2024 MLB Playoff Thread (Non-Yankee Games)

Final score for game 1 of the NLCS: Dodgers 9 - Mets 0. The Amazin's should've forfeited the game, getting the same results, and saving themselves such an embarrassment! On to game 2 tomorrow!

From Wikipedia:

'It was during this era (the 1930s) that Willard Mullin, a noted sports cartoonist, fixed the Brooklyn team with the lovable nickname of "Dem Bums". After hearing his cab driver ask, "So how did those bums do today?", Mullin decided to sketch an exaggerated version of famed circus clown Emmett Kelly to represent the Dodgers in his much-praised cartoons in the New York World-Telegram. Both image and nickname caught on, so much so that many a Dodger yearbook cover, from 1951 through 1957, featured a Willard Mullin illustration of the Brooklyn Bum.'

Mullin's original "Brooklyn Bum" drawing for the cover of the 1952 Dodgers Yearbook:




The font cover of the New York Daily News, October 5th, 1955, showing their version of the "Brooklyn Bum" the day after the Dodgers finally beat the Yanks in a World Series after five losing tries: 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1953:

The move to LA was due to one cause and one cause only: the attempts by Dodgers' owner Walter O'Malley to move out of a decaying ballpark (Ebbets Field) and neighborhood (Flatbush) and build a new stadium to rival Yankee Stadium in downtown Brooklyn at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, where so many subway and bus lines meet and where the Barclays Center now stands. It's right on the junction of multiple neighborhoods: Boerum Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, Gowanus and Park Slope. O'Malley was seeing multiple competitors move to greener pastures, obtaining large increases in team revenues, and wanted some of that for himself: the Boston Braves moving to Milwaukee, the Philadephia A's moving to Kansas City, the St. Louis Browns moving to Baltimore to became the second Orioles franchise.

Robert Moses, who controlled major development throughout New York City and regions nearby as the head of numerous boards and commissions, especially in his role on the New York City Planning Commission, blocked every try by the Dodgers; he wanted to use that location for an enormous parking garage, part of his continuous tendency to favor automobiles over mass transit and neighborhoods. He tried to force O'Malley to build the new stadium at Flushing Meadows, where Moses eventually got Shea Stadium built in 1962-4 to house the Mets, but O'Malley didn't want to give up the Brooklyn identity of the Dodgers. He eventually did give it up by talking New York Giants' owner Horace Stoneham into moving to the West Coast with him to Los Angeles and San Francisco, leaving a gaping hole in Brooklyn that's never really been filled, and getting perhaps the greatest municipal real estate giveaway in history in Chavez Ravine. Now, the Mets play in CitiField, in what was the parking lot of Shea Stadium, just as the Yanks now play in Yankee Stadium III, across a park that stands where the first two Yankee Stadiums stood.

Why, indoor baseball? Unheard of! Denied!…

yeah didn't get the move. as good as senga is, he had pitched 7 innings all season. severino would have been on 6 days rest. then you'd manaea on 5 days for today. quintana would pitch wednesday and yeah then you'd have to make a decision about thursday but to spot the dodgers 3 runs in game 1 made no sense. 

Well, that’s a shame…