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Of note, this is only the 28th time in baseball history that a triple play ended a game.  It's the first time it happens in 13 years. 

The Yankees have also tied 11 other teams for most TP's in a season by a single team. 

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The Rays will call up Wander Franco prior to Tuesday's game

Franco will be the first player born in 2001 to play in the bigs. So yes, we are super close to having someone in the bigs who was born post-9/11 (Franco was born in March)

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Hoo boy...So, anyone remember the whole thing with Ben Zobrist from a couple years ago? He basically just left the Cubs and then rumors started coming out that he and his wife were getting divorced. Then there were rumors that he cheated on her and rumors that she cheated on him and then it looked more like she probably cheated on him. Keep in mind, these are two really religious people...

Welp...

So a year after Ben took a leave of absence from the Cubs, he learned what was happening. This all was presented in court documents in May. The gist is that he learned that his wife, Juliana Zobrist, was having an affair with their minister. Not only that, but the minister also worked for Zobrist's chartiy foundation...and the minister was defrauding that charity organization. 

Ben is seeking $6 million in damages.

I feel bad for the dude.

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10 minutes ago, John from Cincinnati said:

Alek Manoah suspended five games for "intentionally" throwing at Maikel Franco. He'll appeal. Montoyo gets one game, which he'll serve tonight. 

Don't forget....

GEORGE SPRINGER IS BACK TONIGHT ???

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Apparently Joe Girardi has a death wish because he twice stopped the game to have the umps check Max Scherzer for "substances".  If it was meant as a distraction it didn't work tonight

Max going nuts to the point to almost pulling his pants down to prove it

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If I was the commissioner Girardi would get a 30 game suspension and a massive fine for this bullshit. He took a rule that was intended to address a problem and used it for Whitey Herzog endlessly demanding HoJo's bats be confiscated to be checked for cork style gamesmanship and turned it into a complete farce. Drop the freaking hammer on him.

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They are going to have to institute a rule where if a manager asks an ump to do a check and the umps find nothing the manager gets tossed.

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Oh Romo's lucky he didn't do that in front of a sourpuss like Joe West.   

Tossing the belt at him would've been enough to run him.  But yeah, manager abuse of this is clearly something the rulemakers didn't expect.  

If you're going to make it painful to challenge you need to do something creative, yet in the tradition of the game, unsuccessful checks lead to outs.  (Current or next batter)

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In a sign that I am sure everything is fine and normal - the Rockies have had two Assistant GMs quit in the span of a week.

And remember - this is a team that had their GM quit earlier this season

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Was all excited because a new knuckleballer just showed up in the majors: Mickey Jannis, been in the minors since 2010, didn't even play last year. And then he got torched for 7 runs in 3 innings in his first appearance last night.

At least I'll always have this video of his amazing lack of spin rate. Spitting in the eye of the Gods of Baseball

 

 

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7 minutes ago, elizium said:

Was all excited because a new knuckleballer just showed up in the majors: Mickey Jannis, been in the minors since 2010, didn't even play last year. And then he got torched for 7 runs in 3 innings in his first appearance last night.

At least I'll always have this video of his amazing lack of spin rate. Spitting in the eye of the Gods of Baseball

 

 

To be fair, Knuckleballs are the most inconsistant pitch in Baseball.  Depending on the temperature, humidity, wind, position of the moon, which house Jupiter is in, and the price of eggs in Bangkok, the pitch is either unhittable or Batting Practice.  There's no inbetween.

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