Baseball Chat (BASEBALL)

[BullNBear52]

It's what the Knicks do. They lure you in then break your heart. Been doing it since 1973.

[Eli's Gone]

also a pretty crucial challenge went against them when still up by 5 under a minute on that "lost possession" call under the hoop---to me the Knick had regained possession and was attempting a shot when he was fouled except they ruled it incidental contact...

[SSKILLZ1]

and that Haliburton shot at the buzzer may have gotten the most ridiculous lucky bounce in history...

You can say that again. and yes they missed too many FT's.

[SSKILLZ1]

Lets just say I'm miserable after that. Two words to describe what happened tonight.

Unmitigated Disaster

It is one of the worst sports losses I have ever experienced watching as a fan, that is about as painful as it gets.

[Eli's Gone]

Knicks still should have withstood that fantastic shooting comeback if they didn't miss 2 free throws on their last 2 possessions----and that Haliburton shot at the buzzer may have gotten the most ridiculous lucky bounce in history...

[rocketeer357]

Knicks fans know all about PAIN. There's one guy on the Pacers you absolutely can't get beat by. And somehow the Knicks let Halliburton do just that.

[Eli's Gone]

Knicks in OT after being up by 14 with 2 and 1/2 minutes to play...

[crudeoil24]

Yesterday, Aaron Judge had the shortest HR in his career with the Yankees . Judge's 400+ batting average will surpass Ted Williams 406 .

[BullNBear52]

It's a simple rule. You can't argue balls and strikes. As for Judge's HR, it was your pitcher who gave it up.

[fung_derf]

I HATE watching these yankee games....Tell the truth, when the Umps make bad calls in your favor, do you think its deserving??
Not that tough for Judge when anything off the middle of the plate is a ball. Surprised they don't call it a ball when he swings and misses.
And that bandbox stadium.....what was his HR yesterday....195 feet? Even Johnny Pesky would have been embarrassed

[BullNBear52]

When 6 orphans saved a train in NJ, the Babe came to visit
May 20th, 2025
Dan Cichalski
https://www.mlb.com/news/babe-ruth-visits-orphanage-after-boys-save-a-train


Babe Ruth gives batting lessons to six New Jersey orphans on the ballfield next to the Passaic Home and Orphan Asylum in 1933.(Photo courtesy Mark S. Auerbach)

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-judge-hits-shortest-home-run-of-his-career

[SSKILLZ1]

Admittingly the Mets are starting to get on my nerves now. There lack of hitting is reaching comical levels. Generally pretty patient but this is getting absurd, after the bad throwing by Alonso, the lack of effort by Soto, who seems so waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down by his contract he can't even run to 1b. his 128 BA is comical too with RISP. Heck he isn't the only one who has a allergic reaction to driving in runs, it is up and down the lineup. but the best was yesterday when after the game he said he was hustling when multiple nights he doesn't run out of the box hard, one of which turning a double into a single. Now I truly believe this will all turn around and I do believe it will turn around from Soto, but can't say this is any fun watching this as they have sank to 2nd place in a league where 90 may not cut it, hence you can't have droughts of not winning games and get away with it in my opinion. As I said not a big deal yet but so far can't say I'm happy with the fact that they are now working on 10 runs in 7 games, and they haven't hit a homer in a week at this point. And they were playing in Yankee stadium and Fenway not exactly pitcher parks. This team was built on the offense, and they cannot hit with RISP all year, and tonight they were 0-7. This offense is massively underachieving so far in my opinion.

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.mlb.com/news/carlos-mendoza-luis-torrens-talk-aaron-judge-2025-season

[BullNBear52]

Buzzworthy AL club knocking on door of No. 1 in Power Rankings
May 18th, 2025
https://www.mlb.com/news/power-rankings-for-week-of-may-18-2025

Tigers move into 2nd.
Cubs drop to 7th.
Twins jump up 9 slots.
Cardinals move up 5

[SSKILLZ1]

His throwing always scares me. Vientos in the 1rst inning was disaster that cost them a run as well. The difference between him and duda is alonso could actually scoop the ball really well, which in my opinion is the most important part of playing defense at 1b.

[rocketeer357]

Stanek is starting to shape up as this year's Ottovino for the Mets!

[Eli's Gone]

the guy in the bozo tank could mock Pete all nite long and never get dunked....

[SSKILLZ1]

Terrible defense by the Mets tonight. but when you score just 13 runs all week and refuse to hit with risp all season, this is the result. maybe Stanek should decide to throw something other than his fb, that was pathetic, he was a one pitch pitcher tonight, now he normally throws his fb a lot, but tonight it reached absurd levels in my opinion.

[rocketeer357]

Alonso throwing the ball in a make or break situation reminds me of Duda winging it home as Hosmer scored the tieing run in the 2015 series.

[SSKILLZ1]

Great escape by Brazoban, have to say I thought Volpe would be a better player than he is turning out to be though.

[SSKILLZ1]

when you hit like the guys the yanks got at 3b, they can't make errors like that. Although I'm thrilled he made it. than again the Mets have been not great with RISP this year to say the least. and i'm being nice.

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.mlb.com/news/akil-baddoo-flashes-glove-in-first-left-field-start

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.mlb.com/news/kenley-jansen-intentional-balk-shohei-ohtani

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/watch-knicks-fans-go-wild-outside-madison-square-garden-as-new-york-reaches-first-east-finals-in-25-years/

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.mlb.com/news/mets-tie-subway-series-with-3-2-win-against-yankees

[BullNBear52]

It took 2 perfect throws to nab the runner. Apply for 3rd base coach. If the runner hadn't raised his left foot on the slide he would have been safe.

[SSKILLZ1]

rarely do I get on Mendoza but why he didn't have anybody up behind garret was beyond me. he clearly didn't have it today, because DJ hit a 107 mph rocket luckily at someone, and that was in between a ton of not being able to get the ball over. got away with one there in my opinion.

[SSKILLZ1]

It was a bad judgement call when Lindor and Soto are your next two batter. you better make it 100% of the time or I'm never sending him with less than two outs with Lindor and Soto to follow. It does matter where you are in the batting order and that is why it was bad judgement call. Yes it took a perfect relay by the yanks and not a good slide by baty to do it. But still with lindor and soto coming up you want to use caution there as the 3b coach in my opinion.

[BullNBear52]

It's the 1st out at home you don't want to make. That out at home was a judgement call to send the runner and it took a perfect relay to get him at the plate.

[SSKILLZ1]

The knicks winning I thought should happen, but the margin of victory or the ease of victory I didn't expect to say the least, I wasn't alive in the 70's FWIW. i became a knicks fan and Mets fan around 1990, so for me I seen the overwhelming majority of the excellent Ewing era, I eventually learned never to complain about good consistency as a result of two decades after of almost irrelevance, in a sport where it hard not to be a playoff team in my opinion. Didn't know that at the time of the Ewing era though.

[nelson1234]

Yes he was.... I 'met him' in I guess '73 or '74 when I bought his book 'A Will to Win', when he was signing copies at some bookstore in NYC.

[BullNBear52]

And how about that defensive play by DJ for the final out after a killer replay to get a runner at home.

[SSKILLZ1]

Have to say this game is annoying me. the runner thrown out at home bothered me. That always does it for me with less than two outs from some reason.

[BullNBear52]

He's 2 for 3.

[BullNBear52]

In 1970 Reed was playing on bad knees and taking cortisone shots after every game.

[BullNBear52]

The Knicks game was a shocker for me. In 1970 we had to rent a hotel room in Manhattan to watch the games.

[SSKILLZ1]

I thank the yanks manager for not bunting with vivas that was such an obvious call in my opinion.

[SSKILLZ1]

DJ hit a homer made me not very happy, especially one of those Yankee Stadium Specials. Too be fair DJ did hit that ball hard though.

[nelson1234]

outside of the real ole timey Willis Reed Frazier Bradley Debusschere Pearl Barnett Lucas Knicks teams that won in '70 and '73 when I was like 9 and 12, and those were great times but I was pretty young; my fave All-Timey Knick was John Starks. He wasn't a great player, or a great athlete, or a great shooter, but he played hard as f#ck. And he wan't intimidated by any of the great guards back then. And sure, he took some crappy shots and missed some easy ones, but while I luvd Oakley and Mason, and Ewing was great.. who the heck else was gonna take an outside shot for the Knicks? Greg Anthony or Hubert Davis? So sure, Starks gets some krap for shooting 2 for 13 or whatever on some days, but someone had to take the big outside shots on that team, and he wasn't scared to do it. I mean he wasn't World B Free taking a gazillion shots for no reason... he had to shoot the long ball cause noone else did.

During that great seven game championship series v Houston... its pretty incredible when looking back... the highest number of points scored by either team in the entire series was 93 points.

Anyway, I luvd those guys. So little talent, so much toughness... all IMHO.

[SSKILLZ1]

The idea that Brunson and Starks are in the same sentence is funny. Not to make fun of starks he was a solid player, but Brunson is gonna be a HOF player assuming he doesn't have a devastating injury that changes the path of his career, and might be as high as the 2nd best Knick of all time when all said and done. The pacers are good, but I think the knicks are better. I don't think the west is gonna have it so easy with this team if they are the team left standing so I disagree with you there, although I rather have Minnesota, Denver, and than OKC, obviously I identify Minnesota as the easiest of 3, but I will say all 3 are better than Indiana in my opinion.

[Preciouslife1]

Correct!!! Brunson is NO Starks!!! He IS SO WAY ETTER IN EVERY ASPECT OF THE GAME!!! Jus Sayin' ....

[rocketeer357]

Brunson is no John Starks. Keep Halliburton in check and there's no reason the Knicks can't be cannon fodder for the NBA western conference winner.

[SSKILLZ1]

This is a strange day I don't ever remember being so happy in a day the Mets lost to the Yankees.

[BullNBear52]

Been a strange series but hopefully the Knicks close it out tonight.

[SSKILLZ1]

Pick 4 Contest #22 Deadline Slightly More Than 3 hours Away

Remember to get your picks in before Today's close. Below is the link to the board.

https://investorshub.advfn.com/Pick-4-Contest-No-22-46704

[Eli's Gone]

Looked like a slo-pitch softball pitcher backing up on every pitch...

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.mlb.com/news/athletics-catcher-jhonny-pereda-strikes-out-shohei-ohtani

[rocketeer357]

Agreed on all fronts. I hate to see MLB change course due to a meeting with trump. Wonder if Manfred was scared of losing his anti trust status?

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.mlb.com/news/jacob-degrom-throws-8-shutout-innings-vs-astros