BASE-BALL

[NWI_Irish96]

^ MLB needs a team that will draw fans.  The Reds of today will not draw as many fans as the Yankees will.  Now if this was the "Big Red Machine", we would be having a different conversation.

MLB should have scheduled the Cubs against the Yankees for this, however, this will be part of a scheduled series with the White Sox.  I don't believe the Yankees have any scheduled games vs. the Cubs next year.

The Cubs weren't a central team in the movie.  The White Sox were.  If people will only tune in because it's the Cubs then they aren't really baseball fans and don't deserve to see a game like this.

[ET21]

^ MLB needs a team that will draw fans.  The Reds of today will not draw as many fans as the Yankees will.  Now if this was the "Big Red Machine", we would be having a different conversation.

MLB should have scheduled the Cubs against the Yankees for this, however, this will be part of a scheduled series with the White Sox.  I don't believe the Yankees have any scheduled games vs. the Cubs next year.

The Cubs weren't a central team in the movie.  The White Sox were.  If people will only tune in because it's the Cubs then they aren't really baseball fans and don't deserve to see a game like this.

^this

[cjk374]

The New Orleans minor league team....the Baby Cakes...apparently will be moving to Wichita. The story below is an editorial about how local fans hated the name "Baby Cakes" vs the original name "Zephyrs". There is a link in the story about the move to Wichita.

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/article_3a716c62-c296-11e9-832a-1ff0fe5730c8.html

[Big John]

Christian Yelich to miss the rest of the season with a shattered kneecap/

[Alps]

Christian Yelich to miss the rest of the season with a shattered kneecap/

well he shouldn't have shattered his kneecap then

[tchafe1978]

Christian Yelich to miss the rest of the season with a shattered kneecap/

well he shouldn't have shattered his kneecap then

I don't think he intentionally fouled a ball off his knee.

[Rothman]

Christian Yelich to miss the rest of the season with a shattered kneecap/

well he shouldn't have shattered his kneecap then

I don't think he intentionally fouled a ball off his knee.

Debatable.

[kevinb1994]

And the Yanks are the AL East winners for the first time since 2012!

https://nypost.com/2019/09/19/yankees-clinch-first-al-east-title-since-2012-behind-brilliant-masahiro-tanaka/

Seems like getting a AL East clinch two seasons ago has come back to haunt the Yanks, with the recent COVID (not the pandemic we have come to live with at the time I originally posted the above) outbreaks.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Marty Brennaman is retiring after 46 years of broadcasting the Reds.

I feel old, grew up listening to Marty and Joe...

[Henry]

For the first time since 2014, the Cubs won't be in the postseason. It's been a great run, and I'm so glad that I was able to see them win the whole thing three years ago and put that stupid Billy Goat Curse to rest, once and for all.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Marty Brennaman is retiring after 46 years of broadcasting the Reds.

I feel old, grew up listening to Marty and Joe...

Marty was the last broadcaster, I grew up with, to be on the air still.

[Henry]

Marty Brennaman is retiring after 46 years of broadcasting the Reds.

I feel old, grew up listening to Marty and Joe...

Marty was the last broadcaster, I grew up with, to be on the air still.

At least you were lucky to have had him on the air from childhood to now. It was a sad time for me when Cubs broadcasters Jack Brickhouse and Harry Caray died. I often imagine the latter saying his catchphrase HOLY COW!!! THE CUBS WIN THE WORLD SERIES!!! when I think back to how it all ended in 2016.

[Desert Man]

2019 Major League Baseball postseason. Sadly, the Cubs and Indians (71 years without a world series title) not in the postseason. The Cubs remember their year 2016, comparable to the White Sox crosstown in 2005 and a year earlier the Red Sox, waiting for a whole lifetime to win the world series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtDTqF74nRs

Last world series plays from 1980-2016. The Dodgers lost twice in 2017-18 (not good to look at). The Phillies 1980 (91 years)  and Cubs 2016 (108) were the longest waits in baseball history for their teams to win the world series.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkDMn2ddH9U

[MNHighwayMan]

2019 Major League Baseball postseason. Sadly, the Cubs and Indians (71 years without a world series title) not in the postseason.

I'm hard up for feeling sad about the latter not making the post-season.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Last world series plays from 1980-2016. The Dodgers lost twice in 2017-18 (not good to look at). The Phillies 1980 (91 years)  and Cubs 2016 (108) were the longest waits in baseball history for their teams to win the world series.

The first World Series was in 1903, so the Phillies "only" had to wait 77 years, not 91. That is shorter than both White Sox (87 years) and Red Sox (85 years) droughts.

Of all teams that have reached postseason, I'm picking the one who has been the longest since they last won the World Series (or its creation, if they have never won one) to win it, i.e. the Washington Nationals, which has even never been to a World Series at all. I'm pretty sure they (as the Montreal Expos) would have won in 1994 had the season not ended abruptly halfway due to that strike that ultimately caused them to move to Washington.

[Verlanka]

I'm pretty sure they (as the Montreal Expos) would have won in 1994 had the season not ended abruptly halfway due to that strike that ultimately caused them to move to Washington.

Wait, so the Expos moved because of the strike?

[thspfc]

Well, the Brewers played 162 games to attempt to make the playoffs. Once they did, it was over in a few hours.
That's baseball.

[NWI_Irish96]

I'm pretty sure they (as the Montreal Expos) would have won in 1994 had the season not ended abruptly halfway due to that strike that ultimately caused them to move to Washington.

Wait, so the Expos moved because of the strike?

I wouldn't say it was the only reason but it definitely accelerated the decline in interest and attendance.

[Alps]

I'm pretty sure they (as the Montreal Expos) would have won in 1994 had the season not ended abruptly halfway due to that strike that ultimately caused them to move to Washington.

Wait, so the Expos moved because of the strike?

I wouldn't say it was the only reason but it definitely accelerated the decline in interest and attendance.

-accelerated +caused. That was a passionate city until their best season was taken away and the players were sold off.

[NWI_Irish96]

16 years since Moneyball was published and Billy Beane still hasn't won a pennant.  Most overrated GM in the history of baseball.

[Henry]

Since I can't have the Cubs nor the Mariners in the postseason, I'll be rooting for the Dodgers to win their first World Series championship in 31 years. That Kirk Gibson homer from Game 1 of the '88 Fall Classic was my first Dodgers memory since moving to L.A. that year.

[jp the roadgeek]

Unlike last year where my horse won the race, I really don't care who wins this year, so long as it is not the Yankees.

[Mark68]

I'm in the no Dodgers/no Yankees camp.

I'm actually thinking it'll be Braves/Astros.

I'm proud of the fact that the Dodgers have not won the World Series since 14 years before my team did so. Suck it, Dodger fan!

[Alps]

I really don't care who wins this year, so long as it's the Yankees.

[Stephane Dumas]

I wonder if the song "Gloria" might bring some luck for the Cardinals just like it did for the Blues last Spring?