2018 regular-season game chatter

this is too good to limit to either the mets or good mlb tweets threads. this shit is all-time

Dear @MLB, give us every mic’d up ejection for the rest of eternity.

Sincerely, Everyone. pic.twitter.com/l0rttuYHb2

— Steve Perrault (@Steve_Perrault) June 13, 2018

terry collins is very mad about cocksuckers, among other things

i watched that this morning and i'm still wondering why the ump said "our ass is in the jackpot if we don't call that"

twice!

Acting classes should recreate this scene until it's nailed down, this is straight out of Cassavettes or early-Scorcese or something.

i've never heard "ass in the jackpot" but i guess he's saying the ump crew will be in trouble if they don't eject thor?

iirc 'cocksucker' is one word (there may be others) that will get you instantly tossed with no questions asked, so i guess terry was enjoying his freedom

(xp) Not only that but if they let that pitch slide without ejection, it just sets the stage for a real bloodbath. The Mets players are taking issue with the fact that there was no warning prior to the game. IIRC this all stems from Utley (who's AB vs. Thor there) hard slide into the Mets' SS who broke his leg on the play, which happened earlier in the season.

i was at that game

we did not get audio

This is like a Cassavetes movie https://t.co/OXMvz3iwKt

— nuanced opinion guy (@charles_kinbote) June 13, 2018

what does that mean, "our ass is in the jackpot" ???

is it that hard? what "our ass is grass" meant 40 years ago.

yeah i understood what it meant via context clues, it's just ... not a real expression. the first time i said it i assumed he was stumbling around a real phrase, but then he said it again.

need a search of uRBAN Dictionary

I mean I gathered that's probably what it meant just wondering if that was some incredible inside baseball terminology

from the EW FB group

In No Country for Old Men when Llewelyn is in the taxi returning to his motel and finds what he believes to be his pursuers in an adjacent room:
“I don’t want to get in some kind of a jackpot here, buddy...”
“Look, you’re already in the jackpot. I’m trying to get you out of it. Take me to another motel.”

is the umpire a Texan?

In any case, I'm glad umpires can invent expressions should the need arises.

Cop slang? http://www.policemag.com/blog/editors-notes/story/2012/08/cop-slang-our-favorite-user-terms.aspx
(in the comments)

To be in the "jackpot" or "jackpotted," meant you were in deep doodoo.

tom hallion is from upstate new york

close enough!

see definition 3

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jackpot

also see definition 4

Watching Cubs-Brewers right now, and what is all that stuff floating around Miller Park? It looks like cottonwood seeds.

cubs are doing the reliever-to-left-fielder shuffle with cishek and duensing

genius managing iirc

My favorite Maddon moment was a few years ago when he made a pitching change, int. walk a batter, made another pitching change.

Ah damn it! MLB took the The Ass is in the Jackpot video down!

guess what I didn't get to see/hear

oh, there is still a YouTube upload

i am kinda underwhelmed, much less entertaining than existing footage of Earl Weaver

Rob Manfred said that the Terry Collins/umpire viral video has been scrubbed from the internet because a collectively bargained agreement with the umpires that said those interactions involving microphoned umpires wouldn’t be made public. MLB is trying to figure out how it leaked

— Jared Diamond (@jareddiamond) June 14, 2018

looks like Manfred's ass is gonna be in the jackpot now

omg what a bunch of babies

that video was so great rip

Giants-Marlins entering the 16th and i'm disappointed to see no one is 0-for-7 yet

The 9-1-2 hitters of the Giants order went 0-17.

15!

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23806676/los-angeles-angels-place-4-more-dl-bringing-total-club-record-15

fun manny machado trade idea: baltimore gives him to another team, with nothing in return - except the other team also has to take on chris davis. pretty sad that zero teams in baseball would even consider that one

there's barf on the field in pittsburgh, i repeat, there is barf on the field in pittsburgh

my money was on Baltimore

there's blood on field in philadelphia, i repeat, there is now barf and blood in the fields of pennsylvania

(a ball bounced off of the outfield wall and hit nick williams' nose pretty hard and made it bleed, but as a doctor i can tell that he's probably fine)

I think we should all just accept that the yankees are young and fun and good

just my 2c

i'll take the yankees over the gaslight anthem tbh

is that an emo band?

yeah kev, fun... for FASCISTS

i'll take the yankees over the gaslight anthem tbh

― mookieproof, Wednesday, June 20, 2018 11:14 PM (thirty-one minutes ago)

lol

#HanleyRamirez, former @RedSox infielder, has some.. well, issues. Being eyed in connection with an ongoing federal and state investigation. Stay tuned.

— Michele McPhee (@MicheleMcPhee) June 22, 2018

weird, wonder what's going on

josh hader has already pretty much matched 3 of the 4 best andrew miller seasons in terms of fWAR, and in only 38 innings.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ny-sports-hanley-ramirez-investigation-20180622-story.html

Fentanyl distribution.

Did not expect that

the fuuuck