Posted on 09/21/2017 11:50:40 AM PDT by doug from upland
Magic Johnson guaranteed World Series victory this year. He also supported Hillary
Ethier pinch-hit solo home run.
Utah Jazz (nee New Orleans Jazz) makes even less sense.
Momentum and chemistry is something that cannot be found in any statistic. Which is why IMO you can't play baseball by numbers. You don't take a starting pitcher out just cause it's the seventh inning or he's thrown 90x pitches. You don't change pitchers to match lefty lefty, righty righty. etc. When it aint broke you don't fix it.
Los Angeles Lakers - Minneapolis Lakers
Arbitrary splits kind of bug me but for September the Dodgers are the worst team in baseball. 5-15. I knew they’d have t come down to earth but who expected this?
I actually watched that game on TV, Don Larson’s perfect game as well (I cut school to that one)
Little tiny 9 in screen and a fuzzy b&w picture.
Sigh, them were the days.
Your record doesn't matter in post season. What matters is how you're playing and the Dodgers don't look like they're likely to get past either Colorado or Milwaukee. But who knows? They looked like monsters last weekend in DC. (against sub par starting pitching)
All Stars Game ... now it means nothing.
Better record gets 4-3 home games in World Series.
Not any more it doesn’t. Home field advantage now goes to team with best regards season record.
The Lakers and Jazz should trade names, because there are no lakes in LA, and there is no jazz in Utah. :-)
Some names just don’t make sense when teams move to new states or cities.
Their starting pitching has a history of disappearing in the playoffs. This year it seems to have disappeared a month early.
Go Tribe!!
The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant.
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If kids in that era (I was 12) knew what suicide was, I probably would have been at the front of the line.
Worst day of my young life ESPECIALLY because of the Giant and Yankee fans I was surrounded by.
Later on MASH did an excellent job of following that massive collapse.
Sorry FDR, THAT WAS THE REAL DAY OF INFAMY, I was alive both days and that loss, by far was more devastating to me.
was named after them ‘dodging streetcars, dodgers’ hence the name.
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Excuse me...close but no cigar...HA
that be TROLLEY DODGERS.....
Grandson is a great guy personally to have on a team. But his hitting style of swinging for the fences, striking out a lot and not hitting for average, is a cancer on a lineup.
Pssst. Do a search using this or something similar: rule changes for world series home team
You don't screw with the chemistry of a team that is winning at a 72% rate, especially by adding a Big Wiffer such as Grandy.
Picky - streetcar vs trolley car. True, trolley dodgers. See:History of the Brooklyn Dodgers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Brooklyn_Dodgers
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