2014 regular season chatter

@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

still, pretty, pretty cool there

i would be much more optimistic about harang's ability to remain cool if it were 2006 or something

nah, he can do a card trick, lotsa sucky pitchers have

apropos of absolutely nothing, i just did a quick check to determine which player with a career negative fWAR had the most plate appearances.

Alfredo Griffin. 7331 PAs. Career fWAR: -1.0

Among active players, it seems to be Delmon Young, with 3939 PAs and a career fWAR of -1.3

Yuniesky dint last long nuff?

only 4278 PAs for poor old Yuniesky.

but an admirable, solid -0.8 fWAR

Yuniesky Betancourt's streak of SEVEN consecutive seasons with a negative WAR is mindblowing (fWAR is a little kinder to him, but not by much). During much of that time he was a full time player!

I actually was writing that post before the last 3. I guess we thought of the same dude.

"COME ON, give us a break," Hawk croaks, as a replay shows Semien's swing nowhere near a check.

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2014/0402/mlb_hat_d1_576x324.jpg

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10715887/uni-watch-some-fans-removing-chief-wahoo-logos-protest

as the announcer of a crappy team i don't care about one way or another, hawk is tremendous and stone is his perfect partner

when the white sox get good again, tho, it'll piss me off

Hawk needs to be set adrift in the Arctic while there are still ice floes

tbf he has a better home run call than gary's pubescent 'it's outta here'

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10715887/uni-watch-some-fans-removing-chief-wahoo-logos-protest

― Andy K, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 7:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cool, now if they'd start protesting the team name

rays change their pitchers, go for the intentional walk, and then change their pitcher again.

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