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MLB 2018

#342
buldog5151bass said:
First lousy Met game of the season. They blew it. Hopefully they can go home and forget it happened.
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What a nightmare two walked in runs in the same inning, none of the 3 or 4 relievers I lost count could find the strike zone winning 6-1 and lost the game in the 8th inning 8-6 I will try not to mention the thrown out at 3rd trying to steal from 2nd when we finally had a man on that could have changed the course of the game oh did I just write that. :rollno:
 
#345
GregC said:
I don't mean to bring down the Mets fans, I just thought this tidbit was remarkable. From ESPN: The Mets continued their hot start, becoming the 22nd team in the World Series era (since 1903) to start 11-1 or better. Will that start yield postseason success? Of the 21 teams to start 11-1 or better through 12 games before this season, only eight made the postseason, and only three of those won the World Series: the 1955 Dodgers, 1966 Orioles and 1984 Tigers. Of the teams to start that hot in the past 30 seasons, none has even won a playoff series. -- Sarah Langs, ESPN Stats & Information
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Those are some crazy stats!
 
#347
Ugh, more unwritten rules for baseball. [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

I kind of like Verlander, but that's just ridiculous. Let his manager worry about whether that's "not great baseball."

Upset at Tim Anderson for being 'over-aggressive,' Justin Verlander calls out White Sox shortstop for stolen base attempt

Justin Verlander pitched six scoreless innings to help the Astros shut out the White Sox 10-0 Friday night at Guaranteed Rate Field, and yet the former Cy Young Award winner found reason to be upset after the game.

The subject of Verlander’s postgame rant was Sox shortstop Tim Anderson, who just happened to be the player that broke up Verlander’s no-hitter with one out in the fifth inning. Verlander said he took offense to Anderson being “a little over-aggressive” on a series of plays on the basepaths in the inning.
The comments prompted reporters to seek out a response from Anderson, who brushed the comments off.

“I’m out just playing and having fun,” Anderson said. “If he took it to heart, so what?”

So what exactly happened?

Anderson lightly celebrated his fifth-inning hit – after all, they were in short supply for the Sox on Friday – and Verlander afterward gave his seal of approval for the excitement.

But Verlander apparently didn’t like Anderson trying to steal second base on a 3-0 count. Anderson celebrated with a hand clap when he reached second, though he didn’t receive credit for a stolen base because Verlander had walked Omar Narvaez.

“He steals on 3-0 in a 5-0 game, that’s probably not great baseball,” Verlander told Astros reporters after the game. “Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, I don’t know. But he celebrated that, though. And it’s like ‘Hey, I’m not worried about you right now. It’s 5-0, I’m giving a high leg kick, I know you can steal. If I don’t want you to steal, I’ll be a little bit more aware of you. But I’m trying to get this guy out at the plate.’

“Anyway, I walk him, he steals 3-0, kind of celebrates that at second base again. I don’t even know what he was celebrating, he didn’t even get credit for a stolen base, maybe he thought he did, I don’t know.”

Anderson also attempted to steal third base, but Verlander used an inside pickoff move to stop him. Anderson returned to second base, but Narvaez was also there and was called out. That’s when Verlander and Anderson exchanged words.

“I pick you off on an inside move after the way he had kind of been jubilant about some other things, I was just as jubilant about that,” Verlander said. “Very thankful that he gave me an out. That’s what I said, and he didn’t like that comment, but, hey, that’s not my fault. That’s his fault.”

Lost in Verlander’s unwritten rules is that Anderson has made it clear he is trying to play this season with more joy after a personally difficult 2017 season in which he struggled to deal with the death of his best friend. And separately, Anderson is trying to be aggressive on the basepaths.

Anderson afterward said their exchange was “not relevant,” a perfectly reasonable response given the Astros won by 10 runs.

“If that’s how I play, I’m having fun and it’s exciting,” Anderson said. “I don’t care what other people think. That doesn’t bother me.”
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#348
The Mariners are playing football this year. That's the only thing I can think of that explains the scores in their games. Or maybe everyone's pitching stinks. Baseball isn't supposed to have so many crooked numbers, let alone double digit numbers of runs.
 
#349
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...1st time at the K!
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#351
4 Spring Training games...one of them at the D’Backs Park.
Coors, tonight in KC, and Thursday night in St. Louis.

Then we’re gonna beat a path home to the grand chillins! :thumbsup:

We’ve been on the road since 3/7...
We’re both ready.
 
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...just a couple of other notes from KC...

On a beautiful Spring day like today, I could imagine living here.
It’s big enough, but small enough...
lots of ‘neighborhoods’...
FANTASTIC food, from BBQ, to ramen, to steak & potatoes, to farmers’ markets spread out all over the place!
Of course, the winter would be toooo much...

...a pair of pictures...

From the Negro Leagues Museum...
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...from the 9th inning of tonight’s Brewers’ 4-2 victory...
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:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
waddaya gunna do with kids these daze??!!
 
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the harp unstrung said:
...just a couple of other notes from KC...

On a beautiful Spring day like today, I could imagine living here.
It’s big enough, but small enough...
lots of ‘neighborhoods’...
FANTASTIC food, from BBQ, to ramen, to steak & potatoes, to farmers’ markets spread out all over the place!
Of course, the winter would be toooo much...

...a pair of pictures...

From the Negro Leagues Museum...
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...from the 9th inning of tonight’s Brewers’ 4-2 victory...
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:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
waddaya gunna do with kids these daze??!!
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I liked your post for everything above the second picture.:D I have noticed that some Brewers fans--certainly not all, and not any that I've seen here--are quite salty these days about the Cubs. An inferiority complex, perhaps? (For the record, I think Milwaukee is a lovely town, and the design of their art museum is cool as hell!)
 
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