MLB General Discussion (Official Thread)

[ScriptOhio]

Logos for the reverse of team names (via r/baseball):

OK, I spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure each one out; and was stumped with the yellow "A" that (by process of elimination) had to be Pittsburgh and what the "t" meant for Milwaukee. Then I found the answer sheet (see spoiler).....

Spoiler

 

[brodybuck21]

Logos for the reverse of team names (via r/baseball):

OK, I spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure each one out; and was stumped with the yellow "A" that (by process of elimination) had to be Pittsburgh and what the "t" meant for Milwaukee. Then I found the answer sheet (see spoiler).....

Spoiler

Some of these are hilarious

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Some of these are hilarious

I’m particularly fond of the Tampa Bay Irwins.

 

[brodybuck21]

 

[brodybuck21]

Bump

 

[ScriptOhio]

One thing that's interesting about the list, is that only 1 of the top 6 guys (Cobb) has 3,000 career hits.

AKAK has a good list for additional guys; I think that Mel Ott and Mark McGwire also need to be considered. I think my boyhood hero Al Kaline will miss out.

For whatever reason, I've always remembered "Kaline Becomes Youngest Bat Champ"....I use to have this Topps baseball card...I would have been 11 then....

 

[DZ83CK]

Per ESPN, MLB average salaries declined for the second year in a row in 2019, the first instance of consecutive years of average salary declines in MLB history. $4.05M is the average MLB player salary. While that may seem high, they do have a 162-game schedule, far more games than any other major US pro sports league.

I highly doubt MLB teams were doing anything but increasing revenues themselves in these years, but certainly there is not much attendance at a lot of these games. Having 82 home games a year for bad baseball teams that fans know are a lost cause in terms of World Series contention is a recipe for not drawing, and that is the case for basically a third to half of MLB teams.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Having 82 home games a year for bad baseball teams that fans know are a lost cause in terms of World Series contention is a recipe for not drawing, and that is the case for basically a third to half of MLB teams.

It's always been that way though with a lot of teams knowing they had no shot. Wild Card gives more teams some sense of hope that ever before.

Attendance may be down but it's not just because some teams are bad. There are bigger trends at play.

 

[DZ83CK]

White Sox sign Dallas Keuchel. They are legitimately trying to be competitive. Which means they are gonna jump over the Tribe in the AL Central standings next year.

 

[brodybuck21]

Scummer being a scummer

 

[Jaxbuck]

Scummer being a scummer

Don't know about the rest of you guys but if I see the cops putting the old lady in the Patti (see what I did there/) wagon, well let's just say I'm not getting arrested for trying to stop them.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Don't know about the rest of you guys but if I see the cops putting the old lady in the Patti (see what I did there/) wagon, well let's just say I'm not getting arrested for trying to stop them.

“How did you jerks miss that she has a gun?”

 

[Jaxbuck]

“How did you jerks miss that she has a gun?”

"3 guesses where she's hiding it"

 

[buckeyemania11]

Red Sox caught cheatin' too

 

[Trevi]

If you have a few minutes, and are interested in what happens to delusional players that don't make the big leagues, here's one former minor leaguer that claims he coulda been a star except for Derek Jeter's nefarious actions:

Most minor leaguers respond to the end of their baseball careers by quietly packing up and moving on to the next phase of their life. Former New York Yankees minor leaguer Garrison Lassiter responded by filing a lawsuit demanding $34 million from the organization.

According to Brendan Kuty of NJ.com, Lassiter saw his multi-million dollar lawsuit, filed in Dec. 2018 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, dismissed in May 2019.

At the center of Lassiter’s allegations: an insidious effort by the Yankees to sabotage his baseball career at the request of superstar shortstop Derek Jeter. Yeah, not hard to see why the error-filled suit didn’t get off the ground.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/yankees-prospect-garrison-lassiter-derek-jeter-lawsuit-003646955.html