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Yeah, I am seeing 4pm Central (3pm where I live) for Dodgers-Brewers on Fox, and 7 Central for Guardians-Rays on TBS.
No TBS for me so I will have to follow that one online.
On the Brewer bandwagon for the NLCS and glad they were able to sneak away with a win in game one despite Miz not having good command. They got a couple of big double-play balls to halt potential Dodger rallies.
Yeah, Cleveland goes back to just after WWII for their last championship when rogue owner Bill Veeck was at the helm. They have won four pennants since then, all when they were known as the Indians, but no championship. I would be happy to see them bring home the trophy as the Guardians.
But then we have Milwaukee, which has not won since 1957 when they were known as the Braves. The Brewer franchise only claims one pennant, losing the Series to our St Louis bunch back in 1982. Our Hall of Fame catcher Ted Simmons was a prominent member of that Brewer squad.
Tampa has never won, although they have a pennant, and LA, well we know their story. Deep pockets buys you rings.
Give me a Brewer pennant, and then whichever AL team gets in and someone will break a long drought.
Cleveland Guardians 22/1
The longest shot after falling down 0-2, but they get ‘er done. Jose Ramirez is a money player.
With the Guardians coming back from the brink of elimination and punching their ticket to the finals, we end up with the two top seeds in each league in their respective LCS.
Guess that is how it should be, although it does not always work that way. So we have three relatively bargain basement teams, the Rays, Guardians and Brewers, and one luxury item, dem Bums, squaring off.
I am on record as “anyone but the Dodgers” for the Series, and championship.
JJ’s mechanics look good to me. And his defense is already there and players generally don’t lose defensive skills until they are over 30. My only concern is that he needs to stay healthy. If he stays on the field I think he will be a good one. I don’t see a DeJong 2.0 coming.
They have had a couple of days to plan this and you would think they could have moved the game up. But maybe they felt it was not right to do that to fans that had planned around it.
I mostly grew up in a new subdivision where there were vacant lots still waiting for houses to be built. One lot in particular was our baseball playground. One Spring some of the dads, including my dad, built a backstop for us kids. We would have games going there all day long. It was a lot of that, riding bikes, collecting cards and going to little league practice.
Come to think of it, I still do all those same things, only substitute “softball practice” for “little league practice.” 😁
I am similar to you guys in some ways. I was an NFL fan as well as college football, but both have lost some of my interest with the changes and overly corporate backdrop. My last interest in college football is the Mountain West, which is still somewhat regional but even it is getting chipped away.
And the NCAA basketball tourney used to be a big event for me, and I would get in pools and watch it, but now I don’t even follow it.
MLB and baseball in general still hold my interest. Baseball is the sport I was always best at and my first love in sports. I still play too, in an old guys’s softball league. I don’t think my interest will drop out, but never say never.
Yeah, “Springbirds” is a little weird but I can see why they came up with it to tie in Springfield to the Cardinals.
I think there is a little momentum to name teams based more on areas than cities, hence the “Ozark” moniker. I know when the Golden State Warriors, who played in both Oakland and San Francisco for awhile, then played in Oakland exclusively but have since moved back to San Francisco – decided to keep “Golden State” rather than revert back to “San Francisco Warriors”, it was to keep a tie to east bay market.
Understandable ZTR. I still enjoy the little I can watch. Most games are on services I don’t get so I mainly watch the highlights the next morning while working out.
I was thinking about the upcoming CBA negotiations. What they should do is get together and go, “Look people, we got a great thing going here and we all are making plenty of money, so let’s hammer out the details and move forward.”
Why can’t this stuff be worked out without dragging on and on and sides making disparaging comments towards each other? They are better off working it out together so get ‘er done!
I recall back when Big Frank (Thomas) was drafted, the Cardinals could have taken him but took a kid named Paul Coleman instead. Coleman was more in the mold of Vince, a speedy guy. A couple of buddies of mine were livid that they did not take Thomas, and rightly so as it turns out.
The Guardians push it to the limit. I think they would give the Rays a tougher time than the White Sox, but am still hoping for a miracle turn around by those Pale Hose.
Again though, the Guards have been a consistent contender in recent years and have a great organization. Went to a game in Cleveland in 2024 and really enjoyed it – nice venue and passionate fans. They played the Tigers that night and the Detroit battery was former Cardinals Jack Flaherty and Carson Kelly.
Obviously the Guardians have seized the momentum in this last standing division series and are now the favorites. An all road win series thus far.
In hindsight, trading Contreras, Gray and Arenado really doomed our club this year. But we are committed to a younger roster looking at the future to win, not the present. And the hope was that Gorman would find his former pedigree, along with what worked out pretty good for some others (JJ, Junior, Burly, Leahy, Pallante).
Trading only from the big league roster means you will probably be hoping for more production from most of the same group, as well as two or three more farmhands come up and do well. And you could get lucky and trade say Herrera and someone like Bruihl and get a guy that has been good, not great, and he comes into his own and really provides a lot of value. Basically end up trading say 2.5 WAR away and get back 5. It’s just not many tradable players we have are likely to bring anything better back.
I kind of thought those Guardians would at least make their series interesting. Whether they can make the comeback time will tell, but they are a tough club and after all had a better record than the Chicago Americans.
I want to see the White Sox win it, but am okay with Cleveland as well.
Meanwhile Yankee fans are calling for Aaron Boone’s head, and some for Cashman as well.
All four series on tap today – that’s more like it. And all four can wrap up. Sox and Guards, Yanks and Rays would be sweeps if they end today. NL series’ a bit more competitive so far.
Man, White Sox take two in Cleveland and put the Guardians backs to the wall. Plus that crowd in Chicago is going to be bonkers for game three.
Somehow though I don’t think the Guards will go away quietly. I like the Sox and think it would be great for them to win the series in their home park. Went to my first game there this summer and was impressed – nice ball park, great crowd, lots of enthusiasm. But the Guardians are no slouch and played well down the stretch. Don’t think they will be intimidated.
That “dead ball” rule is a good one too 1TD. Call it either a foul ball, under the thought that the ball went out of play, or a dead ball given that the ball was interfered with and could not achieve its natural landing spot.
On the off day for AL teams, it also gives them an extra rest day for pitchers. Just an odd set up to have a day off after only one game of a best of five.
Weird to have two series with an off day on a Sunday no less. Why not play all four again today and have the off day for travel to the other club’s location? Sometimes MLB’s processes do not make a lot of sense.
Pages is okay as a backup and seems like a good guy, but I would go with Crooks and Bernal next year, with Herrera as a third guy in an emergency or catching now and then.
I think we know what we have in Pages, and still need to give Crooks and Bernal reps. If we were more in a “win now” situation, I might keep Pedro. But as is, I go with youth and potential.
Pat Murphy on the post game comments said that ball France hit would have been foul. He said you could see it and it would have drifted way foul.
But it hit the wire in fair territory so “rules is rules.” Seems like a better rule on something like that would be to make anything that hits something on or from the building structure is an automatic foul ball. I would think in some cases trying to determine fair or foul would be tough for the umps.
