As I mentioned before, Tatis literally the reason BLA is a profitable company. Needed child support money early. Traded 20 milly for 500k. Sweet dealQuote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
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As I mentioned before, Tatis literally the reason BLA is a profitable company. Needed child support money early. Traded 20 milly for 500k. Sweet dealQuote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
EDIT, for a reminder (they conveniently left out baby mommas):
Kershaw will probably come back next year. He's recently been taking the approach of, "Sign a 1-year deal and come back the next year if I did decently and am not hurting too much."Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
In a year with much increased offense, Kershaw has a 2.61 ERA and a 1.065 WHIP, and made 21 starts despite some injury trouble. He has a 123/34 K-BB ratio, and is averaging fewer than 1 HR allowed per start, which is pretty good considering all the HR flying out this year. This year has roughly been equivalent to 2018, when he was only 30.
The only way he doesn't come back is if he's hurting too much to be able to continue in 2024.
He won't go to any other team. Those days of considering his hometown Rangers are over, even though they're a decent (albeit fading) team now. At this point in his career, it's either sign for a year with the Dodgers or quit. Props to him for taking this approach rather than the greedy multiyear approach. He seems to legit not want to be in a multiyear deal which drags down the team if he can't complete it and it becomes a Strasburg situation.
Will he choke in the playoffs again? Maybe. Will the kids like Miller and Pepiot also choke? Again, maybe. I don't have a lot of faith in the Dodgers' postseason this year, especially with a powerhouse like the Braves in their league.
Kershaw’s next start is now pushed back to Saturday in Seattle so it’s academic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Obviously, I am talking about physical issues. Not pain either.
Kershaw isn’t going to Texas. Are people still talking about that in LA?
Kershaw isn’t going to do a farewell tour either. He will just make announcement and disappear into the night. I respect that. To be clear, I respect the man too as a human. He’s a sweet guy. Classy. You’d struggle to find a similar player in any sport that conducted himself spotlessly for this length of time. Brady perhaps.
To put a finer point on it. Kershaw is not going to play if he isn’t going to be Kershaw. Not in the playoffs and not 2024. He isn’t gonna be Lance Lynn or Zack Greinke eating innings.
The importance of Saturday for Kershaw and the Dodgers cannot be overstated. Fun, huh?
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Originally Posted by gutAs I mentioned before, Tatis literally the reason BLA is a profitable company. Needed child support money early. Traded 20 milly for 500k. Sweet dealQuote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
EDIT, for a reminder (they conveniently left out baby mommas):
This is fantastic. The notion that Tatis essentially took a “payday loan” to feed the kids in the minors is wild.
I mean, there are like 5 different parts of that screenshot that are LOL, especially being that the writer was making the article very pro-BLA, and not mentioning how they tend to prey on dumb, poor, hispanic kids. Tatis even more the outlier being that he wasnt poor.Quote:
Originally Posted by SanlmarQuote:
Originally Posted by gut
As I mentioned before, Tatis literally the reason BLA is a profitable company. Needed child support money early. Traded 20 milly for 500k. Sweet deal
EDIT, for a reminder (they conveniently left out baby mommas):
This is fantastic. The notion that Tatis essentially took a “payday loan” to feed the kids in the minors is wild.
Red Sox fire Andrew Fraudman protege, L’Chiam Bloom, before the double header today. Why wait?
Boston no longer the Dodgers feeder team going forward?
My advice to Dodgers Andrew Fraudman - freshen that resume Bud.
Good atmosphere in Baltimore, can feel the intensity of the season picking up
Big series for Sanlmar 3/1 orioles Al east bet
Almost tied it up there
This is going to be embarrassing if KC finishes with a worse record than OAK. Sure, KC has a bottom 10 payroll, but they are still actually trying to win, and most of their best prospects have already graduated to the bigs. As Druff would say, sad!
(I would still rather take over KC right now than the Angels)
Live footage of Druff waiting for next Dodgers championship
Ohtani’s locker mostly cleared out. Angels to discuss Saturday…….
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Originally Posted by simpdog
He’s going to look great in Dodger blue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff:whatQuote:
Originally Posted by simpdog
Gabe Kapler fired.
At one point he was widely panned as Bruce Bochy's replacement, only to win over San Francisco by guiding the Giants to 2021's improbable 107-win season.
However, they went 81-81 last year, and are guaranteed to finish under .500 this season.
They had a shot at wildcard #3 this year, but collapsed in September.
Kapler was also fired in Philly when he had an 81-81 record in Philadelphia in 2019.
He was a hair away to take over the Dodgers managerial position in 2016, as the team was impressed with him, and he had grown up in LA. However, they were also impressed with Dave Roberts, and Roberts probably won out due to the fact that he was half black, and the Dodgers hadn't yet had a nonwhite manager in the team's history.
While Roberts has made some idiotic decisions in the postseason, I still believe they were better off with him at the helm, as he is at least good at maintaining a peaceful clubhouse and guiding teams to regular season success.
The playoff race isn't complete, but we just have 2 days left.
In the NL, the Dodgers, Braves, and Brewers have long clinched it. Phillies are guaranteed the 1st wildcard. Arizona and Miami are probably the other two wildcards. The Cubs and Reds, despite both being unexpectedly competitive clubs, fell back to earth and will probably both just miss it, as both trail Miami by 1.5 games.
In the AL, the Orioles and Twins have the division. Texas is ahead of Houston by 1, and Seattle by 2. The east also has three contenders, with the Rays guaranteed wildcard #1, and Toronto sitting next with the identical record to Texas. One of these four teams will miss the postseason -- probably Seattle. Interestingly, Seattle will finish with a better record than both the 2nd and 3rd NL wildcards, no matter what.
Fortunately we will not see a team make the playoffs with fewer than 83 wins.
Dodgers and Braves have a first round bye. Baltimore also has a bye, and the eventual AL West winner will get the other bye.
The Braves have baseball's best record with 103 wins, with two remaining. Baltimore has 100 wins, and the Dodgers have 99, also with 2 remaining. No other team will win 100, and no team can win more than 105. The Rockies have lost 102 so far, the Royals have lost 105, and the A's have lost 111.
The Dodgers have never won the World Series in a year they won 100+ games.
Adam Wainwright was given a PH opportunity today, in what will clearly be the final AB (and final appearance) of his career.
He is 42, and finished off this otherwise bad year with 7 shutout innings against the Brewers, back on the 18th. After that, he reported back discomfort and said he wouldn't pitch again. His ERA in 2023 was 7.40.
The Reds were up 14-2 yesterday in St. Louis, and Wainwright was brought in as a pinch hitter to give the fans a way to say goodbye to him.
He grounded out, despite two fastballs clearly grooved to allow him get a hit.
He finishes with 200 wins and over 2200 strikeouts, dating back to 2005. He missed all of 2011, and most of 2015 and 2018 with injury. He won't make the HOF, given his 3.52 career ERA. His entire career was in St. Louis.
Expect Kershaw to ride off into the sunset in not too long, even though he's 7 years younger. To be fair, Kershaw debuted just 3 years after Wainwright, though, and has actually logged slightly more innings.
https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/stat...40783112806623
Druff clearly mad Waino still 1.5 rings ahead of Kershaw
https://x.com/RedSox/status/1708550648914903185
I saw Wakefield's first shutout in person against the Dodgers in 1992.
It was his 6th MLB start. RIP
Curt Schilling is still an enormous asshole. One of the greatest failures in business and life you could possibly find.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Schilling is a broke fuck for a reason.
Disclosing Wakefield’s illness despite the family’s wishes was the work of Curt the Nazi
Also, fuck the media outlets for repeating Schilling’s announcement.
Sad, met him in 2011. Pedestrian meet up, it was in the offseason circa 2011 and he was hosting some type of radio show. Nothing big, shook hands and that was about it.
Curt is not broke. He did run a business into the ground, but still gets a very healthy pension from MLB. If he was not so vocal anti-woke nobody would care about him in the media. Better put if he was a Democrat he would have been a victim of the 2008 financial crisis. But he is a right wing Republican, and that is that.Quote:
Originally Posted by SanlmarCurt Schilling is still an enormous asshole. One of the greatest failures in business and life you could possibly find.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Schilling is a broke fuck for a reason.
Disclosing Wakefield’s illness despite the family’s wishes was the work of Curt the Nazi
Also, fuck the media outlets for repeating Schilling’s announcement.
I promise a personal moratorium on the subject of the Dodgers this coming playoffs.
Enjoy your team and your site. I won’t get in the way of that.
Please don't hold back on my Jays. I don't own the site and deserve to be mocked at the false hope I have for a deep run.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
the World owes Trevor Bauer an apology +more, she deserves 2x the prison sentence he would of got.... and that would put an end to this shit !!! i hope he sues MLB for about 1 billion $$ too.... for NO DUE PROCESS....!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHjvqK2C9hU
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Originally Posted by gutSpeaking of prospect hype (or maybe lack-thereof) have you seen Royce Lewis killing it for the Twins? Everyone kinda forgot about him after he tore his ACL for the 2nd time last year, but he's back and basically the best hitter in the Twins lineup right now. Free-swinger who strikes out a bunch but thats really his only knock. Think Javier Baez with better contact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
So we expanded the WC to a mini series of 3 games and what happened.. Nothing different. All 4 series were sweeps 2 by the home 2 by the road team. (I'm truly shocked how piss poor Tampa played to say the least getting bitchslapped around the Trop by Texas).
So now we have the LDSs (not to be confused with the idiots on bikes who go around neighborhoods talking about their buddy John Smith)
Baltimore vs Texas (Baltimore in 4 max)
Houston vs Twins (Houston in 3 maybe 4)
Philly and Atlanta (Somebody in 5 really dont know where this goes probably Atlanta but we know what happened last year)
Dodgers and Arizona (Dodgers in 5 unless Dbacks 1-2 punch in starters shut down LA totally which could happen.)
More on the Dodgers series. Game 1 is going to be Kershaw against Kelly that's a toss-up but Kelly at least doesn't have a bad back. Dbacks can theoretically run Kelly for G1 and 3 because of the day off between 1 and 2. Gallen who was their cy young candidate until he fell apart slightly goes G2 on 4 days regular rest. So, starting pitching might just be adv Arizona. The bullpen is their question. Now, they completely shut down Milwaukee but that's not how they did rest of the reason pretty much. If LA can get to their starters early it's going to put major pressure on their Bullpen to hold up still (it can't last forever). It's very possible Arizona pulls this one out of their rears and wins but still expect it to take 5 then the only issue is if the bullpen holds up there's a remote shot for a sweep by Arizona, but I think that's minute. (essentially Kelly and Gallan shut down the Dodgers in all 3 games going deep in their starts). Ultimately I think its Dodgers Games 1,4,5 and Dbacks win G2 and G3 (Season series was 8-5 for Dodgers for the record).
I think Texas has a very good chance to win AL
Looking forward to Braves vs. Phillies
Rays season wasted by injuries only chance they can ever compete in post season is dominant pitching, 3 stud pitchers out for year, maybe more. Creep shortstop basically banned for life. No heart once again in the post season. ??? Have you ever seen less heart? Did they ever look into it? Did they ever even look competitive? Marlins suck too waste of a playoff spot
I was with Brandon here in Vegas, watching game 1. I was in full Dodgers gear.
Then James Outman dropped the ball, on what was either going to be a great catch or a double. It was a double.
I then saw the replay of Kershaw's reaction. He was angry. Very angry.
I said to Brandon, "This is a problem. Kershaw is a very emotional pitcher, and I could tell he was pissed Outman didn't make that play. I'm afraid he's going to melt down now. I've seen this before."
And then he melted down. Keep in mind he was getting 2 strikes on a ton of batters, so it wasn't that he couldn't pitch. He just couldn't focus. Eventually the disasterous outing ended with just 1 out in the 1st, down 6-0, following a walk to a light-hitting left hander and 38-year-old Evan Longoria getting a hit.
From across the country, I heard Sanlmar laughing.
Braves down 4-0 in the 6th, put up 1 in the 6th, 2 in the 7th, and 2 in the 8th. Wow.
Bobby Miller of the Dodgers already wild at the beginning here. Walked Carroll, now gave up an infield bunt single to Marte.
Tribute to how epic Wheeler was against that Braves offense. Mere mortals in relief not enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Braves pitching is very shaky going forward. Fried’s finger can’t be right
This just in: the Braves are a really good team. The Dodgers not so much. They’re becoming the Braves old. Good enough to make the playoffs every year, but folding like a wet tortilla in the playoffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Terrific game Braves Vs Phillies last night
I bet Phillies series but I can still appreciate clutch greatness
Finally some action in this postseason, hard for me to recall any great moments before last night?
Still happy to have a Phillies ticket, should be a great atmosphere in Philly, either way respect the Braves and enjoy watching them. Electric lineup
Have a Texas +700 World Series ticket and be them series against orioles. Cut me a break Sanlmar not trying to win brownie points just talking baseball. Rangers have look and feel of a time going all the way. Putting up runs getting pitching. Focused every game. Houston doesn’t scare me, though I usually back Houston to win in post season
Diamondbacks phenomenal, I didn’t bet them wish I had, extreme positive momentum good for them
I remember when they won the World Series when I was a kid walk off game 7 against the Yankees. What an all time moment. Remember Byung Yung Kim?
BTW enough if 3 pm and 4 pm playoff baseball games on weekdays
Wtf??
Barely watched the Rays disaster series, 3 pm both games????
Today 2 games they put one on in the afternoon? What’s the point of this decision?
good thing the Braves vs Phillies started at 5pm EST and 2 PM Pacific
Everyone is just sitting around watching the ball game during the afternoon on a BUSINESS DAY
Cut me a break!
When Dodgers got Lance Lynn, I knew it was going to be full of fail. He pitched okay at the beginning after the trade, then became his usual fail self.
I knew he would be horrendous to start in the postseason. Sure enough, 3 HR given up in the 3rd. Dodgers down 3-0, again. In an elimination game.
You ain't gonna win the postseason with no starting pitching. The '88 Dodgers (very good starting pitching, mediocre hitting) were the opposite, and that's why they were able to win.
:fail2
Edit: Now a 4th HR, but it may or may not be fair. Will it matter? Probably not.
Braves probably also going to lose their series. Orioles already gone. LOL MLB PLAYOFFS
OMG
Now the 4th HR (Gabriel Moreno) ruled foul after first being ruled a HR, and Moreno hits a real HR.
WHY WAS LYNN LEFT IN??? THIS IS THE DODGERS' FINAL GAME IF THEY LOSE
What a fucking trainwreck.
First time 4 HR hit in one inning in postseason history.
I think Betts is 3 for 35 during ‘22 & ‘23 playoffs. Dude caught the Dodger playoff virus.
The players and roster come and go. I wonder what is constant? Any thoughts?
Dodgers killed their own 7th rally by pinch hitting with Barnes, who is an automatic out.
And now the super quiet Betts/Freeman combo struck out with runner on 1st and nobody out in the 8th, down 4-2. And Martinez popped out. 1 inning to go.
:fail2
So the Dodgers have scored as many runs in 3 games as Kershaw gave up in 0.1 IP of game 1. That’s amazing fail barring a miracle.
Careful, Dave Roberts could end up in Cleveland.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCR
Every year the wildcard teams stay in rhythm and the first round byes tend to fall out of it but you could also argue that the wildcard teams are typically the hottest ones the last two months of the season which in baseball is all that matters.