those padres city connect unis are the best unis in baseball.
― Spottie, Friday, 5 May 2023 06:50 (one year ago) link
Supposedly a fan fell off a railing into the Red Sox bullpen? Seems terrible.
― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Friday, 5 May 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link
Rich Hill pitching is always a practice of aesthetics over function. Painting the corner with his old man “fast” ball, to the most beautiful curveball in the game, getting absolutely rocked into deep centre field to put the blue jays up by four. Really hope he can last the season and give some more production to the Pirates.
Bae making some nice defensive plays
― hrep (H.P), Friday, 5 May 2023 23:49 (one year ago) link
Watching Rich in Pittsburgh bringing back repressed memories of his “perfect game” which was lost in the 10th inning due to the dodgers inability to score any runs. One of the greatest, and saddest pitching performances I have seen
― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 6 May 2023 00:16 (one year ago) link
4/6 teams in an American League playoff spot are from the AL east. Christ.― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, April 20, 2023 11:05 PM (two weeks ago)dude it's april― mookieproof, Thursday, April 20, 2023 11:36 PM (two weeks ago)Ok. Sorry I shared that information. Sorry I talk at all here since you’re determined to be an asshole to me whenever possible. You’re doing a great job trying to make this place as toxic as possible for me.― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, April 21, 2023 (two weeks ago)
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, April 20, 2023 11:05 PM (two weeks ago)
dude it's april
― mookieproof, Thursday, April 20, 2023 11:36 PM (two weeks ago)
Ok. Sorry I shared that information. Sorry I talk at all here since you’re determined to be an asshole to me whenever possible. You’re doing a great job trying to make this place as toxic as possible for me.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, April 21, 2023 (two weeks ago)
ok it is no longer april and the AL East remains an absolute fuckin buzzsaw, so my bad
the yankees had an incredible first half last year that didn't really pan out, so caveat everything, but man 27-6 is awfully impressive
― mookieproof, Saturday, 6 May 2023 03:09 (one year ago) link
also someone tell me the last time the pirates lost five straight games while remaining in first place
― mookieproof, Saturday, 6 May 2023 03:13 (one year ago) link
Glen Kuiper, yikes
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 6 May 2023 04:54 (one year ago) link
Yikes, but also worried from the A’s tweet there’s going to be some serious consequences….. was obviously simply a VERY unfortunate slip of the tongue. Hope whatever happens, it’s no more than a formality of a slap on the wrist
― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 6 May 2023 10:14 (one year ago) link
Turns out, not everyone can flip the ball to themselves and still get the out pic.twitter.com/aEhlO295Zv— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 6, 2023
― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Saturday, 6 May 2023 12:22 (one year ago) link
Didn’t say there shouldn’t be consequences, just not “serious” ones. I.e. firing. He has been suspended as of today which was the obvious next step.
My Official Statement on the Glen Kuiper incident is below. pic.twitter.com/txAmPH9ulI— Bob Kendrick (@nlbmprez) May 6, 2023
― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 6 May 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link
Why shouldn’t he be fired, do you think racial slurs just fall from people’s mouths so easily?
― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Saturday, 6 May 2023 22:15 (one year ago) link
No I don’t
― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 6 May 2023 22:24 (one year ago) link
Have to turn this Pirates game off. Too sad.
― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 6 May 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
Terrific O's-Braves game, 4 or 5 lead changes and ATL finally winning it 5-4.
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Sunday, 7 May 2023 02:13 (one year ago) link
Damn turned it off for the dodgers game (which was also excellent). Strider looked excellent while I was watching. These O’s are so fun now
― hrep (H.P), Sunday, 7 May 2023 04:53 (one year ago) link
Love that Mariners comeback. One more, boys, so close to .500!This was sweet!https://www.mlb.com/news/masataka-yoshida-meets-his-idol-bryce-harper
― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Sunday, 7 May 2023 05:17 (one year ago) link
I can’t tell if the pitchcoms actually break regularly or if acting like it isn’t working is the new stalling tactic in the face of the pitch clock
― na (NA), Sunday, 7 May 2023 20:08 (one year ago) link
Probably the latter.
The dodgers v padres game was very dodgers v padres’y. Feels like we have their number for late inning comebacks. Mookie ties it in the 9th, two ours with a solo homer, followed by cold-streak ROY outman hitting a three runner in extras. Rivalry definitely heating up more between these two teams. Good for baseball
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 8 May 2023 03:54 (one year ago) link
i'm just going to say it: there are too many players named lowe right now
― na (NA), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
We don't know what to say. Just watch. pic.twitter.com/rOUxKpIA4F— Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) May 8, 2023
― na (NA), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
If you are not going to wear a cup (which is crazy), at least slide with your back to the throw (which is Sliding 101, is it not?).
― Andy K, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link
i would assume you don't want your back to the play/where the ball is coming from (ball to the back of the head and all that). the outcome in this instance is a 1-1M-type event
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 22:40 (one year ago) link
Sliding with your back facing the throw allows you to react quickly to an overthrow (and obviously prevents you from getting hit in the face or groin).
If you're sliding with your back to the outfield, you're still focused on the base and the tagging infielder, not watching the path of the ball. Don't think I've seen a front-facing base stealer avoid a beaning by squirming away mid-slide.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 01:58 (one year ago) link
feel like, back in the day, whenever i approached a base that required sliding, i just randomly chose some variant for no reason at all
which is no doubt among the reasons i was a shitty ballplayer. but at least i wore a cup
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 02:52 (one year ago) link
the outcome in this instance is a 1-1M-type event
drove around for a bit earlier today, thinking about how to make this into a "-2 balls type event" joke, couldn't cross the bridge
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 02:54 (one year ago) link
trea_turner_sliding dot gif was especially incredible for me
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 02:55 (one year ago) link
xp
i remember when i got my first jock strap from my parents, it was just the strap without the cup, and i didn't know it was missing anything. wore just that little cupless jock strap for a couple games
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 02:56 (one year ago) link
one time in high school i somehow . . . didn't bring my cup? and i was playing 3B, and the infield at mars hs (pa) kind of undulated underneath the grass and i basically spent the game in a state of terror
but also i hit one of my exactly three high school homers? perhaps i'd have made the majors if i'd been abelarded
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 03:03 (one year ago) link
dang, you hit a HR? you're a legend in my book, must have felt amazing. i crushed exactly one ball, hit the sweet spot and swung my hardest. it went to mid-deep CF and was easily caught. my playing days were ended by infielders finally learning how to handle routine ground balls from me
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 03:06 (one year ago) link
all three of my hs homers were on the road (because the LF pole at my home field was 470 and i was incapable of not pulling the ball)
and all of them were surprising to me. hitting a ball square on is an absolute joy, but i can only imagine what hitting a no-doubter is like
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 03:12 (one year ago) link
http://capricorncity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Homer-Simpson-at-Bat.gif
― omar little, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 03:23 (one year ago) link
it me
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 04:52 (one year ago) link
From an Athletic piece today:
1984 Tigers, 31-5. Won World Series.1902 Pirates, 30-6. No World Series (the first was in 1903).1939 Yankees, 29-7. Won World Series.1928 Yankees, 29-7. Won World Series1912 Giants, 29-7. Lost World Series.2023 Rays, 29-7. ????
Impressive, no doubt. But as an indicator of World Series potential, the Rays’ 29-7 record means only so much.
All of the other teams on the above list, except for the ‘84 Tigers, advanced straight to the Series after finishing with the best regular-season record in their respective leagues. The ‘84 Tigers needed to first beat the Royals in a best-of-five league championship series. The 2023 Rays, if they win the AL East, would need to win a best-of-five division series and best-of-seven LCS to reach the World Series.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
another thing about those early teams is that their record over the first 36 games represented a larger proportion of the season
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link
also they didn't have wild card, division, and league championship series to toss the coin on
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 14:23 (one year ago) link
oops, sorry clemenza, i see yr quoted text alludes to that
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 14:24 (one year ago) link
I feel a little bad for the Rays in that they could go 110-52 and odds are it will amount to absolutely nothing.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link
(Not that a handful of other 105- to 110-win teams in the wild-card era didn't face the same steep mountain.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
i don't know anything about old baseball, but doesn't it seem like starting 29-7 in 1912 would be more the product of luck than in 2023, when there is statistical analysis and player conditioning and video analysis and AI and etc etc
― na (NA), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link
Almost no home runs in the game would significantly reduce luck imo (round bat, round ball)
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
Almost every home run in 1912 was inside the park, so speed, fielding etc all come into play - but none of it comes into play for ye good olde dinger
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
the distribution of team quality was wildly variant in the early game. so many of the best players were not allowed to play in MLB, the modern minor league/farm development system was decades away, and i have to imagine there were a lot of shenanigans with owners who didn't care about the quality of the team
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 15:37 (one year ago) link
in those days, if you had a good nickname and a notable mustache you would basically be the starting shortstop
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
To me 29-7 in 2023 is more meaningful in 2023 than 100 years ago...but I'm at work in a kindergarten class right now and would need some time to explain that!
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
I've just become more and more skeptical about everything either pre-Ruth, pre-war, or pre-integration (not quite sure where to draw the line). I will say, when I scrolled through some AL standings from the early '20s, the gap between the top and the bottom wasn't noticeably different than today.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
if you wanna see something fun, check out the 1899 Cleveland Spiders on bbref:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CLV/1899.shtml
finished 20-134, which was only 6 wins under their pythag. they fired their first manager Lave Cross after he went 8-30 and Joe Quinn somehow managed to go 12-104 the rest of the way. their best pitcher, Jim Hughey, pitched 32 complete games and nearly 300 innings. his ERA was 5.41. they hit a grand total of 12 home runs on the year. shit, I feel like *I* could've played on that team
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
The year before that the Spiders were a respectable team and Cy Young was their main pitcher. He pitched nine years for the Spidermen. They lost the '92 Series to the Beaneaters, which I'm still mad about.
― brownie, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
andrew mccutchen hitting dingers in a pirates uniform just feels right
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link