2019 Rolling "Hey Chatter Chatter" chatterthread

that was a pretty nice opening day game

The Rangers TV crew has zero personality.

dodgers hit 8 homers on opening day. if this is van scoyoc's doing, i'm all in.

no personality would be an improvement on the pirates tv crew

Briefly had the urge to get MLB The Show 19 until I looked up what a PS4 Pro costs.

I’m really liking it. But I’ve only played about 6 hours of it.

same

did i already complain about opening day taking place during the afternoon of a weekday? sure was fun to read the boxscore of my favorite team's game after it was over

It's just hard to drop $400 + the game when I already have an XBox and only play one or two games a year.

if the Indians score more than zero runs per game this year I will be surprised

the day after opening day is always such a buzzkill

was hoping royals/white sox would get rained out yesterday so we'd have a day game today

https://www.sbnation.com/2019/3/26/18272826/indie-rock-fantasy-baseball-league-stephen-malkmus-ira-kaplan-rem

That’s really cool.

There’s a great track on The Show 19 by High Tatras. They’ve only released one EP and info on them on the internet is very scarce. I assume the band either know someone at SDS or someone there is a fan of super unknown indie music. Anyway, I can’t find the track from The Show 19 anywhere.

Seems weird to play on Thursday and then not play on a Friday night.

interesting name, interesting pitching profile

https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2019/3/29/18286586/nick-margevicius-san-diego-padres-starter-velocity-fastball-curveball

3 HRs for goldschmidt, and hopefully a chance for 4 in the 9th. the lone out he made tonight was a screaming line drive to deep center at 108 mph EV

that's like as many HRs as he hit in the first 2 months last season.

spurred by st louis-style bagels

bagel bites?

I didn't believe it at first, but when the Padres won on opening day, it was the first time they were over .500 since June 8, 2015.

https://i.imgur.com/HtRv2rw.png?1

trevor rosenthal's return: four batters, three hits, one walk, four runs and the dreaded INF ERA

Was literally just coming here to post that. Love an ERA of infinity.

At tonight's Dodgers game, Kenta Maeda's pre-at-bat music is "Slow Down" by Lights Follow, the international theme to Terrace House.

Arizona took a beating!

lol maeda, that's awesome

This Cubs-Rangers game is wild, 10-10 in the 8th.

Ended...wildly.

E. Inciarte homered (413 ft.) to deep right. on M. Zagunis's fielding error

okay: dropped foul ball, next pitch goes over the fence. lead off HR (unearned)

Cubs w/5 errors through 4.1 innings, dang.

Chris Sale looks like he's trying to pitch through an injury...

Fastball speed is down almost 10mph

Mondesi's inside the park HR pic.twitter.com/KoLwNZ5vAn

— Alex Fast (@AlexFast8) April 3, 2019

Both Bumgarner & Greinke just homered within minutes of each other.

#fucktheDH

as a Brewer fan who's watched 4 different starters lose an entire season because they got hurt running the bases, I'm gonna have to disagree

they need to learn how to hit the long ball.

clearly they need more calcium!

trevor rosenthal: not just INF but 7 x INF

3 G, 0 IP, 7 BF, 4 H, 3 BB, 7 R

even worse if you consider last year

Trevor Rosenthal has made 4 consecutive appearances in which he did not get an out and allowed at least 1 run (active streak extended today).

That's the longest streak of outings allowing at least a run without recording an out since at least 1908.

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) April 3, 2019

I don’t mind Braden’s commenting for the A’s but they don’t need to cut to a closeup of his face every other out.

wtf was up with this umpire...

https://streamable.com/9pylv

https://streamable.com/0zzf4

that is wild!

chris davis is 0-for-15 with nine strikeouts

...is that better than last year?

he does have four walks, so . . . maybe

since the O's have no win goals this year, do they let him duplicate 2018?

will the O's play above replacement level this year?

kooky

https://www.amazinavenue.com/2020/4/10/21216359/mlb-realignment-2020-season-cactus-grapefruit-leagues-mets-al-nl-division

manfred is going to use this year's weirdness to justify every shitty change he wants to make in the future just by saying "fans tolerated huge changes in 2020, this is proof they'll tolerate anything"

so, joey gallo is good at the videogames. he went 4-0 last night. eduardo rodriguez, on the other hand, went 0-4 and didn't score in any of the games

i picked a random game to watch, if anyone's interested: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/588772479

that's blake snell v amir garrett

http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2020/04/14/16045/heres-when-and-how-sports-leagues-are-pretending-they-will-start-up-again/

just curious - what is everyone's reaction to the whole cactus/grapefruit league, baseball in empty stadiums idea?

i would watch it for sure. but what happens when one player (or staff or coach, etc) tests positive? it seems likely to end in a bunch of build-up followed by shutting it down 3 weeks in or something

i think it's insane, for reasons mentioned by demause above, but the money being hemorrhaged demands that they throw any and all possibilities at the wall

also the idea of being the only sport playing live games is extremely enticing

I think it's a terrible idea, and one that I just can't see happening.

even if you solved the quarantine/testing part -- which is not to my knowledge actually solvable -- there are only 10 cactus league ballparks + chase field in arizona. to air live games in primetime on the east coast would mean starting games at 5-7 pm, when it's insanely fucking hot

the florida parks are more spread out, i don't think all of them are presently equipped for tv, and it rains every damn day

and despite the players very much wanting to play, i don't see that many of them wanting to either quarantine without their families for four and a half months or drag their families into a situation like that

agreed, I highly doubt anything at all is gonna happen

I think the drugs had been reported months ago; the stunt-flying is maybe new.

http://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/us/roy-halladay-ntsb-accident-report-spt/index.html

insane that the red sox won a world series on the back of this guy and steve pearce:

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=29045398

hey it's the 13th anniversary of "here comes the pizza"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufSQMXLO95w

gotta say, this is an okay turn of events for the Astros

thank you maura I had never seen that

scouting florida in 1982

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EV5f2WlVcAMqoGQ.jpg

Damn

“Ralph” = Raffy?

Lance McCullers! There’s a name to conjure with

that would appear to be raffy -- mets took him in the eighth round but he went to mississippi state instead

top five did all go in the first round -- monteleone had a journeyman career (2.6 war over 10 seasons), boderick didn't get out of a ball, ledbetter made it to double a

2010-19 leaders, counting stats edition:

Games
Adam Jones: 1499
Nick Markakis: 1491
Elvis Andrus: 1478

Stolen Bases
Dee Gordon: 330
Rajai Davis: 322
Billy Hamilton: 299

Home Runs
Nelson Cruz: 346
Edwin Encarnacion: 335
Giancarlo Stanton: 308

RBIs
Albert Pujols: 963
Nelson Cruz: 961
Edwin Encarnacion: 956

Runs
Mike Trout: 903
Ian Kinsler: 879
Andrew McCutchen: 868

they're playing ball in taiwan. weekday games start at 6:30am eastern and there are free streams: https://indyballisland.com/2020/04/19/live-baseball-the-cpbl-is-playing

one team (rakuten) even has english commentary