[MLB] 2023 Major League Baseball Season (MLB Thread)
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It's not the first time he's ended a shortstop's season with a bad slide.
It was a textbook takeout slide that looked worse because Kang wasn't anticipating it and stepped into it. If Kang does what every other middle infielder in the game would have done and jumped it, everyone would think it was a good takeout slide that broke up a double play.
As to whether takeout slides are overly dangerous and should be ruled illegal, then definitely.
As to whether takeout slides are overly dangerous and should be ruled illegal, then definitely.
You had to see this one coming. I'd point to the day Papelbum declared himself the Nats closer as the day the bottom fell out of their season. What's the Phillies record since they dumped him, by the way?
Happy Anniversary!
Go 'Stros!
Jays for the sentimentality of it all, and Astros because.
Pirates (ugh) over the Cubs (double ugh) - though I'd root for PNC Park to slide into the Allegheny.
Dodgers set up better against the Mets. Cards will probably steamroll either the Cubs or Pirates, whoever wins the Wild Card Game.
Jays have been off the radar all year, but I think momentum comes on Houston's side. They win the AL pennant.
Meanwhile, the Cardinals. I hate them, but the Dodgers don't have Kirk Gibson on their bench to pull off some miracle.
So - Astros and Cardinals in that "World Series" that you would have been laughed at about years ago - because of improbability, of course.
I hate the Cardinals, but who in this crowd could possibly beat them?
Jays for the sentimentality of it all, and Astros because.
Pirates (ugh) over the Cubs (double ugh) - though I'd root for PNC Park to slide into the Allegheny.
Dodgers set up better against the Mets. Cards will probably steamroll either the Cubs or Pirates, whoever wins the Wild Card Game.
Jays have been off the radar all year, but I think momentum comes on Houston's side. They win the AL pennant.
Meanwhile, the Cardinals. I hate them, but the Dodgers don't have Kirk Gibson on their bench to pull off some miracle.
So - Astros and Cardinals in that "World Series" that you would have been laughed at about years ago - because of improbability, of course.
I hate the Cardinals, but who in this crowd could possibly beat them?
Yay Cubs for being in the playoffs.
Considering the Cardinals are beat up and missing their best starter for the season, I'd be surprised if they get out of the DS against either the Cubs or Pirates.
Then again, they are the Cardinals and always seem to catch breaks in fortunate situations.
Thing that slightly annoys me: the 95-67 Royals have home field advantage throughout the playoffs, while the 97-65 Cubs can't have home field advantage in any round.
Considering the Cardinals are beat up and missing their best starter for the season, I'd be surprised if they get out of the DS against either the Cubs or Pirates.
Then again, they are the Cardinals and always seem to catch breaks in fortunate situations.
Thing that slightly annoys me: the 95-67 Royals have home field advantage throughout the playoffs, while the 97-65 Cubs can't have home field advantage in any round.
The Pirates. There's one guy who shows up on the weekend sports chat show on WPXI, Mark Madden (our resident wrestling fans may have heard of him), who seems dead set on putting down the Pirates as failures for not winning the division, Hurdle for not ever finishing higher than second (to the Cards all three years), and the fans as suckers for following the team at all. And he does it with the persona of a wrestling heel doing a stand up interview. A couple of weeks ago he even called ALL the viewers of that show stupid.
I guess I can consider not having a tv in the lobby at the new job a perk so I can miss that show on Sundays.
98 wins is tied for franchise third all time. Only the 1903 and 1909 teams won more.
I hear the Astros did not lose 100 games this year...
There will come a day when the Cubs lose in the playoffs. But today is not that day.
Then it's a good thing the Cubs have the best pitching staff in baseball, by WAR.
