Gross. Disgusting. Awful.
We worked 10 walks and scored 1 run. That is patently repulsive. And of course Kershaw announces his retirement the day before his final start. LOL good luck tonight, gents. There is literally no way they win tonight (or possibly ever again).
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As bad as they have been for long stretches this season, with too many to count 1 run efforts, I actually thought they played like a “contender” the first month and a half of the season; and again, during the latter part of August and early September. Buster gave me hope. Zaidi gave me NO hope.
One other thing . . . the game is rigged. Yes, rigged. Read this and you will know what I mean, as even the Yankees are complaining about the current state of the game.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46294140/mlb-labor-negotiations-salary-cap-baseball-talks-2027-season-lockout
I WANT A FUCKING, GOD DAMN SALARY CAP!
Why? This is why . . . Los Angeles is carrying a $340.9 million payroll. Because the Dodgers have exceeded every threshold of the league’s luxury tax — which kicks in at $241 million and includes penalties for repeat offenders — they owe an additional $167.4 million.
The Dodgers’ total projected outlay of $508.3 million is just a few million dollars shy of the combined payrolls of the game’s six lowest-spending teams — Miami, the Athletics, Tampa Bay, the Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh and Cleveland — all of which carry sub-$100 million rosters.
Fuck the players union.
couldn’t any team operate this way? Seems to me that LA has just found the loopholes
what would happen to the bums and Mets if mlb imposed a cap? At one point early this season LA was paying its players who happened to be on the ILs more than seven teams were individually paying their entire 40 man rosters. Many of those LA contracts are long term. Would LA just default?
otoh, a cap might come with interesting incentives. From the article:”The best team in MLB this season carries the 21st-highest payroll in the game at around $115 million. Only three of its 28 players signed as free agents — and one of them re-signed after being drafted and developed by the organization.” So, constraint on player pay might spur player scouting and development? Scouts, analysts and coaches are relatively cheap. Add a floor to the cap and ensure good entry level pay and the best athletes will still be interested. Sounds too good to be true. Why would the Mets or dodgers go for it?
of course, the dodgers have not been incompetent at drafting and developing, too.
Ah they drove Opie out early last time. Drive for 5 more Ws stays alive. Hopefully ray up to task.
For me, baseball on TV has become very annoying to watch with that superimposed statcast box over the catcher, the attempted framing of almost every pitch, replays of every borderline ball/strike call, the use of the CF camera on almost every pitch, the endless babbling of random, meaningless stats. I know this stuff ain’t brand new but it’s getting worse and worse.
Personally, I hate the drones just as much.
I miss the fucking blimps, I guess.
I’m dating one…
well as long as it’s fucking, what the hell.
the Giants and dodgers have beaten each other exactly 1,289 times. If these guys are right.
https://bsky.app/profile/codifybaseball.bsky.social/post/3lz76zecs7c2w
Dogs ended Ray’s last outing early and then once he left nailed Peguero too. 2-1 game turned into rout in 5th day after they’d knocked Webb around. Webb was lot better last night, hopefully Ray is too.
First time in 48 years a team has taken 10 walks and only had 1 hit. Not to mention 14Ks with no power to excuse it. Yeah, Yamamoto blah blah. Along with the usual bases loaded scoring futility. A lot of “firsts” this year for the Giants that highlight why this roller-coaster roster is unacceptable going into next season. If I were Ray and Webb, the biggest victims of it, I would be furious, maybe they are. Verlander has his choice of coming back for more pathetic scoring insult in ’26, they don’t.
BTW, what’s with Bailey and catching throws and tagging runners at home? The guy is out if he just catches the friggin’ throw. Not the first time he’s whiffed on that type of play. And, his framing turns more than a few times into dropping or miss-catching /blocking pitches that otherwise are entirely catchable. I’m not down with him at all as an automatic answer for the next 5 years at catcher with ABS coming on and his completely useless bat for long stretches of every season. Verlander seems to do pretty well with Knizner or whatever his name is, so Bailey isn’t irreplaceable by a long shot…
even kuip last night dissed Bailey’s chronic dropped throws on plays at the plate syndrome.
“It has become an issue on plays at the plate where Bailey cannot hang on,” Kuiper said immediately, even before we saw the slow mo replay of the muff. An E2 I bet Posey will not forget.
weather in LA will be warm and humid tonight with a light, low pressure system SW wind. I think that’s out to CF at the latrine. Hope Eldridge gets thrown back into the grind early after Kershaw gets drubbed. Though he did launch that drive to RF last night off a lefty.
Biggest disappointment about this years floundering is the opportunity cost. Even if everything goes right and we win 90 next year what are the odds the Dodgers will be ravaged by pitching injuries again. Sasaki, Snell, and Glasnow all missed huge chunks of the season. We could win 90 and still be 10 games out again:(
Hoping we wake up and pummel Kershaw, but must say he has been a great player. Classy guy who has been brilliant on the field and a great representative for LA and MLB. Now good riddance:)
Brisbee had column detailing numbers of futility Giants have had against him, pretty funny in its own way. Career ERA 2.08.
From story about the game from the Athletic…
The Giants hadn’t drawn 10 walks in a game and lost since 2012. They’d won 11 such games since then. Over their San Francisco-era history, they are 69-21 when they draw 10 walks.
21 times they lost with 10 walks?? Unreal!
Even I think this is kinda funny:
Bailey PA: 426 RBI: 52
Chapman PA:500 RBI: 58
71 runs scored v 43 though.
Yes, I know. But additional data make it less amusing –can’t I have some old school fun, too?
per Brisbee Belt’s OPS vs. Kershaw was .215. Not his BA, OPS. Something out of Wile E Coyote.
Imagine Belt furiously unpacking a box full of Acme (DANGER EXPLOSIVES) Torpedo Bats.
that’s pretty funny. There’s also the list of few guys who homered off Opie, also pretty funny: Ehire (aka OOO), Kelby, poor Mac Williamson, Dubon, Villar, Pill, Chris Stewart and Bum, twice.
Found Box score for Stewart bomb, almost 14 years ago sept 20 2011. Sabes, as Clemenza said, had gone to the mattresses by that time: Giants IF around horn was deRosa Orlando Cabrera Jeff Keppinger and Pill. Opie outdueled Lincecum for 2-1 W. Lincecum was 13-13 with ERA of 2.59
2011 was a strange year for Lincecum I think they overworked him. I still remember watching a 133 pitch shutout v the A’s early in the season.
Vamos !
Doing the radio tonight. Don’t feel like playing the free subscription game today, so it’s Jon and Hunter.
The unscored walk parade continues. Amazing!
the Devers walk would’ve scored just now if the ump hadn’t blown two pitch calls.
The automatic strike on 3-0 is one of the most frustrating things about the strike zone graphic Loo complained about. I feel a strong dislike for the umpiring profession each time I see one of those jarheads raise the right arm on a close but obviously outside the zone pitch.
Adames saving numbers 29 & 30 for the games after mathematical elimination.
Hopefully that’s the last big cheer in Dodger dog town tonight.
Almost every time I see Bivens pitch, he does his impression of Kingsford Charcoal Lighter. By the by, where is AK?
Is he okay?
Probably here are there…
tying run to plate with Devers up.
KKKK