Good luck and stay safe to you and all your families across the Southeast, and especially in the Tampa Bay area.
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Good luck and stay safe to you and all your families across the Southeast, and especially in the Tampa Bay area.
Use code “Journal” for a 5% discount.
Stay safe everyone. Haven’t posted here for a long while.
I just want to say I am very happy to see the Phillies experiencing the same thing we experienced the past couple years. Now someone please beat the Mets.
Yes to both!
The roof of Tropicana Field has been shredded.
https://twitter.com/JasonAdamsWFTS/status/1844211275439784196
So, I live in a high rise in downtown St. Pete. It is wiiiiild to look outside and see the Trop torn half to hell.
I do think that material was kinda made to tear, and the repair will take much less time than some are thinking. You can’t make that material rigid or it could compromise the entire building, I would think.
I’m glad to see the Phillies lose. Lindor, what a talent.
To the extent that another division winner is going home early, I would propose that the WC series begins on the Monday right after Game 162 and that the NLDS begins on Thursday, so that a WC team only gets a day off if they sweep their series. I do think there needs to be more of a penalty to entering as a WC team. i think it’s crazy that a WC team can get two off days in the lead up to the NLDS. This also shortens the bye from five days to three days. The Dodgers and Yankees seem to be managing the bye okay, but Cleveland has been shutout twice, although they’re not much of an offensive team.
But perhaps this is the new reality. The MLB regular season is mostly just summertime entertainment, and the postseason isn’t necessarily about crowning greatness, but setting a stage for a decently good team to go on a heater and win a trophy. I guess that’s what we saw in 2021. If that’s truly becoming the case, I think MLB should eliminate the divisions and take the top 6 from each league as their playoff teams.
It’s about money & TV, man, not any kind of rationality related to fairness. More teams, bigger tournament, more TV bucks. That just ain’t changing.
But, no, it didn’t break my heart to see the Phightin’ Phils vanquished in exactly the same fashion we were the past two years: Home loss, home win, road loss, road loss — c-ya.
Nonetheless, I have this lingering fear we’ll get a Mets World Series against a just-happy-to-be-there team like Detroit.
How ’bout a repeat of the 1984 World Series instead? SD vs. Det.
(Hope everyone made it out of Milton OK…)
I really wanted to see Pads-Dods NLCS and an O’s-Stros ALCS. But nobody asked me my opinion.
Sources saying Seitzer, his deputy, and Fasano are all out.
DOB confirms in The Athletic. He adds that Fasano will not be replaced and that Chipper will not be a candidate for hitting coach as he “has a lot going on outside baseball.” Seitzer has been the hitting coach for 10 years.
Yes there are all out. Fasano leaving sucks. Who is going to be the hitting coach now? It won’t be Chipper
Eliminating Fasano is interesting. Makes me wonder… was he bearish on Contreras as a catcher, and that was a factor in trading him? Is his firing a repercussion of that trade?
That’s an interesting angle. I think they would have known about his personality by then. He’s been with the team for a long time.
I wonder if it’s also because the team has 2 veteran catchers who don’t really need help with game planning and such, and they thought they could better use that coach’s salary on someone else.
Wasn’t Seitzer away from the team for a while for an undisclosed reason? And Kranitz was also away but the reason was disclosed? That could be interesting. Maybe Seitzer is having a health problem they don’t want to talk about.
Seitzer’s wife had colon cancer. She’s doing better now.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5834988/2024/10/10/braves-kevin-seitzer-fired-reaction/
One of the beat writers (DOB I think) alluded that Seitzer felt like the players weren’t listening to him about not pressing and such. And since Magelones was his assistant he also was let go.
We all half expected it, but it’s still a surprise to me to see the trigger pulled due to the success Seitzer had. My half-witted take is that Seitzer’s approach worked better under the old run environment, but now that the ball isn’t flying, you need a return to more traditional principles. I would take Chipper as a hiring consultant to pick a new hitting coach. The fact he understands what we need is probably more important than teaching that philosophy directly. He may not even be a good teacher–may hyperskilled people are not.
Your take sounds right to me.
At its most basic, this move seemed almost inevitable; any time a guy’s been there for a decade and the area he oversees has a collapse, he’s got to fall on his sword. I had not seen the suggestion that the players were no longer listening to him but it’s quite obvious that nearly everyone was pressing neearly all season, including during our abbreviated playoff run, and they clearly could use a fresh voice in their ears.
With respect to Chipper, I’m frankly relieved that they preemptively took him off the table. It’s been very clear that he didn’t want a full-time job in baseball as he would have had one handed to him on a platter if he did. Moreover, he comes off as a bit of a cool kid and maybe a bit of a bully, and I’d be afraid that young players who worked with him, particularly ones with confidence issues, would feel anxious to impress him in ways that wouldn’t be healthy. Jarred Kelenic comes to mind. His failure to develop was emblematic of the whole season, just as much as Arcia and Murphy’s utter collapses, and Acuña, Olson, Riley, and Harris’s multimonth tailspins.
Finally, I’d rather we got someone who would be a little more analytically savvy. Chipper is highly intelligent about hitting but I don’t know how well he can adapt his lessons to individual learners.
For example, Matt Olson’s swing regularly goes out of whack for about a week every month, give or take; we need a coach who’s able to identify exactly what’s going wrong and help him make the necessary adjustments faster.