Posted on 09/12/2019 9:32:20 AM PDT by DFG
Major League Baseball’s remarkable home run surge has led to countless records being broken this season.
Now the biggest one has fallen.
When Jonathan Villar of the Baltimore Orioles launched a three-run home run during Wednesday’s 7-3 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers, it was No. 6,106 hit across MLB this season.
That breaks the previous record of 6,105 hit in 2017.
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Curt Flood ruined baseball.
“In my day every kid was out playing sandlot.”
This is still the case in many foreign countries, especially Hispanic countries like the Dominican Republic.
Pedro and Big Papi are like Gods there.
(except for the dude that shot Big Papi in the back)
How many feeet does the modern pole vaulter lose if he had to use the old bamboo pole.
Modern boxers fight 12 round “championship” fights.
Lightweights fight today wearing 10 ouncce gloves.
Jess Willard [6’ 6 1/2” 243 LBS] and Jack Dempsey fought for the heavyweight title in 1919 wearing 5 ounce gloves.
In 1906 Lightweight champion Joe Gans won on a foul over Bat Nelson in the 42nd round.
Jack Johnson lost his heavweight title when he was knocked by Jess Willard in the 26th round.
Put your modern sprinters on a cinder track like Jesse Owens ran on and see how much slower their times get.
This modern sports crap is for the ignorant.
Certainly more interesting than a 0-0 or 1-0 after 9 innings game.
Last evening’s Rangers-Rays game took nearly an hour-and-a-half just to get through the first 2 innings. That is TOOOOOOO LONG.
Nope, Rawlings explains “we getting better at centering the pill which creates less drag.”
I guess all the missing drag went to public library story time for tots.
In the early 1980s, the Dodgers came into the World Series again. Their main battery of Garvey, Lopes, Russel, Cey, and Baker was legendary.
They didn’t win the series, and during the off season Garvey, Lopes, Cey, and Baker were history.
The only person they kept of those players was Russel, a guy the fans didn’t care for one bit.
Garvey’s replacement was just terrible. The others were lackluster too. Guerrero was an exception. Steve Sax stuck around, but I was never impressed with him.
That pretty much ended my appreciation for the Dodgers, enough for me to make it to the park as often.
Didn’t hurt their bottom line to my knowledge.
This modern “baseball” is garbage.
Yes, I’ve often thought that.
Someone got his ear, and he obtained representation and off to the races...
Sad thing is, I liked the guy as a player.
Still going good in Japan and Korea too, (I believe on the Korea end of it, I may be wrong there).
“In my day every kid was out playing sandlot”
I think this was the case for everybody that grew up in the US until the 1980s.
We played baseball at my house on the empty lot next door.
That is until too many kids could hit it across the road. Then we switched to softball.
We played football on the same field. Two hand touch. We did not have flags.
We played street hockey down the road in front of Maul’s garage. He had a dump truck business with a big 5 bay garage and paved area out front. We built goals out of 2x4’s and chicken wire. Goalie pads were foam rubber.
Ice hockey was played on Wadel’s pond down the street. Everybody brought a shovel to clean off the ice.
Basketball was again played at our house. We had a concrete slab that was almost a full HALF court. The hoop was mounted on an old creosote telephone pole my dad got from somewhere.
We played soccer ONCE when Mauls had some exchange students from Venezuela visiting for a semester. They taught me to keep my mouth closed when you head the ball or you might just bite your tongue off.
I grew up in western NY.
Add to that today's players are also bigger and stronger.......
Plus the "farm systems" go all the way down to little leaguers and teenage travel teams.....We grew up playing on school yards, today's kids don't play on school yards by themselves anymore. If they're not playing travel and tournaments every weekend, they're not playing.
They won, not lost, their only early 1980’s Series, against the Yankees, in 1981.
Most things in life change. I think the things you mentioned are interesting, but why should we continue on with 50 year old technology?
We used to enjoy movies on a small screen too. Today we have iMax. Today we watch movies in the home.
Does this affect stats? Sure. Should we freeze tech then and refuse to better things we can?
Thanks for the mention of all that. Yep that was pretty much our experience growing up across the nation.
The 1982 Los Angeles Dodgers played 162 games during the regular season, won 88 games, lost 74 games, and finished in second position. They played their home games at Dodger Stadium (Park Factors: 98/96) where 3,608,881 fans witnessed their 1982 Dodgers finish the season with a .543 winning percentage.
Yes, you are correct. The Dodgers were knocked out by their rivals the SF Giants, to clear the way for Atlanta to represent that year.
I remembered it incorrectly.
To decimate your team over one game... sorry just nonsense.
Justin Verlander complained at the All-Star Break that the balls were juiced and MLB went into full denial mode to say the balls were no different that usually. BTW, Verlander’s Astros have been involved in three games in the past two months where one of the teams scored 20 or more runs. The scores look more like football games.
You misuse the term technology.
Fraud is not “technology.”
Please remind me where fraud comes into it.
Close, it was 1997, (With Buhner, Griffey, Alex Rodriquez. and Edgar Martinez the ‘big four’ iirc), Also, the 2018 Yankees team broke Seattle’s record M. The 2019 Yankees and 2019 Twins have now gone by that one year old record team home runs in a season recently! Bombs away!
Some of the most rabid baseball fans I’ve ever known
were the nuns who taught me at Catholic grade school.
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