The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

[swingline]

12 years too late. Congrats to the Rangers.

Boo

 

[Della9250]

Hooray, another franchise that didn't exist the last time Cleveland won the World Series wins the World Series since the last time Cleveland won the World Series.

just sign Will Smith and it’s a guaranteed lock

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

 

[I Should Coco]

OK, this is the second time I've seen someone mix up the Seager bros on this thread. Is there a running joke here I'm not aware of?

Not meant as a joke … there was quite a bit of speculation that Corey nearly signed as a free agent with the M’s this past offseason (one season removed from his older brother’s final year in Seattle).

But the Mariners decided they would stick with JP Crawford at shortstop (instead of moving him to second) and pass on the opportunity to sign Corey.

Who knows, he may have hit .240 in Seattle. But he certainly paid dividends for Texas.

 

[qtlaw]

Rooted for Bochy and the fact that Texas had never won a WS Championship. Happy for Semian who was my neighbor for a few years in HS from a town I lived in for 10 years.

 

[Della9250]

So I missed the celebration. Did the Rangers jump into the pool?

Unfortunately they did not

PHOENIX (AP) — There was no pool party for the Texas Rangers after winning the World Series.
A raucous celebration after the franchise's first championship remained on dry land as about a dozen security officers guarded the pool behind the right-center wall at Chase Field.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

They celebrated by drinking prune juice and jamming out to Creed.

 

[Songbird]

Mazel tov to all SJ Rangers Nation.

Texas Rangers, World Series champions, by shutout even!

 

[MTM]

With all our moaning about pitching and openers and where did the aces go, the Dbacks got the best start of the Series, and maybe the postseason, from Gallen and they didn’t score to support him.
That’s baseball.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Arlington Stadium — where one official beer wasn’t enough to get through a day.

 

[maumann]

There are better headlines, but I like "Road Rangers."

 

[MTM]

Working off memory so I could be wrong, but I believe this is the first time two teams from the same state won back to back titles since the Dodgers and A’s in 1988 and 89 and the first time teams from the same state and same league did it since the Giants and Dodgers in 1954 and 55.
I realize there is a small pool for this kind of thing, but still kind of interesting.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Working off memory so I could be wrong, but I believe this is the first time two teams from the same state won back to back titles since he Dodgers and A’s in 1988 and 89 and the first time teams from the same state and same league did it since the Giants and Dodgers in 1954 and 55.
I realize there is a small pool for this kind of thing, but still kind of interesting.

Nope. Pirates in 1979, Phillies in 1980. Same state, same league.

 

[MTM]

Nope. Pirates in 1979, Phillies in 1980. Same state, same league.

Thanks. That’s what I get for trusting old man brain.

 

[goalmouth]

But..but...we were told a small market team had to want to spend money...

Padres reportedly took out $50 million loan to help cover MLB's 3rd-largest payroll this season.

EDIT: The RSN bankruptcy likely played into this.

 

[outofplace]

But..but...we were told a small market team had to want to spend money...

Padres reportedly took out $50 million loan to help cover MLB's 3rd-largest payroll this season

Nobody said they had to be stupid about it and spend themselves into debt.

 

[Liut]

Arlington Stadium — where one official beer wasn’t enough to get through a day.

You read my mind. Next thought was "Smokey and the Bandit."

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

There are better headlines, but I like "Road Rangers."

Throne Rangers

 

[ChrisLong]

A friend of mine was a coach on Bochy's staff in San Diego. Bochy had to fire him -- it is typical that after a crappy season the front office forces the manager to fire some coaches. But my friend still loves him and won't say a bad word about him.

His best story involves one day when all of the coaches were in Bochy's office shooting the ****. My friend's son was a great player on UCLA's championship team, got drafted and bounced around the minors for a few years before being released -- he hurt his arm when he volunteered to pitch in a blowout game. Kid was a great golfer growing up in the Phoenix area. He got an invitation to participate in a year-long golf program in Scotland. It was too expensive so they weren't going to do it. He was telling the other coaches about this and they didn't even think Bochy was listening. Then he breaks in and says, "Send him. I'll pay for it." My friend said, "No, I can't accept that. It is too expensive. That is too much to accept." Bochy said, "Hey, I got a lot of problems, but money ain't one of them." Friend still turned down the offer.

 

[qtlaw]

My buddy's kid played for Melvin and I was saddened to when my buddy told me he was not enamored with Melvin and thinks he's not the brightest lamp in the room. (My buddy is a professional and definitely not the guy living vicariously through his kids.)