For Over 75 Years Whenever There's a World Crisis, One of the First Questions Asked at the White House Is, "Where Are the Carriers?"

@eli1601

Trade deadline should be mid-June. Would stop teams from end of summer sell-offs to save a few million bucks. Current deadline and wild cards make the April-July pennant race a side show. How can you get excited about a game between contenders on July 4th when what will only matter will be who gets a rental in August?

And maybe if you're going to dump salaries the last two months then season ticket holders should get a 1/3 refund.

@beckyromero Just be thankful you are not a Marlins fan

@sunsporter1649 The Marlins have two World Series titles. Better than most teams in the last 25 years.

@eli1601 And the following years after the Championships they sold off anyone who contributed to those Championships, and continue to follow the policy of filling the owners pockets with cash, and to hell with the fans

@sunsporter1649


As evidenced by:

Giancarlo Stanton Traded to Yankees for Starlin Castro, Prospect
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2721523-giancarlo-stanton-reportedly-traded-to-yankees

@eli1601
Their second one was even a bigger fluke than their first.

They only made the playoffs both of those years as a wild card.

@beckyromero A friend of mine from Cleveland called the 1997 World Series "a wound that will never heal"

@eli1601

The '97 Indians really weren't that good.

In an East-West alignment, it would have been Baltimore and Seattle in the AL, Atlanta and San Francisco in the NL (Florida if you keep the Braves in the West).

1995 is the one they should have won. But the Braves pitching was phenomenal.

@beckyromero Blowing a lead in the 9th inning of the 7th game may have something to do with it.

@eli1601

They were lucky to even get to a 7th game.

@beckyromero My guess is she is never going to look at it that way

@eli1601

You can always buy her a 1948 World Champs pennant on ebay for a couple hundred bucks. 😂

@beckyromero I would have thought a Cubs fan would be more sympathetic to long term ineptitude 😉

@eli1601

Did you forget that we are the ONLY major league team with a cumulative WINNING record since DAY ONE of the franchise?

@beckyromero Thank God for the 1906, 07, and 08 teams. 😁

@eli1601

Don't forget 1910. Four pennants in five years.

And they need to make a movie about the Merkle game.

@beckyromero I agree. If it wasn't for Merkle it would have been 109 years between Cubs WS wins. 👍

@eli1601

Did you know that Merkle also let a foul popup fall untouched that helped enable the Red Sox to come from behind and rally in the bottom of the 10th inning of game 8 (there had been a rained out tie) and win the 1912 World Series?

Poor guy! 😂

@beckyromero I did know that. When I was a kid, I had a baseball history book. It was said that John McGraw forgave Snodgrass his dropped fly because it was a physical error. He could not forgive the foul popup that he considered a mental error.

@eli1601

Wonder what McGraw would have thought of the '62 Mets?

@beckyromero Since he was Casey's manager, he would have wondered the same thing. Can't anybody here play this game?

@eli1601 The joke was the Mets original owner, Joan Payson, had asked a person in the front office to send her a report after each game in 62. After a while she got tired of reading reports about losses so she told him to only report after wins.

She didn't hear from him for weeks.

@eli1601

In all fairness to the Mets, the existing teams didn't give the expansion clubs a fair shot. They should have given them a better player pool to chose from.

Just look at the record of the Mets, Astros, Angels and Senators/Rangers. Pretty pathetic. One World Series championship in 25 years between them thru 1985.