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MLB 2014 season thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Steak Snabler, Feb 26, 2014.

  1. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Gehrig, I think a big reason a lot of us who are children of the '70s and '80s are loving these playoffs so far is for exactly the reason you cite - we remember when these teams won year after back then, A's included. It just feels right to have the Orioles and Royals, along with the Pirates and Dodgers, involved after a few years of the Rangers, Rays, and so forth. (Not that I didn't enjoy seeing some of those new faces, too, including the Rockies a few years back.)

    Could have used the Yankees, probably, in this year's postseason to really give it a '70s feel.
     
  2. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Yeah, the early '80s were when I first became a baseball fan, so I'm loving this. The Dodgers, Cardinals, Orioles and Royals — all of whom are still playing — all won the World Series between 1981 and 1985 (and the other title in that time was won by the recently eliminated Tigers).
     
  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    I think it's such a shame -- especially when I have no rooting interest -- when we get great games, but a short series. I always root for these series to go deep, to draw in more fans.
     
  4. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    When you think back to how good the Orioles and Royals were in the 1970s and the first half of the '80s, it's amazing that they never met in an ALCS.
     
  5. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    A Bumgarner throwing error plates two for the Nats, and another hit plates a third. In one inning the Nats have matched their offensive total for the first 33 innings of the series.
     
  6. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Yeah the Nats could really get themselves back in it.

    Maybe Strasburg will go on three days' rest tomorrow!!!
     
  7. Gehrig

    Gehrig Active Member

    It's Gio Gonzalez, as it should be.
     
  8. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    I didn't realize how good Fister had been in the postseason during his career. Even before throwing seven shutout innings to keep the Nationals alive today, he had a 2.98 ERA in eight career playoffs appearances, seven of them starts.

    Of course, the move to the National League helped him. Beginning the season late due to injury might not have been a bad thing, either, given his history of slow starts. But it isn't like he hadn't shown this type of ability in the past. People might miss it due to the underwhelming strikeout totals, but he has been outstanding three of the past four seasons and he wasn't terrible in 2013. The Tigers made a huge mistake trading him away for pennies on the dollar.
     
  9. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Orioles had five 90-plus win seasons between 1975 and 1982 when the didn't win the division -- including the 1978 season, when they went 90-71 and finished fourth. That's pretty damn amazing.
    Always loved, too, how the 1980 World Series between the Royals and Phillies was one for the bridesmaids. Both were contenders every year between 1975 and 1980 but couldn't quite get past the big dogs in their respective leagues. The Royals kept getting beat by the Yankees, and the Phillies lost to the Big Red Machine and then the Dodgers twice. Both missed out on the division title in 1979, then finally got over the hump the next year. It almost seems like they were destined to meet up eventually.
     
  10. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    Mariners also traded him for very little after he showed a lot of promise pitching for a bad team.
     
  11. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Three straight games, with three different pitchers, that the first guy out of the Dodgers' bullpen gives up a home run.
     
  12. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    If Illitch really wants that WS title he needs to keep stepping up to the FA bidding (and retaining) window.

    Shell out the bucks to keep Scherzer and Victor Martinez.

    Write off Torii Hunter, hand the job to the presumably-healthy Andy Dirks or bid for a mid-range corner OF free agent.

    Unless Joe Nathan is utterly lights-out coming out of spring training, eat his contract, release him and give the closer job to Soria. Don't screw around months into the season letting Nathan save three, blow two, run up an ERA of 7.00 and then get to August and he has to be your closer.

    Unless Castellanos burns up the world in spring training and locks down the 3B job, convert him into an all-purpose IF/OF sub-pinch hitter to beef up the bench. Hand the 3B job to Suarez, reinstall Iglesias at SS and go with all-defense in the infield.

    Sign a starting catcher. Avila's concussion problems are becoming too persistent to ignore and just hope against hope he is going to stay healthy (and even if he does, that gives you a .230-hitting glove-man catcher).

    Yeah, to do all this is gonna cost a lot of money. Who gives a shit? He's going to die fairly soon and every single nickel he pinches to save money on Detroit Tigers payroll is going to go into inheritance for his slacker layabout sperm-lottery-winner offspring.

    I'd sure as hell rather have him pay millions to Scherzer and Martinez than give it to Atanas Ilitch.
     
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