2016 regular-season game chatter

could MLB find a bigger crook to partner with for prostate-cancer awareness than Michael Millken?

Ah, him -- he's been doing that with MLB for a while. He spent an inning in the Braves booth promoting it last year or year before.

w/out his enabler Lasorda, i hope

heh i had no idea Mets had no hits through 6

goddamn Tillman, my disaster Hacking Mass pick of the year

wait... Chris Tillman?!

yep! he was worth 60 HM points last year, with his 4.99 ERA. And obviously you want a pitcher who'll stay in the rotation all year, bcz it's hard to tell in advance what dumbfuck team like the Reds will let Simon pitch horribly for half a year.

ya, he's a reasonable pick for hacking... i had no idea he was doing so well this season. that's what surprised me!

i thought you fantasy guys were on top of everything! Another illusion shattered. :)

i have a kid now, fantasy game has dropped off considerably since.

worth it!

gettin' close to Weird Baseball time in Tampa Bay (13th inning)

and also in Atlanta! (bottom 11th)

imagine having nothing better to do than watch a Braves-Reds deathmatch after midnight.

34 strikeouts so far for TB-SEA

Lincecum vs A's today!

http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/watching-the-old-timers-day-game-with-jim-bouton-who-wasnt-invited

a maddux for...jered weaver?

Nice Bouton piece. I thought he had been invited to a couple of old-timers' games after he and Mantle patched things up (initiated by a call from Bouton to Mantle after Mantle's son died), but I guess not.

He was, and went, in 1998 and perhaps a few after.

http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/75723b1f

7 solo homers in col/mia game, so far accounting for all the games scoring

game ended 5-3, 8 solo homers; new record high amt for a game w no other scoring

and Mark Reynolds needs a 10-game suspension for calling runs "points"

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/185264468/rockies-marlins-set-solo-home-run-record

Kipnis with an inside the park "homerun" on a single with a three base error

ah, the trusty little league home run.

apparently there's an epidemic of those, as puig got a 2-run walkoff one last night

Cubs 47-23
Giants 47-27

it's 1908 all over again

who's 2015's merkle and what will be his boner

Timmuh vs A's again

cute, they interviewed travis and chases mom

she said travis was always funny/telling jokes as a kid and she thought hed be on snl

dear sports media,

God fuck US militarism now and forever.

thank u,

Travis is injured enough he probably has time to be on SNL too.

man, the T'hawk Chop is never not nauseating

get to the flo-rida concert already

KJ

notable al streaks

clevo 8-0
hou 7-0
tb 0-10

So why the power surge?

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/06/27/home-runs-being-hit-at-a-pace-not-seen-since-2000/

@MLBGIFs
In a jam? Frankie says relax. http://atmlb.com/293fpdx

http://imgur.com/LURvkR1

http://i.imgur.com/LURvkR1.png

lincecum with a very TTO first inning -- 3 Ks, 2 BBs, and a homer

settled in, since. some promising stuff here in there.

(i willl never stop believing in his comeback)

Joe Maddon doing the old switching pitchers (Wood and Patton) between the outfield and the mound thing in the 14th inning!

cuing up Weird Baseball in Washington (rain-induced) and Cincy

all the .600+ teams, pending SF-OAK result and giving BAL credit for their 11-1 lead

Cubs 50-26
Rangers 51-27
Giants 49-29
Indians 46-30
Orioles 46-30

Orioles almost blew it!

Travis Wood seems like a pretty good all-around athlete, he can definitely hit.
Cubs-Reds ended just before midnight last night and they're playing today at 11:30 a.m.

i def remember Davey Johnson putting Jesse Orosco in the OF once in extra innings.

kent tekulve tracked down a darrell evans fly to left to end this game: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN197909011.shtml

i missed that JM also used Strop in LF

http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2016/06/29/186835518

I never make it thru 10 minutes of Joe Buck w/out muting