last time i saw him in person, he was very nice to a security guard by the parking lot
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 02:14 (two years ago) link
good game in queens. also a very long game
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 03:09 (two years ago) link
yep. i was going to give myself a haircut after the game. now...this haircut is going to suck
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 03:15 (two years ago) link
the NL doesn't deserve a second wild card
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 06:00 (two years ago) link
Cutting your own hair is some risky business!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 12:32 (two years ago) link
did not realize sal perez had anywhere close to 44 homers
― ✖, Thursday, 16 September 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
mlb.com might be back to normal for now (i'm guessing they're gonna push it back to the crappy new version soon) but the gameday interface is now updated and shitty for me. all the text is now too big or too small. what is the point of this
https://i.postimg.cc/j5NdPQFL/image.png
― ✖, Friday, 17 September 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
sorry for huge and gross, postimage blew that up for some reason
― ✖, Friday, 17 September 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
Man, what the hell happened with the Padres last night?! Probably a really bad sign when your two megastars are at each other’s throats.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 19 September 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
Probably a really bad sign when your two megastars are at each other’s throats.
they are? tatis and machado i guess? i've been watching the padres broadcasts, and didn't notice too much of that, but maybe they just weren't showing it.
the story of last night's game, up until the O'Neill HR, was the home plate umpire. that was one of the worst called games i've ever seen. the strike zone extended about 4 feet outside, for both teams
― typo punishment 3: people shouldn't have to feel like they have ea (Karl Malone), Sunday, 19 September 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
the hysterical twitter narrative was that they were feuding but that doesn't really sound like what it was
Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr. had to be separated while yelling at one another in the dugout pic.twitter.com/y1x58iKeVB— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) September 19, 2021
I know people will take the angle of “Machado is a bad teammate”…but you couldn’t be more wrong here. This was a leadership move. Let’s not forget FTJ is still 22. A phenomenal player, but still a lot to learn. Tatis can’t get tossed in the 5th inning of a game they need to win.— Will Middlebrooks (@middlebrooks) September 19, 2021
― ✖, Sunday, 19 September 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
obviously not the type of thing that would happen on a first place team......and now they're probably toast after today's arrieta start
― ✖, Sunday, 19 September 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
Mookie Betts secures TJ Friedl's first hit & homer ball for him by trading his own bat for it. pic.twitter.com/o3Saahf1gr— Chad Moriyama (@ChadMoriyama) September 19, 2021
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 September 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
oh wow, yeah i missed that completely last night. they are definitely struggling right now, makes sense.
tatis dropped an easy pop-fly in CF today in the first inning with the bases loaded. now i wish they would have shown machado right after that happened!
― typo punishment 3: people shouldn't have to feel like they have ea (Karl Malone), Sunday, 19 September 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
I understand what that tweet about manny is getting it - but I disagree. Getting in someone’s face and screaming isn’t leadership.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 19 September 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
Veteran leadership from the guy who brought us the Padres Swagg Chain
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 19 September 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
Getting in someone’s face and screaming isn’t leadership.
why not, it's sports
― ✖, Sunday, 19 September 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
And how well did that go?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 19 September 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
leadership is when coach yells at people in the locker room at half-time and everyone is so afraid of coach that they play better
― typo punishment 3: people shouldn't have to feel like they have ea (Karl Malone), Sunday, 19 September 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
tatis has said in interviews that manny is the team leader and the guy he goes to when he needs to hear things he doesn't want to hear..... it's ok, these things happen
― ✖, Sunday, 19 September 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
“It’s sports” just comes across a lot like “boys will be boys” to me. Maybe they both settle down and Tatis gets whatever message he needs to get. Maybe they don’t. Maybe you don’t want it to become a pattern of confrontations in the dug out. If machado wants to set him straight, fine - but if he can’t do it in a way that doesn’t lead to shouting and shoving, I’m not sure that’s the best quality leadership. I’ll have to watch the clip again maybe and see if it’s Tatis over reacting to machado approaching him, or if Manny was the one going over and escalating things.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 19 September 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
it's sports means it's probably a little more intense than a quarterly 1 on 1 with the regional manager
― ✖, Sunday, 19 September 2021 21:50 (two years ago) link
You haven’t met some of my past managers!
And for the record, I’m not saying manny is a shitty team leader bases off this one incident. Just that this not a great example of leadership in action.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 19 September 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
yeah no need to defend what was clearly an outburst
― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Monday, 20 September 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
Two people with three-hundred million dollars contracts got into a fight, and that’s okay
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 20 September 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link
Great story: LHP Anthony Gose is being called up to @MLB by Cleveland, source confirms @indiansPro report. Gose, 31, last appeared in the majors as a @Tigers outfielder on May 15, 2016. Congratulations to Anthony. What a journey. @MLBNetwork— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) September 20, 2021
― Andy K, Monday, 20 September 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_voSigX0AMSnZC?format=png&name=small
― mookieproof, Monday, 20 September 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
rofl
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 20 September 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
Maga Treinen updated his bio pic.twitter.com/Eqj8AZxVq1— ²¹ (@BuehlerRBW) September 19, 2021
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 20 September 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
puke
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 20 September 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
he probably just hasn't been introduced to the facts around covid-19, or he doesn't have access to a free clinic
― typo punishment #4: it feels better to me to be like there, this (Karl Malone), Monday, 20 September 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
and it as nothing to do with him being a christian. definitely not
i haven't seen a player score from second base on a sac fly before, but harrison bader did it tonight. but what's crazy is it wasn't even close, and there wasn't even an error or anything. lorenzo cain caught a fly ball at the wall and fell to the ground doing it, true, but he quickly flipped the ball to the RF, who made a perfect throw to the cutoff man. but by then it was already too late to even merit a throw to home.
― typo hell #5: maybe you get an idea of what went into, or (Karl Malone), Thursday, 23 September 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
cool!
the other night somebody, i can't remember who - kike hernandez maybe? - tried to tag from FIRST to second on a deep fly to center and he would have made it if he'd stayed on the bag. respect the hustle.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:30 (two years ago) link
gotta say I'm pretty unsettled by the St. Louis Cardinals once again getting hot right as the season ends
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 September 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
almost unfair how they loaded up at the deadline by acquiring . . . jon lester and j.a. happ
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 September 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Uwk8usr.png
the other 3 cardinals were also in the infield at this point
― typo hell #5: maybe you get an idea of what went into, or (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
Marcus Semien needs another double for 40 HR/40 doubles. That was a big deal when Willie Stargell did it in 1973--it had already been done ~ten times, but not for a while. Semien will be about the 40th guy to do it (or at least the 40th season; a few guys, like Pujols, have done it more than once). The great Chris Davis had 50 HR/40 doubles in 2013.
― clemenza, Sunday, 26 September 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
semien and bo have also, i believe, set the homer record for combined middle infielders
― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 September 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
78 HR...I would have thought something more than that during the PED era.
― clemenza, Sunday, 26 September 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
Ohtani just tripled for the second time today
― ✖, Sunday, 26 September 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
I am really weird. pic.twitter.com/FdBch0BDpy— John Sterling Calls (@JSterlingCalls) September 25, 2021
― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 September 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link
think that'll aboot do it for the phillies
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 02:11 (two years ago) link
Cardinals may never lose again
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 02:58 (two years ago) link
they're gonna lose in the wildcard game and suddenly that will be that
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
lol that would be so insane.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 07:54 (two years ago) link
though maybe not any more insane than the dodgers having a 100-win season and going one and done.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 07:57 (two years ago) link
Honestly they’ll win the WC then lose the division series
― typo hell #6: i really don't much at all (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
One absolutely bonkers thing I noticed today - this season could very well end with no hitters over 7 fWAR. Going all the way back to 1884 when the NL expanded beyond 112 games, I can only find 2 seasons where that happened, 1900 and 1918. Didn't even happen in the strike seasons. Most seasons it doesn't come remotely close to happening.
― ✖, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
Obviously there were a lot of injuries this year but this is extreme
― ✖, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link