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WORLD SERIES: KC vs. NY (KC up 2-0)
« on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 04:16 pm »
Kansas City Royals at City Park in New York vs. NY Mets.
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Re: WORLD SERIES: KC vs. NY (KC up 2-0)
« Reply #1 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 04:18 pm »
Royals up 1-0 in the first inning. 

KC never lets up.  This kid Syndergaard pitching for the Mets throws 100 MPH smoke, but they've gotten to him with a double and a couple of dinkers.
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Re: WORLD SERIES: KC vs. NY (KC up 2-0)
« Reply #2 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 04:30 pm »
David Wright goes deep.  Mets up 2-1 at the end of one.
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Re: WORLD SERIES: KC vs. NY (KC up 2-0)
« Reply #3 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 04:46 pm »
KC answers with 2 runs, one in on a passed ball.  Royals up 3-2.
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Re: WORLD SERIES: KC vs. NY (KC up 2-0)
« Reply #4 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 05:13 pm »
Mets take the lead with a 2 run homer from Curtis Granderson.  Mets up 4-3. 

YOU SHOULD BE WATCHING THIS GAME!!!
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« Reply #5 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 05:15 pm »
Quote from: sinkspur on Friday, Oct 30, 2015 05:13 pm
Mets take the lead with a 2 run homer from Curtis Granderson.  Mets up 4-3. 

YOU SHOULD BE WATCHING THIS GAME!!!

I am, my friend.   :beer:

Syndergaard helps his cause with a single too!

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Re: WORLD SERIES: KC vs. NY (KC up 2-0)
« Reply #6 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 05:37 pm »
METS pick up another run in the 4th...lead 5-3.
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Re: WORLD SERIES: KC vs. NY (KC up 2-0)
« Reply #7 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 05:44 pm »
Just turned it on. (Was watching the Sabres hockey game, which was very good.)
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« Reply #8 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 05:46 pm »
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I am, my friend.   :beer:

Syndergaard helps his cause with a single too!

He also has some really NASTY stuff tonight!
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« Reply #9 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 06:34 pm »
Mets are in good shape. Ahead 6-3,bases loaded, one out. 6th inning.

This is  a good series.
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« Reply #10 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 06:42 pm »
KC is done.  9-3.

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« Reply #11 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 06:43 pm »
Quote from: sinkspur on Friday, Oct 30, 2015 06:34 pm
Mets are in good shape. Ahead 6-3,bases loaded, one out. 6th inning.

This is  a good series.

It really is.  This might be the kind of series that the drama builds and builds - which is unmatched in sports, in my view.  8-3 Mets now.  KC has a confidence at the plate, though. 
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« Reply #12 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 06:43 pm »
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« Reply #13 on: Friday, Oct 30, 2015 10:45 pm »
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« Reply #14 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:03 am »
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http://espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2015/story/_/id/14014624/kansas-city-royals-upset-noah-syndergaard-newyork-mets-first-pitch-alcides-escobar-head

1st pitch is a message pitch from Syndergaard....see video

Baseball... the beautiful game.  It truly is.

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BTW... Green Bay at Denver... Who do you like?
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« Reply #15 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:09 am »
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:03 am
Baseball... the beautiful game.  It truly is.

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BTW... Green Bay at Denver... Who do you like?

LOL!   Got my cheesehead hat all ready!   Manning is showing signs of age...happens to all of us!   
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« Reply #16 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:26 am »
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« Reply #17 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:28 am »
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And I do believe the message got through!

LOL!  Loud and clear, I think!  First pitch tonite will have special meaning, won't it? 
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« Reply #18 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:29 am »
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LOL!  Loud and clear, I think!  First pitch tonite will have special meaning, won't it?

Ya think????   :beer: :patriot:
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« Reply #19 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:34 am »
To know baseball as it is meant to be played, as it was once played, is to appreciate something like this.  But, there will be handwringing over it, I'm sure.
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« Reply #20 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:34 am »
Gotta tell you that I don't much care for the kiddie brand of baseball mostly played this day and time but moments like that bring back flashes of the good old days for me.
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« Reply #21 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:36 am »
Great minds think a;like Lando!
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« Reply #22 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:38 am »
Quote from: Bigun on Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:34 am
Gotta tell you that I don't much care for the kiddie brand of baseball mostly played this day and time but moments like that bring back flashes of the good old days for me.

Wow, me too!!!!  My all-time favorite World Series saw so much of this.  1968 - Detroit Tigers v. St. Louis Cardinals.  So many great players.  Brilliant moves by the managers, especially Mayo Smith of the Tigers.  Just, just incredible.  My God... if only...
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« Reply #23 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:42 am »
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Wow, me too!!!!  My all-time favorite World Series saw so much of this.  1968 - Detroit Tigers v. St. Louis Cardinals.  So many great players.  Brilliant moves by the managers, especially Mayo Smith of the Tigers.  Just, just incredible.  My God... if only...

I seem to remember a another game!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8lqTnrpBc
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« Reply #24 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:43 am »
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Great minds think a;like Lando!
 LOL!

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Mayo Smith moved Mickey Stanley to shortstop, a position he had never played (!) to get Al Kaline in the lineup.  No errors by Stanley and Kaline was Kaline, a true Hall of Famer.  Then there was Mickey Lolich pitching on two days' rest to defeat Bob Gibson in Game 7.  I lived on every single pitch listening on my handheld Motorola.  Again, my God!

**Correction** Stanley had two errors in the series but none led to runs being scored.
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« Reply #25 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:45 am »
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I seem to remember a another game!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8lqTnrpBc

Yes!  Yes!  I was a bit young but yes!
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« Reply #26 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:51 am »
Back then, the first pitch for tonite would be a fastball behind the ass of Escobar (actually, high and tight).  Can you imagine Bob Gibson on the mound?  You'd have to have your things in order to step in the batters box in tonite's game.
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« Reply #27 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:52 am »
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Yes!  Yes!  I was a bit young but yes!

I was in Jr. High but we all watched that game in the gym.  Everybody! Students and teachers!
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« Reply #28 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:54 am »
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Back then, the first pitch for tonite would be a fastball behind the ass of Escobar (actually, high and tight).  Can you imagine Bob Gibson on the mound?  You'd have to have your things in order to step in the batters box in tonite's game.

I wouldn't have said it quite that way but YES!!!
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« Reply #29 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 05:55 am »
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I was in Jr. High but we all watched that game in the gym.  Everybody! Students and teachers!

Bigun, same here but a little different.  Our teachers allowed us to have our little radios - just so they weren't "too loud".  A lot of it is technology, but another sign we have lost our innocence and maybe our soul.
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« Reply #30 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:04 am »
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Bigun, same here but a little different.  Our teachers allowed us to have our little radios - just so they weren't "too loud".  A lot of it is technology, but another sign we have lost our innocence and maybe our soul.

Not to mention our MINDS!  When I think of what my ancestors sacraficed to give us this great country and see it's current stae...I don't want to talk about it!
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« Reply #31 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:08 am »
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I seem to remember a another game!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8lqTnrpBc

The 1960 World Series when I saw my boyhood idol, Mickey Mantle, cry! 

The three games won by the Yankees were blowouts.   Yet, they lost.

Ever since, my creed was unshakable.   Great pitching beats great hitting....EVERY TIME!
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The 1960 World Series when I saw my boyhood idol, Mickey Mantle, cry! 

The three games won by the Yankees were blowouts.   Yet, they lost.

Ever since, my creed was unshakable.   Great pitching beats great hitting....EVERY TIME!

True then! True Now!
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« Reply #33 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:17 am »
15-inch pitchers mound back then too.  Those power pitchers were imposing. 
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« Reply #34 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:22 am »
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15-inch pitchers mound back then too.  Those power pitchers were imposing.

Maybe it's just me but I don't think the new mound height is the advantage others seem to think it is. In fact I think it isn't an advantage at all but a hinderance instead.

Maybe that is by design to help the hitters.
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« Reply #35 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:31 am »
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Maybe it's just me but I don't think the new mound height is the advantage others seem to think it is. In fact I think it isn't an advantage at all but a hinderance instead.

Maybe that is by design to help the hitters.

That is why it was lowered.  Pitchers were viewed to be too dominant.  I think it was lowered to 10 in 1969 or 1970.  1968 saw Denny McClain win 31 games, for example. 
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« Reply #36 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:34 am »
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That is why it was lowered.  Pitchers were viewed to be too dominant.  I think it was lowered to 10 in 1969 or 1970.  1968 saw Denny McClain win 31 games, for example.

OK! I missed that! May have beren just a little distracted at the time having just returned from my free all expenses paid Souteast Asian vacation and getting marrried.
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« Reply #37 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:38 am »
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OK! I missed that! May have beren just a little distracted at the time having just returned from my free all expenses paid Souteast Asian vacation and getting marrried.

Yes, that would do it!  Only one AL hitter in 1968 had a .300 average - Carl Yastzremski at .301.  I just looked, it was lowered in 1969 because of the concern for pitching dominance.
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« Reply #38 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:42 am »
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Yes, that would do it!  Only one AL hitter in 1968 had a .300 average - Carl Yastzremski at .301.  I just looked, it was lowered in 1969 because of the concern for pitching dominance.

Doesn't seem to have helped the hitters all that much (.182 hitters making a million a year)  and jucing the ball hasn't either.
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« Reply #39 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:43 am »
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:31 am
That is why it was lowered.  Pitchers were viewed to be too dominant.  I think it was lowered to 10 in 1969 or 1970.  1968 saw Denny McClain win 31 games, for example.

I would say that the 'breaking' ball coming from a higher elevation would definitely favor the pitcher. 

Also, back then the strike zone wasn't belt high....the way they seem to call it today.   And the plate back then wasn't a 'platter'...as too many umps deem it today.

Release points affect the 'break'...hold on too long and it'll bounce...not long enough and it sails...called a "hanging slider".
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Re: WORLD SERIES: KC vs. NY (KC up 2-0)
« Reply #40 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:50 am »
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I would say that the 'breaking' ball coming from a higher elevation would definitely favor the pitcher. 

Also, back then the strike zone wasn't belt high....the way they seem to call it today.   And the plate back then wasn't a 'platter'...as too many umps deem it today.

Release points affect the 'break'...hold on too long and it'll bounce...not long enough and it sails...called a "hanging slider".

The strike zone is SUPPOSED TO BE over any part of the plate anywhere between the top of the knee and the armpit.  Throw it above the belt these days and you will NEVER get a called strike!
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Re: WORLD SERIES: KC vs. NY (KC up 2-0)
« Reply #41 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:59 am »
Yes!  I forgot!

From Wikipedia:

Major League Baseball has occasionally increased or reduced the size of the strike zone in an attempt to control the balance of power between pitchers and hitters. After the record home run year by Roger Maris in 1961, the major leagues increased the size of the strike zone from the top of the batter's shoulders to the bottom of his knees. In 1968, pitchers such as Denny McLain and Bob Gibson among others dominated hitters, producing 339 shutouts. Carl Yastrzemski would be the only American League hitter to finish the season with a batting average higher than .300. In the National League, Gibson posted a 1.12 earned run average, the lowest in 54 years, while Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale threw a record 58 and two-thirds consecutive scoreless innings during the 1968 season. As a result of the dropping offensive statistics, Major League Baseball took steps to reduce the advantage held by pitchers by lowering the height of the pitcher's mound from 15 inches to 10 inches, and by reducing the size of the strike zone for the 1969 season.
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Re: WORLD SERIES: KC vs. NY (KC up 2-0)
« Reply #42 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 07:02 am »
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 06:59 am
Yes!  I forgot!

From Wikipedia:

Major League Baseball has occasionally increased or reduced the size of the strike zone in an attempt to control the balance of power between pitchers and hitters. After the record home run year by Roger Maris in 1961, the major leagues increased the size of the strike zone from the top of the batter's shoulders to the bottom of his knees. In 1968, pitchers such as Denny McLain and Bob Gibson among others dominated hitters, producing 339 shutouts. Carl Yastrzemski would be the only American League hitter to finish the season with a batting average higher than .300. In the National League, Gibson posted a 1.12 earned run average, the lowest in 54 years, while Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale threw a record 58 and two-thirds consecutive scoreless innings during the 1968 season. As a result of the dropping offensive statistics, Major League Baseball took steps to reduce the advantage held by pitchers by lowering the height of the pitcher's mound from 15 inches to 10 inches, and by reducing the size of the strike zone for the 1969 season.

All of which is what I was refering to in the first place. They have ruined the game IMHO!

And they can stick their instant replay where the sun doesn't shine as well!

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« Reply #43 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 07:04 am »
Chores beckon.  I enjoyed the chat and reminiscing of a bygone time.  Great day guys!
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Quote from: Lando Lincoln on Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 07:04 am
Chores beckon.  I enjoyed the chat and reminiscing of a bygone time.  Great day guys!

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« Reply #45 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 07:32 am »
Back for only a quick second. KC has to answer (um... retaliate), don't they?
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Quote from: Lando Lincoln on Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 07:32 am
Back for only a quick second. KC has to answer (um... retaliate), don't they?

In the old days that would have been a given. Not sure about today.
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Re: WORLD SERIES: KC vs. NY (KC up 2-0)
« Reply #47 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 07:53 am »
I still think this could be a longer series with home field and DH playing a role at the end. It's pretty obvious that the Mets are more comfortable at home. Today they a run a lefty out and the Royals have had more trouble with them. And like Syndergaard, Matz does not have all the innings on his arm this year that deGrom and Harvey do...not quite as worn down.  I think deGrom and Harvey will struggle as they have far more innings on their arms than they've ever had before and they are both max-effort pitchers.  I'd still call it KC in 6 or 7 but you can see now how dangerous the Mets hitters are, even with their best guy, Cespedes, hobbling.
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« Reply #48 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 08:00 am »
Yeah, you will see something happen. I expect an umpire's warning before the game even starts. Syndergaard was stupid to speak out like he did.  They HAVE to go back to KC.  It might not happen right away, but it will happen.
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« Reply #49 on: Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 08:06 am »
Quote from: Scottftlc on Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 08:00 am
Syndergaard was stupid to speak out like he did.


AMEN! Whitey Ford would have  smileingly said something like "Yeah! That one got away from me a little bit!" and been done with it.
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