2024 MLB Season Thread

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by stevew

Pirates rest IKF today, 4 plate appearances short of a 250k incentive.

Every MLB team is getting at least $100 mil in revenue before selling a single ticket or piece of merchandise and the Pirates owner is worth more than a billion but they have a payroll of $85 mil and they're playing games to avoid 250k bonuses.

[stevew]

If Arreaz goes 1-4 and Ohtani gets at least 4 hits in 6AB Ohtani wins the triple crown. Arreaz would basically clinch with 2 hits.

[stevew]

The Mets and Braves double headers tomorrow seem ripe for shenanigans. If they split the doubleheader, both teams make the playoffs. I can’t imagine the team who falls behind in the first game is going to want to burn any of their leverage relievers.

[GrantDawg]

Someone floated the idea they both just forfeit one game each, and just prepare for the WC games.

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[Atocep]

If there's ever been a time when I expect the Mets to get swept...

[Atocep]

With the Diamondbacks potentially missing the playoffs at 89 wins I wanted to see who had the most wins while missing out of the wildcard since the 3 wildcard format started in 2015. The Mariners currently have the 3 highest win seasons while missing the playoffs at 90 wins ('21), 89 wins ('18), 88 wins ('23). They also missed the wildcard by a half game in 2016 with 86 wins and missed by a game this year with 85 wins.

[Ksyrup]

So clearly the Mariners should just be the Pirates.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

Someone floated the idea they both just forfeit one game each, and just prepare for the WC games.

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I have seen a lot of people say they are going to make some back room deal to split. These teams hate each other and would never.

Whomever wins game 1 will rest everyone they can game 2 but that doesn't guarantee a win. As a Mets fan I full well expect them to lose game 1 then lose game 2 in some crushing fashion.

[albionmoonlight]

Too much to lose with a formal agreement to split the games. If that comes out, there will be investigation, etc.

I agree with Lathum. Both teams will try to win game 1. The winner of game 1 will try to win game 2, but will care more about rest.

[Lathum]

dbacks better hope Mets lose game 1. If not it will be Sale against the mets B team.

[Lathum]

Mets go 1-2-3. Schwellenbaker (SP?) looks like John Smoltz and Tylor Megill who was in the minors most of the year takes the mound.

Welcome to life as a Mets fan

[Ksyrup]

Schwellenbach shut down the Phillies a couple of times this year. He's good.

[Ksyrup]

ESPN absolutely fucked up the AL playoff schedule they just showed. They switched the Royals and Tigers - had Tigers playing the Orioles and Royals playing the Astros. Not a word from any of the announcers or Buster or anything correcting it, even as Ravech walked through the schedule. WTF?

[Lathum]

Megill gave the Mets what they needed and in typical Mets fashion they are crapping the bed. I suspect the Mets aren't going to use an high leverage relievers this game until they get back in to it.

I also suspect the Braves score 6 runs in the first inning of game 2.

[Ksyrup]

Getting interesting...

[Ksyrup]

WELL

[Lathum]

My dog thinks I am crazy

[Ksyrup]

I'm surprised to see you post here until the 27th out is recorded!

[Ksyrup]

Nobody wants to win this game.

[Lathum]

I'm just going to go outside and light myself on fire.

[GrantDawg]

Ozzie is having himself a game.

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[GrantDawg]

https://x.com/JeffSchultzATL/status/...Yww8_zTEw&s=19

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[Lathum]

This is life as a Mets fan folks....

[Lathum]

I can't handle this.....

[Ksyrup]

WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON AROUND HERE?!

[Lathum]

Not sure my heart will be able to take this ninth inning

[Lathum]

Holy Crap- they are running Diaz back out. FFS

[Lathum]

If Diaz blows this it will be Matt Harvey level second guessing.

[RainMaker]

I am glad I don't have a rooting interest in either of these teams or I'd have had a few heart attacks by now.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

I am glad I don't have a rooting interest in either of these teams or I'd have had a few heart attacks by now.

If I didn’t have to coach my daughters softball practice tonight I would be into the vodka already.

[Swaggs]

Meanwhile, I am over here trying to convince myself that the only reason the Pirates haven't fired Shelton and/or Cherington is because the season doesn't officially end until after these games today...

[Lathum]

I can breathe again. What a game.

[Ksyrup]

Congrats! Now beat the Braves with your scrubs!

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Congrats! Now beat the Braves with your scrubs!

Man I hope so. They have to be shellshocked. Plus they have to use sale now. I know he’s a gamer but you have to wonder if he was a bit checked out.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Lathum

Man I hope so. They have to be shellshocked. Plus they have to use sale now. I know he’s a gamer but you have to wonder if he was a bit checked out.

With his velocity down over 2mph in his last start, I'm not sure if he's checked out so much as worn out tbh.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

With his velocity down over 2mph in his last start, I'm not sure if he's checked out so much as worn out tbh.

IIR he is on a few extra days rest, no?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Sale has just been scratched due to "back spasms"

[miami_fan]

Sale out with back spasms.

[Lathum]

Just saw the Sale news. That is crazy. Has to be demoralizing.

[RainMaker]

Been here before

everyone in that stadium wants to kill themselves. that's what baseball's all about

— Jordan Freiman (@JordanFreiman) September 30, 2024

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Lathum

Just saw the Sale news. That is crazy. Has to be demoralizing.

For the fans surely.

I have my doubts that the team really thought he was gonna pitch today no matter what happened.

[Atocep]

I was watching up until the Mets lost the lead. Then I had to go into a meeting and followed from there. I think this is the first time since '86 the Mets didn't let me down.

It's insane that this team made the playoffs when at the start of June they were 11 games under .500 and looked like they'd be remembered with the Bonilla teams. From that point on they've had the best record and best run diff in baseball.

[Lathum]

I am watching the celebration in the Mets clubhouse and these dudes need to chill, they have a game tomorrow.

[JPhillips]

Pete Rose died.

[Lathum]

The best part about todays Mets win was my 11 year old softball crazed daughter came home with 2 innings left and we watched together. we were screaming so much my wife had to apologize to the people she was on a Zoom meeting with.

[Ksyrup]

Has she started watching college SB yet? For a solid decade - as SB became popular and ESPN started televising (or streaming) even low-level mid-major teams - I watched more SB than baseball and basketball combined. I still watch a lot, but now that many of the players Caitlin played with and against are no longer playing, I've lost some connection with it.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Has she started watching college SB yet? For a solid decade - as SB became popular and ESPN started televising (or streaming) even low-level mid-major teams - I watched more SB than baseball and basketball combined. I still watch a lot, but now that many of the players Caitlin played with and against are no longer playing, I've lost some connection with it.

Non stop.

She wants to go to Oklahoma, lol. She's awesome, but may need to set some expectations.

[Ksyrup]

Well, she can always transfer there once she proves she's elite, ha!

I'm sure it's the same in all sports, but some kids are just not cut out for D1 sports. Caitlin told me she wishes she had waited to commit and gone to a non-D1 school so she could have more fun playing the game instead of the hell she went through at her first school. She openly admitted to me that it was a status thing to be able to say she commited to D1 as a sophomore (although at the time, she thought she would have fun/do well there). Transfers were always a thing in sports outside of football/basketball, but she just happened to be in the first class that got to use the formal transfer portal, so at least she got to a better situation - only to have Covid rob her of her junior year and injury/surgery ruin her senior year.

It was a wild ride. Buckle up. One piece of advice - the coaches are largely not any better or knowledgeable about the game than the HS or travel ball coaches she has now. Seriously. Many of them are fucking morons. At least the dinosaurs are slowly getting purged from the system so the abusive shit is happening less frequently.

[Lathum]

I don't know if it is a DirectTV thing or an ESPN thing, but all the baseball games for today on the guide say TBD and all the times are wrong making it impossible to record the actual game without basically recording a 6 hour block.

Totally unacceptable in todays day and age.

[Ksyrup]

TIGERS!