2014 regular season chatter

poly what are your thoughts on the rizzo/cashner trade? kinda interesting to look at in hindsight

hahahaha that dog

smdh pirates and cubs both wearing alternates on opening day

"Written in the Stars" on repeat all day. So hyped.

poly what are your thoughts on the rizzo/cashner trade? kinda interesting to look at in hindsight

Cashner seems like he could become a workhorse. His velocity is great, but as a pitcher he's still figuring some stuff out.

Rizzo was atrocious in his one season with the Padres, so I'm glad the result of the trade was a legit major league player and not a bag of balls and two PTBNL's.

Braun's first AB is gonna be a home run, calling it now

nope

so f disappointed

retconning every one of braun's 211 home runs as weak popups to LF (strds)

tanner scheppers got j-roll'd

j-roll's hr trot: 25 seconds

Ryan Braun gets a standing ovation from the Milwaukee fans after returning from 65-game suspension

burn milwaukee to the ground imo

jp arencibia just drew a walk off cliff lee

yeah how dare Milwaukee cheer for its star baseball player, for shame

yeah for real; he's all we got cut us a break

this rangers-phillies game might go on for a while

@SarahSpain
I had a feeling #Brewers fans were idiots, but a standing ovation for Lyin' Ryan Braun is a whole new level of stupidity.

Sweet Christ it's going to be a long season

difference between "cheering for a guy" and "standing ovation" come on

Interleague on Opening Day still made me do a double take

Thank you for telling us the exact right amount we should be cheering for him. I was afraid we were supposed to root against him, but now I know we can cheer, if only in polite moderation.

way to get it dude

standing ovation in this case is loaded, most people probably standing up to say "we support you in your recovery from this awful strd infliction you've inflicted on yourself we got yr back" but it's not hard to read it as "hey you got boned we always had your back selig did 9/11"

lol not a single Brewer fan I know things Braun is innocent. we're just glad to have him back. keep in mind this team hadn't made the playoffs for TWENTY SIX YEARS at one point.

Yeah, overwhelming consensus is that Braun is a lying douchebag largely responsible for the hell the team endured last season. But you can understand why fans don't like being ridiculed as backwoods hicks because they're excited to have the star player the team's entire future hinges on back in the lineup after an ugly long absence.

I don't really think Milwaukee should be burned to the ground fwiw

hahaha phew!

successful video challenge by nl manager of the year clint hurdle

they should at least have the organ player jam out while we wait

otm. This graphic is pretty damn cool though

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkFNpMsCMAAwkpa.jpg

don't really get the outrage at milwaukee fans. sad franchise loses star player, fans are happy to have him back

a study in contrasts - listening to the cardinals announcers stupidly shittalk about joey votto taking walks, interrupted by yadi making an incredible head's up play to start a double play

NESN announcers are getting on my nerves.

i haven't heard ANY baseball announcer say anything intelligent about joey votto/walks/obp

votto would look like a mad genius if he had anyone behind him to protect him/drive him in

don't really get the outrage at milwaukee fans. sad franchise loses star player, fans are happy to have him back

I don't care about steroids that much, but Braun brought the sample collector Dino Laurenzi down with him. That puts him in a class with guys like Lance Armstrong imo. Not merely a cheater, but fucking with other people to hide your lie.

"GLOBE LIFE PARK in Arlington"?

jesus don baylor

cubs have signed joel pineiro to a minor league contract

he's 35, hasn't pitched in the majors since 2011, and isn't even left-handed

i forgot that joel pineiro existed

yanquis dfa eduardo nunez lol

Jeetz takes one on the hand to start/nearly end the season

aw man, that's the hand he would use to wave during his infinite series of goodbye ovations this year, poor guy

wd've been sweet if Ellsbury had broken an ankle on Tal's Hill there

I LIKE THESE YANKEES

which oldschool analyst is going to have a stroke watching defensive shifts?

Brian McCann hits CLEANUP for the Yankees?!

rays reportedly locking up chris archer for cheap-ish

scherzer all over the place, first and third with one out, billy butler hits a 3-0 pitch into a 6-4-3 #royals

Cool box score so far in ATL/MIL game

said box score, in the top of the 7th, continues to be cool

now only half cool

things just became half as cool

altuve sitting himself to secure the batting title. so lame

supposedly he wants to play and the team is sitting him, but i don't think anyone's buying that

he's starting

aha!

3 games tomorrow would be so fun

Aoki: designated first-inning sac bunter. Escobar: designated stranded runner.

Cole and Cueto are *dealing* in Cinci.

PIT 1 - CIN 1, bottom of the 8th, runner on 3rd, 1 out. WHY IS CUETO BEING ALLOWED TO HIT

reds announcers: "he needs to get his #20"

jesus fucking christ

he got an rbi single.

i should be a manager

And he was removed for a pinch runner!

i think the reds didn't realize that he if a pinch hitter put the reds ahead, Cueto would still be line for the sacred, holy, Win

Waiting for the inevitable Jayson Stark column about pitchers who got a win and a game winning RBI in the same game.

just thankful i don't have to care about the cardinals offense for a day ._.

god texas sucks

Astros Jose Altuve (2014) joins Ty Cobb (1911, 1912, 1917) as the only players in MLB history with 225+ H, 55+ XBH, & 55+ SB in a season.

not bad

HOFer

Waiting for the inevitable Jayson Stark column about pitchers who got a win and a game winning RBI in the same game.

gonna need at least 6000 words for this one

justin morneau is the rockies' ninth batting champion

and is anyone outside of Denver impressed?

His adjusted OPS at home and on the road are identical, and his home/road OBP's are almost the same too. His doubles on the road turned into homers at Coors, but otherwise he was the same hitter no matter where he played.

local tv ratings/audience size

the astros averaged 8,000 viewers per game; the next lowest was the marlins at 27,000

that has to do with their cable deal or smth right? i think not many people actually have the ability to watch those games

hitting coaches dropping like flies as general managers need to be seen doing ~something~

does this go here idk i guess it might be appreciated http://www.clickhole.com/article/wow-scientists-taught-baseball-manager-rudimentary-1223