things I learned about in baseball this week/how i learned to stop worrying and love baseball

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

rolling sabermetrics and statistics thread

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.

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.

2010 MLB Police Blotter

But yeah thats grim

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!

Sorry, to me this is unfortunately relatable :/ but yeah, in my mind that other thread is for arrests etc.

I feel like we’ve all just forgotten Pedro Martinez had a dwarf sidekick he would hang around with in 2004

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 birthday

A 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

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.