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Posted: Jul 9, 2025 - 7:23pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

The problem/good thing about baseball is you can be over the moon about a storybook ending and the next day you're losing 0–7. 0–11. Yes Schwarber hit a 3-run HR while I was typing that. But check out this from last night!



Hilarious captioning: Krukow says "I did not see that coming" and Kuiper says "Neither did my voice!" He's been battling laryngitis this week. But the captions?

"I did not see that coming"
"Neither did my wife!"

In golf that is sometimes referred to as a PBFU (Post Birdie F*ck Up). You walk to the next tee after that glorious putt and shank it into the next fairway. I've experienced it. It is a way to bring equilibrium to the universe. 

What are you going to do after that ITPHR (you know what the acronym means)? You don't follow it with another, you don't pitch a perfect game, you don't get an unassisted triple play. You get the bejesus whipped out of you. Now things can return to normal....GO GIANTS!


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Posted: Jul 9, 2025 - 4:11pm

 rgio wrote:

Storybook my ass.   




13 yeah I stopped trying to update the damage report.
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Posted: Jul 9, 2025 - 3:40pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

The problem/good thing about baseball is you can be over the moon about a storybook ending and the next day you're losing 0–7. 0–11. Yes Schwarber hit a 3-run HR while I was typing that. But check out this from last night!



Hilarious captioning: Krukow says "I did not see that coming" and Kuiper says "Neither did my voice!" He's been battling laryngitis this week. But the captions?

"I did not see that coming"
"Neither did my wife!"


Storybook my ass.   

We'd better find something to pitch the last 3 innings of the games   3 of the top 11 pitchers (WAR) so far this year... the highest staff RAR (Runs against replacements) by a mile....and we're just humming along at a sub-.600 winning percentage.

13-0.... Your outfielder gave up a few....and hit Schwarber (with a 65mph ball with no curve).
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Posted: Jul 9, 2025 - 3:14pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

The problem/good thing about baseball is you can be over the moon about a storybook ending and the next day you're losing 0–7. 0–11. Yes Schwarber hit a 3-run HR while I was typing that. But check out this from last night!



Hilarious captioning: Krukow says "I did not see that coming" and Kuiper says "Neither did my voice!" He's been battling laryngitis this week. But the captions?

"I did not see that coming"
"Neither did my wife!"





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Posted: Jul 9, 2025 - 3:02pm

The problem/good thing about baseball is you can be over the moon about a storybook ending and the next day you're losing 0–7. 0–11. Yes Schwarber hit a 3-run HR while I was typing that. But check out this from last night!


Hilarious captioning: Krukow says "I did not see that coming" and Kuiper says "Neither did my voice!" He's been battling laryngitis this week. But the captions?

"I did not see that coming"
"Neither did my wife!"
rgio

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Posted: Jul 1, 2025 - 11:06am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Certainly the Bobby Bo deferral is peanuts compared with what the Dodgers are doing. A commissioner working for the betterment of the game would prohibit these moves to avoid the salary cap. You want to pay Ohtani 700 million for 8-ish years of productive ball? You'll have to pay the Colorado Rockies 100 million for the privilege.  

There is so much wrong with deferrals.  

The salary cap issues are obvious, but there is also the fact that he will avoid upwards of $100M in state income tax for a salary earned by playing in a stadium (privately) built on public land.  The poor schmo's paying $75/ticket and $15/beer all pay their CA income taxes on their $50k per year, while the guy that makes $432k to play for 15 minutes in the game they attend doesn't pay state income tax on that money.   


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Posted: Jul 1, 2025 - 9:11am

But then again, payroll doesn't win ballgames.
Giants added some pop and spent some money this year and last. We were thrilled to get Willy Adames because our shortstop has been a platoon position since BCraw left.


Willy Adames Stats SF · 2025 season .210 Avg 9HR 36 RBI 65 Hits $182 Million

Fan Favorite Jung Hoo Lee Stats SF · 2025 season. 240Avg 6HR 34RBI 74Hits $113 Million

Shocking Trade Rafael Devers .217/.333/.391 with just two homers, five RBI and more strikeouts (17) than hits (10). $250 Million

Really good 3B Matt Chapman SF · 2025 season .243Avg 12HR 30RBI 56Hits $151 Million
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Posted: Jul 1, 2025 - 9:02am

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Certainly the Bobby Bo deferral is peanuts compared with what the Dodgers are doing. A commissioner working for the betterment of the game would prohibit these moves to avoid the salary cap. You want to pay Ohtani 700 million for 8-ish years of productive ball? You'll have to pay the Colorado Rockies 100 million for the privilege.  
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Posted: Jul 1, 2025 - 8:46am

Maybe part of the reason a beer in a ballpark is $15...
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Posted: Jun 25, 2025 - 9:09am

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Ran across this earlier.  It's amazing to consider....

FROM ESPN:

There have been 2,664 pitchers who have made at least 30 career starts since 1901.

Three of those pitchers — or one out of every 888 — own a career ERA below 2.00. Two of them are Hall of Fame deadball era greats: Ed Walsh (1.82) and Addie Joss (1.89). The third is Pittsburgh Pirates superstar Paul Skenes.

The chances of Skenes, who has made just 39 career starts, remaining in that class are slim. That's nothing against him. It's the reality of math and the era in which he plays. The careers of Joss and Walsh overlapped in the American League from 1904 to 1910, when the aggregate ERA was 2.61. The collective ERA in the majors since Skenes debuted is 4.04.

Given the aggregate ERA's of the two eras of the three pitchers.....Skenes is leading the conversation about the greatest pitcher through 40 starts in the history of baseball. 

In some respects it's a shame he's stuck in Pittsburgh (although that's exactly how the draft is supposed to work)... but I'm guessing the Dodgers already have plans for him.   $1B.... paid over 20 years?





The Pirates are a dwindling-market team for sure, but there's a LOT of national awareness of them and if they field a decent team that makes a run into the playoffs more often, their merchandising value would make up maybe half of whatever fat contract he gets from them. The Dodgers on the other hand really have nowhere to go with merch since they're already stratospheric. Skenes is literally the guy you build a club around. He's presumably already bringing the team more money, and if they invest in players they could compete in a year or two. Or they could let him go before free agency for a whopping amount of cash and/or players and improve the team immediately.

Giants are in Spend Mode and are probably going to DFA Verlander before he gets a win (12 starts, no wins) so they've got a slot to fill...
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Posted: Jun 25, 2025 - 8:41am

Ran across this earlier.  It's amazing to consider....

FROM ESPN:

There have been 2,664 pitchers who have made at least 30 career starts since 1901.

Three of those pitchers — or one out of every 888 — own a career ERA below 2.00. Two of them are Hall of Fame deadball era greats: Ed Walsh (1.82) and Addie Joss (1.89). The third is Pittsburgh Pirates superstar Paul Skenes.

The chances of Skenes, who has made just 39 career starts, remaining in that class are slim. That's nothing against him. It's the reality of math and the era in which he plays. The careers of Joss and Walsh overlapped in the American League from 1904 to 1910, when the aggregate ERA was 2.61. The collective ERA in the majors since Skenes debuted is 4.04.

Given the aggregate ERA's of the two eras of the three pitchers.....Skenes is leading the conversation about the greatest pitcher through 40 starts in the history of baseball. 

In some respects it's a shame he's stuck in Pittsburgh (although that's exactly how the draft is supposed to work)... but I'm guessing the Dodgers already have plans for him.   $1B.... paid over 20 years?



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Posted: Jun 17, 2025 - 7:32am

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PS.
I was talking to one of the upper management guys, who is my buddies godson, at his grandmothers funeral at the beginning of the season and Devers name came up in the conversation by me.

Did I do that?  
 



This was a fun interview but at about 3:30 or so he brings up the trade. The announcers mention a couple of the throw-ins "I don't know who that is. College? I don't care about college." 


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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 6:37pm

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The most boring games are 6 to 0 in the 2nd inning, one pitcher doesn't have it and his team's bats are limp too. Not so lopsided that it's fun/funny, everyone has to keep trying, but also after the third inning you're pretty sure it's not going to get better. Although in the Dodger blowout the other day, they put a position player in to pitch and he gave up five runs including a grand slam, so that was fun: short term goal: make the Dodgers get a real pitcher up in the bullpen. Check. Make the Dodgers call a real pitcher in to relieve the position player. Check. Then keep scoring runs and win the game on a 2-out 12-run rally. No check.


I like lots of action, lots of hits and runs on both sides - for me, that's intensity.
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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 6:35pm

 GeneP59 wrote:
For the price you pay for a game at Fenway Pahk you should get a free dog and a drink and the game should be 4hrs long for a good value.




Now that Devers is gone in a lopsided trade, you have to ask why anyone would want to go to Fenway this year...
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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 3:23pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:


One fan's intensity is another fan's boredom, I guess. 




The most boring games are 6 to 0 in the 2nd inning, one pitcher doesn't have it and his team's bats are limp too. Not so lopsided that it's fun/funny, everyone has to keep trying, but also after the third inning you're pretty sure it's not going to get better. Although in the Dodger blowout the other day, they put a position player in to pitch and he gave up five runs including a grand slam, so that was fun: short term goal: make the Dodgers get a real pitcher up in the bullpen. Check. Make the Dodgers call a real pitcher in to relieve the position player. Check. Then keep scoring runs and win the game on a 2-out 12-run rally. No check.
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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 3:21pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


Those are intense! A 7–8 walkoff had to have a lot of iffy pitching and probably some misadventures in the field. I do like it when they force the defense to make a play and they can't do it, but a 1–0 game usually has some sweet defense going on. And the longer it goes, the more intense it gets. 


One fan's intensity is another fan's boredom, I guess. 
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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 3:14pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:


You know, the kind where no one scores, or even gets a hit or two?



Those are intense! A 7–8 walkoff had to have a lot of iffy pitching and probably some misadventures in the field. I do like it when they force the defense to make a play and they can't do it, but a 1–0 game usually has some sweet defense going on. And the longer it goes, the more intense it gets. 



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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 2:25pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I saw one of those once. Wait, no I haven't!



You know, the kind where no one scores, or even gets a hit or two?

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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 2:12pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:
boring pitcher's duel

I saw one of those once. Wait, no I haven't!

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Posted: Jun 16, 2025 - 11:08am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


Right—it's already sudden death for visitors now but I wholeheartedly reject the premise that shortening games is any sort of priority. If it gets to extra innings, it's probably a fun game to be watching so why would I want less of that? I already don't like the Manfred Man because it makes that Happy Fun Time Ball™ go by too fast.


There are also instances where the game is a boring pitcher's duel and extras just make it worse. 

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