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When a sentence actually says something different than your brain initially thought. Sometimes it is worth a laugh ESPN teaser on front page "Phils' Harper OK with 1B: Eyes deal into his 40's" I suspect without the 2nd half of the line I probably wouldn't have taken it the wrong way, but...

Holy Mackerel -- it's Superman and Jimmy Olsen. I've never realized just how massive Ohtani is while he's playing. But maybe it's just something screwy with the photographic angles, but is Ohtani really that asymmetric? His right wide is twice the size of his left?

As best as I can tell he's under Dodgers control and I think his last year of arbitration eligibility. 95% sure he wasn't released nor eligible for FA Edit: Better information...

So Dodgers current starters for 2024 include (injury history noted). Glasnow Yamamoto Buehler Kershaw (not sure how long his surgery recovery might be or if he'll even sign) Bobby Miller Sheehan Somewhere mid-late year maybe Dustin May can return Tony Gonsolin but guessing he's not going to...

I don't remember him being that bad of an umpire early on (certainly nowhere near CB or Angel Hernandez level) and he was moderately entertaining on field and in interviews away from the field. He was always a bit argumentative, but plenty of players and managers seem to enjoy interacting with...

I posted this earlier in the year when it appeared Oakland was well on pace to join the futility list https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/2023-mlb-season.378691/page-2#post-5236680 The A's played (relatively) much better baseball during the summer and rallied to finish above...

Weird coincidence -- Nov 1, 2010 SF beats Texas in G5 of WS Winning Manager Bruce Bochy Nov 1, 2023 Texas beats Arizona in G5 of WS Winning Manager Bruce Bochy Just noticed I had a distant relative that played for Texas that year and had a very good series. I didn't think he had gotten...

Well, I think that was an explosion that the Rangers were known for in the first half of the season.

I'm exhausted and it's only G1. What a performance. Seager and Garcia are on a monster roll right now. If Christian Walker can't get out of his horrendous slump, AZ might be in a really bad spot. I saw that Scherzer was doing his off-day/bullpen work after the game so still a bit of...

On the MLB Network recap: Altuve's HR was only the 9th time in Postseason History that a player hit a lead changing HR in the 9th inning or later (i.e team went from behind to ahead) and I think I may have seen most of them if not all of them. It's always been the 9th inning. Kirk Gibson...

Bryan Abreu drilled Adolis Garcia -- the huge Rangers 3 run HR earlier with some major Hot Dog celebration all the way around the bases including a Hoskins bat spike, a very slow walk to 1st base, ending with a massive Home Plate Stomp. I'm not even objecting to the Hot Dog with Spicy Mustard...

A trend I've noticed over hte last few postseasons seems to be repeating again this year. Hitters out of Cuba seem to be Postseason warriors. I'm sure there may be some others and maybe some players that haven't performed, but for whatever reason the stage just doesn't seem too big. Jose...

Damn, Alvarez is a postseason monster.

Ouch. At least we get to see something never seen in 125 years of Postseason Baseball.. Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom and another Dodgers SP bites the dust before the 3rd Inning ends

Did it pick up me screaming WALK HIM! WLAK HIM! WALK HIM! to Snitker when Harper was up with runners 1st and 3rd? Apparently everyone b/w here and Philly heard me, it just didn't filter into the dense skulls of the Braves coaches. My wife certainly isn't happy with me with what I was screaming...

I seem to remember hearing it sometime in the 70s with Curt Gowdy/Kubek, etc and that crowd of the Saturday Game of the Week and it possible it goes back even further. Seems I;ve heard some of the old interviews with Spahn and Williams, but that could easily be faulty memory. Certainly on a...

I absolutely love Bull Durham -- easily my favorite Baseball movie of all time and I still laugh everytime one of the phrases is uttered in public by an unknowing interviewee 1) We gotta play 'em one day at a time. 2) I'm just happy to be here. Hope I can help the ballclub. 3) I just want to...

Anyone have any idea when the Athlete's Cliche lexicon added the work Compete as teh go to for everything. Every interview or Talking Head over the last several years seem to have adopted Compete as a competition to see how many times is can be uttered in a asingle paragraph. I'd say it...

And Urias for different reasons. Plus Kershaw being held together with bubble gum most of the second half pitched sparingly at best. When 2022-2023 Lance Lynn becomes a good option ... Roberts had a much bigger influence on the Dodgers record being anywhere near as good as it was this...

I'd definitely let Wheeler go into the 7th too. He made one bad pitch to Darneau. Not 100% you can call the Phils pen a weakness, but with the Closers he had down and all the off days built in it was a little odd to send Hoffman out. Hoffman has had a great year, but no playoff experience...

Interesting conversation on MLB Network last night talking about the BYE Effect on hitters. Basically the several ex-players being interviewed said afte a 5-7 day layoff like the Bye or All-Star break, no matter what kind of hitting practice or scrimmages it seems to mess up the timing and...

Once again -- proof that baseball players don't seem to like off days. Last year and again this year, the bye teams have fared extremely poorly. 1-3 today and only Houston who had to play really hard until the last day of the season won. Braves may be in a for another unceremonious exit...

I actually had to go look at the schedule from that era After the 2 expansion teams were added to the AL in 1977 the AL had close to a balanced schedule -- 12 games against the 7 opposite division teams, 13 against same division team. The NL still had the 18 same div vs 12 opposite...

Tampa's defense just had a full blown meltdown. Firstbase and CF both with incredibly difficult game

Interesting Retirements today -- Wainwright's final appearance in StL was as a Pinch Hitter. ??Votto retirement or possibly just leaving Cincy gets tossed from the game for arguing Ball and Strikes Brandon Crawford in SF comes off the DL so he could play in his last game Terry Francona --...

Atlanta with 1 HR tonight - 2 short of tying Minnesota so they need a big Sunday Acuna with 73SB to break tie with Otis Nixon for modern Braves record and also scored 2 more runs to get to 149. 217 Hits for the season -- Atlanta record 219. 306 time on base -- Chipper at 309 in Franchise...

Numbers: Acuna scores 147th run of the year and removed after his 2nd AB (just for rest). he also stole 71 and 72 for the year I think ties Otis Nixon the modern Braves franchise record (ignoring the pre 1900 era). Braves score 6 run while giving up 14 (and 5HR), but 0HR and stuck at 304...

Well, you watch thousands of baseball games and still almost every day you see something you've never seen before. Yankees- Royals -- 1st 10 hitters reached base safely (8 hits and 2 walks ), but hitters 1-9 each scored a run. Carlos Rodon continues to have worse outings -- 0ip 6h 2bb 8 er...

I realize it was technically Baseball, but the game and rules were so different pre-1900 I almost dismiss most of those out of hand. No mound some decades, underhand only some years, different ball/bat/gloves, pitchers rubber different distances. It's just hard to make much sense. Then you...

Several have https://mlbrun.com/most-100-rbi-players 1936 Yankees near the end of the rabbitball AL Era had 5 Lou Gehrig: 152 RBI Joe DiMaggio: 125 RBI Tony Lazzeri: 109 RBI Bill Dickey: 107 RBI George Selkirk: 107 RBI Multiple teams in that 20-37 era had 4 Rockies in late 90's did it several...