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Well, he still holds the distinction of being the only Dodger pitcher period to close out a championship season on his home mound back in ‘63! 1955 MFY Stadium 1959 Comiskey 1965 Metropolitan Stadium 1981 MFY Stadium II 1988 Oakland Coliseum 2020 Wearing home whites, but at Globe Life Stadium in Arlington 2024 MFY Stadium III 2025 IDGAF that it bears my own name, I’m Still Calling it Skydome

Fun fact, real name is Sanfrid http:// https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=johnso001san

Jennie Finch…only name I can come up with off hand…TO WIKI… Finch is ranked in several categories for both the Wildcats in the Pac-12 Conference and the NCAA Division I, where she was named #2 Greatest College Softball Player.[5] She is the National Pro Fastpitch career leader in WHIP and is a National Softball Hall of Fame inductee. She has been ranked by Tucson, Arizona sportswriters as the #1 Best Arizona Wildcats Softball Player; picked the #5 Best NCAA Pitcher All-Time and was chosen by the Pac-12 for the All-Century Team as a pitcher.[6][7][8] Time magazine described her as the most famous softball player in history.[3] In 2010, Finch retired from softball to focus on her family. In August 2011, she started working at ESPN as a color commentator for National Pro Fastpitch and college softball games.[9] The Tom Seaver of NFL QBs?

Gene Autry. Crossover act as well with his legendary music career, and the big screen persona that created a “code” as well. Tom Seaver of the 1970s Reds, not counting Seaver himself, of course

Alex Trebek The Tom Seaver of Saturday Night Live Cast Members and Featured Performers?

Not a tout, but anyone getting HOF hype before a debut makes me think of the bizarre reasoning Warner Wolf used to say he thought Joba Chamberlain should have made his debut in the starting rotation! He’s on his Sunday morning ESPN radio show in the summer of 2006, and touted Yankee prospect Joba Chamberlain is expected to get a call up. Due to him being drafted straight out of college there was discussion among Yankee fandom about how he’d be handled (Joba Rules becamr a meme, and a shirt based on how the organization wanted to slowly move him along). So, Wolf is discussing this, and says Chamberlain should be inserted into the starting rotation right off the bat. Okay, it was a fair opinion, though it’s not what the Yankees ended up doing when he was called up in August of 2007. What wasn’t fair, and very odd was his reasoning. To that point he claimed, ALL PITCHERS in the baseball Hall of Fame were starters first! 😳🤨🤣 Okay, now doing some research, this actually makes absolutely ZERO sense, at all. Chamberlain was drafted in 2006, legendary 1980s (Cubs, Cardinals) closer Bruce Sutter, who never started a single game in the majors was finally elected to the Hall in January of 2006, inducted in July. I mean sure the point was more “the path too Cooperstown is rare for full time closers from the start of their careers” but it wasn’t ZERO when Chamberlain was being hot shorted through the Yankee organization. Anyway, suffice to say, the reasoning is pretty dumb. Like anyone is genuinely thinking about a prospect’s eventual induction into Cooperstown, and how to fast track it, is in ANY ONE involved in an organization’s player development, managerial and coaching staffs! FWIW, Chamberlain did have a decent enough 10-year career, though as a long reliever. Never appeared on a Hall of Fame ballot! The other point is, it’s clear research wasn’t put into the assertion about the amount of starting pitchers in the Hall of Fame being starters from their debut forward. It is, and has been possible since the late 1990s with sites like RetroSheet.org and Baseball-Reference.com but it is still time consuming to put in to see if, like the three pre-Sutter relievers in Cooperstown, if they all were clearly starters right away, or eased into it for whatever reason (ie Nolan Ryan split his pitching time in 1969 for the Mets as a spot starter and long reliever). So the point is still more how Wolf pulled the assertion out of his ass. With no regard for any facts to back it up beyond the three closers already in the Hall at that time being well known for being used as starters primarily for the first few years, at least, of their careers.

And he’ll get a ring as well!

Expect MFY-Red Sox to be promoted on the same historic level as the 03-04 ALCS!

Reds drop today like a team knowing the Mets are going to blow it anyway

Very good character actor from the 1970s through the 1990s. Usually tough guy archetypes. He’s the Cleaner, Winston Wolf in Pulp Fiction, and low level bank robber Mr. White in Reservoir Dogs. The movie with him going the full monty that Edgy is talking about is Bad Lieutenant from 1992.

. OE: Didn’t realize Cena actually has been a “rally cheer inducer” for the Mets this season, off of Soto using his hand gesture taunt

Surprised the no doubt member of the HOF Class of 2031, so far, Clayton Kershaw hasn’t been mentioned yet. Will ride out the Dodger postseason run, then will bid adieu to his playing days.

They announced during the introductions of the Alumni Classic that the memorial patch will be worn for the entire 2026 season.

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They tend to be stringent on their changes over there. It’s not a crowd sourced place like Wiki or IMDB. So it lags on the obscure persons’ notices.

We’ll see that in real time with the Alumni Classic Saturday, where it’s mostly from the 1999-2000, 2006 and 2015-2016 crews. With some 1986-1988ers around in “ones they save for last, but won’t be playing” roles.

What level are the expansion draft picks, and by extension post 1964(ish) entry draft selections by incoming teams to start filling out their minor league systems) but are ephemeral the franchise, never appearing in a regular/postseason game for them?

Stevie, Stevie... that's Branch Rickey. I think the quote is 'grand design' but we'll let you look it lol... 🤦🏻‍♂️😑 Two old baseball geniuses who liked to wear bow ties…

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Luck, is the residue of design -Frank Cashen

FYI, Wilbert Robinson was inducted in the 1940s as a Manager, with just two pennants, both with Brooklyn in the 1910s and 1920. Same committee process that inducts all skippers to this day. Third manager in the Hall after Mack & McGraw. Al Lopez was also put in before Weaver, a decade before I want to say, and with no rings, though two big pennants as the only non MFY skipper to win an AL pennant from 1949-1964. Guy who beat Lopez in 1954, Leo Durocher is next, that was The Lip’s lone title. Also before the Earl of Baltimore is early Negro League skipper and organizer Rube Foster, with 3 pennants to his B-R ledger, and 1890s Orioles skipper Ned Hanlon though if memory serves, he is in Weaver’s HOF class, with 5 NL pennants. In between Weaver and Leyland to see if the Rubicon was crossed… Frank Selee, Boston Braves in the 1890s, 5 pennants Whitey Herzog and Bobby Cox one championship each Hmmm, maybe that lone championship is still a hard marker for the ever evolving committee electorate. FWIW though, B-R counts 26 managers as winning more than one World Series, including Negro League ones. 14 are in the Hall as skippers. Those awaiting the call; 4 Bruce Bochy 2 Bill Carrigan with the 1915-1916 Red Sox Terry Francona Cito Gaston Ralph Houk Tom Kelly Dave Malarcher with the Chicago American Giants of 1926-1927 Danny Murtaugh Jim Mutrie B-R counting the NL-AA World Series here as his Giants won in 1888 and 1889 Dave Roberts Candy Jim Taylor with the 1943-1944 Homestead Grays

Hang a star on that one for sure!

Seeing word on socials that Davey has passed

Better hope he doesn’t have a Boras-like agent who will take their client to free agency, no matter what!

Yup. When Senga took to his socials for uniform number suggestions, he told his followers that #48 was not an option for him.