2024 MLB General Chat

Good gosh of course not. You're like talking to a 4 year old. You take every comment to the utmost literal. OF COURSE drafting and developing matter or why have a draft?? All I'm saying is when a team plays poorly, why do you immediately always jump to the manager, the GM, the ownership group? That's such a whacked way of looking at things. Let's just blame the players on the field. They are the ones who are winning and losing games. As crazy as you may think, performance matters and outside of a few, most of the Reds in '24 underperformed expectations.
So you agree that the drafting and development of players matter. Then why do you refuse to place any blame on the Reds front office for doing a poor job at building the roster? You keep saying that the front office gets no blame.

If I were GM, and I drafted / signed my son and his friends from his D-II college team, and pushed those guys onto the Reds, and they break the White Sox record for losses in a season, who do you blame?
 
I am so flattered that you think I could play major league baseball. I'm not, nor have I ever been on any major league draft board.

But yes, if in this dream world, I would get drafted by the Reds and they put me in the lineup for 162 games and I struck out 500 times, it would be MY fault!!!! Yes!!!

Bill Buckner let a ground ball go through his legs in game 6 of the 1985 world series that the Red Sox could have won. That's not the Red Sox manager's fault, not the GM, not anyone else. Bill Buckner missed the ball.

In the super bowl at the goal line, Seahawks/ Patriots, Seattle at the 1 yard line and Russell Wilson throws a pick. That's not Pete Carrell's fault, not the owner of the Seahawks, it's Russell Wilson's fault!!!

Game 1, 1990 world series, Eric Davis hits a first inning home run off A's ace Dave Stewart. It's not Tony LaRussa's fault, not Ricky Henderson or the A's ownership group, it's Dave Stewart's fault!!!

I think you may be getting the hang of this!
This is usually reserved for brian1227, but you've earned it Gump.

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So you agree that the drafting and development of players matter. Then why do you refuse to place any blame on the Reds front office for doing a poor job at building the roster? You keep saying that the front office gets no blame.

If I were GM, and I drafted / signed my son and his friends from his D-II college team, and pushed those guys onto the Reds, and they break the White Sox record for losses in a season, who do you blame?
I can't do this. 99.9% of us know that there is SOME responsibility in the entire organization. They all have jobs and they are trying to win. My point, which I try to make over and over and over is that the lion's share of the blame should lie with the people who play the sport. It's why they get paid the most.
I don't know any GM's who sign their sons and his friends from a D2 college team. You are just being incredibly difficult. My point is made. If you don't like it, simply move on.
Seth Meyers Lol GIF by Late Night with Seth Meyers
 
Well, he is an sweetie AND and a-hole, clearly. Just looking for attention on a team of mega-stars.
I don't think he's looking for attention. He's been huge for Dodgers during Postseason. I will say I don't care for the language period but especially live tv
 
Thank you New York!!!

Tbh I’m surprised Cleveland kept this so competitive because the little I saw of them this season I never thought they were all that good. Yankees won in 5 but felt like it was a 7 games series.

I can rest easy knowing the Cleveland Indians are eliminated
 
Resale market for World Series game #1 seats in LA seems to be starting at $1300 per seat and going up. The games at Yankee Stadium are more than double that. Any Yappi posters going?
 
Not sure which team I like less, Yankees or Dodgers. Probably could have predicted this WS matchup in March.
I'm definitely cheering for the Dodgers because #1 I'm a national league fan and #2 I really have a strong dislike for the Yankees.
 
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Feel so dirty cheering for the Yankees but must be done, anyone but Cleveland. ANYONE
I can't root for the Guards either, but I really respect that organization and how they put teams together and play baseball. The Yankees payroll is about 6 times of the Guardians and that series was really good.
 
Unbelievable game. Go Dodgers, Go National League.
I feel like game 1 was the Yankees opportunity to steal a game. There just isn't enough arms in the Yankee rotation or especially bullpen beat the Dodgers. It was actually a win for the Yankees tonight to hold the Dodgers to only 4 runs. I think the series end in NY in game 4 or 5.
 
I can't root for the Guards either, but I really respect that organization and how they put teams together and play baseball. The Yankees payroll is about 6 times of the Guardians and that series was really good.
That makes one of us, I really have no respect at all for that franchise. The way the nation looks at the Yankees is the way I look at Cleveland.
 
I feel like game 1 was the Yankees opportunity to steal a game. There just isn't enough arms in the Yankee rotation or especially bullpen beat the Dodgers. It was actually a win for the Yankees tonight to hold the Dodgers to only 4 runs. I think the series end in NY in game 4 or 5.
Let’s hope so. The WS needs to come back home to the National League
 
It would be a huge upset of the Yankees found a way to turn this around. If Ohtani's out for the series, that may help.
Agreed, but it has happened 10 times where a team trailed 2-0 and won the World Series. 4 of those were the Yankees.

It has not happened since 1996 when the Yanks did it. It is weird that it happened 5 times in 18 years between 1978 and 1996, but now it has not happened for 27 years.

If Judge does not start hitting, it won't happen this year either.
 
Wow - Yankees atrocious defense lets the Dodgers back into Game 5. Judge drops a routine fly, a missed putout at third and Cole doesn’t cover first on a grounder to first. All of a sudden, 5-0 becomes 5-5 game. Oof.
 
two errors and a lazy play by the pitcher leads to a tied game. What an inning. Broadcast was saying the reason the Dodgers were in position to advance and score is bc the baserunners weren’t assuming the hit would be an out and thus adding pressure to the fielder. If your coaching any level of baseball that fact can’t be stressed enough on a daily basis.
 
Wow - Yankees atrocious defense lets the Dodgers back into Game 5. Judge drops a routine fly, a missed putout at third and Cole doesn’t cover first on a grounder to first. All of a sudden, 5-0 becomes 5-5 game. Oof.
...and now catchers interference to liad the bases
Back to back SFs and Dodgers take the lead
 
Sick of hearing about the Yankees being so great. They ain't nothing special
Gerrit Cole deserved better tonight, but at least he contributed to the dysfunction in the inning from hell. Can’t say that I am unhappy to see the Yankees lose. Ever.
The Dodgers certainly never quit, so even better. Nice to see Freeman displace a cheatin’ Astro with the consecutive WS homer games, too. What a playoff run tor a guy with a jacked up foot. Definitely the World Series MVP
 
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