I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)

[UK Redsox]

Game 3 of the ALCS was a cracker, with Cleveland winning after extra innings

https://www.espn.co.uk/mlb/game/_/gameId/401701052/yankees-guardians

[Meanwood Villa]

Whatever has replaced "Go Tribe"

Dodgers looking ominous in NLCS.

[UK Redsox]

Still plenty of people in the stands wearing Cleveland Indians gear.

With the team having rebranded, doing so is a conscious choice to be culturally inappropriate and historically inaccurate, bordering on racist

[UK Redsox]

Twenty years ago today, the Red Sox completed 'The Comeback'

New Netflix documentary coming this week

Meanwhile, here in 2024, the Yankees are in their first World Series since 2009 having defeated Cleveland

[Hillbilly]

Good run for the Mets. But now it’s all about the Dodgers because f**k the Yankees.

[Meanwood Villa]

Game 1 ends with a grand slam walk off home run for Los Angeles

[UK Redsox]

Dodgers 2-0 up, but Shohei being injured is a bit of a worry.

[UK Redsox]

Yesssssssss

[UK Redsox]

Who's on First ?

Not Gerrit Cole, that's for sure. He just pointed at it 

[AV82EC]

Who's on First ?

Not Gerrit Cole, that's for sure. He just pointed at it 

I’m envisaging this is like Man Yew losing the Champions League final Redsox?

[UK Redsox]

The problem with this Yankee team is, as I've said before, they seem a likeable bunch .......apart from Jazz Chisholm, who appears to be a nob of the highest order

[UK Redsox]

I'm two (out of three) episodes into the 2004 Red Sox documentary on Netflix.

Whilst acknowledging that Cut Schilling is a nasty piece of work*; in terms of the 'bloody sock' he comes across very well in the doc and I have begrudging respect for him regarding that specific game.


* in business, in politics and by revealing the Wakefields' illnesses

[UK Redsox]

The 2025 season will see two Major League teams playing their home games in Minor League ballparks.

The Athletics will playing in Sacramento for at least three seasons, until their new home in Vegas is built (if that ever happens)

Due to the damage to Tropicana Field during the recent hurricane, the Tampa Rays will now play at Steinbrenner Field, the Spring Training site of the Yankees.

The aim is for this to just be for 2025, but I really don't see the point in spending an estimated $55m on repairing the Trop, when it's due to be replaced in a few years.

Having said that, I wouldn't fancy being a a daytime game at Steinbrenner Field in July/August. That'll be oppressively hot.

[UK Redsox]

Jan Soto's 15 year, $765 contract with the New York Mets is official after he passed the physical

https://www.mlb.com/news/juan-soto-agrees-to-contract-with-mets-sources

You know it must be a big story when baseball makes the BBC website

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/baseball/articles/c62ze3kgjn3o

[cdbearsfan]

Don't they have salary caps in baseball?