2012 MLB Regular Season Running Thread

The Yankees played Yankee baseball? What were they playing before? Red Sox baseball? :

Oh, welcome and happy posting. ;D

 

That's the best W-L record for a third-place team in the wild-card era. (The 2002 NL West also had three 92+ win teams, by the way.)

In the divisional era, the 1978 Brewers were also 93-69, behind NYY/BOS. In fact, the 1978 AL East had four teams with 90 wins — the Orioles were 90-71.

But the 1977 AL East had a better third-place team — the Yankees won it at 100-62, and the Red Sox and Orioles tied for second at 97-64. The AL West also had three 90-win teams (KCR, TEX, CHW) that year. Shades of '02 ...

Before 1969, it was a little easier to do, with fewer teams and every team in the same race. About a half-dozen teams had 93+ wins and got stuck in third place.

So the all-time best third-place team was the 1908 Pirates, who finished 98-56 in the year of the famous "Merkle Game" between the Cubs and Giants.

The 1962 Reds finished 98-64 — in eight more games — behind the Giants and Dodgers.

 

Did MankyJimy hack someone's account?

 

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hey, you need to freakin' recuse yourself, champ! ; )

 

I seem to remember from "The Pitch That Killed," a book on the incident, that Ray Chapman also stood up and walked off under his own power. All the way through the outfield fence, if I remember correctly.

I'm going to be a little nervous all day about McCarthy, who, like probably a lot of people here, I've met and liked, although the story itself makes me feel a little better than the headline. It sounds like the trainer essentially was saying all brain injuries can be "life-threatening," but all indications were that he's recovering I hope I'm reading that correctly.

I wonder how many years we'd have to go back, medically, for McCarthy to have not been able to survive this? It's chilling. And one thing that makes it that way is how he sat up right away, did not even appear to be in a great deal of pain, and walked off the field. Besides Chapman, in a way, it makes me think of Dale Earnhardt's death, which happened as a result of a routine-looking accident. This is a really sobering reminder that someone is going to die again in a major professional sports league game as a result of something that happens in the game. My money's on hockey.

 

Epidural hematomas occur most commonly when there is a fracture of the temporal bone of the skull above the ear where the middle meningeal artery runs in a bony groove. The bleeding gradually accumulates between the skull and the brain and as the amount of blood increases, the brain gets squashed. Not all epidural hematoms 9CLot) grow to the pint of needing surgery and CT scan is helpful in monitoring the amount of blood within the skull.

If surgery is required, the skull is cut open, the clot removed and the bleeding area cauterized. The patient is observed for many days because brain swelling can occur just because of irritation to the brain tissue. As well, after two or three days, the ends of the cauterizde artery can start to retract or pul away from each other causing teh potential for a delayed bleed.

Ideally, the patient does well post op and teh goal is to return to normal daily life.

 

Welcome. How do you feel about Derek Jeter's season? One for the ages, wouldn't you say?

 

Rizzo just pulled the plug on Strasburg's season. That's a lot of pressure on the rest of the team this season, and even more pressure on the Nats next year.

 

Well, for one thing, stay out of the other team's fucking dugout.What hell did he expect would happen when he went over there? And I doubt it's the first time he's ever been f-bombed.

Quirk's a dick but you stay out of the other guy's dugout.

 

In "The Pitch that Killed", Chapman got up, walked under his own power until around second base, then he collapsed again and the players who were walking with him picked him up and carried him to the clubhouse.

I remember reading something else that discussed why they didn't stretcher Chapman out, and how he might have lived if they'd been very careful about moving him. I thought that reading the ESPN story on McCarthy. He walked off under his own power, too.