2025 Major League Baseball Thread

[hc666]

Originally Posted by Redliner17k

Off to Houston for 3 with the 'Stros!

Better sweep that series!!!

PS Have I mentioned how much I hate the AL playing the NL?

Kind of gagged that the Jays are set to play the Cardinals, Phillies, Giants and Padres in the upcoming weeks... 4 of the top NL teams... the scheduling is extremely unbalanced when it comes to inter-league play. Mind you the Jays will also play the Rockies but thats' only 1 weaker team. Cool to play the best teams of course but every team should play the same team the same number of times in inter-league IMO.

Anyway, the novelty is over for me. Down with inter-league. It's stupid.

[supersix4]

God Griffey has the greatest swing motion ever

[hc666]

Originally Posted by supersix4

God Griffey has the greatest swing motion ever

Hey... shut up haha

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by hc666

Hey... shut up haha

lol I'll be quiet at 7:05pm

[hc666]

Originally Posted by supersix4

lol I'll be quiet at 7:05pm

Damn Griffey haah... although it was Kevin Gregg's fault he got to bat :P

[toef]

Originally Posted by hc666

Better sweep that series!!!

PS Have I mentioned how much I hate the AL playing the NL?

Kind of gagged that the Jays are set to play the Cardinals, Phillies, Giants and Padres in the upcoming weeks... 4 of the top NL teams... the scheduling is extremely unbalanced when it comes to inter-league play. Mind you the Jays will also play the Rockies but thats' only 1 weaker team. Cool to play the best teams of course but every team should play the same team the same number of times in inter-league IMO.

Anyway, the novelty is over for me. Down with inter-league. It's stupid.

Have I mentioned it too?

Yankees play the Mets... apparently people care about the Subway series.

The punishment for everyone else is completely arbitrary inter-league match-ups. So stupid.

[Lacit170]

Originally Posted by toef

Have I mentioned it too?

Yankees play the Mets... apparently people care about the Subway series.

The punishment for everyone else is completely arbitrary inter-league match-ups. So stupid.

yea, the yankees play a minor league team now... i mean national league team

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by toef

Have I mentioned it too?

Yankees play the Mets... apparently people care about the Subway series.

The punishment for everyone else is completely arbitrary inter-league match-ups. So stupid.

I absolutely hate inter-league play. Always have, probably always will. I also liked baseball pre-1994 when we had only four divisions. The Wild Card is one of the worst things to ever happen to baseball.

[toef]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

I absolutely hate inter-league play. Always have, probably always will. I also liked baseball pre-1994 when we had only four divisions. The Wild Card is one of the worst things to ever happen to baseball.

Yeah, I'd prefer that they just cut out the divisions, and just go with the AL and NL, top 4 teams from each move on.

But because of the savings on traveling, and the chance to build divisional rivals (read: build fan interest), I can kind of see why they may never change from the current structure.

And psychologically, if your team is the crappiest team in the league, if they're at least put into a division, being in 5th place doesn't look as bad as 14th or 16th.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by toef

Yeah, I'd prefer that they just cut out the divisions, and just go with the AL and NL, top 4 teams from each move on.

But because of the savings on traveling, and the chance to build divisional rivals (read: build fan interest), I can kind of see why they may never change from the current structure.

And psychologically, if your team is the crappiest team in the league, if they're at least put into a division, being in 5th place doesn't look as bad as 14th or 16th.

If they are going to keep the playoffs with 8 teams including 2 wildcards they should really make every round best of 7. I HATE best of 5 divisional series.

[Hi-Def Steve]

I have no problem with the wild card. It makes the game more accessible to fans of teams that have no chance against the powerhouses. Even if it is a false sense of hope when they actually get in the playoffs.

[toef]

Originally Posted by Hi-Def Steve

I have no problem with the wild card. It makes the game more accessible to fans of teams that have no chance against the powerhouses. Even if it is a false sense of hope when they actually get in the playoffs.

The 15 NL Wild Card winners are 8-7 in the divisional round, and 2 have won the World Series.

In the AL, it's the exact same... 8 past the first round, and 2 won the World Series.

Wild Card winner might be the best title to enter the playoffs with, other than AL East Champion.

[Hi-Def Steve]

I was just thinking.....if anyone should be liking the wild card right now, it would be Yankee fans.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by Hi-Def Steve

I was just thinking.....if anyone should be liking the wild card right now, it would be Yankee fans.

Ya, two years ago was similar. Yankees finished a few games back of Tampa but won the Wild Card.

And the fact that the first round is best of 5 rather than 7 makes upsets far more likely. In that sense teams like NY are hurt by the best of 5 first round.

[toef]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

Ya, two years ago was similar. Yankees finished a few games back of Tampa but won the Wild Card.

And the fact that the first round is best of 5 rather than 7 makes upsets far more likely. In that sense teams like NY are hurt by the best of 5 first round.

Yeah, one of the things I hate most about a 5-game series is that it doesn't require a team to have any depth to win. All you need are 2 good pitchers, and you win... or at least are as good as any other team.

Although I guess the Diamondbacks proved in 2001 that you can win a 7-game series with just 2 good pitchers.

Originally Posted by Hi-Def Steve

I was just thinking.....if anyone should be liking the wild card right now, it would be Yankee fans.

Haha, maybe. Or maybe Boston fans (just not this year). I just wanted to point out that WC teams have won more than 1/4 (but close enough... 4/15) of the World Series championships since the Wild Card began... which is about all you can ask for, considering they represent 1/4 of the playoff spots.

[sfmarine]

It's been a while since I hit up this thread! My Yanks have been playing like crap lately. Hopefully they can beat the Mets tonigh.

[Hi-Def Steve]

Please have Oswalt come to the Dodgers.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by Hi-Def Steve

Please have Oswalt come to the Dodgers.

Poor guy has an ERA of 2.66 and his record is 2-6 on the year. Talk aout no run support...

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by toef

Yeah, one of the things I hate most about a 5-game series is that it doesn't require a team to have any depth to win. All you need are 2 good pitchers, and you win... or at least are as good as any other team.

Although I guess the Diamondbacks proved in 2001 that you can win a 7-game series with just 2 good pitchers.



Haha, maybe. Or maybe Boston fans (just not this year). I just wanted to point out that WC teams have won more than 1/4 (but close enough... 4/15) of the World Series championships since the Wild Card began... which is about all you can ask for, considering they represent 1/4 of the playoff spots.

Gawd that team was horrible outside of Johnson and Schilling. That D-Backs team wouldn't have won more than 65 games without those two.

Funny thing is the teams I consider to be the least talented WS champions in my lifetime are the 2001 D-Backs and 2003 Marlins. And both beat vastly superior Yankee teams in the World Series on the backs of a couple unhittable pitchers- namely Schilling, Johnson and Beckett.

Schilling always gets the credit for the 2001 World Series but Randy Johnson was the real MVP of that series. Johnson won games 2 and 6 of the series going 16 innings giving up only 2 runs then came back for game 7 on 1 day rest to shut down the Yankees in the 9th inning for his third win.

As a Braves fan I also hated 2001. Randy Johnson did the same thing to the Braves in the NLCS. He annihilated us in his two starts. Game 1 he threw a complete game three hit shutout and game 5 he threw 8 innings giving up just two runs to close out the series. Schilling also won his lone start of the series against Atlanta.

[sawzalot]

Ed Wade has that Philly connection, Oswalt sure would help out right about now, please sports gods , shine down on the Phillies and bring us Roy , kewl , two Roys, I like it.
Phils prevented the sweep thanks to RAAUULLLL Ibanez.