2018 regular-season game chatter

Opening day (tribe/mariners) game starts at 10pm EST! Madness.

surely staggering times for TV is the reason, as it's ESPN late game following Dodgers-Giants

I'd figure a 7pm start time in Seattle is probably not that irregular.

Time was all openers were day games though. *scratches beard*

Start the game at 1 or 4 so I can watch it. This is all I ask.

13 Cardinal Ks thru 7 (Thor & Gsellman)

nice slide dumbass

Textbook by Chase Anderson. pic.twitter.com/SBbffAGTLF

— Michael Salfino (@MichaelSalfino) March 29, 2018

whoa that's huge

did he manage to injure himself there??

i think his knees took the worst of it

rays w a nice 6 run bottom 8th

wow white sox are clobbering the royals

Heard from (the awesome) Jason Benetti on a FG podcast that Tim Anderson season was flunked by the murder of a good friend of his. Heck, my fish die and I can't do anything all day. So to see him compete and getting better is pretty cool, I have high hopes for him.

braves tied up the phils

Looking at that Red Sox box score, I somehow don't figure Joe Kelly would be considered their setup guy.

he was really good last year! but yeah

He’s got a riddick fastball, no?

i think he has one of those kyle farnsworth fastballs -- very hard and very straight

goddamn i love having baseball going on in the background while I werk

Mike Everitt (home plate umpire) just took a fastball directly off the top of his mask, taken out of the game. he looked really shaken up.

i think he has one of those kyle farnsworth fastballs -- very hard and very straight

michael feliz appears to have this issue as well

some very bad baseball in detroit today

yeah, both teams seem to be trying to give it away

contract both teams imo

Max Scherzer pretty much at top form. Scooter Genette got a double off of him and it must have just ticked Max off as he struck out the next 7 batters.

(fwiw: Scooter 4/4 on the day)

adam eaton 5-for-5, HR, 2 2B

love that guy

A-Rod does not like the launch angle revolution.

he preferred the injections-for-lunch angle

https://i.imgur.com/LBzuS0L.png

The Yankees haven’t been outside the top two in MLB payroll since 1994, the last time a baseball season ended without a World Series.

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mlb-opening-day-payrolls-down-from-2017/

trend: it seems like just about every single pitcher talks into their glove when heading toward the dugout after recording the final out of the inning, just before it cuts to commercial.

oh to be a leather strap on that glove

bartolo : called up by the rangers to pitch tonight

the first pitcher from the 2017 nippon league to hit a home run in 2018 mlb is: miles mikolas.

106.1 exit velo

blessed day xp

it just struck me that lorenzo cain's nickname "locain" is a cocaine reference?

I’ve watched this thirty times.

pic.twitter.com/HjEbNgy3EV

— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) April 2, 2018

Spearing!

Christ this Astros/Os game is only in the 4th

top 13th in Phoenix!

#Rays Kiermaier will try something new today to combat cold weather vs #Yankees - covering his whole body with Vaseline to serve as an extra layer against the wind.

— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) April 3, 2018

it's gonna be exciting if he has to slide into a base

Ryan Braun is actually really nice. I saw him being all friendly and cordial with the security guy, someone who everyone else just walked by without saying a word. He’s cool! Didn’t expect that.

But if one person that I thought was a dick was nice, what does that mean about all the other people I thought were dicks? Could they be nice people too? No, I bet that I am correct about all the other people and that none of them are nice, better to just keep a closed mind so that things are steady and reliable

Decent night at the park tonight for Christian Villanueva pic.twitter.com/mCsnyCV54T

— Daren Willman (@darenw) April 4, 2018

<3

the Braves are raking.

Carlos Santana stealing home (10MB mp4):
http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2018/04/04/1906303983/1522871765592/asset_1200K.mp4

sick

Carlos Santana stealing home (10MB mp4)

lol

no Cub hits thru 4

if he can get through 6 I'll feel a lot better. Hader hasn't pitched in a couple of days, could potentially go 2 here

ESPN’s sound dude has lost control.

wow Rizzo murdered that one

yelich

Project wolverine going great.

can anyone tell me which broadcast team is the least bad here? i'm switching between the two feeds and I'm leaning towards the Brewers guys.

Yelich on deck for a good spot.

Rooting for the beyond epic three run homer from Yelich.

darn.

but then Braun hitting a homer now would be hilarious.

why on earth was braun running there

It was supposed to be a delayed steal of home?

Why risk running yourself out of a big inning like that? Brutal overmanaging there.

i knew things were going to go bad when brandon kintzler came in to pitch

Aguilar hits into a ton of DPs so the steal makes some sense

anyway if Hader & Jeffress can't get it done then its not meant to be

really can't pull for Milw w/ Hader around

don't really like any NL teams aside from LA (for Kershaw and Puig)

ok i'm getting nervous now. 3 more!!!!!!

forgot what this feeling was like

C'mon Morbs, the Pirates are loveable. xpost

i find milwaukee pretty likeable except for hader and braun

Cain, Granderson, Yelich, Perralta, Chacin, Thames, Davies, Shaw are all very likeable players.

lol had no memory of Granderson ending up there

first career four-hit game for arcia

i do wonder what percentage of this brewers team was there a year ago

was really expecting baez to swing at that 3-0 pitch

great at-bat tho

Congrats frogbs, hoping the Brewers make the World Series.

Collective heart attack when the camera zoomed way out on that Bryant fly ball

I wonder where Jeffress was? Wasn’t even warming up

Sutcliffe and Ross on the same telecast. Boy.

Dodger stadium is empty

Uh.

N/m.

Cubs deserved to lose after that god awful rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” by Mike Ditka. That was one of the worst things I’ve ever heard

Ditka was the worst thing to happen to Chicago sports let alone the Bears.

Dodger stadium is empty

Reported attendance was about 37 K (> 80 percent full) but maybe that was in the middle innings? Seeing the stadium so empty at the start of the game was ... weird.

NARRATOR'S VOICE: It's always empty for the first few innings (and often the last few).

https://i.imgur.com/hmlIdoH.jpg?1

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/max-muncy-did-something-he-had-never-did-before/

btw the regular season hath now ended

Max Muncy
That funcy muncy

https://cdn.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Relegation-Image.png

i miss baseball

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i am catching up on world cinema