xp Wait, what? Yeah, I listened a lot on the radio. Yet another reminder that I'm old, because this doesn't even compute to me.
― francisF, Saturday, 27 February 2021 23:31 (three years ago) link
yeah, hoping for a cottage industry of amateur feeds, who knows?
― francisF, Saturday, 27 February 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
Oh I see, a "simulcast". Bah, radio is a craft not to be taken on by anyone. Thankfully Wilner is gone at least
― francisF, Saturday, 27 February 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
Close your eyes and imagine...
Joe carter rounding the bases after hitting a world series winning home run. One of the biggest hits in baseball history...
As the sound of Buck Martinez's strained "howme rawwwwwnnnnnnnghghghghg...." call trails off, Pat Tabler chimes in with "Joe Carter is a baseball player, Buck."
Our collective souls die a little inside. "Touch 'em all Joe" is so out of reach for our middling TV crew.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 27 February 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
Time for some pirate radio announcers to swoop in
you don't want any of the pirates' announcers
tbf dan shulman is a total pro and has worked in radio, so if anyone can make it work (assuming he's allowed to!), i'd trust him
― mookieproof, Sunday, 28 February 2021 00:46 (three years ago) link
Shulman is a saving grace, definitely
― francisF, Sunday, 28 February 2021 01:56 (three years ago) link
for sure.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 28 February 2021 02:34 (three years ago) link
I think it goes more like this:
[Joe carter swings the bat]
Buck: get out of here ball, get out, get out!
[ball clears the fence, crowd erupts, Jays win the series]
Pat: Whoa! How about that!
Hypothetical radio listener: ??????&*&
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 28 February 2021 10:47 (three years ago) link
jbj to brewers, 2 years, 24M
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 March 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
Blue Jays just announced they are no longer going to have a radio team. "
That' some cheap BS in the age of zoom. F'n Ronnie Reagan was doing baseball radio broadcasts by wire (and many others also did so) back in the paleolithic era.
― earlnash, Friday, 5 March 2021 02:13 (three years ago) link
Lindor extended w/Mets. Just before April fools.
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 1 April 2021 03:19 (three years ago) link
Boy is it gonna be awesome reliving the Manny Ramirez betrayal all over again.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 1 April 2021 10:30 (three years ago) link
only ‘betrayal’ here was by cleveland ownership
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 April 2021 10:38 (three years ago) link
what was the betrayal?! i was not following baseball in the early Manny years.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 1 April 2021 13:19 (three years ago) link
afaict the betrayal is "chose to sign with a different team in free agency"?
which i guess is worse than "was offered nothing by a team that has been crying poor for years, got traded to a different team where he was offered one of the biggest contracts of all time and accepted it instead of going back to the first team in free agency for some reason"
but not by much
― ✖, Thursday, 1 April 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
Manny signed with the fucking Red Sox and won a goddamn World Series and Cleveland didn’t.
Yes of course it’s the owners I’m mad at. And at the MLB for not having a salary cap.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
Poor people should not be allowed to own professional sports teams.
tbf he won two world series with the red sox
and larry dolan is worth $4.6 billion, fourth-most among mlb owners
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link
aren't even small market teams fairly profitable? i think the issue might be too many, let's say, "wealth oriented" groups owning teams!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
ALSO: OPENEING DAY!!!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
thank you all for honoring dr. morbius properly by arguing about something that happened in baseball like 100 years ago
― na (NA), Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
bosox/orioles postponed :(
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
"And at the MLB for not having a salary cap."
wait what
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:58 (three years ago) link
A couple days late, but Mets opening day. I knew they had a good opening day record, but this is amazing:
The Mets begin the 2021 season with the best Opening Day record ever -- a 39-20 (.661) mark that ought to be the envy of every other club. It’s all the more remarkable considering that the Mets, born in 1962, did not win the first game of any season until 1970. They are 39-12 (.765) since then.
― the last unvaccinated motherfucker on earth (PBKR), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
Back of the napkin calculations but the Cleveland Neo-Naps could give Lindor the same contract as the Mets and they would still be 112 millions under luxury tax threshold.
Their revenue in 2019 was 290 millions.
There is no excuses.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 5 April 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
rich hill to the mets
why are the rays trading away pieces if they're trying to contend by signing nelson cruz
in any case, it's fun that the first two big names to move in this trading deadline are both 41 years old
― na (NA), Friday, 23 July 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
why are the mets trading for rich hill when he's been absolute garbage since the goop got banned
― ✖, Friday, 23 July 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
i think the Rays want Patino to replace Hill, so their math is they're better off with the relievers they're getting back and Patino in the rotation.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 23 July 2021 22:05 (two years ago) link
why are the rays trading away pieces if they're trying to contend
it’s the only way they know how to live
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 July 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
really curious what ends up happening with him -- god-tier defense and occasional flashes of offensive brilliance but he'll be 28 this winter and he's fucking hurt all the time. once in seven seasons has he played 100 games! anyway he has one more year of arb before free agency in 2023
Byron Buxton has rejected a contract extension from the Twins, sources tell me and @DanHayesMLB. Story coming.— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 25, 2021
― mookieproof, Sunday, 25 July 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
Some team is going to pay a lot of money to get one serviceable season out of the guy.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 25 July 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
jesus luzardo has been terrible this year but he still seems like a lot for the a's to give up for two months of starling marte
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
porntipslizardo
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
Oh god, Gallo in pin stripes.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 29 July 2021 00:41 (two years ago) link
some large adult outfielders in the bronx
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 July 2021 01:49 (two years ago) link
free agents
yasiel puigryan braunzack cozartjedd gyorkosean rodriguezedwin encarnacionmatt wietersmatt kempyoenis cespedesrick porcelloandrew cashner
i was surprised to see a few of these names
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 4 September 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
You’d think if Pujols could find a team that can make room for him, a few of those dudes on the list could too.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 4 September 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
i am assume some of them are holding out for a better deal, and then it just got too far into the season? i remember reading a few articles recently advocating for one team or another to pick up rick porcello as an innings eater. and maybe covid was a concern for some of them, i don't know.
puig appears to be keeping busy in the Mexican League
Golpe a Yasiel Puig, discusión y se vaciaron las bancas entre Pericos de Puebla y El Águila de Veracruz. pic.twitter.com/cBL1kzqv8v— Liga Mexicana de Beisbol (@LigaMexBeis) July 23, 2021
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 4 September 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link