2015 regular season chatter

After one inning of snowy and bone-chilling play in Detroit, the Yankees lead the Tigers 6-4. Pitches thrown: 87.

What?

Beltrán tripled to deep left center, McCann scored.
Headley tripled to deep right center, Beltrán scored.
Petit intentionally walked.

Well, it "worked."

I laughed at the edgiest lines in Chris Rock's baseball rant on HBO's Real Sports (I wonder how much of their audience even knows who Emmett Till was, though). And Bryant Gumbel is still working!

The production values of that kind of ruined it for me. There's an unironic record scratch punctuating a punchline.

statcast.

despite reading a million things about it, i still don't understand whether or not the new stats will be publicly available (or if they're already publicly available, where i can find them) or if they're just going to be displayed during broadcasts.

specifically i want to check out jordan walden's extension, velocity, and perceived velocity stats to see how much his extra skip adds to his game.

unrelated:

https://espngrantland.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/mlb-pitcher-wrc.png?w=694

Guessing Chase Headley now leads the league in balks alerted to sleeping umpires. Good work, Chase.

Jacoby Ellsbury assisted in that balk alerted. Good work, Jacoby.

vin scully storytelling game in exceptional form during this doyers-evenyears mlb tv free game

was just talking about how buster posey would watch tv in a crouched catcher's position, which seems uncomfortable

last night he mentioned that JFK press secretary Pierre Salinger was related to somebody by marriage... "of course, everyone remembers him"

@pedromoura
A's-Angels is the most American matchup possible in MLB. Combined, they had just six non-Americans on their OD rosters. The Rangers had 15.

Royals-ChiSox rhubarb

Hawk saw it comin', folks.

@dschoenfield
The Kansas City Royals, no longer the little small-market team everyone was rooting for last October.

i found em very irritating last October

but now they're soaring toward Cardinals/Phillies/Stanks territory

http://i.imgur.com/s7myEdH.jpg

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

*would-be radio hits

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

Every baseball team has its own "New Jersey" [Started by slothroprhymes in April 2015] 42 new answers

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
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDiEyWGWoAAlc19.png

(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.