2016 MLB thread. THE CUBS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE! Chicago Cubs are your 2016 World Series champions

[jewbacca2]

The ASG voting is such a joke

@Ken_Rosenthal: The #Royals’ Omar Infante has the lowest OPS of any qualified hitter in the majors.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

Mets DFA'd Gee supposedly.

Bud Black fired apparently.

Mets overplayed their hand with Gee. Padres are incredibly unreasonable to fire Black like it's his fault he only had two good hitters and two good pitchers.

 

[d3si]

Brian Monzo ‏@BMonzoWFAN · 6m6 minutes ago
Dillon Gee didn't screw the Mets. The Mets screwed the Mets.

Meh

I believe Gee pitched terrible on purpose to get out of the Mets clubhouse.

Rangers might pick him up.

 

[jewbacca2]

CSF and Vandy are finishing the game they started last night on ESPN2 right now if y'all want some baseball to watch.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

No one pitches poorly on purpose. But best believe Gee hasn't been focused through all of this and it showed in his inability to execute.

 

[nick.]

haven't had seeds in years....BBQ & Ranch >>>>


also i hate fan voting...it's the NL vs the Royals & Mike Trout

 

[finallyfamous]

Ranch da GOAT in everything.

 

[jewbacca2]

Ranch da GOAT in everything.

 

[pacificnorsewst]

I have seeds all the time in summer. I can handle the flavored seeds, but still prefer original.

 

[madj55]

Desmond batting 9th tonight , but :x at how far he's fallen.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

100 million

 

[nick.]

Williams should bench Desmond for a game. let him get his mind right & his confidence back.

 

[d3si]

On June 15 in Baseball History...

1928 - Ty Cobb, 41 years old, steals home for the 50th and final time in his 24-year career to extend his major league record. It comes in the eighth inning against the Indians. In a 12-5 Tiger win, Veach, Crawford and Cobb team up for a triple steal.

1931 - Cut-down day for major league rosters brings the retirement of Eddie Collins and Harry Heilmann. Collins becomes a coach for the A's. Heilmann will return briefly to the Reds in 1932.

1938 - Johnny Vander Meer stuns baseball by pitching his second successive no-hitter, defeating the Dodgers 6-0, as Brooklyn plays the first night game ever at Ebbets Field. In front of 38,748 fans, including spectator Babe Ruth, Vandy strikes out seven and walks eight, including three walks in the ninth. A force at home and a fly ball end the game.

1948 - The Detroit Tigers beat the Philadelphia Athletics 4-1 before a crowd of 54,480 in the first night game at Briggs Stadium. The Tigers are the last A.L. team to install lights.

1949 - Eddie Waitkus of the Phillies is shot by 19-year-old Ruth Steinhagen at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel. She will later be placed in a mental hospital. Waitkus battles for his life and will come back to play the following season.

1953 - Duane Pillette of the St. Louis Browns ends the Yankees' win streak at 18 and the Browns' team record 14-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory in Yankee Stadium. Johnny Mize becomes the 93rd player in baseball history to get 2,000 hits when he singles in the Yankees' run in the fifth.

1961 - The expansion Senators are 30-30 after winning today. It is the latest date an expansion team will be at .500. Washington will lose it next 10 games.

1965 - Tigers pitcher Denny McLain makes a first-inning relief appearance and fans the first seven batters he faces, setting a major league record. He has 14 strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings as Detroit rallies to beat Boston 6-5. Bill Freehan has a record-tying 19 putouts at catcher.

1969 - The Mets help their power needs by adding first baseman Donn Clendenon. The 33-year-old had refused a January trade that would send him from Montreal to Houston, but he agrees to go to New York. The Expos receive Steve Renko, Kevin Collins, and two minor leaguers. The Expos also purchase pitcher **** Radatz from the Tigers.

1976 - Rain out! The scheduled game at the Astrodome is canceled when heavy rains make it difficult for the visiting team and umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium.

1977 - New York fans are in shock as the Mets trade ace pitcher Tom Seaver to the Reds. In return they get pitcher Pat Zachry, infielder Doug Flynn, and minor leaguers Steve Henderson and Dan Norman. The Mets also trade slugger Dave Kingman to the Padres for utility player Bobby Valentine and a minor league pitcher.

1983 - In what will turn out to be a terrible trade for St. Louis, the Cardinals trade first baseman Keith Hernandez to the Mets for pitchers Neil Allen and Rick Ownbey.

1992 - Jeff Reardon of the Red Sox breaks Rollie Fingers' all-time save record with No. 342 in a 1-0 win over the Yankees.

1997 - In one of the more surprising developments of the first weekend of interleague baseball, the Orioles complete a sweep of the Braves at Turner Field on Lenny Webster's tenth inning home run off Mark Wohlers. One byproduct of interleague play that wasn't a surprise was the increase at the turnstiles. Attendance was up nearly 10,000 per game for the weekend, and the Mariners averaged 52,074 for their four interleague games in the Kingdome.

Awesome. I love today in baseball history.

I will post today in baseball history everyday from now.

 

[nick.]

please do

love reading stuff like that

 

[brendasdeadbaby]

Anybody been to a Marlins game? How's the stadium? Might go see them play the Giants while I'm there in a few weeks.

 

[mr marcus]

100 million

so glad that clown passed on the offer 

 

[jewbacca2]

 
so glad that clown passed on the offer 

 

[jewbacca2]

http://regressing.deadspin.com/the-rays-hope-to-save-their-pitchers-with-new-high-tech-1711433742

 

[jewbacca2]

Jason Heyward's little bro plays for Miami.

strong DNA from those parents 

 

[madj55]

Anybody been to a Marlins game? How's the stadium? Might go see them play the Giants while I'm there in a few weeks.

Feels like an indoor swimming pool/mall, but it's really nice. Cleanest bathrooms I've ever been to in a stadium The in between inning entertainment is horrendous, if you see their dance team come out just head to the bathroom or take a walk around the stadium.

Williams should bench Desmond for a game. let him get his mind right & his confidence back.

He did give him a day off, and he proceeded to strike out in 9 out of his next 10 ABs.

"In 58 games with the Padres' Double-A team in San Antonio, Turner hit .322/.385/.471 with five home runs and 11 stolen bases."

He keeps this up and Desmond keeps sucking I wouldn't be shocked if he gets called up and Ian sees the door.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

they should trade Desmond to the Yankees.

 

[jewbacca2]

"In 58 games with the Padres' Double-A team in San Antonio, Turner hit .322/.385/.471 with five home runs and 11 stolen bases."

I hit a homer there in HS. Scrapped the back of the wall

 

[nick.]

they should trade Desmond to the Yankees.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

 

[macbk]

Got home today from my vaca to Miami. Was reading a Yankees book and that wound up striking up a convo for the plane ride with Adam Conley's wife. Had no clue who he was until she name dropped; he made is debut June 10th with the Marlins. Reliever, and he's already been optioned back to AAA. Feel really bad considering she's been traveling all over this past week with a newborn, and his major league stint is short lived for the time being. Guess that's just protocol for a baseball wife.

Thought it was cool that she told me the reason why Miami promoted Jennings to be manager is because they still have money owed to Ozzie Guillen and Redmond. So instead of taking on a 3rd contract, they went to Jennings internally.