MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

Put some replica buildings in the outfield and it'll look uncannily like the Polo Grounds.

 

Great acquisition Soto has been for Baltimore. Three appearances, 1 1/3 IP, 9 H, 8 ER, 1 HR, 3 BB, 1 K.

JFC.

 

That makes the Polo Grounds look like a Little League field.

EDIT: @Twirling Time beat me to the punch.

 

Royal’s cut it to 4-3 in 6th
Bullpen decides that come in and jerk off a couple runs.
This bullpen is an unmitigated disaster.

 

A's down to their last three outs.

 

Never a doubt! As a wise man once said/sang, even the losers get lucky sometimes.

And props to @BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo for mentioning good ol’ Karko, a regular nominee in the slowest MLB player of the past 50 years contest. The guy couldn’t run, or hit, but he did have a hell of an arm from behind the plate.

 

I feel like we talked this win into existence.

 

No bullpens. Looks like relievers are going to warm up in the garages.

 

Dodgers reliever Brusdar Graterol missed the entire season with a shoulder injury, finally gets into a game and tears his hamstring on his eighth pitch.

Even Anthony Rendon thinks that’s messed up.

 

Much like the 45th president of this fine land, Anthony Rendon's thought processes were never meant to be deciphered by us commoners.

 

Karkovice endlessly fascinates me. He was drafted in the first round out of high school by the White Sox, hit .238 as aminor leaguer and burned his 20s as Carlton Fisk's backup b/c Fisk was insanely productive and durable into his 40s (appeared in 906 games at catcher from 1983-91). Then Fisk hung on for two more years to break the a/t record for games caught, at which point the White Sox immediately cut him b/c he is as irascible as they come. And then Karkovice hit .212 for the rest of his career...which he spent entirely with the White Sox! He's the quirkiest Immaculate Grid pick of all-time, usable for both White Sox only and first-round White Sox draft pick!

And yet he actually signed with Cleveland but never played for them, presumably due to injury (he never even played in the minor leagues). I know this b/c I saw him in the Cleveland locker room at Yankee Staidum and thought that was the weirdest thing.

The best part, of course, is he looked 75 years old his entire career. He was 28 in this photo. Twenty-eight!!!!

 

Good stuff. Final graf reminded me of Granville Waiters.