lakerevolution wrote:The MLB celebrates the life of Frank Robinson! Incredible player (out of Oakland, Ca.) who set a number of trends in both leagues and represented baseball admirably. Thanks Frank!
RIP Frank. I seen where he just passed away.
lakerevolution wrote:The MLB celebrates the life of Frank Robinson! Incredible player (out of Oakland, Ca.) who set a number of trends in both leagues and represented baseball admirably. Thanks Frank!
lakerevolution wrote:Gotta give love to Bruce Bochy, who wandered around the league as a good manager until he hit a post-Barry Giants team that put a squad together similar to the Warriors and went on a historic WS run. He just announced he'll retire after this year. HOF in his future. Good guy.
3Peatkb24 wrote:MLB.com/MLB Channel experts just listed their Top 10 teams of all-time since expansion occurred which happened in the 1961 Season. Their Top 10 list is:
1. 1998 NY Yankees
2. 1975 Cincinnati Reds
3. 1961 NY Yankees
4. 1970 Baltimore Orioles
5. 1986 NY Mets
6. 2016 Chicago Cubs
7. 1984 Detroit Tigers
8. 2018 Boston Red Sox
9. 1968 Detroit Tigers
10. 1976 Cincinnati Reds
3Peatkb24 wrote:3Peatkb24 wrote:MLB.com/MLB Channel experts just listed their Top 10 teams of all-time since expansion occurred which happened in the 1961 Season. Their Top 10 list is:
1. 1998 NY Yankees
2. 1975 Cincinnati Reds
3. 1961 NY Yankees
4. 1970 Baltimore Orioles
5. 1986 NY Mets
6. 2016 Chicago Cubs
7. 1984 Detroit Tigers
8. 2018 Boston Red Sox
9. 1968 Detroit Tigers
10. 1976 Cincinnati Reds
Cubs at #6 is pretty respectable! I'll take it considering that is 58 seasons of Baseball being discussed and broken down from 1961-2018.
lakerevolution wrote:3Peatkb24 wrote:3Peatkb24 wrote:MLB.com/MLB Channel experts just listed their Top 10 teams of all-time since expansion occurred which happened in the 1961 Season. Their Top 10 list is:
1. 1998 NY Yankees
2. 1975 Cincinnati Reds
3. 1961 NY Yankees
4. 1970 Baltimore Orioles
5. 1986 NY Mets
6. 2016 Chicago Cubs
7. 1984 Detroit Tigers
8. 2018 Boston Red Sox
9. 1968 Detroit Tigers
10. 1976 Cincinnati Reds
Cubs at #6 is pretty respectable! I'll take it considering that is 58 seasons of Baseball being discussed and broken down from 1961-2018.
1986 Mets
The late-70s/early 80s Dodgers fielded some great teams, I smell east coast bias.
3Peatkb24 wrote:Top 5 greatest teams I have ever seen by my eye test (since 1980 roughly) were:
1. 1998 NY Yankees - went 114-48 and cruised in the playoffs. Jeter, Martinez, Williams, Brosius, and O'Neil were just magnificent with the bat. How about the Pitching with Wells, Pettitte, Cone, and Rivera. That team was so great that it wasn't even fair.
2. 1986 NY Mets - I have them #2, went 108-54 and was just clutch. Talent wise their Pitching was unreal = Gooden, Darling, Ojeda, Fernandez. Strawberry, Carter, Knight, and Hernandez were solid clutch hitters as well. It is their overall Pitching that gives them the #2 nod though. Orosco was a bad man too, to save games.
3. 2016 Chicago Cubs - I have my Cubs 3rd, went 103-58 and broke a 108 year jinx. Any team that can win Game 6 and Game 7 on the road to win a WS belongs in the GOAT discussion! Bryant, Rizzo, Baez, Zobrist in the lineup. Arrieta, Lester, and Chapman all in their Pitching prime!
4. 1989 Oakland A's - went 99-63 and a lineup that was just loaded = McGwire, Canseco, Parker, and R.Henderson! Stewart, Welch, and Eckersley for Pitching. They swept the Giants 4-0 to win the WS. Canseco got healthy for the playoffs and that team was a machine. Had Canseco been healthy all season, this team would've won over 100 games. He missed a lot of games.
5. 2018 Boston Red Sox - went 108-54 and cruised in the playoffs. Betts, Benintendi, J.D. Martinez, and Bogaerts = a dangerous lineup. Pitching wise they have Porcello, Sale, and Price.
Rev, no East Coast bias here Brethren. I have the 1989 A's in my Top 4, this is since 1980 regarding my list.
lakerevolution wrote:3Peatkb24 wrote:Top 5 greatest teams I have ever seen by my eye test (since 1980 roughly) were:
1. 1998 NY Yankees - went 114-48 and cruised in the playoffs. Jeter, Martinez, Williams, Brosius, and O'Neil were just magnificent with the bat. How about the Pitching with Wells, Pettitte, Cone, and Rivera. That team was so great that it wasn't even fair.
2. 1986 NY Mets - I have them #2, went 108-54 and was just clutch. Talent wise their Pitching was unreal = Gooden, Darling, Ojeda, Fernandez. Strawberry, Carter, Knight, and Hernandez were solid clutch hitters as well. It is their overall Pitching that gives them the #2 nod though. Orosco was a bad man too, to save games.
3. 2016 Chicago Cubs - I have my Cubs 3rd, went 103-58 and broke a 108 year jinx. Any team that can win Game 6 and Game 7 on the road to win a WS belongs in the GOAT discussion! Bryant, Rizzo, Baez, Zobrist in the lineup. Arrieta, Lester, and Chapman all in their Pitching prime!
4. 1989 Oakland A's - went 99-63 and a lineup that was just loaded = McGwire, Canseco, Parker, and R.Henderson! Stewart, Welch, and Eckersley for Pitching. They swept the Giants 4-0 to win the WS. Canseco got healthy for the playoffs and that team was a machine. Had Canseco been healthy all season, this team would've won over 100 games. He missed a lot of games.
5. 2018 Boston Red Sox - went 108-54 and cruised in the playoffs. Betts, Benintendi, J.D. Martinez, and Bogaerts = a dangerous lineup. Pitching wise they have Porcello, Sale, and Price.
Rev, no East Coast bias here Brethren. I have the 1989 A's in my Top 4, this is since 1980 regarding my list.
"Greatest" is a tough piece of beef to chew on. Tommy Lasorda, Dusty Baker, Davey Lopes, Don Sutton, Fernando Valenzuela, Orel Hershiser, Chuck Yeager, Steve Garvey, Pedro Guerrero, Ron Cey and so many others, not to mention the Jackie Robinson Dodgers of the 40s/50s and the Sandy Koufax Dodgers of the 60s. And Reggie Jackson's hip beat us in '78. Our epic matchups vs. the Yanks rival the Lakers/Celtics clashes over the years. East coast bias
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