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The 2012 MLB Season Thread
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I see Baltimore maybe going all the way this year. They are clicking at just the right time. The Yankees are limping in, they should have swept Toronto. The fact that it was a challenge does not bode well.Congrats, Texas did it, or helped you!
Texas in, Yanks in, and Orioles in.
Yay, we made the "playoffs"
So what happens if the Yanks and Baltimore are tied come Wednesday?
So what happens if the Yanks and Baltimore are tied come Wednesday?
They look tough and it's good timing for them. Don't count Texas out, either on AL side. It should be fun.
On NL, it looks like anybody's season, but Naionals have the slight momentum.
That's not a good way to start the last 3 days of the season.... O's team plane makes an emergency landing in Jacksonville due to a small fire.
http://tracking.si.com/2012/10/01/orioles-team-plane-emergency-landing-fire/?hpt=hp_t3
Also, read on a baseball forum I visit that Mo was on a local NYC radio show recently and he is now unsure on his return next year. Rehab not going so well? It will suck that this is how Mo's career ends.
http://tracking.si.com/2012/10/01/orioles-team-plane-emergency-landing-fire/?hpt=hp_t3
Also, read on a baseball forum I visit that Mo was on a local NYC radio show recently and he is now unsure on his return next year. Rehab not going so well? It will suck that this is how Mo's career ends.
Congrats to all whose teams clinched today - Yankees, Orioles, Rangers. Should be a good postseason battle in general with some new teams getting a shot. In other news, the Red Sox clinched a protected top 10 pick with their continued suckitude. So...there's that. 
I'm ready for the regular season to end so I can be released from this near-daily torment of watching the team formerly known as my baseball team stink out the joint.
That would honestly make me sad. Let's hope he makes some strides and gets through the bumps and changes his mind. He deserves an appropriate send off, even from the Fenway faithful.
I'm ready for the regular season to end so I can be released from this near-daily torment of watching the team formerly known as my baseball team stink out the joint.That would honestly make me sad. Let's hope he makes some strides and gets through the bumps and changes his mind. He deserves an appropriate send off, even from the Fenway faithful.
You're talking about the 2013 Dodgers right?
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Think the Fenway faithful would be classy? Or would their last hurrah for Mo be signs and chants of, " Thanks for 2004".
Think the Fenway faithful would be classy? Or would their last hurrah for Mo be signs and chants of, " Thanks for 2004".
Oh come on, you shouldn't even have to ask this one. We may have our mutual hatred usually, but you know they'd treat him fairly. As you would any respected nemesis.
And even Mo had a sense of humor about that particular ovation.
Oh come on, you shouldn't even have to ask this one. We may have our mutual hatred usually, but you know they'd treat him fairly. As you would any respected nemesis.
And even Mo had a sense of humor about that particular ovation.
True, you're not Phillies fans.
Anyway, if it comes down to a Nationals vs Orioles WS, go Nationals. DC deserves it more than Baltimore. Plus, Baltimore sucks anyway.
That would be my ideal WS when the Yanks get knocked out.Any others have Panoramic shots of their stadium to share?
This one is from the 29 Sept Cards vs Nats @ Busch Stadium. Fun game, but Cards lost
Hopefully we have similar results with the Reds. Don't want to give up our slot to the Dodgers!
Hey, I will take that. The Nats are the go-to team and to split a two game series is OK. Maybe the Nats will come down to earth and stop playing this Cinderella story. If my Giants make it that far and meet the Nats, I just don't have a good feeling about it. I hope the Nats are eliminated early in this whole postseason, and on the AL side the Rangers are beaten. While the Nats can only show that they have this good/great season, the Rangers are definitely a mini-dynasty and if they hold onto people (big, big if), they can be full fledged in their dominance in NL like the '90s Braves.
For hard core Giants fans, they may see us as a dynasty in the making but several things happened that let us win in it all in 2010 beyond the good players the team had/has. We barely scraped by in regular season getting into postseason at last game. The NLDS and NLCS was as much about the other teams having errors and bad games as much as it was for SF being really "that" good. And in WS, Texas was a rising power, no doubt, but obviously not as gelled as in 2011 and 2012 when they became fully legit and downright scary as a team. We won on one part talent and maybe two parts luck, imho.
3 game series, Cards took 2
I can't complain even though the extra inning loss was disappointing after coming back to tie it in the 9th. Hopefully we can take at least 2 of 3 from Cincy. However, with a Cards win and a Dodgers loss tonight, we can clinch, and then rest our guys these last 2 games.
The only teams I want to see knocked out early are the Reds and Yankees, I can't stand either team. It would be nice to see Texas finally get a ring after the last two seasons (not that I'm disappointed in the outcome of the 2011 WS
) or to see Chipper's last act as a Brave a Game 7 walk off home run. But as long as it's not the Reds or Yankees, I'd be satisfied.You're talking about the 2013 Dodgers right?
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Think the Fenway faithful would be classy? Or would their last hurrah for Mo be signs and chants of, " Thanks for 2004".
More like 2020 dodgers
3 game series, Cards took 2
(not that I'm disappointed in the outcome of the 2011 WS
Just like you are not disappointed with your red team in 2011, I am similarly not disappointed with my prison orange team in 2010.
Texas looks to be top dog in AL and it may be theirs to lose. I remember back when another southern team went to 5 WS (but I recall 4, but who's counting) in a decade taking one and thus arguably making them the best non-Yankee team in modern era baseball also taking into account their amazing hitting and deep pitching staff. I won't mention that team's name since they are a threat to my Giants. Anyway, if things stay the same you will face that still good NL team of the '90s then have to face the Nats. I don't envy you. We (SF) have to face the Reds and that seems fairly well matched up but not far from reach. If you get past the Braves, then Nats, then maybe you may come up upon us. That will be a great series with 2011's team going against 2010's team. But that may be all in context with the winner of that going against what I think is 2012's team on the AL side, the ever increasing Rangers. While I don't like their uniforms and I despise a former owner they once had, they are still a class act.
If Texas takes it this year, they aren't done and I could picture them with four WS appearances this decade assuming they hang onto talent and the Yankees don't buy them off. Speaking about buying people off, if the Yanks win another WS, I will be happy for Ichiro to get a ring. He's perhaps the best overall player of his generation and a ring would be one of two remaining things to make his case for all-time greatest (the other being 3,000 hits). He's already hit the most in a regular season and achieved 10 years in a row of over 200 hits which is unmatched. His time is probably short in pro baseball, but he is likely to finish his career over .300 to boot.
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By the way, congratulations to the Oakland A's for getting a wildcard spot. Impressive considering the size of the A's payroll....
Go Dodgers, Go!
Down with the Cardinals!!! This wild-card race is really coming down to the wire - I just want my ulcers to go away already.
In a perfect world; Cards go on to lose tonight and tomorrow, Dodgers win both games to extended to an 8 game winning streak and secure their birth.
Down with the Cardinals!!! This wild-card race is really coming down to the wire - I just want my ulcers to go away already.
In a perfect world; Cards go on to lose tonight and tomorrow, Dodgers win both games to extended to an 8 game winning streak and secure their birth.
It's always been that way, Re: Moneyball. What's really sad is the amount of fans that turn out for their games - even when they are doing well.
Being a Giants fan, I wouldn't want to see LA come back from the brink of death, and then go on to possibly beat SF. But if LA pulls off the impossible, and the other contender wild card series lays an egg, then LA deserves the berth and possibly the whole year in baseball.
So LA has to beat SF tonight (with a Barry Zito pitching in his best SF Giants year) and also beat SF tomorrow. Simultaneously, the Cardinals have to lose two more. And if these four things happen 2W for LA and 2L for the Cardinals over next two days, won't they have to do a one game tie breaker or does LA automatically get into playoffs if they win tonight/tomorrow and Cardinals lose their remaining two games?
The Dodgers certainly had a great earlier and mid part of the season and then they declined some and may have lost contention, but of very late, they have become super hot. If they do go into the playoffs and with this type of momentum, they could win it all. SF got into the playoffs on the very last game of the regular season and took it all the way in 2010. That was a real ulcer ridden fall!
Update: While SF and LA is underway, the Cardinals are down and it's already the 7th inning. If they lose then three out of six things will have happened in these two series. Let's say, one outcome is 50% percent probability, all things being equal. Well, with your win and their loss that's 50% of 50% so starting today you got in the good 25% percent. If Cardinals lose, then you are still alive at around 12.5% percent probability that it would have gone that far. If my team loses against LA, then you got into the 6.25% region. Now win tomorrow, you odds were 3.125% percent, give or take, and the Cards lose their third, then your team who had about a 1.5% percent chance gets tied with St. Louis.
Taking into account all four teams' strengths and weaknesses, your odds according to MLB site are at 2.5% percent. I guess while not great, it's a lot better odds than winning the Lottery. If my team only had a 2.5% percent chance of making postseason, I wouldn't even dare hope and probably blog on football. As it stands with me being in the MLB playoffs, I won't even give a nod to football until something happens (good or bad) with Giants. I was so enthralled in all the action in MLB that I actually missed Monday Night Football for first time and didn't even care.
I wish your Dodgers luck, even if it's my team you are against. Giants are not only in, they locked up division and don't have to worry about wild card game.
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