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This is cool https://twitter.com/BetweenTheNums/status/1521896240190996484
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I knew Connie Mack was #1, but I didn't realize by just how much 
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May 5, 2022 12:45
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I knew Connie Mack was #1, but I didn't realize by just how much I don’t think anyone will ever top his numbers.
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May 5, 2022 12:52
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LOL at the long pause for La Russa, I can just pretend that he was passed out drunk while that was happening.
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May 5, 2022 13:09
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I knew Connie Mack was #1, but I didn't realize by just how much I love that he's both #1 in wins and losses and retired with a losing record. The loss record is even more unbreakable than the wins.
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Forrest on Fire posted:I love that he's both #1 in wins and losses and retired with a losing record.
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Forrest on Fire posted:I love that he's both #1 in wins and losses and retired with a losing record. Cy Young is also #1 in both wins and losses and neither will ever be broken.
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If you had a .500 coaching record every season, it would take over 46 years to reach Connie Mack's win total. Even if you managed to win 100 games every single season, it would still take over 37 years. The youngest manager in the majors right now is 35 years old, and he's the youngest manager in the last 18 years.
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FlamingLiberal posted:The A’s were kind of a doormat team after their great run in the late 1920s. After 1931, they didn’t win a pennant again until the 70s. So they were middling for roughly four decades. I believe Mack managed until the early 50s? He also famously wore a suit in the dugout  
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May 5, 2022 15:27
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God that suit looks so sick. I think it's funny that managers wear unis, but I'm a sucker for vintage tailoring. Connie Mack managed until 1950 and was known to be senile by the early 40s. He'd call players who in some cases died in the 20s to pinch hit from the bench.
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May 5, 2022 15:44
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I will never understand how dudes wore 3 piece suits to baseball games. They had to have been sweating their asses off
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May 5, 2022 16:08
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remembering that this year's Field of Dreams game is Reds/Cubs and cackling
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May 5, 2022 18:18
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bawfuls posted:Connie Mack managed the A's from 1901-1950 and also 3 seasons with Pittsburgh in the 1890's. Thanks for posting these. That second one is so good. There’s so much personality, story and atmosphere in that single photo.
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bawfuls posted:Connie Mack managed the A's from 1901-1950 and also 3 seasons with Pittsburgh in the 1890's. The fact that his given name is Constance McGillicuddy makes those pictures even better somehow. He was also essentially the forefather of the tank and the rebuild - both in the mid 10s and again in the mid 30s, he sold off his star players to pay bills because attendance was down. The A’s have seemingly always been working under this model, a tradition that continues to this very day!
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May 5, 2022 18:45
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GPTribefan posted:The fact that his given name is Constance McGillicuddy makes those pictures even better somehow. Was it Mack or someone else who owned multiple teams and just "sold" all the good players to one of them?
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more falafel please posted:Was it Mack or someone else who owned multiple teams and just "sold" all the good players to one of them? That was the Robison brothers who sold everybody away from the Cleveland Spiders
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Kilometers Davis posted:Thanks for posting these. That second one is so good. There’s so much personality, story and atmosphere in that single photo. https://twitter.com/matthewpouliot/status/1522269855243767808?s=21&t=R4ez1fXuEfrJ-yZU3hwDZg
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Poque posted:That was the Robison brothers who sold everybody away from the Cleveland Spiders
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May 5, 2022 19:39
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Tony Pena Jr. famously had an OPS+ of 7 with a .169/.189/.205 line Zunino is hitting .135/.179/.269 with an OPS+ of 37. Hell, Brandon Lowe is OPSing under .600 and he’s got an 83! I think they need to unfuck the ball.
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May 5, 2022 19:48
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Just a reminder that not only is MLB loving with the ball, there could be (and were last year) totally different variations out there, with zero oversight as to the nature of those differences or where they are going.
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May 5, 2022 19:52
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The Bengals have won more games in 2022 (4) than the Reds have (3).
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GPTribefan posted:The fact that his given name is Constance McGillicuddy makes those pictures even better somehow. Kevlar v2.0 posted:The Bengals have won more games in 2022 (4) than the Reds have (3).
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May 5, 2022 20:00
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The league needs to start penalizing teams like the Reds, it's honestly embarrassing to the sport to fire sale a competitive team and show up with effectively a minor league team.
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May 5, 2022 20:13
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How else would the Yankees compete ??
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Popete posted:The league needs to start penalizing teams like the Reds, it's honestly embarrassing to the sport to fire sale a competitive team and show up with effectively a minor league team. They did. That's what the draft lottery is for!
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May 5, 2022 20:15
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Popete posted:The league needs to start penalizing teams like the Reds, it's honestly embarrassing to the sport to fire sale a competitive team and show up with effectively a minor league team. The NL Central effectively has two teams who are nakedly not trying and a third team that's pretending to try but not exactly fooling anybody. So the Brewers and Cardinals get 57 games each this season vs teams that functionally sent up the white flag before the first game of the season. It's pathetic.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I believe that’s Mack with fellow HOFer Eddie Collins Noted hot pisser Neifi Perez
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Johnny Bravo posted:Noted hot pisser Neifi Perez Whatever he took he needs a refund
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Johnny Bravo posted:Noted hot pissers Neifi Perez and Dee Strange-Gordon
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I honestly have no idea why, but I love Dee Strange-Gordon. I guess I have a soft spot for speedster middle infield types, maybe because of Shawon Dunston? Also his homer after Jose died, his player's tribune article, and the one time I "heckled" him at a WSox game when the Mariners were trying him out in CF for some reason: "Hey Dee, how's center field?" "It sucks, man!" e: I guess I have a soft spot for every major leaguer I've "had a conversation" with: Travis Wood, Dee Strange-Gordon, and John Baker being the only non-autograph examples that come to mind more falafel please fucked around with this message at 21:11 on May 5, 2022 |
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May 5, 2022 21:08
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Poque posted:remembering that this year's Field of Dreams game is Reds/Cubs and cackling The tickets are going to be obscene. The Field of Dreams is only about 20 minutes away from Dubuque, in Dyersville, and Dubuque is generally a Cubs city. Right now, bleacher seats are going for $3,000 apiece. The secondary market is going to heat the gently caress up in July (last year, secondhand tickets were going for north of $5K about a week before the game).
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May 5, 2022 21:27
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its a hell of a day in the MLB thread when royals legends neifi perez and tony pena jr are mentioned on the same page
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bewbies posted:its a hell of a day in the MLB thread when royals legends neifi perez and tony pena jr are mentioned on the same page Don't forget Yuni Betancourt!
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May 5, 2022 21:36
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Does anyone know why Dee added the Strange to his last name?
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May 5, 2022 21:39
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Ohtani threw 81 goddam strikes on 99 pitches with 29 whiffs. Oh and he hit 100 on the gun and 104 off the monster.
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Johnny Bravo posted:Noted hot pisser Neifi Perez
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Ohtani threw 81 of 99 pitches for strikes today, while striking out 11 in seven scoreless innings. Dang.
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Some Numbers posted:Does anyone know why Dee added the Strange to his last name? I believe it was his mom's maiden name
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Some Numbers posted:Does anyone know why Dee added the Strange to his last name? quote:In 2020, he announced that he changed his last name from Gordon to Strange-Gordon to honor his late mother, DeVona Denise Strange. His mother was shot and killed when he was just seven years old
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Talking about the Royals. Is Bubba Starling still with them? I remember him from way back when he turned down a football scholarship from Nebraska to sign with the royals. Fake Edit: Nope. I just looked it up and he's a free agent as of Nov. 2021.
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