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Preferred Penne said:
I challenge anyone to name a position player that isn't Kwan, Ramirez, or Naylor
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Austin Hedges. Brayan Rocchio. Andres Gimenez. Jhonkensy Noel. Lane Thomas. David Fry. I can even name our top 5 prospects if you want me to.

I'm biased as a Guardians fan - and I agree with you on some of your points - but people are sleeping on this team's potential. This isn't the Cleveland team that just scraped by into the playoffs 2 years ago. The pieces are there, and when we put them together, we're a dangerous team. But, as you've pointed out, having key positions in constant flux, an offense that ebbs and flows, and a starting rotation that resembles a broken wheel aren't doing us any favors.

I firmly believe that this Cleveland team is going to win the ALC this year. Of course I'd love to see them win the WS, but we gotta temper expectations a bit. I can see this team making a good run deep into the ALDS. That is only provided if we can somehow get our shit together, but the issues we have are making it difficult. If Shane Bieber hadn't gotten injured, this team could easily have 10 or 12 more wins. If the offense was more consistent and stopped leaving so many men on base and actually finished ballgames, we'd easily be near 90 wins.

People are also ignoring that, defensively, this is a pretty decent team overall. A fielding percentage of .985 (league average, but a major improvement), defensive efficiency rate of .708 (league average .697), and we're 2nd in runs allowed per game at 3.93 (Seattle is in 1st with 3.78, league average of 4.43). Cleveland, in almost all categories, is at or slightly above league average. I don't know how anyone can look at this team and think they are the best "worst" team.
 
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Has anyone caught the HBO Doc Charlie Hustle And The Matter Of Pete Rose? I was expecting to thoroughly despise it, figuring with 2024 sensibilities, they'd absolutely rake Pete over the coals. It turned out to be a surprisingly well done and fairly balanced documentary. I've seen some criticism over Pete not being hit with much in the way of hardball questions, but I thought they did a nice job of juxtaposing others comments and criticisms about his gambling etc. and Pete's own stubborn, hardheaded denial of his very clear issues. They also spent a good amount of time going over his career and stating exactly why he belongs in the Hall Of Fame.

There was only one thing that made me Mad At My TV while watching this. A few years back, Pete was going to be enshrined onto the Phillies wall of fame. They had been running promos for the event and Rose bobblehead they were going to sell. Then just before the event, accusations of Pete going after underage girls came out in the papers and Pete's event was promptly cancelled by the Phillies. Pete was asked by a local Philly reporter about the accusations, and in his denial, he called the reporter "babe"., and that also became a minor issue as well I had completely forgotten about this. As it turns out the HBO people were filming Pete at this time, and they show where the female reporter and I guess her "handlers" guilted Pete into apologizing over the matter. C'mon, what a thin skinned cunt. reporters have absolutely had been called worse, and have had their lives literally threatened over the years, but this too sensitive for the business c-note, had to humiliate Pete into apologizing? Get the fuck outta here.
 
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The dog shit rays turn a 3-0 lead into a 7-3 loss as a result of a walk off grand slam by Shohei.

Notable as the homer was his 40th on the season, and earlier in the night he stole his 40th base.
 
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Rays are visiting the Dodgers and the game is tied at 3-3 going into the bottom of the 9th.

Dodgers manage to get the bases loaded with 2 outs, which brings Shohei Ohtani to the plate. He came into the game on 39/39 and stole his 40th base early into it.

He blasted the very first pitch for a Grand Slam to win the game 7-3 and also to reach the 40/40 club. At 126 games, he's far and away the fastest to ever reach the mark.

Hell of a way to get the mark. With 33 games left, he has a solid shot at 45/45 and an outside shot at 50/50. Glad that we'll be able to witness however this amazing season ends.
 
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Phillies are leading div, still our rivals the braves we are 1-1 for this match up.

I still as a die hard fan think the best moment, was Bryce screaming the F word (fuck) right after he got miced up. Hilarious.
 
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White Sox broke their franchise record for most losses in a season with their 107th this afternoon. They're making a strong charge to be worse than the 1962 Mets.
 
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Teoscar Hernandez took a slider off his foot last night and he left the park wearing a walking boot. Turd Dodgers fans are screaming for retribution for the so-called "dirty pitch".
 
Ohtani has now made another piece of history, becoming the 1st man to reach 45 HR and 45 steals.

The next milestone will be if he can get to 47 homers, which would give him the most of anyone in the 40 - 40 club.

With 21 games left in the season, he'll have to hit a homer and get a steal roughly once every 4 games to get to the mythical 50 - 50 plateau.

Of those opponents, I'll list the Team Pitching ERA stats, Opponent BA and the Park HR Factor (as of today) :

Cleveland Indians (2 games in LA) = 3.79 ERA (8th) and .232 Opponent BA (3rd). Park HR Factor = 1.1 (4th)

Chicago Cubs (3 games in LA) = 3.78 ERA (7th) and .238 Opponent BA (10th). Park HR Factor = 1.1 (4th)

Atlanta Braves (4 games in Atlanta) = 3.54 ERA (2nd) and .238 Opponent BA (10th). Park HR Factor = 0.97 (19th)

Miami Marlins (3 games in Miami) = 4.78 ERA (28th) and .258 Opponent BA (27th). Park HR Factor = 0.95 (21st)

Colorado Rockies (3 games in LA) = 5.44 ERA (30th) and .285 Opponent BA (30th). Park HR Factor = 1.1 (4th)

San Diego Padres (3 games in LA) = 3.98 (14th) and .243 Opponent BA (18th). Park HR Factor = 1.1 (4th)

Colorado Rockies (3 games in Colorado) = 5.44 ERA (30th) and .285 Opponent BA (30th). Park HR Factor = 1.13 (2nd)

I'll preface my comments by saying that all of this autism may not really mean anything, because the Angels are bottom feeders as far as pitching goes AND Anaheim is a HR-friendly field...and yet they kept our boy quiet.

Having said that, Cleveland is a tough out (even in LA) due to their rankings. He did well to get a HR against a guy who had only given up 1 hit to left-handed hitters until this game.

Chicago will be more of an even match-up given that they're a very good (but not elite) pitching team playing in LA. I'd expect a homer here.

Atlanta is just tough across the board. Elite pitching team in a tough ballpark. No homers assumed here.

Miami is a bad pitching team in a not so great ballpark for hitters. I'll assume a homer here.

Colorado in LA is mouth-watering and I'd expect a homer here.

Padres are middle-of-the-pack as far as pitching, playing in LA so I'll expect a homer here as well.

We finish off with Colorado in Colorado, which is usually slugging heaven and so a homer here seems like a good bet.

That theoretically gets us to 50 homers. The steals should be much easier so I won't go through scenario planning on that front.

Now, all of this assumes that down the stretch, the Rockies and the Padres don't decide to engage in faggotry, i.e. walking him every chance that they get so that he can't have a shot at history. I mean, there's nothing to stop teams from doing that and nothing surprises me anymore, so we'll have to wait and see. It would help if he for some reason is struggling to get steals by that point, but I can't really see that happening.

Rooting for history fellas. Give this old man something to smile about.
 
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Ohtani reaches homer number 46 with a 450 cannot blast.

He did get picked off, but I learned that such events don't add to his Caught Stealing stats. That means he's at 46 steals and was caught only 4 times (apparently one of the best marks in history).

He now has 19 games to reach the hallowed ground of 50-50. Averages out to roughly a homer and a steal once every 5 games or so.

I don't discount faggotry from the Padres and Rockies. I also maintain that Atlanta will be a tough place to hit homers, so he's got to keep the pace going. While he's built up a cushion, let's not forget how easy it is to go cold with the case of Aaron Judge:

Judge is batting .175/.327/.250 over the last 11 games with no homers. Something like that could easily happen to Ohtani as well.

If he can get 2 homers out of the Cubs, Braves and Marlins games then I'd consider it a best-case scenario.
 
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Phils ate it today to Marlins lol ouch. But I think we are past our cold streak.
 
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GloryHole Stalker said:
There was only one thing that made me Mad At My TV while watching this. A few years back, Pete was going to be enshrined onto the Phillies wall of fame. They had been running promos for the event and Rose bobblehead they were going to sell. Then just before the event, accusations of Pete going after underage girls came out in the papers and Pete's event was promptly cancelled by the Phillies. Pete was asked by a local Philly reporter about the accusations, and in his denial, he called the reporter "babe"., and that also became a minor issue as well I had completely forgotten about this. As it turns out the HBO people were filming Pete at this time, and they show where the female reporter and I guess her "handlers" guilted Pete into apologizing over the matter. C'mon, what a thin skinned cunt. reporters have absolutely had been called worse, and have had their lives literally threatened over the years, but this too sensitive for the business c-note, had to humiliate Pete into apologizing? Get the fuck outta here.
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I think its just modern sensibilities. I guess its weird to call people babe/baby unless you intimately know them. I called a waitress at a bar "babe" once in front of my guy friends and you'd have thought I just called her a nigger at the top of my lungs. They were all like "WOAH, WOAH dude not cool, not cool dont call her that, thats creepy and weird"
 
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I think its just modern sensibilities. I guess its weird to call people babe/baby unless you intimately know them. I called a waitress at a bar "babe" once in front of my guy friends and you'd have thought I just called her a nigger at the top of my lungs. They were all like "WOAH, WOAH dude not cool, not cool dont call her that, thats creepy and weird"
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No offense, but if that's how your male friends responded to such an expression then they sound like literal faggots.
 
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