21 years ago today, and, it still never gets old.

More and more milestones. On this date, back in 1985, Tom Seaver gets his 300th win, and, in another game, Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit.

ha ha yeah that was pretty awesome.

Will the Cubs always suck? They haven't had a good team since Joe Pepitone for those of you old enough to remember him.

Just some fantasy related ramblings, on 2 different topics.

First, it's now the time of the year that teams start to get both concerned and guarded about their young pitchers. Not that is really seems to do much good mind you, as there seemingly were more guys with more serious arm issues than ever before. But, still, teams are getting to the point of thinking about shutting down their young pitching studs, thinking of how their innings pitched numbers have very likely increased quite a bit from years past until now. The two main names I am hearing in regards to this are the Padres Jesse Hanh, and the Mets Jacob deGrom. As both of those teams are all but out of the playoff picture, look for both guys to be shut down either towards the end of this month, or, very early next month at the latest. If you have them, it is very likely that your league trading deadline is passed. If not, you may want to think about trading them to a less knowledgable or savy owner that may not know this shutdown is coming.

Second, I want to bring up the issue of stat splits. For you playing in daily change leagues, this issue should be long old hat standard. I state this the way I do, as there is no more important info in the life of a daily leaguer, as this is how you know who to sit or start on a particular day. The player that is causing me to pause and speak of this is the Mariners Kyle Seager. He has had for him what has amounted to a breakout season, as he is slashing .275/16/67/5. Well, taking a better look inside the numbers, I see Seager is not your usual split stat guy. What I mean, is that more often than not, hitters favor either a left or right handed pitcher. Well, not Seager, as he has hit lefties this year at .277 & righties .274. Where he splits go nuts is home and away. And, not the way one would think, considering his home park of Safco is a plus pitcher park.

Seager at home - .345 avg, .410 OBP, & .613 SLG

Away, it's only .211 avg, .276 OBP, & .347 SLG.

A,k,a A HUGE DIFFERENCE.

So, when setting your lineups daily, and if you want to make sure you will do the most to maximize your teams lineup output, you need to check on and heed these numbers, as they may end up tellign you something you didn't already know, and, giving you the power of info, and to use it to your best advantage.

Thanks for giving me a topic to go with Geneh,

Looking at the Cubs history, and then going back trying to find a 5 year stretch when they were winning at least 85 games a year, I see you have to go all the way back to between 1927 - 1938 when the Cubs had good teams for more than just 1 or 2 years at a time.


That is beyond sad to me......

About the Giants. Specifically, youngster Matt Duffy. I'm sorry, but I laugh when I see him on the field. He looks to be all of about 16, if that. And, his uni seems 1 size too big. If that were not bad enough, he not only looks 16, but I think he looks like what Tim Lincecum must have looked like at 16.

Lol, Duffy does look like he's 12.

Please Casilla, do this.

Sandoval hits so many terrible balls.....it's uncanny.

I'm sorry that I'm not sorry BigD!

Huge all LA series coming up for you BigD.

Video footage of Babe Ruth is extremely rare, so much so that MLB's archives are believed to have less than one hour of film of the Sultan of Swat.

According to Phil Reisman of the Journal News, a clip of Ruth hitting a game-winning home run against the Washington Senators has surfaced. "This is the Holy Grail," said Mike Augustyni, who bought the footage sight unseen during an eBay auction last fall.

The clip is in black and white and is approximately 30 seconds long. There is no sound.

Taken from a ground-level seat at Yankee Stadium with a heavy 16-millimeter Kodak camera, the movie shows the Sultan of Swat standing in the batter's box against Firpo Marberry, a tough right-hander known for his menacing scowl. It's the bottom of the eighth and the Yanks are down 4-2. Two men are on base.

Ruth, who at this point in his storied career supposedly had downsized to a lighter 39-ounce bat, takes a mighty swing (weren't they all?) and smacks a high, arcing fly toward right field. Two fans in the foreground, a man in a stylish straw boater and a woman in a cloche hat, rise to their feet in excitement.

Foul ball.

Marberry winds up again, and this time chucks one under the Bambino's chin. Ruth stumbles and nearly falls down. The next pitch is a little outside but Ruth, no doubt angered by the previous dusting, extends his arms and pulverizes the ball. The ball instantly disappears against the gray wash of sky.

Augustyni digitized the footage but will not yet release the full clip for "proprietary reasons." After some detective work using player numbers, the buildings located outside Yankee Stadium, and a shot of the Graf zeppelin flying over Manhattan, it was determined the game in the film was played on Aug. 29, 1929. Ruth hit the homer in the first game of a doubleheader. Here's the box score.

Ruth was 34 years old in 1929 and the homer in the video was the 507th of his career. He led the league with 46 home runs that year.

Needless to say, this is really, really cool. I hope to see the full video one day.

I have Hudson on all my teams...or at least 2 of 3...He's been great but starting to fade,,,Now I see this,,,Is he hurt? or just in effective?

Not sure, if he is injured he ain't saying anything.  He's definitely not the same as earlier tho.  Maybe age/fatigue?

if I hear anything, I'll let you know.

If you guys get Lester back and the A's dont win the WS, i think they may have to add another chapter to "Moneyball".  Lol