MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

There may be no AL/NL commissioner any more, the AL/NL umps may be gone, they no longer only meet in the World Series and even the NL has the designated hitter now, but you can port the ones records from my cold, dead … sorry that’s extreme … my warm, stubborn hands!

 

How are they aligned now?

 

Preach, sister.

 

It's also worth nothing that his plate appearances are

52 in 678
27 in 498
27 in 447
39 in 633
61 in 671 and counting

 

With two possible expansion teams, four eight-team divisions actually look doable:

West: Padres, Dodgers, Angels, Giants, A's, Mariners, Diamondbacks, Rockies
Midwest: Astros, Rangers, Twins, Royals, Cardinals, Cubs, White Sox, Brewers
North: Tigers, Reds, Guardians, Blue Jays, Montreal, Red Sox, Yankees, Mets
South: Phillies, Pirates, Orioles, Nationals, Braves, Rays, Marlins, Nashville/Charlotte

 

We are talking about the Al record as a cover. No one thinks Bonds Sosa and McGwire did it fairly, squarely, honestly or naturally. We just can’t say it out loud. So we use 61 as the magic number. Remember the grief that the press gave to maris about doing it in 162 not 154. The press tainted 61 for decades. It was only until the steroid boys got a hold of 61 that the press decided it was ok to respect maris.

 

McGwire broke perhaps the most famed record MLB had, and it had stood for 37 years. Judge hasn’t broken anything (yet).

It also seemed like every Cardinals game in September 1998 was played at Busch Stadium. Whereas Judge is playing on the road, at a division opponent whose fans are completely fed up with the Yankees.

I think most Jays fans are obnoxious knownothings, but I don’t think they needed to do much here.