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MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Starman, Mar 18, 2022.

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  1. canucklehead

    canucklehead Active Member

    Here's a crazy notion. If I'm Aaron Judge I set up a drug test for the day after I hit No. 62. Test comes back negative for anything and I can walk into history with a piece of paper saying I didn't cheat. What's the harm? Otherwise you will always have doubters.
     
    canucklehead, Oct 5, 2022
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  2. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Random means random, otherwise, tests are really beatable. And if Judge did what you suggest, skeptics would just say he rigged the process.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Oct 5, 2022
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  3. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Hit 10 homeruns against the NL
     
    JC, Oct 5, 2022
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  4. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Someone doesn’t understand how these things work.
     
    JC, Oct 5, 2022
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  5. ChrisLong

    ChrisLong Well-Known Member

    Late to the party, but I just remembered this about the Dodgers in the "lack of power" era. Had to look it up, but found in 1968, their home run leader was Len Gabrielson with 10. They hit 67 as a team and finished at 76-86. Al Campanis was telling me about this and he knew he had to do something about it. Len Fucking Gabrielson, 10 home runs, led the team. All five of their starting pitchers had ERAs under 4.00 and only Don Drysdale (14-12) had a winning record -- Bill Singer (13-17), Claude Osteen (12-18), Don Sutton (11-15) and Mike Kekich (2-10).
     
    ChrisLong, Oct 5, 2022
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  6. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    And the NYY league leader before that was....? (Obscure trivia.)
    Hint: He first matriculated at baseball power Muhlenberg.
     
    goalmouth, Oct 5, 2022
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  7. Justin_Rice

    Justin_Rice Well-Known Member


    Come on Giants. How 'bout you guys go out with a win today?
     
    Justin_Rice, Oct 5, 2022
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  8. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    The whole "AL record" thing went out the fucking window once interleague play started. There aren't even different rules anymore.
     
    Regan MacNeil, Oct 5, 2022
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  9. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Exactly. 12 percent of the games were against the other "league" that plays by the same rules as the other "league." Next year, it's 28 percent.

    I posted upthread it's time to do away with the current "leagues" and realign divisions by geography since everyone is playing by the same rules.

    This is a team record. Or the equivalent of an NBA Eastern Conference record.
     
    MileHigh, Oct 5, 2022
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  10. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

     
    MileHigh, Oct 5, 2022
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  11. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    Guessing they wanted every game starting at the same time on the last day of the regular season, much like both group-stage games go off at the same time in the World Cup. Adds excitement when everything is being played simultaneously if there are stakes. (Admittedly, there are none today, since everything is decided.)
     
    Cosmo, Oct 5, 2022
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  12. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    They've been doing the same time for the last game for a few years now. Had been 3 p.m. EDT in the past.
     
    MileHigh, Oct 5, 2022
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