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[Warrior]

One of our local sports talking heads had this gem about Betts; "As he turns 33, his worst year as a pro statistically at the plate, but still great in the field, Dodgers are on the hook for 7/195/until he's 40."

Holy smokes; on the one hand, the Dodgers won two WS titles with him and are two wins away from a third, but on the other hand, it sort of proves the theory about these long term deals, you make hay on the front end, but take the gaspipe on the back end.

He's been horrendous all playoffs long, slugging percentage of about .320, that's......................not good.

 

[Combat]

One of our local sports talking heads had this gem about Betts; "As he turns 33, his worst year as a pro statistically at the plate, but still great in the field, Dodgers are on the hook for 7/195/until he's 40."

Holy smokes; on the one hand, the Dodgers won two WS titles with him and are two wins away from a third, but on the other hand, it sort of proves the theory about these long term deals, you make hay on the front end, but take the gaspipe on the back end.

He's been horrendous all playoffs long, slugging percentage of about .320, that's......................not good.

Betts hasn't been good at bat but he is not alone on this team. Almost no one is hitting. Ohtani either hits several HRs or he does nothing most nights. I think if Boston had it to do over, they would have kept Betts. He has had several great years with LA. In terms of the game tonight, absent Yamamoto dominating again for seven or more innings, the Dodgers are toast. The odds of pitching another gem on the road is slim. The only guy I've ever seen do that is Orel Hershiser. LA is overdue to score some runs, though. Maybe too little, too late.

 

[Warrior]

Betts hasn't been good at bat but he is not alone on this team. Almost no one is hitting. Ohtani either hits several HRs or he does nothing most nights. I think if Boston had it to do over, they would have kept Betts. He has had several great years with LA. In terms of the game tonight, absent Yamamoto dominating again for seven or more innings, the Dodgers are toast. The odds of pitching another gem on the road is slim. The only guy I've ever seen do that is Orel Hershiser. LA is overdue to score some runs, though. Maybe too little, too late.

Ownership offered him a poo ton of money, he turned it down and wanted to test the free agent waters, so they traded him and got what they could, it was a terrible trade on paper.

The Red Sox ownership good or bad is not doing long term contracts anymore, they mostly always are dumpster fires on the back end, they are going with a youth movement by drafting well and not trading away their top prospects, we'll see if it works out or not, I tend to doubt it, you a have to spend money to keep up with the Yankees/Dodgers/Phillies/Mets of the world or else you will never win a championship.

It's not over until the last out is recorded, that's the beauty of sports, we'll see what happens.

 

[Combat]

Stayin Alive! It wasn't pretty but they all count. Mookie got the big hit. Onward.

 

[Warrior]

So nice to see a band of scrappy nobodies like the Dodgers catch a huge horseshoe up their butt break and have that ball wedge under the fence, if it's hit 1,000 times, 999 it hits the ball and skips back to the outfielder and a run scores there.

But with a pop up to first and a line out to left, it still would have come down to a 2 out hit to tie the game, so whatever.

I'm sure 87 year old Max Scherzer will come through for Toronto, guaranteed somehow Ohtani pitches in the game too at some point, although with how the rules work, they lose the DH unless he goes into the field after pitching.