Dreamcast 96: The Dream Matchup

Let's do a quick check-in on how Rob Manfred feels about a Yankees-Dodgers matchup. pic.twitter.com/OQVrmhKm52

— Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) October 21, 2024

Good, not great.

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Jason Kendall!

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Dammit Cubs, now you can’t even trade him

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/10/nico-hoerner-undergoes-flexor-tendon-surgery.html

https://bsky.app/profile/noahs.bsky.social/post/3l6w2ibojgj2m

me: yeah I went to a montresor school

him: you mean a montessori school?

me (stacking bricks and mortar): no

Casey McGehee!

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I’m proud of Enrique Wilson for CHC-NYY.

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Obviously the 2025 Cubs will need to convince Shota Imanaga to change his name to “Will Smith”

https://x.com/castrovince/status/1848777206392062129?t=kHYmTKfgJoMu6vYjmykT8A&s=19

RIP Fernando Valenzuela

https://x.com/jazayerli/status/1848936775202361532?t=CxkE7qkVq5xemIPjmkOZjA&s=19

Tough rarity for those teams on 30 SB.

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The new check swing review system they’re testing is potentially cool but looks like it could use some tweaking based on the sample shown here

https://x.com/jnorris427/status/1849115891427873091?t=6qX1QrrIvF1mv6DM7WKH4g&s=19

Pirates and Nats legend Lastings Milledge

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Rice Cube,

I also used Milledge. Surprised to see him up at 2%.

Robert Saleh —–> chillin in Green Bay

I’ve been putting on more background 2016 Cubs postseason games, and the guy I miss the most from that team now has swapped from Rizzo to Dexter Fowler. Immaculate vibes.

berselius,

Fowler did feel like a spark the team never really got back after 2016. Hendricks will probably always be my favorite. When they played him off to a reprise of “Sweet Emotion” before Chapman took the mound in NLCS, chills every time.

The Rockies are my Waterloo today.

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Everyone who remembered Greinke and Mike Hampton won Silver Sluggers are special breeds

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This will be fun

https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2024/10/24/mlb-will-test-automated-balls-and-strikes-challenge-system-in-spring-training/

Should see if Harry is still around since I’ve talked to him a couple times on the pod about tracking pitches

Nobody ever suspects the Infield Predator.

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Sasaki-san is relatively memorable

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https://x.com/cardinals_live/status/1849651013143159077

Breaking: The Cardinals have officially informed Nolan Arenado that they plan on trading the All Star 3B this winter. #stlcards

👀

The last member of the Analytics Cylinder Club is no longer a Chicago Bear

berselius,

Hard to be good at football if you can’t catch the ball

This game really breezing along with the lack of offense

Offense happened

One asks why anyone would ever throw a hittable pitch to Stanton again

yankEEs

The game is only tied because the Yankees defense is derp

ED ads feel quaint and nostalgic vs the deluge of sports betting and racist and /or anti-trans political ads

16 inning game LFG

Loooooooool the reaction of the fans around that guy who pulled the Jeffrey Maier

The Dodgers fan may have helped save his team here

Hmm, that was certainly a play

Decent drama for a low scoring game

Yes….ha ha ha…Yes!

16 inning dream alive

Goddamn great catch verdugo

Frederick!

No doubt no doubt no doubt

Woow

Freddy was looking for that pitch and oh boy did he get it

Update: now rooting for every game to end in a walkoff grand slam

Same spot as the Gibson homer

I brought in a non-reliever who hadn't pitched in five weeks to face multiple Hall of Fame hitters in some of the highest-leverage plate appearances in baseball history. AMA

— Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) October 26, 2024

berselius,

I think the Yankees problem was more their defense, this game probably shouldn’t have gone to extras and in extras they probably should’ve gotten at least the Edman out

Wherein Cubs legend John Mabry appears

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Jake Fox!

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Snoozing early in this game

Edman, of course

Kind of wish the Cubs could put together a competitive offer for Soto

Oops

Can’t believe that Kiké Hernandez only made his debut in 2014. It feels like he’s been in the league for like 25 years.

(mostly watching 🦡🦡🦡 for bragging rights over my PSU attending brother and boss)

The Shohei potential injury is worrisome

Come on, Tony.

Tony the hbp king

berselius,

Treinen seems like he’s been around forever too, feels weird to see him closing out games in 2024

berselius,

(Dude is also super rw conspiracy theory pilled, even by pro baseball player standards)

Stupid Dodgers

Yankees have won 4 in a row after going down 0-2 before 👀

Must have missed this gem when I turned away from the TV for a moment

https://x.com/lesley_n0pe/status/1850362944015544377?t=BfTYb6ZoboifkHlf2e_0PQ&s=19

First time using Edwin Jackson in a while and he burns me

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Lot of people remembered Andrew Miller.

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Didn’t expect the Bears to lose so spectacularly

Oh no bears, I hadn’t seen the replay

Trying to decide if I want to cook dinner by cooking hotdogs over my phone opened to the BN comments (dying laughing)

berselius,

Your phone might melt

The nice thing about a loss like that is I have a nice vacation from any sports radio or tv commentary for a week. I heard the play on the radio and won’t even watch it, like one of those gruesome broken-leg replays. I just can’t imagine wanting to hear what anyone has to say about it.

Shaq is on an all time marketing heater, managing to make me feel good thoughts to things as repugnant as printers, cruises, and papa John’s pizza (dying laughing)

Double oh no bears, I just saw the lowlight with the cb jawing with the crowd from the field while the Hail Mary was happening

RIP to the score and espn 1000s radio transmitters, they’re gonna melt

Burned by Fernando Rodney

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berselius,

I think between that, the half-assed prevent defense, and them actually letting a receiver get behind the wall, they kind of deserved that result unfortunately

Woot

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Shohei gonna play

Yankees not looking so hot first time through

Could I outrun Giancarlo Stanton?

berselius,

Freddie Freeman might, bad ankle and all

Have to say I didn’t expect a potential sweep

Mike Fontenot!

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Rice Cube,

I was looking forward to an exciting series after game 1 but the last two games have been slogs.

Thor and Starlin were more popular than I expected.

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Would be something of a miracle if the Yankees got this thing sent back to LA

Rooting for the (ugh) Yankees tonight, only because I don’t want to see the freaking WS decided on a Johnny Wholestaff pitching game.

I really wish there was a law prohibiting negative ads and forcing politicians to tell me why I should vote for them rather than vote against their opponent

Yeah Frederick is winning the MVP

That fan and his friend really tried to steal the ball right out of Mookie’s glove

berselius:
Rooting for the (ugh) Yankees tonight, only because I don’t want to see the freaking WS decided on a Johnny Wholestaff pitching game.

Rizzo 3 HR game pls

Yankees found some offense

Game 5 seems likely…for now

Will Venable –> managing White Sox

Darwin Barney’s the landmine at 2%.

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There is apparently an article about the idiots who tried to mug Mookie last night and the caption I saw suggests that the Yankees haven’t banned him from the park yet which is just bonkers.

I put Darwin Barney in the lower right and used Bobby Shantz for the Cubs

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Rice Cube,

Not a great moment but I still find myself rolling my eyes more at the pearl-clutching dodgers fans than I am at the Yankees.

https://abc7.com/bryan-stow-giants-fan-attacked-dodger-stadium-beaten-at-the-ballpark/13756451/

high horse etc etc

(mostly I just have an extreme dislike for Molly Knight, who most people are reskeeting in my TL)

This was a great piece on sports betting from Arif

https://www.wideleft.football/p/has-legalized-gambling-poisoned-the

It’s kind of annoying that those yahoos are getting their money back

https://x.com/JesseRogersESPN/status/1851662719176311041?t=nebFLbfxU48eMFwtsrWVZQ&s=19

Forfeiting the $ should have been part of the consequences

I’m not sure why all this uproar is making me actually lean towards the Yankees at this point (dying laughing). Must be Nate Silver trollish contrarianism in the air.

Could be fun if he did indeed opt out

https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2024/10/30/two-more-reports-share-a-general-feeling-that-cody-bellinger-will-opt-out/

Go sports team

Papi says Dodgers
ARod and Jeter say Yankees

Feel like there’s a bias but theoretically Cole can pitch better than Flaherty so it’ll be up to the bullpens methinks

That short porch tho

And just like that, another bullpen game by the Dodgers

(dying laughing) Yankees (dying laughing) (dying laughing) (dying laughing)

Ruh roh

Five unearned runs!

Gotta root for the Yankees tonight to ensure DodgersInFive isn’t right 8 years after the fact

Dodgers NOBL 👀

They did not NOBLETIGER and now the Yankees are in trouble

Imagine putting all your hopes into Yankees Mark Leiter Jr but he pulled through

welp grats to Shohei and Dekopin and no one else

The Dodgers did not blow a 3-1 lead

Transaction season shall begin now

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/10/manfred-mlb-to-test-ball-strike-challenge-system-in-spring-training.html

At least the offseason begins tomorrow.

Frederick, as expected

Solution for the Cubs is to get one of their guys to change their name to Will Smith

https://x.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1851839876443816291?t=pPOza6rLCWUCAmCpn2KqWg&s=19

Your reminder that the Cubs start the season against the World Series champions again

https://x.com/amartinez_11/status/1851835336516575248?t=QAQDOjBrOt5FV0K2dg7jug&s=19

Hee

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It’s that time of year

Not bad.

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New offseason poo –> https://www.obstructedview.net/let-the-offseason-begin/