2018 regular-season game chatter

goddamn i love having baseball going on in the background while I werk

Mike Everitt (home plate umpire) just took a fastball directly off the top of his mask, taken out of the game. he looked really shaken up.

i think he has one of those kyle farnsworth fastballs -- very hard and very straight

michael feliz appears to have this issue as well

some very bad baseball in detroit today

yeah, both teams seem to be trying to give it away

contract both teams imo

Max Scherzer pretty much at top form. Scooter Genette got a double off of him and it must have just ticked Max off as he struck out the next 7 batters.

(fwiw: Scooter 4/4 on the day)

adam eaton 5-for-5, HR, 2 2B

love that guy

A-Rod does not like the launch angle revolution.

he preferred the injections-for-lunch angle

https://i.imgur.com/LBzuS0L.png

The Yankees haven’t been outside the top two in MLB payroll since 1994, the last time a baseball season ended without a World Series.

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mlb-opening-day-payrolls-down-from-2017/

trend: it seems like just about every single pitcher talks into their glove when heading toward the dugout after recording the final out of the inning, just before it cuts to commercial.

oh to be a leather strap on that glove

bartolo : called up by the rangers to pitch tonight

the first pitcher from the 2017 nippon league to hit a home run in 2018 mlb is: miles mikolas.

106.1 exit velo

blessed day xp

it just struck me that lorenzo cain's nickname "locain" is a cocaine reference?

I’ve watched this thirty times.

pic.twitter.com/HjEbNgy3EV

— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) April 2, 2018

Spearing!

Christ this Astros/Os game is only in the 4th

top 13th in Phoenix!

#Rays Kiermaier will try something new today to combat cold weather vs #Yankees - covering his whole body with Vaseline to serve as an extra layer against the wind.

— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) April 3, 2018

it's gonna be exciting if he has to slide into a base

Ryan Braun is actually really nice. I saw him being all friendly and cordial with the security guy, someone who everyone else just walked by without saying a word. He’s cool! Didn’t expect that.

But if one person that I thought was a dick was nice, what does that mean about all the other people I thought were dicks? Could they be nice people too? No, I bet that I am correct about all the other people and that none of them are nice, better to just keep a closed mind so that things are steady and reliable

Decent night at the park tonight for Christian Villanueva pic.twitter.com/mCsnyCV54T

— Daren Willman (@darenw) April 4, 2018

<3

the Braves are raking.

Carlos Santana stealing home (10MB mp4):
http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2018/04/04/1906303983/1522871765592/asset_1200K.mp4

sick

Carlos Santana stealing home (10MB mp4)

lol

Lucroy gunned down 3 would-be base-stealers tonight.

THIS! pic.twitter.com/2FJCQzPTUv

— Jen Mueller (@JenTalksSports) April 5, 2018

Minor league player names

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/here-are-the-100-best-minor-league-player-names-heading-into-the-2018-season/c-270771028

Jon Lester threw out Ryan Braun trying to steal third, with his new bounce pass strategy.

to be fair it's a pretty slo-mo steal attempt

https://www.mlb.com/video/c-1908265383

Goldschmidt on pace for 250 walks...

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/BB_season.shtml

Blood bath in Philly

Question for the crowd?

Under the current labor agreement, is it possible for there to be a player/manager anymore?

Seeing a story about Frank Robinson becoming player/manager for the Indians got me wondering why that gimmick had not been done lately.

I was trying to think of a player/manager after Pete Rose with the Reds and could not think of one. Was Rose the last one?

i regret watching the victor robles injury video :(

Question for the crowd?

Under the current labor agreement, is it possible for there to be a player/manager anymore?

Seeing a story about Frank Robinson becoming player/manager for the Indians got me wondering why that gimmick had not been done lately.

I was trying to think of a player/manager after Pete Rose with the Reds and could not think of one. Was Rose the last one?

― earlnash, Monday, April 9, 2018 7:33 AM (twelve hours ago)

not sure about the CBA but seems like that's just too much work for one person, not sure why a player would ever want to take on that responsibility/pressure

yeah i think it's theoretically possible but will never happen again

A scoring change from March 30 awarded Scott Kingery a steal on a play that was originally ruled a wild pitch. So now, Kingery joins Jimmy Rollins as the only Phillies since 1900 with multiple hits and a steal in their MLB debut.

— Matt Breen (@matt_breen) April 9, 2018

Molina suspended for one game. Jeez, MLB are some cranks; I think the poor guy's learned his lesson

bumping/shoving an umpire is an automatic suspension. that it's only one game suggests that MLB doesn't think it was malicious

Apparently the d-bag manager pointed toward Yadi and referred to him with an “adjective”, I think that’s what set him off.

he charged a manager from the dugout, shoved an ump and started to take a swing. It seemed pretty malicious to me. Has any player shoved umpires more and been punished less for it than Molina?

he didn't charge from the dugout? he wildly overreacted to lovullo's backhanded praise of his framing skills -- some version of 'fuck' is in every single sentence on a baseball field -- and tried to get at lovullo with the ump in the way

i mean, yadi is an annoying redass, but he didn't actually hit anyone

ah, I got confused watching the video about his positioning. Still seems insanely inconsistent to me. Last year Willson Contreras got a two-day suspension for bouncing a helmet that accidentally hit an ump. Brett Lawrie once got four games for the same thing. One game for shoving an ump directly seems generous.

i find milwaukee pretty likeable except for hader and braun

Cain, Granderson, Yelich, Perralta, Chacin, Thames, Davies, Shaw are all very likeable players.

lol had no memory of Granderson ending up there

first career four-hit game for arcia

i do wonder what percentage of this brewers team was there a year ago

was really expecting baez to swing at that 3-0 pitch

great at-bat tho

Congrats frogbs, hoping the Brewers make the World Series.

Collective heart attack when the camera zoomed way out on that Bryant fly ball

I wonder where Jeffress was? Wasn’t even warming up

Sutcliffe and Ross on the same telecast. Boy.

Dodger stadium is empty

Uh.

N/m.

Cubs deserved to lose after that god awful rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” by Mike Ditka. That was one of the worst things I’ve ever heard

Ditka was the worst thing to happen to Chicago sports let alone the Bears.

Dodger stadium is empty

Reported attendance was about 37 K (> 80 percent full) but maybe that was in the middle innings? Seeing the stadium so empty at the start of the game was ... weird.

NARRATOR'S VOICE: It's always empty for the first few innings (and often the last few).

https://i.imgur.com/hmlIdoH.jpg?1

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/max-muncy-did-something-he-had-never-did-before/

btw the regular season hath now ended

Max Muncy
That funcy muncy

https://cdn.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Relegation-Image.png

i miss baseball

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i am catching up on world cinema