2015 regular season chatter

*would-be radio hits

I kinda like most aspects of this new look DGAF royals but also don't dig throwing at people

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rude

chris sale will neither confirm nor deny that he tried to get into the royals clubhouse last night

East, Central, West, from left to right. Great job MLB.com!

http://i.imgur.com/z6Zyf6S.png

gotta keep people on their toes

dang these suspensions just fucked the chisox's rotation for 5 days apiece

seven homers at petco tonight

dodgers gonna dodger

PITCHER HITTING IS STUPID
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(essential for context to the pic above)
Ben Lindbergh ‏@BenLindbergh
Shame 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

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.

feel like there should be a penalty for suspended players' strategic appealing-then-dropping-the-appeal

Chris "Mad Dog" Russo THINKS PITCHERS SHOULD CONTINUE HITTING IN THE NL. BABE RUTH DIDN'T NEED TO DH!

salty dfa'd (with like $14m remaining over this year and next)

he had 33 plate appearances this season

can't the lineup just be 8 people

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

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/

WHOA. that's...kind of awful

"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 :/

holy fuck

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.

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

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.

orange county's a hell of a town

county

deadspin post has (alleged) pictures of this auspicious angels blogger in the comments. i'd just post the pic but the dude is frightening
http://deadspin.com/sociopathic-angels-blogger-posts-now-deleted-rant-about-1700641867

"Sociopath" is probably the best term for the thing that wrote that piece.

"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.

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.

cool man

not really a new thing either

http://streamable.com/48df?t=5.8

journalist for 25 years, still can't use a fucking comma

the comments are going to be so much fun!

the "whoops" post appears to be deleted, now. i wish i would have c+p'd the whole thing!

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.halosheaven.com/2015/4/28/8510197/whoops

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

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

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 ago
the best way to prove you're not a sociopath is to post a long blog post on why you're not a sociopath

a.j. pierzynski: .410/.422/.692

^^^FP this man

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."

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

pierzynski now at .439/.458/.732 btw

4-for-4 with a walk, sac fly and 4 rbi tonight!

gonna be sick thinking about that and I haven't drunk enough yet for that

@AdamSpankyEaton
We are gonna do our best to take the crowd out of it early.. Wish us luck..

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.

i'm going to have to watch this.

i'm wondering how many really loud f-bombs will be dropped during the telecast

I'm assuming they are allowing announcers into the game but ... what if they didn't?