And they still cannot beat the dodgers.
That’s funny.
Sold the entirety of San Diego for Soto…and they still keep losing to the Dodgers.
It’s too bad they don’t have any games left against the Angels. If they lost a series to them, LoCal would meltdown over selling their souls for nothing.
The neighborhood has been in flux for years, and the temperature seems warmer than I recall, but watching a game, with a beer and a hotdog, from that general vicinity while looking out at the Wasatch as the sunsets in the background, is one of best reasons to live in SLC.
Truly one of the most scenic venues in baseball
Mariners took two of three from the yankees . In the wild card hunt and only 11 games behind the texas cheaters
Texas cheaters…the easy fix is to put rubberized trash cans in their dugout and locker rooms.
Braves call up high pick from double a to majors and he homers in first game
They played really well. They deserved to win that series.
Meanwhile, my boys are really struggling lately. I’m hoping they can re-peak, but they may have peaked waaaaay early.
The huge IL list hasn’t helped. Anytime you’re missing two of your top relievers and a starter, Stanton, and others… ya, not good.
Great Bob Costas story on Vin Scully.
I’ve never been a Giants fan (heaven forbid) but there will never be another player like Willie Mays.
Just for fun, how about Albert Pujols? Career stats and accomplishments are pretty similar to the Say Hey Kid.
Career stats: .296 BA, 690 HRs, 2,185 RBIs, 3,350 hits
11x All-Star, 3x MVP, 2x WS Champ, ROTY
Hank Aaron may be another comparable player. I won’t include A-Rod because of the PEDs controversy.
I’d argue, however, that Mays lost 1 1/2 years of peak performance years while he was in the Army, plus played all those games in Candlestick Park pre-full enclosure with winds primarily blowing back in. Had he been in any other park that many years he may have challenged Ruth’s 714 HR mark before Aaron.
Also, Mays was a true 5 tool guy - hit, hit for power, run, field, throw. Pujols, not so much.
Mays, quite simply, is the best all around player of all time.
Mays and the Mick.
If Mickey had better knees, he may have had a record as good as Mays.
I learned recently that Mickey Mantle is my fifth cousin. This means nothing, except that it is a genealogical quirk.
Better knees and less of a taste for alcohol, who knows how good he would have been.
I will always wonder how many records Ted Williams would have set if he had not spent five seasons in the military.
Counterargument: Pujols has had to play against superior competition, the best players not only from the U.S., but around the world. He was up against superior athleticism, nastier pitching, and he probably also was contending against players who were cheating with PEDS to improve their performance for the first third of his career. Plus, he has played half his career during the modern dead ball era. Finally, Busch Stadium is a pitchers paradise, and it was during his Cardinals era when he pulled his best numbers.
Pujols is actually one of the best defensive first baseman of his era, so I don’t know what you mean by “Pujols, not so much.” That’s a tough defensive position that is involved in more in-play defensive plays than any other position. He’s no defensive slouch.
As a kid for a while I actually thought the Beatles song Penny Lane had the lyrics:
“Willie Mays is in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skies”
(I was impressed with McCartney for having that broad of awareness… until I learned it was somebody else subbing the name.)