2015 regular season chatter

back to back boners by Arrieta and Marte

some craaazy plays in this Pit-Cubs game

Maddon should really know when Arrieta is gassed

and on it goes... if this was the WC game, it wd be a klassik

Rainer Blaine Werner Hardy Fassbinder

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPEYCQzUYAAItek.jpg

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@scottwthurston
@keithlaw Here's my argument - once a runner is out, why is he allowed to impact a play at all?

this is a good question

NL Central now has the 3 best records in MLB

chicago is going to have the best record in MLB in 2016

even if they do a Baez-Harvey trade with the Mets?

Ha, is that rumored? I haven't been paying attention. I guess everybody is pretty mad at the Harvster.

(Cubs should jump on that trade if it's real!)

it is my own rumor, but there has been chatter for months that the Mets' 'excess pitching' will ultimately match up with a Cubs deal.

Dirk Hayhurst:

During my playing days, a reporter once gave me this hypothetical choice: Would I rather have a three-year-long career in the big leagues, breaking records and leaving my mark on the game, only for my arm to explode and never play again at the end of it? Or would I take an average career lasting ten healthy but yawningly mediocre years, which would undoubtedly disappear into the annals of history?

I opted for ten mediocre years. To me, it was a no-brainer. The reporter, meanwhile, shook his head in disgust and told me I was playing for the wrong reasons.

To verify I'd not missed some transcendent baseball truth about athletic glory, I put that same question to my teammates: Short and exceptional? Or long, healthy, and utterly forgettable?

They chose healthy and forgettable. Every. Single. Time.

Ten years in the big leagues gets you a full pension and a life-changing contract, maybe two. It puts you on ten teams, with ten chances for post-season bonuses. It's ten years of big league jets rides to five-star hotels in major cities with top-tier groupies. Ten years of living the dream you hatched when you were a kid. Best of all, when you retire—in your thirties—you're set for life and you can still shampoo your head with your throwing arm!

...Regardless of how this plays out, my advice to Harvey is simple: even a long career is a finite experience, so do what's best for you health, and give fuck-all about what it does to your reputation.

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/matt-harveys-health-is-more-important-than-the-mets

They talked differently when a World Series bonus was equal to an entire season's salary for a young player.

Gary Cohen in the Mets booth finds the results of the Hayhurst Hypothetical "troubling, as a fan."

peeling back the mystery always upsets fans

Ron Darling of course insists that his entire generation of players would have answered the question differently

it's in #literally no one's interest to explore ballplayers' motivations too closely

i like hayhurst and he's not wrong, but no one wants to hear it. he'd have been better off working from the inside

last week on the BP podcast, Sam Miller casually mentioned player's interest in the team destiny as "4%"

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

ffs

ooooof.

If we make it through September,
Everything's gonna be alright I know

as of right now:

‏@MLB
So … what do we all think of the wave at baseball games?

44%
It's great!
56%
It’s an atrocity.

mat, and presumably cat, latos have been released by the dodgers

@BenLindbergh Sep 24
I was wondering how MLB enforces its ban on Wi-Fi use with the iPads that are newly allowed in the dugout. According to an MLB spokesman.... Wi-Fi-free iPads are "loaded and delivered to the Club before each game by an MLB rep" and are in "an easily identifiable locked case."

hudson v zito 2day

and some games that mean something

Still odd to see single-digit jerseys on pitchers.

zito and hudson both pitched like shit lol

vogelsong was even worse

(not that it matters to SF, they're all getting ready for next year's WS run as per The Agreement)

showed up at SF-exile bar in Brooklyn in home 3rd, both out of the game

worst hype since Geraldo dug up Capone's vault

on jon singleton being wise, matt dominguez and robbie grossman being foolish, and bud norris still being an asshole:

http://blog.chron.com/ultimateastros/2015/09/28/contract-works-out-for-jon-singleton-rather-than-astros

if matt williams were managing the cubs, would he start lester over arrieta in the wild card game y/n

at this rate, it is entirely in play - though not necessarily likely - that not one but both of the long-presumed AL wildcard teams (yanks, 'stros) cough up their spots. 'stros technically just did, though that could easily change

tbf yankees would prob have to lose out incl. getting swept in the final series against the orioles for this to happen, but the red sox are beating them like a rented mule, and you'd think the orioles could similarly pour it on with a little luck

speaking of bud norris being an asshole

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQKiKuFUkAAGE22.jpg

Chris Rock's "good ol' white baseballn days" rant to thread

to whom is he referring? puig can't piss off any palefaces from the DL

you know what gets me into a ballpark is watching bud norris dazzle the crowd with a masterful display of respecting baseball

not sure how many more american dollars he's gonna make after the way he's respected the game this season

as many as a 30 year old with an ERA just below 7 and a fucking ERA+ of 58 who was worth -2 wins this season can expect, so, not many

i wonder if Zito will last 2 innings v Angels tonight

hey, the Padres hired Don Orsillo! I like it.

i heard that the padres knew he'd be available before orsillo himself did

today's State of the Race

http://www.si.com/mlb/2015/10/03/team-entropy-update-al-west-al-wild-card-final-weekend

Crazy Angels-Rangers game.

@JATayler
Loss Ohlendorf

The winning pitcher in that crazy 11-10 Rangers-Angels game was Jo-Jo Reyes, who once went three years without winning a game over a record tying 28 consecutive starts.

He threw one pitch in the game. It was the first pitch he'd thrown in MLB since 2011.

Finally learned how to win.

to whom is he referring? puig can't piss off any palefaces from the DL

― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:55 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

puigs back btw

christian yelich 8/8 so far today. record for most hits in a DH is 9, hasn't happened since lee thomas in 1961. have to go back to 1929 for the last time it's happened in the NL.

alas, he took a walk rather than attempt to tie the record. another day in the life of our humble, selfless hero.

@jazayerli

Games of import tomorrow:

KC @ MIN
TOR @ TB
HOU @ ARI
LAA @ TEX
NYY @ BAL
CHC @ MIL
CIN @ PIT

Gametime: 3 PM EDT for all games.