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

[madj55]

Paper champs is a joke, but the real joke is acting like the Nats didn't underachieve

No one has said they didn't underachieve. This is the most disappointing team I've seen in my lifetime, but the warning signs were there

 

[jewbacca2]

No one has said they didn't underachieve. This is the most disappointing team I've seen in my lifetime, but the warning signs were there

Glad that's cleared up

 

[nick.]

 

 

Big Papi's dream career is to be a porn star 

Gets a 100k offer the next day after the interview 

Seriously?

Yea, it was a really creepy interview and an even weirder TMZ article

it's gonna be called "Big Papi's Slugger" and it's gonna be him in scenes with 4 - 5 women because he's a dude who needs more than 1.

The **** man

@DeadsetAce  already stocking up on the Jergens 

 

[d3si]

High Heat Stats MLB ‏@HighHeatStats · Sep 23
Only 4 franchises in MLB history have played in more World Series games than Yogi Berra did by himself:

:x

I haven't posted Today in MLB History lately.

So I will post a cool video about MLB history.

 

[mr marcus]

Nats been underachieving

This kenmore sponsored analysis is tickling me

Who reallyyyyyy thought Matt ******* Williams was gonna help manage this team to success

 

[proshares]

Yea, it was a really creepy interview and an even weirder TMZ article it's gonna be called "Big Papi's Slugger" and it's gonna be him in scenes with 4 - 5 women because he's a dude who needs more than 1.

The **** man

For real? He's actually going to do it?

IDK man I really hope not he said that would be his dream job though.

 

[jewbacca2]

Teams have won despite terrible managers

Ron Washington for example

 

[madj55]

They won despite Williams last year, until he had to make critical moves in the playoffs and ****** up

Hope we can scoop Dave Martinez from the Cubs this off-season.

 

[d3si]

I'd be shocked if Big Papi actually does it.

$100 k is nothing to him anyway. I just notice something. Doesn't David have his own family?

 

[DeadsetAce]

 

 

Big Papi's dream career is to be a porn star 


Gets a 100k offer the next day after the interview 

Seriously?

Yea, it was a really creepy interview and an even weirder TMZ article it's gonna be called "Big Papi's Slugger" and it's gonna be him in scenes with 4 - 5 women because he's a dude who needs more than 1.


The **** man

@DeadsetAce
 already stocking up on the Jergens 

 

[suavamente]

Teams have won despite terrible managers

Ron Washington for example

 Don't hate on Ron... I agree though

Watch him become the A's manager in the coming years 

I'd be shocked if Big Papi actually does it.

$100 k is nothing to him anyway. I just notice something. Doesn't David have his own family?

He won't do it right now 

Maybe 10 years down the line when he doesn't have sponsorships and aint playing

 

[d3si]

I have no clue that Robinson Cano collected his 2,000th hit last night. He played 11 seasons total and already has 2,000 hits. That's impressive.

 

[mr marcus]

Teams have won despite terrible managers

Ron Washington for example

hey no Ron slander

for a drug abuser he was pretty @ managing

 

[madj55]

I have no clue that Robinson Cano collected his 2,000th hit last night. He played 11 seasons total and already has 2,000 hits. That's impressive.

Had no clue Cano was having such a great second half. People were writing him off after his terrible numbers in the first half and he bounced back really well.

 

[nick.]

Cano 

come home papi

 

[macbk]

Cano 

come home papi

Don't slander Stephen Drew like dis .

 

[nick.]

i would drive Stephen Drew across the country to Seattle if it meant we'd get Cano back 

 

[d3si]

Top 15 Longest Home Runs in MLB History Recorded on Video

Spoiler: 15. Glenallen Hill -500 Feet

15. Glenallen Hill
-500 Feet-

Glenallen Hill was playing for the Chicago Cubs when he smashed this monstrous 500 foot home run out of the park against the Milwaukee Brewers. It went so far as to land across the street, on the rooftops of the homes behind the left field fence. Just listen to the announcers in the video, they were amazed. Glenallen Hill would go on to hit just 11 HR’s that season for the Cubs, so I guess he had saved it all up for that one swing.

Spoiler: 14. Manny Ramirez -501 Feet

14. Manny Ramirez
-501 Feet-

In a home game for the Red Sox at Fenway Park, Ramirez got around on an offering from Blue Jay left-hander Chris Michalak and made sure he didn’t miss a single piece of it. He crushed it off of the light fixture high above the green monster in left field and atop of the Coca-Cola bottles that sit just below the lights. It was his second home run of the day and one of his 41 homers in his first year in Boston. Manny’s 12 total years of 30+ home runs were no fluke, even if he had a little bit of help.

Spoiler: 13. Cecil Fielder -502 Feet

13. Cecil Fielder
-502 Feet-

While on the road with the Tigers, in a game against the Brewers, Fielder crushed a ball literally above and beyond the stadium. His sweet smash off of Brewers lefty Dan Plesac made its way out onto the concourse behind the left-field stands. It was just another moment of power displayed by the brooding first baseman with his 41st of 44 home runs that season for Detroit, in what would be the early part of a short, successful career.

Spoiler: 12. Richie Sexson -503 Feet

12. Richie Sexson
-503 Feet-

This blast from another massive first baseman was as sweet as his name. In a game for the D-backs back in 2004, Sexson delivered a bomb to straight away center field that could barely be followed by the cameraman. On its way down, in cranked off of the scoreboard located well above the playing surface on the second deck level of Chase Field. This blast from Sexson reminds us all why he’s not just one of the best names in sports, but that he was also a home run and RBI producer as well.

Spoiler: 11. Adam Dunn -504 Feet

11. Adam Dunn
-504 Feet-

In another Chase Field special, we have Adam Dunn seeking to hit 100 RBIs on the final days of the regular season. He came in one shy on September 27th and then took lefty Glendon Rusch for a ride, past centerfield. His eight in D 40th of the season was a solo shot that gave him the century mark on a blast to the deepest part of the park, beating Sexson’s blast from four years earlier by a foot.

Spoiler: 10. Mo Vaughn -505 Feet

10. Mo Vaughn
-505 Feet-

Mo Vaughn was a solid middle of the order man throughout his career and even topped 40 homers a pair of times while with Boston. While his career was on the decline with the Mets in 2002, Mo still provided the faithful with a blast from the past at Shea in their June 26th matchup with Atlanta. His moonshot was an estimated 505 feet, one of his 26 on the season upon his return from missing the previous year due to injury. It would be the last big blast we would see from Mo, but boy was she a rocket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUA6HV3jX4o

Spoiler: 9. Jim Thome -511 Feet

9. Jim Thome
-511 Feet-

When he came to the plate to hit this blast, he was already established as a power hitter, so no one was shocked when he cranked this ball out of the yard. On July 3rd, 1999, Jim Thome destroyed Kansas City Royals righty Don Wengert’s offering to the deepest part of center, and then some. The ball left the building, literally ending up on Eagle Avenue beyond the center field backdrop and bouncing through the streets. This was just one of Thome’s 612 career bombs, most of which were hit in his time in Cleveland, but none as far as this absolute thwacking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1aS5ZBq4Xo

Spoiler: 8. Mark McGwire -523 Feet

8. Mark McGwire
-523 Feet-

A man who will show up again on our list, not only did Mark McGwire break Roger Maris’ home run record, he was really smacking the ball out of the park. One of his biggest and farthest home runs came in an early season trip to Jacob’s Field on April 30th of 1997. McGwire drilled a pitch over the 19 foot fence and 23 rows of seating in left center field for one of the longest home runs in history. Surprisingly though, it would take exactly a month for another player that year to surpass his homer for longest homer. Talk about short lived glory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss9moiGqHCQ

Spoiler: 7. Darryl Strawberry -525 Feet

7. Darryl Strawberry
-525 Feet-

On April 4th, 1988, Darryl Strawberry opened the season for the Mets with this blast that on its way out to right field hit the top of the roof. The blast has been measured as a 525 foot home run from Strawberry, which ended being first the longest one of his 39 on the season. It was such a literal moonshot into the roof that it came down onto the field of play after smacking the top of the stadium like a bullet. This was one of the last years we got to see a healthy Strawberry on top of his game, but at least he went out with a bang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fvuk__F2Zw

Spoiler: 6. Andres Galarraga -529 Feet

6. Andres Galarraga
-529 Feet-

Coming off the heels of McGwire’s blast, this one on May 31st, 1997 had all the makings of a tape-measure shot. Galarraga slugged one of his 41 on the campaign deep to left field into the unmanned upper deck at the then-named Pro Player Stadium. Not only did he hit himself a mammoth home run, it was a grand slam to boot. Galarraga only really had three extreme power years, with over 40 home runs in 1996-98, so at least he managed to sneak a blast for the ages in there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ArDKjEr_EE

Spoiler: 5. Dave Kingman -530 Feet

5. Dave Kingman
-530 Feet-

This right handed power hitter was nicknamed “Kong” and he was a powerful hitter known for his multitude of strikeouts and his long home runs, his finest of which measured at 530 feet. It came against the Phillies at Wrigley Field while Kingsman was with the Cubs back in 1979. It happened in the midst of a 23-22 loss to the Phils on May 17th, a game where he hit a pair of home runs. Kingman’s second was a monstrous blast that found its way three houses deep on Waveland Avenue, before taking off down the street.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qijfudtUsR4

Spoiler: 4. Reggie Jackson -532 Feet

4. Reggie Jackson
-532 Feet-

During the 1971 All-Star Game from Detroit’s Tiger Stadium, “Mr. October” delivered a massive game changing three-run homer to right field that cleared the entirety of the stadium’s impressively high standing bleachers. The blast still stands over 40 years later as the longest homerun in MLB All-Star game history. Jackson went on to make a name for himself as a postseason darling and one of the most clutch players of all-time. This blast did nothing but help him earn worldwide recognition all the more sooner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2D9mBNnpUY

Spoiler: 3. Adam Dunn -535 Feet

3. Adam Dunn
-535 Feet-

This blast, the second on the list from Dunn, makes his first look like a chip shot and this time he may have used the driver. On August 10th of the 2004 season, Dunn connected on one of his 46 on the season and put himself in the top 3 for farthest dingers. He also became the only man, and still stands as so, to hit a ball clear out of The Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati. He hit the ball to the deepest part of the park in center-field, proving why he show up on our list twice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A77LRaVgpOs

Spoiler: 2. Mark McGwire -538 Feet

2. Mark McGwire
-538 Feet-

Like Dunn, McGwire hits our list for a second time with another blast from his days in Oakland. This one, however, came off Hall of Famer Randy Johnson. It happened on June 24th, 1996 when Big Mac took the big lefty way back to the upper level. No ever will (Kingdome is gone) repeat the feat, not that many seemingly had the ability to make such connections on that ball like McGwire could. This was just one of his 52 blasts on the campaign, a career high at that point for Mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stUolWxG3wo

Spoiler: 1. Jose Canseco -540 Feet

1. Jose Canseco
-540 Feet-

The original ridiculous long ball Athletic bat belonged to Jose Canseco. He started his career with the A’s and made himself known with a pair of 40 home run seasons. During the 1989 ALCS against the Toronto Blue Jays, after a shortened season held him to 65 games and just 17 homers, Canseco hit the longest home run of all-time. His massive fifth deck shot at the formerly named Skydome registers in at 540 feet, earning him sole possession of first place on our list of longest dingers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSGdfv13lwQ

 

[nick.]

540 ft 

 

[jewbacca2]

I'm calling BS on a lot of those distances

 

[mr marcus]

either way 

 at them shots 

 

[jewbacca2]

Yep :x

 

[johnnyredstorm]

I have no clue that Robinson Cano collected his 2,000th hit last night. He played 11 seasons total and already has 2,000 hits. That's impressive.

Had no clue Cano was having such a great second half. People were writing him off after his terrible numbers in the first half and he bounced back really well.

MLB Network did the math, 6 years, 170 average gets him over 3,000.

 

[jjs07]

Once again with the paper champs why do people get so agitated by that? Who cares who picks who to win the WS? That literally has no bearing on the final outcome yet you're using a prediction as some sort of fact. According to your logic everyone is an idiot for not picking the Royals or Giants to represent the AL/NL in the World Series last year.

At the end of the day, both of them are equally as bad. The Nats miss the playoffs and so do the Orioles. As a ******** and Caps fan I thought you'd understand the game isn't played on paper but I guess not.

My logic? Nah, bruh....

Your own players were talking about rings and ****. This was supposed to be your year. You know this. And you also know GD well that the hype surrounding this team was out of control going into the year. Has NOTHING to do w/ ESPN.

Meh, who cares. Two loser teams. Orioles did the same **** earlier in the year, didn't hear any talk of suspending Jimenez.

Well, we weren't the squad getting fitted for world series rings back in April.

Oh you're one of them basic fans ESPN targets before every season

Bum team and bum fans. Exhibit A^

 

[proshares]

Well congrats to Cano, I'm hoping he enjoys it on whatever golf course Seattle has locked down in October for the next decade.

Sorry, Pabs.