2018 regular-season game chatter

how the almost mighty have dumpstered

always appreciate how, after throwing out a baserunner, catchers do their best mike-pence-at-the-dmz tough look

Rays trade infielder Brad Miller to the Brewers for first baseman Ji-Man Choi.

that's a blockbuster trade, Ji-Man was statistically the greatest Brewer of all-time

cubs and brewers battle for first place in the NL central in a series starting today, should be good

Three @Braves, including NL leading vote-getter @FreddieFreeman5, are among the current NL leaders in the first @CampingWorld MLB All-Star Ballot update. Visit https://t.co/Jd6REEkFYI to vote. #MLBVote pic.twitter.com/kam5L9iFHa

— MLB Communications (@MLB_PR) June 11, 2018

(they haven't posted the AL update yet)

(let's go nick markakis!)

eff the cubs

i think my OF was Harper, Cain, Yelich when i voted last week

a NL all-star starting lineup with markakis and kemp in the year 2018 would be something to behold

i anticipate a fade of some degree

the yankees are on pace to win 112 games btw

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2018/6/12/17431794/mlb-owns-everything-rawlings-statcast-youth-baseball-pro-players

Major League Baseball and private investors recently joined together to buy Rawlings for close to $400 million. You know Rawlings, probably quite well. MLB is now a key investor in the ownership group of the company that makes the gloves you grew up working into malleability, running over with your car to get them into game shape, smelling when they’re new and trying to keep tied together when they’re old.

I think the Mariners being on pace to win 103 games is astonishing.

There’s a decent chance we end up with five 100 wins team.

mariners look like a mirage with that run differential

There’s a decent chance we end up with five 100 wins team.

no there isn't

you can be a mirage for 60 games, or 100

this is too good to limit to either the mets or good mlb tweets threads. this shit is all-time

Dear @MLB, give us every mic’d up ejection for the rest of eternity.

Sincerely, Everyone. pic.twitter.com/l0rttuYHb2

— Steve Perrault (@Steve_Perrault) June 13, 2018

terry collins is very mad about cocksuckers, among other things

i watched that this morning and i'm still wondering why the ump said "our ass is in the jackpot if we don't call that"

twice!

Acting classes should recreate this scene until it's nailed down, this is straight out of Cassavettes or early-Scorcese or something.

i've never heard "ass in the jackpot" but i guess he's saying the ump crew will be in trouble if they don't eject thor?

iirc 'cocksucker' is one word (there may be others) that will get you instantly tossed with no questions asked, so i guess terry was enjoying his freedom

(xp) Not only that but if they let that pitch slide without ejection, it just sets the stage for a real bloodbath. The Mets players are taking issue with the fact that there was no warning prior to the game. IIRC this all stems from Utley (who's AB vs. Thor there) hard slide into the Mets' SS who broke his leg on the play, which happened earlier in the season.

i was at that game

we did not get audio

This is like a Cassavetes movie https://t.co/OXMvz3iwKt

— nuanced opinion guy (@charles_kinbote) June 13, 2018

what does that mean, "our ass is in the jackpot" ???

is it that hard? what "our ass is grass" meant 40 years ago.

yeah i understood what it meant via context clues, it's just ... not a real expression. the first time i said it i assumed he was stumbling around a real phrase, but then he said it again.

need a search of uRBAN Dictionary

I mean I gathered that's probably what it meant just wondering if that was some incredible inside baseball terminology

from the EW FB group

In No Country for Old Men when Llewelyn is in the taxi returning to his motel and finds what he believes to be his pursuers in an adjacent room:
“I don’t want to get in some kind of a jackpot here, buddy...”
“Look, you’re already in the jackpot. I’m trying to get you out of it. Take me to another motel.”

is the umpire a Texan?

In any case, I'm glad umpires can invent expressions should the need arises.

Cop slang? http://www.policemag.com/blog/editors-notes/story/2012/08/cop-slang-our-favorite-user-terms.aspx
(in the comments)

To be in the "jackpot" or "jackpotted," meant you were in deep doodoo.

tom hallion is from upstate new york

close enough!

see definition 3

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jackpot

also see definition 4

Watching Cubs-Brewers right now, and what is all that stuff floating around Miller Park? It looks like cottonwood seeds.

cubs are doing the reliever-to-left-fielder shuffle with cishek and duensing

genius managing iirc

My favorite Maddon moment was a few years ago when he made a pitching change, int. walk a batter, made another pitching change.

Ah damn it! MLB took the The Ass is in the Jackpot video down!

guess what I didn't get to see/hear

oh, there is still a YouTube upload

i am kinda underwhelmed, much less entertaining than existing footage of Earl Weaver

Rob Manfred said that the Terry Collins/umpire viral video has been scrubbed from the internet because a collectively bargained agreement with the umpires that said those interactions involving microphoned umpires wouldn’t be made public. MLB is trying to figure out how it leaked

— Jared Diamond (@jareddiamond) June 14, 2018

looks like Manfred's ass is gonna be in the jackpot now

omg what a bunch of babies

that video was so great rip

Giants-Marlins entering the 16th and i'm disappointed to see no one is 0-for-7 yet