2020 MLB thread

[shadow_operative 15932]

5 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Indians record against everyone that isn’t the Royals, Tigers, or pirates: 18-16. DOMINATION

so the Indians were two games over .500 in a schedule that was packed with series against the Twins, White Sox, and all 4 NL Central playoff teams, while the Yankees were 6 games under .500 against everyone else (11-17 against teams over .500), and your takeaway is that these two are similar? well, that is on brand for you, i'll say that. 

Edited September 29, 2020 by shadow_operative

[Helobious 9448]

That’s hilarious. You know as much about baseball as Rick Barnes knows about coaching a championship basketball team. I don’t know what player made you hop on the Indians bandwagon but you’re sorely mistaken if you think they’re a threat in the playoffs. Have you decided what bandwagon you will jump on after the Indians get eliminated?

[TonyTexas 10510]

^^^
Student of the game

[shadow_operative2.0 15965]

Started a thread for the AL action. 

 

[clapclapclap 9000]

Normally a 5-game MLB playoff series is ridiculous, 3-games would be a travesty.  But we've only played 37% of a season, so this year is just a tournament.  I'm good with that and it'll be popular as a one off.

But why not turn the final week and a half of spring training into a tourney?  Crown separate Cactus and Grapefruit champs.  To discourage virtual opt outing award the winner and runner up of each the option of an extra 1st round draft pick or picking your first round opponent if you make the playoffs. 

Do a lottery drawing for seeding, with the 1st pick of each getting a first round bye (15 teams in each league.)  Best of 3 first round, so we get at least 2 days of 14 games with hourly and half hourly staggered starts.  Then a CWS style double elimination and best of 3 champ series for each league.

Can still do split squad games to get work in for players that need it, eliminated teams return to ad hoc training games and their pre-opening day home exhibitions.  Let the tourney championship series replace the early opening day game, so that every team opens their regular season on a true Opening Day Monday.

Yeah, it's taking on March Madness, but almost every household now has multiple TV's or ipads or watch on their phone.  Ought to be able to get decent money from a non-CBS channels, and not everyone is into basketball.  First round with 14 games both Sat and Sun when there's only two Elite 8 games each day, Monday is game 3's.  Double elim round Tue-Fri.  The if-needed games as double-headers Fri nite, maybe shortened to 5 or 6 innings (so you can still have a guaranteed prime time game (TV money), say starting 3pm and 6pm central start times.)  Could get most of the 2 champ series Sat games in before the final four tips, Sun afternoon game 2's followed by shortened if-needed game 3's.  Those teams can have their Monday opener shifted to night games if travel is a concern.

Give MLB a Daytona 500.  Make every playoff series 7-games.  And Opening Day is truly opening day for every team.

Edited September 29, 2020 by clapclapclap

[shadow_operative 15932]

52 minutes ago, Helobious said:

That’s hilarious. You know as much about baseball as Rick Barnes knows about coaching a championship basketball team. I don’t know what player made you hop on the Indians bandwagon but you’re sorely mistaken if you think they’re a threat in the playoffs. Have you decided what bandwagon you will jump on after the Indians get eliminated?

I'd rate my baseball knowledge as an 80 on the 20-80 scale.

[WBT 20561]

I just realized both leagues have 3 days off between the end of this round and the next round.  So, why aren't we playing best of 5 in this first round?

[Fudge Nuggets 19190]

Damn mlb app won’t let me use my cable provider to stream games.  What was once the best freaking app in the history of apps is now f’ing worthless.

[Guadaloopy 10960]

1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Damn mlb app won’t let me use my cable provider to stream games.  What was once the best freaking app in the history of apps is now f’ing worthless.

App has always been like that for the playoffs.  

[Guadaloopy 10960]

2 hours ago, WBT said:

I just realized both leagues have 3 days off between the end of this round and the next round.  So, why aren't we playing best of 5 in this first round?

With the lack of off days, it’s the only chance during the playoffs to win a series and reset your pitching rotation.  

[TonyTexas 10510]

3 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

With the lack of off days, it’s the only chance during the playoffs to win a series and reset your pitching rotation.  

Plus they’re moving into the bubble so I’m sure they want a few days to ensure no positives get in. 

[UTexasFight 9431]

3 hours ago, WBT said:

I just realized both leagues have 3 days off between the end of this round and the next round.  So, why aren't we playing best of 5 in this first round?

I assumed it was to build in buffer in case shit(Covid) got crazy the last week of the season or in the WC round 

[shadow_operative2.0 15965]

 

 

[clapclapclap 9000]

On 9/28/2020 at 3:47 PM, Beau Vine said:

Athletic staff prediction article.  This one cracked me up:

Dude is killing it so far.

[FondrenRoad 4378]

On 9/29/2020 at 7:54 PM, Guadaloopy said:

App has always been like that for the playoffs.  

Yeah, it sucks to pay for the whole year, and then for the playoffs, its entirely useless and you have to find specific apps for the random channels playoff games happen to be on, and you need a cable subscription for pretty much all of them.  MLB shits on some of their best fans who are willing to pay to watch games by giving up exclusive broadcast rights to cable channels.  What does TBS even lose by allowing the MLB app to stream its live feed?  They could still run TBS ads 

The MLB app is great during the regular season being able to flip between games, but even there the ESPN games tell you to fuck off and go to the ESPN app.  

[shnsajax 3591]

I really don’t care for Bauer and he is a badass pitcher. But this is fucking great.

[TonyTexas 10510]

Tyler is the youdunnf'dup of baseball

[Scraps 13561]

I prefer Acuna

 

 

[HRSchenker 2268]

Well that was a shit show but I just got my World Series tickets.

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

14 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

Tyler is the youdunnf'dup of baseball

So a super talented at my craft and most people really like except for Astros fans? Thanks, man. That means a lot. I would say that’s accurate, but I want to be humble.

Edited October 2, 2020 by youdunnf'dup

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

Pretty excited to see Sixto pitch today. Just because I’m saying that he’s gonna get rocked, but I haven’t seen him pitch this year. 

Edited October 2, 2020 by youdunnf'dup

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

101 mph to the thigh can’t feel good. Hayward played it off as best as he could though. 

[clapclapclap 9000]

DIVISION SERIES
Best-of-five (Italics below indicate "if necessary")
Clubs listed in order of "road" vs. "home"
All times ET and subject to change based on the conclusions of various Division Series

Monday, Oct. 5
• AL Division Series Game 1, HOU vs. OAK, at Los Angeles, 4 p.m. (TBS)
• AL Division Series Game 1, NYY vs. TB, at San Diego, 8 p.m. (TBS)

Tuesday, Oct. 6
• NL Division Series Game 1, MIA vs. ATL, at Houston, 2 p.m. (FS1)
• AL Division Series Game 2, HOU vs. OAK, at Los Angeles, 4:30 p.m. (TBS)
• AL Division Series Game 2, NYY vs. TB, at San Diego, 8 p.m. (TBS)
• NL Division Series Game 1, SD vs. LAD, at Arlington, 9:30 p.m. (FS1)

Wednesday, Oct. 7
• NL Division Series Game 2, MIA vs. ATL, at Houston, 2 p.m. (MLBN)
• AL Division Series Game 3, OAK vs. HOU, at Los Angeles, 3:30 p.m. (TBS)
• AL Division Series Game 3, TB vs. NYY, at San Diego, 7 p.m. (TBS)
• NL Division Series Game 2, SD vs. LAD, at Arlington, 9 p.m. (FS1)

Thursday, Oct. 8
• NL Division Series Game 3, ATL vs. MIA, at Houston, 2 p.m. (FS1)
• AL Division Series Game 4, OAK vs. HOU, at Los Angeles, 3:30 p.m. (TBS)
• AL Division Series Game 4, TB vs. NYY, at San Diego, 7 p.m. (TBS)
• NL Division Series Game 3, LAD vs. SD, at Arlington, 9 p.m. (MLBN)

Friday, Oct. 9
• NL Division Series Game 4, ATL vs. MIA, at Houston, 2 p.m. (FS1)
• AL Division Series Game 5, HOU vs. OAK, at Los Angeles, 3:30 p.m. (TBS)
• AL Division Series Game 5, NYY vs. TB, at San Diego, 7 p.m. (TBS)
• NL Division Series Game 4, LAD vs. SD, at Arlington, 9 p.m. (FS1)

Saturday, Oct. 10
• NL Division Series Game 5, MIA vs. ATL, at Houston, 4 p.m. (FS1)
• NL Division Series Game 5, SD vs. LAD, at Arlington, 8 p.m. (FS1)

 

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-2020-postseason-schedule-announced

[shadow_operative2.0 15965]

 

 

[shadow_operative2.0 15965]

Khris Davis oppo. 

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

Looks like the ball is flying today in LA

[shadow_operative2.0 15965]

All these homers are silly. 

[Sbbruin 21841]

Clevinger starting game 1 for the Padres.

[shnsajax 3591]

I like this Trevor Bauer

[Guadaloopy 10960]

2 minutes ago, shnsajax said:

I like this Trevor Bauer
 

Dammit... I want to hate this.  Not a terrible take, Tyler.  

[UTexasFight 9431]

15 minutes ago, shnsajax said:

I like this Trevor Bauer
 

“Unless it’s against me”

[Js1 85310]

6 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

All these homers are silly. 

11 HR today in the 2 AL games in California. 12 yesterday. Goodness gracious. 

[shadow_operative 15932]

12 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

“Unless it’s against me”

uh, wrong. 

[Helobious 9448]

14 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

“Unless it’s against me”

Bauer’s always been vocal about how much he hates the sensitive snowflake pussy culture of baseball. He’s never thrown a fit about hitters showing him up.

Edited October 7, 2020 by Helobious

[David Dennison 18854]

2 hours ago, Helobious said:

Bauer’s always been vocal about how much he hates the sensitive snowflake pussy culture of baseball. He’s never thrown a fit about hitters showing him up.

Which is ironic seeing as how he is a sensitive snowflake pussy.

[shadow_operative2.0 15965]

17 hours ago, Js1 said:

11 HR today in the 2 AL games in California. 12 yesterday. Goodness gracious. 

28 through 4.5 now, insane. 

[Js1 85310]

On 10/7/2020 at 3:01 PM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

28 through 4.5 now, insane. 

Lost count because it's insane. 

[clapclapclap 9000]

Braves now evacuating Houston for Arlington.

Edited October 8, 2020 by clapclapclap
On Delta, of course

[Guadaloopy 10960]

nm  

Edited October 8, 2020 by Guadaloopy
Wrong thread.

[Guadaloopy 10960]

nm

Edited October 8, 2020 by Guadaloopy
Wrong thread.

[clapclapclap 9000]

 

[Telegraph_it 3357]

14 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

 

I mean it would turn my 2020 around.

[Scraps 13561]

Whitey Ford died 

 

[Storm the Field 5294]

20 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Whitey Ford died 

 

[hookemATL 11714]

Yankees gonna get that death bump and win tonight.

Someone quickly track down Scott Kazmir and murder him to even things up.

[miguelito 11262]

3 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

wow, this is uh ... this is a black day for baseball. 

[TonyTexas 10510]

I’m surprised some group hasn’t demanded Whitey’s plaque in Monument Park be torn down. 

[Helobious 9448]

1 hour ago, TonyTexas said:

I’m surprised some group hasn’t demanded Whitey’s plaque in Monument Park be torn down. 

Took your CR-adjacent bullshit elsewhere. Weak joke as well, 3/10.

[TonyTexas 10510]

1 hour ago, Helobious said:

Took your CR-adjacent bullshit elsewhere. Weak joke as well, 3/10.

You didn’t like that? Ok, how about this one. 
Q: What do you have in common with the New York Yankees?
A: In October you’ll both be watching the World Series on television.

[Helobious 9448]

18 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

You didn’t like that? Ok, how about this one. 
Q: What do you have in common with the New York Yankees?
A: In October you’ll both be watching the World Series on television.

I thought you were going to say that we both ran a train on your mom. But yeah we’ll have to see if your joke is accurate.