Baseball 2017 Season Thread

[The Minsky Moment]

Decade-old Big Red Machine magic pixie dust only takes you so far.

[CountDeMoney]

'83 made up for it though.

But no Earl

'82 was the better team.

[derspiess]

But it still wasn't the '82 Cards.  KEITH HERNANDEZ FTW

[The Minsky Moment]

Ripken was moved to 3B in the high minors because the CW was that he was too big for SS.  Before the start of 82 Orioles traded away Doug DeCinces for Disco Dan Ford to make room for Ripken.  He had a truly epic slump early in the year - he hit .123 the first month of the season, this after hitting well under the Mendoza line in his 1981 cup of coffee.  Weaver kept writing him into the lineup.  Then once he finally got hitting, Weaver switched him to SS. 

No one then or since would ever have gotten away with that or even tried to other than Weaver.  First sticking with the struggling rookie.  Then when the rook finally gets on track, suddenly moving him to a more challenging position that baseball minds at the time thought he couldn't play in the majors.  On top of the fact that moving from 3B just highlighted the fact that DeCinces was putting up an all star year with the Angles, while Ford was a bust for the Orioles. 

[The Minsky Moment]

But it still wasn't the '82 Cards.  KEITH HERNANDEZ FTW

Sporting his trademark gay porn star look.
Lonnie Smith was the other engine on that team.  Cocaine is a hell of drug.

[derspiess]

But it still wasn't the '82 Cards.  KEITH HERNANDEZ FTW

Sporting his trademark gay porn star look.
Lonnie Smith was the other engine on that team.  Cocaine is a hell of drug.

And let's not forget Darrell Porter with his awesome glasses and .231 BA.

[Ed Anger]

Cards suck.

[derspiess]

Reds suck.

[Valmy]

You know what else has sucked? May for the Orioles.

[Ed Anger]

Reds suck.

You should like the Reds and their million dollar niggers.

Sorry, channeling Seedy there.

[CountDeMoney]

Reds suck.

You should like the Reds and their million dollar niggers.

Sorry, channeling Seedy there.

Not ironic enough.

[derspiess]

Well I am an official member of the Reds Hall of Fame.  It comes with free batting cage access, and my son and nephew love going into the bullpen radar gun thing they have set up as well.

[derspiess]

Really looking forward to this weekend   Tommy has a baseball tournament.  First game is Saturday at 8:30am (get there by 7:30) and then one at 12:30.  80% chance of rain, which means they will probably drag us out there and make us wait before they call the games due to weather.  Same thing for Sunday.  Those tournament organizers hate giving back money, so we'll probably be waiting all day for a break in the weather.

Not that I'm keeping stats or anything, but Tommy is batting .622 so far and has struck out 29 batters in 12 innings pitched. 

[CountDeMoney]

For you, Valmy. 
Because I wanted to hurt you.  Real bad.  And not gentle like before, but bad.

Power Rankings: Orioles tie for biggest fall
Suffice to say, it has been a tough year for O's pitching, with their 5.15 ERA ranking last in the AL.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/page/powerrankings_2017week12/ranking-mlb-teams-week-12-season

[Valmy]

Man even when we are fans of the same team you are hostile :p

But yes they had a run of something like 25 straight games giving up 5+ earned runs. That was impressive.