MLB 2014 season thread

With the status of Molina (I can't imagine he plays again) and Wainwright (there is definitely something wrong), and with the series shifting to a place where those flyballs are going to be outs or maybe doubles but not home runs, I still think the Giants are in good shape.

The one wild card I see is, would the Giants start Bumgarner in Game 4? Not so much to skip Vogelsong (I LOVE HIM RICK) but to put him in line to start Game 7 in St. Louis if needed. That whole "longest road scoreless streak in MLB history," you know.

 

Starting to wonder if Bochy got a little too infatuated with him during the Sept. callup.

 

Just a random question. Just curious what the answers would be.

If you could pick any 3 players in to be immortal and play forever (at their best) who would you choose? They don't have to necessarily be the greatest or anything, but who are they and why would you choose them?

1. Babe Ruth: Flamboyant, greatest to ever play the game.

2. Lou Gehrig: Did everything on that ball field.

3. Mickey Mantle: Was too young to appreciate him when I saw him play as a young kid.

 

Just sticking to my baseball-watching lifetime, Bo Jackson and Andruw Jones jump immediately to mind. That's probably more of a "wish they hadn't fallen off so quickly for their own individual reasons" thing than anything else.

 

Looking at the list, I was thinking about Joe DiMaggio. Then I started thinking about how they would have been treated in today's world.

Ruth would have been all,over the Twitterverse. DiMaggio's head would have exploded.

 

Roberto Alomar

 

Mike Trout. He is the best player Fart's ever seen.

Twenty-year-old Dwight Gooden.

Willie Mays.

 

Just a shame because Strickland threw two beautiful sliders for strikes then throws the perfect fastball to hit out, middle and belt high, couldn't draw it up better for the Cards. Even so, afterwards he got out of the inning.

I'll say one thing going for the Giants, Strickland looks more relaxed out there than Rosenthal, that guy is shaky, you can see it in his eyes.

 

As a Yankee fan, I like this list a lot. They would be tough to beat with those three in the lineup, at their prime, indefinitely.

 

Uh oh, I think Manky is going to reappear and comment.

 

Rain tonight. Sucks. We will go almost 72 hours between fixes of Ned.

But maybe now Big Game James can pitch (approximately five innings) three times in the series!

 

1. Derek Jeter in his prime (from 1998-2012).
2. Don Mattingly (1984-87). Probably the greatest 4-year run every by a first baseman, at least until Pujols.
3. Barry Bonds from 2001-2004. We will never again see anyone like him and that is a shame.