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MLB 2026 Official Thread
HighEyeCue:
--- Quote from: TraceOneInfinite on July 29, 2026, 05:10:37 AM ---Well since the Royals suck again and our team is being led by rental players like Lane Thomas:
...I've been digging into some pretty classic old school ball!
Right now I'm on the 93 playoffs!
White Sox
Bo Jackson
Frank Thomas
Vs.
Blue Jays
Joe Carter
Jon Olerud
Ricky Henderson
... and then over it the national league it was
Braves
Deion
Fred MGriff
Terry Pendleton
Greg Maddox
Vs
Phillies
Dykstra
Kruk
Curt shilling
Wild thing Mitch Williams
^^how can you not love those guys. I grew up trying to copy everything they did on the Little League, Sandlot, Wiffle Ball, baseball field
Fun Fact: The 93' MLB Playoffs were overshadowed on the front page of the sports page by the sudden death of Jordan's Dad and his retirement being the big topic of that historic moment
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one of the worst trades in Mets history was the Lenny Dykstra for Juan Samuel one in the middle of 1989...Samuel had been an all star with the Phillies but was having a down year and I guess the Mets brass was a little sick of fan favorite Lenny's attitude so they made that trade and Samuel who had played 2nd base his whole life was stuck in CF by the Mets...needles to say he didn't have a clue out there and they let him go after the season...Lenny went on to be an all-star with Philly and help them go to the World Series in 1993
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: HighEyeCue on July 30, 2026, 04:46:36 AM ---one of the worst trades in Mets history was the Lenny Dykstra for Juan Samuel one in the middle of 1989...Samuel had been an all star with the Phillies but was having a down year and I guess the Mets brass was a little sick of fan favorite Lenny's attitude so they made that trade and Samuel who had played 2nd base his whole life was stuck in CF by the Mets...needles to say he didn't have a clue out there and they let him go after the season...Lenny went on to be an all-star with Philly and help them go to the World Series in 1993
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Dykstra "nails" was one of those ol school characters in sports that doesn't quite exist anymore. And the Phillies had a lot of them. Dykstra was a character straight out of a movie like Charlie Sheen's Major League. All those guys on the Phillies could've been characters in a movie.
Terrible trade for the Mets. He would have fit in so well an been an urban legend for the Mets. I'm not an expert on Mets history but off the top of my head it seemed like they were really good in the 80's with phenom coke heads like Strawberry and Doc Gooden, and if they had Dykstra they could have added another crazy character, but the guy is a winner, and that would've made for a very entertaining clubhouse, they could've continued their winning through the first half of the 90's.
HighEyeCue:
--- Quote from: TraceOneInfinite on August 07, 2026, 03:21:38 AM ---Dykstra "nails" was one of those ol school characters in sports that doesn't quite exist anymore. And the Phillies had a lot of them. Dykstra was a character straight out of a movie like Charlie Sheen's Major League. All those guys on the Phillies could've been characters in a movie.
Terrible trade for the Mets. He would have fit in so well an been an urban legend for the Mets. I'm not an expert on Mets history but off the top of my head it seemed like they were really good in the 80's with phenom coke heads like Strawberry and Doc Gooden, and if they had Dykstra they could have added another crazy character, but the guy is a winner, and that would've made for a very entertaining clubhouse, they could've continued their winning through the first half of the 90's.
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everything you said is true. definitely the worst Mets trade in my lifetime, the Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver ones were worse but both before I was born
Dykstra was in town last week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of that 1986 Championshio team, it was great to see 8)
TraceOneInfinite:
Let's rap up this season and this thread for myself and HighEyeCue since our teams are out. I stopped watching once the Chiefs season started--and the Chiefs are exciting again because we got the SuperBowl MVP and biggest name free agent running back Kenneth Walker to take pressure off Mahomes.
So.. Rapping up the Royals Season, we ran into a lot of bad luck this year with our closer Estevez and set up guy Erceg being injured all year and just getting bombed. And Matt Strahm was our free agent reliever and he also got bombed into oblivion. It caused us to lose a lot of 1-run games early on and made our record look way worse than we really were--but honestly the season wasn't that horrible.
To see young rookie phenoms Carter Jenson and Jac Cag both go over 20 homeruns was tremendous and really bodes well for 2027.
Jenson and Jac Caglione give us something to look forward to next year so not all is lost in KC!!!
I'll be back and fired up for 2027 when spring rolls around. How about your Mets, HighEyeCue? How you wanna rap up the season?
Sccit:
dodgers threepeat incoming
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