LMU

14 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

Couldn’t agree more. Baseball has been losing popularity my entire life, but it’s always had one thing going for it. The history. It’s legit the ONLY thing baseball really has to sell at this point that’s worth any value. Trying to ignore the current records, despite your feelings on steroids, is nothing short of revisionist history. All that does is take the one thing baseball has left going for it, and completely delegitimizes it. How are you going to ever attract fans when your entire operation is that unserious? 
 

Look, there are ways to handle the whole steroids era issue that doesn’t just erase the history of the sport. With some creativity, baseball could absolutely include these records (as well as put these dudes into the hall of fame) while pointing out the context of the era. In fact, that’s the only really correct way to teach history. But, no. The people in charge of baseball are pathetically lazy and would rather just operate on old man outrage and erase the history rather than do the challenging work of embracing it and putting it out there in a way that explains the history of the game. 
 

I get some of the anger the steroids era brought up (Not really from the fans, though. Get over it. What a waste of your life to be mad about that). But if I’m being completely honest, for as tough of a situation as that was, it’s more the response to the steroid era from the old heads and executives that has really killed my interest in the game. It’s a :censored:ing children's game made pro. You (the Royal you) look like a legit loser trying so hard to gatekeep for what is essentially just a TV show to all of us. 

Throw into that the complete disregard to the other eras that the supposedly pure records were set in. Deadball. Segregation. Frequent ball doctoring. Stadiums under 300 feet to the foul poles, 500 to center, and massive foul territory, etc.

The Judge chase has to be one of the most meaningless, overhyped stories in recent memory. He tied a league record in a sport where leagues practically don’t matter anymore, putting himself now tied for seventh all-time and eight back. Setting aside feelings about steroids, this whole thing wouldn’t have raised a single eyebrow if anyone but a Yankee was involved.

16 minutes ago, DoctorWhom said:

What is it with Football Players (or really sports players in general) having such a hard time keeping it in their pants? 

That’s not the issue. There’s Antonio Cromartie level… and then there’s the gang rape of a child.

Let’s keep that Arte hate train rolling.

19 minutes ago, ninersdd said:

Mr Hot Dog is going to Las Vegas

 

 

The tragedy is that he goes to Vegas after Slots-A-Fun discontinued the 99¢ half-pounder.

Arte is being absolutely torched in the local media.

10 minutes ago, DEAD! said:

 

 

A couple decades too late.

Small crowd size has its benefits.

2 hours ago, Dynasty said:

I didn't know he was with the Dodgers when they were still in Brooklyn. The fact that he left ship with them to LA shows how big his connection is with the franchise.

And yet he was a childhood fan of the Giants.

Of course, Vin was famous for the famous calls (Clark, Buckner, Gibson, etc.). However, what we were spoiled by in LA were the stories that he was able to seamlessly weave into at-bats.  Here are some examples:

My two Vin moments:

Around 2014ish my wife and I went to a game in Arizona.  We had seats about 15 rows back behind home plate and happened to be sitting next to fellow Dodger fans which isn't all that miraculous in that park.  Between innings we looked up at the press box and saw Vin sticking his head out.  We all screamed "HI VIN!" and he looked over with a huge grin on his face and waved like crazy.

And, I'd say about 15-20 years ago my wife went with my in-laws to church up in Thousand Oaks/Westlake Village since they (and by marriage I) have very close family friends up there.  Turned out they managed to sit in the pew right behind Vin.  My father-in-law told her to not say anything and to let him enjoy his privacy.

On 7/23/2022 at 6:43 PM, the admiral said:

Idaho in the Pacific Northwest is one of those things I've never gotten. Spokane isn't even really in the Pacific Northwest; how is the entire state of Idaho, which has more in common with Utah than it does with anything west of the Cascades? Dumb. 

The southern half of Idaho fits your description.  The panhandle though is all mountains, pine trees, and resort towns (Coeur d'Alene) that does actually fit in a bit more with Cascadia.

Source: ex-girlfriend from Dalton Gardens.

Member has been suspended for trolling and blatantly spreading false information.

The length of the suspension will be determined when all moderator votes have been cast.

Rob Manfred:

1 minute ago, Cosmic said:

In the last two offseasons combined, Vegas has now given away the reigning Vezina winner and a point-per-game player for absolutely nothing.

A team modeled after the Excalibur but operated like Circus Circus.

On 7/9/2022 at 7:56 AM, Sport said:

 

23rd time it's happened in MLB history. Just as rare as a perfect game. 

@Jimmy! and I witnessed one live when Pedro Baez coughed one up for the Dodgers in Seattle.

Somehow we had a walk-off on an infield single with five infielders.

The irritating thing with the Dodgers CC is that if they wanted to honor the Latino fan base all they had to do was use what is already being sold on all corners of the internet.

Of course, they gave away two variations of what would have done an even better job as part of a doubleheader giveaway in May.

3 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

That was the B1G that did that. I'm not aware of the Pac-12 also doing it.

When they unveiled the current identity it started with Pac 10 and quickly transitioned to Pac 12 and they also had Pac 14 and Pac 16 logos ready to go.  Larry Scott went as far as to mock the B1G by saying that the Pac would be the mathematically accurate conference.

At least the SEC can still claim to be a conference in the southeastern half of the country.  This isn't ECHL "the letters mean nothing" chicanery.

The B1G, on the other hand, is an affront to every math, accounting, and science major attending its member institutions and has been since Penn State snuck in and they crammed a negative space 11 in the logo.  The one thing that the ruins of the Pac 12 had going for it was that they had logos for all the different numbers of possible member schools already drawn up when they rebranded.

I’m just done with the repeated calls for a Freeman for Olson trade to “make it right.” It’s not going to happen.

Even an old friend has already weighed in.

3 hours ago, MJD7 said:

The Padres City Connect jersey has leaked:

I can’t say I’m a fan.

Barbie and Ken approve.