yep first career ejection. between that and the shoe color squabble, he's a regular bad boy now
― na (NA), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link
he was right though
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
feel like cuzzi let the notoriously god-fearing zobrist go on for quite some time just to see if he would curse
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
no, i meant the first time a player publicly said "Bring on the robots"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
worth striking over imho
zobrist has said it before! http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20327852/ben-zobrist-chicago-cubs-mlb-needs-electronic-strike-zone
― na (NA), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
my understanding is that the 'electronic strike zone' is, at present, not quite as accurate as the average umpire and much more susceptible to crazy errors. and that you shouldn't necessarily trust the various tv depictions of the zone or pitch location graphs
also, yelling at umpires is fun and entertaining and most of them are quite good at what they do -- i think the technology will have to be demonstrably better than the umps, which may not happen, before it is implemented
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
― frogbs, Wednesday, August 15, 2018 9:31 AM (six hours ago)
there is no "zone" as the game is currently constructed, only a set of probabilities based on where the pitch is and the situation. that pitch is called a strike about half the time. hitters know this, pitchers know this, tough luck I guess
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
mookie otm
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
I dunno that pitch looked pretty outside to me. wasn't even one of those that looked like it was gonna be in the zone and slid out. I agree that's where it gets tricky, with those final bits of movement over the plate and what not. But that pitch...idk it looked like a clear ball
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
quite an OAK-SEA tilt going
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
Apparently I just missed an interesting first pitch in Marlins-Barves.
― a shomin-geki poster with some horror elements (WilliamC), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
First pitch of the bottom half of the inning, that is. (Ureña beaned Acuña to prevent another leadoff homer, Snitker lost his mind, Ureña and Snitker tossed, and now Acuña just came out because the arm doesn't feel right.)
― a shomin-geki poster with some horror elements (WilliamC), Thursday, 16 August 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
i don't blame snitker, that was bullshit
lol at the bullpens having to run in twice
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 August 2018 00:36 (five years ago) link
Just watched the clip--glad the pitcher was ejected.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 August 2018 01:57 (five years ago) link
prediction: some retired red-ass player will bash the braves for not *immediately* charging the field and trying to kill ureña, and will call it a failure of manhood that snitker was more fired up than acuña's own teammates
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 August 2018 02:11 (five years ago) link
Fewer laps tomorrow amirite.
― Andy K, Thursday, 16 August 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
xp - He didn't call out the Braves explicitly, but during the game Brian Jordan said "I woulda been throwin' some hands."
― a shomin-geki poster with some horror elements (WilliamC), Thursday, 16 August 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
*ron Howard voice*
He wouldn’t have
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:12 (five years ago) link
this being ILB, misread that as ryan howard
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 August 2018 03:20 (five years ago) link
jeter strikes again
― maura, Thursday, 16 August 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
Worst Smiths song
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 16 August 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
Another thing about pitching inside. The whole “make them uncomfortable...move their feet...brush em back” thing is complete BS. It doesn’t work. When a kid starts playing kid pitch at 8, he gets hit. When he gets to be, say, 12 it hurts a bit more. When he gets to high school...— Michael Young (@MikeyY626) August 16, 2018
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 August 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
don't tell Keith Hernandez
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
Acuna will play today.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 16 August 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
pulling Snell after 76 pitches is seriously O_o like, i get what they're doing with their staff/pen there – but you'd think, if there was one pitcher on their staff they'd let pitch into the 6th and give their pen a tiny rest, it'd be him.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
nice job by kolarek getting out of romos mess
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
Yankees - Bottom 9th
Romo pitching for TB
Gregorius singled to center. Torres singled to right, Gregorius to second. Walker walked, Gregorius to third, Torres to second. Kolarek pitching for TB Bird fouled out to third. Gardner struck out swinging Romine struck out swinging.
lol rally
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
Walker walked
well, duh!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
this mets-phils facebook game is kinda crazy
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
Edwin Diaz is on pace now for 62 saves, which would tie the single season record set by Francisco Rodriguez in 2008.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
what the fuck the mets score ten runs in an inn'g & i cant watch it on television
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
phillies have hit four homers in four innings and are getting killed
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 August 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
six games for urena
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 August 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
piddly ass
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 16 August 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
in the NHL you get 10 games (in a season half as long) just for coming off the bench during a brawl, whether you hit anyone or not. (certain fourth-liners -- and they know who they are -- will do it anyway if someone important is being overwhelmed.)
i'm not sure what the suspension guidelines are vis-a-vis the players union, but acuña's just as much a member as ureña is (as were darvish and yuli gurriel in the world series last year). but six games is a joke -- he might miss one start, and if he games the appeal process, not even that. and he's playing for a shitty team with nothing to lose, unlike the braves, if they were to retaliate
baseline of 15 games for starters in a cut-and-dry case like this and go from there imo. and fine everyone who came out of the bullpen
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 August 2018 00:56 (five years ago) link
Basebrawls aren’t even interesting
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 17 August 2018 12:07 (five years ago) link
Especially if you’re an outfielder, apparently.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 17 August 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
Mookie otm. Plunking is dumb. It's going to be a 101 mph fastball to the head one day.
MLB must be talking to announcers who keep plain or tacitly promoting those pre-historic baseball ideals also, the irony that it happened to a Braves player wasn't lost on me.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 17 August 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
Jose Urethra: How about suspending a starting pitcher 5 starts instead of 5 or 10 games for a severe infraction? That has some impact to a team vs a suspension of 5 to 10 games where the pitcher will miss 1 start maybe 2.
Jeff Sullivan: Suspensions aren’t about games missed as much as they’re about salary missed. If you suspend Urena five times as long as you’d suspend a position player, that means Urena is forfeiting five times as much salary. How is that fair, from a player perspective?
Not to mention that the impact a starting pitcher can make in one game is roughly equivalent to the impact a position player can make over four or five games, anyhow
I’m not arguing the idea of sending a stronger message; I hate things like what Urena did, and I think he should face a more severe penalty. But it’s not going to be easy for MLB to establish a new precedent, given that this is how things operate now, and if Manfred came out and suspended Urena for the rest of the year, the union wouldn’t be happy about it.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 August 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
cubs and pirates just split a four-game series in which pittsburgh scored five runs and chicago scored four
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 August 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Zack Wheeler and Steven Matz were not pitching Sunday. So why not take a seat in the stands? From @Cut4:https://t.co/RZnTuwptlN— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) August 20, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 August 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
<3
― timellison, Monday, 20 August 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
If following occurs rest of way there’d be 8-way tie at 88 wins for NL best record, just to show how close it is (since I like chaos I am rooting for this):#Braves 20-19#Phillies 20-18#Cubs 17-22#Brewers 19-17#Cardinals 20-17#Diamondbacks 19-18#Rockies 20-18#Dodgers 21-16— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) August 20, 2018
― mookieproof, Monday, 20 August 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
I’m just going to predict right now that a NL team will win the 2018 World Series
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 August 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
#teamentropy
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 20 August 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
by pythagorean record / run differential, the mariners are maybe the luckiest team ever?
https://i.imgur.com/OrJamit.png?1
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-mariners-still-look-like-an-all-time-anomaly/
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 August 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/R3rEJGQ.png?1
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 August 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
lol the 2017 padres
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 August 2018 23:35 (five years ago) link
edwin diaz is amazing tho