MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

They put together that sendoff fast. No time to waste.

 

The Padres, Giants and D’Backs have all had meh starts to the season (not terrible, not great, just meh) and yet all three are less than 2 games back of LA. For all the talk of the offense, they just aren’t bonding teams down enough. And I’m here to give an “it’s still April but I want to snicker” snicker

 

Just finished “Charlie Hustle” the Pete Rose bio. I think it’s very well done. Page-turner for me.

I was really getting into baseball when Rose broke Cobb’s record. And of course I was really engaged by the time Giamatti handed down the lifetime ban. But I didn’t know much else beyond the stats and highlights.

It’s a thorough telling of a driven person who was deeply flawed, reckless and unable to admit mistakes even as he destroyed his life and legacy.

It’s also just an interesting span of baseball during his career, starting when players still worked other jobs in the offseason to the end of the reserve clause and into free agency. And when a singles hitter could be a superstar.

Also great stuff on the 1975 World Series. When 75 million people watched Game 7.

Good book. Recommend.

 

Loved that book. Super well researched. Dribbled in all Pete’s gambling elements bit by bit til they took over the book. Easy to forget how big Pete was back in his day and how massive the gambling suspension was. The book might not even do that part justice.

 

I had the same thought that maybe that part was somewhat underplayed. Tho, it could’ve gone on forever too, with so much going on.

 

Rendon back to the IL.

 

I have that up next. Luckily a good friend in Microville is the president of SABR and also a published author so he gets a lot of new releases, has a fabulous baseball library and loves to share so I grab 4-5 books at a time.

Reading a book about the MLBPA from 1966-81 right now "The end of baseball as we know it"), fascinating stuff, the owners at that time we so stupid and almost all of the righters were management tools.

 

Putting that one on my list. Thx. That backdrop in the Rose book made me want to read more about it.

 

Will anyone notice?

 

I've been a SABR member for a few years, the library of SABR publications alone makes it worthwhile. Some fascinating stuff about baseball from all eras, all levels.

 

Random, to be sure, but it caught my interest.

 

Is the fan in witness protection yet?