MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

If you can count COVID- and strike-season numbers, you can count Negro Leagues numbers.

 

Oh, there's an apt comparison.

 

An old, white guy railing against Negro Leagues statistics. Can't even typecast that shit.

 

You can play that card until you're blue in the face, but I'm not borrowing your white liberal guilt.

Tony C0nigliaro had 849 hits in an 8-year career.

Josh Gibson had 808 in a 14-year career.

And your pearl-clutching will never change those facts. So have a nice "I'm Wearing My No. 42 Jersey" day.

 

Skenes through six in Detroit with a 5-2 lead. Closing in on 100 pitches.

 

Good for you. You're coming off looking great in this. 10/10. No notes.

 

Those are the RECORDED games of the Negro Leagues. For sure all these men played in many more games lost to history, because they were outside of even the, uh, not too rigid, structure of the Negro Leagues.

 

Aroldis Chapman in for the seventh.
Nine Ks for Skenes.

 

That is a good point. Of course, if it's that loose, the numbers can never tell the full story of the individuals. And that's what we're talking about here, the numbers.

 

Don't know the significance of these purplish-blue Detroit unis, but they are awful.

 

Numbers are history, not mystic text. This is MLB saying, this is what we can document of the careers of players who were unjustly denied their chance at fair competition in our sport. They are for comparison, not "records" and like that.

 

I can't say I feel strongly either way. Other than to say the "sanctity" of the MLB record book has always been in question because the game was segregated. And it was further eroded by the steroid era.