Baseball post-season 2024

[Steve R.]

At least there's this:

https://nypost.com/2024/10/30/us-news/brooklyn-pizzeria-owner-rejects-dodgers-reservation-during-world-series-because-hes-loyal-to-the-yankees-not-happeni/

[relbbaddoof]

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(Sorry non-Steve R's. Only he can daer me.)

[Steve R.]

it was worse when there were 6 or 7 food boards i was on.  Mitch & small h can relate. 

[relbbaddoof]

23 minutes ago, Steve R. said:

when there were 6 or 7 food boards i was on.  Mitch & small h can relate. 

I missed all that. I was too young. What are you guys, 300? Collectively, I mean.

[small h]

2 hours ago, Steve R. said:

it was worse when there were 6 or 7 food boards i was on.  Mitch & small h can relate. 

I'm still on 6 or 7. I have no idea where I am, most days.

[StephanieL]

Reading what happened in the 5th made me grateful for needing to be at chorus rehearsal that night.  I'd have broken something had I witnessed it in real time.

Edited November 2, 2024 by StephanieL

[Wilfrid]

My luck, I was at the Hinds concert for the blow out win and had to watch game five.

[hollywood]

7 hours ago, StephanieL said:

Reading what happened in the 5th made me grateful for needing to be at chorus rehearsal that night.  I'd have broken something had I witnessed it in real time.

Keep in mind that the Dodgers have a huge payroll and a very driven manager.

[MitchW]

9 hours ago, hollywood said:

Keep in mind that the Dodgers have a huge payroll and a very driven manager.

The way they play fundamental baseball (stealing, bunting, defense!) made one realize that the Yankees don’t.

[bloviatrix]

Once upon a time the Yankees won the series playing small ball. But then the bought in to the idea of the long ball being the answer to everything and they forgot their fundamentals. My kid watched some of the games and was criticizing their defense.

[Steve R.]

The defensive miscues are a trade off for the offensive players they wanted/got.  Jazz's throws from 3rd to 1st were an adventure (I know... he's not a 3rd baseman), Torre's mental gaffes were befuddling and, say what you will about Soto's otherwise greatness, his right field prowess was obviously not.

On offense, they got the same streakiness.  They were better than the Dodgers when they got hot & looked like a AAA team when they did their "deer in the headlights" impressions.  They met a team that looked & played like professionals & got beat, as the announcers said, "around the margins" (almost error free and taking advantage of everything offered).

I'd say "wait till next year" but we won't see this team again.  Rizzo won't be the only one gone.  I expect a new primary catcher, new 2nd baseman (Jazz to 2nd & new 3rd baseman? Cabrera?), new left fielder & maybe the need for a Soto replacement as well.  And a big bullpen shakeup.  Anyone think that Boone survives?

Edited November 3, 2024 by Steve R.

[hollywood]

What happened to Judge?

[sourbroughten]

14 hours ago, hollywood said:

What happened to Judge?

I hear he will be in Times Square on NYE... to drop the ball.

[Steve R.]

I guess this is as good a place as any for some of us to say goodbye to Soto while others say hello.  I'm just glad that he'll still be on our city's tax rolls.

[Steve R.]

When the first thing you do after losing Soto is buy a starting pitcher, it gotta say something to the 7 you already have, no?  I figure that Fried will start alongside Cole & Rodon, so which of the others start packing in advance of some trade for a top notch position player the Yankees actually need (catcher? 1st base?) or want to move up on?  Everyone's guessing Stroman (I wouldn't mind) but Gil and Schmidt would bring more.  Nestor?

[relbbaddoof]

1 hour ago, Steve R. said:

When the first thing you do after losing Soto is buy a starting pitcher, it gotta say something to the 7 you already have, no?  I figure that Fried will start alongside Cole & Rodon, so which of the others start packing in advance of some trade for a top notch position player the Yankees actually need (catcher? 1st base?) or want to move up on?  Everyone's guessing Stroman (I wouldn't mind) but Gil and Schmidt would bring more.  Nestor?

I'm such an admirer of yours, but I have to say (looting McCarthy) that every word you say above, except "a" and "the", is incomprehensible.

[Steve R.]

why?  you don't watch football?

[relbbaddoof]

What is foots ball? A corruption of cricket?

ETA: I get it now, you are talking of bases ball.

ETA ETA: Whichever, still corruptions of the one true game.

Edited December 11, 2024 by relbbaddoof

[Steve R.]

On 12/11/2024 at 12:41 PM, Steve R. said:

Everyone's guessing Stroman (I wouldn't mind) but Gil and Schmidt would bring more.  Nestor?

Bye, Nestor.  Hope this reliever we got is good.  Definitely needed.

Who's next? Stroman, hopefully.  With Gil as #4 and Schmidt back in the pen and ready to start when needed.

Now, when do we get a 1st baseman and a better starting catcher?

[Wilfrid]

We'll see tonight if we need a new thread for 2025.

[StephanieL]

Looks like we do.  The first thing I did after Yom Kippur ended was turn on my phone and check the score.

[bloviatrix]

21 hours ago, StephanieL said:

Looks like we do.  The first thing I did after Yom Kippur ended was turn on my phone and check the score.

Have you seen the video of the guy blowing the shofar at the stadium?

[StephanieL]

2 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

Have you seen the video of the guy blowing the shofar at the stadium?

No, but I went to the Giants' Jewish Heritage Night last month and the "Rally Rabbi" blew the shofar then.

[StephanieL]

And we're out.  Hoping Seattle gets to the WS, because they've never been.