2020 MLB Thread

[utee94]

I'm not a big MLB fan, but if I have "a team" then it would be the Dodgers.  When I was living/working in Orange County, one of my local peers was a big Dodgers fan so I went to games with him pretty regularly.  I've certainly seen more Dodger games than any other MLB franchise, next closest would be the Astros.

[CatsbyAZ]

hate the Dodgers, but congrats on the championship

Yes, very glad for a well deserving Kershaw:



https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1321301929327239172

[ELA]

Yes, very happy for him.

I don't dislike the Dodgers, they are just so boring.  They are like the late 90s Yankees to me there.  Pre Clemens and A-Rod.  The Jeter, Bernie, Posada group

[DevilFroggy]

I was pulling for the doyers, always had a soft spot for them but I couldn't tell you why as I don't like any other LA franchise.

Plus as a Stars fan I didn't want to see Tampa win another title.

[OrangeAfroMan]

Yes, very happy for him.

I don't dislike the Dodgers, they are just so boring.  They are like the late 90s Yankees to me there.  Pre Clemens and A-Rod.  The Jeter, Bernie, Posada group

That's what made it exasperating that they hadn't won a WS yet.  They've been like clockwork since Murdoch sold the team - a metronome - always so good, but never the 'best' as a champ.  Having great on-field results AND a top 5 farm system....having money AND having a smart front office....but they finally broke through in this dumpster-fire of a year.

I'll take it!

[OrangeAfroMan]

LA was obviously the team with the best odds to win the WS this year (and most previous years, recently), but due to the expanded playoff, they had a relatively low shot at it in a vacuum.  Of course that means they win it this year, lol.


The 116-win equivalent Dodgers beat the 108-win equivalent Rays in a good WS.  We have been lucky and spoiled that a 60-game sprint of a season ended that way.  It very easily could have gone awry.

[ELA]

I haven't been posting the results here, because people barely care about the simulated football season. But I also did it with baseball, using the 538 projections, and the Dodgers beat the Rays there too.

It was also Rays over Astros in the ALCS, although the Dodgers got by the Reds in the NLCS. The Yankees weren't great, they lost to the Twins in the Wildcard game. The Braves didn't even make the playoffs. They barely held off the Phillies to maintain third in their own division.  I think they and the Cardinals were probably the teams that underperformed the most compared to their actual results. The Cardinals finished 4th in the Central

[FearlessF]

10/23/79
Billy Martin gets into a bar fight with a marshmallow salesman in a bar in Minneapolis. The altercation ends up getting him fired and he ends up in Oakland where he revitalizes the A's and leads them to the playoffs in 1981.
I can't tell you how many times I've thrown hands with marshmallow salesmen. Those guys are assholes.

[Hawkinole]

As no doubt many of you have heard, 76-year old Tony LaRussa is the 2021 manager of the White Sox. 

The oldest manager to win a World Series was Jack McKeon at age 72 in 2003. He managed the Marlins at age 80 in 2011 for part of a season. 

Is 76 the new 66, or is this a mistake?

[FearlessF]

mistake

[OrangeAfroMan]

He looks 100.

[ELA]

10/23/79
Billy Martin gets into a bar fight with a marshmallow salesman in a bar in Minneapolis. The altercation ends up getting him fired and he ends up in Oakland where he revitalizes the A's and leads them to the playoffs in 1981.
I can't tell you how many times I've thrown hands with marshmallow salesmen. Those guys are assholes.

Sports misses characters

[FearlessF]

[OrangeAfroMan]

People forget about all that stuff with Ruth.....in the "if he played today" argument, I'd say he wouldn't make it to the majors.  He'd be in and out of jail his whole life.