MC/ LA on WCIU and Youtube

[MC63]

Caravan vs Loyola Academy will be broadcast on live TV (WCIU 7:30pm) this Friday evening, and student broadcast will be available via streaming. Details below. Note that Soph game will also be streamed.

Streaming: https://www.youtube.com/@CaravnBrodcstNet

 

[crusader_of_90]

MC63 has become the preiminant MC media maven!!!

 

[MC63]

MC63 has become the preiminant MC media maven!!!

Great! For years, I was the preeminent something else.

 

[LTHSALUM76]

Going to be going back and forth between this game and World Series game 1.

 

[crusader_of_90]

I will have this game on one monitor, ESL/IMG on another and the WS on the office TV.

 

[MMA_Det]

I will have this game on one monitor, ESL/IMG on another and the WS on the office TV.

I will be over around 6pm with a pizza

 

[redmen85]

I much prefer the student produced version.
The kids enthusiasm is refreshing.
Where else can you learn that the announcer sat next to the middle linebacker in 3rd grade at St John the Fisher.
These kids are awesome

 

[corey90]

Going to be going back and forth between this game and World Series game 1.

Go Dodgers! 😂

 

[MC63]

I much prefer the student produced version.
The kids enthusiasm is refreshing.
Where else can you learn that the announcer sat next to the middle linebacker in 3rd grade at St John the Fisher.
These kids are awesome

When these televised MC games first began (10 years ago?), the kid doing play-by-play was late for the second half kickoff. As he explained to the color announcer, "I was in line for a Gately Dog ...hey, I was hungry." He's now the sports guy for a TV station in Madison.

You can't make these things up.

 

[LTHSALUM76]

Go Dodgers! 😂

It should be a classic and you will see more viewers tuning in than have been for years. I am very excited to see this and the playoffs ended exactly how I wanted them to. I wanted to see the Yankees and Dodgers in the WS and here we are. Two great organizations going at it for the 12th time. They have met more that any two teams and the Yankees have won eight of the eleven meeting so far.

Lots of interesting things about the series. The two best players in their leagues and in the game will meet each other on this stage. It is the first time in my lifetime that the two guys who led their league in homeruns will meet in the WS of that season. Aaron Judge hit 58 long balls for the Yankees while hitting .322. And Shohei Ohtani hit 54 homeruns for the Dodgers and hit .310.

The last time the homerun leaders in each league met in the WS was in 1956 and coincidentally, it was the Dodgers against the Yankees. Mickey Mantle hit 52 for the Yankees and Duke Snyder hit 43 for the Dodgers...who played in Brooklyn at the time. The last time these two teams met was in 1981 when LA won the series in six games. I don't doubt Fernando Valenzuela will be looking down on this after recently passing. He was a rookie on that 1981 Dodger team and won the Cy Young award along with the Rookie of the Year. So much history and I love tradition.

I hope the series goes seven games and of course I hope the Yankees win their 28th world title to go with those 40 pennants. I know I am in the minority but I don't care.

 

[SiuCubFan8]

It should be a classic and you will see more viewers tuning in than have been for years. I am very excited to see this and the playoffs ended exactly how I wanted them to. I wanted to see the Yankees and Dodgers in the WS and here we are. Two great organizations going at it for the 12th time. They have met more that any two teams and the Yankees have won eight of the eleven meeting so far.

Lots of interesting things about the series. The two best players in their leagues and in the game will meet each other on this stage. It is the first time in my lifetime that the two guys who led their league in homeruns will meet in the WS of that season. Aaron Judge hit 58 long balls for the Yankees while hitting .322. And Shohei Ohtani hit 54 homeruns for the Dodgers and hit .310.

The last time the homerun leaders in each league met in the WS was in 1956. Mickey Mantle hit 52 for the Yankees and Duke Snyder hit 43 for the Dodgers...who played in Brooklyn at the time. The last time these two teams met was in 1981 when LA won the series in six games. I don't doubt Fernando Valenzuela will be looking down on this after recently passing. He was a rookie on that 1981 Dodger team and won the Cy Young award along with the Rookie of the Year. So much history and I love tradition.

I hope the series goes seven games and of course I hope the Yankees win their 28th world title to go with those 40 pennants. I know I am in the minority but I don't care.

I hate that it doesn't start until Friday. MLB needs to figure out how to alleviate the long wait.
I have no dog in this WS but Mookie is one of my favorite players, so I will go Dodgers.

 

[LTHSALUM76]

I hate that it doesn't start until Friday. MLB needs to figure out how to alleviate the long wait.
I have no dog in this WS but Mookie is one of my favorite players, so I will go Dodgers.

I don't like the idea either and I am sure guys who are swinging hot bats don't like it as well. I remember back when the playoffs could go as far as Sunday and the World Series started on Tuesday. There is no reason to wait this long. It would make more sense and does for football.

I can't help but ask. Do you think guys like Michael Kopech and Carlos Rodon wish they were still with the White Sox? 😄 😄 😄

 

[corey90]

It should be a classic and you will see more viewers tuning in than have been for years. I am very excited to see this and the playoffs ended exactly how I wanted them to. I wanted to see the Yankees and Dodgers in the WS and here we are. Two great organizations going at it for the 12th time. They have met more that any two teams and the Yankees have won eight of the eleven meeting so far.

Lots of interesting things about the series. The two best players in their leagues and in the game will meet each other on this stage. It is the first time in my lifetime that the two guys who led their league in homeruns will meet in the WS of that season. Aaron Judge hit 58 long balls for the Yankees while hitting .322. And Shohei Ohtani hit 54 homeruns for the Dodgers and hit .310.

The last time the homerun leaders in each league met in the WS was in 1956 and coincidentally, it was the Dodgers against the Yankees. Mickey Mantle hit 52 for the Yankees and Duke Snyder hit 43 for the Dodgers...who played in Brooklyn at the time. The last time these two teams met was in 1981 when LA won the series in six games. I don't doubt Fernando Valenzuela will be looking down on this after recently passing. He was a rookie on that 1981 Dodger team and won the Cy Young award along with the Rookie of the Year. So much history and I love tradition.

I hope the series goes seven games and of course I hope the Yankees win their 28th world title to go with those 40 pennants. I know I am in the minority but I don't care.

It is going to definitely be fun to watch this classic series. Both teams are stacked. Love the job Manager Dave Roberts has done this year.

 

[4Afan]

I hate that it doesn't start until Friday. MLB needs to figure out how to alleviate the long wait.
I have no dog in this WS but Mookie is one of my favorite players, so I will go Dodgers.

I hate the long break too, but the WS start was determined before the NLCS finished so they had to account for the possibility of that series going 7 games. Also, a Friday start creates an off day on Sunday so they don't have to compete with Sunday night football.

 

[SiuCubFan8]

I hate the long break too, but the WS start was determined before the NLCS finished so they had to account for the possibility of that series going 7 games. Also, a Friday start creates an off day on Sunday so they don't have to compete with Sunday night football.

I get that…

 

[Alexander32]

I don't like the idea either and I am sure guys who are swinging hot bats don't like it as well. I remember back when the playoffs could go as far as Sunday and the World Series started on Tuesday. There is no reason to wait this long. It would make more sense and does for football.

I can't help but ask. Do you think guys like Michael Kopech and Carlos Rodon wish they were still with the White Sox? 😄 😄 😄

Regarding Kopech and Rodon, I'm pretty sure the answer is no. However, I'm going to guess the White Sox are happy they are gone. Kopech, with a great arm, never has learned how to pitch; and the White Sox gave him plenty of time to figure it out. He is all about walks and homeruns with the result being a consistently elevated ERA. Rodon is definitely better, but he is inconsistent and injury prone. Neither is worth a large contract, especially for a low-budget team like the White Sox. I am a White Sox fan and I'm glad they are no longer with the team.

 

[Silver Rain]

For baseball tradition, I love the '59 Sox, the '78 Yankees, and Mantle & Maris. For the more modern era, I love the '05 World Series team and Shoei Ohtani.

 

[LTHSALUM76]

Regarding Kopech and Rodon, I'm pretty sure the answer is no. However, I'm going to guess the White Sox are happy they are gone. Kopech, with a great arm, never has learned how to pitch; and the White Sox gave him plenty of time to figure it out. He is all about walks and homeruns with the result being a consistently elevated ERA. Rodon is definitely better, but he is inconsistent and injury prone. Neither is worth a large contract, especially for a low-budget team like the White Sox. I am a White Sox fan and I'm glad they are no longer with the team.

Yeah, the White Sox got so much better when they let those guys go. Did you ever stop to think maybe the White Sox organization was the problem with Kopech? That organization has ruined a ton of pitchers over the years. Kopech has pitched much better with the Dodgers than he did with the White Sox. 2023 was his worst year and 2024 started out badly too. Then he goes to LA and the numbers improve vastly. A small sample size. But with LA his ERA was 1.13 and his strikeout to walk ratio was 3 to 1. In his last five games in the playoffs he pitched 5 innings, gave up 1 earned run, walked 2 and struck out 6. Again, a small sample but definitely on the right track.

Let's look at Rodon. The first year he was gone from Chicago, in SF, he pitched 178 innings, went 14-8, had an ERA of 2.88 walked 52 and struck out 237. Far more strikeouts than any year with the White Sox. And fewer walks than three seasons in Chicago when he pitched fewer innings. This year in New York he pitched 175 innings, went 16-9, had an ERA of 3.96, walked 57 and struck out 195. Oh, and by the way he is pitching game 2 of the WS. Something that never would have happened here.

Can you see now that maybe the White Sox organization was the problem? Because both of these guys are putting up better numbers now that they are out of Chicago. I won't even talk about guys like Richard Dotson, Britt Burns and Jason Bere whose careers were cut short in Chicago. How do we know Burns' hip problems weren't created here?

I don't want to see White Sox fans lose their team if relocation occurs. But, if it does, you can thank Reinsdorf. It is a crap organization, with crap players, management and a crap owner. No one is happier Kopech and Rodon are gone more than Kopech and Rodon themselves.

 

[MC-Grunge-1991]

Regarding Kopech and Rodon, I'm pretty sure the answer is no. However, I'm going to guess the White Sox are happy they are gone. Kopech, with a great arm, never has learned how to pitch; and the White Sox gave him plenty of time to figure it out. He is all about walks and homeruns with the result being a consistently elevated ERA. Rodon is definitely better, but he is inconsistent and injury prone. Neither is worth a large contract, especially for a low-budget team like the White Sox. I am a White Sox fan and I'm glad they are no longer with the team.

This young man is correct.

 

[LTHSALUM76]

This young man is correct.

Be objective. Look at how these guys performed with the White Sox and then look at how they have performed since leaving Chicago. Rodon is definitely better. Much better. Kopech, while he has a small sample size, is also better. It's the White Sox organization. The White Sox organization is where pitchers' careers go to die.

 

[crusader_of_90]

I will inject this - Cardinals’ voodoo magic is now dead. Wanna play and excel in the post season? Get traded from the Redbirds.

Randy Arozarena: 2020 ALCS MVP
Adolis Garcia: 2023 ALCS MVP
Tommy Edman: 2024 NLCS MVP

Wanna pitch in the Fall Classic, the same thing:
Luke Weaver
Jack Flarety

This is payback for dumping Schildt who had the highest winning percentage for any manager only yo get unceremoniously dumped by Mo, who has sucked since he protege went to the Astros and we got caught hacking him.

 

[whitesox05]

Be objective. Look at how these guys performed with the White Sox and then look at how they have performed since leaving Chicago. Rodon is definitely better. Much better. Kopech, while he has a small sample size, is also better. It's the White Sox organization. The White Sox organization is where pitchers' careers go to die.

Umm, no.

Carlos Rodon had a 3.79 ERA with the Sox and a 110 ERA+, since leaving he has put up a 3.95 ERA with a 103 ERA+. The average pitcher has an ERA+ of 100, so for $27 million a year he has been slightly above average since leaving.

Rodon was good with the White Sox but he was often hurt and Jerry was never going to give him $162 million, right or wrong.

Was Chris Sale bad with the Sox? Quintana? You'd actually have a much better argument saying they don't know how to develop hitters/position players.

Michael Kopech is just like Luis Robert, put him in a losing environment and he'll be the biggest loser in there...in a winning clubhouse (like 2021 with the Sox) he does much better.

 

[LTHSALUM76]

Umm, no.

Carlos Rodon had a 3.79 ERA with the Sox and a 110 ERA+, since leaving he has put up a 3.95 ERA with a 103 ERA+. The average pitcher has an ERA+ of 100, so for $27 million a year he has been slightly above average since leaving.

Rodon was good with the White Sox but he was often hurt and Jerry was never going to give him $162 million, right or wrong.

Was Chris Sale bad with the Sox? Quintana? You'd actually have a much better argument saying they don't know how to develop hitters/position players.

Michael Kopech is just like Luis Robert, put him in a losing environment and he'll be the biggest loser in there...in a winning clubhouse (like 2021 with the Sox) he does much better.

I never said Rodon wasn't injured. What I am saying and will continue to say is that he's pitched better since leaving Chicago. If you can't see that, you're blind. ERA+ is meaningless to me. Rodon has struck out more hitters and walked fewer since leaving Chicago too. Oh, and he has won more games as well.

As for Kopech. I never said he pitched well for the White Sox. I also said his sample size since leaving Chicago is small but more on the right track. Funny how you didn't Mention Dotson, Bere or Burns...like I did.

You have fun with that team while I watch the WS.

 

[whitesox05]

I never said Rodon wasn't injured. What I am saying and will continue to say is that he's pitched better since leaving Chicago. If you can't see that, you're blind. ERA+ is meaningless to me. Rodon has struck out more hitters and walked fewer since leaving Chicago too. Oh, and he has won more games as well.

As for Kopech. I never said he pitched well for the White Sox. I also said his sample size since leaving Chicago is small but more on the right track. Funny how you didn't Mention Dotson, Bere or Burns...like I did.

You have fun with that team while I watch the WS.

Actually, I'm allowed to watch the World Series... and what I've seen so far is Rodon and Kopech giving up dingers.

What in the world would I talk about Dotson, Bere and Burns for? You might as well talk about Billy Pierce... that's decades ago. Every franchise has guys they allegedly "ruined" (Wood, Prior, etc).

The Sox are not where pitchers go to die, as you said. Did they do a bad job of developing Dylan Cease? Cease, Rodon and soon Crochet... all of these guys are making a ton of money.