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1 hour ago, Vegas64 said:

All the LA or LA adjacent transplants in Prosper wear LAD gear to church, etc. Never see any Lakers gear except Dallas natives with Luka Lakers jerseys now lol.

I see rams gear in church 

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12 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Skipped a few pages, but Rojas’ play was so sick. 

 

And IKF’s horrific lead certainly didn’t help his team’s chances.

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This was a great defensive play, there were a number of great defensive plays, but THE play was the catch made by Dodgers centerfielder running over Hernandez to make that catch basically Keke wasn't going to make that catch and where the centerfielder had to come from and then go over/through Hernandez was just absurd . 

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12 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

The Pages catch never happens without Rojas' first. 

True, but the Pages can in my mind was still the greater play.  

Rojas was a reaction play and a good part of that was the ball was hit right at him. If that ball is a few feet either which way Rojas can't make a throw even if he catches the ball

Page had to cover and incredible amount of distance and not trip over Hermandez who was falling down .

 

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5 minutes ago, PGFrog said:

If that ball is a few feet either which way Rojas can't make a throw even if he catches the ball

Gee, thanks. He made a sick play that loses the WS if he doesn't. We can play 'If' forever. 

 

I'm glad you liked the Pages catch better, I can rest easy tonight now. 

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5 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Gee, thanks. He made a sick play that loses the WS if he doesn't. We can play 'If' forever. 

 

I'm glad you liked the Pages catch better, I can rest easy tonight now. 

Fuck off,  

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45 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Gee, thanks. He made a sick play that loses the WS if he doesn't. We can play 'If' forever. 

 

I'm glad you liked the Pages catch better, I can rest easy tonight now. 

Surly gon be surly, it appears.

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12 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Grudging tip of the cap to the Dodgers.  Well done.  

Yea, for 5x the payroll of the best team  (Brewers) in MLB regular season.

 

So, congrats, I guess. 

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Just now, tbone_ said:

Yea, for 5x the payroll of the best team  (Brewers) in MLB regular season.

 

So, congrats, I guess. 

Give it up on that narrative,  ask the Mets, Yankees, Phillies, Padres how spending wildly works out.  

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What  a great series.  The thing that really amazed me were the two base running blunders the Jays made by "assuming" a called fourth ball on a full count  and then wandering towards second just to be tagged out. Absolutely no reason to leave early in that situation,  it looked like a little league play.  Then the manager goes and talks to the plate umpire asking that he makes his calls quicker. 

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balls, strikes....what's the difference?
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39 minutes ago, miguelito said:

Where's that chart that shows how much each team spends as a percentage of revenue?

It's not the Dodgers people should be upset with. 

 

No shit. Miami says hello, and several others. 

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All the talk about stringing together rallies abd hitting for contact and smart base running, it was a three solo homers that won it all for the dodgers combined with shittadtic blue Jay base running.

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16 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

That guy will never, ever have to buy dinner in Los Angeles or the entire country of Japan for the rest of his life. I am not certain that the majority of baseball fans understand just how big the sport is in Japan. Every single group of Japanese people I meet here are Dodger fans. I mentioned it a few days ago, but that franchise has an entire nation following it. I am happy for Yamamoto getting the Series MVP. His comments through his interpreter are pretty much what I would expect to hear a Japanese player say. They're just wired differently, but in a good way. Good on the Dodgers for pulling out a most improbable victory when they were dead to rights. I'd also wager that Rojas and Smith won't be paying for anything in LA either after tonight's clutch homers. 

 

16 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

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I'm sure there are others, but two good reads about Japanese baseball and their love of the game that I have found and read are "You've Gotta Have Wa" by Robert Whiting and Warren Cromartie's "Slugging it Out in Japan". Cromartie was the first and most prominent player to play in Japan while still in his prime at 30 yrs old. The legendary Sadahuru Oh was his manager while playing for the Yomiuri (Tokyo) Giants. 

If you have Instagram or access to it, a good follow is the midnightlibraryofbaseball. Watch the attachment below for a 3 minute peak of Season 3 Episode 5 (59 minutes) from the website/podcast of the same name,... midnightlibraryofbaseball.com

 

 

 

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6 hours ago, PGFrog said:

Keke wasn't going to make that catch

Why not?  He was right there waiting for it before he got Kelly Leak'd.

*Kike

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29 minutes ago, Underdog said:

If I ever make it over to Japan a baseball game there would be 2nd on the list. 

I saw a game at the Tokyo Dome between the Yomiuri Giants and the Nippon Ham Fighters.  Top 10 baseball experience for me.  

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2 hours ago, Helobious said:

All the talk about stringing together rallies abd hitting for contact and smart base running, it was a three solo homers that won it all for the dodgers combined with shittadtic blue Jay base running.

Home Run Sport GIF by MLBHappy anniversary ❤️

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I was thinking, Miggy's HR has to rank up right near the top of the all time Dodger HR list. Freddie's GS last year was game one. We lose that we may still win the series. Even Gibby's was game 1. Miggy doesn't hit that out we very likely lose.

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For all the talk about money, it seems to me that they can almost print money having become the go-to team for millions of Japanese fans. The cost seems more than justified. 

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Parade route was filling up at 730 when I was walking to the office off 7th. Anyone going? I will be trying to get out of here around noon I am a few blocks away from the last part of the route

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Watching it on tv. They just interviewed this guy and he’s like. Yeah man I love this shit. Fuck it dodgers forever. On live camera 🤣🤣🤣. The nervous look in this chicks face 

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I distinctly reading an article in late 93/ early 94 probably in Sports Illistrated about the Blue Jays payroll and how the Skydome/Canadian TV contract generated so much money that the other MLB teams would be unable to compete with Toronto financially. Then the strike happened and the Yankees became the exact juggernaut the article was sowing concern about

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5 hours ago, 'stache said:

For all the talk about money, it seems to me that they can almost print money having become the go-to team for millions of Japanese fans. The cost seems more than justified. 

It was estimated the Dodgers generated over $100 million ADDITIONAL dollars from the Japanese market in Shohei's first season.  They actually profited from signing him to a $70 million deal.  And then add Yoshi and Roki, and they completely own that market.

Dodgers are in great shape next year.  Only free agents of note are Miggy and Kike, and neither is a key member.  Played key roles, but neither was leaned on for much all season.  Everyone else is back.  Hate to see it, but I think we let Kike walk.  His regular season, and even playoff numbers, this year were below average.  If we can get him on a reasonable deal, fine.  Rojas has said he wants to play one more year, preferably with the Dodgers.  Bring him back.  And you know Friedman is going to be dealing.  Oh, and they have a top 3 farm system.  https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46070464/2025-mlb-prospect-rankings-update-farm-systems-30-teams-mets-dodgers-mariners  

Do the Dodgers spend big money?  Yes.  They better the hell spend with how much they make.  4 million fans this season.  Almost 600,000 more than the next highest Padres (by comparison, the A's and Rays both had less than 800,000 TOTAL for the season).  But they have the best top to bottom organization- front office, ownership, scouting, governance- in baseball and it really isn't close.  Usually these things run in cycles, and you'd expect them to be looking at some down years coming up.  But no reason to think they can't sustain this for the foreseeable future.

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(btw, happy 100 to Mel Brooks!)

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I think the same Jays' fan may have wound up with both Rojas's and Smith's home run balls. It's funny, he made a hell of a catch on Rojas's, raised his glove up to celebrate his achievement, then immediately lowered it, realizing he was now in the middle of a funeral.

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On 11/2/2025 at 1:32 PM, Sbbruin said:

Give it up on that narrative,  ask the Mets, Yankees, Phillies, Padres how spending wildly works out.  

Doesn’t change the fact it’s the one thing I really dislike about baseball.

 

Although ChatGPT tells me payroll on correlates with World Series wins with an r squared of only about .25. So stats are on your side.

 

Of course ChatGPT also told me the Rangers won the 2024 series in that same analysis so be careful what you want to believe I guess. 

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I think the same Jays' fan may have wound up with both Rojas's and Smith's home run balls. It's funny, he made a hell of a catch on Rojas's, raised his glove up to celebrate his achievement, then immediately lowered it, realizing he was now in the middle of a funeral.

Crazy. Dad caught Rojas's HR, son caught Smith's

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/sports/lightning-strikes-twice-for-father-son-duo-that-caught-both-historic-home-runs-in-game-7-of-the-world-series/3799837/?_osource=SocialFlowFB_LABrand&fbclid=IwZnRzaAN2bs9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsupN7GdKPr1GqwBfe10eGARoeP1t1YdOd5dj7iVkRuzJbPEtjDa15Ta1xap_aem_1V3wpDrQ3iEvBpXiiqwKmQ#mot6y3t744h6ynxo40nuv0xb0vm0wll
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7 minutes ago, Derka said:

definitely in the conversation:

 

A regular season game vs a game 7 game saving catch?  Not really close when factoring in the situation and impact.

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40 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

A regular season game vs a game 7 game saving catch?  Not really close when factoring in the situation and impact.

it was to save a no-hitter, and it was a far more difficult catch than pages’ catch. pages’ catch was difficult, but it wasn’t a particularly special catch. i’m not saying it’s inferior to souza’s catch, but a superman dive to clinch a no-hitter is way more difficult than what pages did. 

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9 hours ago, Derka said:

it was to save a no-hitter, and it was a far more difficult catch than pages’ catch. pages’ catch was difficult, but it wasn’t a particularly special catch. i’m not saying it’s inferior to souza’s catch, but a superman dive to clinch a no-hitter is way more difficult than what pages did. 

Not arguing it was the most difficult catch of all time.  Just that it might be the most impactful of the very difficult catches.  And look how far he had to run to get there.  No chance in hell Edman makes that catch.  And while Kike got there, it would have been a miraculous over the shoulder catch.

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Doesn’t change the fact it’s the one thing I really dislike about baseball.
 
Although ChatGPT tells me payroll on correlates with World Series wins with an r squared of only about .25. So stats are on your side.
 
Of course ChatGPT also told me the Rangers won the 2024 series in that same analysis so be careful what you want to believe I guess. 

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If I ever make it over to Japan a baseball game there would be 2nd on the list. 

My parents lived in Okinawa from 87-91 while my dad worked for the DODs school system. He would send me tapes of the games he attended there and in Mainland Japan. He loved going to them. He’s also responsible for the books that I recommended from my previous post.
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On 11/2/2025 at 12:33 PM, PGFrog said:

This was a great defensive play, there were a number of great defensive plays, but THE play was the catch made by Dodgers centerfielder running over Hernandez to make that catch basically Keke wasn't going to make that catch and where the centerfielder had to come from and then go over/through Hernandez was just absurd . 

Yep. That's what I told my boys. That was THE play. Probably 99.9% of the time that ball ends up on the ground in that scenario.

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