2016 regular-season game chatter

Got the Sale and Arrieta games on the splitscreen

A's lookin p pisspoor, couldn't even get Jimmy Rollins out

Wieters' authoritative gwerbie single up the middle like a dispatch from the alternate history in which he developed into the star he was meant to be

Greinke, 7 earned runs in 4 innings.

And now Alice Cooper is in the booth. RIP.

grienke got LIT UP. 3 HRs

here's chatter:

34 and 32 degrees F for Yankee, Cleveland openers
28 tonight in Pittsburgh

yankees playing under protest because of some presumed out of the line baserunning

on Carrea?

(i'm trying to divine what was going on from a yahoo boxscore that seemed to be altering itself)

grienke got LIT UP. 3 HRs

ditto shelby miller

am i the only one pulling for a collapse of the Angels so they can pull the plug on Scioscia once and for all?

going to the Angels game on Saturday night, my location.

but yeah, they look like little league's tonight.

3 hr in 3 games for Cano.

will the san diego padres score this year y/n

3 hr in 3 games for Cano.

poor man's trevor story

welp now cano has four as well

jose fernandez has nine strikeouts through four (63 pitches)

Four of his earned runs knocked in by Saltalamacchia, who is being paid almost eight million by the Marlins this year.

First home loss for Fernandez.

padres now being outscored 22-0 this season

@MikePodhorzer
Fun with small sample sizes: Trevor Story has 4 hits, 4 home runs, and a .000 BABIP. [insert clever Story pun here].

red sox rainout in clevo has robbed us of an all-knuckleball confrontation between r.a. dickey and steven wright on saturday

@Ken_Rosenthal
Source confirms Loney to #Padres on minor-league deal, as reported by @JonHeyman. Likely to spend couple of weeks in minors.

dude is a couple months away from an mlb pension. god speed.

should also note the guy who drafted him (logan whitew) is high up in the padres org.

just heard the first HE GONE of the year

can't wait to have him gone, they already chose his replacement, one season left.

http://dealbreaker.com/uploads/2012/11/drudge-siren.gif THE SAN DIEGO PADRES HAVE SCORED http://dealbreaker.com/uploads/2012/11/drudge-siren.gif

six times, even

chris archer getting pummeled

Story, again.

It doesn't matter what he does for the rest of the season - he is hands down the greatest last-round fantasy flier I have ever taken.

trade him!!

Felix pitches 7 shutout innings with 10 Ks, no-decision. Currently at 0-1 w/0.69 ERA, M's appear to be returning to form.

What's up with the way base runners are symbolized on ESPN's home page these days, it's weird

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

if they get enough upvotes they advance

could not find a A's thread, hope this works:
http://twitter.com/RealJoshReddick/status/719321634197217280/photo/1

damn
"Yes, the A’s flew from Seattle to Oakland on a plane the Giants are chartering this season.
No, the A’s players weren’t upset, embarrassed or complaining, according to right fielder Josh Reddick.
Reddick tweeted a picture of the plane, with a Giants logo, and heard back from not-too-thrilled A’s fans. It’s believed a few folks in the front office weren’t pleased, either."

This whole "Papa Slam" thing is pretty gross.

I wouldn't care except MLB is using the phrase very actively across its site and social media.

somehow i've missed it. what is a papa slam?

oh, papa john's

better ingredients. better pizza. papa slam!

you guys see the rockies hit 4 little caesars triples yesterday

That's real driving excitement

ian kennedy is good now?

ryan howard has tied joe dimaggio with 361 career homers

madbum/kershaw is the mlbtv free game tonight btw

giants defense falling apart in the 4th

madbum getting shelled too

Did Scully just say that Panik was trying to not break down and cry?!

dave roberts just referred to a first pitch lead off homerum as a "ricky rally" - never heard that before lol

most productive hitter, last 30 days

jose aut-on-the-basepaths

not my best nickname but man does this guy love making outs

i . . . can't tell who you're talking about

Jose Autusta?

time to find another easily replaceable backup catcher. what an asshole.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/steve-clevenger-mariners-suspended-keith-scott-tweets

lol i was talking about altuve

the gray road dback unis are an atrocity

have they ever had a decent jersey

jon gray with 6 Ks in 2 innings and a walk to ROSS STRIPLING

60 pitches wth dude

yo, kiermaier just threw a bullet strike to home from 355 feet away at the wall in left center. he didn't get mookie betts at the plate but holy shit

that was amazing

Now this makes me nostalgic: today's the first time the Yankees have been shut out three games in a row since 1975, which included Bill Lee beating Catfish Hunter 1-0 (both threw complete games).

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA197507271.shtml

(Bernie Carbo leading off?)

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v1185416583/bostb-betts-scores-from-first-on-holts-double

Omg rip Jose Fernandez what a tragedy

cubs 100-56
twins 56-100

i hereby rename the cubs "evil twins"

players with at least 20 HR this year: 107

last year: 64

that's insane. i hate juiced balls.

lol, i guess you can take that a bunch of different ways.

TOR (+1): 5 (2 vs. BAL, 3 at BOS)
BAL (-): 5 (2 at TOR, 3 at NYY)

DET (1.0): 5 (2 vs. CLE, 3 at ATL)
SEA (2.0): 5 (1 at HOU, 4 at OAK)
HOU (3.5): 4 (1 vs. SEA, 3 at LAA)
NYY (4.0): 5 (2 vs. BOS, 3 vs. BAL)

Looks like Britton could have his perfect season.

@Ken_Rosenthal
On #MNTwins' pending hiring of Falvey - and what it says about baseball's front-office hiring practices. Column:

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/minnesota-twins-derek-falvey-baseball-hiring-practices-092816

@keithlaw
Spot on. If owners are simply hiring this archetype, minorities have no shot, and a lot of good baseball people are screwed.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtjZLpmWgAANvXw.jpg

30+ homers, < 0.5 WAR

i'm still amazed by that bichette season. i don't know if it's the worst on there, but he hit .298 w/34 HR and 133 RBI, scored 107 runs, slugged .541, and his WAR was still -2.3

pirates/cubs officially ends in a tie

Weird ending(?) in St. Louis.

"Oops, forgot to protest the ground rule double"

that was crazy

goddamn Brandon McCarthy

who are these refugees from Albuquerque in Dodger blue?

(oklahoma city)

i figured it was somewhere else by now

quoth the Ravin, nevermore

ok, LET'S GO UTLEY

they're all buying their minor league teams now, so expect less movement

that doesn't mean they can afford to pay the players, of course

xp gross

i don't understand rooting against SF when the alternative is STL, the only team that is worse

Mets fan wd rather face Carlos Martinez than Bumgarner

but if SF, at least in Queens

for Bee and others

http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/74274/how-to-spend-the-perfect-saturday-of-wild-card-baseball

really can't hear broadcasters use "great" to describe Ryan Howard enough

i have Detroit and Toronto games on in my two panels

edrod trade continuing to haunt the o's

http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/74336/how-to-spend-the-perfect-sunday-watching-playoff-baseball

i'm not sure there's been a team as good by record and as thoroughly boring to watch - barring wild bumgarner performances - as this decade's giants

i understand doing all the 162s at once but man it's difficult to keep up with

@dschoenfield
LeMahieu does follow in a long list of batters who didn't have the guts of Ted Williams. Bill Madlock was the king of sitting on a title.

#dogavi

Enberg overshadowed, eh

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/204598956/dick-enberg-says-farewell-after-last-broadcast/

i don't really do podcasts, but jonah keri hosting len kasper and jason benetti is pretty damn good: http://nerdist.com/the-jonah-keri-podcast-61-live-from-chicago-len-kasper-and-jason-benetti/