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Not sure what the Dodgers using Buehler today has to do with benefiting the Brewers.Scherzer was always starting the wild card. Should the Dodgers win. They don’t play the Brewers. And Buehler is available for game 1 anyways.
That’s awesome news that Scherzer was always starting over Buehler. Scherzer has given up 11 runs (10 earned) over his last 2 outings/10.1 innings.
Schilling was on the HoF ballot for several years before he got outwardly political, before he compared Muslims to Nazis, before he bashed trans people, before he “joked” that journalists should be lynched, before he spewed conspiracy theories.Despite all his idiotic takes, his vote total actually increased after he made his most controversial comments. Indeed, in his most recent year on the ballot, more than 70% of the electorate voted for him.
By this logic someone should tell the Yanks not to start their franchise pitcher Cole tonight.And it’s a good thing the Dodgers didn’t use this logic. Or Buehler would have been moved to the bullpen after his first 4 starts of September.
He'd be in by now if he hadn't behaved like a jackass since hi retirement. He was trending to where he would have gone in. It seems strange that his post-career shenanigans are what is going to keep him out, may be a first. At any rate, there is a character clause so I wouldn't begrudge anyone for not voting for him, but he has an impeccable playing case, which is bolstered by the fact that he is probably the greatest postseason starting pitcher since Bob Gibson.
Yeah that isn't the same logic at all. The Yankees don't have a second ace behind Cole to throw. And continuing to pitch a guy in the regular season through some bumps vs. having a 1 and done game while the guy is going through his bumps.But sure. Identical situations.Like I said, Kershaw out, Buehler not available for a one and done game, Muncy out. This weekend went as well as it possibly could have for the Brewers.
And like I said,Buehler was never going to be available. It was always ScherzerAbout the only benefit for the Brewers is if you fear the Dodgers more than the Giants. The Dodgers playing in the WC lessens their chances because Scherzer can’t go til game 3. But even then, better hope they lose cause for the Brewers they will have Scherzer and Buehler both ready.But as far as Buehler goes nothing changed. And the Dodgers swept the Brewers so nothing in that series changed things either. You shoulda just said “I’m glad the Giants took care of business” and left it at that.
I’m sorry, but you can’t get $324 mil, and go only 2+ IP in a Wild Card game.
With inflation, $324 million doesn’t buy what it used to.
Remember the words of Yogi Berra:"Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical."
I respect your opinion on the first point, but the vote totals don't seem to back it up. Schilling made his most incendiary comments in 2016 and, indeed, his vote total went down from 52.3% that year to 45% in 2017. But since then, his vote total has gone up quite strongly -- 51.2% in 2018, 60.9% in 2019, 70.0% in 2020, 71.1% in 2021. (Note: Each year is the Hall class year; ballots had to be submitted by 12/31 of the previous year.) So from 2017 to 2021, his percentage increased significantly, pretty much in line with what is the typical trajectory in this kind of voting pattern. Is it possible that enough of the electorate was influenced by him being a jerk? I suppose, especially at first, but the pattern since 2017 suggests otherwise.His career numbers are very good but they are not blow-you-away good, which is why he isn't in the Hall. More Mark Buehrle and Zack Greinke than somebody with "impeccable" stats like Pedro, Johnson, etc, etc. But yes, he definitely was outstanding the postseason, and that should count for something ... and I'd posit that it did in the eyes of the BBWAA electorate, the vast majority of whom voted for him.FWIW, I absolutely would put Schilling in the Hall.
I'm not 100% sure, but he's got to be the first person in history to get 70% one year and not get in the next. That is what I meant by trending to be in by now. Always when you get that close one year, you go in the next.
I know I've beaten this horse on here a few times, but the thing that gets me the most is that some players just don’t run and nobody cares or does anything about it or even notices it. In the first inning Stanton rips a ball off the wall, stands at the plate and admires it and doesn’t run, and when it hits the wall he only gets a single when it should have been an easy stand up double, and nobody says a thing. Then in the sixth, with one out and Judge on first, he rips another ball off the wall, and AGAIN stands at home plate and admires it. They gave him a double, but he had stopped and was standing around first and did not head for second until Bogaerts threw home for Judge, who had come around all the way from first. That should have been scored a single with him advancing on the throw home. So when A-Rod kept saying they should have held Judge at third (which was actually right) and the Yankees would have had second and third with one out, he was wrong. They would have had first and third because Stanton did not run again. I do not understand the mentality that allows this to happen, especially in a game where if you lose your season is over. If you pulled him (and anybody else) from the game in April a couple times for not running, that would probably end the problem. Not running is so commonplace that nobody on the broadcast even mentions it when it happens. I am picking on Stanton here, but he is far from the only guy who does this, just like there are lots of guys who run everything out.
I'm with you 100%. As good a hitter as Stanton is, I don't respect him as a player because of his lack of hustle.
FWIW, I checked the box score and they did only give Stanton a single on the ball in the sixth. I just assumed it was a double because the announcers referred to it as a double for the balance of the game.
Speaking of the HoF, why isn't Reggie Smith a member?