OT: What a Feeling!!!!!
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I’m a Mets fan and I am Okay with the new format. It helped the Mets reach the WS in 2016 because they got hot against the Dodgers but then the Royals got hot and win it all. I think it’s more exciting this way. If sucked a few seasons before 1993 when the Mets had good teams and didn’t make the playoffs.
Congratulations! What an amazing atmosphere in San Diego the last two games. Unlike most pro stadiums - A totally crazy scene. Good for the Padres and their fans!
Congrats Colbert!
For whatever reason, I immediately think of this 1974 Topps card when I think of the Padres. Probably because I was 9 and the first year I started collecting baseball cards.
Good Greif!!!
For whatever reason, I immediately think of this 1974 Topps card when I think of the Padres. Probably because I was 9 and the first year I started collecting baseball cards.
Good Greif!!!
All I can recall is Benito Santiago in 87. I don't think Gwynn won ROY. Was it Winfield back in the 70s?
Not following you. Mets made World Series in 2015 . And it was a different format then the one that started this year
I am okay with the format but feel it diminishes the regular season.
Sorry it took me so long. I fell asleep.
Santiago is correct. Neither Gwynn nor Winfield won..
The other winner was in 1976 and is one of baseball's least known. Butch Metzger was 11-4 with 16 saves that year and was the co-winner with Reds pitcher Pat Zachary. Of course Zachary is better known as one of the players (along with Dan Norman and Steve Henderson) who the Mets got in the Tom Seaver trade.
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It does but it adds excitement in the playoffs. Mets peaked early and for a while after the all star break and have been pretty good but not great down the stretch. If I were a Dodgers fans I may be a little more pissed off.
congrats rut and colbert. rootng for the friars to get to the ws as i took them to win the national league at good odds before the season started.
Almost. It's Greif rhymes with "strife'Congrats Colbert!
For whatever reason, I immediately think of this 1974 Topps card when I think of the Padres. Probably because I was 9 and the first year I started collecting baseball cards.
Good Greif!!!
I don’t disagree but if that is enough to make the regular season less important why not expand the playoff and shorten the season to end Labor Day weekend
Let every team over 500 in and if you have an odd number the highest winning percentage gets a bye
Why not shorten the season? I think you know the answer:
MLB: We are considering shortening the season to 140 games, and end Labor Day weekend.
MLBPA: Excellent suggestion.
MLB: Of course, we intend to prorate all contracts accordingly.
MLBPA: See ya.
Just saying I don’t mind it. Mets won 90 games in 2015 and got hot and made the WS was my point. If we go back the the original format until the early 90’s the Mets don’t even make the playoffs this year and they had a great season with 101 W’s. That would have sucked if they didn’t make it and the Mets did have some great teams not make the playoffs. So no complaints here that we lost to the Padres.
I also like the 3 games series more than the 1 game playoff but would rather see best of 5 than best of 3 and of course beat of 7 is ideal to me because players and teams are streaky. Maybe a best of 5 round 1 and then best of 7 for the test. Probably would need to shorten the season as Tom is saying.
Colbert: Having been raised in Los Angeles and living here since graduation from Rutgers in 1970 (don't ask how I ended up at RU) I have been a super Dodger fan since my dad took me to see the Dodgers in 1959 at the Coliseum. Tommy Davis was my hero as was the greatest left-hander in National League history. Having said all this, I am actually happy for the Pads. Baseball games are played on the field, but LA media has always gone too far in being snarky against the Pads and the city of San Diego. I am objective enough to appreciate what Bob Melvin has done, and hard not to admire the Padre players. I am still so sorry for the way LA fans and media skewered Yu Darvish in 2017 for a bad world series outing against the Houston trashcan bangers.
This series hurt, but the better team won.
C'mon, Pads, make it to the WS and trash the Astros.
This series hurt, but the better team won.
C'mon, Pads, make it to the WS and trash the Astros.
That strikes me as a one-sided view. Shortening the season would cut into the owners' revenue just as much. Owners are just as "greedy" as players, if not more so.
Also had a great year in 75.
1975: 20-12, 2.24 ERA 18 CG
1976: 22-14, 2.74 ERA 40 starts, 25 CG
I wouldn't bet my life on Suarez in G4. He's been sucking big time. I'd rather see them turn Synnnddderrrrrgyuaaard (Whatever) around for G3, give Eflin a shot or even Gibson.
I would think in a Suarez/Musgrove match up the Padres would have the advantage. I'm just basing this on Joe's performance over the past month. I'll admit I don't think I've even seen Suarez pitch this year.
There's no going back from this format. More playoffs = more games which =more $$$$$. Neither the owners nor the players nor the networks will change that.
He was a s good as anyone until September. It's like he overdrawn on innings or something. He's been getting murdered. Bad enough that I wouldn't be surprised with a switch.
Honestly I’ll take Java Joe against any pitcher in MLB.
He’s the heart and soul of this team. Even when he doesn’t have his best stuff it’s like the team is just so completely locked in for his starts.
I love Snell getting 2 home games and Darvish/Musgrove can pitch wherever.
Doubt you saw this @colbert17 so figured I’d post it for you.
This is Ha-Seong Kim’s translator haha. Team just seems like they’re super close and enjoying the ride like they should.
The Gangnam Goose!
This is Ha-Seong Kim’s translator haha. Team just seems like they’re super close and enjoying the ride like they should.
The Gangnam Goose!
In 77 he was hurt. Some kind of nerve damage I think and no he never was the same.
Interesting tidbit. In 1976 he was 16-3 at the All Star break. No one has matched that pre- break win total since and the way pitchers are used now no one probably ever will.
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Both the Phils and Padres are playing lights out @ exactly the right time of year.
I'm a Mets fan, but give credit where it is due . Unlike many on here.
Sometimes the other team just gets it done. It's not always a choke. That's why it's a competition and not a stats debate.
Examples:Buckner ground ball was a choke. Musgrove's pitching performance against the Mets was something special. Tip your hat when when appropriate.
Randy Jones once pitched a complete game in one hour and twenty nine minutes against the Phils. It didn't hurt that Jim Kaat was his opponent.
Padres history (May 4): Randy Jones makes quick work of Phillies
On this date in 1977, Padres left-hander Randy Jones completes the fastest game in franchise history in an hour and 29 minutes
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Randy Jones once pitched a complete game in one hour and twenty nine minutes against the Phils. It didn't hurt that Jim Kaat was his opponent.
Padres history (May 4): Randy Jones makes quick work of Phillies
On this date in 1977, Padres left-hander Randy Jones completes the fastest game in franchise history in an hour and 29 minutes
Pretty sure I remember that game. I remember feeling ripped off that the game was over so soon.
My dim recollection is that his key pitch was a sinker -- or was it a split-finger fastball? By today's standards, he was hugely overused in 1976 (I think you said he had forty starts -- there were still teams that used a four-man rotation those days). My recollection also is that the Padres had much better attendance on days he pitched -- people would call the ticket office and ask for a day on which he'd be starting. You probably remember that he finished his career with the Mets and was completely ineffective.
