https://www.kcmets.net/CPF/LAD.png> Shohei Ohtani (L) DH Mookie Betts ® RF Teoscar Hernández ® LF Tommy Edman (S) SS Enrique Hernández ® 3B Max Muncy (L) 1B Will Smith ® C Andy Pages ® CF Chris Taylor ® 2B https://www.kcmets.net/CPF/NYM.png> Francisco Lindor (S) SS Mark Vientos ® 3B Pete Alonso ® 1B Brandon Nimmo (L) LF Starling Marte ® RF J.D. Martinez ® DH Jose Iglesias ® 2B Harrison Bader ® CF Francisco Alvarez ® C
=Centerfield post_id=176299 time=1729179910 user_id=65] The 1988 Dodgers trailed the vastly superior Mets 2-1 heading into Game 4 of that NLCS. No one was giving the Dodgers much of a chance, and were already talking about a Mets-Oakland matchup in the World Series. If I remember correctly, Dodgers twitter was all over Tommy Lasorda, demanding that light-hitting Mike Scioscia be benched.
It literally shows how stupid pitch framing is. Guy throws a ball, the catcher moves his mitt, and all of a sudden it's a strike. You get to see how ridiculous, first hand, the 'art' of pitch framing is.
If the Dodgers sweeping the next three games could mean a Kamala landslide -- taking all fifty states and finally saying hasta la vista to the orange blowbag -- put me down in 2024.
I've yet to google and learn what a Shaolin monk is. I will, in the off-season. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, without a carrot between your smiling teeth...
=batmagadanleadoff post_id=175252 time=1728583014 user_id=68]Jeter was blowharding it about how the Phillies were sure to win the series. I love baseball analysis. I love it that there are 250 different ways now from here to China to try and figure out just how good Francisco Lindor might be. I don't mind it that the modern stats are so complicated that hardly anybody truly understands them and you need a Ph.D in math these days to approach them and that nobody can calculate them in their heads anymore. I don't mind it that some of these stats are so opaque, that you have to take a leap of faith and simply trust that the new stats have been properly vetted over the years so that they're reliable. I don't mind any of this because I see that as progress and modernism. But when they start blathering about who's gonna fucking win tomorrow's game with all of the certainty of some ********** who secretly stole the answers to tomorrow's test, that's when I wanna strangle them. Because they don't know shit and I don't give a flying fuck that Jeter has a plaque of himself hanging in Cooperstown with his mug embossed on it while I wasn't good enough to hit my way onto my High School baseball team. They don't know shit. That's when I wanna turn down the volume on my TV to zero and stuff a CD of Led Zeppelin II into my player and rock the volume so loud that my ears explode and my neighbors have to call the cops on me. Do these know-it-alls ever run the tape back to show us how fucking wrong they always are?
You don't get something for nothing You don't get freedom for free You won't get wise With the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dreams might be