Baseball Chat (BASEBALL)

[BullNBear52]

Something tells me the Brewers need pitching.

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-judge-gives-young-fan-a-ball-on-opening-day

[PegnVA]

LOL!

[Eli's Gone]

That's OK---I'm still bragging about ones I saw over 70 years ago

[PegnVA]

Thanks....here's hoping the YANKS have a good season!
I met a Red Sox fan recently and he's still bragging the RS won a World Series SEVEN years ago. :)

[BullNBear52]

Well you get to feast on Stroman today.

[SSKILLZ1]

I'm aware of that but that still leaves 4 more which is insane for a week let alone a game, but at the end of the day the pitchers is part of the team errors as well. But end result is I'm more forgiving of pitchers errors, they have to pitch and are generally in a compromised position to field the baseball at the start of the play, the fielders are just standing around hopefully in position to field a baseball when the ball is thrown. Having said all that if your point is he played a part in staying out there longer I get that, but still way too many errors from Yankee fielder not named pitchers, granted out of the meaningless win stat on fried statistical column in reality it meant nothing, because the Yankees won thanks to the fact they were hitting homers out at a absurd pace. And won the game like it was a football score. I continue to say the yanks have nothing to worry about and will be a easy playoff team in the AL, although I think the Mets are actually better the yanks, the Mets have to careful, because if they get off to a slow start they may not be a playoff team as I think the NL WC will be a very high total, I think 90 gets it done, but I'm not even 100% sure that will be enough. Because the two best teams in baseball in my opinion are in the NL West (Dodgers and Padres). Followed by the phillies, braves, mets, d-back, etc, and someone has to come out of the NL central. So one of those 6 good team aren't gonna make it in my opinion.

[BullNBear52]

If you read the box score one of the errors was Fried's

[Eli's Gone]

MVP,,,MVP...good to see you Peg

[PegnVA]

crazy watching Judge go for #4 today...What's Judge trying to do? Repeat...
2024 Outstanding Player of the Year Award (Player's Choice)

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BV2GxH8GF/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[rocketeer357]

The Lake Mary Florida 2024 Little League championship team would have qualified for evil empire status if they faced the Brewers today. Those were some mighty swings on ugly pitches.

[rocketeer357]

I stopped watching after the Judge salami....m,aybe nestor could pitch to every contestant in this years HR derby. Those first 3 pitches were room service ordered.

[Eli's Gone]

I now expect he Yankees to hit 9 shots/game LOL...crazy watching Judge go for #4 today vs Jake Bauers' eephus pitch at 55mph...

[SSKILLZ1]

they are 2/21 with risp to start the season. vientos did hit the ball hard ,but outside of soto everyone is struggling badly out of the gates it is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay early, but not the best start offensively to say the least. And I'm under the opinion this is gonna be a big time offense and the best part of them. what I do like for a change so far is they may actually have a bullpen that is good, I'm used to the dumpster fire, so good makes me very happy. Once again early but like those early results in my opinion.

[SSKILLZ1]

I thought it was the all star game and we were watching the home run derby. LOL.

[Eli's Gone]

Vientos scorched it but right at Pena...the end

[rocketeer357]

Was there a game today?

[SSKILLZ1]

Lindor is 0/11 right now, off his 1/31 start last year. for what ever reason he is a horrible starter of a season.

[Eli's Gone]

not as bad as Dever's start...0-11 with 9 K's

[SSKILLZ1]

at this point I would like the mets to remember they have an offense. They should be atop 5 offensive team in baseball and right now they can't buy a run.

[Eli's Gone]

Yep...5 extra outs and long waits between innings as the Yankees had extended batting practice will do that...

[SSKILLZ1]

So what your saying is the fielding wasn't the best. I thought that was suppose to be improved in this years version of the yankees. LOL. 5 errors is a lot than again 9 homers in game tends to overcome a lot, but it certainly did cost fried a win with the PC and all be driven up because of it.

[Eli's Gone]

He wasn't at his best but a shame 5 errors cost Fried a W....

[BullNBear52]

Sweet as that was nothing tops Reggie's 3 HRs, 1st pitch off of 3 different pitchers.

[BullNBear52]

After today's game the Yankees are considered the evil empire for the Brewers. And Cortes was certainly nasty.

[Eli's Gone]

Never seen anything like this---welcome back to the Bronx Nasty Nestor...3 pitches---3 HR's...

[SSKILLZ1]

That was a thing of beauty, what was even more nice was watching a bullpen go 4 innings with giving up 0 runs, I was used to watching a trainwreck last year on that front in my opinion.

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.mlb.com/news/most-career-opening-day-home-runs

[Preciouslife1]

https://www.mlb.com/news/juan-soto-first-mets-home-run

[rocketeer357]

Well, there can be only one truly evil empire in baseball, and to secure that title a team has to blend a couple of necessary factors.1. Spend a ton of money. While flashing money is a prerequisite, it's hardly the cause for the mantle of "evil". If that were the case, the Angels and Mets would be near the top of the list, but teams that overspend and consistently come up short fall into the pathetic class and warrant the title of "Stooge Empire".

2. The team has to be a bonafide threat to win it all every year. This is a biggie. And being a consistent force within your division isn't enough, like Tampa or Milwaukee. This is also where the Yankees have stumbled for the past 15 years, or since the Balco days. Judge clanking that catch in game 5 of the WS sums it up nicely: the Yanks are trending more toward what the Red Sox were in the 20th century, which is to say a team that performs to its payroll but is very capable of falling apart in the clutch....think Chapman and his sheepish grin ambling to the dugout after serving up the walk off 9th inning HR.

3. Management/ownershipe worthy of deep loathing. Here again, Cohen would seem to have the inside track IMO, but baby George doesn't come up to the mark. Cashman comes closer to the mark, but before he steps over the line, he swings a deal like Donaldson and firmly re-cements himself into the buffoon category.What's interesting about the Dodgers management, and why they're detestable, is that they've flipped the script. No longer is a single ego-driven billionaire the front guy. The modern game has become corporatised, has discovered how to bilk the system with new evil, such as deferred salaries. This is the essence of evil in MLB today and will be hard to fix before the whole system collapses. Like America itself, this system is built on a ponzi scheme of debt that will be someone else's problem in the future, a system that has crushed the ideas of parity and equality. 
And IMO, the Dodgers have at least a 5 year head start on every other team still trying to compete by the old rules. That's real Evil.

[fung_derf]

Sadly I was not. Of course I attended clown college, but flunked out.

[BullNBear52]

Let me guess you were the class clown in school.

[fung_derf]

I'm not a huge fan of the Cardinals......but they do have the best fans

[fung_derf]

Well, the Rangers are in last place. So much for this season.

[fung_derf]

You went to high school with Wilson??? Tom Hanks would be so proud.

[BullNBear52]

I like the Cardinals and Sonny Gray gets the win yesterday with 6Ks in 5 innings.

[BullNBear52]

And Soto goes down swinging with the tying runs on base.

[BullNBear52]

There is just not enough available real estate in Boston for a new ball park and no room at its present location to expand it unless of course they take over Lansdowne Street and move the Mass Pike.

The owner of the NY Giants went to my HS and every year he had the senior class come see the Giants at the then original Yankee Stadium. Seated 70K fans and we'd sit in the nose bleed seats in one of the upper decks. Sure enough one of us would end up behind a pillar. BTW the owner's nickname is on all the NFL GameDay footballs.

[rocketeer357]

Or the Twins? Or the Cardinals?

[Eli's Gone]

Took a bit for Williams to remember whose side he was on in the 9th---Yelich swinging at ball 4 on Williams' 36th pitch to end it relieved Boone of a decision he didn't want to make as the sacks would have been loaded

[SoxFan]

Tyler O'Neil breaks his own record with a HR in six straight opening days.

[SoxFan]

Why said nobody hates the Yankees?

[rocketeer357]

Angels drop their opener to the White Sox. By 7 runs. The IL might be looking good to Troutie.

[rocketeer357]

Not so sure that's a good thing. Sure nobody hates the Yankees now, but nobody hates the Twins either. Or the Cardinals.

[rocketeer357]

And Chourio starts off his sophomore season with a platinum sombrero. 
At least we tagged Williams for a run in the 9th 

[Eli's Gone]

Austin Wells starts off his leadoff "career" with a dinger...

[fung_derf]

I don't know if its a love affair or there is just nowhere else to move to while they'd rebuild.
I've sat in the outfield at the old Yankees stadium. They were awful seats.
The monument park was pretty cool though.

[BullNBear52]

I found the whole thing rather silly considering How long the team was called that. Mean while the Florida Seminoles play on.

[BullNBear52]

What you're missing is Boston has a love affair with their ball park. They have tried in the past to build a new stadium else where and it has always been no dice. Being a part of the city itself is what makes it so special.

I remember the original Yankee Stadium. At the end of the game you could walk out across the field to the garage door and exit while passing the 3 monuments located in center field.

If you were unlucky your seat would be behind a pillar that held up the upper deck. It had charm but was renovated then replaced.