MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

That's 13-15 times a year, for 25 years, that you're getting dragged into the 9th.

I don't really know if that's a bad number. Maybe it's the average for most teams.

 

Happy 91st.

 

I thought we were around the same age, but I don't remember Nelson at all. As a Yankee fan, I do remember always being jealous of the Mets announcers. I still am.

 

Thanks!!

 

I’m 52, so that threesome was there through about when I was 10. I think Nelson left first, then Murphy a couple of years later and McCarver came just as the team started getting good

 

Really love this picture of Willie

 

With back-to-back 3-2 losses, the Tigers are now 1-17 when they give up three runs or more. And 0-5 when they give up exactly three runs. (They're 7-0 when giving up two or fewer, which shows the pitching hasn't been the problem.)

To say they have shown zero offense would be kind.

 

Roy Blount Jr. told a story about Mays, his baseball hero. When Blount became a sportswriter he was excited to finally cover a Mays game. In the lockerroom after, he approached the Say Hey kid for the very first time with some info he thought would show the legend some gameful insight.

"Willie, do you realize in the past six games you've driven in seven runs without an extra-base hit?"

"Man," Mays replied, "I don't keep up with that shit."

 

Miggy’s 600th career double
Cabrera, Aaron and Pujols are the 600/500/3,000 club

 

Of all the players from the past that I wished I could’ve seen, it was Mays. More so than Ruth, Ted Williams, or Mantle.

 

I would have liked to have experienced the Ruth era at the time, knowing there'd never been anyone even in the same ballpark (lol) as him as a power hitter.