general 2021 MLB discussion thread

DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT JASON LARUE THAT WAY

reds fans don't even know who jason larue is

they're like

HEY DON'T TALK ABOUT JAY CREW LIKE THAT

nothing against earlnash or other ilx reds fans, lol

but jeezus just what i see on tv (they're in STL tonight, btw. i'm just remembering all of the many times where all of the above happened) is fucking stupid

i don't want to bring you down, but no non-bfib like yadi. he's a red-ass dick

i mean he's been a very good not-quite- hall-of-fame player etc. etc. but also whatever

i can't believe you said that about yadi

the world at large may hope waino-yadi reach the battery record, but it won't be because of the latter

the battery record is sometimes referred to as the "record that could never fall"

you know who would've been a HOF catcher if yadier molina didn't end his career with a tombstone piledriver off the top rope? jason larue

jason larue was DUE

some say that cueto did it because they knew larue had been spending a lot of time with video, analyzing the reds

molina was involved in the brawl where cueto ended journeymen catcher jason larue's career by kicking him in the back

larue was a cardinal at the time? yadi had nothing to do, as best i can tell, with cueto kicking a 36yo catcher in the head?

totally happy to boo everyone involved tho

especially yadi

dick

i love this recap

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

it's totally accurate

i'm too hard on cueto. maybe he was getting crushed and was just feeling claustrophobic, i get that. i had an incident with my spouse in a small tent that we shared on our honeymoon. i felt like i was about to die, my body freaked out.

but one more time, look at what yadi did in that whole incident. they're STILL booing about that lol

it's gone into ric flair woo status, it's completely detached from happened at this point

sorry, typed the wrong words - not a small tent, but a single sleeping bag that we shared.

so yesterday the orioles were the only team in the AL East to win a game, today they're the only team in the AL East to not win a game, nature is healing etc

Only team to blow a no hitter with an 11 run inning!

Only team to give up 11 runs in both games of a double header!!

Seems apt that it was an Orioles fan that originated the “that seals the deal” meme/copypasta

Jays are one shy of another 11 run game in the 3rd

Well, Teoscar just selfishly ruined that trend by making it a 14 run game

so the o's have allowed 40 runs in the last 19 innings

Brewers actually had another no hitter going into the 6th but it appears to be over now

44 runs over two days now.

joey votto, after getting called for a strike for going a smidge too far on a half-swing on a ball in the dirt in the 9th:

"..asdfljasdf..*clearly audible* FUCK YOU!....asl;dfas;kdf"

dan mclaughlin: "joey votto...clearly not happy about that call"

is it all about trying for Elijah Green?

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at least the orioles have the day off tomorrow. i imagine their bullpen is completely spent

will still somehow allow 22 runs

well – whatever was going on with Lindor for most the season seems to have run it's course. (3 hr today vs the Jankees!)

Pretty intense series/atmosphere, really enjoyed it.

Was going to post over the weekend about how spectacularly ugly mlb.com's new look was, but I held off, because I think that about every site re-design. I guess I wasn't alone, though--they're back to normal today.

oh nice - it was actually still the one from yesterday up until a couple hours ago, at least. i felt like i was wearing extremely powerful eyeglasses. the largest fonts of all time!

The Twins hate the Yankees so much because of all that postseason humiliation, so they've decided they're going to play New York really tough, and then they're going to lay down when the Blue Jays play them six times later this month.

Yankees making it hard right now.

I posted a comparison somewhere a couple of years ago of how close Goldschmidt and Freeman were statistically. Freeman seemed to overtake him for good, and I kind of forget about them. But I noticed Goldschmidt hit his 25th tonight, and also that he played well enough last year to get some MVP support.

They're still amazingly close (and each other's #1 Similarity Score, 953.6--very high):

PG: 273 HR, 910 RBI, .292/.388/.518, 141 OPS+, 49.4 WAR
FF: 270 HR, 935 RBI, .295/.383/.509, 138 OPS+, 42.5 WAR

The WAR difference is mostly explained by Freeman being two years younger (31/33). At the end of his age-31 season, Goldschmidt was at...42.5 WAR!

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find two contemporary stars so in lockstep.

Actually, Freeman broke in a year earlier, so that doesn't explain the WAR difference--it's all defense.

like them both, but extra support goldie as an eighth-round pick

lol this guy

“I like nostalgia, and I felt like all the Mets fans in a bases loaded situation wanted to see me throw two curveballs and a changeup (to McNeil) and get him out. Just gave the people what they wanted.” — Adam Wainwright

— Jeff Jones (@jmjones) September 14, 2021

Hey guys, it's Mike Piazza.

Ryan Braun retires

I was surprised to find out he wasn’t already.

is he still injured? i figure the thought is that he's not going to be on the postseason rosters, so better say bye now

Cano will be the next shamed could've-should've to retire.

yeah I had no idea Braun was still "active", I thought the Covid season was pretty much it for him

if i remember right he hit some sort of game-winning hit against the cardinals this year! i was like wtf man, wtf

ok unless I am missing something I am pretty sure he didn't play this year

oh you're right, of course! i was looking at his 2020 stats as his 2021, for some reason. i really do remember him beating the cardinals this year though. may have been a bad dream