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El Guapo wrote: Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:07 am What happens if one of the managers from the previous world series gets fired / resigns / gets hit by a bus in the offseason? Does their replacement manager get to manage the all-star team of their league? Or maybe the manager of the team that lost the Championship Series?
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El Guapo wrote: Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:07 am What happens if one of the managers from the previous world series gets fired / resigns / gets hit by a bus in the offseason? Does their replacement manager get to manage the all-star team of their league? Or maybe the manager of the team that lost the Championship Series?
IIRC, that happened when Dusty Baker went from the Giants (after losing the WS) to the Cubs. Dusty was still the manager for the All Star team the next year. Not sure what they'd do for retirement/hit by a bus.
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ImLawBoy wrote: Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:47 am
El Guapo wrote: Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:07 am What happens if one of the managers from the previous world series gets fired / resigns / gets hit by a bus in the offseason? Does their replacement manager get to manage the all-star team of their league? Or maybe the manager of the team that lost the Championship Series?
IIRC, that happened when Dusty Baker went from the Giants (after losing the WS) to the Cubs. Dusty was still the manager for the All Star team the next year. Not sure what they'd do for retirement/hit by a bus.
It would be amusing if a manager switched leagues in the offseason, so that they'd go from their AL team to coaching the NL all-star team, or vice versa.
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ImLawBoy wrote: Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:47 am retirement/hit by a bus.
Unless it's retirement via severe illness, I can't imagine that would be an obstacle. How difficult can managing an All Star game be?

The bus business is a different story, as would something like Pete Rose Syndrome.
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So now we have Machado, who hopefully will lead us into a more dominant position against those pesky Giants, Rockies and DBacks. Looking forward to this weekend's games with the Brewers, they are a +.500 team and should give us a sense of where we are with him. The thing is though that Kershaw is not the dominant pitcher he was before, he's still really good, but he's not the old Kershaw, too many injuries. We have like 8 pitchers (two in the minors) who are decent/good starters so sorting that out should be interesting. Wonder if they will trade any of them before the deadline?
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Two umpires in the Mexican league were suspended for a bad call. They called the play below a check swing ball. I don't know, looked legit to me.

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They must ump Giant games.
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Scherzer gets into Strasburg for terrible outing

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2415 ... x-scherzer

Giving up 6 runs on 8 hits in 4 2/3rds innings coming off the DL seems to say that perhaps he should still be on the DL?
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One tweet that represents how bad the Nationals season is going.

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Anthony Rizzo was one of 4 position players to pitch last night in two different games.

He got AJ Pollock to fly out on 2 pitches to end the game. 54 and 62 mph. Wicked change/fastball combo. How long until he cracks that rotation?
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Is it the managers/coaching do you think? Boy on some teams Trea Turner would end up with some serious bruises inflicted by his teammates. That's just shitty.
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LawBeefaroni wrote: Tue Jul 24, 2018 8:56 am Anthony Rizzo was one of 4 position players to pitch last night in two different games.

He got AJ Pollock to fly out on 2 pitches to end the game. 54 and 62 mph. Wicked change/fastball combo. How long until he cracks that rotation?
Caratini and Rizzo weren't the only two position players to pitch in a single game on Monday, as the Rangers' Carlos Tocci and Ryan Rua did the same in Texas' 15-3 loss to the A's in Arlington.
The Cubs could have like won the game instead, just sayin'
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You'd think the All Star game would get the Nats back on track but the malaise is still there. They're not even .500.
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Whew! We just escaped getting no-hit by the Atlanta Braves. Now we have a long time rivalry with the Giants but I can tell you the next team in line that Dodgers fans hate is the Braves. Sure glad CT3 came through at the end!!!
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Lorini wrote: Mon Jul 30, 2018 1:14 pm Whew! We just escaped getting no-hit by the Atlanta Braves. Now we have a long time rivalry with the Giants but I can tell you the next team in line that Dodgers fans hate is the Braves. Sure glad CT3 came through at the end!!!
They still lost, though, right?
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Yeah losing was fine ;) Just don't get no hit by the friggin Braves!!!!
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Royals actually got a pretty decent return for Moose AND i now have a NL team to root for.

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LawBeefaroni wrote: Tue Jul 24, 2018 8:59 am You'd think the All Star game would get the Nats back on track but the malaise is still there. They're not even .500.
Why would you think that?
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Season is still going? It's going to take a major reworking for me to jump on the Mets bandwagon again. The way they have managed the team since the World Series is just criminal. All the random injuries don't help, but having players like Reyes starting almost daily is just not okay. He's clearly done, but they keep trotting him out. Cespedes looks like he might not even make it back NEXT season. Wright is of course never coming back, but is still on the payroll. I don't see how they won't suck again next year. The other teams in the division are only getting better.
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El Guapo wrote: Mon Jul 30, 2018 2:06 pm
LawBeefaroni wrote: Tue Jul 24, 2018 8:59 am You'd think the All Star game would get the Nats back on track but the malaise is still there. They're not even .500.
Why would you think that?
Home field ASG, Harper wins HRD. Kind of thing that fires up a team. But I guess Dave Martinez ain't the guy.

Their heads are all screwed. Harper is criticizing the front office for lack of trades, their rotation is fighting amongst themselves, dudes are jogging on the bases...
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What an entertaining 4 days of baseball this weekend.
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stessier wrote: Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:37 am What an entertaining 4 days of baseball this weekend.
You know, oddly enough I agree.

With the minor gripe that last night's game took *forever*.
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El Guapo wrote: Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:29 pm
stessier wrote: Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:37 am What an entertaining 4 days of baseball this weekend.
You know, oddly enough I agree.

With the minor gripe that last night's game took *forever*.
Last night was Yankees/Red Sox at its absolute worst.

Game times from the series:

3:25 (there were 22 runs; this was understandable); 2:15 (Porcello's gem, 5 runs); 2:33 (Eovaldi's gem, 5 runs); 4:39 (10 innings, 9 runs).

Ridiculous. Sunday's game was more than twice as long as Friday's.
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pr0ner wrote: Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:39 pm
El Guapo wrote: Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:29 pm
stessier wrote: Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:37 am What an entertaining 4 days of baseball this weekend.
You know, oddly enough I agree.

With the minor gripe that last night's game took *forever*.
Last night was Yankees/Red Sox at its absolute worst.

Game times from the series:

3:25 (there were 22 runs; this was understandable); 2:15 (Porcello's gem, 5 runs); 2:33 (Eovaldi's gem, 5 runs); 4:39 (10 innings, 9 runs).

Ridiculous. Sunday's game was more than twice as long as Friday's.
The ESPN announcers started counting the number of 3-2 counts in the game - it got up to a few dozen, at least, IIRC.
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Perspective is everything isn't it? :D
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Baseball is kinda stuck in a Catch-22 situation right now. Fans tend to love the long ball, but the increase in long balls has also led to an increase in strikeouts which in most cases are boring as hell.

Then you get games like last night when both starting pitchers take forever between pitches. Even the announcers where talking about how slow Price was. In the minors now they are experimenting with a pitch clock, trying to get pitchers to speed up.

But haven't Yankees-Red Sox games been traditionally slow games?
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Scuzz wrote: Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:14 pm Baseball is kinda stuck in a Catch-22 situation right now. Fans tend to love the long ball, but the increase in long balls has also led to an increase in strikeouts which in most cases are boring as hell.

Then you get games like last night when both starting pitchers take forever between pitches. Even the announcers where talking about how slow Price was. In the minors now they are experimenting with a pitch clock, trying to get pitchers to speed up.

But haven't Yankees-Red Sox games been traditionally slow games?
Traditionally, yes. I think partly because both organizations emphasis taking pitches where possible, and neither encourages their pitchers to hurry up. Plus Red Sox - Yankees games tend to be important ones for each team, so they're willing to throw lots of relievers (and thereby time-consuming pitching changes) into the game.

But for the most part this series was fine, before last night's became a cruel mockery of a traditional Sox-Yankees game.

Still nice that the Red Sox won, though. :D
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I was surprised to learn this morning that they won. It was 4-1 Yankees when I had to turn off the TV.
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Scuzz wrote: Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:23 pm I was surprised to learn this morning that they won. It was 4-1 Yankees when I had to turn off the TV.
Yeah, Aroldis Chapman blew the save in the bottom of the 9th. Though to be fair, they would have won 4-3 but for a critical throwing error with two outs in the 9th. I suppose that was fair given that the Yankees benefited from a critical fielding error in the 7th, though.
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WTF? The Oakland A's are 21 games over .500 and 4.5 games out of first. Can anyone name even one of their players?
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Jaymann wrote: Tue Aug 07, 2018 4:59 pm WTF? The Oakland A's are 21 games over .500 and 4.5 games out of first. Can anyone name even one of their players?
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LawBeefaroni wrote: Tue Aug 07, 2018 5:01 pm
Jaymann wrote: Tue Aug 07, 2018 4:59 pm WTF? The Oakland A's are 21 games over .500 and 4.5 games out of first. Can anyone name even one of their players?
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Jaymann wrote: Tue Aug 07, 2018 4:59 pm WTF? The Oakland A's are 21 games over .500 and 4.5 games out of first. Can anyone name even one of their players?
Without looking:

Khris Davis, Matt Chapman, Matt Olson, Jed Lowrie, Sean Manaea, Trevor Cahill, Blake Treinen, Shawn Kelley...I got stuck here, but looking at their roster, I also recognize Stephen Piscotty, Marcus Semien, Jonathan Lucroy, Edwin Jackson (on his 142nd team), Jeurys Familia, Mike Fiers.

Matt Chapman is 8th in MLB in WAR amongst hitters, Khris Davis is probably the most underrated power hitter in the game, and Treinen is 2nd in MLB in WAR amongst relievers. They have some talent there, and it all appears to be coming together.
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Yeah I've heard of Kris Davis. You mean Eric Byrnes is gone?
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Jaymann wrote: Tue Aug 07, 2018 4:59 pm WTF? The Oakland A's are 21 games over .500 and 4.5 games out of first. Can anyone name even one of their players?
Umm... Sal Bando?
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Cubs fans have been in a state of panic since the All Star break, since the Cubs have been playing ~.500 ball since then. Never mind that the Cubs still have the best record in the NL, as of tonight went up 2.5 games on the Brewers in the Central, have been playing without arguably their best player (Kris Bryant) for long stretches due to injury, survived a terrible first half by Anthony Rizzo, and have hardly seen prize offseason pickup Yu Darvish this year. I guess it says something about how far the franchise has come that this is cause for such concern.

Rizzo has been playing better overall, though, and if Bryant can come back at even 75%, that's huge. I have confidence that Darvish can still be effective, and having him come back would be like a big late season trade pickup. The acquisition of Cole Hamels for a bag of balls and a case of Old Style has been great so far.

And the reason that Bryant is only "arguably" the teams best player? That's because Javy Baez has been the best player on the team this year so far. He's always been fun to watch, but he seems to have put it all together this year. Bottom line: If you don't like watching Javy play, why are you even watching baseball?
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Just call the damn game Simpson

Uh the last 10 games the Cubs have played haven't been against teams that would make the playoffs, so yay? :D
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Today is the thirty year anniversary of turning on the lights at Wrigley Field. The game was rained out after four innings in a monsoon, as though God was telling the Cubs that baseball should only be played during the day. The actual first game under the lights ended up being 8/9/88 instead of the much more pleasing 8/8/88. I was at the originally scheduled game. Lights had been announced earlier in the year, but no one knew when they would be completed and when the first night game would actually be played. My dad purchased tickets for the games he suspected were likely candidates, and he struck gold. Fortunately, we were in the second deck under the roof, so we stayed relatively dry. I probably still have my souvenir hat around somewhere, although I wore it a lot back in the day, so it's hardly mint.
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Wrigley ordered light standards for the park to be installed in February or March of 1942. The material for the lights was stored underneath the bleachers at Wrigley. The Cubs assembled the steel, cable, reflectors and electrical equipment for the most modern lighting system in baseball and moved it into storage in late November.

The lights were not intended for “true” night games. Instead, Wrigley wished to schedule some twilight games, starting at 6 p.m. The twilight games would allow patrons to attend a game after work while ensuring that the neighborhood settled down so that residents could enjoy a restful evening. As such, the Cubs and City Council agreed on an ordinance that prohibited an inning starting after 8:00 p.m.

December 8, 1941:
A day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Wrigley donated the 165 tons of steel for the light standards to the U.S. war effort. Later, when President Franklin Roosevelt requested more night baseball games, the Cubs looked into using wooden poles and second-hand equipment to erect useful, but not beautiful, lighting for Wrigley.

The Cubs would eventually submit plans for lighting at least three times, but those plans were rejected by the War Production Board.
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ImLawBoy wrote: Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:14 pm The actual first game under the lights ended up being 8/9/88 instead
Not even the biggest sports happening of the day. ;)

(My brother moved to Wrigleyville earlier that summer — 1050 W. Waveland. Dad was home on his lunch hour and happened to have CNN tuned in. Whom should he find on his TV, but my older brother proudly holding his NO LIGHTS IN WRIGLEY FIELD sign, talking about how the lights would ruin the character of the neighborhood as if he had lived there his whole life.)
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