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When do yo think the MLB regular season will start?

On time
- 1 (33.3%)
Late, but on or before April 15th
- 0 (0%)
April 16th through April 30th
- 0 (0%)
May 1st through May 15th
- 2 (66.7%)
May 16th through May 31st
- 0 (0%)
Jun1st through June 15th
- 0 (0%)
June 16th through June 30th
- 0 (0%)
After June 30th
- 0 (0%)
No Season
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 3

Voting closed: February 13, 2022, 10:41:25 PM


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josh

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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4770 on: July 16, 2021, 12:11:45 PM »
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/sports/baseball/second-basemen-changes.html

Interesting discussion, despite the silly headline.

I'll note that Mike Andrews (RS 2nd baseman for 4 years) was 6' 3" and 195 and that Jerry Adair was 6'.

It was a few years before the Sox went below 6' on a regular basis there, with Denny Doyle, the 2nd of three consecutive 2nd basemen acquired from the Angels.
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« Reply #4771 on: July 16, 2021, 11:34:38 PM »
I still think of 2nd baseman as the the one position where the scrappy little guy can be a MLB star. Growing up its was Nellie Fox, with a wad of chewing tobacco bulging in his cheek, or Bobbie Richardson, and then Joe Morgan who were the role models, of the dirt dog defensive whiz who could hit a bit, and more recently Pedroia and Altuve, were the small guy who excelled at the position. IIRC it wasn't until Grich excelled at 2nd for the Os, in the early 70s, that a tall guy was considered the best fielder at the position.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4772 on: July 16, 2021, 11:37:59 PM »
Good win to start post AS game.

Pretty decent start by ERod and nice 3-inning mop-up by "Goose" Houck.

Ys are hurting, but awinzawin
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« Reply #4773 on: July 16, 2021, 11:52:52 PM »
Quote from: bankshot1 on July 16, 2021, 11:37:59 PM
Good win to start post AS game.

Pretty decent start by ERod and nice 3-inning mop-up by "Goose" Houck.

Ys are hurting, but awinzawin

It's not like the Ys don't still have plenty of folks who theoretically have a ton of power!

And it was a good game by ERod, to be sure.

All 6 ILed Yankees will be on for the full 10 days. No word on which was/were not vaccinated nor on whether they might have developed symptoms.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4774 on: July 16, 2021, 11:57:15 PM »
Privacy, after all.
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« Reply #4775 on: July 17, 2021, 01:22:00 AM »
Quote from: kidcarter8 on July 16, 2021, 11:57:15 PM
Privacy, after all.

Since that is what baseball's IL has always been about.

Just like their drug policy, their PED policy, and their domestic abuse policy.

Oh, wait...
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #4776 on: July 17, 2021, 10:55:19 PM »
clown show of a shit show in da Bronx.

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« Reply #4777 on: July 17, 2021, 10:57:36 PM »
Quote from: bankshot1 on July 17, 2021, 10:55:19 PM
clown show of a shit show in da Bronx.

From the rainless rain delay to running an inning that should not have been run to the 1st base ump calling every checked swing a strike to the ridiculous out call he made (that thankfully got quickly overturned) to the fact that the umps should have called the game at the baseball thrown at the left fielder because of unsafe playing conditions...

your words are too kind.
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« Reply #4778 on: July 17, 2021, 11:04:58 PM »
I like that we had a concussed ump calling ball and strikes.

I think the conspiracy was the Ys held the game and hoped the coming torrential rain would allow them to reschedule later in the season.

And it seems they got lucky
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« Reply #4779 on: July 18, 2021, 10:38:13 AM »
I think if Covid interferes with fielding your team, you should have to forfeit the game.
There should be mandatory vac for all MLB personnel.
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« Reply #4780 on: July 18, 2021, 03:38:48 PM »
So I pop the Mets game on and see it is 6-0 Pirates in the second inning - this after I read the recap of the debacle yesterday that left us at just 47-42.

I can handle losses due to injury/illness - games like yesterday make me cringe.

So, anyway - about to lose 4th straight to Pittsburgh, analysts says, well...there is still plenty of time and we have our bullpen set.  Right.......

Just checked back in and its 6-5 in the sixth.  We'll see.  Regardless, not too much hope for NYM the rest of the way.
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« Reply #4781 on: July 18, 2021, 04:13:48 PM »
https://www.mlb.com/news/pirates-score-3-runs-on-mets-mistake

At least we had a fiery managerial display
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« Reply #4782 on: July 18, 2021, 04:55:42 PM »
"And they win it.  The Mets WIN the damn thing, seven to six!"
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« Reply #4783 on: July 18, 2021, 09:47:09 PM »
Progress:

Philadelphia has won 10 of its past 14 games and have won four series in a row for the first time since June 12 to 24, 2018

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« Reply #4784 on: July 18, 2021, 11:01:22 PM »
Sox looked lifeless tonight against a depleted team.
 
Last night was a clown show

Sox were the clowns tonight
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