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1. salvomania Posted: August 20, 2021 at 04:53 PM (#6035368)His 32 homers surpass his previous high of 27, while he now has scored exactly 57 runs in a season four times, and driven in exactly 80 runs three times.
Actually I guess I am. I'm retiring in 6 weeks.
Congrats! I figured you for a bit younger, but maybe you've got a few mil in assets for your golden years, so no time like the present...
Really? I always thought he was born when the Cubs won their second most recent championship. :)
EDIT: RBI BB for Bronx Boy Andrew Velazquez makes it 3-0.
EDIT II: 4-0 on Gardner RBI single.
Early retirement tip #1: No kids
Enjoyable retirement tip #1: No kids so not much point leaving any money behind
But please, Andy's the only one here who saw Walter Johnson pitch.
In important (possibly late) baseball news: Luis Robert is back.
Sadly I had the plan to be dead by 50 so I didn't care.... 51 years old now, and after a few visits to the doctor telling me that I'm in better shape than I thought I should be (family history of heart disease apparently didn't work it's way to me) and now I have to think about living a few more years. So it looks like I'm working until I'm 90.
And, this is cool. The last 4 times Castellanos has been hit by a pitch, Votto has followed with a home run
Cute, but in fact his grandson Hank Thomas was a benchwarmer on my DC high school baseball team when I was their starting LF. He wrote an award-winning book (Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train), but he's made more money selling a ton of Walter's canceled checks than he ever did off his book.
family history of heart disease apparently didn't work it's way to me
That's what I thought too. How many and which tests did they do?
coronary artery calcium... along with the usual before that. (scored a 0 on that test--meaning no calcium, low chance of heart attack in the future)
Without the error, the runners are at first and second, the fly ball doesn't advance anyone.... yet he's charged with two earned runs?
I think in that situation they wait until the end of the inning before making the run unearned. If it's an error that lets a guy reach base followed by a homer, yes that first guy is unearned, but in this situation, if the guy hitting the SF instead had hit a homer, all those runs are earned. So I'm pretty sure the scorer waits until they KNOW the run is unearned before making it so.
Any team shifting against a bench player, deserves to get bunted on.
You are right, as gameday now has them as unearned runs...
As long as they play bad teams, they seem to be fine. Of course NY and Tampa are never going to lose again so even if they manage to squeak out 92 wins I still think they miss the playoffs with the A's ending up with the better record.
Been a fun season so far though.
3-2 pitch to McNeil, who takes ball four - well, who takes a pitch that obviously was inside. but Leslie Nielsen behind the plate does the punchout for the second out with Alonso on deck.
McNeil, who has a good eye, is angry but immediately begins walking away so that his bat toss does not get him ejected.
I usually cringe when players gets themselves tossed - especially in these days of such short benches.
but with McNeil struggling, Mets season on the brink, and in the face of such utter incompetence - I'd have given him a pass.
never ever thought I'd join the robot ump club, but ..... it's time.
wow. then this rookie ump, perhaps realizing the magnitude of his blunder, calls two balls on frankly two pitches that might have been strikes.
Buehler, 2 minutes after opening his gift, remarkably has the rather large stones to start to mewl a bit on the mound.
unsurprisingly, a white-hot McNeil in the dugout is not having it.
and a pitiful grounder by Alonso turns into a lucky infield hit, so 3-2 and Buehler's night is over after 107 pitches.
and as he leaves, Buehler barks at the hapless ump whose gift he enjoyed quite a bit a short time earlier. and McNeil once again is NOT having it, as he tosses a few f-bombs at the impudent Buehler.
as I have mentioned, even Zombie Mets still give a crap. it's all that many fans ask, really.
Vesia walks Conforto on 10 or 11 pitches to load 'em up, and here comes burly JD Davis and a 2-1 count.
but a swinging strike and then a called strike 3 (this one an actual strike, which was refreshing), and we go to the bottom of the 8th.
All is well with the Yankees with judge, Stanton, Rizzo, voit, Gallo in the lineup. Watch out Tampa Bay
** It would've been 10 to 1, but the umpire called time out a split second before the Twins pitcher threw a pitch that Odor then hit into the bullpen. Of course Odor had asked for the time out himself, so there wasn't much he could say.
Does this mean we can expect even longer posts in the future?
but it’s nice settling into a life of leisure. I’ve made a lot more real friends. There’s pros and cons. My wife retired 3 weeks ago and every day she gets up and does some major job around the house and then yells at me for not helping - I’m like what’s the rush, if it doesn’t get done today, it will get done tomorrow.
My older brother retired and he approaches retirement like work. He builds himself a planner months in advance and sticks with it. It’s beyond my comprehension but it works for him. My other brother retired recently and he is now indulging his passion for fishing and hiking - he seems super happy.
Gotta get most things you want done by 70. Most people start wearing down after that. My dad was good until about 75 and then just ran out of steam
after 11-2/3 innings of being shut out by the pirates, we finally score when polanco misses a catchable ball with a man on.
Let's hope not... Walt's post are literally the best thing on this site.
man on first 2 outs, the outfield is playing 10 feet short of the warning track, a bloop hit to the centerfielder, slightly off line and the runner who is obviously running on contact was already half way to third before the centerfielder even touched the ball (while running in) ... If there is no runner the batter is stopped at first, but because there is a runner who is clearly going to challenge the centerfielder, the batter can advance easily.
active players (years, age) with 150+ SB (active meaning, in MLB in 2021)
1. Elvis Andrus (13, 32) 316
2. Billy Hamilton (9, 30) 313
3. Starling Marte (10, 32) 285
4. Brett Gardner (14, 37) 272
5. Jarrod Dyson (12, 36) 263
6. Jose Altuve (11, 31) 260
7. Jonathan Villar (9, 30) 228
8. Mike Trout (11, 29) 203
9. Andrew McCutchen (13, 34) 197
10. Trea Turner (7, 28) 195
11. Jean Segura (10, 31) 192
12. Cameron Maybin (15, 34) 187
13. Lorenzo Cain (12, 35) 184
14. Alcides Escobar (12, 34) 174
15. Whit Merrifield (6, 32) 155
16. Justin Upton (15, 33) 151 (T-546th career)
5-4 for David Bednar and top of the order for STL, so no guarantees.
At some point they have to start bringing in some name players. Maybe not this offseason.
Yep - it's always a thrill to see a great player reach a milestone such as that.
Waino having a pretty good season, and has openly said he has no plans on pitching past next season. I imagine if next season is as good or close to as good as this season, he might want to stick around a bit longer (although he claims he wants to retire because he wants to watch his kids grow up)
I imagine that sometimes in the next week we'll hear about Yadier's extension and maybe even Wainwrights.
O's 1-19, -100 run differential
Cubs 3-17, -72
Pitt 4-16, -59
Mets 5-15, -28 (currently leading 3-2)
Nats 5-13, -20 (currently losing 7-3)
DODGERS 78-46
REDS 69-57
Padres 68-58
Cardinals 63-60
Phillies 63-61
Cardinals do have 6 games remaining against the Reds.... So again destiny in their own hands (and 10 against the Brewers, 3 against the Padres and 4 against the Dodgers, seriously it's like the schedule makers had a plan here and foresight)
On the other side of the comment I made above, the Cardinals also have 7 games against the Cubs, 4 against the Pirates, and 3 against the Mess. So they definitely have some chance to pad their wins if they can play well head to head against the good teams.
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