Tag: MLB
Mets vs Giants at Citi Field
Baseball is Beautiful
A Saturday Night at Citi Field
For Youppi
The Bat Flip is Art
Jeff McNeil with the game tying Home Run in the 9th. There is only one way to celebrate such a feat, and that is with a great bat flip!
2021 Baseball Predictions
| NL East | NL Central | NL West |
| Braves | Cardinals | Dodgers |
| Mets | Brewers | Padres |
| Nationals | Reds | Giants |
| Phillies | Cubs | Diamondback |
| Marlins | Pirates | Rockies |
| AL East | AL Central | AL West |
| Yankees | Twins | Astros |
| Blue Jays | White Sox | Angles |
| Rays | Indians | A’s |
| Red Sox | Tigers | Mariners |
| Orioles | Royals | Rangers |
NL Wildcard Winners
- Mets
- Padres
AL Wildcard WInners
- White Sox
- Blue Jays
World Series
Dodgers over Yankees
2020 Baseball Projections
After correctly picking the Nationals to win the World Series last year, it’s time for my all important 2020 projections.
NL East: Phillies
NL Central: Cubs
NL West: Dodgers
Wild Card 1: Braves
Wild Card 2: Padres
AL East: Yankees
AL Central: Twins
AL West: Astros
Wild Card 1: Rays
Wild Card 2: Angels
AL Champs: Rays
NL Champs: Dodgers
World Series Champions: Dodgers
Baseball in a Covid World
The days get longer, the temperatures get warmer, and the green returns to the trees. This can only only mean one thing. It’s baseball season. The sounds, the smells, and me yelling at my TV that they should never bunt. The many things that come alive when the calendar turns to April.
As many things in our world have rightly stopped, baseball is on hold. However thanks to technology I have found my fill. First came the Chinese Professional Baseball League with it’s five teams, and now we have the Korean Baseball Organization. They are playing under the rules that will be our normal for a while. That means no fans, but it’s still baseball. You can find most CPBL and KBO games on Twitch, but ESPN has picked up the rights in the US to the Korean League which means there is one game a day. Most games start at 1AM or 4AM eastern, but they are shown again during the following day.
While the Mets are not coming back for a while I can root for the Chinatrust Brothers in Taipei and the LG Twins in Korea. It’s more fun to pick a team, and the Brothers were the first team I saw on Twitch from that league and someone who knows the KBO compared the Twins to the Mets on twitter. I was sold.
It might be something small, but there is just a small sense of normal when you hear the crack of the bat. Give it a try, and enjoy some good baseball!
The Year Doctor K Was Born
Those of you younger than, say, 40 years will have to imagine, for Gooden’s insane ’85 — a 24-4 record, a 1.53 ERA, just 13 home runs allowed and 268 strikeouts against 69 walks in 276 ¹/₃ innings pitched, all in his age-20 season — celebrates its 35th anniversary without quite being matched. Nor had folks witnessed quite as dominant a campaign in the 71 seasons that preceded it. By Baseball-Reference’s Wins Above Replacement measure, Gooden’s 1985 ranks as the best major league season by a pitcher in the past 106 years.
I was 6 years old during Gooden’s rookie year, and it did not take long for his starts to become appointment viewing in my house. I still remember like it was yesterday sitting on the beach with my dad listening to Doc finish off another one of his complete games.