2024 MLB Thread

[Dan Gilmore]

And if Bonds hadn’t been allowed to wear full arm armor he likely wouldn’t have hit nearly as many home runs. He might even have broken an arm, since he crowded the plate. Super talented, no doubt, but he leveraged that protection to the max. 

[tiger2022]

21 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I don't know if it was 95%, but I think it was at least half.  There is no way highly competitive athletes are going watch the big guys take performancing enhancing drugs without punishment and then innocently stay clean.  

Bonds saw 2 guys who weren't even remotely close to his skill set break the home run record without any repercussions.  Of course Bonds was going to take them.

[monkeytargets39]

5 hours ago, Dan Gilmore said:

And if Bonds hadn’t been allowed to wear full arm armor he likely wouldn’t have hit nearly as many home runs. He might even have broken an arm, since he crowded the plate. Super talented, no doubt, but he leveraged that protection to the max. 

The way he was able to wear the armor and lean over the strike zone made it basically impossible to pitch to him without either walking him or throwing it over the middle of the zone.  You couldn’t go up and in on him and set up other pitches.  That was as big of a factor as any performance enhancers in my opinion.  Kinda surprised more guys didn’t follow that trend.

[Dan Gilmore]

I think MLB limited the armor after he had used it. 

[tiger2022]

Dang.  Both Judge and Ohtani could win the triple crown this year.  

Judge is .024 points out of first for avg.  He leads in hr and rbi.

Ohtani is 6 rbi out if first. He leads in avg and hrs.

[tiger2022]

I didn't even notice that Ozuna is leading the NL in avg and RBI and tied with HRs.  3 players have legit shots to win the triple crown this season.

[Sports_Freak]

Historic brawl;

 

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Historic brawl;

 

Champ Summers!

[Sports_Freak]

56 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Champ Summers!

Went down a baseball rabbit hole looking up Champ. He was a favorite of mine when he played for us. I didn't know he had passed away. And I didn't remember he played against us in the '84 WS. Only 1 at bat, but still...

[Tiger337]

5 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Went down a baseball rabbit hole looking up Champ. He was a favorite of mine when he played for us. I didn't know he had passed away. And I didn't remember he played against us in the '84 WS. Only 1 at bat, but still...

The Wockenfuss/Summers platoon was the best platoon ever.  

[Sports_Freak]

3 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

The Wockenfuss/Summers platoon was the best platoon ever.  

Wockenfuss was another favorite of mine. I hated to see him traded for some relief pitcher I had never heard of. But...it worked out pretty well...

[papalawrence]

3 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

The Wockenfuss/Summers platoon was the best platoon ever.  

Now that's speaking my language right there! Great memories

[chasfh]

11 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

The Wockenfuss/Summers platoon was the best platoon ever.  

Platoon where?

[Sports_Freak]

14 hours ago, chasfh said:

Platoon where?

They both played 1st base at times but I always remember Champ as a rightfielder. Hazy 40+ year memories though. 

[Sports_Freak]

The WSox are 62 games under .500. They've been outscored by 241 runs. Holy cow!! Their rebuild is going slow...lol

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

They both played 1st base at times but I always remember Champ as a rightfielder. Hazy 40+ year memories though. 

I didn’t remember them as a platoon, and when I looked it up it was more RF than anyplace else, but only for a few weeks of a single season. 

[Sports_Freak]

59 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I didn’t remember them as a platoon, and when I looked it up it was more RF than anyplace else, but only for a few weeks of a single season. 

Yeah, that's how my memory works too. Champ did PH a lot, always seemed to come up with a big hit.

[monkeytargets39]

How come players nowadays hardly have any good nicknames.  Where are Champ, Skeeter/Scooter, Stubby, Dizzy, and Chicken?

Edited August 14, 2024 by monkeytargets39

[Tenacious D]

41 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

How come players nowadays hardly have any good nicknames.  Where are Champ, Skeeter/Scooter, Stubby, Dizzy, and Chicken?

You forgot, dickhead

[Tigeraholic1]

3 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

You forgot, dickhead

AKA Harvey

[Tenacious D]

 

[papalawrence]

I'm still sad he passed away. He had such an impact on me during his very brief career. Somewhere the Bird is pitching to Tony Conigliaro in a field of dreams

[chasfh]

5 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

You forgot, dickhead

Sly comma placement!

[papalawrence]

1962 Mets winning %: .250

2024 ChiSox winning % with 40 games to go: .238

[Tenacious D]

1 minute ago, papalawrence said:

1962 Mets winning %: .250

2024 ChiSox winning % with 40 games to go: .238

F them.  I normally wouldn’t wish this level of futility on most fan bases, but I’m willing to make an exception here.