2025 Major League Baseball Thread

[wilky61]

Phillies/Reds game is 0-0 in the 9th. Reds pitcher Travis Wood is perfect through eight, but Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay has shutout the Reds through nine. Even if Wood is able to complete the perfect ninth here, the game would still continue...

Wood is pitching the third start of his career. Funny enough, Halladay knows what he's going through since he pitched one of the two(three) perfect games earlier this year.

EDIT: Perfect game broken up in the bottom of the 9th as the Phillies leadoff batter hits a double. But with the runner on third, Joey Votto makes a potentially game-saving play/catch in foul territory to preserve the 0-0 score and send the game into extras.

Both pitchers pitched nine scoreless innings; Halladay gave up like 5 hits and Wood only one.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by wilky61

Phillies/Reds game is 0-0 in the 9th. Reds pitcher Travis Wood is perfect through eight, but Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay has shutout the Reds through nine. Even if Wood is able to complete the perfect ninth here, the game would still continue...

Wood is pitching the third start of his career. Funny enough, Halladay knows what he's going through since he pitched one of the two(three) perfect games earlier this year.

EDIT: Perfect game broken up in the bottom of the 9th.

sucks I was just about to look for it on tv.

Orioles OWN Cliff Lee

[wilky61]

Apparently ESPN's panel of MLB analysts are certain that Cliff Lee is going to end up with the Yankees after the season anyway. Something about how his contract is almost up and so that's why he's traded hands several times in the last 12 months. And then I guess the Yankees are just gonna swoop in with a big contract in the offseason.

[Wingman1977]

I just want to inform my fellow Yankee fans that Bob Sheppard (the voice of god from the old Yankees stadium) has passed away.

[Jellybeans]

Originally Posted by Wingman1977

I just want to inform my fellow Yankee fans that Bob Sheppard (the voice of god from the old Yankees stadium) has passed away.

Yeah

R.I.P. Bob and thanks for the good memories

[toef]

Originally Posted by Wingman1977

I just want to inform my fellow Yankee fans that Bob Sheppard (the voice of god from the old Yankees stadium) has passed away.

I kind of wish the Yankees had him record some basic greeting messages for them to use forever (similar to how Jeter asked him to record himself announcing Jeter, and said he'll use it for every at bat for the rest of his career).

His voice was a big part of the original Yankee Stadium, and it'd be nice to hear some greeting from him before every game. They still use his voice on the YES promos/commercials, so I guess there's that.

[toef]

Originally Posted by Jellybeans

lol , no

Make that more 15-16 years

What a coincidence. Before 2008, the last time they missed the playoffs was 1993, 17 years ago! As soon as they turned the corner (making the playoffs in 1995 for the first time since 1981... there were no playoffs in 1994), you became a fan.

They proceeded to make the playoffs again in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009.

[Jellybeans]

Originally Posted by toef

What a coincidence. Before 2008, the last time they missed the playoffs was 1993, 17 years ago! As soon as they turned the corner (making the playoffs in 1995 for the first time since 1981... there were no playoffs in 1994), you became a fan.

They proceeded to make the playoffs again in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009.

I start becoming a fan when i was 14-15 years old .

I'm now 30

I recall my favorite player back in the day was John Wetteland and he went to the Yanks in 1995

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by Wingman1977

I just want to inform my fellow Yankee fans that Bob Sheppard (the voice of god from the old Yankees stadium) has passed away.

Took me a minute to figure out who he was. At first I confused him with the guy who has all those obnoxious catch phrases (Sterling).

RIP in any case. Kinda sad for all sports fans.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by toef

What a coincidence. Before 2008, the last time they missed the playoffs was 1993, 17 years ago! As soon as they turned the corner (making the playoffs in 1995 for the first time since 1981... there were no playoffs in 1994), you became a fan.

They proceeded to make the playoffs again in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009.

Which was ashame really. To this day I believe the 1994 Expos were one of the best MLB teams of my lifetime. They were just killing my Braves that season. If not for the strike the Expos may well have been the top team of the mid to late 90's.

[Hi-Def Steve]

What was with Mike Scioscia leaving in Scott Kazmir yesterday? He let the guy give up 13ER!!! It almost seemed like he was teaching the guy a lesson or something.

[Hi-Def Steve]

How cool! Two new Dodgers were just announced to the All-Star game. Hong-Chih Kuo (who should have been announced awhile ago) and Rafael Furcal. So that makes 4 Dodgers now.

[toef]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

Which was ashame really. To this day I believe the 1994 Expos were one of the best MLB teams of my lifetime. They were just killing my Braves that season. If not for the strike the Expos may well have been the top team of the mid to late 90's.

That was a weird summer. I remember watching SportsCenter every morning to see if they were going to start playing baseball again (my dad had AOL at the time, but the internet barely existed in 94, especially to a kid). Nike, I think, ran a series of commercials.

And then it just never happened.

The two things that stand out to me about that whole ordeal are:

1) how it destroyed the Expos to the point of MLB having to step in and buy the team, and relocate it

2) more recently, the funny reminder when playing video games over the years that some current players (at the time) were banned from the MLBPA and therefore weren't in the game (most notably, since I played tons of AL East games and because he was the only one who ended up having any amount of MLB success, was the absence of Millar as a Red Sock and Oriole, over the years)

I'm not sure if any of those banned players still play. The only two I can specifically think of are Millar and Shane Spencer (since he played for the Yankees for a few years).

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by toef

That was a wrdei summer. I remember watching SportsCenter every morning to see if they were going to start playing baseball again (my dad had AOL at the time, but the internet barely existed in 94, especially to a kid). Nike, I think, ran a series of commercials.

And then it just never happened.

Same here. I was SURE eventually the 1994 season was going to re-start. Without the internet and just ESPN any the newspaper to go by it often soudned like the season was going to re-start. I was in complete disbelief when the deadline finally passed and the season ended with no conclusion and no champion.

The Montreal Expos had an amazing collection of great players - Pedro Martinez, Ken Hill, Jeff Fassero, Butch Henry and Kirk Rueter starting. John Wetteland and Mel Rojas in relief. They had an outfield made up of Alou, Grissom and Larry Walker.

Doubt the Braves could have caught them being 6 games back when the strike happened. Montreal was on pace for 105 wins.

The strike didn't just kill Montreal baseball either. Other small market teams such as Kansas City and Cincinnati were having a great year in 1994, only to have to dismantle their teams the following year.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by toef

I'm not sure if any of those banned players still play. The only two I can specifically think of are Millar and Shane Spencer (since he played for the Yankees for a few years).

Brendan Donnelly was another name I can recall. He is still pitching.

[Ashamed Pegasus]

Is this a joke or something?... Nick Swisher, who doesn't even deserve to be at the All-Star Game, is now participating in the Homer Run Derby?...

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by Ashamed Pegasus

Is this a joke or something?... Nick Swisher, who doesn't even deserve to be at the All-Star Game, is now participating in the Homer Run Derby?...

He's a Yankee. Do you really need to ask that question when it comes to Yankees or Red Sox?

[Ashamed Pegasus]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

He's a Yankee. Do you really need to ask that question when it comes to Yankees or Red Sox?

Now I know why he's in the HRD... Cano was told not to hit by the Yankees because they didn't want him to get hurt, so Girardi just replaced 1 Yankee with another... I think they should make a new rule where if you're elected to hit in the HRD and you decline because of injury concern then you should be removed from the ASG completely...

[toef]

Originally Posted by Ashamed Pegasus

Now I know why he's in the HRD... Cano was told not to hit by the Yankees because they didn't want him to get hurt, so Girardi just replaced 1 Yankee with another... I think they should make a new rule where if you're elected to hit in the HRD and you decline because of injury concern then you should be removed from the ASG completely...

I disagree with that rule. I don't think anyone should be forced into the HR derby if they're not feeling up to it.

Cano in the HRD is as much of a joke as Swisher. Swisher at least seemed really excited about potentially being the vote-in, so now that he's in, I'm not surprised he wants to participate in everything the ASG week offers.

With Cano, I'm not sure if there's really an injury concern, or if it's more of a fear of him falling victim to the HRD curse, in which some hitters that participate in the HRD seem to fall apart in the 2nd half. I'm not sure if I buy the curse idea, and it only seems to apply to power hitters, but who knows. Some stats the WSJ ran last year:

2008 - Lance Berkman: 22 HRs before break (1 every 15 AB), 7 after (1 every 31 AB)

2007 - Alex Rios: 17 HRs before break (1 every 21 AB), 7 after (1 every 42 AB)

2006 - David Wright: 20 HRs before break (1 every 17 AB), 6 after (1 every 41 AB)

2005 - Bobby Abreu: 18 HR before break (1 every 18 AB), 6 after (1 every 44 AB)

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by Ashamed Pegasus

Is this a joke or something?... Nick Swisher, who doesn't even deserve to be at the All-Star Game, is now participating in the Homer Run Derby?...

Nobody wants to participate in the Home Run Derby so they have to take whoever is willing to hit.