on: April 26, 2024, 09:23:41 pm »
No government in the 12,000 years of modern mankind history has led its people into anything but the history books with a simple lesson, don't let this happen to you.

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Re: Baseball 2024
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #111 on: April 26, 2024, 09:42:06 pm »
Hmmmm... Why, yes, I do perceive that there's some sniping going on. Never noticed any until tonight.  :shrug: :thud:

Carry on, kids.  :seeya:


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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #112 on: April 27, 2024, 12:25:01 am »
Well I know where one of the lost baseball bats ended up !

Go Auburn Tigers... I think we are last in the SEC so far this season.
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #113 on: April 27, 2024, 09:18:03 am »
I heard on the broadcast last night that Marcell Ozuna is on pace for 220 RBIs this year.  I'm pretty sure that's not actually going to happen, but can you imagine?

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« Reply #114 on: April 27, 2024, 09:38:55 am »
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Never mind, it appears you haven't.
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #115 on: April 27, 2024, 09:40:33 am »
How about you Kiss Our bleep?
Check who the cat mod of this board is before you start running your fingers again. Or did you not learn anything from your last suspension?
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #116 on: April 27, 2024, 11:41:41 am »
It's so difficult for some folks to stay on topic.
I don't follow baseball much anymore, but Marcell Ozuna's season thus far sounds incredible - including his .344 batting average.
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #117 on: April 27, 2024, 11:54:25 am »
It's so difficult for some folks to stay on topic.
I don't follow baseball much anymore, but Marcell Ozuna's season thus far sounds incredible - including his .344 batting average.

I don't follow baseball much anymore either, except when it's either the Tigers or Royals playing - I just happened to look and they are playing today.  It's hard to pick because I am a fan of both teams.  More so I am a fan of the Royals I suppose.

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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #118 on: April 27, 2024, 11:54:53 am »
It's so difficult for some folks to stay on topic.
I don't follow baseball much anymore, but Marcell Ozuna's season thus far sounds incredible - including his .344 batting average.

Right?  Especially considering that LAST April he was hitting .087.  :thud:
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #119 on: April 27, 2024, 11:56:15 am »
I don't follow baseball much anymore either, except when it's either the Tigers or Royals playing - I just happened to look and they are playing today.  It's hard to pick because I am a fan of both teams.  More so I am a fan of the Royals I suppose.

There you go!  It's when your two favorite teams play each other that you find out which team is really your #1 favorite.   :laugh:

Here's hoping for a good game, either way.
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #120 on: April 27, 2024, 01:25:18 pm »
In a massive feeling of schadenfreude around the game this year from others.   The fact the  'stros are 7-19, with no improvement on the horizon?

To finish .500 Houston will have to play .545  Baseball tihe rest of the season.

The needle on my give a shit meter on the game has pegged to the bottom. Wake me in '25.
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #121 on: April 27, 2024, 01:48:55 pm »
In a massive feeling of schadenfreude around the game this year from others.   The fact the  'stros are 7-19, with no improvement on the horizon?

To finish .500 Houston will have to play .545  Baseball tihe rest of the season.

The needle on my give a shit meter on the game has pegged to the bottom. Wake me in '25.

Yeah ... I was a Barves [sic] fan in the 2015 -2017 years, too.  Rough, no doubt.  At some point, you have to just go with the flow and take enjoyment out of a good play here or there. 
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #122 on: April 27, 2024, 02:11:33 pm »
I'm from Pittsburgh. 'Nuff said. They will not get to the World Series in my lifetime. Thankfully, I'm old enough to have seen Clemente, Stargell, et al., in person.
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #123 on: April 27, 2024, 02:15:58 pm »
I'm from Pittsburgh. 'Nuff said. They will not get to the World Series in my lifetime. Thankfully, I'm old enough to have seen Clemente, Stargell, et al., in person.



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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #124 on: April 27, 2024, 04:41:06 pm »
I'm from Pittsburgh. 'Nuff said. They will not get to the World Series in my lifetime. Thankfully, I'm old enough to have seen Clemente, Stargell, et al., in person.

They had some good years with Drabek, Van Slyke, Bonds, Bonilla, and Stan Belinda.  I loved watching Belinda pitch.
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« Reply #125 on: April 29, 2024, 07:03:13 pm »
I'm from Pittsburgh. 'Nuff said. They will not get to the World Series in my lifetime. Thankfully, I'm old enough to have seen Clemente, Stargell, et al., in person.
If the Red Sox and Cubs can win in my lifetime... anything is possible.
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #126 on: May 06, 2024, 11:31:17 am »
Great graphic, @DCPatriot!




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Here's a graphic no team or fan would ever want, yet here we are.  8888crybaby

What the heck?????



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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #127 on: May 06, 2024, 12:02:04 pm »
Great graphic, @DCPatriot!




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Here's a graphic no team or fan would ever want, yet here we are.  8888crybaby

What the heck?????

That is what happens when the front office completely forgoes any pitching depth (esp. bullpen) during the previous off season.   Saw this coming, but not at this level.  A strong season by JV, Valdez,  just might get us to .500 by end of season.

OTOH, it was a fun run, and time for some other fans to enjoy
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« Reply #128 on: May 06, 2024, 02:38:33 pm »
That is what happens when the front office completely forgoes any pitching depth (esp. bullpen) during the previous off season.   Saw this coming, but not at this level.  A strong season by JV, Valdez,  just might get us to .500 by end of season.

OTOH, it was a fun run, and time for some other fans to enjoy

Middle relif is highly underrated.
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #129 on: May 06, 2024, 10:24:41 pm »
Here's a text I got from my son-in-law (a decades-long baseball fan who bleeds Dodger blue).

From the USA Today farm system rankings:

2) Houston Astros.... have not had a great farm system for quite some time now and perhaps that lack of attention to their lower levels is finally starting to take its toll... this team doesn't seem to have much going for it on the pitching side...

That "2" ranking is second-worst btw  😞

Isn't that what Jeff Luhnow was so good at? Was Dana Brown supposed to fill those shoes? What's Jim Crane's roll? Help me out, Astros fans. Who has let us down?




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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #130 on: May 07, 2024, 12:58:06 am »
Here's a text I got from my son-in-law (a decades-long baseball fan who bleeds Dodger blue).

From the USA Today farm system rankings:

2) Houston Astros.... have not had a great farm system for quite some time now and perhaps that lack of attention to their lower levels is finally starting to take its toll... this team doesn't seem to have much going for it on the pitching side...

That "2" ranking is second-worst btw  😞


Isn't that what Jeff Luhnow was so good at? Was Dana Brown supposed to fill those shoes? What's Jim Crane's roll? Help me out, Astros fans. Who has let us down?
I have written 1000 word posts at baseball forums of how unfairly Luhnow was blamed for the cheating scandal.  I still stand by that 100%.

What you are witnessing is the dynasty that he built has been torn down systematically by the likes of Crane, Bagwell, and Dusty Baker.
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« Reply #131 on: May 07, 2024, 01:38:49 am »


What you are witnessing is the dynasty that he built has been torn down systeatically by the likes of Crane, Bagwell, and Dusty Baker.

@catfish1957

For what purpose?  :shrug:


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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #132 on: May 07, 2024, 08:47:53 am »
@catfish1957

For what purpose?  :shrug:

No purpose, just in the highly competitive world of MLB, competence reigns.  And Luhnow built the infrastructure of a team that competed at the highest level for 10 years.  We are now seeing the decline with post 2020 neglect. 
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« Reply #133 on: May 07, 2024, 02:22:16 pm »
I'm so old, I remember the disappointment, when the Buffalo Bisons of the International League had their road games on radio.  Must have been 7 or 8 years old!

Found out there was no 'booth'... the pitches/plays were sent to the studio on "Ticker Tape" and that the play-by-play guys were acting them out...emotion and all!    9999hair out0000

No different than today, not having FIOS or CABLE TV and getting the play-by-play on ESPN internet and pretending that you're broadcasting the game in real time.
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #134 on: May 07, 2024, 06:06:23 pm »
No purpose, just in the highly competitive world of MLB, competence reigns.  And Luhnow built the infrastructure of a team that competed at the highest level for 10 years.  We are now seeing the decline with post 2020 neglect.

@catfish1957

Okay. Maybe I misunderstood your use of "systematically."


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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #135 on: May 15, 2024, 08:45:50 am »
“Once a cheater always a cheater” - MLB fans troll Astros as pitcher Ronel Blanco gets ejected due to foreign substance
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https://www.sportskeeda.com/baseball/news-once-cheater-always-cheater-mlb-fans-troll-astros-pitcher-ronel-blanco-gets-ejected-due-foreign-substance?key2=263106
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The idea that somebody looked at a purple onion and called it a red onion really bothers me.   

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living" F. Scott Fitzgerald

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« Reply #136 on: May 15, 2024, 12:40:16 pm »
I still like watching Baseball, and the Astros, in particular.
Blanco was a bright spot (until last night).
Tucker is hitting like crazy.
Altuve, Alvarez, Pena, Diaz, Dubon, all playing well.
Bregman had back-to-back games showing he is coming around on offense, defense was never an issue with him.
Fun to see Loperfido get called up.
We seem to give up games early and not come back, or give them up late with our "vaunted" 7th-8th-9th inning guys.

Mrs. GrouchoTex and I have annual "Silver Stars"  package to the Sugar Land Space Cowboys AAA games, every Tuesday home game.
I keep hearing the "experts" say the the Astros farm system isn't very good,.
Yet, Loperfido, Diaz, Meyers, Pena, JP France, Arrighetti, Hunter Brown, have all come out of there since 2021 or even more recently.
Okay the 3 pitchers mentions have to get better, but I think Brown and Arrighett will, and have shown recent signs of it.

All is not lost.
It may be the end of the dominance, 2015 is when it started, 2017 ito 2023 it was in high gear, but they will still be in the mix.
2015/2024 is pretty good run.
29 other baseball teams in the league would love to say the same.

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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #137 on: May 15, 2024, 08:29:59 pm »
“Once a cheater always a cheater” - MLB fans troll Astros as pitcher Ronel Blanco gets ejected due to foreign substance
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Cresswell McCoy



https://www.sportskeeda.com/baseball/news-once-cheater-always-cheater-mlb-fans-troll-astros-pitcher-ronel-blanco-gets-ejected-due-foreign-substance?key2=263106

BFD!  A ten GAME suspension!  That's only TWO scheduled STARTS for a rotation pitcher.

Should be at least a FIFTY (50) DAY suspension...locked out of the league, not just the field.  Without salary!
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The idea that somebody looked at a purple onion and called it a red onion really bothers me.   

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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #138 on: May 19, 2024, 02:26:15 am »
@DCPatriot You're so funny!.  :silly:


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The idea that somebody looked at a purple onion and called it a red onion really bothers me.   

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living" F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #140 on: May 22, 2024, 06:02:32 am »
I once umpired balls and strikes for a Little League game as a favor to my close friend.

These kids just graduated from "T-Ball" and pitchers usually walked the bases loaded...inning after inning after inning.

Got so damned tired that these pitchers couldn't throw strikes.

Finally there was a pitch thrown in such an arc...the pitch crossed the plate over the batter's head, but the catcher never had to move he glove, which was held right over the heart of the plate.

"STRIKE!!!", I yelled.

The entire bleacher-filled cadre of parents screamed out their displeasure.  It was the last time they ever asked me to umpire a game.    :silly:   :rolling:
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #141 on: May 22, 2024, 06:06:37 am »


FOUL BALL TO THE FACE!!

Had she put her damned cell phone away, this probably would not have happened.
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #142 on: May 25, 2024, 06:49:32 pm »
Centerfielder tags out the batter at home plate.

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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #143 on: May 25, 2024, 07:33:50 pm »
Wow!  Good one, @mountaineer    :beer:
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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #144 on: May 25, 2024, 08:01:20 pm »
Centerfielder tags out the batter at home plate.

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OMG! I had to watch that 3 times to believe my eyes! :silly: It would have served them right if the runner had scored an inside-the-park home run. I would love to have heard the coach after the game.


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Re: Baseball 2024
« Reply #145 on: May 25, 2024, 11:01:21 pm »
Centerfielder tags out the batter at home plate.


On the scorecard, a Triple with a put out "8" unassisted.  Can you imagine trying to explain that as accurate 5 years from now?

I guess you could possibly see this in "T" Ball, but High School?

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« Reply #146 on: May 26, 2024, 12:48:40 am »
On the scorecard, a Triple with a put out "8" unassisted.  Can you imagine trying to explain that as accurate 5 years from now?

I guess you could possibly see this in "T" Ball, but High School?

ROFL!  @catfish1957

Friday's Orioles' game was only on APPLE TV, so I was forced to 'follow' the game on the ESPN website.

Using the "PLAY BY PLAY", it read: "Double to 3rd base".   :pondering:

NOT "double to Left Field"??

So I'm having fun in my mind's eye thinking how in the world does a hitter get a clean "double to 3rd"? 

Did the ball hit the bag on a line-shot and end up in the stands?   :pondering:

Did the ball go thru the 3rd baseman's legs without him touching it??

Any ideas??  happy77
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« Reply #147 on: May 26, 2024, 10:57:28 am »
ROFL!  @catfish1957

Friday's Orioles' game was only on APPLE TV, so I was forced to 'follow' the game on the ESPN website.

Using the "PLAY BY PLAY", it read: "Double to 3rd base".   :pondering:

NOT "double to Left Field"??

So I'm having fun in my mind's eye thinking how in the world does a hitter get a clean "double to 3rd"? 

Did the ball hit the bag on a line-shot and end up in the stands?   :pondering:

Did the ball go thru the 3rd baseman's legs without him touching it??

Any ideas??  happy77

I can't fathom how that happened.  Kind of like a 3 base singular error on a wild pitch.  I can see that happen with two errors, but....
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« Reply #148 on: May 27, 2024, 02:38:18 pm »
ROFL!  @catfish1957

Friday's Orioles' game was only on APPLE TV, so I was forced to 'follow' the game on the ESPN website.

Using the "PLAY BY PLAY", it read: "Double to 3rd base".   :pondering:

NOT "double to Left Field"??

So I'm having fun in my mind's eye thinking how in the world does a hitter get a clean "double to 3rd"? 

Did the ball hit the bag on a line-shot and end up in the stands?   :pondering:

Did the ball go thru the 3rd baseman's legs without him touching it??

Any ideas??  happy77


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Is there a game recap on YouTube? If you find it, bring it back here and post it for us since you have our curiosity piqued!


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« Reply #149 on: May 27, 2024, 02:42:28 pm »

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Is there a game recap on YouTube? If you find it, bring it back here and post it for us since you have our curiosity piqued!

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ESPN seems to scrub the "PLAY-BY-PLAY" shortly after the game is over.

They revert to providing scoring summaries.

What I'll do next time is take a pic of the monitor when I have a similar situation and post THAT!   :shrug:

That...or record the entire game and then take a video of the play in question.  :beer:
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The idea that somebody looked at a purple onion and called it a red onion really bothers me.   

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