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Only four games between the Yankees and the Rays in the East after last nights 2-1 victory.

Went to the game with my best friend and we screamed so loud and so often I'm legit hoarse today. The look, the look of utter disgust/anger/grief on all the Yankees fans leaving the stadium was priceless.

I looked at one Dominican or some other salt water Mexican and yelled "Break out the broom" and I think his soul died.
 
The MLB had decided to gone woke from what I saw on that vlog and Breitbart.
An analysis by National Review shows an unseemly trend among 20 Major League Baseball teams supporting organizations that perform sex change operations on children.

The magazine reviewed the causes and organizations to which these teams are handing out millions of dollars in donations and found that many support sex-change surgery, hormone treatments, and other dangerous procedures for “transitioning” teens and pre-teens.

National Review found that almost every team in the league “promote or fund groups that encourage or provide sex-change procedures and gender-transition hormone treatment for minors as young as 12. Other organizations promote ‘social transitions’ — i.e., nonmedical changes in ‘gender expression,’ including the adoption of new names, pronouns, and clothing — for children as young as three.”

Much of the support these teams are lending is organized under the rubric of the widespread LGBTQ “Pride Nights” that the league pushes.
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A few things that people might find interesting:

  • Mike Trout has hit home runs in 6 straight games, and since returning from injury on August 19th he has 10 homers and 16 RBIs in 20 games

  • yesterday, his ex-teammate Albert Pujols hit his 696th career homer to tie Alex Rodriguez for 4th all-time in that category; today Pujols pulled into sole possession of that spot with his second two-run homer in two days

  • the Dodgers became the first team to officially clinch a playoff berth today

  • former reliever Anthony Varvaro was killed today in Jersey City when someone driving the wrong way in the Holland Tunnel hit him head on; for those who may not remember him, he played in parts of six seasons from 2010 to 2015, most notably with Atlanta from 2011 to 2014. After retirement he became a Port Authority police officer in late 2016. When he was killed he was actually on his way to the World Trade Center Command to serve in commemoration of 9/11
 
I started to make a PG thread about Trevor Bauer, as he has some lolcowish traits. But he also has proven his a-logs wrong before, so I changed my mind.


Maybe he'll get more cowish if his career goes the way of Bam Margera.
 
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While we were down, Albert Pujols hit his 700th homer recently against one of his former teams, the Dodgers, in LA.

Meanwhile, Aaron Judge is sitting at 60 homers on the season. He's 1 away from tying Roger Maris for the all time single season record for the American League. If the season were to end today Judge would also win the hitting triple crown. There's no way that anyone catches him in terms of homers (Mike Trout and Yordan Alvarez are tied for second place with 37,) Judge has 11 more RBIs than Jose Ramirez, and right now Judge has a .314 batting average while Luis Arraez and Xander Bogaerts are tied at .313 right now.

Cleveland, Houston, and the Dodgers have all clinched divisions with the last two also ending with the best records in their respective leagues. The Yankees and Cardinals are basically locks to clinch theirs, while the Mets and Braves are 1 game apart from each other in the NL East; whichever team misses out there will still be in as the top NL Wild Card team.

Lastly, not that are major things, but long time catchers Stephen Vogt (38 in November) and Kurt Suzuki (turns 39 in less than two weeks) both announced recently that they'll be retiring at the end of this season. A much bigger name, David Price (37), has been rumoured to be leaning to calling it quits too.
 
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Local Fed said:
While we were down, Albert Pujols hit his 700th homer recently against one of his former teams, the Dodgers, in LA.

Meanwhile, Aaron Judge is sitting at 60 homers on the season. He's 1 away from tying Roger Maris for the all time single season record for the American League. If the season were to end today Judge would also win the hitting triple crown. There's no way that anyone catches him in terms of homers (Mike Trout and Yordan Alvarez are tied for second place with 37,) Judge has 11 more RBIs than Jose Ramirez, and right now Judge has a .314 batting average while Luis Arraez and Xander Bogaerts are tied at .313 right now.

Cleveland, Houston, and the Dodgers have all clinched divisions with the last two also ending with the best records in their respective leagues. The Yankees and Cardinals are basically locks to clinch theirs, while the Mets and Braves are 1 game apart from each other in the NL East; whichever team misses out there will still be in as the top NL Wild Card team.

Lastly, not that are major things, but long time catchers Stephen Vogt (38 in November) and Kurt Suzuki (turns 39 in less than two weeks) both announced recently that they'll be retiring at the end of this season. A much bigger name, David Price (37), has been rumoured to be leaning to calling it quits too.
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And the Mariners are deciding to slump when they have a 99% chance to make the playoffs. Odds the Orioles catch them? Fairly low, but that would be the epitome of Mariners baseball.
 
Local Fed said:
While we were down, Albert Pujols hit his 700th homer recently against one of his former teams, the Dodgers, in LA.

Meanwhile, Aaron Judge is sitting at 60 homers on the season. He's 1 away from tying Roger Maris for the all time single season record for the American League. If the season were to end today Judge would also win the hitting triple crown. There's no way that anyone catches him in terms of homers (Mike Trout and Yordan Alvarez are tied for second place with 37,) Judge has 11 more RBIs than Jose Ramirez, and right now Judge has a .314 batting average while Luis Arraez and Xander Bogaerts are tied at .313 right now.

Cleveland, Houston, and the Dodgers have all clinched divisions with the last two also ending with the best records in their respective leagues. The Yankees and Cardinals are basically locks to clinch theirs, while the Mets and Braves are 1 game apart from each other in the NL East; whichever team misses out there will still be in as the top NL Wild Card team.

Lastly, not that are major things, but long time catchers Stephen Vogt (38 in November) and Kurt Suzuki (turns 39 in less than two weeks) both announced recently that they'll be retiring at the end of this season. A much bigger name, David Price (37), has been rumoured to be leaning to calling it quits too.
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Pujols and Judge are how the game is supposed to be played. I especially appreciated how Judge didn't flip his bat when tying Ruth's record.
 
Judge just tied Maris' AL record with his 61st homer of the season, a no doubter into the Blue Jays bullpen in Toronto. I read the other day that his record setting home run ball (should he get there which seems inevitable) could go for around $250,000 or so.

Last night both the Yankees and Cardinals both clinched their divisions by the way. The only one still up for grabs now is the NL East. Both the Braves and Mets have identical records and both teams are losing their respective games at the moment tonight.
 
The Rays can clinch tonight with a win, but Cleveland is playing them tough.

At this point I'd rather they stay in the 2 hole or move to 1 for the WC. The Indians aren't as bad as their record indicates.

Yandy Diaz is still out tonight. Don't know if anyone saw but he and Randy Arozarena had a fight in the team parking lot last Monday after losing to the Astros. I guess their wives were involved too, but that is the only thing leaked.
 
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If Tatis can be suspended for PED's, I'm sure Judge and Pujols would've been found out by now. Pujols could've done it in the past though since he did start out in the steroid era.
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Pujols was in the Dominican Republic during the PED years, so there's a 85-90ish% chance that he used steroids before he got called up to the big leagues. Judge, I don't think so. He's 6'7, 280+ pounds. He's just an enormous slab of human being to begin with. When you compare his physique to roiders like Lenny Dykstra, Ken Caminiti or Barry Bonds, you can see a noticeable difference. I'm okay being wrong though because fuck the Yankees.
 
Word is that the Royals are seriously considering getting a new stadium built in downtown KC.

Which is an absolute travesty. Kauffman Stadium is one of the most beautiful parks in the country, and was renovated a little over a decade ago. It's a piece of Kansas City history that they're apparently willing to bulldoze so that politicians and land developers can line their pockets with Consoom Product Park.

Maybe instead they should put that money towards a winning team?
 
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It's also quite the coincidence that Pujols was absolutely trash the last few years of his big money deal with Anaheim and LA, but he goes back to STL and discovers the fountain of youth/St Louis pixie dust/PEDs and reverts back to 2006 Albert.
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I really think that it's more of a case of him being used very well by the team and maybe a bit of added motivation as he's back "home" in St. Louis getting reunited with Molina and Wainwright for one final hurrah. It helps too that he has two very legitimate MVP candidates hitting around him in Goldschmidt and Arrenado (I know he had Trout and Ohtani in LA, don't get me wrong.)

Consider that of his 21 home runs, 4 of them (one of which was against an infielder in a blowout game) have come against the Pirates and a pair have come against the Reds. Now I know it's easy to dismiss half a dozen homers, but if you also look into the Cards' record and scores of the 17 games in which he's hit his homers this season, the Cardinals' record is 16-1 and they've averaged 7.88 runs (obviously he counts for part of that total) in those games.

I won't get into listing every pitcher that he's homered off of this season, but I did look them up and it's not exactly like he's facing the rotation of the Braves in the late 1990s. The most notable guys he's homered off of are Chase De Jong (twice) of the Pirates who is having a very nice season in the bullpen, Brandon Hughes (once) of the Cubs who's having a pretty respectable rookie season in their pen, and Drew Smyly (once) of the Cubs who has made his career as a nice solid middle/back end rotation piece. I guess I could throw in Madison Bumgarner (once) of Arizona there just because of his name, but he certainly is not the MadBum of a decade ago; frankly he's washed up and is one of the worst contracts in the sport right now.
 
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The Mariners ended their 20 season long playoff drought by winning last night with a walk off homer. They're not the best team, but they're definitely a fun team to watch.
 
Will O’Toole‘s comic was used for Aaron Judge’s 61st home run special, as it was talked about mostly in the American Thinker

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