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I saw that Noah Syndergaard has signed a one year $21 million deal with the Angels. A bit risky due to his injuries, but if someone can get inside his head, he could be a dominant pitcher (I think his stuff is that good).

That is interesting. I was thinking about this the other day- how many different franchises have won since 2000. The Red Sox have won 4, the Giants 3, the Yankees and Cardinals 2, and 10 other teams have won 1.

Yes they couldn’t have picked a worse time for labor strife. Go ahead, morons, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. 🙄

It won’t be easy for the Dodgers, but they’re definitely not dead. I don’t trust that the Braves can put a playoff series away (the NLDS they blew vs the Cardinals a couple of years ago was brutal).

The first time a team has hit 2 salamis in a postseason game. Even more incredible is it happened in consecutive innings. That’s what makes baseball great- a chance that you’ll see something you’ve never seen before.

If the Dodgers win, do they not get the home field advantage because they didn’t win the division, even though they have more wins than the Braves?

I do give the Rays credit for not folding their tent after being down early in Fenway, but at the same time I believe they will never have sustained success, and it will be very difficult for them to win a World Series due to the division, and financial situation. They’ll not likely be able to...

The play where the runner was way too far inside the line in yesterday’s game- this really seems like an egregious mistake when you think about the call made in the World Series just 2 years ago (the Nationals runner was called out when some think he shouldn’t have been).

If you’re talking about the fan who got involved in game 6 of the 2003 NLCS (I refuse to type the fan’s name, because his getting blamed is utterly ridiculous), the Cubs SS kicked a tailor-made double play ball that would have ended the inning- arguably the worst error ever committed in baseball...

I read that Cole was hit early on in the game- did he come up small, or did he have a down year?

How critical of the Yankees is the NY media?

The only AL team to not have played in a World Series. Easy to root for teams that have had little success.

That is strange that the batter was the one who asked for the timeout before hitting it out.

This was the incident where a spectator pointed a laser during the game at the Mets stadium last night, right?

This may be a naive question- is the league mandating all employees get vaccinated, or is it up to the team, or does neither the league nor the teams have the authority to do this?

I remember that his career was cut short due to a stroke.

Seems that a salary cap and floor would fix a lot of the competitive balance issues, and this nonsense of getting rid of all a team’s good players when the mood hits ownership. Unfortunately the MLBPA would never allow this, and the league/owners won’t butt heads with the union.

Do you think Boone is in trouble, or do you think he should be in trouble? I was told by two different people that the Yanks look like a bunch of tin men- no heart.

If the runner on 2B rule helped end games quicker, I’m surprised baseball isn’t sticking with it. Maybe the players don’t like the rule, and the league is appeasing them (the league seems to be scared stiff of the MLBPA).

Yes the 7 inning games on day/night cheated the fans- they should have never adopted that to begin with. The runner on 2B- why are they dropping this, in your opinion?

I see that Marlins pitcher Pablo Lopez set a modern record by striking out the first 9 Braves today. I found out through this story that Phils pitcher Aaron Nola tied Tom Seaver’s record of striking out 10 consecutive batters in a game. Impressive.

Have you read those books about the A’s yet? If either of them gets into the relationship between Finley and then commissioner Bowie Kuhn, I bet that would be a fascinating read.

The Giants have the best record in the National League- 1/2 game better than the Dodgers. How is this so? Professor Positive might have learned from his time in Philly.

I guess the boom or bust (HR or strikeout) is still happening in the game?

How does a team get caught in a triple play with runners on 2nd and 3rd, and a weak roller in the infield? Awful is putting it mildly. Brain dead is more of an apt description.

The 2016 Cubs are the poster board for nothing is guaranteed in sports. We all thought that championship was only the beginning of a good run, or perhaps a dynasty. This is a cautionary tale for a regime that thinks they can put off going for it all right away to the benefit of the future- if a...

What really makes that play baffling and bad is there were 2 outs in the inning, so if the Pirates 1B just took 2 or 3 steps backwards when he caught the ball, the inning would have been over.

101 pitches (very efficient), 1 walk, 9 strikeouts. The Rangers have been no-hit at least twice this season while having only 1 base runner- the Padres pitcher Musgrove did it to them earlier.

I haven’t been following, but maybe the umps are enforcing the rule from a few years ago that forbids batters from farting around outside the batter’s box. I didn’t understand why the league stopped enforcing that.

Crazy that 4 no-hitters have already been pitched this year (Mad Bum pitched a 7 inning one too). The league is hitting just .233