Actually stayed up to watch the 18 inning game and was really hoping Braun was gonna get the walkoff
― frogbs, Monday, 6 May 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
that 81-pitch kyle hendricks complete game shutout was sick
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/kyle-hendricks-threw-the-least-2019-game-of-the-year/
― na (NA), Monday, 6 May 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
Senzel looks legit.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 6 May 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
Reds put it on the Giants pitching in the 4 game set, scoring 37 runs but they still only split 2 games apiece. Both the Reds and Giants are now 15-20.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5_UTrsW4AULCQW.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
josh bell 472 feet into the allegheny
fourth homer in pnc park history to reach the river on the fly
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
Yelich with #16 today
I wonder how many of those homers have come in the 1st inning. Not enough to look it up, but it feels like the Brewers have started up 1-0 in half their games
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
Yelich up to .356/.462/.797
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
what on earth
According to Theo, Russell was moved by actor Terry Crewsβ journey.— Jesse Rogers (@ESPNChiCubs) May 8, 2019
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
double puke
as part of russell getting called up, ben zobrist is going on leave for "personal reasons"?
― na (NA), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
hope everything's ok for him
― na (NA), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
Unreal how an actual NFL team cut their star running back and may get rid of their star wide receiver bc of similar behavior and the cubs are clinging to this dude and curating a rehab journey narrative for him.
― omar little, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
https://cdn-s3.si.com/s3fs-public/2019/05/06/derek-dietrich-mustache.jpg
― earlnash, Thursday, 9 May 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_w1024/mlb/prkxxsk9mlbz7dgzsh2w
― earlnash, Thursday, 9 May 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
DIETRICH TO THE RESCUE! pic.twitter.com/eYSqUGxFcD— FOX Sports Ohio (@FOXSportsOH) May 6, 2019
― earlnash, Thursday, 9 May 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
another big NL central series this weekend - brewers/cubs. right now the brewers are a half game behind the cubs, but the cubs have a run differential of +54 and the brewers have a run differential of +2.
― na (NA), Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
Pirates color commentator Bob Walk was upset about Ozuna tagging up on Munoz's deep fly ball in a 12-run game π§π§π§ #timetofly pic.twitter.com/kjBsdh5IS2— VHS (@VanHicklestein) May 10, 2019
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
the play-by-play guy on that clip is trying to defuse a bomb on live television
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 03:45 (four years ago) link
they have kind of a fraught relationship. as if you couldn't tell
sort of impressive to give up 17 runs without allowing a homer tbh
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 May 2019 05:04 (four years ago) link
Those Whitey Herzog Cardinal's teams were really good at scoring runs without a homer, but that was as fast a running lineup as you would find ever in baseball and half of them were switch hitters.
Bob Walk would probably tag on his own guy for not tagging up and doing the right baseball move in the 6th inning if the Pirates were up 12 runs. "Three innings to go, anything could happen..." You just know it is true.
― earlnash, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
the gentlemanly thing to do would be to stand between 2nd and 3rd base and wait to be gingerly tagged out, then tip your cap and jog to the dugout knowing that you helped your fans go to bed 2 minutes earlier
― frogbs, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
then tip your cap ^in the direction of Bob Walk^ and jog to the dugout knowing that you helped your fans go to bed 2 minutes earlier
just a small edit, otherwise accurate
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
joe block (frogbs you may remember him, i think he did brewers games for a while) is a dweeby bald dude who has at least a passing understanding of advanced stats.
bob walk is protective of the pirates and otherwise just bitchy about literally everything in the vein of jim kaat or (i'm told) cardinals color guys.
it is legit uncomfortable to listen to them work together, which is why i never do it. (and the other pxp guy, greg brown, is just corny as hell)
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
i mean at least when keith hernandez is bitchy you can sense gary and ron laughing at him; with block and walk it's just tense
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
yeah I remember Joe Block - he was kind of a wet blanket personality wise but he was a good announcer who seemed fairly smart
Brewers are lucky to have a good TV broadcasting crew - so good in fact, that Brian Anderson is out a bunch of the season because he gets poached for NBA playoff games. Bill Schroder is sort of your standard "cranky ex-player" type but he's still pretty good. Between his thick Midwestern accent and the name "Bill Schroeder" I don't think you could hire anyone more appropriate for the Milwaukee Brewers. You can practically see the case of Miller Lite under the desk.
― frogbs, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
from what i've heard, the cubs have a decent broadcast team
otherwise, without hearing all 30 teams' broadcasts, i will nonetheless confidently declare that the NL Central is the worst division for broadcasting
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
from what i've heard,
that was very ambiguous, but by that i mean what i have literally seen and heard
firsthand. while watching their games. fuck
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
i don't even know, because if i'm watching a game at home, i rarely have the sound on or up. i am very fond of the radio broadcast team of pat hughes and ron coomer though.
i keep getting reminded that starting next season there are basically going to be no cubs games broadcast on over-the-air local TV, and it feels like a gut-punch each time. it's such bullshit
― na (NA), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
yeah i like the cubs guys a lot. except when kasper does 'cubs win! . . . cubs win' i mean
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
i keep forgetting about that. "i don't even have a tv", and i watch everything through mlb.tv (+ a VPN making it seem like I'm browsing from a different time zone when I want to watch a local game)
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
even when i hear non-Mets broadcasters on mlb.tv, so few of them register, except Kirk Gibson sounds semi-comatose on Tiger games
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
i can now watch everything on my tv *except* mets games, which is unfortunate
need to figure out how to make roku work with a vpn
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it sucks not having all games on local TV, but the MLB Streams subreddit is a savior, in case anyone is interested.
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Friday, 10 May 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
pirates are out here defying pythagoras
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 May 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
my prediction of jon lester's decline appears to have been premature
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 May 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
Bryant has been absurd lately, i was out for dinner and the cubs game was on and i pointed out to my kid that Kris Bryant was up and mentioned, "he's been on fire lately" and he immediately hit a home run.
― omar little, Monday, 13 May 2019 05:57 (four years ago) link
keston hiura comin up (to milwaukee)
drink every time someone calls him 'a professional hitter'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
#Brewers prospect Keston Hiura is a hitting machine.... Look at this beautiful base hit spray chart from all his @milb games πππ pic.twitter.com/TOIjZ9AzmS— Daren Willman (@darenw) May 14, 2019
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
could be the end of the road for Travis Shaw, who has put up -0.7 WAR so far
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
he seems to have conveniently developed a wrist injury, but yeah. lets them move moustakas back to third too
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
almost killed a pitcher for his first hit
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
I pitch in softball and that shit hurts
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
NL central has the top three wildcard teamsBDIB
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 04:52 (four years ago) link
Kris Bryant, 3 HR tonight...
― WmC, Saturday, 18 May 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
i know willson contreras can't catch every cubs game but why have they consistently paired yu darvish, the wildest pitcher they have, with back-up back-up catcher taylor davis?
― na (NA), Monday, 20 May 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
oh wait, back-up catcher victor caratini is back and catching tonight, that's a little better
― na (NA), Monday, 20 May 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
1915 Reds threads are pretty nice I think.
http://cdn1.creativecirclemedia.com/kentuckytoday/original/20190519-214256-reds.jpg
― earlnash, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
ooooh yeah
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
this reds/brewers game is odd (luis castillo and zach davies both out after three innings) but entertaining
― na (NA), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link