Mike, I've always been a fan of the well-pitched, low scoring game. Never cared for the high-scoring games that seem so popular. As a result, I've always preferred watching MLB on TV, where you can get the details of the pitching game so much better than being at the stadium. I still revere 1968 as the best year of baseball I have ever seen. At any rate, I'm too fat, lazy, and broke to go to the stadium anymore. My TV, recliner, air-conditioning, close bathroom and refrigerator all make the decision a no-brainer.^&grin -- Al
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Al...
you summed it up pretty good for me...
while it was fun to go to the stadium and do the live venue...
it's a much easier ride in my lazy boy chair!
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Well, the Braves won their first division title in 4 years today by beating the second place Phillies three straight. I don’t have any predictions for the post season but they sure seem to be in a good place right now. We will soon see if that translates into playoff wins.
A few bits from the local rag:
“I know how much this city’s been through on a yearly basis with a lot of things,” shortstop Dansby Swanson said. “It’s the kind of thing where we bounce back and rise up to the occasion. We wanted to do something for this city because the city deserved it, the people deserved it, our fans deserved it.”
This season marks the second division title since the Braves won 14 consecutive, an MLB record. They did so this time in perhaps the unlikeliest of ways.
In sports, it’s difficult to find the happy medium of seasoned and inexperienced. The Braves identified the perfect mix, even if it wasn’t consciously. Manager Snitker, an organizational staple of four decades, has now experienced the latest peak of his life’s devotion.
As for the remaining eight games, the Braves can gun for homefield advantage – they’re three games behind the Cubs – or opt to take it easier. For now, they’re likely to see the NL West winner, maybe the Dodgers, who defeated them in the postseason that half-decade ago.
“No one picked us to win the division this year, and I’m sure no one’s going to pick us in the playoffs,” Freeman said. “(But) that’s our goal. We’re going to try to get the most important 11 wins.”
A few bits from the local rag:
“I know how much this city’s been through on a yearly basis with a lot of things,” shortstop Dansby Swanson said. “It’s the kind of thing where we bounce back and rise up to the occasion. We wanted to do something for this city because the city deserved it, the people deserved it, our fans deserved it.”
This season marks the second division title since the Braves won 14 consecutive, an MLB record. They did so this time in perhaps the unlikeliest of ways.
In sports, it’s difficult to find the happy medium of seasoned and inexperienced. The Braves identified the perfect mix, even if it wasn’t consciously. Manager Snitker, an organizational staple of four decades, has now experienced the latest peak of his life’s devotion.
As for the remaining eight games, the Braves can gun for homefield advantage – they’re three games behind the Cubs – or opt to take it easier. For now, they’re likely to see the NL West winner, maybe the Dodgers, who defeated them in the postseason that half-decade ago.
“No one picked us to win the division this year, and I’m sure no one’s going to pick us in the playoffs,” Freeman said. “(But) that’s our goal. We’re going to try to get the most important 11 wins.”
Braves did a fantastic job this year and Snitker deserves to be Manager of the Year. -- Al
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Getting to the World Series and winning the World Series are 2 very different things. Also, in the NL I think that the Braves and Cubs are better than anyone in the NL West and I think that just about every potential playoff team in the AL is better than any team in the NL.
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Now, that’s why they play the games, don’t they? History is replete with unlikely teams and underdog teams wining the World Series, such as the 87 Twins, 88 Dodgers and 2006 Cardinals, not to mention the 69 Mets, the unlikeliest of them all. It’s hard to say who is going to get to the WS for the NL but if the Dodgers play in the WS, one can never safely predict what may happen.
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Brad:
Great points. I especially liked the reference to the 2006 cardinals. They were mentioned throughout the Giants' broadcast yesterday.
Most of what I mention in regards to the Dodgers is hyperbole and hope. After all, one of the things that makes baseball so great is it's unpredictablity. That is why I like it so much, only hockey does a better job of breaking the probabilities once the playoffs start.
With that said, the Dodgers will not win the World Series, this year or ever. ^&grin
-Jason
Yep. One more loss ties the 117 year old franchise loss record, 2 more losses set a new mark. -- Al
3 weeks later and the negative has all proved out. O's are 44-110 with 8 left to play, 1 with NYY, 3 with Boston, 4 with Houston. I'm thinking 47-115 best case scenario, unless Boston and Houston 'mail it in' and the O's get real lucky. This has been an incredibly ghastly season and can't end too soon. -- Al
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Appreciate you saying so. I don’t follow the league closely enough to have a valid opinion but if he deserves it I hope he gets it.
After devastating Championship losses by the Falcons and Bulldogs of late, the Braves better either win it with ease or go home early. We can’t take another heart breaker!
Can't believe they are playing ball in DC. No excuse for it. Been raining all day, still raining, it's cool, no crowd. Some one could get hurt in a nothing game. Call it a day, no make-up, and everyone goes home happy. Of course, that solution could cost the teams and MLB money, so 'play ball!'.
-- Al
-- AlStill pouring, now in the 6th. If this was July, and not the last week of this season, this game never gets started, much less played in these conditions. -- AlCan't believe they are playing ball in DC. No excuse for it. Been raining all day, still raining, it's cool, no crowd. Some one could get hurt in a nothing game. Call it a day, no make-up, and everyone goes home happy. Of course, that solution could cost the teams and MLB money, so 'play ball!'.
This travesty of a game finally ends as it begun, in a downpour, after 4 hours and 14 minutes. Both teams used 7 pitchers, both teams stranded 13 runners, and the Mets used 18 players while the Nats used 20 and both sides threw 190+ pitches. Oh yeah, the Mets won 8-6 in 9 innings. This game represented everything baseball shouldn't be. -- Al
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I was reading that the O's will break a record for finishing the most GB's in a division since 1969. They are something like 60 game behind Boston. If you are going to lose, then lose big.
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They are 59.5 GB. The 62 Mets were 60.5 GB. I’m rooting for the Os to finish 61 GB :tongue:
Regardless, there is no way they should be that close to that mark because the Mets were terrible, a team of castoffs that no one else wanted.
Note: I just checked the MLB standings between 1963 and 1970 and no team finished 50 or more GB.
Regardless, there is no way they should be that close to that mark because the Mets were terrible, a team of castoffs that no one else wanted.
Note: I just checked the MLB standings between 1963 and 1970 and no team finished 50 or more GB.
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No one has the answer as to how the O's, with the personal they had at the start, turned out so bad. It's one of those storm of the millennium type things.:rolleyes2: -- Al
Brad, they play 3 in Boston then come home to play their last 4 games of the season against Houston. Could be an epically bad ending to a epically bad year. Many negative milestones are within reach. -- Al