Major League Baseball (Part 1)

The Clippers were the favorite at points this season.

You can take it tongue-in-cheek, like a scorned Mets fan, or as a compliment. It’s understandable being defensive tho.

Now you get ALL TEH JASON BAYS!!1!

I’m mainly getting at that I will forever be bitter at the NFL for killing my old favorite team, and I refuse the idiocy that the other team in So-Fi has any connection, including a name I will no longer use forever.

The symmetry is the both the Basketball Clippers & Football Clippers moved to LA to be second bananas forever.

KBO playoffs start tonight!

seeds:

  1. Dinos
  2. Wiz
  3. Bears
  4. Twins
  5. Heroes

10 PM Pacific start tonight, but the weekday games will start too late to follow here. Yay baseball.

Lost in all the election night hoopla:

fuck yeah. Well-deserved. At least something is going right!

https://twitter.com/Reds/status/1323804665558028289?s=20

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Just when you thought MLB couldn’t be worse at fan outreach, let’s announce the GG winners during the most contentious election in history.

Unless they’ve changed the way it’s awarded, GG is a notoriously bullshit award that most fans couldn’t give two shits about.

Hopefully that is shifting as the voters get more savvy at reading data.

Alex Cora going back to the Red Sox.

So all the cheaters will be once again gainfully employed in 2021. Great sport you got here.

Pete Rose still banned for life.

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Pete Rose is an asshole and can eat a bag of dicks.

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They’re all assholes that is not the point.

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https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1325982315823116288?s=21

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He passed out at a stop sign when he was the manager of STL.

I’m not into baseball like I used to be but Rafael Palmeiro winning while playing like 20 games at the position (was mainly DH) is when it really jumped the shark.

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Hes old school.

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FUCK YES

https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1326673331215544321?s=20

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He’s new school.

That is pretty surprising. I assume Darvish was a huge favorite if there was a line on this but the voting wasn’t even close.

Bauers ERA being under 2 is one of those things that might drive disproportionate award voting.

Right. I offset that a bit with WINS and/or the possibility (hope) we were beyond sort_by_ERA.

The abbreviated season really steals the thunder from counting stats. Everyone knows 20 wins makes a good season. 8 wins is meh.

I didn’t check any lines, not sure if there were any, but Bauer was a big favorite based on people talking about it.