2025 Major League Baseball Thread

[ChadFL]

Ugg.. It really is going to be Dodgers-Yankees.

[theace69]

Go Dodgers!

[Wingman1977]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

Ugg.. It really is going to be Dodgers-Yankees.

MLB's wet dream. This is the 40th anniversary of the 1977 match up between the Dodger-Yankees.

[theace69]

East Coast vs West Coast

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

Ugg.. It really is going to be Dodgers-Yankees.

Heh I'm a casual Dodgers fan since the Dukes were their farm team for a long time.

[BizCat]

Go Dodgers

[bootsy]

Originally Posted by myanks12

With the Dodgers taking care of business in Chicago, I'm really hoping the Yanks can get one in Houston. If it's Yankees/Dodgers in the World Series, you might as well pull all of the new tv shows off television because the rating would be out of this world for that series.

Maybe. I think people mistaken big market equals ratings. There also has to be a something that gets people to watch like a storyline or interest. I don't see much interest in that series. Some for the Yankees resurgence but not enough to break TV records. This isn't the 1970s or 80s anymore when there were few channels. It going to higher ratings than normal but not sure if it's going to set records.

[eagle20]

Go Dodgers it’s been too long since they made the WS

[BizCat]

Dusty Baker NOT returning to Nationals

[Wingman1977]

Originally Posted by BizCat

Dusty Baker NOT returning to Nationals

It's like that organization is cursed to not get past the divisional series since they moved from Montreal and went from the Expos to the Nationals.

[myanks12]

Originally Posted by BizCat

Dusty Baker NOT returning to Nationals

Good move for them. I think you have to do something to change things up. The Nationals are too good of a team to keep getting bounced in the first round of the postseason. I do think that one thing has hurt them though...the fact that the NL East stinks. No good teams in there so they really haven't played many big games this season until the playoffs. I look at the Astros the same way. All year long it was a cake walk to the division title. Sometimes it pays off to have to win some big games during the regular season rather than getting a big lead early and coasting the rest of the season.

[Wingman1977]

Rumor has it that Manny Acta has become the front runner for the Met's skipper opening.

[Wingman1977]

See you tomorrow game 7.

[DanTheMan]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but did the league change the rule for the All-Star Game where the winning side gets home field during the WS? I thought the AL won this year, but ESPN has said that L.A. gets Games 1 and 2.

[Bizdady]

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but did the league change the rule for the All-Star Game where the winning side gets home field during the WS? I thought the AL won this year, but ESPN has said that L.A. gets Games 1 and 2.

Yup! Thank goodness, stupid rule.

[sycro]

Originally Posted by myanks12

Good move for them. I think you have to do something to change things up. The Nationals are too good of a team to keep getting bounced in the first round of the postseason. I do think that one thing has hurt them though...the fact that the NL East stinks. No good teams in there so they really haven't played many big games this season until the playoffs. I look at the Astros the same way. All year long it was a cake walk to the division title. Sometimes it pays off to have to win some big games during the regular season rather than getting a big lead early and coasting the rest of the season.

6th manager in 10 years. It doesn't look good when you only give a guy 2 years to do something. If it keeps up, they will have to search below the barrel to find a manager.

Going back to when they were the Expos, only 4 managers have ever made the postseason. The longest tenured one? 407 games. The only one that's had more success than Dusty Baker? He coached 209 total games, and went 5-5 in the postseason after taking over as manager for the last 27 games of the season. Dusty Baker is the only Expos/Nationals manager to make the post-season twice.

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by Bizdady

Yup! Thank goodness, stupid rule.

It's certainly unfair if an unlikely wild card team sneaks into the WS, but I'm of the opinion that it made for the stakes to always be bigger, and that the players actually had something worthwhile to play for, in hopes that their respective team (hopefully contenders by All-Star break) get home advantage no matter who they play from the opposite league.

[Wingman1977]

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

It's certainly unfair if an unlikely wild card team sneaks into the WS, but I'm of the opinion that it made for the stakes to always be bigger, and that the players actually had something worthwhile to play for, in hopes that their respective team (hopefully contenders by All-Star break) get home advantage no matter who they play from the opposite league.

It was a dumb idea from the start, and still is. Getting rid of it was the best move this commissioner has so far done.

[myanks12]

Had a feeling there was going to be a game 7 because there was no way Verlander was going to have a bad start. The thing that concerns me is that Robertson came in and got hit pretty hard. If the Yanks were to win a tight game tonight, Robertson is going to have to be a big part of it. But game 7's are a total toss up. I think the fact that the Astros have home field advantage is huge. If the Yanks lose this game, you're not going to go back to game 6 and say that the Yanks blew their opportunity to put the series away because Verlander was so dominant. You're going to go back to games 1 and 2 and say that the Yanks needed a split. Can't keep falling behind in these series because eventually, you're not going to win an elimination game.

[Hatter]

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

It's certainly unfair if an unlikely wild card team sneaks into the WS, but I'm of the opinion that it made for the stakes to always be bigger, and that the players actually had something worthwhile to play for, in hopes that their respective team (hopefully contenders by All-Star break) get home advantage no matter who they play from the opposite league.

Yet if you were the hero for the winning all-star team then get traded to a contender.in the other league, you ended up hurting your new team unintentionally. The format was utter bollocks.