royals rn like the band with the corp sellout 2nd album overloaded with radio hits that will be reevaluated as a classic in 20 yrs, as opposed to the breakout critic-adored band with rare crossover potential of last year, how the mighty have fallen
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 24 April 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
*would-be radio hits
I kinda like most aspects of this new look DGAF royals but also don't dig throwing at people
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 24 April 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
Every baseball team has its own "New Jersey" [Started by slothroprhymes in April 2015] 42 new answers
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 April 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
rude
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 24 April 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
chris sale will neither confirm nor deny that he tried to get into the royals clubhouse last night
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 April 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
East, Central, West, from left to right. Great job MLB.com!
http://i.imgur.com/z6Zyf6S.png
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 25 April 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
gotta keep people on their toes
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 25 April 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
dang these suspensions just fucked the chisox's rotation for 5 days apiece
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 25 April 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
seven homers at petco tonight
― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 April 2015 03:07 (nine years ago) link
dodgers gonna dodger
― slothroprhymes, Sunday, 26 April 2015 03:30 (nine years ago) link
PITCHER HITTING IS STUPID https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDiEyWGWoAAlc19.png
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 27 April 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
(essential for context to the pic above)Ben Lindbergh @BenLindberghShame that Waino might miss the year, but at least we'll get to see other exciting offensive performances by pitchers
teach yr pitchers to fucking hit imo
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 April 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
why? its not as if the NL teams really try to - how many decent hitting pitchers are there of recent vintage or even the past 20-odd years? like honestly - and the strategy argument is starting to look just as silly.
sam miller made a passable case for it on the EW podcast this morning but seemed mostly to be doing so to serve as a devil's advocate to lindbergh.
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 27 April 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
feel like there should be a penalty for suspended players' strategic appealing-then-dropping-the-appeal
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 April 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
Chris "Mad Dog" Russo THINKS PITCHERS SHOULD CONTINUE HITTING IN THE NL. BABE RUTH DIDN'T NEED TO DH!
― Andy K, Monday, 27 April 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
salty dfa'd (with like $14m remaining over this year and next)
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 April 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
he had 33 plate appearances this season
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 April 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
can't the lineup just be 8 people
― frogbs, Monday, 27 April 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
not that there haven't been hefty changes to things in the past but that would basically render all previous hitter stat records null
why not just... add a DH
― qualx, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 00:37 (nine years ago) link
the site manager of SB's Halos Heaven wrote something...interesting...on josh hamilton, which has since been deleted. someone took a screenshot:
http://postimg.org/image/teff9wmlt/
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link
WHOA. that's...kind of awful
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
"kind of" being the understatement of forever
like you expect that from shaughnessy types of a certain age but it's always greeeeaaat to see that those old-man redass perspectives are not limited to older generations, amirite :/
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
holy fuck
― Who M the best? (Will M.), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
no idea how widespread that is. someone on the cardinals SB blog (viva el birdos) noticed it, and then someone else took a screenshot before ti was deleted.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
yea thats why its surprising to me - the SB nation team sites i read regularly like over the monster or check out otherwise rarely have that sort of hot-take approach
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
if you google the site's name, there are two separate posts that show up calling him "Addict Hamilton" in the headline -- both of which are 404s. some weird shit going on over there.
― Who M the best? (Will M.), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
orange county's a hell of a town
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
county
deadspin post has (alleged) pictures of this auspicious angels blogger in the comments. i'd just post the pic but the dude is frighteninghttp://deadspin.com/sociopathic-angels-blogger-posts-now-deleted-rant-about-1700641867
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
"Sociopath" is probably the best term for the thing that wrote that piece.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
"the local tit bar"?
Aside from not being an abhorrent person, you'd think familiarity with the English language would be a necessity for pro blogging.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
uh, i guess he's been asked to leave.
http://www.halosheaven.com/2015/4/28/8510197/whoops
So after pushing the limits here at SBN for over ten years, the company and I have agreed to go our separate ways....Consider that the company would still let me post to the site after parting ways and imagine the insane shit one could do and you will get the level of professionalism and trust that SBN/Vox carries with it. It is a much different world since I started in 1988. Today, I'm a fifty-year-old guy with a pacemaker but I still want to rage against any dying of any light. But look around. The world everywhere is a little cleaner around the edges these days. That is by design. In my day job as an art critic I have raged against privileging design over impulse. This was once a commonly held viewpoint. Maybe it is just the purview of my generation now. A national publication calls me a sociopath over something I write - that is a badge of honor. Well, there are other people who do not see it that way and don't see the world as I see it. I've always accepted that and I accept it now. I never manifested the bravery that Charlie Hebdo did but I see a world shunning that bravery... and the rage just comes out of me naturally - and it is really just to rile you, the reader for whom I have had the privilege of hopefully informing, entertaining and inspiring. But I would never force my rage on anyone, especially a company paying me for the privilege of writing about my favorite team....And to all those I have riled and upset here since 2005, understand that it was on purpose and I am comforted every day by the words of the Irish bard Brendan Behan "Fuck The Begrudgers" and that your hatred, loathing and disgust were badges of honor I will wear in the Los Angeles Afterlife of Anaheim as I wear them with pride on this mortal coil.When I went in for heart surgery two years ago I had to sign a form that said I understood I might die. I didn't and am not now dying here but I will say what I said then. As the anesthesiologist was about to put the gas on my face I lifted up my head, looked at the surgeons and nurses, smiled and said:Go Angels.
...Consider that the company would still let me post to the site after parting ways and imagine the insane shit one could do and you will get the level of professionalism and trust that SBN/Vox carries with it.
It is a much different world since I started in 1988. Today, I'm a fifty-year-old guy with a pacemaker but I still want to rage against any dying of any light. But look around. The world everywhere is a little cleaner around the edges these days. That is by design. In my day job as an art critic I have raged against privileging design over impulse. This was once a commonly held viewpoint. Maybe it is just the purview of my generation now. A national publication calls me a sociopath over something I write - that is a badge of honor. Well, there are other people who do not see it that way and don't see the world as I see it. I've always accepted that and I accept it now. I never manifested the bravery that Charlie Hebdo did but I see a world shunning that bravery... and the rage just comes out of me naturally - and it is really just to rile you, the reader for whom I have had the privilege of hopefully informing, entertaining and inspiring. But I would never force my rage on anyone, especially a company paying me for the privilege of writing about my favorite team.
...And to all those I have riled and upset here since 2005, understand that it was on purpose and I am comforted every day by the words of the Irish bard Brendan Behan "Fuck The Begrudgers" and that your hatred, loathing and disgust were badges of honor I will wear in the Los Angeles Afterlife of Anaheim as I wear them with pride on this mortal coil.
When I went in for heart surgery two years ago I had to sign a form that said I understood I might die. I didn't and am not now dying here but I will say what I said then. As the anesthesiologist was about to put the gas on my face I lifted up my head, looked at the surgeons and nurses, smiled and said:
Go Angels.
cool man
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
not really a new thing either
http://streamable.com/48df?t=5.8
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
journalist for 25 years, still can't use a fucking comma
the comments are going to be so much fun!
― Who M the best? (Will M.), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link
the "whoops" post appears to be deleted, now. i wish i would have c+p'd the whole thing!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.halosheaven.com/2015/4/28/8510197/whoops
― Who M the best? (Will M.), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
Last year I got to meet Mike Trout when he was promoting his Nike shoe. I got to do this because I represented SBN and I went to the press event and represented SBN quite professionally and promoted the product and again, I got to meet Mike Frickin' Trout, so what a blast, right? Right. Except, well, I knew. I knew right then... eh... I've just never been interested in "legitimacy" - the people craving it were always caricatures of the worst in humanity, oozing out things to be ridiculed - and on that day, having reached the peak of a mountain I never set out to climb, I just knew that what I aspired to and what SBN aspired to - and had achieved - were two different things.
now i feel bad because he obviously has issues
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
he climbed to the peak of a mountain he never set out to climb
and at the top, he found himself at a Nike event where he got to creep out Mike Trout in person
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
and at that moment, at the top of mt. nike, hanging out with Mike Trout, he knew that his goals were different than the goals of SB Nation
Lana Berry @Lana 8s8 seconds agothe best way to prove you're not a sociopath is to post a long blog post on why you're not a sociopath
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
a.j. pierzynski: .410/.422/.692
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
^^^FP this man
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 00:42 (nine years ago) link
sorry to bring this up again, but the angels site has a new interim tough guy, who says
The first time I talked to Rev Halofan about Halos Heaven, he said something that stuck with me for the 8 years I've been a part of this community. We were talking about how he wanted the site to be perceived, and he said, "Let the other blogs be The Beatles, we're going to be the Stones." And with that, the course was set. No "Love Me Do", none of that "she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah." Nope, he had us singing "Paint It Black", "Satisfaction", and "Under My Thumb". I feel grateful I got to be the Keith Richards to his Mick Jagger.Although I disagree with what he wrote, I understand why he wrote it. Rev went punk rocker while the internet went disco, all the while everyone else remained Stones' fans."
Although I disagree with what he wrote, I understand why he wrote it. Rev went punk rocker while the internet went disco, all the while everyone else remained Stones' fans."
that's right, godspeed Rev Halofan, you ol' Thelma and or Louise, you teenage smash idol iconoclast, you ride off into the sunset and don't take no for an answer, we'll hold the fort til you return in the comments section
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
pierzynski now at .439/.458/.732 btw
4-for-4 with a walk, sac fly and 4 rbi tonight!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 03:50 (nine years ago) link
gonna be sick thinking about that and I haven't drunk enough yet for that
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 03:52 (nine years ago) link
@AdamSpankyEatonWe are gonna do our best to take the crowd out of it early.. Wish us luck..
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
The White Sox/Orioles no audience game is also the MLB.TV free game today. I wonder if that was decided on ahead of time.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
i'm going to have to watch this.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
i'm wondering how many really loud f-bombs will be dropped during the telecast
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link