2018 regular-season game chatter

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

Lucroy gunned down 3 would-be base-stealers tonight.

THIS! pic.twitter.com/2FJCQzPTUv

— Jen Mueller (@JenTalksSports) April 5, 2018

Minor league player names

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/here-are-the-100-best-minor-league-player-names-heading-into-the-2018-season/c-270771028

Jon Lester threw out Ryan Braun trying to steal third, with his new bounce pass strategy.

to be fair it's a pretty slo-mo steal attempt

https://www.mlb.com/video/c-1908265383

Goldschmidt on pace for 250 walks...

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/BB_season.shtml

Blood bath in Philly

Question for the crowd?

Under the current labor agreement, is it possible for there to be a player/manager anymore?

Seeing a story about Frank Robinson becoming player/manager for the Indians got me wondering why that gimmick had not been done lately.

I was trying to think of a player/manager after Pete Rose with the Reds and could not think of one. Was Rose the last one?

i regret watching the victor robles injury video :(

Question for the crowd?

Under the current labor agreement, is it possible for there to be a player/manager anymore?

Seeing a story about Frank Robinson becoming player/manager for the Indians got me wondering why that gimmick had not been done lately.

I was trying to think of a player/manager after Pete Rose with the Reds and could not think of one. Was Rose the last one?

― earlnash, Monday, April 9, 2018 7:33 AM (twelve hours ago)

not sure about the CBA but seems like that's just too much work for one person, not sure why a player would ever want to take on that responsibility/pressure

yeah i think it's theoretically possible but will never happen again

A scoring change from March 30 awarded Scott Kingery a steal on a play that was originally ruled a wild pitch. So now, Kingery joins Jimmy Rollins as the only Phillies since 1900 with multiple hits and a steal in their MLB debut.

— Matt Breen (@matt_breen) April 9, 2018

Molina suspended for one game. Jeez, MLB are some cranks; I think the poor guy's learned his lesson

bumping/shoving an umpire is an automatic suspension. that it's only one game suggests that MLB doesn't think it was malicious

Apparently the d-bag manager pointed toward Yadi and referred to him with an “adjective”, I think that’s what set him off.

he charged a manager from the dugout, shoved an ump and started to take a swing. It seemed pretty malicious to me. Has any player shoved umpires more and been punished less for it than Molina?

he didn't charge from the dugout? he wildly overreacted to lovullo's backhanded praise of his framing skills -- some version of 'fuck' is in every single sentence on a baseball field -- and tried to get at lovullo with the ump in the way

i mean, yadi is an annoying redass, but he didn't actually hit anyone

ah, I got confused watching the video about his positioning. Still seems insanely inconsistent to me. Last year Willson Contreras got a two-day suspension for bouncing a helmet that accidentally hit an ump. Brett Lawrie once got four games for the same thing. One game for shoving an ump directly seems generous.

damn Boston is destroying the Stankees

Betts is going crazy tonight.

tracer, make a red sox thread

in fact, in a week i am going to create team threads if their fans have not done so

Today’s Brewers/Cards game is only viewable on Facebook.

fuck that

wtf I thought FSN got all 162 games this year

so dumb

not as dumb as last night's game though ;)

That game seemed excruciating for both teams, at least until the last bit. A lot of the Brewers/cards games have been like that so far! Must see, excruciating baseball

lost in the "Brewers have won nearly every game in the final at-bat" narrative is the "Brewers have blown every save opportunity so far" one

Today’s Brewers/Cards game is only viewable on Facebook.

fuck that

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, April 11, 2018 7:34 AM (one hour ago)

mlbstreams

yeah, i'll be hitting that up today for sure. so annoying, though, esp as a recently departed facebook user. makes me dislike zuck even more

Holy crap this FB stream is obnoxious. "How about that routine ground out? Brewers fans, what do you think? Join the conversation!"

facebook fans, tell us what your faaavorite blooper is!

"Many Cards fans in the comments section saying, 'Come on St. Louis! Put some runs on the board!'"

(That's an actual thing they just said... this is the most banal announcing I've ever heard)

"He wants to go downtown here! A little Petula Clark."

I love that--should be turned into verb: "He Petula Clarked that one!"

Brewers fans, do you want to see your team out there for the 9th? I bet you do!

"Cardinals fans were fuming the other night, and for good reasons. Some didn't want to see him in a high leverage situation. Some didn't want to see him walk four batters."

Deep insight into the mind of a Cardinals fan.

"A lot of Brewers fans would rather they left Josh Hader in" whoa these guys are dialed in

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