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st 1900 record for strikeouts is 383 set in 1973 by one nolan ryan a close second is the 382 k s by sandy koufax in 1965 randy big unit johnson came close in 2001 with 372 and there have been several other worthy mentions but in my humble opinion i don t see anyone breaking ryan s mark as good as clayton kershaw and madison bumgarner are and as good as i think jacob degrom may become breaking ryan s record is a tall order and now on to mount olympus lou gehrig was considered to be the iron man his 2 130 straight games played was thought to be unbreakable until cal ripken jr did just that on the night of september 6th 1995 ripken became the all time iron man ripken would go on to set the new consecutive game record at 2 632 i also do not ever see this record falling whenever i think of records and how they are considered untouchable i am reminded of one roger bannister you may have heard of him roger bannister is the first human being to ever break the 4 minute mile on may 4th 1954 bannister accomplished what many experts considered to be a physical impossibility it was believed that the human pulmonary and respiratory systems were simply incapable of supporting such an effort and that the human heart would just explode the experts were wrong and since that historic day the sub 4 minute mile is almost routine oh my original point on this day in 1941 joe dimaggio etched himself in the mount rushmore of baseball immortals with his 56 gamne hitting streak many have tried to equal it all have failed it is a record that i do not see ever being broken joltin joe dimaggio share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in baseball mlb tagged babe ruth barry bonds baseball baseball records cal ripken jr clayton kershaw jacob degrom joe dimaggio madison bumgarner mark mcguire mlb nolan ryan pete rose roger maris sammy sosa sandy koufax jul 16 2015 mlb all star game something is fishy posted by eanxdivr 0 the 2015 major league baseball all star game is now in our rearview mirror kudos to the city of cincinnati for hosting a great event for the baseball world there are some elements of the two day baseball fest that i want to discuss let s start with the home run derby i generally do not watch the skills competition in any sport which would explain my revulsion at the shootout in the national hockey league as well as the compulsory 4 on 4 and 3 on 3 in their overtimes but that is a debate best left to another forum the home run derby had become this tedious almost mind numbing exercise i was not sure that an imposed time limit would help but i was pleasantly surprised and quite happy to be wrong i have to admit that it is better now i am not going to say that the ending felt scripted but really todd frazier the hometown kid winning the competition by one home run with precious little time left on the clock you be the judge next up the pete rose saga if mlb wanted to instill a sense of insane frenzied emotion why didn t commissioner manfred announce that he was going to reinstate rose it would have been appropriate given that the game was in cincinnati at least that is what i thought at first glance but then i thought about it a little more and i drew a very different conclusion if the commissioner had done that it would have basically allowed the spectre of the whole pete rose debate to hijack the entire event and that would have been wrong it would have taken the attention away from the people who truly deserved it and that is the players on the field rose got some love and a 1 minute 20 second standing ovation by being allowed to participate in the franchise four ceremonies and he was on one of the television promos that should be enough for now the pete rose soap opera will be best left to another time and now for the game itself i ll get right to it how did mike trout win the mvp award in this game yes he opened the game with a leadoff hr off of zach greinke sorry baseball fans but i was not impressed trout was the first batter greinke faced his adrenaline was pumping he was not dialed in yet and he had not settled down into his normal pitching rhythm it is not a huge surprise that trout took him over the wall if you look at how greinke pitched after the trout bomb it is a very different story my point is that a single home run at the very beginning of a game should not an mvp make there were other performances that were much more worthy how about lorenzo cain he had a great night going 2 for 3 with an rbi prince fielder had a pretty good night with the stick as well but thinking a little outside the box a little bit an argument can be made that zach greinke could have been the mvp if we break down what mvp actually is about it is for the player who was the most valuable to his team the hr that greinke allowed had no bearing on the outcome of the game it was also the only hit that he allowed and that goes along with the 4 k s that he rang up pretty valuable if you ask me how about jacob degrom of the mets he strikes out three hitters on ten pitches 9 is the absolute minimum in the all star game impressive no who does that don t misconstrue my meaning mike trout is a great player he is possibly okay probably the best player in the major leagues now he is deserving of all the accolades that he receives almost in my opinion he was not the mvp of the 2015 all star game but trout has become the face of mlb and mlb needs to sell that image who will sell more merchandise and tickets for mlb trout or lorenzo cain duh in a time of sky rocketing contracts and other distractions mlb needs a fresh faced 23year old stud outfielder like mike trout to be its representative it is great for the game to be sure in the wings are players like kris bryant alex gordon andrew mccutchen brock holt joc pederson and many others but today it is mike trout a great player i am just not sure that he deserved the asg mvp this year share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in 2015 mlb all star game all star game baseball mlb tagged all star game baseball jacob degrom lorenzo cain mike trout mlb pete rose zach greinke jul 15 the 2015 mlb all star game there must be a conspiracy posted by eanxdivr 0 i want to discuss the major league baseball all star game to hereby be referred to as the asg for the sake of my typing fingers actually it is the asg voting that i want to talk about i was raised on the principle of one person one vote sounds fair sounds like democracy in action then i was reminded of the somewhat amusing quip of vote early and vote often sigh isn t that somewhat counter intuitive it has occurred to me that the voting for the asg is more closely reminiscent latter an individual may submit up to 35 votes yes kids 35 votes why the whole voting process has become convoluted i read a comment actually several comments lamenting the selection of 6 kansas city royals to the 2015 asg the comments were let s say idiotic they reeked of the nonsense that only a conspiracy theorist can spew out let s take a look at a few shall we the people from kansas city must have found a way to cheat those kansas city royal fans must have found a way to hack the computer system major league baseball wants as many royals in the game as possible because they went to the world series last year they want to cash in on the popularity of the royals they will do anything to keep a rod out of the asg i heard that the fans in kansas city and st louis teamed up to get as many royals and cardinals in as they could have you ever heard of such ridiculous drivel while i do not agree with this 35 votes per person format i prefer the one vote per person paradigm with that said i would also say this if people are so cranked up about royals fans allegedly stuffing the ballot box then do something about it consider the 2013 population of the kansas city metro area is roughly 475 000 people the 2013 population of new york city and its 5 boroughs is roughly 8 406 000 how is it that the kansas city fans could outvote the new york fans each and every person who cared to do so could vote 35 times do the math as i said earlier the argument is more sour grapes than factual if you wanted your guys in the asg then get out and cast your 35 votes if you didn t than stop whining there is no conspiracy there is only a fanbase that is so enamored of its team that they got up got out and got their royals in the game here is a dollar go buy some tissues while i call the waaaahhhhmbulance for your hurt feelings next year get out and exercise your right to vote 35 times share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in uncategorized jul 12 mlb the case of charlie hustle posted by eanxdivr 0 pete rose the name is instantly recognizable the name conjures up images of a cincinnati reds player crashing headfirst into a catcher at the 1971 all star game there are images of a gritty tough ballplayer with a funny haircut images of a hustling all or nothing leader images of disgrace and no images of cooperstown everybody knows the tragic story of pete rose mlb s all time hits leader world series champion perennial all star and his fall from grace after agreeing to a lifetime ban for betting on his own team always to win while managing the cincinnati reds pete rose has petitioned all the mlb commissioners since the ban to lift it and it has always failed to be acted upon just today pete rose petitioned new mlb commissioner rob manfred for reinstatement and that is why this article exists today i am not going to get into all of the sordid details there are endless records in other places where you can get that information i only want to ask the question if enough time has passed for rose to be reinstated should a lifetime ban in this case actually be a lifetime ban was what rose did so egregious that he should be denied the opportunity to come home is it okay to have many players and other baseball figures who have done far worse still be included in the baseball family alex rodriguez barry bonds etc while rose is a pariah the answer to these questions rests with the individuals and once an individual has answered these questions does the opinion matter let s look at this even if the progressive new mlb commissioner agrees to lift the ban it still does not get rose into the hall of fame the baseball hof is still a private institution and they alone decide who is and who is not eligible for enshrinement and now because you didn t ask i will offer up my own personal opinion i believe that the lifetime ban that rose agreed to or was coerced in to was unjustified the punishment did not fit the crime pete rose had a gambling addiction he bet on his own team to win never to lose it is highly unlikely that the action or inaction of pete rose while he was managing the reds had any effect on the outcome of any game he did not cheat he did not use steroids or any other performance enhancing drug my belief is that then commissioner bart giamatti wanted to make an example of rose he certainly did that now it is time to let it go lift the ban allow pete rose his proper place in baseball history as the all time hits leader and as one of the greatest players to ever play the game the case of charlie hustle is a sad one please let it be rectified in pete rose s lifetime while there is still time to do so he has suffered the punishment now let him enjoy the accolades that he has earned share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in baseball mlb tagged baseball betting on baseball gambling lifetimeban mlb pete rose rob manfred mar 17 mlb the sky is not falling posted by eanxdivr 0 sometimes i have a little too much time on my hands and with the excess time i will occasionally visit the team chatrooms of mlb clubs just to read the various chatter coming from them i have been doing this for a few seasons now and every spring the same thing just jumps off the pages at me it is the proclamation of the sky is falling we are going to be terrible this year we can t pitch the guys are not hitting they raised the price of hot dogs we re doomed really okay let s jump in the pool first off we are two weeks into spring training if teams are worried about winning these all important exhibition games perhaps they need to re focus believe it or not spring training is not about winning games it is about getting things working again it is about players getting into game shape it is irrelevant how rigorous or passive a players offseason training regimen is game tempo is different players need to adjust to that atmosphere second of all players are actually working on things such as timing and technique it is during spring training that players and teams are working out their double play sets players are working on skills such as bunting stealing hit and run and many other things pitchers are focusing on things like pitch location and getting their stuff working spring training is the time to work on the correct execution of skills and plays sometimes when you are simply working on things there will be failures and these failures will translate into losses it doesn t matter because spring training games do not count in the regular season standings i find it hilarious how people are getting crazy because their team is getting beat at this time of year it does not matter next the regular season starters see only limited action in spring training for example a pitcher will not be pushed to 7 or 8 innings in the spring he might go 2 or 3 innings and as spring progresses he will slowly be stretched to go longer nobody wants to get their regular season line up hurt in a game that means nothing it does happen but it is hopefully kept to a minimum lastly we have the young prospects hoping to make a club these guys are the ones who seem to give maximum effort all the time why because they have to these players are hoping to catch the eye of the coaching staff and evaluators this is why in a relatively large percentage of spring training games the guys who are on highlight reels are players that you have never heard of we have to remember that most of these guys are going to be sent down to aa or aaa ball in a few weeks but the team wants to see what they have down on the farm spring training is the time to do that conversely these are young players going up against other minor leaguers take from that what you will but there are precious few aa hitters who are going to be taking clayton kershaw over the wall so my friends if your team is getting hammered in spring training games try to keep it in perspective a worl...