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We're lighting the bawfuls signal here Go ahead and post your perfectly balanced schedule with a shorter regular season bawfuls 
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It's good and so is the mandatory postseason expansion that goes with it! (but also it's 154 games so still too many for Rendon)
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Jan 22, 2024 07:29
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You know what I could go for right now? Some baseball!
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Jan 22, 2024 16:23
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There always seems to be one high profile player in the league who makes no bones about hating baseball and only playing it because it’s incredibly lucrative Rendon picked up the baton from Jeff Kent After he really retires and not functionally retires, we’ll find out Jackson Holliday only plays because his dad made him, or something
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:You know what I could go for right now? Some baseball! How bout some funny ejection reasons 
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Jan 22, 2024 16:29
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I’ve always wondered if Rendon’s “cool as ice” demeanor in high pressure at bats is fueled by not giving a poo poo. I love baseball and I also think the season should be shortened to at least NPB’s 143-games. I don’t particularly care for the WS stretching past Halloween now, but if MLB wants to keep the calendar length and add more rest days then sure whatever.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:You know what I could go for right now? Some baseball! been saying this
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zoux posted:How bout some funny ejection reasons Baseball hasn't been the same since Chicken Wolf and Oyster Burns retired
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bravesword posted:There always seems to be one high profile player in the league who makes no bones about hating baseball and only playing it because it’s incredibly lucrative Jeff King was the guy that literally retired on the day he hit 10.000 years of service time and fully vested his pension. e: Johnny Bench was reputed to have said to his about-to-be-ex-wife one fall, "Now I'm finally done with two things I hate: baseball and you" Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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Jan 22, 2024 16:38
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A good way to make something less fun is to make it "work". But yeah given how driven professional athletes have to be and how much they have to sacrifice and work to attain even the bottom rungs of the top leagues, not to mention all-star tier. It's incredible to me when someone who likes baseball as much as we like our jobs is able to be successful. Imagine if Rendon liked playing baseball https://twitter.com/Chandler_Rome/status/1749457309695144325 I liked him zoux fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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Jan 22, 2024 16:46
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Most baseball players enjoy playing baseball. There are some who don't really care as long as the paychecks clear, and a few who outright hate it like Rendon, but in my experience they're the minority. Now quite a few like the actual playing baseball just fine but aren't as wild about all the work you have to do outside of the actual games. e: It's no coincidence that Rendon was a #6 pick (only that low because of bonus demands IIRC) and Jeff King was a #1 pick. Even if you loathe baseball, if you're that good at it and people are lining up to pay you millions to play it, then hell yes you play it (with minimum necessary effort). Like I hate cleaning the kitchen, but if I was born really awesome at cleaning kitchens and people wanted to pay me millions to do it, then of course I would make my career cleaning kitchens... right up until the day I'm financially set for life, and not a day longer. When King retired he wasn't on a huge long term contract. Rendon can't just retire because he'd lose out on all that money, so he's going through the charade of "oh dear you know I would love to help the team but I'm just so injured, guess you'll just have to pay me 300 million dollars to rehab my injuries for the next 10 years" and waiting for the Angels to give up hope and release him so he can retire and still get the money. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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Jan 22, 2024 16:50
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IcePhoenix posted:I'm posting this entirely to bother one specific poster gently caress
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Jan 22, 2024 16:54
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zoux posted:How bout some funny ejection reasons List incomplete or invalid. This is Adrian Beltre erasure. I will post this every chance I get.
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Jan 22, 2024 17:01
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I would have gone with "YOU'RE HERE, AND THIS CREW IS HERE, JUST TO gently caress US!!" as the Earl Weaver/Bill Haller reason
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Jan 22, 2024 17:06
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John McGraw did nothing wrong
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I have vague memories of that Zambrano one being pretty funny
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Jan 22, 2024 17:13
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Intruder posted:John McGraw did nothing wrong "McGraw was ejected from games 13 times, a personal record, and Pittsburgh owner Barney Dreyfuss sought to have McGraw disciplined after the manager shouted accusations at him after one ejection. The league Board of Directors refused to suspend McGraw, and when NL president Harry Pulliam suspended McGraw for 15 games for accusing Pulliam of being Dreyfuss's lackey, the suspension was overturned by a court"
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Hughie Jennings getting ejected twice in three days for blowing a whistle is pretty funny
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Didn’t mind McHugh but good lord did he fall off a cliff at the end of last season. Sometimes it just all gives out at once.
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Yeah I wonder why he's retiring, McHugh wasn't particularly good but he wasn't especially bad either, especially with how teams will just overload on middling relievers nowadays.
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He didn't say in his retirement announcement on instagram (which is a really good one)quote:I was never the best player on any team I played for. Including my 7th grade church league team, on which I played catcher. I never did travel baseball. I went to a small private high school (@providenceacdmy) and a small NAIA college (@berrycollege). I got drafted in the 18th round by the @mets, most likely as a favor to my college coach. I threw 90 mph. I was NEVER supposed to make it out of A ball. You can go far with a really good curve.
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zoux posted:How bout some funny ejection reasons Bandire posted:List incomplete or invalid. This is Adrian Beltre erasure. Proof that every ejection on that list that involves an umpire was the wrong call.
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I love the umpire’s double-take and “no!” when he starts moving it. 18-6 game, you’re a lock for the HoF, gently caress it, have some fun. My other contender is Lou Piniella going out and screaming at the umpire that it was a good call but I gotta stand up for my boys, no disrespect, as he’s doing the Lou Piniella routine. Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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Jan 22, 2024 17:51
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One of the funnier non-ejections I've personally witnessed in a week day rec league I play in. It was a late night game and we were tied, guy on the other team was complaining that he wanted to go home and was getting in arguments trying to get himself tossed and the ump finally told him that he wouldn't eject him because if he has to be out here himself this late then so does he.
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I called an umpire a magnificent cocksucker in a rec league game, but it was after he'd already thrown me out for blowing up the shortstop on a double play. (It was accidental, I'm just big and uncoordinated and faster than a big guy should be but cannot stop, and never imagined the second baseman would go to second with the ball and was lighting out for third on the presumed throw to first--so I did not slide and loving destroyed the poor guy)
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Settle down Chase
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zoux posted:Umpire baiting (praise strike zone) Goddamned, that's good.
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zoux posted:How bout some funny ejection reasons Pickles Dillhoefer
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Way balls rubbed, before game Yeah, that one chafes me, too
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Interesting that Don Zimmer has been thrown to the ground at least twice during a baseball game
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I forgot about Robbie Ray's national anthem standoff, lmao
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Intruder posted:Hughie Jennings getting ejected twice in three days for blowing a whistle is pretty funny From the reddit thread quote:Jennings constantly picked blades of grass and chewed on them until the area around the coaching box was bare. His signs were just simple words like “bunt” or “steal” mixed into his chatter. With his constant motion, characteristic poses and grass plucking, the opposition never caught on. He also perfected a shrill whistle by putting his two middle fingers in his mouth, which annoyed opposing teams throughout the league. Some other comments in there did the leg work of "looking up some guy from the dead ball era to see why he called the umpire "a squareheaded maroon""
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brb, gonna run out to the store in an intimidating manner.
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guessing Bobby Cox isn’t on that list because he would usually start out by telling the ump to toss him
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Explosionface posted:Way balls rubbed, before game lol
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The only reason people are mad at Rendon for not liking baseball is that he's been hurt and bad a bunch. Jokic's whole gimmick is that he loving hates basketball and considers the fact that he has to play it a boring chore but nobody cares because he keeps winning MVP.
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I think it's in Ball Four that when Bouton was in the bullpen all the relievers loving hated baseball because they'd sat through literally thousands of games
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zoux posted:How bout some funny ejection reasons Steve McMichael was no Sleve McDichael
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Thanks for reminding me Carlos Zambrano threw the ump out. Also destroyed the gatorade machine, the dumbest (most funny) thing anyone ever put in a dugout. Now where's that Cody Bellinger contract, Cubs?
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Well this sucks https://twitter.com/baseballhall/status/1749516434357600527?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA
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