MLB 2025 Season

tempo_n_groove

Jearlpam0925 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Good read!

https://theathletic.com/2800477/2021/09/14/as-craft-beer-booms-around-the-country-why-isnt-it-thriving-at-the-ballpark?source=user-shared-article

With out reading this they missed the opening.  The Seltzer market has a bigger share on the market now.

8 years ago the stadiums should have been pushing craft beers.

Citifield has a few.  Mike Keller being one of them.

Edit:  I would like to add that companies like InBev hate, hate , hate craft beers.  It's all about distribution and if InBev can't make some coin on it then they won't be shipping it and that exclusive deal they might have w a ballpark won't carry it.

"With out reading this"

I couldn't read the article.  This is my take and knowledge on the subject though.  What did the article say?

tempo_n_groove

Wobbie said:

dykstra is in rare form (normal form, I guess) on once upon a time in queens…..and I thought I had a potty mouth.

Dude was lit up too, lol.  Small man complex, brash.  Loved him back in the day.  He was my favorite Met.

I lived here in NY during that time and yes, it was electric.  Yankee stadium posted a Congrats to the Mets when they won.  I always thought that was classy by them.

tempo_n_groove

Was anyone watching the game where the first base umpire got a ball thrown at his head?

Cardinals /Mets game.  2basemen goes to throw the ball.  It goes wild.  Clocks the ump right in the side of the head.  Ump was of course watching for the play.  He goes down.  Bloody from the seams of the ball.

He wipes it off and goes back to umpiring.  That ump is tougher than most ball players...Junior Valentine.  Tough dude.

https://www.insider.com/mlb-umpire-hit-errant-throw-cardinals-mets-game-video-2021-9

MayDay10

Does anyone (card collector people) do the Topps Bunt app?

Ledbetterman10

The ‘86 Mets doc on ESPN is terrific. 

tempo_n_groove

MayDay10 said:

Does anyone (card collector people) do the Topps Bunt app?

I haven't bothered with it in years.  I don't see the digital cards sell for much at all.

MayDay10

tempo_n_groove said:

MayDay10 said:

Does anyone (card collector people) do the Topps Bunt app?

I haven't bothered with it in years.  I don't see the digital cards sell for much at all.

Nah, Im actually surprised at how much some of them are worth though (I mean not big bucks or anything, but some more than a couple bucks).

I do it mainly for fun and set-building.  Over the past 18 months, I have built a pretty decent collection of awesome cards that are cool to look at.  Something is to be said about typing in a search criteria and all applicable cards are displayed. 

It could be better.  Would like the possibility of physical redemptions.  Maybe an online auction house with their currencies.  Also, a way to bolster the value of some of these cards.  

tempo_n_groove

MayDay10 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

MayDay10 said:

Does anyone (card collector people) do the Topps Bunt app?

I haven't bothered with it in years.  I don't see the digital cards sell for much at all.

Nah, Im actually surprised at how much some of them are worth though (I mean not big bucks or anything, but some more than a couple bucks).

I do it mainly for fun and set-building.  Over the past 18 months, I have built a pretty decent collection of awesome cards that are cool to look at.  Something is to be said about typing in a search criteria and all applicable cards are displayed. 

It could be better.  Would like the possibility of physical redemptions.  Maybe an online auction house with their currencies.  Also, a way to bolster the value of some of these cards.  

If an NFT can be worth a bunch of money and people foolishly throw their money at a computer image then I see no reason a bunt card can't go up in price.

Wobbie

Ledbetterman10 said:

The ‘86 Mets doc on ESPN is terrific. 

the clubbie said 90% of the team was eating greenies…..yet Bonds is blackballed from the HOF.

but, yes….very enjoyable show.

I had just gotten on the FD and was watching the buckner game at work….another fireman was going ballistic over calvin schiraldi….he actually yelled “I fucking hate you” and spit on the TV screen….I’m thinking okaaaay, chill out dude….later learned the dude was a degenerate gambler and had a couple thou on the game.

Wobbie

I don’t know what to think of Mike Trout.

a calf injury keeps you out all year? I’m thinking the HOF talk may have been premature.

tempo_n_groove

Wobbie said:

I don’t know what to think of Mike Trout.

a calf injury keeps you out all year? I’m thinking the HOF talk may have been premature.

His numbers as of right now would support it.  Dude has a 76.2 WAR.  Every person at or above him is in the HOF sans 2.  One bet on baseball and the other is a forgotten 1800's era pitcher that should be in.

tempo_n_groove

As for Trout and Ohtani not pitching for the rest of the year.

Why bother now?  Protect your investment.  Halos aren't making it to the playoffs.  Rendon went down early.

This year was a lost season for them all around.

Next year if healthy they should, I said should, kill.  Trout Rendon Ohtani Adell.  That is some serious foursome.  If Brendon Marsh gets it going there is a 5th bat.

The Juggler

Not much talk of this Mets 30 for 30? Planning on watching it all tonight. Have been looking forward to it for a while. 

tempo_n_groove

The Juggler said:

Not much talk of this Mets 30 for 30? Planning on watching it all tonight. Have been looking forward to it for a while. 

So if you lived in the tri-state area you will know much of it already.  It is a fantastically put together bio though.

What I did not know was how much Keith was reveled at that time.

Favorite part is how much they brawled.  Ray Knight clocking Eric Davis is a moment I watched live that I will never forget, lol.

2-feign-reluctance

My Redbirds are surging! Reminds me of our championship 2011 run! 

MayDay10

Would love to see the Padres recover and somehow a Blue Jays/Padres world series

Wobbie

The Juggler said:

Not much talk of this Mets 30 for 30? Planning on watching it all tonight. Have been looking forward to it for a while. 

it was great...I thought the juggler was passing on it. dykstra is a mess but it looks like he is living comfortably these days. Doc seemed clean, unlike his fidgety self in "Darryl and Doc."

"I'm, Lenny fucking Dykstra, motherfucker!!!!"

tempo_n_groove

MayDay10 said:

Would love to see the Padres recover and somehow a Blue Jays/Padres world series

2 of the most exciting players in baseball face off against each other?

Hell yeah!

tempo_n_groove

Wobbie said:

The Juggler said:

Not much talk of this Mets 30 for 30? Planning on watching it all tonight. Have been looking forward to it for a while. 

it was great...I thought the juggler was passing on it. dykstra is a mess but it looks like he is living comfortably these days. Doc seemed clean, unlike his fidgety self in "Darryl and Doc."

"I'm, Lenny fucking Dykstra, motherfucker!!!!"

Doc has been doing signings here and there in NY.  I saw him before the pandemic as he walked by I yelled DR K! To which he replied hey man how ya doing?  Man is he tall!  He looks much taller than his listed 6-2"

He did a show last month but I didn't get to see him this time.

F Me In The Brain

The 30 for 30 was good.
Ray Knight punching ED was a memory, funny to see it again 
Nails is a complete train wreck.  Not cool to laugh, but I admit to laughing at him a bunch of times.