2019 Rolling "Hey Chatter Chatter" chatterthread

foxx. sorry jimmie

jimmie "actually not spelled like a" foxx

aquino with another HR tonight (11 in his first 17 game - fastest ever)

O's the new KC A's

Brewers/Nats insanity

Yeah pretty sure I said “are you fucking serious” with different levels of excitement at least 7 times from the 9th on

If that last error led to the Nats tying it for the 3rd time I probably would have cried

The reddit gamethread might be some good Monday morning reading material

Devers had another two doubles and a homer today. He's on pace for 98 XBH--no one's had 100 since 2001, when four guys did it (Bonds, Helton, Sosa, and somebody named Luis Gonzalez). There are still only 15 100-XBH seasons.

I was busy with non-baseball things yesterday and missed Acuña's benching for lack of hustle. I love that Rafael Ortega was the guy who bailed him and Snitker out.

when rendon gets fucked over this winter it will be a real death knell for free agency

Would be interested to see a side-by-side monthly splits graph of Khris Davis vs. Chris Davis.

I think Khris Davis hit more HRs in the first 3 weeks of the season than he has hit in weeks 4-22

obv were teammates for many yrs but was surprised to see tnight will be the 1st time miggy cabrera is ever hitting vs justin verlander

looking at the DET-HOU box score and seeing the two lineups' AVG/OBP/SLG next to each other is . . . quite a contrast

quick game ! 2h 12m tigers > stros

What the heck happened to the sinker? It seems in an era of launch angle beasts in the box that the old drop ball would do well. I'm guessing since it is a pitch to contact pitch, it's probably not taught or used as much I suppose.

the pirates are big on the sinker -- and chris archer began throwing one when he arrived in pittsburgh, even as charlie morton and gerrit cole stopped throwing theirs when they left -- which should tell you all you need to know

A's and Rays now tied atop WC standings, Tribe 0.5 back

Houston breathing down Stanks' neck for best AL record

Oh wow, these unis in the Nats-Cubs game are wild. Nats all in black, Cubs in white.

ILB is a kind of time machine where Morbs is 11

the white batting helmets look pretty dumb. and not sure why the batting helmets are white but they're wearing the usual blue caps.

home teams lookin like ice cream vendors, blah

whose stupid idea were these unis?

the white jerseys look like baseball videogames when you can design your own team's jersey and the starting template is all white.

why is this remotely necessary

Yankees-Dodgers, let's do away with the uniforms

I know that, like, the rainforest is on fire...but this is infuriating

I was told Billy fucking Hamilton wdnt be batting w/ the Barves

Stankee unis are boring, Hadrian

(esp road)

h8 to agree with hadrian, but yeah it's terrible

boring is fine

baseball doesn't need zazz

also mook, why, why would you hate

in ten years these unis will be loaded up w patches a la nascar

that's your mazda steal of the week, zoom zoom

they flight-tested a little sleeve ad in London, they are definitely coming

this is irrationally my main beef w Rob Manfred, Stop Making Everything Look Stupid

oh, just because of yankee fandom; nothing personal

don't stoop to your compatriot's level

my compatriot!

i'm from pittsburgh. anyone who isn't from the northern nyc suburbs or isn't an insufferable front-runner hates the yankees. as they should. take it as a compliment in that no one bothers hating the pirates

well I still think you're a model of decorum

Joc Pederson has painted the entire front of his white helmet with pine tar and looks like he has a soiled diaper strapped to his head

anyone who isn't from the northern nyc suburbs or isn't an insufferable front-runner hates the yankees.

that's not true. people who don't know anything about baseball love the yankees too

this suburb thing will come as alarming news to people from Sugar Hill and the Heights....

I've always said that being from the Bronx (originally) is the only excuse for being a NYY fan.

and Hade I will have you know that I came up with 'Stankee' by age 27.

I'm just going to assume this is in reference to beloved utility man Andy Stankiewicz

“It’s not our proudest moment, rocking these all-white milkman unis,” Dave Roberts said. “But it is what it is.”

— Pedro Moura (@pedromoura) August 24, 2019

SO GOOD, SO GOOD, SO GOOD! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/RatAEIaWlL

— San Diego Padres (@Padres) August 25, 2019

JOSH BELL

i'm beginning to hate the Pirates

i hear you

they went 1-5 against the mets tho

Just an awful tragedy: The wife and child of Blake Bivens, a Double-A pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization, were among three people killed in rural Virginia on Tuesday, sources tell ESPN. Police have charged Bivens' wife's brother with first-degree homicide.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) August 28, 2019

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1xTxLoAORV/

autopsy/toxicology shows that tyler skaggs had fentanyl, oxycodin and alcohol in his system when he choked to death on his own vomit. the family thinks that someone in the angels organization got him the drugs

minor league catcher chace numata, currently with double-a erie, was found unresponsive early this morning after an apparent skateboarding crash; he's in the hospital in unknown condition

rough week

no idea

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27501703/royals-sold-kc-businessman-investors-group