2015 MLB Regular Season Thread

El Turco · Post #641 » by **El Turco** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 12:56 am

arizona going to win the division

Quake Griffin · Post #642 » by **Quake Griffin** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 3:58 am

with friends like the Giants, who needs a win in Houston?

Mamba Mentality · Post #643 » by **Mamba Mentality** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:20 am

Quake Griffin wrote:with friends like the Giants, who needs a win in Houston?

You sound nervous.

El Turco · Post #644 » by **El Turco** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:22 am

you are going to need these wins, from september onward giants only play below .500 teams and the little brother

Quake Griffin · Post #645 » by **Quake Griffin** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:27 am

El Turco wrote:arizona going to win the division

yea.

I clearly sound nervous

Post #646 » by **Latrell** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:04 pm

Dodgers and Mets have identical records.

One team went 0-5 and the other team went 4-1 last week.. Guess which team is ahead in the Power Rankings?

http://espn.go.com/mlb/powerrankings

Quake Griffin · Post #647 » by **Quake Griffin** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:25 pm

Not sure why that matters.

Post #648 » by **Latrell** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:36 pm

Quake Griffin wrote:Not sure why that matters.

It doesn't matter.

Just pointing out the incredible bias towards the Yankees and Dodgers ESPN has.

It's sad and almost troll-like.

Mamba Mentality · Post #649 » by **Mamba Mentality** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:36 pm

Latrell wrote:Dodgers and Mets have identical records.

One team went 0-5 and the other team went 4-1 last week.. Guess which team is ahead in the Power Rankings?

http://espn.go.com/mlb/powerrankings

And the Yankees are still atop the Blue Jays...ESPN oblivious as usual.

Quake Griffin · Post #650 » by **Quake Griffin** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:40 pm

I've heard of an east coast bias.
I've heard ESPN shows LeBron too much.

ESPN has a Dodger bias?
uhhh…ok.

Post #651 » by **Latrell** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:20 pm

Quake Griffin wrote:I've heard of an east coast bias.
I've heard ESPN shows LeBron too much.

ESPN has a Dodger bias?
uhhh…ok.

Clearly they do.

Raps in 4 · Post #652 » by **Raps in 4** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:25 pm

Quake Griffin wrote:I've heard of an east coast bias.
I've heard ESPN shows LeBron too much.

ESPN has a Dodger bias?
uhhh…ok.

ESPN has a bias towards big market/high payroll teams and marketable superstars.

Not that there is a problem with that. It's how they make their money.

Post #653 » by **Goudelock** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 11:13 pm

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/10-degrees--the-hard-truth-about-rbis-060038934-mlb.html

Jeff Passan is to Mike Trout what Skip Bayless is to Michael Jordan. The lengths that man goes to prop up Trout is insane. If Trout was leading the MLB in RBI's, then you can be sure that Passan would be using that as evidence for his MVP case. I remember when Cabrera won the MVP during his triple crown year, Passan acted like Cabrera had no right to that award because of some arbitrary stats.

(Passan rant over)

Quake Griffin · Post #654 » by **Quake Griffin** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:34 am

Raps in 4 wrote:
Quake Griffin wrote:I've heard of an east coast bias.
I've heard ESPN shows LeBron too much.

ESPN has a Dodger bias?
uhhh…ok.

ESPN has a bias towards big market/high payroll teams and marketable superstars.

Not that there is a problem with that. It's how they make their money.

yea, I can imagine the boner they get at ESPN seeing all the dead money the Dodgers have taken on.

PUT CARL CRAWFORD ON TV NOW!

Raps in 4 · Post #655 » by **Raps in 4** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:01 am

PockyCandy wrote:http://sports.yahoo.com/news/10-degrees--the-hard-truth-about-rbis-060038934-mlb.html

Jeff Passan is to Mike Trout what Skip Bayless is to Michael Jordan. The lengths that man goes to prop up Trout is insane. If Trout was leading the MLB in RBI's, then you can be sure that Passan would be using that as evidence for his MVP case. I remember when Cabrera won the MVP during his triple crown year, Passan acted like Cabrera had no right to that award because of some arbitrary stats.

(Passan rant over)

Trout did get robbed the years Cabrera won, but Passan has no argument here. Even if you disregard RBI count and go with advanced stats, Donaldson is still arguably the better player (and at worst, they are tied).

Raps in 4 · Post #656 » by **Raps in 4** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:04 am

The Mets are ridiculous right now. With the offence clicking and that lights out pitching staff, I could see them coming out of the NL.

Post #657 » by **Da Schwab** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:37 pm

PockyCandy wrote:http://sports.yahoo.com/news/10-degrees--the-hard-truth-about-rbis-060038934-mlb.html

Jeff Passan is to Mike Trout what Skip Bayless is to Michael Jordan. The lengths that man goes to prop up Trout is insane. If Trout was leading the MLB in RBI's, then you can be sure that Passan would be using that as evidence for his MVP case. I remember when Cabrera won the MVP during his triple crown year, Passan acted like Cabrera had no right to that award because of some arbitrary stats.

(Passan rant over)

He automatically loses all credibility (as well as his editor) for using "RBIs" in a headline.

Just that little "s" used to pluralize is the most infuriating thing.

Post #658 » by **Da Schwab** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:38 pm

Raps in 4 wrote:The Mets are ridiculous right now. With the offence clicking and that lights out pitching staff, I could see them coming out of the NL.

It's the Mets, they'll find a way to choke. Plus, I see at least one of the three Central teams representing the NL.

*crosses fingers that it isn't the goddamn Cardinals*

Raps in 4 · Post #659 » by **Raps in 4** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 3:41 pm

So apparently Fiers had a glove full of pine tar during his no hitter.

Post #660 » by **Da Schwab** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 4:08 pm

Probably to help not hit people in the face.