OFFICIAL MLB 2022 THREAD

[Woodsy]

2 of the best to do it, 2 future hofers.

World Series Career Stats...

Justin Verlander:
W/L 0-6, 6.07 ERA, 8 GMS, 43.0 IP, 29 ER, 9 HR, WHIP 1.33

Clayton Kershaw:
W/L 3-2, 4.46 ERA, 7 GMS, 38.1 IP, 19 ER, 6 HR, WHIP 1.07
These include cheating fkn Astros home game numbers

ML Baseball is hard

[Woodsy]

From the Athletic so pay walled but great article on SLC Trappers breaking the win streak record in professional baseball.
I was 16 and watched it all unfold

SALT LAKE CITY — Still sticky and soggy from the champagne shower in the clubhouse, they made the half-mile walk down Main Street from Derks Field to the watering hole that was as much a sanctuary as a place to get properly smashed. They filed in through the red metal door that opens into Duffy’s Tavern and into another world, one where this band of minor-league misfits, the 1987 Salt Lake Trappers, was bound for Cooperstown and baseball immortality.

Behind the bar, hocking whatever he damn pleased, was the funniest man on the planet: Bill Murray, the bartender. The “Caddyshack” star was 36, a comedian, Cubs fan, and co-owner of a Trappers franchise celebrating a Pioneer League championship like it was a World Series. Rightfully so. Thirty-five years on, that Trappers season is still etched into baseball’s record books. They started the regular season 3-3. They ended it with a 17-18 stretch. In between, for four weeks and five days, the Trappers did nothing but win. Their 29-game winning streak remains the longest in American pro baseball history.

There they all were at Duffy’s, howling at the moon on a late summer night in the shadow of the Wasatch Mountains. They vowed not to sleep a single wink. Players threw back bottles of beer and shots of the good stuff. Fans crooned with them as the jukebox blared. Team staffers smiled so wide their cheeks spasmed. And if you asked for a couple cold Budweisers, Murray was behind the bar handing you Miller Lites.

“You just took what he gave you,” pitcher John Groennert says.

“No one said a thing,” adds catcher Frank Colston.

It didn’t matter. Why would it?

It was Sept. 4, 1987, the last night of the summer that changed their lives: The undrafted cast-offs on the league’s only independent team making baseball history and then, to prove they were more than just those 29 wins in 33 days, taking down the Helena Brewers and their nine future big leaguers to win the Pioneer League title. It is a baseball story to its core, because only baseball can provide such obscure theater. It was, outfielder Anthony Blackmon says now, the highest of highs at the lowest level of pro ball.

“The Trappers turned the world upside down,” says Dave Baggott, who was the team’s 24-year-old assistant general manager at the time.

[alias_rice]

2 of the best to do it, 2 future hofers.

World Series Career Stats...

Justin Verlander:
W/L 0-6, 6.07 ERA, 8 GMS, 43.0 IP, 29 ER, 9 HR, WHIP 1.33

Clayton Kershaw:
W/L 3-2, 4.46 ERA, 7 GMS, 38.1 IP, 19 ER, 6 HR, WHIP 1.07
These include cheating fkn Astros home game numbers

ML Baseball is hard

Joe Posnanski did a little blurb about that this morning.

https://joeposnanski.substack.com/p/...-that-was-wild

[Supermoon]

From the Athletic so pay walled but great article on SLC Trappers breaking the win streak record in professional baseball.

Luckily I found an ungrateful version they let me read. Fun story.

That was the year my family moved us to SLC and we went to probably a dozen games a year every summer. Odds are decent I saw one of those wins.

[ex-powderbroker]

it sure was a nice day for a game. hope all of those west coast fans tune in because i sure would have liked to crack a beer to watch about five hours ago.

[fomofo]

Wow! What a start for the Astros!

[cinnepa]

Its only the 1st.....its only the first.

[westoxified]

watching Maldonado sucks. the way he frames and demands check swing calls from 1st and 3rd is painful. moreso because he's prob the best at getting what he wants back there.

[Supermoon]

So Maldonado used an illegal bat last night an nobody cares?

[Danno]

I don't care, doesn't sound like cheating.

[Supermoon]

Probably more unfortunate than deliberate, but a bad look

[Danno]

No it isn't, it was a simple and honest mistake. I hate the fucking Astros because of the cheating but from what I understand of this, it doesn't come close. Albert Pujols gave him a bat and he used it. Albert was using the same bat. Apparently Albert was grandfathered in because he started playing before 2011. Maldonado started in 2011. And the bats were banned for safety reasons, not performance reasons. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/2...rt-pujols/amp/

[powpig]

World Series Career Stats...

Justin Verlander:
W/L 0-6, 6.07 ERA, 8 GMS, 43.0 IP, 29 ER, 9 HR, WHIP 1.33

ML Baseball is hard

[cinnepa]

Valdez cheating...rubbing hands? Cheatstros at it again....illegal bats too?

[cinnepa]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CkUtQz7M...d=MDE2OWE1N2Q=

[cinnepa]

Go phils tonight!
Fukk those cheaters.

[fomofo]

Dup post

[fomofo]

I lean toward the Phils, but really admire Dusty and wouldn't mind seeing him get one. Great series so far - I just hope they keep it up!

P.S. Nov 8th on HBO

[cinnepa]

Fukk dusty....he's the head of snake, as he allows batters to lean into pitches...use illegal bats. If he didn't know...he should have.

[ex-powderbroker]

Supposedly game 1 drew the most viewers since 2019. People HATE the Astros!

[Danno]

Fukk dusty....he's the head of snake, as he allows batters to lean into pitches...use illegal bats. If he didn't know...he should have.

I wish some of y'all would stop saying "illegal bat" like it was an intentional cheat to get an advantage when all the facts say otherwise. And players all over the league lean into pitches, it's what they're all fucking taught.

I hate the Astros for the REAL cheating they did, some of you cheapen that when you try to see cheating in everything.

[cinnepa]

Go phils!

[BmillsSkier]

Some nice new shiny hardware for a few of these Guardiac Kids.

Love this team so much.

[irul&ublo]

I wish some of y'all would stop saying "illegal bat" like it was an intentional cheat to get an advantage when all the facts say otherwise. And players all over the league lean into pitches, it's what they're all fucking taught.

I hate the Astros for the REAL cheating they did, some of you cheapen that when you try to see cheating in everything.

That. Bat was “illegal” for safety issues, not performance.

But they’re still the Cheatstros

[cinnepa]

I made a funny sign for the game tonight but the cheatstros stole it.