general 2021 MLB discussion thread

Both the hardest hit home run of the weekend and the fastest pitch.

He is ridiculous.

don't think I've heard a HR make that sound before

Well that was a series of events

Sounds like he was ok at least.

i watched the first couple of innings of that game, is he always that wild (pitching-wise)?

In his first 50 innings he hasn’t been that wild, but he doesn’t top tier command yet. I think Maddon let him pitch a little further so that he could gain confidence, which resulted in more walks than anticipated but also that great strikeout turned 2 runs sequence.

it made me nervous, lots of 98+ mph fastballs whizzing towards batters' heads

oops

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyP_Af8WgAQaHpi?format=jpg&name=900x900

Woah the boos at Angel's Stadium for the Astros.

it only took eight innings for the mets to met

first seven innings were great!

this video kinda cracks me up tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w-WovPLDQM

Trout is on a mission.

Ohtani waving goodbye to Trout baseball from 2B... pic.twitter.com/wud9LlASLt

— Andrew Mah (@Mahster) April 6, 2021

i think i may be getting ohtani fever. the guy is electric. even when he strikes people out in the 3rd inning he's pumping his fist and yelling shit, i love it

btw i checked out more of the jomboy channel (a couple posts up) and i feel like it's a little bit of a brodown, but much less so than other sports dudes, and the "analysis" of fights, weird plays, fans making plays, players saying bad words (pretty much any player caught on film saying ANY words, in fact), and pretty much any other weird baseball thing is pretty great.

i'm so bad at lip reading, so it's nice to know that someone out there is convincingly figuring out what they're all yelling at each other

There is a lot to love with jomboy, his breakdown of Kevin Mather rotary club fiasco was fantastic.

jomboy has bro tendencies, sure, but he seems like a genuine guy. a good way to avoid the bro-ishness is to avoid any video/audio where one of the other guys from his network appears

Yeah, started listening to a podcast episode that featured Trevor Plouffe and he couldn't stop himself from saying he got laid that morning.

On the other hand, O'Brien's been celebrating Kim Ng's promotion, wearing shirts that say 'Women belong in sports' and been pretty vindictive of personnel with assault allegations.

rougned odor to the yankees

not really sure why -- he's good for nothing except homers and he can't play short, where the yankees are actually thin -- but apparently the rangers are paying (perhaps literally) all of the remaining $27m he's owed, so hey why not

anyway lol he has to shave now

xxxxxxps i don't really like castellanos (apart from his role in thom brennaman's downfall, of course) but i think if you plunk a guy you have to accept being flexed on in a situation like that

i hate ads on pitchers mounds

I mean, I don’t get what the original skipping things was about. Dude seems like he was trying to provoke shit from the onset.

10 Ks for Sandy Alcantara, through 5 IP. iirc, 9 of those were swinging strikes, and none were in the strike zone

steve shasta's a's are in quite a hole

Have only checked out a couple box scores and of course since I have been ignoring baseball the Reds start 5-1 with the most runs they have ever scored in the first 6 games. Figures...

Did not realize until a couple days ago that Naquin had ended up a Red. The two times I saw him play live for Cleveland he had great games both getting a couple hits and making really nice plays in the outfield. Seems like a guy that had the talent to make that next step but it never happened.

Never know, sometimes guys like that it finally clicks and they have some a few good seasons in their 30s.

my man jameson taillon's first start in 23 months: 4.2 IP, 2 R, 3 H, 0 BB, 7 K, 74 pitches

unfortunately two of the hits were homers. love to see former pirates thrive in the AL east

the ultimate Jomboy is the Amir Garrett vs. the entire Pirates fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU-ESpiwV4o

the lip reading is good because it shows that even at the highest levels, trash talk is just as dumb and repetitive as a pickup basketball game

i am listening to the cardinals home opener pre-show, listening to the organ player go wild as the clydesdales trot around the perimeter of the field. no video feed yet, but hopefully they'll show it when the broadcast starts in a few minutes.

i love this. mike shannon is already incomprehensible.

shannon rambling on about how the cardinal fans are the best of all time as the home crowd politely cheered the introduction of the brewers coaches and special assistants, leading to an ovation for kolten wong in his first time back at busch. the best fans in baseball, we indoctrinate ourselves with our earnest respect

the ovation for kolten wong was so earnest and so well-earned that he cried throughout his entire 4-pitch walk from wainwright

maybe they should just let the brewers start every inning with a guy on second, out of respect and gentlemanly fair play

disre2pectful of wainwright not to groove a fastball to wong like he did for jetes

"maybe they should just let the brewers start every inning with a guy on second, out of respect and gentlemanly fair play"

AKA Bill Hall rule

Thinking the Angels might make the playoffs this season.

if i managed the giants, who had yesterday off, i might not have let 35yo johnny cueto throw 118 pitches in his second start of the season

But are you a good looking ex-catcher who said 'uh-uh nice ok' when explained analytics and probabilities?

Nyy lookin shaky af

going to get buried in "mets don't give degrom run support" discourse if they lose, but trevor rogers might actually be really good now

taylor tyler trevor rogers

I like the Padres players but I find it impossible to root for a team still using military camo for a uniform.

Can’t cheer for a team you can’t see!

"mets don't give degrom run support" discourse

it *is* pretty funny/amazing tho, along with the mets bullpen in degrom starts

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

not that unexpected, i guess, but i just watched arenado do a perfect DP turn as the SS (in a shift) in a 6-4-3, dragging his foot over second base as he took the toss and then throwing it over to first.

giolito was v. good but bieber was just lights-out

9 IP, 0 R, 3 H, 1 BB, 11 K, 113 P, 85 ST, game score 91

31 batters, 24 first-pitch strikes, *one* 3-ball count, *one* runner reached second, don't have an exact count but he went 0-2 on more than half the guys he faced

also the 3-ball count/walk came with two outs in the ninth against the reigning AL MVP

super impressive

thanking u'all

for a while i was using dudestream dot net but their videos haven't been playing lately. every time i had to go to a game that was blacked out i would think to myself.... "time to enter the dude stream 😎" and then i would hack my way into the dude stream

life is different in the dude stream

did they have chat in dude stream?

seeing the chat on the side of sport surge or whatever is unbelievable. it's like, this is humanity. holy shit, it's terrible

everybody's like 'WHY DON'T THEY FUCKING BENCH BADER? HE CAN'T FUCKEN HIT FOR HSIT"

this is the dude stream

https://jegged.com/img/Games/Final-Fantasy-VII/Walkthrough/FFVII-01163-Mideel-Lifestream-Cinematic-Tifa-Cloud.png

of course it has a chat! you can't watch sports without racial slurs

it's true, it creates the ballpark experience of the incredibly drunk racist old white guy, all around you, in 4 or 6 different formations within 5 rows of you in every seat in the ballpark. and you have to figure out whether you need to confront them all and whether or not it's worth dying for tonight

M1keHawk69: ready for the salt mine

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:09pm

gir4ff3: tonight i am a red sox fan

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:09pm

scoopydu: I surrender myself to the random outcome 1-game gods

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:09pm

baseballfan17: @TrashtrosCheated just seeing who gets their asses kicked by the rays

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:10pm

NHL: LOL

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:10pm

ATLallthings: Yankees winning 7-5 IMO

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:10pm

bdodger1: @Mackie5Million but our boy kike is

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:11pm

ChoiBois: SCOOPS AND WYATT COWARDS

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:11pm

Mr6ixSide: LFG DODGERS

Tue Oct 5, 7:07:11pm

EastDelmar: the only sox making the world series arent playing tonight

Mackie5Million: @gir4ff3 yeah honestly where are the boys?

EXCITABLE VASGERSIAN

WRONG THREAD

I almost hope Gallo singles before BOS gets out of the inning.

The Jays and the Rays would both be way more exciting AL pennant winners than what we're looking at and I wish they respectively had been in / had stayed in the playoffs.

ILB needs a big all-time poll of favourite players.

It’s Kyle Farnsworth and it’s not even close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uplOrx-nVIo

Willie McGee would win with two votes

Orel and benito santiago

How many people have played Major League Baseball? Are we seriously going to have to poll all 127 people to ever play?! (Or whatever the number is)

I believe the number is something pleasingly round. Like 10,000 or so?

Edit:

[MLB Statistics] 18,918 players have played Major League Baseball. Mike Trout, who is 25 years old, has been worth more WAR than 18,589 of them, or 98.2%.

Mike Trout is 30! Point stands though

Oh shit, once again the little section that google highlights is way out of date!

As of today, the number is 19,969, at least according to https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/ballplayer.shtml

Might have been a good poll to have in 2011--the World Series thread had 1,081 posts (240 this year).

this world series sucked though

whereas in 2011 america's team was playing, as well as the cardinals

That baseball-almanac figure is also old as the 20,000th player debuted this year

i should know better than to try to google than on my phone, hahaha.

i suppose the "real" answer depends on other factors too:

https://www.ocregister.com/2021/05/26/hoornstra-finding-mlbs-real-20000th-player-with-apologies-to-jose-godoy/

Reminiscent of the league trying to figure out who scored their millionth run in 1975.

b-ref is up to 22,563 with the addition of negro league players

wander franco is the next vladimir guerrero jr. he can't miss

Honestly just the most horrible updates on that case everyday. Just despicable