2025 MLB Season

[The Sultan]

Whoa, whoa, whoa.  The St. Louis Cardinals baseball franchise does not participate in such disgraceful activities and would have simply punched the clock and gone home to prepare for the next series like sportsmen.

Well, after getting a couple post-celebration DUIs.

[Uncle Rico]

Well, after getting a couple post-celebration DUIs.

To be fair, would you be sober if you had to live in Missouri?

[MU82]

I understand your sentiment but obviously the answer is a resounding "no." Massive credit to Schneider and the team leaders like Vlad, Jr. for not letting that be the case.

This was just the latest in a series of multiple examples in this postseason alone that there is no such thing as day-to-day momentum in baseball.

Toronto seems to have all the momentum now, but if Yamamoto is great again, the Dodgers can easily flip the script. Which wouldn't mean anything for Game 7 (except that there is one).

There is no doubt in my mind that the Mariners also could be ahead in this series, which is why my team's loss in the ALCS still sucks.

[The Sultan]

To be fair, would you be sober if you had to live in Missouri?

Well no. But at least the PEDs are cheap and plentiful.

[Shaka Shart]

In the WNBA thread, I mentioned having once been friends with the Phoenix HC, Nate Tibbets. Well, he never said it's "haunted," but he, and other Blazers coaches and players we knew through him, said that was their least favorite hotel to stay in.
"Some weird stuff goes on there. You hear things all night. I hate staying at that hotel."

Every haunting has a story, and sometimes the story can be even scarier than the ghosts themselves...

" Our organization, now known as The American Academy of Restorative Dentistry, came into being on August 17, 1921, at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the time of the meeting of the National Dental Association, presently the American Dental Association."

[Billy Hoyle]

BTW, is there a current athlete begging for the Key and Peele name treatment more than Trey Vasavage?

"T-Ray Vah-Sah-vah-jay."

[tower912]

Every haunting has a story, and sometimes the story can be even scarier than the ghosts themselves...

" Our organization, now known as The American Academy of Restorative Dentistry, came into being on August 17, 1921, at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the time of the meeting of the National Dental Association, presently the American Dental Association."

Demonic possession

[The Sultan]

Every haunting has a story, and sometimes the story can be even scarier than the ghosts themselves...

" Our organization, now known as The American Academy of Restorative Dentistry, came into being on August 17, 1921, at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the time of the meeting of the National Dental Association, presently the American Dental Association."

This can't be true. Dentists don't go to Milwaukee.

[🏀]

This can't be true. Dentists don't go to Milwaukee.

It was safer back then.

[The Sultan]

It was safer back then.

Oh please. Like I'm going to believe in stuff like "statistics" and "birds."

[🏀]

Oh please. Like I'm going to believe in stuff like "statistics" and "birds."

Back then, people knew they weren't welcome downtown and respected that.

[PointWarrior]

This time, the minimum-wage rookie who was pitching in Class A six months ago absolutely dominated the unbeatable Dodgers and their unhittable lefty Cy Young superstar.

So you will be good when Dipoto goes back to his spending strategy of only needing to win 54% of games?

[MU82]

So you will be good when Dipoto goes back to his spending strategy of only needing to win 54% of games?

I lived 3000 miles away and paid little attention to the Mariners, so I didn't know that was his "strategy."

I would like to think that the Mariners would use some of the revenue gained from the incredible support they received this season to give themselves a shot at another division title and beyond - especially given the talent, youth and relative low cost of their pitching staff. I'd think bringing back Naylor would be a no-brainer, for openers.

I'd be disappointed if they went cheap.

[🏀]

So you will be good when Dipoto goes back to his spending strategy of only needing to win 54% of games?

General managers are given a budget. I would assume Dipoto will request to spend more during this window and John Stanton will be okay with that given they are in a competitive window.

[tower912]

Blake Butera, 33, new manager of the Nationals.

Buster Posey with competition for boldest managing move of the off season.

[PointWarrior]

I lived 3000 miles away and paid little attention to the Mariners, so I didn't know that was his "strategy."

I would like to think that the Mariners would use some of the revenue gained from the incredible support they received this season to give themselves a shot at another division title and beyond - especially given the talent, youth and relative low cost of their pitching staff. I'd think bringing back Naylor would be a no-brainer, for openers.

I'd be disappointed if they went cheap.

So spending money on players is better than relying on "the minimum-wage rookie who was pitching in Class A six months ago?"

[The Sultan]

Back then, people knew they weren't welcome downtown and respected that.

Then how did riff-raff like dentists make their way downtown?

[Shaka Shart]

It was safer back then.

That was back when everyone pulled their dang pants up... with suspenders.

[Shaka Shart]

Then how did riff-raff like dentists make their way downtown?

That's where you had to go to find your speakeasy in order to get all liquored up before posting dog whistles on scoop. Kids have it so easy these days.

[GB Warrior]

To be fair, would you be sober if you had to live in Missouri?

I hate being sober when I have to drive through Missouri

[MU82]

So spending money on players is better than relying on "the minimum-wage rookie who was pitching in Class A six months ago?"

Now you're just being silly.

[CTWarrior]

I think more equitable revenue sharing would be better. Salary caps only screw players in the end.

This is the point.  Originally MLB teams split the gate with the visiting team evenly because that was the main revenue and everyone agreed that was a fair system.  When local radio and TV deals started, the pie wasn't so big that it mattered much.  Now that it is such a large portion of the revenue, there needs to be a way to spread it around fairly, like every team throw half their revenue in a post that gets distributed evenly back to all teams.  The big city teams would still have a nice advantage, but it would not be as pronounced s it is now.

It is amazing to me that the battle is always between players and owners and not small market owners vs big market owners.  I guess it isn't so amazing, since everybody is raking in the cash.

[PointWarrior]

Now you're just being silly.

Yes, almost as silly as defending the Dodgers payroll at every given opportunity?

[tower912]

What is to defend?  They legally spent a crap ton of money.  Right now it is a coin flip whether or not it pays off with a championship.

[MuggsyB]

Game 6 is a must win for the dodgers
-Muggsy

Stop mocking me!  This is sn attack on our diminutive population and I will not forget your comment.