The least exciting wild card outcome has happened
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
absolutely awful, sorry jays friends
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
the TV gods chuckle darkly
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
I'm a Cardinals fan now. I don't think I could root for any one of the five AL teams, even though I like a number of individual players.
― clemenza, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
hmm, well, I would have preferred the opposite outcome of every game but you can’t have everything.
― JoeStork, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
Dodgers won 106 games including their last 7 in a row and still could not catch SF
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 3 October 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
Ohtani: #43 in pitcher WAR, #20 in batter WAR, #1 in our hearts
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
I guess white Sox for me in the AL. Or rays. Fuck all the other franchises tho.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
i'm a red sox fan and that's basically how i feel too tbh
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
white sox all the way... fun team, not their fault they ended up with tony la duissa
― ✖, Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:55 (two years ago) link
I just. I really don’t want to hear the breathless praise of him if they win it all. Like that lump on the bench had anything to do with what a great team they have.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 October 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
Haven't really internalized that the White Sox and the Braves are in the playoffs, somehow I haven't really thought about either of those teams all season.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 4 October 2021 00:33 (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, September 29, 2021 2:42 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
no one even made it to 6.9. honestly wild. even if trout/acuna/tatis had all been healthy enough to make it to 7, that still would've been a really light year. in 1999 no one had more than 8, which is rare in itself, but 6 players had 7+.
― ✖, Monday, 4 October 2021 05:08 (two years ago) link
correa led position players with 7.2 bWAR. by my quick research the last times no hitter had at least 8 was 1981, 1971, and 1940, and 7.2 is the lowest leader I can see since george sisler led with 6.6 in 1918
― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Monday, 4 October 2021 09:02 (two years ago) link
sorry Blue Jays fans, i was rooting for them to make it in. such a fun team
don't really care about either of the wild card games, four teams that i dislike (to varying degrees)
White Sox all the way, no one really thinks La Russa is doing anything that matters
― na (NA), Monday, 4 October 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
speaking of stats/records like this: the triple
Pour one out for … the triple? For the first time in the history of baseball (not counting last season’s 60-game mess), nobody reached double digits in baseball’s most exciting play. No one got all that close, either; the year ended with David Peralta, Bryan Reynolds and Shohei Ohtani all tied with eight. We came awfully close to the same happening in 2019, when four batters tied for the MLB lead with ten, but it’s been only 14 years since each league had a hitter with 20-plus in Jimmy Rollins and Curtis Granderson.
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Monday, 4 October 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
(i love that a pitcher is tied for MLB league in triples, though)
he hit three in the last week
― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Monday, 4 October 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
nice, 37.5% of his mlb-tying season lead in triples in the last week! kinda bonkers
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Monday, 4 October 2021 18:43 (two years ago) link
need some, uh, help with my stream with playoffs being blacked out on mlb.tv and r/mlbstreams being down
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
sport surge dot net
― silverfish, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
Yup. All you need.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
thanking u'all
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
for a while i was using dudestream dot net but their videos haven't been playing lately. every time i had to go to a game that was blacked out i would think to myself.... "time to enter the dude stream 😎" and then i would hack my way into the dude stream
― ✖, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
life is different in the dude stream
― ✖, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 23:53 (two years ago) link
did they have chat in dude stream?
seeing the chat on the side of sport surge or whatever is unbelievable. it's like, this is humanity. holy shit, it's terrible
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 23:53 (two years ago) link
everybody's like 'WHY DON'T THEY FUCKING BENCH BADER? HE CAN'T FUCKEN HIT FOR HSIT"
this is the dude stream
https://jegged.com/img/Games/Final-Fantasy-VII/Walkthrough/FFVII-01163-Mideel-Lifestream-Cinematic-Tifa-Cloud.png
of course it has a chat! you can't watch sports without racial slurs
― ✖, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 23:55 (two years ago) link
it's true, it creates the ballpark experience of the incredibly drunk racist old white guy, all around you, in 4 or 6 different formations within 5 rows of you in every seat in the ballpark. and you have to figure out whether you need to confront them all and whether or not it's worth dying for tonight
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
M1keHawk69: ready for the salt mine
Tue Oct 5, 7:07:09pm
gir4ff3: tonight i am a red sox fan
scoopydu: I surrender myself to the random outcome 1-game gods
baseballfan17: @TrashtrosCheated just seeing who gets their asses kicked by the rays
Tue Oct 5, 7:07:10pm
NHL: LOL
ATLallthings: Yankees winning 7-5 IMO
bdodger1: @Mackie5Million but our boy kike is
Tue Oct 5, 7:07:11pm
ChoiBois: SCOOPS AND WYATT COWARDS
Mr6ixSide: LFG DODGERS
EastDelmar: the only sox making the world series arent playing tonight
Mackie5Million: @gir4ff3 yeah honestly where are the boys?
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 00:07 (two years ago) link
EXCITABLE VASGERSIAN
― Andy K, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 00:15 (two years ago) link
WRONG THREAD
― Andy K, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
I almost hope Gallo singles before BOS gets out of the inning.
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
The Jays and the Rays would both be way more exciting AL pennant winners than what we're looking at and I wish they respectively had been in / had stayed in the playoffs.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
ILB needs a big all-time poll of favourite players.
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
It’s Kyle Farnsworth and it’s not even close.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uplOrx-nVIo
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
Willie McGee would win with two votes
― just staying (Karl Malone), Thursday, 4 November 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
Orel and benito santiago
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 5 November 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
How many people have played Major League Baseball? Are we seriously going to have to poll all 127 people to ever play?! (Or whatever the number is)
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 5 November 2021 02:26 (two years ago) link
I believe the number is something pleasingly round. Like 10,000 or so?Edit: [MLB Statistics] 18,918 players have played Major League Baseball. Mike Trout, who is 25 years old, has been worth more WAR than 18,589 of them, or 98.2%.
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 November 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link
Mike Trout is 30! Point stands though
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 5 November 2021 09:44 (two years ago) link
Oh shit, once again the little section that google highlights is way out of date!As of today, the number is 19,969, at least according to https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/ballplayer.shtml
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 November 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
Might have been a good poll to have in 2011--the World Series thread had 1,081 posts (240 this year).
― clemenza, Friday, 5 November 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
this world series sucked though
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 November 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
whereas in 2011 america's team was playing, as well as the cardinals
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 November 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
That baseball-almanac figure is also old as the 20,000th player debuted this year
― ✖, Friday, 5 November 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
i should know better than to try to google than on my phone, hahaha.
i suppose the "real" answer depends on other factors too:
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/05/26/hoornstra-finding-mlbs-real-20000th-player-with-apologies-to-jose-godoy/
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 November 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
Reminiscent of the league trying to figure out who scored their millionth run in 1975.
― clemenza, Friday, 5 November 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
b-ref is up to 22,563 with the addition of negro league players
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 November 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link