Board 8 > MLB Discussion Topic 3 - Where Every AL Wild Card Team Finishes .500

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It felt like the Dodgers totally tanked this last series with the Pirates.

I looked back at the schedule and realized they won 3 of 4 games.

That is how this season is going.
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And the fourth literally had your starter pitch a no hitter through 9 innings
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Here are the suspensions for Yankees tigers


https://twitter.com/MLB_PR/status/901183819226722305


Lol @ betances not getting anything. It doesn't matter that he's usually wild. That just gives him an excuse. Perhaps he was intending to hit him but not in the head?


Edit. Would help if I posted the link
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Yeah, sure. Betances threw at the first batter in the inning on an 0-1 count in a tie game in the middle of a playoff race where he was already the fourth Yankee pitcher, knowing full well it would get him ejected and another guy would have to come in with little to no warm-up time. That makes sense.

Anything they gave to Dellin, they would've had to give to Fulmer too, and they obviously weren't willing to do that even though Fulmer's looked way more intentional in the first place.

All those punishments are extremely fair.
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Only four for Sanchez. Lol.
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NBIceman posted...

Anything they gave to Dellin, they would've had to give to Fulmer too, and they obviously weren't willing to do that even though Fulmer's looked way more intentional in the first place.

Fulmer and Betances both should've been suspended
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Also Cespedes hurt and out for a while because mets
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It's the same hammy injury he had earlier this year that made him miss 2 months. Same severity. He also had the same injury like 4 or 5 times over the past 2 years. So add another broken player to the list of 3200 the mets have right now. Its so nice to know we literally cannot rely on any single one of our players to be healthy or effective next year
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WiggumFan267 posted...

Bet you didn't think you'd be better off being a fan of, say, the White Sox than the Mets at the start of the season (but to be fair, the White Sox have a lot to be happy about right now)

I see how it is
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Someone should call an exorcist to the Mets clubhouse. There has clearly been something awry.

Crescent-Moon posted...

Someone should call an exorcist to the Mets clubhouse. There has clearly been something awry.

there have been several demons plaguing them for years causing all this mishap

one is called Ray Ramirez
the other is called Fred and Jeff Wilpon

until these ghosts are extinguished these things will continue to happen and get worse
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ESPN: "You gotta believe the mets will spend big money this offseason, they freed up so much money"

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I guess they didnt hear our GM literally say that the money we saved on contracts had to go into our owners pockets and would not be spent on the team


They also seem to think that Conforto will play baseball in 2018, and that he'll be at the same level (instead of his career being ruined).
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up
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David Wright shut down from baseball activities, again. Can't play w/o his shoulder hurting.
He has been trying so hard last 3 years to rehab to no success.

Life's just not fair, man

franchise players/shitheads like ryan zimmerman get to recovery fully and have 40 HR seasons after , fucking lucky asshole.

franchise mets players/all around amazing human beings /amazing leader/terrific person/true person of the game/best person on earth David Wright gets shunned by the gods and have his back stricken for no good reason

shit fucking sucks. looking more and more like the end for David Wright... if it is, what a shame. Easy Hall of Fame career ruined by stupid unluckiness/injury/cursed/gods hate Mets/whatever you want to call it.

And he'll never have won a ring with the Mets. He deserves it so damn much. He's given so much to this team. He's the franchise leader in almost everything and stuck through so many bad teams... what a goddamn shame.
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Granderson goodbye to New York article (both Mets and yankees). Worth your time.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/curtis-granderson-thank-you-new-york/
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PLAWECKI PITCHED AGAIN and induced a double play!
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The Rangers have returned to .500 under questionable circumstances

A wildcard spot isn't impossible (Really, anything can happen there with a month left), but I'll be satisfied if they can just finish at that mark.
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Cubs offense has been blowing up a lot lately. Against bad teams, sure, but hopefully we can maintain this consistent offense into the postseason. Finally feels like we're getting back to the strength we had last year.
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Cubs have scored the most runs in the league post all star game.

Cubs offense is a virtual murderer's row some nights. I am pretty sure for the next 4 years the segment of Bryant/Rizzo/Happ/Schwaber/Baez is going to terrorize pitching. The Cubs could legitimately have 5 30+ home run threats.
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holy shit rafael montero
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Don't forget Contreras!
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Justin Upton to Angels, Cam Maybin to Astros, BP to Angels, pending him waiving a no trade clause
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Looks like Verlander to the Astros.

welp
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Good haul for the Tigers. Tough to see Verlander go but can't complain about what we got back.
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Yeah, good trade for both sides. Houston is looking good for at least two years and even better now. Detroit wasn't going anywhere with Verlander, so getting a top prospect in return is great. Tough for the Tigers fans though, I'd think.
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Astros winning the AL pennant confirmed. Prepare for sappy #HoustonStrong montages of the hurricane through the end of October.
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I feel like there's too much "they have the bonus of being the saviors of their city like NO/Boston" chatter, like people expect it or something.
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Probably because they've been legit good for a couple years now, and this year was already looking like the one that would see them win the AL?

Contrast how downright mediocre the Saints were until their super bowl win.
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neonreaper posted...

I feel like there's too much "they have the bonus of being the saviors of their city like NO/Boston" chatter, like people expect it or something.

It makes for higher ratings when no one outside of Houston and California give a shit about the WS
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WiggumFan267 posted...

David Wright shut down from baseball activities, again. Can't play w/o his shoulder hurting.
He has been trying so hard last 3 years to rehab to no success.

Life's just not fair, man

franchise players/shitheads like ryan zimmerman get to recovery fully and have 40 HR seasons after , fucking lucky asshole.

franchise mets players/all around amazing human beings /amazing leader/terrific person/true person of the game/best person on earth David Wright gets shunned by the gods and have his back stricken for no good reason

shit fucking sucks. looking more and more like the end for David Wright... if it is, what a shame. Easy Hall of Fame career ruined by stupid unluckiness/injury/cursed/gods hate Mets/whatever you want to call it.

And he'll never have won a ring with the Mets. He deserves it so damn much. He's given so much to this team. He's the franchise leader in almost everything and stuck through so many bad teams... what a goddamn shame.

@Nelson_Mandela XFD can you imagine rooting for a team where literal David Wright is the career leader in everything
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JetJaguar posted...

@Nelson_Mandela XFD can you imagine rooting for a team where literal David Wright is the career leader in everything

Does not surprise me when you see their literal obsession with Mike Piazza, whose biggest career accomplishment was leading a team to get decimated in the World Series by the Yankees.
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not sure you know what "biggest career accomplishment" means but ok

David Wright was on a no doubt hall of famer path over the first 10 years of his career until derailed by injuries so thats the kind of guy you usually expect to lead your team in every career accomplishment when its an expansion team thats only existed for ~50 years.

keep rationalizing though buds
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It's kind of crazy how Kershaw never seems to lose form when returning from an injury. With all he's suffered I swear he's never come back and given up 2-3 runs in the first outing back.. it's always a 6+ scoreless or maybe 7 and a run. Ridiculous.
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dude is a monster
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

JetJaguar posted...

@Nelson_Mandela XFD can you imagine rooting for a team where literal David Wright is the career leader in everything

Does not surprise me when you see their literal obsession with Mike Piazza, whose biggest career accomplishment was leading a team to get decimated in the World Series by the Yankees.

LMAO. Clemens impaling him with that bat would have been a mercy kill.
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Adrian Beltre out for the rest of the season (With an outside chance he'd come back for the playoffs if the miracle were to happen)
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wilmer flores fouled a ball into his face and broke his nose and is out for the season

mets.
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hey he may not be out for the season maybe
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In the last 11 games the Dodgers are 1-10 and the D-Backs are 11-0 and they're stilo 12.5 games back. That's nuts.
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Red Sox continuing the long history of Boston teams cheating.
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tbf I think from what I've read this one is technically legal by letter of the law?

Just super scummy.
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Legal to steal signs, not legal to use electronic devices in the dugout to do it. At least that's my understanding.

Doubt anything of any significance will happen to them, but it certainly makes them look bad.
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they were using apple watches to steal and relay signs

which is def illegal
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Oh. Maybe I misunderstood the article I was reading (Or the guy at Yahoo that wrote it didn't understand the rules), but I got the feeling from it that this just wasn't a case covered by the rules even though it 'should' be illegal.
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john farrell came right out and admitted he knew it was illegal and did it anyway

i don't know if i respect him for that or find them even more scummy
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i did lose some respect when he whined that the yankees do it too though
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Reg posted...

Oh. Maybe I misunderstood the article I was reading (Or the guy at Yahoo that wrote it didn't understand the rules), but I got the feeling from it that this just wasn't a case covered by the rules even though it 'should' be illegal.

you're talking about sign stealing which is a questionable practice but not against the rules

using unapproved electronic equipment or acceptable equipment in unapproved ways is blatantly against the rules and this is what they are going to be punished for, and probably strongly.

The red sox admitted this as much and then appeared to procure some evidence that the Yankees were doing it too ("...but her emails!")
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Yanks used their sign stealing tech to catch the Red Sox using theirs. This is fun. How did NYY somehow get even more whiny this year.
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It's nice that the Red Sox waited to accuse the Yankees with all this evidence they allegedly have until they themselves were caught.
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