2019 MLB Season Thread [ARCHIVED] Baseball • Page 1252

Can't believe he got out of that

 

He said maybe someday

 

Braves are so much fun to watch.

 

LeMahieu 9-11, 20 rbi with bases loaded

Crazy lol

 

Hicks takes more confused swings than I've seen from someone in a while

 

GARY

 

All the Braves do is hit homers, and I love it.

 

go dodgers

 

Good old Cessa

to be fair Urshela did probably cost him an out

 

Cmon Vlad walk off Boston

Edit: boo

 

Wow Dansby

 

Dansby and Ozzie. All star snubs.

Also. Minter gets the win. lol. God, I hate the Win stat.

 

Braves need to watch out for the Nats though

 

bellinger caught up to Yelich with home runs

 

I was worried about the Nats two weeks ago when they were working their way back to .500 after being 12 games back (of .500). And now they are 4 games over.

 

I honestly cannot believe the Tribe has the 8th best record in the league.

 

Best record in the AL since June 1.

They’ve always been a slow start-second half kind of team.

 

Always, but they never had as many injuries. haha

Then again, so many teams are in the same situation.

 

Mike Trout tracker, June edition: He's now better than Tony Gwynn and seven more Hall of Famers

3. He was such a superstar he singlehandedly shifted national baby-naming trends. Before Sandberg, the name Ryne never appeared in the top 1,000 baby names in the United States, and it's hard to find evidence it was considered a name at all. (Sandberg was named, inexplicably, after the 1950s reliever Ryne Duren, but Duren was actually named Rinold.) But in 1984, Sandberg was the NL MVP, and his name jumped from oblivion to become the 600th most popular name in the country. Through the rest of his career, the name Ryne stayed in the top 1,000, climbing higher when he had better seasons and dropping some when he was worse; it fell out of the top 1,000 when he retired in 1995, but jumped back in when he unretired in 1996. The correlation between Sandberg's WAR and the popularity of the name is an extremely strong 0.87, suggesting that the two (Sandberg's accomplishments and naming babies Ryne) were strongly entangled.

There have since been around 15 Rynes in professional baseball, all of them born during (or immediately after) Sandberg's career. Of the 2,000 or so Rynes named during his career, close to 1 percent have played affiliated baseball, a staggering estimate that doesn't even include a small handful of middle-name Rynes (such as Patrick Ryne Palmeiro, son of Ryne's teammate Rafael) and independent leaguers. Ryne Sandberg was, quite literally, a household name.

 

60 wins yoooooo

 

73 runs on that google doodle game. Prob my max, at that point I start forgetting which pitches are which colors haha