at least morbs is being spared the counting-stats horror
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 July 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
Kind of a messy game, but Ichiro threw out a runner at home which made for a pretty good night.
The Marlins Park PA pumped out maybe the most godawful musical sewage i've heard at a major-league game. I can only imagine what the clubs are like down here.
Besides Mattingly and Barry!, we got pregame talks from Andre Dawson and Tony Perez. And saw the Red Grooms thing go off.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 July 2016 03:27 (seven years ago) link
aww
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 July 2016 03:28 (seven years ago) link
wait, how are you posting this?
I bring my laptop when i travel, u clown ;)
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 July 2016 03:33 (seven years ago) link
Eduardo Perez asked his dad (for our benefit) how you drive in runs, and i said under my breath "Hit behind Rose, Morgan and Bench"
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 July 2016 03:34 (seven years ago) link
hmmm well i'm glad you've had a pretty good night
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 July 2016 04:00 (seven years ago) link
ugly
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
Congrats Ichiro -- would have been funny if it had gone out.
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Sunday, 7 August 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link
I'm bored out of my skull right now, so I tried to name all 30. Got 27; put down two incorrect names; of the three I missed, one is really embarrassing, one moderately, and the other would probably be a common miss.
― clemenza, Monday, 8 August 2016 02:04 (seven years ago) link
my watch has ended
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 August 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BI1OG_lhjDJ/
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 August 2016 12:24 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cpr8oqlXYAAcPAW.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 August 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
robert andino back! first mlb ab in 3 yrs
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 14 August 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
tough to be facing chris sale
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 14 August 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
2003 nostalgists may enjoy this panel. I can't give you the timestamp, but McKeon tells a tall story about using a clothesline to rein in a baserunner when he was managing the Missoula Timberjacks in the '50s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BER9g4Lm6eI&feature=youtu.be
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
oh hell... try this
http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-46-2003-marlins-championship-panel
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
i am skeptical
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/marlins-exec-says-giancarlo-stanton-is-going-to-be-back-late-this-season/
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 August 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
@clarkspencerSadly, I can confirm that Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident.
― Andy K, Sunday, 25 September 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
Terrible. "I'm glad I saw him pitch" doesn't cover it.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 September 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link
today's game vs Atlanta is cancelled.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 September 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link
@pgammoA third of the way through writing why Jose Fernandez is the best pitcher in the game in 2016, I got the news...God bless his grandmother...
@pgammo and everyone in his intrepid, great family
― Andy K, Sunday, 25 September 2016 13:45 (seven years ago) link
Awful. This is tough to process.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 25 September 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Fernandez was killed Sunday morning after a boat crash in Miami Beach, the team announced.
The 24-year-old Fernandez was one of at least three people killed in the early morning collision. He announced on Instagram recently that he and his girlfriend were expecting a child, Local 10 reported.
Chief Petty Officer Nyxolyno Cangemi told The Associated Press that a Coast Guard patrol boat spotted an overturned boat at 3:30 a.m. on a jetty near Government Cut. The bodies were discovered a short time later.
Because the boat was on a jetty, the Coast Guard notified Miami-Dade police, which turned the investigation over to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Fernandez was on a 32-foot vessel that had a "severe impact" with a jetty, said Lorenzo Veloz of the Fish Commission. A news conference was planned for later Sunday morning.
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/09/25/marlins-pitcher-jose-fernandez-2-others-killed-in-miami-boat-crash.html
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 September 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
Ugh. RIP. :(
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 25 September 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link
Can't think of anybody in any professional sport who was this dominant and died this young. Len Bias, the college basketball player, is the only name that comes to mind.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 September 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
no no no no no no no
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Sunday, 25 September 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
FUCK
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Sunday, 25 September 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
This is terrible.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 25 September 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
So awful
― Immediate Follower (NA), Sunday, 25 September 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtNd0wvWEAAITlf.jpg
― Andy K, Sunday, 25 September 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
I am unable to process this. RIP.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 25 September 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
press conference with the whole team on ESPNnews now
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Sunday, 25 September 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
girlfriend announced pregnancy last week :/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 September 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
i'm so happy that i watched his last start. and he was dominant -- according to fangraphs' version of game score, it was the best start of his career. 8 IP, 12 Ks, 3H, 0 BB
http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=11530&position=P&type=0&gds=&gde=&season=all
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Sunday, 25 September 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link
http://images.ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tulojose.gif
― mookieproof, Sunday, 25 September 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
After Kershaw, I'm not sure there was a better pitcher in baseball. Who knows what kind of career he could have gone on to have.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 25 September 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
Very sad news. Rest in peace.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 25 September 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
horrible, horrible. rip.
― maura, Sunday, 25 September 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
Really devastating. Reminds me of nick adenhart of the angels not so long ago
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Sunday, 25 September 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
RIP -- terrible news.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Sunday, 25 September 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
this is just awful. what a talent, what a character. should have been one of the greats.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 25 September 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
http://m.mlb.com/assets/images/8/6/4/184414864/cuts/DiazLittleLeague1280_0hzgnvt4_hsuzv7b2.jpg
Jose Fernandez, front row, third from the right in the yellow hat. (His good friend Aledmys Diaz also in the front row, wearing a red hat)
That infamous GIF above is so good because you can just tell how well liked and respected Fernandez was, even when he was trouncing people. He will be missed.
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 25 September 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
this is so fucking unfair
― k3vin k., Monday, 26 September 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link
i can't remember ever being this upset about a celebrity death
http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/jose-fernandezs-final-pitch-is-as-perfect-as-it-is-painful-092516
― nomar, Monday, 26 September 2016 00:23 (seven years ago) link
i've been unable to process this all day, i just can't comprehend it
― qualx, Monday, 26 September 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
Casey McGehee and Fernandez were teammates in Miami in 2014 and half of 2015. The news hit him every bit as hard as it hit Iglesias. Fernandez formed a special bond with McGehee’s son Mack, who has cerebral palsy.“The toughest part for me is having to tell my son what happened,” McGehee said. “A lot of people, they don’t really know how to treat Mack. For some reason, Jose had a heart for him. You get to the field, and it wasn’t like ‘Hey, Jose, do you want to keep an eye on him?’ Jose would come and grab him, and they were together from the time they got on the field to the time my wife came to pick him up.“I think that really says a lot about what was truly in his heart, and what kind of guy he was.”
“The toughest part for me is having to tell my son what happened,” McGehee said. “A lot of people, they don’t really know how to treat Mack. For some reason, Jose had a heart for him. You get to the field, and it wasn’t like ‘Hey, Jose, do you want to keep an eye on him?’ Jose would come and grab him, and they were together from the time they got on the field to the time my wife came to pick him up.
“I think that really says a lot about what was truly in his heart, and what kind of guy he was.”
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2016/09/25/iglesias-tigers-grief-stricken-over-death-jose-fernandez/91080104/
― Andy K, Monday, 26 September 2016 02:28 (seven years ago) link
joe posnanski's obit of sorts http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/jose-fernandez-remembrance/
jay jaffehttp://www.si.com/mlb/2016/09/25/jose-fernandez-miami-marlins-death
― k3vin k., Monday, 26 September 2016 04:34 (seven years ago) link
this is so very sad, RIP.
― Bee OK, Monday, 26 September 2016 05:05 (seven years ago) link
or, you know, next tuesday
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 September 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link