Broadcaster jinx supremacy
found it pic.twitter.com/XcmFAQELx3 https://t.co/QSN5LehjCv— jack (@Jolly_Olive) July 16, 2023
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Monday, 17 July 2023 11:26 (eleven months ago) link
Was not sure where to put this but Awful Announcing has released The 2023 MLB local broadcaster rankings:
https://awfulannouncing.com/orig/2023-mlb-local-broadcaster-rankings.html
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 18:18 (eleven months ago) link
The Giants broadcast being ranked #1 is no surprise as they are usually the winner. I'm pleasantly surprised as I didn't know they were that well regarded. It's funny to me that they are #1 and don't even mention the best part of the booth, Jon Miller.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 18:24 (eleven months ago) link
cleveland has hit 69 homers as a team this season
five of them (7.2%) have come in a seven-inning stretch against the pirates last night and tonight
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 23:59 (eleven months ago) link
That's almost twice as many as Ohtani! (Absurdio ad reductio.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 01:04 (eleven months ago) link
Strange day indeed, runs scored:
Giants 11Reds 10 (L)Dodgers 10Guardians 10White Sox 10 (L)Mets 10DBacks 16Braves 13 (L)Cubs 17Tigers 10 (L)Royals 11Twins 10
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 05:57 (eleven months ago) link
Mets were 11 and Padres scored 9
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 05:58 (eleven months ago) link
Jays shut down the Padres with only 9.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 05:59 (eleven months ago) link
Boston: 0
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 06:10 (eleven months ago) link
Having scored 10 or more runs in 10 of their previous 11
That’s baseball Suzyn
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 07:06 (eleven months ago) link
Honestly think the ability of the Sox to light up aces with a couple of exceptions and get stymied by journeymen with 5+ ERAs is incredibly funny.A non-exhaustive list of good SPs destroyed by the Sox this season:- Luis Castillo, 5 ER in 5 IP- Gausman (at Fenway), 8 ER in 3.1 IP- Snell, 6 ER in 4 IPHanded Gerrit Cole his first loss of the season, hit guys like Glasnow & Giolito hard even when they couldn’t string runs together. Think only Joe Ryan & Stroman were on the level of high-ERA guys playing for sub-.500 teams that have successfully shut them down.
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 08:30 (eleven months ago) link
Oh yeah and let’s not forget Kyle Hendricks and however many home runs they got off him, RIP
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 08:35 (eleven months ago) link
Rays might be in second place in a few hours
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 July 2023 16:30 (eleven months ago) link
Thought that already happened
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Thursday, 20 July 2023 16:51 (eleven months ago) link
like REALLY in second place.. i don’t believe in the loss column
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 July 2023 17:16 (eleven months ago) link
Their % is lower?https://i.postimg.cc/wBWRx1Bn/IMG-5772.jpg
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Thursday, 20 July 2023 17:41 (eleven months ago) link
what a weird layout
― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 July 2023 17:44 (eleven months ago) link
It's shocking how terrible the AL is this year.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 20 July 2023 18:35 (eleven months ago) link
Mariners have a decent chance of breaking the record for amount of time spent at .500 in a season.
Seattle Mariners (47-47)Last 2 games: 1-1 (.500)Last 4 games: 2-2 (.500)Last 6 games: 3-3 (.500)Last 8 games: 4-4 (.500)Last 10 games: 5-5 (.500)Last 20 games: 10-10 (.500)Last 60 games: 30-30 (.500)Dude wtf is going on with this team pic.twitter.com/Dwu4Ckzn1h— Konjac Jelly (@Mariner_Konjac) July 19, 2023
― JoeStork, Thursday, 20 July 2023 19:04 (eleven months ago) link
I don’t even want to talk about it. Unreal season.
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Thursday, 20 July 2023 19:12 (eleven months ago) link
I literally started watching the fucking Red Sox, as a team that can hit, because I was sick of watching the Mariners fritter away good pitching with 10+ strikeouts through the order and just having zero plate discipline.
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Thursday, 20 July 2023 19:15 (eleven months ago) link
yeah, and it feels like every other time i turn on a game they have a collision or near-collision in the outfield because they're just not communicating with each other?
the Orioles were my team as a kid, but i've also been a Mariners fan most of my life, and it wasn't that long ago i was comparing the two - similar levels of promise and futility in my lifetime, but it felt like Mariners fans were having a good time watching a fun, lucky, chaotic team, while Orioles fans were either complete doomers or they were pinning their hopes on a mythical rebuild whose end date kept being postponed. And now...
― JoeStork, Thursday, 20 July 2023 19:50 (eleven months ago) link
Sounds like last night's O's/M's game was a doozy
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 July 2023 07:52 (eleven months ago) link
One of the constants in my baseball life has been my dislike of the Red Sox, their fans and their ballpark.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 21 July 2023 21:38 (eleven months ago) link
keeping it pure, respect
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 July 2023 21:53 (eleven months ago) link
Sox players/fans aside, hating Fenway is kinda cringe imho.
I wish there were more zany-dimensioned parks like it.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 21 July 2023 22:39 (eleven months ago) link
Used to see this incredible meme in the replies of @would_it_dong all the timehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fw8JHqXaIAYhoZi?format=jpg&name=large
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Friday, 21 July 2023 22:42 (eleven months ago) link
I briefly considered becoming a Red Sox fan after the Expos moved and I was cheering for the red sox in the 2004 playoffs, but the red sox fans turned me off and I ultimately never felt comfortable cheering for a big market team
― silverfish, Friday, 21 July 2023 22:46 (eleven months ago) link
xp It's ugly as sin and stupidly contrarian. It's like my impression of Bostonians in general--it takes pride in being difficult.
I am being mostly tongue in cheek; my brother-in-law is from Boston and I love him dearly, but I suspect he would agree to some extent with my assessment.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 21 July 2023 22:47 (eleven months ago) link
Fenway is amazing, but concur with the obnoxiousness of red sox fans. At least the yankees have some self-awareness/pride in being absolute scumbags, yet the sox are just as bad yet like to position themselves as the good guys?
Everyday I watch Mookie Betts play I get the pleasure of watching a perennial mvp go out there and play killer baseball every day, and the schadenfreude of knowing it is at the expense of the red sox franchise.
O's>Jays>Yanks>Rays>Sox
― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 22 July 2023 04:05 (eleven months ago) link
This O's/Ray's series is so much fun right now too, really hoping the O's can get these last two games to have a confident lead in the division going to the end of the year.
Apologies for some unforgiveable writing in the above post, that was painful to re-read
― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 22 July 2023 04:06 (eleven months ago) link
nationals had gone 103 straight series (of at least three games) without a sweep . . . until today
their last was against the pirates in june 2021
― mookieproof, Sunday, 23 July 2023 21:34 (eleven months ago) link
it starts here baby
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 23 July 2023 21:35 (eleven months ago) link
Ugly fucking series for the Giants, didn’t even want to look to see how they hit Webb that hard
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Sunday, 23 July 2023 21:48 (eleven months ago) link
The Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers are finalizing a trade that would send superutilityman Kiké Hernandez to the Dodgers, sources tell ESPN.He has spent most of the 2023 season at shortstop but can play second base and center field as well.— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 25, 2023
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 20:45 (eleven months ago) link
RIP big man, LA needed a cocky underperformerapparently boston gets “two upper level minor league relievers”i’m guessing arroyo will be taking his last canter around the corral once story returns, with pablito &/or chang at second. too bad they’re both righties.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:21 (eleven months ago) link
He’s gonna do a Brasier and start playing amazing again in LA
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:21 (eleven months ago) link
Vry excited for post season Kiké in Dodger blue again. Choosing to believe he was a sleeper agent with the Sox and is going to turn it back on. We’re due for a reclamation project to go right after how Syndegaard went
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 23:54 (eleven months ago) link
does Jason Heyward not count?
― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 00:00 (eleven months ago) link
He definitely counts, but normally we go 4-5 on reclamation projects, not 1-1. David Peralta and Miguel Rojas haven’t become the Dodger superstars we were hoping too
― hrep (H.P), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 01:31 (eleven months ago) link
Just some of the absolute worst baserunning you’ll ever see in your life, wtf was Duvall doing?!?!
TRIPLE PLAY!#ForTheA pic.twitter.com/HNDjdv9Asc— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) July 26, 2023
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 08:48 (eleven months ago) link
Embarrassing
― hrep (H.P), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 08:51 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.mlb.com/cardinals/tickets/specials/theme-tickets/emo
― 龜, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 13:58 (eleven months ago) link
I was trying to think of a single emo band from St. Louis and came up blank...
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 14:33 (eleven months ago) link
looking at wikipedia, foxing?
― 龜, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 14:42 (eleven months ago) link
Never heard of them. Get Up Kids were from KCMO but that's clear across the state and more importantly: Royals territory.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 16:09 (eleven months ago) link
Was Jack McDowell's band somewhat in that vein? ("Alternative," says Wikipedia.) Maybe they can reunite.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 16:33 (eleven months ago) link
okay, I found a (very) loose connection:
Scott Radinsky pitched 44 games for the Cards in 99-00.
He was the singer for Scared Straight* which could be considered proto-emo in the same manner as The Descendents might be.
*later known as 10 Foot Pole, and Scott also sang for Pulley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRIFYc9_e6Q
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 16:43 (eleven months ago) link