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bewbies posted:on this day of baseball, enjoy the most baseball of baseball players, George Brett, starring in an ad for soap so dripping with sex and masculinity and baseball that you'll need to step outside to cool down afterwards I will give my body to lifeboy
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1B are also often nonathletic moose-men valued for their eye and ability to hit ball long way. They should get to swap out with a designated runner after they reach base.
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Ogmius815 posted:1B are also often nonathletic moose-men valued for their eye and ability to hit ball long way. They should get to swap out with a designated runner after they reach base. You could put the designated runner in the unused batting box, no point in making fans watch some fat guy lumber to first.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:30
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A bunch of you all said "ball" lol that's what they call the testes is balls But anyway, the TV at work has Sling, and it's probably going to be slow, so I'm gonna have baseball on all day and then go home and watch more baseball and also do plenty of poo poo posting, it's gonna be a good day.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:32
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Apr 1, 2021 16:33
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I will never stop fighting the Designated Hitler. I will never understand wanting to see pitchers hit.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:36
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mcmagic posted:I will never understand wanting to see pitchers hit. I will never understand wanting to watch catchers run.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:37
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We shouldn't have to suffer through wretched posting in the name of tradition, we need designated posters so no one ever has to read another PFC post.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:39
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R.D. Mangles posted:It is so loving cold today for the cubs opener, love that April baseball. We've had such nice weather and of course for opening day it dips back down to the 30s, baseball is truly back.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:40
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MLB is now played by two people with wiffle balls and bats, ghost runners, ghost fielders and one umpire who decides what's a hit/out and how far the runners advance.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:43
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In 2019, D-Backs catcher Alex Avila was injured running the bases after a home run. If we had a designated runner rule, this horrific injury could have been avoided.
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R.D. Mangles posted:Baseball...is BACK https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/1377645852894900227 2021 Season off to a roaring start already.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:44
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It's that one day of the year where I get fooled into thinking the Angels might be a good team. Very excited.
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PFC in BShitpostingOHL for opening day. Baseball really is back.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:46
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If you think about it, the designated runner rule is no more stupid than having someone else perform any other essential function of baseball for players who are bad at it. It's not like catchers spend time practicing baserunning, anyway. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Apr 1, 2021 16:47
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The scheduled day off after opening day is dogshit garbage.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:49
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Their should be a second DH for catchers as catchers can't hit either
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Apr 1, 2021 16:50
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Making Gary Sanchez take his gear off four times a game is an undue burden.
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I never realized just how nice having two names on my ignore list could be. Like, obviously it was always good, just extra good today.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:53
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The last time the Dodgers started their season on April 1st was eight years ago today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8pZiV03YYM By the time this happened I was hammered in the top deck, and absolutely lost my poo poo. It was a gorgeous and perfect Opening Day which I'll never top. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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David Price is making $32m to be a Dodgers bullpen guy this year. The Pirates's entire payroll is 1.31 David Prices.
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Look, when they said ‘Meet the Mets’, they meant with strict social distancing
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Apr 1, 2021 17:12
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Nine years ago today I made a joke that came true. (Archives required)
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Opening day has arrived with no deal in place for Carlos Correa, the only offer being an insulting 6/120. So he hits free agency going into 2022 when the Astros will have approximately an $80m payroll and could easily afford to give him his market value since he said he wouldn't discuss an extension during the season The tank is back baby
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:David Price is making $32m to be a Dodgers bullpen guy this year. The Boston Red Sox are paying David Price $16m to be a Dodgers bullpen guy this year.
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Apr 1, 2021 17:26
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Hey lets be fair, David is almost certainly going to make a few starts this year
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Apr 1, 2021 17:28
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Got an Angels shirt and hat on, gonna ride this year’s hype train all the way to >.500
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Apr 1, 2021 17:42
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Apr 1, 2021 17:56
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Oh, PFC had a meltdown. It really is Opening Day.
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Hello what are people using these days to get around blackouts with DNS stuff since Unblock-US seems to be gone. This will be the only thing I use it for so I'm not sure if I need a full VPN but w/e. If this question is illegal please pretend I am asking about something else
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Is there any way for my parents to watch the Cubs legally? I admit I dont know why they would want too, but they do. They dont have cable so they cant get the cubs lovely network. Not that they would have been able to anyway since they had DISH. They live in central Illinois so MLB.TV is out of the question because for some reason blackouts are still a thing in 2021, and using a VPN would be a bit too much for them to handle. So I can only assume they are poo poo out of luck.
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I felt like doing an effort post about the Giants. This is not exactly a "meet the team" post, more like what my expectations are for this season. Ok so a decade ago the Giants won 3 World Series in 5 years, but I'm not gonna dwell on that  Ahem. Those teams will be loved forever in San Fran, but honestly they were never 100-win powerhouses. There was plenty of luck involved, "bullshit" even. Brian Sabean hit on a string of high draft picks (Posey, Belt, Crawford, Panik, Lincecum, Cain, Bumgarner) but he was an old-school GM from a scouting background. The Giants were one of the last teams to embrace moneyball. Outside of the big names, their drafts were atrocious. Look up a SF top prospects list from like 2015 and it's Adam Duvall and a bunch of guys you never heard of. They never had any depth, the upper minors were a wasteland. Sabean's FA signings were pretty bad too. When the core began to age, with no help coming from the minors, the team bottomed out in 2017 and 2018. Enter Farhan Zaidi. Under Zaidi, the Dodgers were, and are, the model of a smart, stats-oriented, big-money team. They spend money where it's be most effective, notably on international signings. They build deep rosters with tons of pitching, use surplus SPs as multi-inning relievers, and platoon hitters and play them at multiple positions. They find guys like Max Muncy and Justin Turner in the minors. This is the model that Zaidi brought to San Francisco, and Giants fans are hoping that it starts paying off soon. In his first 2 years, Farhan hasn't made a splash in free agency. Tommy La Stella is our biggest signing so far, at 3 years/$19M. And yet Farhan has already reshaped the team: - signed Mike Yastrzemski to a minor league deal. Yaz spent years in the Orioles system without making it to the big leagues. He hit .297/.400/.568 last year and recieved MVP votes - Signed Donovan Solano on a minors deal. Solano was a journeyman with MIA and NYY, but he's hit .328 in 2 seasons with the Giants, and won a silver slugger -Signed a slew of starting pitchers. Kevin Gausman was good enough last year to earn a qualifying offer. Giants took a flyer on Drew Smyly and he earned himself $11M from the Braves this year. This offseason we brought in Alex Wood, Anthony DeSclefani, and Aaron Sanchez. -So much depth. Zaidi got Mauricio Dubon from the Brewers for two months of Drew Pomeranz. He's starting in CF. Alex Dickerson has a .947 OPS for us as a platoon OF. This guy always had big power but couldn't stay healthy. Got him from the Padres for "Franklin Van Gurp". IF Wilmer Flores has an .830 OPS on an extremely cheap deal. Plus a bunch of minor league hitters. - Totally revamped the bullpen. In the last few years, we've brought in a few relief pitchers: Jake McGee, Jose Alvarez, Matt Wisler, John Brebbia, Sam Selman, Jarlin Garcia, Tyler Rogers, Nick Tropeano, Trevor Gott, Nick Vincent, OK you get the idea. They haven't all been winners, but some have shown enough promise that I think our bullpen can be at least average, without any big-name guys. 2020 was supposed to be the last year of the rebuild. Instead, Covid happened, and our top prospects didnt play, except for Joey Bart who was promoted before he was ready. We have a wave of hitting prospects coming: Bart, OF Heliot Ramos (who torched the Cactus League this spring), SS Marco Luciano, and more. Now Giants fans are hoping they make an impact in 2022. So 2021 looks like a transitional year. Most of the big contracts expire at the end of the season, and the team should make a splash in free agency next year as the prospects come up. But the team hit surprisingly well in 2020 and I think they could surprise people. A winning record is totally possible, although playoffs will be tough with the Dodgers and Padres in the division. Some Giants fans are getting impatient, but Zaidi gets an A+ from me. The Pussy Boss fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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I’m so sick of being stuck in my house. It’s reached the point where I miss getting annihilated by the sun at Sunday afternoon games. In fact, I yearn for it.
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Apr 1, 2021 18:25
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Josh Donaldson already hurt himself lmao
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Apr 1, 2021 19:31
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Ke'Bryan Hayes hit a monster nuke in the first inning lol he’s so good
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GalacticAcid posted:Ke'Bryan Hayes hit a monster nuke in the first inning lol new thread rule you have to post the highlight when talking about cool poo poo like this
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Apr 1, 2021 19:41
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I'm gonna get drunk and watch the Mariners lose tonight v. excited
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DurosKlav posted:Is there any way for my parents to watch the Cubs legally? I admit I dont know why they would want too, but they do. FuboTV added Marquee a couple days ago, which IIRC is the only streaming service now that Hulu dropped them.
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TwoHeadedDeer posted:does anyone here have the mlb.tv all teams thing? does it include all games all season long, including playoffs? because if not, gently caress that Technically, it does, yeah. National broadcasts and your local team are subject the blackouts, which includes the entire postseason. A VPN (or working DNS service that fakes your location) can get around those blackouts, though.
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