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I have the shirt Branson made with this bird's face and the quote "What can they do? Kill my son?" and watching people really take it all in is always an incredible experience.
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Mar 28, 2024 16:58
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The funniest possible outcome is players hoarding old uniforms even as they visibly come apart on them.
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Mar 28, 2024 19:23
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Popete posted:New Yorkers making trash can cheating jokes when they only just learned what a trash can actually is We've known about cans, it was the idea of "dumpsters" that still eludes us.
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Mar 28, 2024 21:24
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The Yankees coming back from a 4-0 deficit and actually holding the lead on the road to win was purely unfathomable in 2023.
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Mar 29, 2024 00:16
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Carlosologist posted:I will die for Juan Soto Hell yeah brother.
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Mar 30, 2024 17:33
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Yankees...ok?!
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Mar 31, 2024 03:43
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RC and Moon Pie posted:My team's on pace for 162 wins and 11 runs per game. 162-0 club checking in. Eric the Mauve posted:"My team's weak link is the bullpen" -- absolutely every baseball fan in the world It is hilarious in every league-wide poll how every fanbase thinks their manager is below-average at bullpen management and nobody trusts their closer. Captain Log posted:I hear ya. But considering how scary the rest of the Dodgers roster is at every angle, you'd think they'd have someone who deserved an insane closer walkout. I thought they should have thrown a bag at Hader. Philips is legit, but his set-up men are pretty meh. I am baffled at what happened to Vesia last year. Dude looked like absolute nails in 2021/2.
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Mar 31, 2024 15:06
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"Bryan Abreu's suspension thrw off his schedule and cost the Astros the third game of the season" is what he'll bang on about next  this is a joke i just wanted to make that "bang on about" pun, Intruder is cool
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Mar 31, 2024 15:10
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A Sneaker Broker posted:I’m sorry. Just so embarrassing to watch those crowds. They're not going to be better in Vegas.
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Mar 31, 2024 18:38
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Carlosologist posted:Juan Soto fixed the Yankees, 162-0 is on Amazing how having an actual LF seems to matter?!?!?
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Mar 31, 2024 22:11
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Kerry was a decently regarded prospect when they called him up last year, wasn't he? There's definitely AVG risk given his K%, but I don't think anybody doubted his power.
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Apr 1, 2024 16:41
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ozymandius1024 posted:I can't speak for everyone, but I had my doubts that he was a flash in the pan in 2022 in the minors. He came out of nowhere that year (he wasn't ranked in the top 30 Tigers prospects in either of MLB pipeline or Baseball America prior to 2022). He wasn't known as an amazing defender and it was going to be tough for him if the bat wasn't amazing. Ah, interesting. I mostly saw fantasy-related stuff about him last year and it seemed pretty positive overall, seemed like there was more consensus than I guess actually existed.
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Apr 1, 2024 16:57
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Man, Baddoo looked like one of those absolutely wild Rule 5 gems for a minute there. You always gotta root for them.
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Apr 1, 2024 17:10
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General Bullshit posted:Why did the A's send down Esteury Ruiz? Because they are bad people. Like, Ruiz is bad at baseball in most ways but you cannot with a straight face tell me that Tyler Nevin is better. It is almost still shocking how openly the A's want to broadcast that they're not trying and don't care at all.
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Apr 1, 2024 22:20
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Shota Imanaga pitched 6 innings: 9 strikeouts, 9 flyouts An incredible job of living up to the scouting report exactly.
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Apr 1, 2024 22:57
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Sydin posted:It does seem like splitters are starting to get a bit more popular than changeups in the last couple years? There have always been guys who never got the hang of a changeup, but found a splitter much easier to deploy as their offspeed pitch ( Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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Apr 2, 2024 17:35
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Eric the Mauve posted:Are they still? I haven't heard anyone seriously use the original term "split-finger(ed) fastball" in years. Everyone I can immediately think of hearing talk about it in the recent past talks of it as an offspeed pitch/breaking ball. I don't know how the pitch tracking systems do things though. Oh actually BaseballSavant has it in the Offspeed group now, I must have misremembered.
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Apr 2, 2024 17:38
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Splitters are also notoriously "sreaky" even among feel pitches. It's hard to get a reliable, repeatable grip on the ball with your fingers where they need to be, and if it doesn't drop, you're throwing literally BP fastballs.
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Apr 2, 2024 17:49
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I still don't understand the difference between a cutter, cut fastball, and slider most of the time these days.
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Apr 2, 2024 17:58
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Carlosologist posted:two-seamers and sinkers are basically the same thing. They start up and then drop at the last minute. Those perfectly located ones are works of art Bryan Mitchell thew a 2-seamer once that was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen and made me absolutely dream on him so much harder than he deserved.
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Apr 2, 2024 19:16
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Fast Luck posted:The Orioles won 100 games last season and their prospect pipeline is so stocked that ownership would have to be really bad for their window to close too rapidly. Kind of? Their prospect pipeline is a lot of position players who are not really much younger than the guys they have already playing those positions. They should be trading those dudes for aces, like they did with Burnes, and I guess there's no reason to assume the new ownership group won't do that, but I don't think they can just coast on the farm passively.
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Apr 3, 2024 19:20
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Lol the rest of the teams are going to have to give them so much revenue sharing money Fisher has actually gotten the league ownership to completely demolish the small market team myth, which is a pretty hilarious side effect.
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Apr 4, 2024 18:10
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Popete posted:My least favourite MLB stadium so far would be Yankee Stadium or Miller Park. Functionally Yankee Stadium is perfectly fine, easy enough to get to and in/out but aesthetically it feels like being in a lifeless concrete bowl. At least it's in the Bronx and not a suburb stadium. Miller Park is located outside Milwaukee in a sea of parking lots and leaving after the game is a high risk activity because 50%+ of the drivers are hammered still. I like Miller pretty decently, but yeah, I hate how it's in a sea of parking. I also wish they have designed the exterior walls differently in the OF because even with the roof open, it can feel a little closed in. Yankee Stadium is fine, the problem is the team hasn't been good enough to really associate it with big moments since it was built, and also the concessions are still trash even though they have gotten markedly better on the food end of things in the last few years. But like, old Yankee Stadium was a more cramped concrete bowl, it just had ~history~ about it. Poque posted:Trop's the worst I've been to. I liked Coors quite a bit, and Petco is fantastic. It's funny to see Angels Stadium mentioned as worst here (I've never been) because their spring training facility is absolutely gorgeous. Angels Stadium feels dated in a non-charming way like say, Wrigley sometimes can. Great food and drink options though! (Also another stadium in a parking lot sea with nothing around it.)
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Apr 4, 2024 18:55
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bawfuls posted:don’t apologize to me, that’s by far the worst thing about Dodger Stadium I am a big time Dodger Stadium defender because people conflate the actual field with the parking way too much for my taste, it's a beautiful place to take in a game.
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Apr 4, 2024 19:35
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Starsfan posted:The quote was "We're excited to be here for the next 3 years, playing in this beautiful ballpark - But also being able to watch some of the greatest players in baseball whether they be Athletics players or Aaron Judge and others launch homeruns out of this most intimate ballpark in all of major league baseball for the next 3 years" I love a quote where the full context actually makes it worse.
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Apr 4, 2024 20:16
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It's absolutely what happened, but I also think Fisher probably outright lied to the other owners about how liked up Vegas was, and from the results of the vote in KC, the whole thing may have backfired. EDIT: Fisher looks wholly incompetent, Oakland comes out looking like the better party who were unfairly treated, and cities have pretty much told owners to get hosed in every public "Money please!" stadium deal since then. Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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Apr 4, 2024 23:54
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Vertical Lime posted:https://x.com/yankees/status/1776037145032982806?s=46 Boooo, I assumed the timing was intentional and there would be an eclipse party in the middle.
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Apr 5, 2024 01:48
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fast cars loose anus posted:Lots of real good sports team owners involved in this whole A's thing (Ranadive owns Sutter Health Park) It rules that none of these people can name anybody on the A's.
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Apr 5, 2024 04:08
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Well Played Mauer posted:The Lasagna is once again cold Wild that his most recent appearance was his best looking one so far. Although I guess that's probably correlated!
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Apr 5, 2024 14:00
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https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1776250969568776400 I like the font and the skyline in the bell on the hat, but the colors and gradients on most of the City Connect unis really don't do it for me.
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Apr 5, 2024 15:23
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zoux posted:was this the philly connects? Yeah, It had a couple other photos from different angles. I guess that explains why I couldn't get it to embed properly!
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Apr 5, 2024 15:39
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bawfuls posted:Lol ?
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Apr 5, 2024 16:28
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Also the pitch was a ball anyway.
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Apr 8, 2024 12:31
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howe_sam posted:Imo, an odd decision considering the glaring questions about Ceddanne's bat. Listen, the Red Sox have had a Rusney Castillo shaped hole in the org for years now. Bregor posted:I don't know a single thing about anime and you can't make me learn Amazing avatar/post combo.
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Apr 8, 2024 21:04
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Speaking of (Throwing) Armageddon: https://x.com/aria1exander/status/1777415366672798144?s=46&t=ywFxcrbWhCCHyr-qE6DyhQ What's really wild is this is the only source for this. Everybody else has picked it up as a news item citing this dude (who is a Houston-area anchor) but somehow nobody, not even the Astros beat writers, has actually confirmed it or gotten an answer why?!
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Apr 8, 2024 21:47
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Intruder posted:I notice the L in Alexander has been replaced by a 1 https://twitter.com/Chandler_Rome/status/1777441967728660766 A very confusing afternoon of baseball news. EDIT: Henley isn't even on the 40-man! Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Apr 8, 2024 22:05
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https://twitter.com/RedSox/status/1777727304854106513?t=I3oQneQRbmoLrSBJUYRNaw&s=19 every elbow
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Apr 9, 2024 17:06
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Fast Luck posted:Teams all have MRI machines in their facilities now, can they just give pitchers scans after every game? Of course it seems like every time a guy with some wear on the elbow tries to rehab instead of surgery they end up still needing TJ I don't think teams have MRIs, it's a lot more work to have one of them sitting around than an X-ray.
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explosivo posted:Anyone else here playing Helldivers 2 and did a double take when the new order was on planet VERNEN WELLS? I had a hearty chuckle.
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