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Baseball Season 2017
- Thread starter Barry Izbak
- Start date
Oh this guy knows his baseball
*cough* five times champion NSC fantasy baseball league *cough*
That is a tremendous call. I wonder what odds you could have got on that at the beginning of the season? 12/1 or something I'd guess?
Kalimantan Gull
Well-known member
Oh I don't know, they were always one of the stronger teams, heck I wasn't even the first person to call it on this thread
What is far more impressive is Sports Illustrated calling it back in 2014 when the Astros were rubbish - and not only that but their cover photo for the 2014 story was George Springer, the 2017 World Series MVP.
Thats what I like about baseball, when I started following the game back in 2013 (thanks to [MENTION=10202]Not Andy Naylor[/MENTION]) the two worst teams by a long way, and the butt of everyone's jokes, were the Cubs and the Astros. And thats your 2016 and 2017 World Series Winners respectively.
brakespear
Doctor Worm
Thanks for that, might get the MLB TV off-season package to see if I fancy it enough to pay big money for it
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
So sad to hear the news of Roy 'Doc' Halladay being killed in a plane crash at the age of only 40. Double Cy Young winner, once with the Toronto Blue Jays and once with Philadelphia. Saw him a few times, he was a true gentleman. I shall never forget the TV channel switching over to the game for the ninth inning when he had a chance of a no-hitter in his debut, only to be hit with two out.
Absolute tragedy, great person. Well worthy of the Level of Excellence at Rogers Centre.
Lyndhurst 14
Well-known member
- Jan 16, 2008
- 5,125
Interesting to see that baseball teams do get fined quite heavily when they overspend - unlike the toothless FA who seem to turn a blind eye to FFP
https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/yankees-luxury-tax-2017-1.15523189
https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/yankees-luxury-tax-2017-1.15523189