MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

Orioles drop magic number to 3. Enough is nearly right with the world.
Hope Westburg and Urias can return. There will be plenty of obstacles if there is an October in Birdland. NYY is again looking like a complete team and will always have the help of their friendly neighborhood replay crew should they need it. CLE has a bullpen that makes them more stressful to play than anybody else -- even NYY. The games last five innings with those guys. If you're down even one after five, you're screwed.

 

Dugout Report

Goodbye, Oakland

The Athletics are playing their final homestand after 57 years of calling Oakland home.

The franchise had 4 World Series titles, including 3 in a row from 1972-74, 6 AL Pennants, 7 MVP awards, 7 Rookies of the Year, 5 Cy Youngs, 21 playoff appearances, and multiple generations who are going to miss their team. instagram.com/p/DAJIeAkpLpf/

 

Has any other fanbase suffered through the string of bad ownership foisted on them by owners in Philadelphia, Kansas City and Oakland?

So sad, with good ownership the A's could be a competitive team drawing 2.5 million-plus fans a year and totally own the East Bay market.

 

It’s a shame about East Bay Ray and his friends.
Where they’re going — minor league park where temps regularly exceed 100 degrees— might be even worse than Name du Jour Coliseum.

 

Such a weird and colorful history with that franchise:
• Three, possibly four, relocations if you count Oakland to Sacramento to Las Vegas as two moves
• One of only four franchises with double-digit 100-win seasons (10), and also far and away the leader in 100-loss seasons (18)
• Tied for third-most World Series championships, but can't win a division series because they forgot to teach their players to slide into home plate
• Had two of the most famous owners in baseball history (Connie Mack and Charlie Finley), and also some of the worst
• Won three AL pennants in a row, and got destroyed in two World Series by massive underdogs. The one they did win, nobody remembers because the Earth literally opened up and tried to swallow the entire region
• Sold off a dynasty to cut salary 100 years before it was cool

 

I'm strangely obsessed with the Philadelphia A's. There were at least four or five opportunities for that franchise to save itself with either new ownership or joint ownership that would have resulted in the massive infusions of cash to build a farm system and have the capital to pay the good players they did develop. But in every case poor decisions by the Mack family (except Connie Jr.) prevented that from happening and doomed the franchise.

Heck, they'd probably still be in Kansas City of Arnold Johnson hadn't died unexpectedly, allowing Charlie Finey to seize the team. The 1955 A's drew about 1.4 million, a huge number in that era.

 

Free Genny Cream at Rochester casinos!

 

That’s so soft.

 

I can only assume it has happened before and they let it go previously. If the union files a grievance, the Washington National League Baseball Club LLC will probably concede and bring him back. Wanted to send message etc.

 

This tweet sponsored by DraftKings.

 

And to top it off, he hit on 17.