2024 MLB Discussion

curtis325 said:
Whichever team wins game one will have no incentive in game two. Just rest all the best players. I'm sensing a split.
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If either team sweeps, they knock the other out of the playoffs. That’s plenty of incentive.

In addition, a Mets sweep gives them the five seed, and they’ve been much better against the Padres than the Brewers this year.
 
curtis325 said:
Whichever team wins game one will have no incentive in game two. Just rest all the best players. I'm sensing a split.
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If the Mets win game one, I wouldn’t expect to see Lindor or Diaz in game two. Everybody else would be available, including Alvarez.
 
burnspbesq said:
If either team sweeps, they knock the other out of the playoffs. That’s plenty of incentive.

In addition, a Mets sweep gives them the five seed, and they’ve been much better against the Padres than the Brewers this year.
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It’s a strange situation. Whichever team wins Game 1 will clinch a playoff spot. The very last thing they’ll want to do is turn around and play a whole nother game. I don’t know what to expect.
 
Why would the Braves want to knock the Mets out? They own them. If I were a Braves fan I’d much rather see them than the Dbacks.
 
cato said:
Doubling down on your poor form doesn’t make you right. It makes you even more off base.

Arraez has been playing with a torn ligament for months: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5692142/2024/08/09/padres-luis-arraez-thumb-injury-torn-ligament/

There is nothing to do for it during the season other than play through the pain and try to get rest here and there. The thing about it is that when he barrels the ball, it’s all good. It is the poor contact that makes him grimace in obvious pain.

He also bruised his knee a few weeks ago in an awkward slide into home.

He has been getting veteran’s days off (Sunday before a Monday day off, that type of thing) as the team gets prepped for the playoffs.

In LA, of course, the Padres were still playing for the division. The first game in Arizona, they were playing to secure the top Wild Card. Now that the Padres have settled their playoff position, it makes sense to sit a key player grinding through an injury.


Luis is also sitting on 199 hits, so I’m sure he rather be out there looking to secure 200.

But don’t let that stop you from typing up a really bad take and then clinging to it. Or maybe you should just take the insult back and acknowledge you didn’t know what you were talking about.
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Well your theory of him taking Sundays off before a day off Monday was wrong, as he played today. Your theory that he is hurting so with them having their playoff position settled, he would sit, was also wrong.

I don’t know why he didn’t play the other day. Neither do you. But hey, why miss the chance to either have a reasoned discussion or simply agree to disagree when you can turn it into an unprovoked personal attack on me? Nice job. Out.
 
tommy said:
Well your theory of him taking Sundays off before a day off Monday was wrong, as he played today. Your theory that he is hurting so with them having their playoff position settled, he would sit, was also wrong.

I don’t know why he didn’t play the other day. Neither do you. But hey, why miss the chance to either have a reasoned discussion or simply agree to disagree when you can turn it into an unprovoked personal attack on me? Nice job. Out.
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You insulted a player without knowing the story. I do know more about it than you do. You didn’t even know that he has a torn ligament in his thumb.

The only unprovoked personal attack was when you insulted a professional athlete without knowing the facts. All I did was call out your poor form.

Am I tired of people calling into question the character of sports players just because they have a keyboard and an opinion? Yes. I am.
 
Was hoping to drop by Chap's BBQ in Bmore before finding our seats for the Tuesday afternoon first pitch but no, now it's a fraught MNF game and at least two days of afternoon "diamond noise in the background" anxiety. Being a a Detroit fan has become a real job. A good job, but not an easy job.
 
cato said:
You insulted a player without knowing the story. I do know more about it than you do. You didn’t even know that he has a torn ligament in his thumb.

The only unprovoked personal attack was when you insulted a professional athlete without knowing the facts. All I did was call out your poor form.

Am I tired of people calling into question the character of sports players just because they have a keyboard and an opinion? Yes. I am.
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This is ironic, considering you (and several others in this thread) did the same thing with Ohtani earlier this season. I still haven’t seen you or anyone else here express any remorse for jumping to conclusions to call Ohtani’s character into question before the facts came out.
 
El_Diablo said:
This is ironic, considering you (and several others in this thread) did the same thing with Ohtani earlier this season. I still haven’t seen you or anyone else here express any remorse for jumping to conclusions to call Ohtani’s character into question before the facts came out.
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I don’t think I insulted him, but I did think the initial story was likely not the full story. The more I learned about it, the more it appeared that Ohtani was not involved and was purely the victim. I was wrong to think otherwise.
 
Oh, those poor downtrodden millionaires playing a game for a living! I stand in solidarity with them! Stop picking on them, please! Arraez, Ohtani, and all the others! 🙄
 
It must stink to be a Mariners fan since they got edged out of a playoff spot by one game by AL Central teams that got the benefit of playing a historically bad White Sox team many more times this year.
 
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