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 😍😍😍 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
these two teams have played some weird-ass games over the last couple years, I love it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
just like that we've got an RBI HBP to bring it to 9-11
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
so much MANAGING going on in this game
― na (NA), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
Something Wick This Way Comes (to the cubs)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
Fugly game by the Reds pitching. Hernan Perez and Orlando Arcia deserve today's Bill Hall Award (tm) for down lineup Brewer to hit like they are going to the Hall of Fame against the Reds.
Thames seems to like hitting Reds pitching. I think a couple of years ago he hit like 10 HRs against him.
And all of this is without Braun, who is a long time Red nemesis.
Jay Bruce used to be the guy that hit a ton against the Brewers.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
Yelich was out too
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 May 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
Anthony Rizzo hit one out that would have gone about a mile if the Budweiser sign above the Wrigley video screen hadn't gotten in the way.
https://www.mlb.com/video/anthony-rizzo-homers-12-on-a-fly-ball-to-right-field-kyle-schwarber-scores-kris-?t=most-popular
― WmC, Thursday, 23 May 2019 02:33 (four years ago) link
<3 david freese
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 May 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
who told yadi that neck tattoos and white hair was a good look
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 May 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
bengie
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Monday, 27 May 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
His new neck tattoo is actually a lot better. Before it was just a set of music notes 🎵🎶
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Monday, 27 May 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
I'd like to know how much the Reds team batting average went up this weekend as they went (42-116) .362 at the plate in the 3 game series. Cubs now have lost 2 series to the Reds in May.
― earlnash, Monday, 27 May 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
Not that it matters in the big picture as Derek Dietrich has pretty much emulated his success in some ways both with the home run power and certain panache, but Scooter Gennett must have been hurt pretty bad in spring training. He was out 1/2 of spring training and is heading into June, out two months without starting back playing yet. Don't think they expected it to go this long.
― earlnash, Monday, 27 May 2019 01:27 (four years ago) link
yadi looks like he’s seen attack ships burn off the shoulder of orion
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 May 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
when he makes his big league debut tonight, génesis cabrera will become the 2000th player to appear in a game for the cardinals since they joined the NL in 1892
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
(mitch keller recently became the 1979th player to appear for the pirates)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
cubs sign carlos gonzalez to a minor-league deal. local sports radio dudes point out this shows how the team feels about ian happ.
― na (NA), Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
just a head's up - one of the cardinals top prospects is Dylan Carlson, which is the same name as the Earth guy.
could be cool
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
génesis cabrera will become the 2000th player to appear in a game for the cardinals
"Cards! You've got Genesis!"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
I could see Carlos Gonzalez as a nice platoon player and pinch hitter. It's kind of an old Yankees type signing. Might hit or miss, either way they can afford to give him a shot. Cargo's stat line is a pretty classic peak around age 30 so far, but hey he hit the lottery with one big deal. I'd figure after that kind of deal, baseball is a hobby (albeit that pays well). I'm sure Cargo would like to play in the playoffs and have a shot at winning a ring.
― earlnash, Friday, 31 May 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
The Cardinals have lost seven consecutive one-run games in May. You have to go back to July 1970 to find that many one-run losses and zero victories in the same month.
not sure if the second sentence is MLB-wide or just cardinals history - probably the latter
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 May 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
I would imagine - assuming these are 50/50 your odds are 1 in 128 out of any given 7-game stretch of one-run games, I would guess some team accomplishes that misfortune every year
― frogbs, Friday, 31 May 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
pretty sure this is the first time since jason thompson circa 1982-85 that the pirates' best hitter is their first baseman
in between there have been a couple serviceable guys and an astonishing number of flat-out awful ones
― mookieproof, Friday, 31 May 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
3+ hour rain delay. this trio must have been ragin
https://i.imgur.com/JmI64CS.png
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Sunday, 2 June 2019 04:41 (four years ago) link