MLB Regular Season 22: The Thread

[DG_ThenNowForever]

Just now, Kooky01 said:

Hope my Astros win again (not just to piss off everyone else here). 

 

No.

[DoctorWhom]

As long as the Asstros, Yankees & Dodgers lose, I'll be happy. 

 

So I most likely won't be.  

[TrueYankee26]

10 hours ago, Kooky01 said:

Wow, the two longest playoff droughts in each league snapped with Seattle and Philly. Well deserved.

And now respectively it is Angels & Tigers (last made it in 2014), and Pirates (2015), the latter also tying with the WC champs of that year the Royals

[Sport]

That's if you count the COVID NIT, which I do for the Marlins who won their play-in series, but don't for the Reds who were eliminated in 2 games by the Braves without scoring a single run. The Reds haven't been in the real playoffs since 2013, and haven't played in a series since 2012. 

 

Speaking of the Reds, they're one loss away from clinching only the second 100 loss season in franchise history. Their win last night means they can only tie the franchise record for futility, which was 1982 when they went 61-101. I'm rooting for it, honestly. It's important to me that Phil Castellini is humbled and embarrassed and I feel like he's not so cynical and/or dumb that he won't be humiliated by watching his crowds dwindle to all-time lows thanks to his behavior on Opening Day. In a perverse way I'm proud of the city for sending him the message that we're not going to tolerate that. Remains to be seen whether he gives enough of a care to do anything about it. 

[FiddySicks]

I really hope we get a 2017 rematch but I hope the Astros sweep the Dodgers this go around. Really twist that knife. 

[TrueYankee26]

He finally got it. #62.

[DoctorWhom]

6 minutes ago, TrueYankee26 said:

He finally got it. #62.

And the crowd  goes  mild!!!

[Cujo]

59 minutes ago, TrueYankee26 said:

He finally got it. #62.

 

OMG he's 7th all-time!!!!!!!!!!!! Throw a ticker tape parade!!!!!!!!!!

[oldschoolvikings]

Is it possible that they can stop shoving Judge down our throats now?  
 

Go away. And take the f’n Yankees with you.  

[Germanshepherd]

This has been the best MLB regular season I can remember. 
 

Pujols hits 700

Miggy hits 3000

Judge hits 62

Mariners break playoff drought

All of what Shohei Ohtani is doing

 

That’s five things I’ll remember watching far beyond this year, where previous seasons were lucky to have 1. 

[Dilbert]

8 hours ago, Sport said:

 It's important to me that Phil Castellini is humbled and embarrassed and I feel like he's not so cynical and/or dumb that he won't be humiliated by watching his crowds dwindle to all-time lows thanks to his behavior on Opening Day. In a perverse way I'm proud of the city for sending him the message that we're not going to tolerate that. Remains to be seen whether he gives enough of a care to do anything about it. 

The Reds will also have the lowest attendance ever in Great American Ball Parks history. Coming into the final three game series with the Cubs, only 1,358,304 fans have come through the gates this year, down nearly 1 million fans in the parks first year in 1993, and the lowest attended Reds season since 1984 when only 1,275,887  fans came to Riverfront Stadium to see a 92 loss team. Fans have definitely made their actions clear.  "Where you gonna go?", clearly to Bengals, Bearcats, FCC, and even the MLB partner league Florence Y'alls. The Y'alls attendance was up this year compared to last. 107,877 fans showed up to a shorter season minor league team in a smaller park outside of Cincinnati. An average of 2, 158 per game, up last year from 1,555 (ballpark seats 4,500)

[LMU]

Apparently being seventh in home runs in a season prompted as many push notifications as the death of the Queen.

[Cujo]

30 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Is it possible that they can stop shoving Judge down our throats now?  
 

Go away. And take the f’n Yankees with you.  

 

Still half-expecting tv networks to break in to see if he can add to his AL ReCoRd

[Kooky01]

My Dad always told me, if you're a star in sports, you're in a big market. And I think that's the case with Judge here. If he was with, say, the Pirates, nobody outside of Pittsburgh would probably care that this happened. But of course, he just has to be with the most obnoxious franchise in the biggest market in the U.S. of America, which leads to way too much unnecessary butt kissing. 

[FiddySicks]

Ooh, seventh all time. *dismissive wanking motion*

[Cujo]

3 minutes ago, Kooky01 said:

My Dad always told me, if you're a star in sports, you're in a big market. And I think that's the case with Judge here. If he was with, say, the Pirates, nobody outside of Pittsburgh would probably care that this happened. But of course, he just has to be with the most obnoxious franchise in the biggest market in the U.S. of America, which leads to way too much unnecessary butt kissing. 

 

And that's not even true, because Mike Trout plays in Los Angeles.

 

It's a Yankees thing and nothing else. I don't even think if Judge were a Met or Red Sock there would be this much media dickriding

[Kooky01]

4 minutes ago, Cujo said:

 

And that's not even true, because Mike Trout plays in Los Angeles.

 

It's a Yankees thing and nothing else. I don't even think if Judge were a Met or Red Sock there would be this much media dickriding

Well, Trout is in a big market in LA, but the Angels aren't really a prestigious franchise. If he was a Dodger, things would likely be much different with the media surrounding him. 

 

And yes, the whole Judge circus is a Yankee thing by the media. Even if the Yankees lose in round 1, ESPN will probably still be talking about Judge through the World Series. 

[rainmaker17]

In its short existence, Globe Life Field has already had a lot of crazy milestones. 

[Cujo]

[DG_ThenNowForever]

Huh. I didn't realize Sosa has three 60-homer seasons. Is that guy in the hall of fame?