post season baseball is the absolute best and I'm sad I can't really afford bt sport anymore to record the games and watch them during UK friendly hours. at least I got to see the Atlanta baseball team win the WS for the first time since my beloved maddux/glavine/smoltz era.
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 06:15 (one year ago) link
You could fall down the rabbit hole for weeks with these recommendations, but if I had to pick one game from the last decade it has to be Game 7 of the 2016 WS, Cleveland vs Chicago Cubs. The history and backstory won't ever be repeated (176 combined years between the two teams since their last championship) and the game has at least five or six "WTF did I just see????" moments.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 07:02 (one year ago) link
good oneoscar bravo i guess you might cite the 1991 World Series? it comes up a lot in “the best ever played” conversations. the beginning of the Smoltz/Maddux era in Atlanta.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 07:34 (one year ago) link
would recommend game five of the 2015 ALDS between toronto and texas
it was toronto’s first playoff appearance in 22 years. the blue jays lost the first two games at home, then won both games in texas to force a decisive fifth game. the seventh inning alone — top and bottom — is among the craziest single frames in history
would also recommend game one of the 1988 world series between the dodgers and a’s. it has a legendary conclusion and the announcer was vin scully, who was peerless
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 07:52 (one year ago) link
I remember that 2015 game (how did I not think of that first?)...Another insane one with the Jays: G4, 1993. I don't know that it's famous for any one hit or play, but I think it was the longest Series game ever at the time (4:14), and maybe the highest scoring (15-14). Mitch Williams took the loss, a bit of foreshadowing.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
I am excited for you to be in a position to watch an entire season next year! Baseball is best when you can let it ambiently drift by for a summer and take in the rhythms by osmosis (“he’s having a good year…” you’ll nod to yourself when your 2B is slashing 240/300/275. “Whaddabum…” you’ll say about your fringey reliever who’s pitched 50 innings of low-leverage ball to the tune of a 2.00 era)
Off the dome shit:
Kerry Wood’s 20K game
A’s at dodgers WS 88 game 1
Any supercut of Pedro Martinez strikeouts
Any supercut of Bonds’ HR in 2001, to see what peak performance looks like
I have also recommended the book “Class A” by Lucas Mann as a contemporary look at the low minors.
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
The Rhys Hoskins bat spike this weekend was rad
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
xp on Kerry Wood & Pedro Martinez but I appreciate specific recommendations, tysm!
― barry sito (gyac), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link
Also commit this to memory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn28Dz4RUxc
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
gyac, I assume you've seen this classic moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbEHAsZxRYo
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
Fun fact you might enjoy:
Left-handed relief pitcher Billy Wagner (known for his absurd strikeout rate) is actually a natural right hander but after breaking his right arm twice as a kid he learned to throw with his left arm. And now he’s probably going to wind up in the hall of fame for being such a dominant pitcher.
― omar little, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
Game 7 of the 2016 series is also my pick. Classic Cleveland clutch comeback to tie it coupled with a classic Aroldis Chapman meltdown, finished off with a determined Cubs team scraping out two runs (and Cleveland making it tense at the end too.)
― omar little, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
Ten cent beer night is an event that encapsulates baseball in Cleveland in the 70's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daWdOwqQhCs
― brownie, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
I will respond to all these posts in time but I’m watching this alds game atm. However I am nearly finished A Band of Misfits, about the 2010 Giants, and I’ve seriously watched this clip about ten times & also Clark’s homer against Nolan Ryan in his first big league at bat (!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUkTfbOEKTsLmao both at the guy going “you’re overmodulating” and Clark going “HUH??? NO WAY!” And also the guy stepping in from the side to clearly try to calm him down, and Clark shakes his hand instead. Supposedly he used The Thrill is Gone as his answering machine message as well. Legendary.
― barry sito (gyac), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
smoothest swing of all time
― Spottie, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
there's also a whole thread about BASEBALL MOVIES that i haven't really paid attention to
would recommend:
BULL DURHAM - it's long since passed into cliche (and tim robbins very obviously cannot pitch) but it presents the cliches in a nice manner, and also i used to live in durham and know where that house is
SUGAR - pretty honest look at what it's like to be a (dominican/puerto rican/venezuelan) kid left to fend for himself in the minor leagues. needless to say, there are a lot of non-success stories
NO NO: A DOCKUMENTARY - the story of 1970s pitcher dock ellis, who once threw a no-hitter (for the pirates, no less) while tripping on LSD. among other crazy shit like plunking four straight cincinnati reds to start a game. he was a troubled and interesting man
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
This, along with Aaron's 715th, is my favorite baseball memory ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4nwMDZYXTI
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
I remember that 2015 game (how did I not think of that first?)
These days Toronto vs Texas G5 is the first thing I think of when it comes to games/moments that I want to rewatch. But I didn't want to be accused of homerism by recommending it first ...
And that's only the last three innings!
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 06:26 (one year ago) link
This week has been rough and I’ve barely watched any baseball.More things I learned specifically about “Surfin” Barry Zito from reading excerpts fromhttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61frVWPOc1L.jpg- Barry Zito did meth in his teens- the first chapter opens with a quote from someone saying “if San Fran wins the World Series, does Barry Zito get a ring?” (Ouch - though I am a fan of brutally honest sports autobios).- Barry Zito’s grandfather started a newspaper with Mussolini (!)I need to read this book, there’s nothing more boring than reading stories of endless success from people who go to bed early and never do anything bad.
― barry sito (gyac), Friday, 21 October 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
watch game 5 2012 NLCS giants vs cardinals if you want some more zito lore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8S-PI7HZ8ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Meay49NgGXIgiants down 1-3 in the series and he gets the start despite a very poor showing in the series before. giants win the next three then zito wins game 1 of the world series vs verlander which you mentioned.
― Spottie, Friday, 21 October 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
I was thinking about which game I would recommend watching and actually realised the games I got the biggest kick out of weren't necessarily epic important ones. Like any Greg Maddux 85 pitch complete game shutout with like 2 strikeouts and upward of a dozen groundouts + handful of weak pop flys is amazing viewing imo. Especially with how different baseball is now.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 21 October 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
Or Tom Glavine locating his fast ball consistently just outside the outside edge the strikezone with such monotone regularity that the umpire starts calling it a strike.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 21 October 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link
(xpost) You've almost perfectly described Maddux's G2 win against the Yankees in the '96 Series:
86 pitches, 6 H, 2 K, 0 BB, 0 runs. He didn't pitch a shutout, though--Bobby Cox brought in Wohlers for the 9th. He didn't let Maddux finish his Maddux.
― clemenza, Friday, 21 October 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
yeah those 90s braves pitchers were clinical, hated them of course.
― Spottie, Friday, 21 October 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
For what it's worth, Maddux was more of a strikeout pitcher than he's generally remembered as (with some help from the umps): 6.1/per 9 for his career, 6.9/per 9 during his '92-'98 peak. My favourite pitcher then--travelled to Montreal to see him somewhere in the middle there.
― clemenza, Friday, 21 October 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
I did get the chance to see Smoltz's 3,000th career strikeout in person, that was epic. Still much love for him in the ATL.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 21 October 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
ALCS game 3 2003
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
One that I forgot to recommend, on YouTube in its entirety: Mark Fidrych vs. the Yankees, June 28, 1976, 48,000 people in Yankee Stadium (on a Monday), ABC's Monday Night game, Fidrych 7-1 with a 2.18 ERA going in, the biggest story in baseball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwGj4VfCreg
For style, Luis Tiant.
https://phildellio.tripod.com/tiant.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
Yes! I have been meaning to check out Fidrych as well!
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
xpsI'm glad!! He was my favourite player back when I first started watching baseball. used to love andruw jones as well. and in the non atlanta baseball players division it was tony gwynn and his incredibly flat no uppercut swing. then later i was all about ichiro.
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
(xp) I think you'll fall in love. I was so lucky to have watched that game (14 years old). It's just hard to convey today how one baseball player could so thoroughly capture the public's attention and imagination. It happened again a few years later with Fernando, although I don't know that there's one single game of his where it all coalesced so perfectly.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
xp Parker looking cool af.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
(Oops--the Fidrych game was in Tiger Stadium, which makes the 48,000 people even more remarkable. The mid-'70s Tigers were not good.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
I love they have the commercials too in that broadcast!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
I’ll be honest, a thing I found - and find, tbh - really difficult about watching baseball both live and classic is the number of ad breaks! How does that not drive people mad?
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
“At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.”
— Albert Camus
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
Fidrych throwing 250 innings and striking out 97(!) that season is always really amazing to me. 9.6 bWAR!
― omar little, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
xp lmao
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
xp baseball as a tv spectator sport simply isn't designed to hold your attention 100% of the time, you gotta pair it with something else that can be done in fits and starts such as browsing the internet or chopping vegetables or playing a turn-based video game
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
Parachuting in to say that I am a 51-year-old American male human with exactly one sports allegiance. And that allegiance is to the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals. Not the Cardinals in general, not St. Louis teams in general. Pretty much just that one spectacular season.
I was exactly the right age to be excited by a baseball team. Especially, a locally beloved and long-storied team that suddenly caught on fire in a particular way. Was it slugfesty? No it was not. Was it Sabermetric? No it was not. Was it especially steroidal? No it was not. It was a style of play based on baserunning, stealing, speed, fielding, contact. It was called "Whiteyball" after the (in retrospect) rather unfortunately nicknamed manager Whitey Herzog.
Ozzie Smith. Lonnie Smith. Willie McGee. Keith Hernandez. Bruce Sutter. Joaquin Andujar. It's been 40 years and no sporting persons have dislodged those names from my memory. Nor will they.
Since then, I have watched a few other sporting contests, with varying amounts of interest. But none has matched the passionate intensity of being eleven years old in a red hat in terrible seats in that cranky old Busch stadium with a scorecard on my lap and a fire in my heart. Personally I am fine leaving it there: a whole life of fandom in a few humid evenings in 1982, eating ice cream from a novelty batting helmet.
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
That's beautiful, YMP.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
^
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
eating ice cream from a novelty batting helmet
i have one from every stadium i've been to in the last 8 years (4 total) and my kids love these. they were bath toys until my youngest recently decided to elevate the jays and yankees ones to the "display"shelf in her room that was normally reserved for her fancy in-the-box dolls.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
ymp are you . . . me?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
that would be a plot twist!
1982 cards ftw of course. the '85 version of the team is fun too. they didn't win the WS but they were even better and even faster and more exciting, a team tailor made to play on artificial turf. willie mcgee having his best season, the wizard ozzie smith doing his usual defensive stuff but also putting together his first above-average offensive season after being seen as a liability earlier in his career, jack clark looking like a bag of big league chew and the only power threat on a speedy team. mcgee stole 56, tommy herr and ozzie both stole 31, andy van slyke had an incredible name and stole 34, and vince coleman stole 110 bases (!) and hit one home run.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
this is a fun thread, gyac, thank you for starting it
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
Very nice, YMP.
Truly amazing: the '82 Series matched up the Cardinals (67 HR, fewest in the majors) against the Brewers (216 HR, most in the majors). Surely that's the only time that ever happened. George Hendricks led the Cardinals with 19 HR, Darrell Porter had 12, and no one else had more than 8.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah put these names directly in my veins please: Lou Brock, Gene Tenace, Tommy Herr, Andy Van Slyke, Vince Coleman.
I gave exactly zero fucks about baseball (or any sport) before that. And I pretty much haven't since!
When my St. Louisan nephews cared about the Cardinals, it was the Mark McGwire to Albert Pujols era and I just couldn't get into it. Huge guys hitting long balls is not a Cardinal virtue. Base-stealing and relief pitching are Cardinal virtues. (That is, if you were an eleven-year-old St. Louisan in 1982. Plenty of other ways to be, but I cannot change my nature.)
Here in DC there was a brief flash of potential excitement around the Ryan Zimmerman, Jayson Werth, and Bryce Harper Nationals teams, but that has dissipated and I am back to not giving a shit.
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
We’re you a fan of the 2015/16 era Royals?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
Cause they’re the bottom of the order? Cause their good guys have been on the IL for two weeks? Who knowsIt was the first pitch! Guys like Wade Boggs pretty much never swung at the first pitch
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:26 (one month ago) link
I haven't read the poem in 35+ years, but isn't Casey the cleanup hitter?
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:37 (one month ago) link
I understand the logic of looking at the first pitch but bro’s like “I’m so good I can watch two strikes and then I’ll lock in”. Except he isn’t!If Casey is batting cleanup, then that shifts everyone on my lineup up one place and then you’re looking back at the same problem (why is he batting behind these losers)
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:39 (one month ago) link
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:43 (one month ago) link
4-2 in the 9th isn’t a brilliant outlook no matter who’s on deckAnyway why do you think those are their two best hitters?
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:54 (one month ago) link
at that point you’ve got nobody on, down 2, 2 out, and a hoodoo (I always remember this as “a lulu”) and a cake before it even gets to mighty Casey. A pall-like silence sounds about right
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:56 (one month ago) link
But shouldn’t the guys hitting in front of cleanup be good enough to get on base? The crowd should be cheering for them, but they don’t, cos they know they’re bad!
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 21:07 (one month ago) link
Maybe Casey has Tyler O’Neill disease, where it ain’t his style to drive in runners on base. Solo homers only!
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 21:08 (one month ago) link
Lol. Yeah that’s the part that doesn’t quite click into place - “mighty” Casey feels like an archetypal cleanup guy.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 21:14 (one month ago) link
^^^though, yeah, it doesn't make much sense that the two weak hitters are ahead of Casey
maybe 1888 analytics said bat your worst hitters early so they can rest and don't get rubella or something
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 21:30 (one month ago) link
Hahahaomg surely "Mudville nine" means the team. Baseball used to be a game played with 9 players!!
― felicity, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 22:34 (one month ago) link
xp PBKR 💀💀💀 Yeah felicity that’s what I think I means as well - but they aren’t the best up for the team in that inning, like they aren’t meant to be guys that would give a good shot at getting on base. But it turns out they’re clutch and Casey isn’t!
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 22:43 (one month ago) link
I admit, haven't done my podcast homework assignment yet.
― felicity, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 22:45 (one month ago) link
in my mind there are two possibilities - casey is leadoff or casey is cleanup. i like tracer's interpretation for casey as leadoff but casey as cleanup is how i remember it too.
i agree with gyac that mudville probably had the lead first. i do think that they lost the lead relatively late in the game, which is why the crowd is so volatile and calling for the umpire to be killed.
CASEY AS LEADOFF-cooney and barrows are the sixth and seventh batters. not great but not spectacular. can be thought to reliably put the ball in play at least, maybe get some singles. and they both did put the ball in play. but they both 'died at first'. -flynn the hodooo and jimmy the cake are eight and ninth. understandably there's a pall when they're due up. jimmy is also the pitcher and is despisèd for not only being a terrible hitter but also allowing 4 runs in the seventh and eighth, turning a surefire win into a probable loss. however, the fact that he "tore the cover off the ball" and legged out a double was totally unexpected. it adds to the crowd's excitement after "the dust had lifted" and the "men saw what had occurred" - the crowd needed a second to process - who would have thought the 8 and 9 guys would get on base, much less both be in scoring position? -casey in this scenario is a nineteenth century kyle schwarber. guy who starts the game off with a solo home run. maybe both runs in the game are due to casey solo shots. mighty casey! but also bats under 200 and is on the verge of setting the single season strikeout record, so the end of the poem is VMIC.
CASEY AS CLEANUP-cooney the pitcher bats ninth and barrows is leadoff. the poem isn't negative towards cooney because when he bats there are no outs, anything can happen, even if he gets out that's only one out, still plenty of life in the inning. -but when barrows the leadoff hitter can't get on base - that's bad. two outs!-biggest question here as has been pointed out is why flynn and jimmy are so bad and hated but still batting two and three. i think it's because they're both 0-4 in the game, four strikeouts each, 10 RISP left on between them (bottom of the order has been hitting well), and not only that but have been slumping in their previous games - and the manager won't shuffle the lineup yet because he doesn't want to mess with their heads (the other reason the manager won't change the lineup is because the manager also either flynn or jimmy). jimmy is also probably in year 2 of a 10 year/$3000 contract that he's drastically underperforming. so he's much depisèd. that said, he can still smack the ball occasionally - this is supported by blake "[tearing] the cover off the ball" and legging out a double. -casey bats cleanup as most people assume and you know what happens next.
i don't like casey as cleanup because even if the two and three hitters are underperforming, they're still good and the crowd should still have some hope. i think casey as schwarber is the better read, even if it goes against how most people remember the poem.
― 龜, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 15:27 (one month ago) link
Jesus Christ this is an absolutely superb analysis. I’m in awe here. I prefer your favourite interpretation too! Plus it’s funnier. Cooney and Barrows both grounded out and not just grounded out but died. Suggests they are both ultra slow and baserunning liabilities. Also I really like the idea of Jimmy Blake being the pitcher. I know he includes the first name to make it scan better but I like the idea of there being several Blakes on the team hence the need to specify. “Blake, as in our best hitter?”“No Blake as in the pitcher who gave up a grand slam to the nine hole hitter last series.”
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 16:06 (one month ago) link
Both very well argued positions. I can't choose between them!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 16:08 (one month ago) link
Page 4 of the June 3, 1888 Sunday (morning) edition of the San Francisco Daily Examiner:
https://i.imgur.com/RWMJWDZ.jpeg
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 May 2024 15:47 (one month ago) link
(if you are of advanced-age, you may need to open that jpg in another tab and zoom: 4th column, middle-bottom)
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 May 2024 15:50 (one month ago) link
So many fun and random things on this page. I want to try Joy's vegetable sarsaparilla. That lynching in St. Helena seems super fishy "Wright, I understand hanged himself". Apparently the crowd threw the rope around his neck, argued whether he deserved to die, then Wright says "I'll be damned if I stay in this crowd another minute!" and jumps.
Also "Mr. Hogg, who recently died at Okton, Maryland, is said to have been the oldest railroad man in the world. He was certainly the most appropriately named". OUCH
― octobeard, Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:45 (one month ago) link
rolling sabermetrics and statistics thread
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 23:08 (three weeks ago) link
WHAT
The video game Yakuza 0 contains a reference to the curse in the form of a statue of a chef floating underwater in the river of Sotenbori (a fictional version of Dōtonbori). The statue can be seen underwater in the cutscene where Majima enters the bed of Styx.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 23:37 (three weeks ago) link
Didn’t really know where to post this, but this was so fucking upsetting.
https://t.co/MStgkIxESq pic.twitter.com/zoEadgZp4l— Infield Fly Girl (@infieldflygrl) June 12, 2024
In 1992, Rockies outfielder Dante Bichette struck his pregnant 19-year-old girlfriend. The story was not public at the time and there was no discipline. "Although it was very wrong, we joke about it now," he said in 1999. One wonders exactly how often they laugh about it, and why.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 16:42 (one week ago) link
2010 MLB Police Blotter
But yeah thats grim
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 17:04 (one week ago) link
Important to share, but yeah this is NOT the thread for it. I love this thread as a means of sharing pure unadulterated joy for the game.
Hope it stays that way moving forward... I usually am excited when this thread is bumped!
― octobeard, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 23:22 (one week ago) link
Sorry, to me this is unfortunately relatable :/ but yeah, in my mind that other thread is for arrests etc.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 23:23 (one week ago) link
I feel like we’ve all just forgotten Pedro Martinez had a dwarf sidekick he would hang around with in 2004
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 16 June 2024 17:22 (one week ago) link
Idk how to reply to that itt but I feel I should point out that the correct term is probably ‘little person’.What I came here to say: Tim Lincecum turned 40 yesterday and KNBR did a thread of his best moments. The enduring love for him is something else.
Screw it, 40 Tim Lincecum moments for his 40th birthdayA thread: pic.twitter.com/qyags7tSXh— KNBR (@KNBR) June 15, 2024
Hunter Pence & Tim Lincecum imitating each other's mechanics.[From: https://t.co/Ka4bSeDscg ] pic.twitter.com/fKNaXeMesG— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) November 21, 2018
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Sunday, 16 June 2024 17:48 (one week ago) link
I looked it up actually before posting because I figured someone would say something. That term is apparently on par with “little person” or “individual of short stature”. “Midget” is the faux pas term to use.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 16 June 2024 18:18 (one week ago) link