2017 MLB Season

[Jack Lambert]

Dodgers go up 3-1 in the 9th!

Edit: And now its 6-1 with the three run dinger by Petersen! Looks like this game is over! Dodgers will tie the series 2-2!

With 8 White starters, are the Dodgers the whitest team in baseball? If so, this would really be a great year to have New England as Super Bowl champs and the Dodgers win the WS!

Riggins, I believe so. I admittedly don't watch every team, but I've caught a few Dodgers games this year. They've had a couple of other non-whites such as Granderson playing for them, but for the World Series, where everybody watches, they've had 8 white starters in every game. Having 7 out of 8 white (or 8 out of 9 in Houston) position players is amazing in today's game. As CS alluded to, a lot of them are stars, like Kershaw, Seager at SS, Bellinger at 1B, and Turner as the 3B. Plus Taylor in center field. That doesn't include all of their other good players like Forsythe, Utley, etc., plus the rest of their good pitching staff. Puig, closer Kenley Jansen, and Darvish are the only minorities of note who regularly play.

 

[Westside]

ALOT of palefaces on Los Dogers. LOL Sure the f*cks at BSPN not loving it. LOL

 

[Riggins44]

What's with the 4\5 non-white post-game show crew on Fox?! Good Lord. It never stops.

Still glad the Dodgers won!

 

[BeyondFedUp]

Ok, series tied up now. As R44 said, if, and I mean IF,the Dodgers can stay focused and win this WS it would make this year a real spit in the eye of the pirate caste system!

 

[Freethinker]

Hahaha, you just can’t make this stuff up. The only MLB player to take a knee, the mulatto catcher from Oakland, is arrested for aggrevated assault with a gun.

Bruce Maxwell was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon Saturday evening at his Scottsdale, Arizona home, according to TMZ Sports.

The report says that Maxwell pulled a gun and pointed it at a female food delivery driver. It's unclear what led up to the incident. Maxwell was booked on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and disorderly conduct and is in custody awaiting his initial appearance in front of a judge. Obviously, there's a lot that must play out here but Maxwell is certainly facing a future suspension from MLB.

That’s some TNB to the T.

 

[Carolina Speed]

With 8 White starters, are the Dodgers the whitest team in baseball? If so, this would really be a great year to have New England as Super Bowl champs and the Dodgers win the WS![/QUOTE]
It's close, however, technically I believe the Washington Nationals are the whitest team in MLB. The following was the opening day lineup for the NATS.
Turner, SS
Eaton, LF
Harper, RF
Murphy, 2B
Zimmerman, 1B
Werth, RF
Drew, 3B, he was replaced by Rendon who played most of the year.
Weiters, C
Strasburg, P
Doolittle RP, led the team in saves is white.
The Dodgers started 8 white players, but their save leader is black, while I believe most of the Nats pitching staff is white with one exception.
It's close!

 

[Riggins44]

With 8 White starters, are the Dodgers the whitest team in baseball? If so, this would really be a great year to have New England as Super Bowl champs and the Dodgers win the WS!

It's close, however, technically I believe the Washington Nationals are the whitest team in MLB. The following was the opening day lineup for the NATS.
Turner, SS
Eaton, LF
Harper, RF
Murphy, 2B
Zimmerman, 1B
Werth, RF
Drew, 3B, he was replaced by Rendon who played most of the year.
Weiters, C
Strasburg, P
Doolittle RP, led the team in saves is white.
The Dodgers started 8 white players, but their save leader is black, while I believe most of the Nats pitching staff is white with one exception.
It's close![/QUOTE]

Even if the Dodgers aren't exactly the whitest team, they are a great team to root for.

 

[Carolina Speed]

Rough first inning for Kuechel and the Astros. Dodgers go up 3-0. 2B Logan Forsythe 2 run single. Bottom of the first.

 

[Riggins44]

I am not the biggest baseball fan and I have heard about Kershaw before but never seen him pitch. Just watching him in the first inning, he's got some wicked stuff. That one curveball he threw for a strike on I think Altuve looked like it broke about four feet.

 

[Jack Lambert]

Kershaw's been pitching great thus far. He's been a dominant regular-season pitcher, as his three Cy Youngs allude to, but it'd be great to see him add a World Series trophy, as other posters have said. On a side note, Puig keeps falling further down the lineup; he's hitting seventh tonight!

 

[Westside]

Watching the game. Its great watching great white citizen athletes play at the highest level. Let's go Dodgers.

 

[Riggins44]

Crap, Houston ties it up 4-4 in the fourth.

 

[Riggins44]

There have been at least two, maybe 3 times in this game where the Dodgers batter was called out by a called third strike which was clearly a ball on replay.

That being said, the Dodgers now go up 7-4 on the three run homer by Bellinger! He then holds his finger to his lips to quiet the crowd as he runs around the bases. Love the attitude.

And then once again Puig kills the rally with a strikeout to end the inning.

 

[Heretic]

Dodgers tie it up at 12, scoring three runs in the top of the ninth...heading to the bottom of the ninth. Best World Series I've watched in a long time.

 

[Claimjumper]

Another blown game for Joe Bucks chocolate man crush, Kenley Jansen

 

[Heretic]

Another blown game for Joe Bucks chocolate man crush, Kenley Jansen

And it was Alex Bregman with the game winning hit and RBI for the Astros against Jansen. He homered off him the night before. Astro's with a very White pitching rotation and bullpen.

 

[PHillisFan]

Yes. Despite a couple more non-white pitchers, the Dodgers have been starting 8 whites in all three games, to go along with all of their bench being white in regards to outfield players.



I usually don't type my disagreement with a post, but I have to this time. Yes, Roberts is black/Japanese, but the difference between the two teams is striking. Buck was criticizing Roberts for his management of pitchers last game. I'm sorry, but if you're not going to cheer for the whitest team in baseball by far, then go ahead. What do you think is going to happen in the media if the predominately Latino Astros win the World Series? I think it's going to be a bit worse than Roberts winning as manager.

Yes. Despite a couple more non-white pitchers, the Dodgers have been starting 8 whites in all three games, to go along with all of their bench being white in regards to outfield players.



I usually don't type my disagreement with a post, but I have to this time. Yes, Roberts is black/Japanese, but the difference between the two teams is striking. Buck was criticizing Roberts for his management of pitchers last game. I'm sorry, but if you're not going to cheer for the whitest team in baseball by far, then go ahead. What do you think is going to happen in the media if the predominately Latino Astros win the World Series? I think it's going to be a bit worse than Roberts winning as manager.

Predominmately latino?That is broad. Latino is not a race. Dodger’s Kiki Hernandez is white. Outside altuve and gonzalez, correa and gurriel are practically black. Regardless there is no big win in the scenario. Don’t you think the media was pushing for Dusty Baker to finally win a championship so they could make an argument baseball needs more afleets in leadership? What would media gain by seeing Roberts win? This is not a win-win by any means.



http://www.dailynews.com/2017/10/26...-tries-to-rebuild-african-americans-interest/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-leadership-positions/?utm_term=.73327988afc5

 

[Jack Lambert]

Predominmately latino?That is broad. Latino is not a race. Dodger’s Kiki Hernandez is white. Outside altuve and gonzalez, correa and gurriel are practically black. Regardless there is no big win in the scenario. Don’t you think the media was pushing for Dusty Baker to finally win a championship so they could make an argument baseball needs more afleets in leadership? What would media gain by seeing Roberts win? This is not a win-win by any means.



http://www.dailynews.com/2017/10/26...-tries-to-rebuild-african-americans-interest/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-leadership-positions/?utm_term=.73327988afc5

Yes, the media would gain stuff, but at the same time, obviously people are noticing how great players like Turner and Bellinger are. I think our potential gain would be greater with the Dodgers winning than the Astros. Kershaw is a 3-time Cy Young winner, Bellinger and Seager are two of the best young players in baseball. Despite Roberts, the average DWF notices how white the Dodgers are, especially compared with the Astros (represented by Altuve in the media). I'd much rather have a couple of mandatory articles about Roberts and diversity to go along with how good Kershaw, Bellinger, Seager, and the rest of the Dodgers' players are. With the Astros, I don't see it at all. You think they're going to compliment the manager? It's going to be Altuve coverage (waaay more than anybody else) and then the rest of the team.

And that was my bad, I just assumed everybody took Latino to mean Mestizo. I'll clear that up from now on.

 

[Shadowlight]

I am with JL all the way and rooting for the Dodgers but they are truly pinned against the wall now. They had everything in place. Kershaw pitching with a four run lead no less and they couldn't hold on to the lead. These games end too late for me but I KNOW that the balls are juiced. They are using super balls that are nearly as hard as golf balls. MLB is beyond deceitful. Lying ********. Correa hits a pop up --that somehow clears the fence. Give me a damn break. That said the Astros would be a bit more palatable if nature hadn't screwed the "white athlete" once again. The player who scored the winning run was Derek Fisher a fast athletic young OF who I didn't even know was on their WS roster. He bolted around third base like a gazelle. Perhaps he is on the roster because their most athletic player CF Jake Marisnik hurt his thumb during the season . Granted Marisnik was not a full time starter but he did start some games and is an excellent CF who flashes speed and power. It is a bloody shame he has been sidelined because the country at least at times would witness not one but two white CF's out there with Chris Taylor manning the spot for LA. Marisnik was often put in during the late innings for his defensive prowess. I get so frustrated over these things. Two more things. I think Roberts is getting out managed here by a country mile--one foolish move after another---and what happened to lights out closer Jansen? All year long nobody could hit him and now he looks like some scrub. Unbelievable.

 

[Don Wassall]

Just from watching the Series the past two games, the Astros come across as "Latin America's Team." I'm very aware of the fact that hispanics aren't a race or even an ethnic group and have always tried to educate people about that, but the Astros players' body language and attitude just gives off a Dominican Republic type vibe. Don't know if it's from the Astros' brass deliberately pandering to the shockingly fast demographic makeover of Houston or not, but the Dodgers are very easy for me to root for while the Astros are just so-so at best. Missing from both teams are WGAs, maybe Joe Morgan will be brought out of mothballs to expound on it again if the Dodgers rally to win.

 

[Riggins44]

Remind me again, what are WGA's?

 

[Don Wassall]

World's Greatest Athletes, always used sarcastically when referring to the Magical Race, at least on this site.

 

[Carolina Speed]

World's Greatest Athletes, always used sarcastically when referring to the Magical Race, at least on this site.

Well, they tried to make Puig out to be one of those WGA's early in his career. They even did a special pre game on him the other evening. Amazing with Turner, Bellinger, and Seager, and Kershaw to an extent, they had a pre game on Puig. Too bad the World's Greatest MLB Player, (Mike Trout) is not in the WS. I could do a Trout/Puig comparison, but it wouldn't be close. Comparing Puig to Trout, well I don't have the words. Someone help me?
Just for fun:
Trout Age: 26, Puig Age 27
BA: Trout .306, Puig .281
Runs: Trout, 692, Puig, 305
Hits: Trout, 1,040, Puig, 578
2B: Trout, 200, Puig, 108
3B: Trout 40, Puig 18
HR: Trout 201, Puig 85
Trout: RBI: 569, Puig 268
SB: Trout 165, Puig 45
CS: Trout 32, Puig 26
SB%: Trout 84%, Puig 63%
OBP, Trout .410, Puig .353
SLG, Trout .566, Puig .475
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Somehow Puig was given a nice contract at 21 years old (3.1 million), while no one is feeling sorry for Trout at 21,only made ($510,000). He didn't receive a healthy contract until his age 23 season.
Just up until this year, Puig and Trout, 32 million, had made identical money. Trout finally surpassing Puig in that department. It took Trout to be ROY, 2 MVP's and 3 runner ups to do it, I guess?
America is so unfair to the black athlete!

 

[Heretic]

From BSPN Twitter feed:

For Alex Bregman, a new way to communicate
Astros third baseman Alex Bregman is the only non-Latino member of one of MLB's best infields.
So for Bregman, there was only thing to do: learn Spanish.

'

Of course, it's not incumbent upon them to learn English...

Nice, Pederson with a solo HR to make it 3-1 Dodgers as soon as I write this.

 

[ramicackle]

Dodgers' Joc Pedersen is 5 for 14 in the World Series with 3 HR. Dodgers are favored in game 7 as LA is -125 on the money line. Expect Kershaw to pitch in relief. Game 7 should be fun!