10/29/24

MACK - Tuesday Morning Observations

 

Kevin Kernan

https://ballnine.com/2024/10/27/real-numbers/

The numbers were quite striking in the National League too. Silvio looked at all seven NL playoff teams – yes, he counted the Diamondbacks, who had the same 89-73 record as the Mets and Braves but lost on the tiebreaker.

The Braves and Brewers had the best record of all against the AL at 31-15 and the Dodgers were close behind at 30-16. The Padres were 27-19 vs. the AL and the Phillies were 26-20. The Mets and Diamondbacks were both 24-22. All the NL playoff teams were above .500 against the AL. Three of those teams had winning records against the Yankees. The Mets were 4-0, the Braves and Dodgers were 2-1.

 

Big Red Ruckus                   @BigRedRuckus

Branch Rickey thought if he trashed Yogi Berra enough, no one would ever look at him. Then Rickey could hide Yogi until Rickey could move from the Cards to Brooklyn & sign Yogi for nothing. Yankees swooped in & signed Yogi for $500 (that they didn’t pay until Yogi played a full season.

Yankees sent Yogi to Norfolk for his age-18 season (1943). Played 111 games, didn't get his $500 bonus until the after the season. Barely ate. No surprise Yogi joined the Navy. He reloaded rocket tubes on his boat on D-Day. Refused his Purple Heart so his mom wouldn't worry.

 

 

Jim Koenigsberger                        @Jimfrombaseball

 

After dinner last night Roy Campanella drove to Manhattan in a 1957  Chevrolet sport sedan he had rented from an uptown concern that was  giving a routine check to his own Chevrolet.

He headed for home in the rented Chevrolet. At 3:34 A.M. he was headed north in Glen Cove on  Dosoris Lane. Mr. Campanella's car simply went straight instead of to the right. It struck Pole No. 25 of the New York Telephone  Co.

Neighbour Dr. Gurnee, found Mr. Campanella, though he didn't know who he was, crumpled in  the front of the car, crying out: "Somebody help me. Somebody help me. Get me out of here."

 

Family and friends filled St Patrick’s Cathedral for Babe Ruth’s funeral mass. It was hot that day in New York City. One former Yankee supposedly turned to Ruth’s old teammate Waite Hoyt & said,

“I could sure use a beer”

Hoyt: “So could the Babe.”

Crowds were so overwhelming, they had to move the casket away from the ferns and let his mourners pass by in a double file.

            "It wasn't that he hit more home runs than anybody  else, he hit them better, higher, farther, with more theatrical timing  and a more flamboyant flourish. Nobody could strike out like Babe Ruth. Nobody circled the bases with the same pigeon-toed, mincing majesty."

Red Smith

 

 

https://metsnewsandlinks.blogspot.com/2024/10/10212024-mets-roster-moves-eddy-alvarez.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&m=1&s=03

The New York Mets have announced the following roster moves:

2B Pablo Reyes elected free agency.

            2024 – MLB:  -0.6-WAR, 60-AB, .183

                          NYM:   0-AB, 1-BB, .000

                          BOSTON:  60-AB, .183

2B Eddy Alvarez elected free agency.

            2024 – MLB:  -0.1-WAR, 9-AB, .000

                         LAD:  25-AB, .160

                         NYM:  9-AB, .000

C Joe Hudson elected free agency.

            2024 – MLB:  0.0-WAR, 0-AB, .000

                          SYR:   97-AB, 5-HR, .217

 

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Big Red Ruckus                   @BigRedRuckus

Yeah, you do need to stockpile good pitching! Mets had Seaver, Koosman, Matlack, Gentry, Nolan Ryan, Tug McGraw, Steve Renko, Danny Frisella... how often does that happen? Maybe we still take it for granted...

Mack – the problem here is that 29 other teams are trying to do the same thing. Your sources today should be both the domestic and International drafts, Asians, and Cubans.

7 comments:

Tom Brennan said...

How different the money was back in Yogi’s day.

I said the AL-NL stuff differently some weeks back, when I said the best 4 playoff teams were LAD, Mets, Phil’s, and SD, with the Yankees 5th. They had it very easy….until now. Judge hitless yet again. I prefer fudge to Judge, who has played like sludge.

Mack Ade said...

In my neighborhood, you loved one NY team and hated the other.

How bad was it? Well, my father, who rooted for Didgers, refused to allow any of my friends that rooted for either the Yanks or Giants into our apartment

Me?

I was a Campy fan until the accident in that rental.

Didn't root for another catcher until Johnny Roseboro

Tom Brennan said...

That Campy thing was a real shame. Imagine today if he had a $250 million contract? You have to have those insured.

Paul Articulates said...

The Mets had a great season and their 4-0 record against the Yankees was meaningful. They also put up a much better fight against the Dodgers (so far). Unfortunately, when it comes down to who owns NY, the Yankees fans will say they made it to the World Series and Mets didn't. Hope that is fuel for 2025!

TexasGusCC said...

Sometimes, Lady Luck smiles on you. The Yankees rode through the playoffs playing teams from a weakened division that all fattened up on the White Sox implosion. Then, Aaron Boone pulls Garrett Cole after just 88 pitches and the impartial Derek Jeter has a meltdown. Boone may have tried to save his guy to use him three times, but Jeter showed why he has no business being in national tv, and the entire Yankees universe ran with that. I believe that affected the team.

TexasGusCC said...

Also, Mack when it comes to finding talent, networking and relationships are key. You can’t tell me the Dodgers with their Spanish speaking influence haven’t benefitted from that to make deals and get leads. Before baseball and our nation was influenced by the Spanish language, Tommy Lasorda spoke prolific Spanish and that got him little known players like Fernando Valenzuela, who preferred a manager he can talk directly to, and it was the whoopdie doo Dodgers after all. It never hurts to have people like you and relate to you.

Mack Ade said...

Gus

The west coast teams, and the Dodgers specifically, were into the International market far ahead of the other teams, because they took a long look at the nationality history of their fan base

As they are now doing in the Asian market