Posted on 10/17/2015 4:06:29 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
Gotta go with the Mets. The name of my LL team, and being a lefty 1st baseman, I followed “Marvelous Marv” Throneberry and played with an Ed Kranepool signature mitt. And after years of being so bad, who ever will forget Amazin’ 1969?
And 162 games was pretty close to the former 154 game schedule they had when they had a balanced schedule with 8 team leagues.
Some people say don’t lessen the number of games due to wanting to compare statistics from year to year, and to compare stats you need to play the same number of games.
But not sure that matters. The way they use pitchers nowadays, for example, with pitch counts and 5 man rotations, we may not see any more 300 game winners in pitching. This would be true whether they play 162 games or whether they cut back the schedule.
Home run records are meaningless due to the steroid era anyway.
Great hitters will still get 3000 hits and hit .300 in a season or a career.
Just a thought.
Its absurd that this year the World Series will end in November.
The Curse of the Billy Goat is a sports-related curse that was placed on the Chicago Cubs in 1945 when Billy Goat Tavern owner Billy Sianis was asked to leave a World Series game against the Detroit Tigers at the Cubs' home ballpark of Wrigley Field because his pet goat's odor was bothering other fans.[1][2] He was outraged and declared, "Them Cubs, they ain't gonna win no more," which has been interpreted to mean that there would never be another World Series game won at Wrigley Field. The Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908, or appeared in one since 1945
ROYALS!!!The Price wasn’t quite right!
clever.
:)
No Sunbelt teams left in the running.
Even in the old days, traditional stats from different decades weren’t directly comparable, e.g., the ‘30s had much higher hitting stats than the ‘50s.
For me, the DH was the big discontinuity in stats.
And as you cite, the 5-man pitching rotation really changed things compared to the 4-man rotation, when guys like Sandy Koufax and Ferguson Jenkins made 40+ starts a season, compared to the low 30s now.
One of the most amazing performances is Albert Belle’s in the strike-shortened 144-game 1995 season — 52 doubles and 50 homers. IIRC, it was the first 50-50 season (I don’t know if it’s been done since).
BOOM Goes Murphy!
Guy is AWESOME.
He basically won that last game for the Mets against the Dodgers with his heads-up base running and the game winning homerun.
I just saw expert picks, they are fairly split on both series’. A majority picked the Mets and Bluejays, I wonder if those who picked the Jays are having 2nd thoughts.
It smells of east coast bias too.
I know they were when the Jays went down 2 games to nothing against the Rangers.
Where have you gone, Yoenis Cespedes?
A. By the way he whiffed at that last (strikeout) pitch - FISHING.
LOL!
THERE HE IS!
Every time I hear the name Cespedes it reminds of Festivus, “for the rest of us”.
Let the Airing of Grievances begin!
2-1 Mets!
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