Also with an odd number of teams in each league, they have to have interleague play (or have 2 teams off every day in the schedule)
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
worth a read imho
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
i used to love playing baseball. when i was a kid, i used to sprint from the on-deck circle to the plate because i was so eager to hit (this is not something that anyone who knows me now would ever believe). i might have been able to play low-level college ball(?) but tbh i lost the love playing american legion ball -- fuckin driving all over to play in 90° heat just wasn't fun at all
i can't even *imagine* loving what it takes to play 140 minor league games in five months with what they have to go through. in the majors they get paid, but christ 162 games is an absolute grind even when staying at good hotels and having people carry your bags for you. it's a hard job that most are constantly on the edge of losing
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
yeah. in some ways it's like any performer or artist, where the overwhelming majority of people who get into acting/dancing/singing/piano/sculpture never make big bucks, work their asses off, are likely to be dropped on a whim, and most of the time are only doing it through an inexorable combination of being freakishly good at it and not having found anything else they can remotely do. people say 'you have to love it' and i know what they mean - you won't have what it takes to put up with the insecurity and low pay and exhaustion and hustle of it all if you don't - but i think you could also just be slightly bananas and that would also fulfil that function of keeping you at something like that
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
feel like most players made it because they're hyper-competitive, which isn't the same thing as love at all
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
yeah!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
No names, but heard on the radio that "multiple" Blue Jay players/personnel have tested positive.
http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/multiple-toronto-blue-jays-players-and-staff-test-positive-for-covid-19-1.4998325
I'm just so baffled by this charade. It's like Trump is the commissioner.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
Ya. We gotta get them the fuck outta that panhandle shithole.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 25 June 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
hearing that if toronto doesn't allow the jays to play there, they'll go to dunedin (rather than, say, buffalo)
let's hope its subject to change
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 June 2020 00:36 (four years ago) link
just as an aside, ESPN has a morning show called GET UP in which the first 53 of 60 minutes today excluded MLB. Imagine what the marketing behind that is.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
I...huh.
Here are just a few of the ways we’ll keep our players and personnel safe, and limit the spread of COVID-19. https://t.co/y0pyGMNBGx pic.twitter.com/M0ee984sgN— MLB (@MLB) June 26, 2020
― Andy K, Friday, 26 June 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
haha, i guess it makes sense that there's no bench, but it's gonna be pretty funny to see players in the stands sitting by themselves
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
Good times
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
keep an eye out for Bobby Valentine
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
ya - i'm more concerned about what social distancing they will be expected to practice outside of the game. are they allowed to go to bars or large gatherings? will people be delivering groceries etc for them?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
excited to see dozens and dozens of pithy foul ball catch celebrations in the stands
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
i can't imagine jocks going to bars or motels on the road...
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
they should sell shirts with that covidganda on them tho
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
They have a red, white, and blue graphic that doubles as an eyechart. What could go wrong?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 26 June 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
would have been better if every single line used a different font. needs more italics and underlined things as well
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
but really, this is what people "like" these days. the standard graphic design is just a bunch of squares inside of a larger rectangle. it's supposed to remind you of the happy feelings of browsing endless websites that also look like this. you will feel better if you see a grid of stories that never ends, some of which look better than others
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 26 June 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
https://sports.yahoo.com/report-mlb-season-could-continue-even-if-covid-outbreak-forces-teams-to-drop-out-175518718.html
good luck
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 June 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link
where she stops, nobody knows
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 June 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link
Ya. World Series will be decided by last man standing methinks.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 28 June 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
WS Champion bartolo colon
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Sunday, 28 June 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
the Jays are apparently heading north for training - and hopefully the season. so fucking glad they got out of that covid dumpster of a state.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 29 June 2020 02:19 (four years ago) link
No spitting or chewing of tobacco and/or sunflower seeds
good luck usa
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 June 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
yikes there are some bad players at the back end of these 60-player pools
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 June 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
i mean the mets alone just signed gordon beckham, ryan cordell and erasmo ramirez
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 June 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
they just need, uh, bodies
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
Hearing that #Dbacks RHP Mike Leake will opt out of participating during the 2020 MLB season.— Steve Gilbert (@SteveGilbertMLB) June 29, 2020
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
Flame-throwing reliever Anthony Gose is in Cleveland's pool.
― Andy K, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
https://mlb.nbcsports.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/06/Camping-World-.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 June 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
joe ross and ryan zimmerman also opting out; could be it for the latter
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 June 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
i am ken rosenthal
Statement from Ryan Zimmerman. Not retiring. https://t.co/mVgzJCm5OT— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) June 29, 2020
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 June 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
Leake's service time: 10.000, the exact amount to receive a full pension. So, Walt Jocketty and Dusty Baker doing right by him in April 2010 and naming him to Opening Day roster let him make a clear-eyed decision today. https://t.co/dZCeCq4GoH— Gabe Lacques (@GabeLacques) June 29, 2020
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 June 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
congrats to the tigers and spencer torkelson's armada
No. 1 overall pick Spencer Torkelson signs with @Tigers for $8,416,300 (slot value = 8,415,300). New @MLBDraft bonus record, also first No. 1 overall pick to get or top slot value in bonus-pool era. Perhaps the best all-around offensive talent to come out of Draft in 20 years.— Jim Callis (@jimcallisMLB) June 30, 2020
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
Spencer Torkelson one of those old-time baseball names
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
that's the first time i've heard anyone speak that highly of him
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
also lol at the tigers giving him exactly one thousand dollars over slot
god is there a more depressing team for the "best all-around offensive talent to come out of Draft in 20 years" to go to
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
usually the #1 draft pick goes to a team that is pretty depressed
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06/30/ian-desmond-powerful-instagram-post-race-inclusion-opts-out-2020-season/
― Irritable Baal (WmC), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
fuck yeah, ian desmond. wish he wouldn't have suppressed all that for years, but he does a very good job of making his points, now that he's talking
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
oic
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred on The Dan Patrick Show: “"The reality is, we weren’t going to play more than sixty games, no matter how the negotiation with the players went or any other factor” So we dragged baseball thru the mud publicly for.. no reason? Stay baseball baseball.— trey wingo (@wingoz) July 2, 2020
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 July 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
does he think that will help in next year's labor talks or something? wtf, what a dumbass
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 2 July 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
Isn't that..... an explicit admission of bad-faith negotiation?? Which would result in a successful grievance being filed?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 July 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
"just to let you all know, i do NOT negotiate in good faith"
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 2 July 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
"there's actually no point in negotiating with me, is what i'm saying"
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 2 July 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
it's fine because 60 games is the healthy number but 61 games is a risk that will kill ballplayers
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Thursday, 2 July 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link