MLB 2020 Thread

**BmillsSkier** · 08-31-2020, 09:43 AM

Damn, Tribe dealing from a position of depth in SP, sends Clevinger (who was just asked back to the big league club after being sent to the alternate site purgatory for lying to the team about sneaking out and breaking COVID curfew) and likable platoon outfielder Greg Allen to the Padres for a haul of 6 players including their 7, 9 and 11th ranked prospects.

Eye towards the future in this one for the Tribe. I will miss Clev, but he's arbitration eligible next year and he's coming off back to back surgeries from this spring and last spring. I'll take it.

**SkiBall** · 09-02-2020, 07:23 PM

RIP Tom Seaver. One of the most dominant pitchers of all time. Damn sad.

On a lighter note, Vin Scully joined the twitters if you want to talk some baseball with him.
https://twitter.com/TheVinScully/sta...365511680?s=20

**Benny Profane** · 09-03-2020, 06:42 AM

Yes, RIP Tom Seaver, one of the greatest.

Tom Seaver, Hall of Fame pitcher for New York’s ‘Miracle Mets’ of ’69, dies at 75
By Matt Schudel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...3d4_story.html

I had forgotten that he ended his career with the '86 Red Sox. Who knows, if he wasn't injured, he could have been pitching that fateful game 6 and made Mookie pop up.

**Timberridge** · 09-03-2020, 07:07 AM

RIP Tom. 61 shutouts, wow.

I can see this Vin Scully thing going awry.
@VinScully: Who is this @Joeygiantsfan64, and why is he telling me I suck Tommy Lasorda's dick?

God bless him though.

**BmillsSkier** · 09-03-2020, 07:10 AM

Right? Seems like it might give the old man heart troubles.

**Timberridge** · 09-03-2020, 07:13 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Right? Seems like it might give the old man heart troubles.

I'd have had him spend a day in the ECRC or America Burning thread just as a test before embarking on this.

**BmillsSkier** · 09-03-2020, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by Timberridge

I'd have had him spend a day in the ECRC or America Burning thread just as a test before embarking on this.

NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE

**Benny Profane** · 09-03-2020, 09:15 AM

It rains a lot in there.

**Timberridge** · 09-03-2020, 09:30 AM

You definitely don't want to go in there before a rainy weekend.

**Benny Profane** · 09-03-2020, 10:16 AM

Somebody will post pics on Monday of his awesome up and down over rocks and mud.

**BmillsSkier** · 09-03-2020, 11:57 AM

And that’s when the knives come out?

**SkiBall** · 09-06-2020, 04:42 PM

I guess we are fully at that stage of some of the players I first admired in this game are going to be dying so it’s gonna suck just a little bit more.

RIP Lou Brock. Even though I was young, I knew he was just better than most others on the field.

https://www.stltoday.com/sports/base...6a9b91e6b.html

**plugboots** · 09-06-2020, 09:35 PM

^^^ as a young Cubs fan I was shaking my head knowing they traded Lou. It just seemed to make sense when the Cubs sucked all those years. Wrigley was a cheap dumbass.

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**SkiBall** · 09-06-2020, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by plugboots

^^^ as a young Cubs fan I was shaking my head knowing they traded Lou. It just seemed to make sense when the Cubs sucked all those years. Wrigley was a cheap dumbass.

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Here is another theory...
https://twitter.com/BCB_Sara/status/...846730242?s=20

**Core Shot** · 09-07-2020, 05:50 AM

Originally Posted by SkiBall

Here is another theory...
https://twitter.com/BCB_Sara/status/...846730242?s=20

That’s creepy. But makes sense. Cubs always had great talent they traded away way too soon.

In other baseball news, this cracked me up
https://twitter.com/BadSportsRefs/st...23269364248584

**SkiBall** · 09-07-2020, 09:39 AM

Yeah, that is just weird and I am a mask proponent.

**Thaleia** · 09-08-2020, 12:02 PM

LOL Yankees get destroyed by the Blue Jays so they accuse the Jays were stealing signs. They also blamed the lights.

**SkiBall** · 09-08-2020, 04:20 PM

https://www.mlb.com/video?utm=mlbfilmroom-redirect

I could get lost in here for awhile.

New free archive of mlb vids.

**BmillsSkier** · 09-08-2020, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by Thaleia

LOL Yankees get destroyed by the Blue Jays so they accuse the Jays were stealing signs. They also blamed the lights.

Those. Poor. Yankees.

**ex-powderbroker** · 09-09-2020, 06:17 AM

Didn't see one link to even a non-reputable source about the Yanks blaming the Jays for stealing signs. I could write something about giving a year to the very elderly and finished Bret Gardner and watching him struggle to reach the mendoza line during a shortened season though.

**Timberridge** · 09-09-2020, 08:28 AM

Do the Blue Jays collectively see better in the dark than the Yankees? In the baseball league I play in, one field has lights. The lights don't illuminate past a certain height so when someone sky's a pop up you lose it for a few seconds before it re-enters the illumination zone. It's highly entertaining.

$324 million down the drain. You don't need a playoff pitcher if you're not in the playoffs.

If George were alive Boone would have been fired and rehired 2x by now.