2022 MLB General Season Chatter: Ghost Runners On The Half-Billion Dollar Infield

Wow that was a big home run. Also that stadium looks surprisingly empty.

Can't imagine KM is happy, but that was some incredible Mets 9th inning magic/luck tonight against the Cards. Down to their last strike, an Arenado error leads to five unearned runs, including a 2-RBI infield single where Dom Smith won the race to first base. The fans were all standing up waiting for that last strike/out for like 10-15 minutes, and it never came.

yeah, that was a wild one. have to say, i had written the game off as a loss as soon as i saw scherzer was starting, anyway. the arenado error was one thing, but worse was the backbreaking 2-run hit where Goldschmidt caught it but Gallegos got beat to first.

it was a good game, though!

Yeah, it was quite a pitchers duel that until the last two innings. What a great game. Mets broadcasters were very into it.

I happened to catch the end of that Mets game, great comeback and Arenado unlikely error.

Some great games today. Burnes was two hitting the Giants and I already had it in the loss column. He's taken out and a fan was hackling Joc Pederson and he steps out of the box, then hits a mammoth home run. The Brewers came back to tie the score but the Giants end up winning, unbelievable. The Giants are already looking really good.

bee ok is tsunami el gallo (carlos martinez's true name) gonna pitch soon? he was a huge favorite of mine, always rooting for him

"At Your Job Today... Don't Bunt When the U.S. Needs Home Runs." Created by the War Production Board during World War II, c. 1942-1943. From U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Unknown artist. pic.twitter.com/nquWhfon3d

— SABRIconography (@SABRIconography) April 26, 2022

cue stock footage of the bunting derby

panic! at target field

WHAT IN THE HELL JUST HAPPENED CHAOS IN MINNESOTA TWINS WIN pic.twitter.com/MbviwC6lAI

— Jared Carrabis (@Jared_Carrabis) April 27, 2022

Don't know where to put this, but thought it was neat: an interview with Lauren Hutton, talking about a big modelling contract she signed when she was 30.

Inspired by baseball player Catfish Hunter, Hutton demanded one of the biggest modeling contracts at the time to protect herself in a youth-oriented business that "ages out" many women at 30.

https://ca.style.yahoo.com/lauren-hutton-aging-cosmetic-procedures-212402508.html

Thankfully dozed off just before the chaos ensued.

I'm dealing with Apple TV tonight, ugh

bee ok is tsunami el gallo (carlos martinez's true name) gonna pitch soon? he was a huge favorite of mine, always rooting for him

― Karl Malone, Monday, April 25, 2022 8:51 PM (four days ago)

Missed this and I have yet to hear either name. Looking forward to it as the nickname is awesome.

el gallo is one shortlived name that i was a fan of as a poster on the viva el birdos vox messageboard ecosystem. but carlos prefers Tsunami. he tried to make it a thing, but unfortunately his performance started falling off around the same time, along with injuries, so it wasn't to be. but his instagram username is tsunamy0327

I had to sign up for an Apple TV account and enter my credit card number. I don't think I signed up for anything tho.

Might be a little suspect. I don’t remember entering my card number when I watched an Apple TV game.

Looking around while waiting on the game and got excited as I saw no hitter in the Mets game. Sad that it's not the starter.

Thanks for that Michael, I will look into to make sure I'm not charged.

(That)

Met pitchers have thrown over *130* pitches in 7 no-hit innings, so no way they could have done it with just one guy.

<3 took 159 pitches

Wow

sports trivia question of the future. no one will ever get it correct, not even the players involved in the game

Thread for one starting pitcher and four relief pitchers who are doing really well

Apple drone shots have been breathtaking tonight in San Francisco

Why did they skip the 9th inning in the NYY-KC game? Everyone lose interest?

called on account of "fuck it"

Up to sixty players could lose their job tomorrow as teams need to trim their active roster

For the Giants prospective I see them cutting two who are out of options

I dont LIKE the alt KC unis but i see what they’re tryna do

i don't really like david bell but it is gonna be rough when the (3-19) reds fire him after fucking jettisoning anything moveable

hope they bring back jim riggleman

jim riggleman is like the long relief guy of managers

it's true, but i do sort of respect him for refusing to take the usual long-relief-guy-of-managers treatment from the nationals

i didn't mean that in a bad way at all, ha! some guys are born for the role, from what i've seen of him. what happened with him and the nats? can't remember? he told them to shove it?

yup! june 2011, nats had won 11 of 12 but they refused to pick up his option for the next season, so he quit

happy may day, jim riggleman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8tsz2TyERM

wow, robinson cano DFA'd

That’s a lot of money for the Mets to eat, but I guess Cohen can cover it. Cano hasn’t done much to shake the notion that the good parts of his past 3-4 years were ay least partially PED-fueled.

39 years old, too, and after taking all of 2021 off, would be hard for anyone.

maybe a comparison is a-rod, who was able to put together a good year after his own season-long ban, but then fell off hard the following year and was done.

uhh the Reds are 3-20

i bet it is a very Major League (1989) clubhouse in there right now.

votto struggling mightily, as well :(

oh shit, and i didn't even know about the covid until just then. damn, what a shitty time!

yeah it's weird Votto really looked like he had things figured out last year but he just looks awful right now

also it's kind of a bummer that he switched to a new bat style (similar to goldschmidt's new bat as well, i think?) with an extra weight on the knob (...), only to switch back to his old bat recently after the early results with the new bat were so dismal

kind of a bummer because i was really rooting for this new bat to work well, would have been very joey votto-like to pull off

fangraphs still giving the reds 0.1% to win the division

i’d like to see the details of that scenario

The projections take into account the small but real possibility of global nuclear war

all teams except the reds end up in a horrible plane crash and are stranded on a desert island that has negative WAR

However, even in this very very unlikely scenario, the reds quickly exit the playoffs after getting swept in the the division series

uh Rowdy Tellez has 8 RBIs tonight