Jesus Christ this is an absolutely superb analysis. I’m in awe here. I prefer your favourite interpretation too! Plus it’s funnier. Cooney and Barrows both grounded out and not just grounded out but died. Suggests they are both ultra slow and baserunning liabilities. Also I really like the idea of Jimmy Blake being the pitcher. I know he includes the first name to make it scan better but I like the idea of there being several Blakes on the team hence the need to specify. “Blake, as in our best hitter?”“No Blake as in the pitcher who gave up a grand slam to the nine hole hitter last series.”
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 16:06 (four weeks ago) link
Both very well argued positions. I can't choose between them!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 16:08 (four weeks ago) link
Page 4 of the June 3, 1888 Sunday (morning) edition of the San Francisco Daily Examiner:
https://i.imgur.com/RWMJWDZ.jpeg
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 May 2024 15:47 (four weeks ago) link
(if you are of advanced-age, you may need to open that jpg in another tab and zoom: 4th column, middle-bottom)
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 May 2024 15:50 (four weeks ago) link
So many fun and random things on this page. I want to try Joy's vegetable sarsaparilla. That lynching in St. Helena seems super fishy "Wright, I understand hanged himself". Apparently the crowd threw the rope around his neck, argued whether he deserved to die, then Wright says "I'll be damned if I stay in this crowd another minute!" and jumps.
Also "Mr. Hogg, who recently died at Okton, Maryland, is said to have been the oldest railroad man in the world. He was certainly the most appropriately named". OUCH
― octobeard, Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:45 (four weeks ago) link
rolling sabermetrics and statistics thread
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 23:08 (three weeks ago) link
WHAT
The video game Yakuza 0 contains a reference to the curse in the form of a statue of a chef floating underwater in the river of Sotenbori (a fictional version of Dōtonbori). The statue can be seen underwater in the cutscene where Majima enters the bed of Styx.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 23:37 (three weeks ago) link
Didn’t really know where to post this, but this was so fucking upsetting.
https://t.co/MStgkIxESq pic.twitter.com/zoEadgZp4l— Infield Fly Girl (@infieldflygrl) June 12, 2024
In 1992, Rockies outfielder Dante Bichette struck his pregnant 19-year-old girlfriend. The story was not public at the time and there was no discipline. "Although it was very wrong, we joke about it now," he said in 1999. One wonders exactly how often they laugh about it, and why.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 16:42 (one week ago) link
2010 MLB Police Blotter
But yeah thats grim
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 17:04 (one week ago) link
Important to share, but yeah this is NOT the thread for it. I love this thread as a means of sharing pure unadulterated joy for the game.
Hope it stays that way moving forward... I usually am excited when this thread is bumped!
― octobeard, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 23:22 (one week ago) link
Sorry, to me this is unfortunately relatable :/ but yeah, in my mind that other thread is for arrests etc.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 23:23 (one week ago) link
I feel like we’ve all just forgotten Pedro Martinez had a dwarf sidekick he would hang around with in 2004
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 16 June 2024 17:22 (five days ago) link
Idk how to reply to that itt but I feel I should point out that the correct term is probably ‘little person’.What I came here to say: Tim Lincecum turned 40 yesterday and KNBR did a thread of his best moments. The enduring love for him is something else.
Screw it, 40 Tim Lincecum moments for his 40th birthdayA thread: pic.twitter.com/qyags7tSXh— KNBR (@KNBR) June 15, 2024
Hunter Pence & Tim Lincecum imitating each other's mechanics.[From: https://t.co/Ka4bSeDscg ] pic.twitter.com/fKNaXeMesG— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) November 21, 2018
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Sunday, 16 June 2024 17:48 (five days ago) link
I looked it up actually before posting because I figured someone would say something. That term is apparently on par with “little person” or “individual of short stature”. “Midget” is the faux pas term to use.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 16 June 2024 18:18 (five days ago) link