Baseball.........Anybody still interested?
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He's a good player. He'll turn it around next year.
This has to be one of the craziest stats you’ll see today
(HOF)Walter Johnson - July 1st, 1920 Washington Senators
Steve Busby(2) - April 27, 1973 Kansas City Royals (franchise first); June 19, 1974
Mike Warren - September 29, 1983 Oakland A's
Michael Lorenzen - August 9, 2023 Philadelphia Phillies
(HOF)Walter Johnson - July 1st, 1920 Washington Senators
Steve Busby(2) - April 27, 1973 Kansas City Royals (franchise first); June 19, 1974
Mike Warren - September 29, 1983 Oakland A's
Michael Lorenzen - August 9, 2023 Philadelphia Phillies
Wow. The Los Angeles Dodgers have re-signed Outfielder Andrew Toles who has schizophrenia and hasn’t played since 2018, so he would still have access to the team’s health insurance and mental health services.
Toles is not expected to play for the Dodgers this season and will likely never play again. Signing with the team will allow him to continue to receive treatment, including counseling, therapy, and medication. The team was first alerted something was wrong when Toles did not report to spring training in 2019.
Later, the team learned Toles was found sleeping behind a FedEx building at Key West International Airport. Sadly, Toles is just a shadow of his former self. He was taken to a mental health facility after the incident and the Dodgers recognized the tragic loss of his playing abilities and wanted to ensure he would always have access to care. 2023 is the fifth straight year the Dodgers have re-signed him.
This extraordinary story wasn’t learned about for years. It gives you a glimpse that sometimes, good gestures are done for good reasons and not for publicity.
Salute to them
We need these GOOD STORIES especially around baseball to br highlighted more.
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Do you watch baseball games even if you don't root for either teams?
Do you watch baseball games even if you don't root for either teams?
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Its ruled as a ground rule double, same as if the ball bounced from the field into the stands or was wedged/stuck in the gap of the wall.
Thank you
Kevin Brown’s surreal statement was an ugly look for the Orioles
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Al Michaels torches Orioles: ‘Suspend the doofus that suspended Kevin Brown’
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Awwwww shit. What the Fuck did Wander Franco post on social media. 
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With MLB looking into social media posts involving Tampa Bay shortstop Wander Franco, the 22-year-old All-Star did not travel on the team plane to San Francisco ahead of the Rays' series with the Giants, sources told ESPN.
They need to be roasted. Orioles need to be fined for creating a hostile work environment. This should not be tolerated at all in professional sports. Do they need a broadcasters union?Al Michaels torches Orioles: ‘Suspend the doofus that suspended Kevin Brown’
Add Al Michaels to the list of broadcasters outraged by the Orioles’ treatment of announcer Kevin Brown.
Broadcasters blast Orioles after report they pulled Kevin Brown from booth: ‘Laughingstock’
Announcers across baseball and beyond were seeing red over reports that the Baltimore Orioles had pulled play-by-play man Kevin Brown from the air over a mundane comment.
@jack walsh13
They need to be roasted. Orioles need to be fined for creating a hostile work environment. This should not be tolerated at all in professional sports. Do they need a broadcasters union?
Yup
But then don't complain when they demand load management
Awwwww shit. What the Fuck did Wander Franco post on social media.
Sources: Franco doesn't travel amid MLB inquiry
With MLB looking into social media posts involving Tampa Bay shortstop Wander Franco, the 22-year-old All-Star did not travel on the team plane to San Francisco ahead of the Rays' series with the Giants, sources told ESPN.
Search twitter and you'll find screen shot of him with a girl of questionable age.
Prob wise not to post it here.
JESUS HENRY CHRIST. THE WORST POSSIBLE SCENARIO.
Whatever it was I knew it was bad. 
Awwwww shit. What the Fuck did Wander Franco post on social media.
Sources: Franco doesn't travel amid MLB inquiry
With MLB looking into social media posts involving Tampa Bay shortstop Wander Franco, the 22-year-old All-Star did not travel on the team plane to San Francisco ahead of the Rays' series with the Giants, sources told ESPN.
Apparently it’s from his home country but they now have to investigate it
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Max Scherzer's continued commentary on Mets would've been distraction for Dodgers
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Justin Verlander’s ‘diva’ attitude didn’t sit well with Max Scherzer and some Mets
Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer’s past issues apparently didn’t fully go away this season.
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Justin Verlander’s ‘diva’ attitude didn’t sit well with Max Scherzer and some Mets
ByAndrew Battifarano
August 12, 2023 8:53pm
The Mets season that’s devolved into a disaster has plenty of blame to go around.
But the $364 million roster had plenty of problems in the much-ballyhooed pitching rotation.
And the faces of the Mets’ rotation were the team’s ostensible co-aces, 40-year-old Justin Verlander (shipped off to the Astros) and the 39-year-old Max Scherzer (traded to the Rangers) struggled at times on and off the field
The two likely future Hall of Famers — who looked to work toward “harmony,” a source told The Post’s Mike Puma, after they didn’t have the best relationship when they pitched for the Tigers from 2010-14 — still had some bumps in their relationship this season.
A Met told Puma that Verlander was a “diva” who was detached from his Mets teammates and complained about how the team’s analytics department was not at the level as the one he worked with during his first stint with the Astros.
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And it was that “diva” attitude caused Scherzer to grumble some about Verlander.
Justin Verlander was traded to the Astros at the deadline.Gordon Donovan/New York PostIt was a different vibe than last year’s rotation had, The Post’s Mike Puma reported, as Scherzer and Chris Bassitt were free in offering information to the team’s other, younger pitchers.
Nevertheless, the Mets let Bassitt walk in the offseason to the Blue Jays as the club brought in Verlander, Jose Quintana and Kodai Senga.
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Personal drama aside, Verlander and Scherzer largely didn’t live up to expectations this year as they each had ups and downs before the Mets shifted to sell-off mode.
The Mets, who were seventh in all of baseball with a 3.57 team ERA last season, haven’t seen the same success this year as they entered Saturday with a 4.38 ERA, closer to the bottom than the top.
Verlander, the 2022 American League Cy Young award winner did not throw a pitch for the Mets until May 4 as he suffered a teres major strain shortly before Opening Day.
And when he did get back on the mound, he didn’t get off to a hot start for the Mets, going 2-2 in May with a 4.80 ERA over five starts.
“We kind of got off on the wrong foot. Everything that could go wrong did early,” Verlander, as a member of the Astros, told reporters at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 3. “Even though we started playing some good baseball at times, we never really hit our stride where we were kind of banging on all cylinders. I can’t answer exactly why that is.”
Verlander and Max Scherzer had reunited in New York after time in Detroit.JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POSTOver his first 30 innings, the right-hander only whiffed 22 batters, which was in stark contrast to the 9.5 strikeouts per nine innings he recorded during his impressive 2022 campaign.
By July, he looked more like his old self with a 1.69 ERA and 1.02 WHIP over the month, but by that time, the Mets had scuffled with a 7-19 June and didn’t play well enough to recover in July.
Scherzer, who had a 2.88 ERA in 2022, didn’t have the same dominance in 2023 and had a 4.01 ERA before he was eventually shipped to Texas in the deal that landed the Mets Luisangel Acuna.
Verlander did not throw a regular season pitch for the Mets until May.APEarlier this week, Scherzer told “Foul Territory” that he did not expect to be dealt, but eventually realized the team was heading in a different direction as the winning never came consistently.
“It became obvious which way the team was gonna go and the best decisions for everyone involved. … You signed up there to win and you really thought we’d have a chance to win there,” Scherzer told the show. Obviously, we didn’t and that’s what stinks.”
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And at the Aug. 1 trade deadline, Verlander was gone too in a trade to go back to his old team.
“It was just an unfortunate season where things didn’t go according to plan,” Verlander said after the trade. “I have nothing but the utmost respect for their organization and how they treat players.”
After an abysmal 21-3 loss in the opening game of Saturday’s doubleheader, the Mets are now 52-64 as they sink closer to the bottom of the National League East.
'Diva' attitude from Justin Verlander caused issues with Max Scherzer and the Mets
It was not a match made in heaven.
The New York Mets are currently in the midst of a season without Justin Verlander who was shipped off to the Houston Astros during the off-season.
Their season has become something of a farce and blame can be placed at the door of many different people.
They are also now without Max Scherzer who was traded to the Texas Rangers. Both players are likely to be inducted into the Hall of Fame in the future, but the pair have not always had the best relationship with one another.
Verlander the diva
A source spoke to Mike Puma from the New York Post about the situation and explained that Verlander was a diva and he was very detached from his teammates at the Mets.He used to complain about how the analytics department at the Mets was not at the same level as the Astros when he was first in Houston.
This is what caused something of a rift with Scherzer, the constant grumbling.
The Mets, who were seventh in all of baseball with a 3.57 team ERA last season, haven't seen the same success this year as they entered Saturday with a 4.38 ERA, closer to the bottom than the top.
"We kind of got off on the wrong foot. Everything that could go wrong did early," Verlander, as a member of the Astros, told reporters at Yankee Stadium on August 3. "Even though we started playing some good baseball at times, we never really hit our stride where we were kind of banging on all cylinders. I can't answer exactly why that is."
Yup. You know how they do over there
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