2024 Other Games/Playoffs

[Bertz]

Fox just came back from commercial with a montage of very easy to lip read F Bombs.  Incredible 

[NorthsideAvenger]

I see Profar trolled Mookie Betts last night.

[Rcal10]

16 hours ago, chibears55 said:

I'm still stuck on the Cubs had both Castellanos and Schwarber 🤦‍♂️

No issues at all with the Cubs not having Castellanos. Cubs have better corner outfielders than him. Schwarber does hurt though. 

[CubinNY]

Love the spicy NLDS series. 

[LBiittner]

17 hours ago, Bertz said:

Fox just came back from commercial with a montage of very easy to lip read F Bombs.  Incredible 

Kids can't even watch baseball anymore without being exposed to F. 

Don't know if you saw, the bears game had a loud Fbomb completed sentence as plain as day because the field mic was live 

[CubinNY]

20 hours ago, LBiittner said:

Kids can't even watch baseball anymore without being exposed to F. 

Don't know if you saw, the bears game had a loud Fbomb completed sentence as plain as day because the field mic was live 

Kids know the word because they hear it at home. Give me a horsefeathers break. 

[LBiittner]

2 hours ago, CubinNY said:

Kids know the word because they hear it at home. Give me a horsefeathers break. 

Really? Every mommy and daddy huh? Wow. 

What a comdenation of every Christian family. So sad. 

[chibears55]

3 hours ago, CubinNY said:

Kids know the word because they hear it at home. Give me a horsefeathers break. 

Home,  school, YouTube,  social media

Kids today are exposed to alot more these days then back in the day 

[Rex Buckingham]

1 hour ago, LBiittner said:

Really? Every mommy and daddy huh? Wow. 

What a comdenation of every Christian family. So sad. 

he clearly doesn't mean every family, but there are hundreds of places where kids can and do hear those words - many of which hear it at home plenty

[LBiittner]

Age of innocence is no more

[Ding Dong Johnson]

2 minutes ago, LBiittner said:

Age of innocence is no more

It never was

[Rob]

3 minutes ago, LBiittner said:

Age of innocence is no more

Not to go all Tom with it, but there was no Age of Innocence.

There was an Age of Plausible Deniability -- where everybody's bad acts weren't captured on video.

[jersey cubs fan]

7 minutes ago, LBiittner said:

Age of innocence is no more

[LBiittner]

24 minutes ago, Rob said:

Not to go all Tom with it, but there was no Age of Innocence.

There was an Age of Plausible Deniability -- where everybody's bad acts weren't captured on video.

As long as it's all binary

[Bertz]

I very explicitly remember hearing field mic Greg Maddux f bombs on WGN so can we not?

[Bertz]

The longer his hair gets the more Nick Castellanos looks like Nandor the Relentless

[LBiittner]

1 hour ago, Bertz said:

I very explicitly remember hearing field mic Greg Maddux f bombs on WGN so can we not?

Will Clark could read his lips, so there's that

[Bertz]

This is probably going to come off as sour grapes, but are the Dodgers in trouble?  And i don't mean in the series, I mean as an org.

The Dodgers this year ran a $333M payroll, the highest they'd ever done by a good margin.  A good bit of that is Ohtani's deferral nonsense, but even still I think it's $260-something in real dollars, in the vicinity of the highest they've ever gone.  They have, depending on option and non-tender decisions, about $40M coming freed up this winter?  And they have to replace Teoscar Hernandez and half their bullpen, that's not even to say anything about upgrades.

Pitching injuries HAMMERED them this year.  Yoshi Yamamoto, who only made 18 starts this year with a mid season elbow injury, is their only SP of consequence who is not A) a pending FA or B) ending the year on the IL.  Even though they had a first round bye, they have to go bullpen game in an elimination game tonight.

Their team is getting older.  Betts and Freeman are in their mid 30's and more All Star than superstar at this point, and nearly certain to decline from here.  Max Muncy is old.  Miguel Rojas is old.  Ohtani, Smith, and Edman will all be 30 this year.  That's not old but like we've talked about with some of our guys it's certainly the point where you expect some level of decline each year going forward.

Their farm is ranked highly!  Their farm is always ranked highly though, and aside from what now appears to be a fluke 2023 season from James Outman has not produced any sort of impact players since Will Smith in 2019.  They're almost certainly not bad at player development, but seems clear their prospects get the Yankees/Red Sox treatment from national pubs.

They were the best team in baseball this year, and they're about to get Shohei Ohtani the SP back next year.  Plus there's probably a ~30% chance they get gifted a Roki Sasaki making the league minimum this winter.  But for the first time in a long time this looks less like a perpetual dynasty and more like a Dave Dombrowski team two to three years before things go boom.

[muntjack]

They will trade some of their overlauded farm for the next Mookie, land Sasaki and retool while winning the division in perpetuity.    

[squally1313]

this thread from back in august is a good/quick summary of their main problem and also very prescient going into tonight

[Bertz]

7 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

this thread from back in august is a good/quick summary of their main problem and also very prescient going into tonight

Funny you post this, this got retweeted this morning and combined with some thoughts last night about Betts/Freeman being in their decline phase now is what set off my post.

Edited October 9, 2024 by Bertz

[JHBulls]

Detroit are one win away from the ALCS. Nuts. 

[CubinNY]

Every fan from every other team besides the one the Dodgers are playing should be rooting for the Dodgers. The owners and administrators do everything a fan could want to try to win. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

How is Jose Quintana still pitching and pitching well in meaningful playoff games?

[UMFan83]

Baseball continues to have the most random results of any playoffs. I imagine it makes it so hard to get excited about your team being in it until you get to the NLCS because their first 2 rounds are just so random. At least that’s how I’d feel if my team ever made it. It doesn’t matter how great your team is or how few holes you have, you can be out of it in the blink of an eye.

As a neutral, this makes the playoffs much more exciting.  But as lame as I know this sounds, I almost wish we went back to 8 team playoffs.  Division winners and 1 WC per league.  The results would still be random as hell but at least you can narrow down the randomness to only having the top 4 teams (more or less) participating in said randomness.