The 2015 Baseball Thread

Bison · October 30, 2015, 10:42:03 PM

I can tolerate most of the regular baseball guys with the notiable exceptions of Bob Costas and that other blowhard what's his name... Keith Uberdoucheman.

MetalDog · October 30, 2015, 10:52:33 PM

I liked Olbermann when he was a Sportscenter anchor. And the fact that he's a HUGE Yankee fan AND his love of baseball all work in his favor. Unfortunately, he has to open his mouth to say how much he loves those things. And sometimes, other stuff, much more disagreeable comes out. And that kills it for me.

MetalDog · October 31, 2015, 07:51:09 PM

Mets up 1 nothing in the bottom of the Third!

MetalDog · October 31, 2015, 08:46:41 PM

Conforto's got two solo bombs! Mets up 3-1 top 6.

MetalDog · October 31, 2015, 10:39:01 PM

Kansas City is just relentless. Like Harold Reynolds said, "KC is like a shark that smells blood in the water." Bastards.

Bison · October 31, 2015, 10:39:06 PM

Good game. Poor trolling. :P

MetalDog · October 31, 2015, 10:42:03 PM

Suck it, Royal lover :P

Bison · October 31, 2015, 10:51:03 PM

You forgot the "s". It's Royals.

MetalDog · October 31, 2015, 11:05:30 PM

You say "Royals

I say "One game away from World Champs"

Whatevs

Arctic Blast · November 01, 2015, 11:25:46 PM

Kansas City are like baseball playing Terminators. They don't stop. They just keep coming.

MetalDog · November 01, 2015, 11:33:51 PM

Sharks smelling blood. I knew if Harvey didn't have a 'Jack Morris' moment, I was going to pull for KC to just end it. They deserve it.

Bison · November 02, 2015, 12:35:09 AM

MetalDog · November 02, 2015, 06:54:28 AM

Congrats to the Royals! They certainly are worthy champs!!

bayonetbrant · November 02, 2015, 07:08:24 AM

Well done to KC.

Marty Ward · November 02, 2015, 08:04:50 AM

Quote from: MetalDog on October 30, 2015, 06:37:54 PM
Quote from: Bison on October 30, 2015, 12:15:48 PM
Yeah I'm trying to think of someone in the hall who shouldn't be and off the top of my head I cannot name one.

Bill Mazeroski

Phil Rizzuto

Pee Wee Reese

There's three off the top of my head.

Maz got in due to fielding, .983 fielding percentage in over 2000 games and 8 gold gloves. His other stats are not impressive.
Pee Wee turned a lot of DP's, averaged ~100 per year for 6 straight years, stole a lot of bases for the time period (led league with 30 one year) but not much else stands out.
Rizzuto seems to have had one really good year, batted .342 won AL MVP and Major League MPV. Other than that not a lot stands out.
Part of the criteria to get elected is character so maybe that is what got Pee Wee and Rizzuto in. That and playing in NY!