MLB 2025 Spring Training Thread

[maumann]

Today's Rockies game is brought to you by TPIWWP.

 

[MileHigh]

The only thing the Rockies have done right in 32 years of existence is Coors Field. That's it.

 

[Batman]

The only thing the Rockies have done right in 32 years of existence is Coors Field. That's it.

You'll always have Rocktober.

 

[MileHigh]

You'll always have Rocktober.

A complete one-off of winning 21 of 22 and needing to win a play-in game in which Matt Holliday still has not touched home plate. Nothing to do with management at all.

 

[Batman]

A complete one-off of winning 21 of 22 and needing to win a play-in game in which Matt Holliday still has not touched home plate. Nothing to do with management at all.

How were those late 90s teams not better? They had some mashers in the lineup. Figured they'd have squeezed out a couple of wild card berths on that alone during a few years when the NL was fairly average.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

You'll always have Rocktober.

I had a universal press pass to the 2007 playoffs. Gave a split second's thought to heading out to Colorado for the first World Series games there. Should have gone b/c they will probably be the last World Series games there, too. That press pin would be a neat conversation piece.

 

[Hermes]

Stop making me think about how easily the Indians would've rolled to a title in that World Series and that 3-1 ALCS choke job. Please.

 

[Hermes]

Guardians owner Larry Dolan dead at age 94. Will be interesting to see of if this doesn't speed up the process of David Blitzer gaining the controlling shares of the club.

He was cheap, but he allowed the front office to operate without interference and build one of the smartest organizations in sports. The Dolans only once reached into the purse for a few extra coins after 2016's World Series run and built a juggernaut team in 2017 that inexplicably forgot how to play baseball after taking a 2-0 lead in the ALDS. Still, 2007 was probably the Dolan's best chance at a title. Up 3-1 in the ALCS with two of the league's best three pitchers starting games and only the Rockies on the other side, they yakked it up.

Still, Larry Dolan was a much better owner than his nephew is of his teams. And he didn't move the team after paying the Jacobs brothers a little more than he should've for the team. There's always that.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Stop making me think about how easily the Indians would've rolled to a title in that World Series and that 3-1 ALCS choke job. Please.

Oh stop it. Would there be anything more Cleveland than losing a World Series to THE OTHER 1993 expansion team?

 

[Hermes]

Oh stop it. Would there be anything more Cleveland than losing a World Series to THE OTHER 1993 expansion team?

The Jim Leyland Slam

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

There's a sports-talk host in Tampa who says he has sources telling him that a Tampa-based group is on the verge of buying the Rays.



That's all I got.

Gasplant District site has to be closed on by the end of March or the team loses control of it.

 

[Hermes]

Let's play a new game I like to call "Does that guy look like a sports talk radio host or the new second in command at the FBI."