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How cool is that? 29 years ago to the day and Turner hits a Gibsonesque HR to walk it off... amazing!

 

allutve is lucky sanchez dropped the ball. he was out by a mile.

maddon tries to get cute and he cost him. lackey serves up gopher ball to a red headed billy goat !

 

well turner is pretty healthy. gibson was a hobbling cripple at the time for the at-bat. and look at gibson's swing. he basically just throws his bat at the ball like he's hoping he makes contact. i can't believe it left the stadium. turner's was a bomb to deep center. i love the 1 fan out there who put out his glove and caught it. haha.

 

IF, anyone is still watching baseball ( I am ), this is today's action...

 

of course im watching Will. best time of the year. CC looks like old CC and kicking ass. they needed that win to avoid being down 3-0 ! cubbies need to do the same tonight.

 

Todays Starters...

 

I forgot Gray was a Pin Stripper... last I knew he was in Oakland, lol.

 

^^got traded at the deadline. i think he's a fa this winter...

 

Striper, stripper, I don't know... ones a baseballer, ones a pole dancer!!!

 

yanks still gotta win to avoid being down 3-1. can grey save them ?

 

Sonny Gray won't be a FA for two more years, actually.

 

ah-maybe it's darvish? someone is hitting the market this fall and winter. i thought it was grey. sorry about that. 2018 is the biggest fa market of all-time and the phils got buckets of money and only 1 real player under a medium contract in herrera at 5 yrs/35 mil. let the money flow.

 

Major League Baseball considering expansion, radical realignment

Tracy Ringolsby of Baseball America wrote yesterday about a “growing consensus” within baseball that expansion and realignment are inevitable. The likely expansion cities: Portland and Montreal. The 32-team league would then undergo a radical realignment that would also involve reducing the season from 162 to 156 games while expanding the playoffs to 12 teams.

To be clear, Ringolsby’s actual reporting here is limited to that “growing consensus” about expansion, and the most likely cities involved, not regarding the specific realignment or game reduction plan. That I take to be speculative — he refers to it as “one proposal” — though it seems like reasonable and informed speculation. The general idea is that, if you expand, you have to realign, and if you realign you have to change the playoff structure lest too many teams in any one division become also-rans. That, combined with the near impossibility of changing the early-April-to-late-October footprint of the season and the desire of players to have less arduous travel schedules and some extra time off, leads to the shorter season.

The details of the plan:

• The American and National Leagues would be disposed of, with MLB putting all 32 teams into four, eight-team, regionally-based divisions: East, North, Midwest, West. This is designed to (a) maintain regional and traditional rivalries while (b) cutting way back on cross-time zone travel. Both New York teams and Boston are in the “North,” both Chicago teams and St. Louis are in the “Midwest,” etc. Texas and Houston are in the “Midwest” too, but we’ll let the Texans get mad about that later.
• The playoffs would feature a LOT of play-in games. Specifically, Ringolsby would have the four division winners go to the Division Series, where they would play the winner of four different Wild Card games, the participants in which would come from the eight non-division winners with the best records, regardless of which division they came from.
• The schedule would go back to 156 games, giving every team an off-day every week. Between that and the more compact, almost all single-time-zone divisions, the travel schedules would be far less taxing, with shorter flights and more flights which could leave the day after a night game as opposed to directly after a night game, causing teams to arrive in the next city in the wee hours of the morning.

Complete Article from PHT;

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2017/10/17/major-league-baseball-considering-expansion-radical-realignment/

 

^^wow. i don't know how to react to this. getting rid of the national and american leagues? wow. and teams do have a day off a week - either monday or thursday as it's a travel day. 12 playoff teams? sounds like the old NHL. and realignment so the Phils somehow get stuck with the Yankees and Red Sox? wait they said the mets wouldn't have old NL rivals anymore. where would the phils be? with the nats, O's, red, pirates, rays and marlins? No thanks. I'm not big on change and certainly not this much to the game of baseball.

 

And whither the DH in this plan?

It's not going back to all pitchers hitting, so that means DH across the board, I assume.

 

^^^ great point u dog !! this plan is a mess to be honest. it's going to piss a lot of fans off.