~2024 MLB Thread~

[MarqHusker]

Richie Sexson and Jeromy Burnitz both hit 3 Home runs in the same game for the Brewers in 2001.  Don't think that's happened a 2nd time.

[utee94]

I've been told that folks in Austin think of MLB as rats ass

Well I certainly do, but apparently there are some MLB fans living in the city.

The Round Rock Express are pretty well supported way out on the edge of town, I imagine that a team playing in a stadium somewhere in the center of Austin proper, would do quite well.

[Cincydawg]

Is there any land in the center of Austin that isn't already developed?

[OrangeAfroMan]

Wouldn't they put a team in San Antonio instead?  Bigger, already a pro city, close enough that Austin people could come to a weekend game.  Let UT have Austin.  

The expansion cities are more like Charlotte, Vegas, Portland,...Montreal I guess.....I don't think San Juan or any Mexican city is realistic.  

[847badgerfan]

Vegas for the A's so they are out.

I'd say Nashville or Charlotte. I wouldn't stick a 3rd team in Texas or Florida to be honest.

[ELA]

Nashville, Charlotte or Portland.  Not sure Portland could get the stadium funding done though

[OrangeAfroMan]

Vegas for the A's so they are out.

I'd say Nashville or Charlotte. I wouldn't stick a 3rd team in Texas or Florida to be honest.

Duh, yeah.


Florida should lose a team.  It doesn't matter how big a metro is if nobody goes to games.  The Rays COULD work, if they'd build a decent ballpark.  So that's a wait-and-see.  The Marlins got their stadium, but suck and no one watches.

The Rays shouldn't exist - the Marlins should have proved themselves first, outside of the 2 random WS teams/sell offs.

[FearlessF]

[OrangeAfroMan]

Makes me want to tune in tomorrow.

[ELA]

Maybe theyll hit in a year with a true 1-1.  I cant blame the Tigers for taking Mize and Torkelson, they juat got 1-1 in shitty years.

[ELA]

So Parker Meadows should be a Gold Glove CF (at probably the 2nd most important spot to have Gold Glove), if he can just even hit ~.230.

He was hitting ~.160 to start the season so they sent him down.  He's been hitting it plenty well enough, and doing stuff like this...


https://twitter.com/dannydHRs/status/1821556397277876544

The Tigers are now 45-30 when he's on the big league club, and 10-30 when he isn't, so maybe the guys paid to figure this out should go ahead and do that

[847badgerfan]

Sox fired their manager and rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic.

[Cincydawg]

I know teams have to "do something" after such a losing streak, but it really does seem pointless.  Don't fire a guy without a plan to hire a guy.

[Cincydawg]