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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on Apr 20, 2018 9:40:12 GMT -5
On the one hand, I think the D-backs throwbacks are classy as hell and they should embrace their roots and bring this back... on the other hand, I'm fine with them ceding purple to the Rockies. Addendum: Really, it's those hats. Those hats are awesome as hell
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 21, 2018 2:59:37 GMT -5
On the one hand, I think the D-backs throwbacks are classy as hell and they should embrace their roots and bring this back... on the other hand, I'm fine with them ceding purple to the Rockies. Addendum: Really, it's those hats. Those hats are awesome as hell I was at that game. OMG, those white hats provoked so much discussion. "They look like ice cream vendors" was the most common reaction. The player who really pulled it off was Archie Bradley. He was the only one the fans all agreed on. That game, unfortunately, was more notable for the horrible outfield collision between AJ Pollock and Chris Owings. Owings was removed for concussion protocol and both were out of the lineup today. DBacks today played without 4 of their starting position players, and with Alex Avila at catcher, who could not hit a baseball with a tennis racket right now. They were consequently nearly no-hit by the Padres Tyson Ross. It ended up a 1-hitter, with their only hit coming from a AAA call up.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 23, 2018 0:46:56 GMT -5
I also went to yesterday's Dbacks game. It was Archie Bradley bobblehead night. They had a bobblehead representing Archie's triple in the wildcard game last season. It has sound! It replays the radio call of the triple and then plays the audience chanting "Archie! Archie! Archie!"
It's an awesome bobblehead. I showed up 2.25 hours before the game just to get one. Dbacks won 6-2. I am now 2 for 2 on games this season. Will probably only get to 2-3 more games this year.
DBacks were playing the Padres. There were some Padres fans sitting behind me. There were 4 of them. Two men, two women. One of the women asks "Who's the guy with the bobblehead?" None of them know. One of the guys pulls the box out and reads "Archie Bradley". The woman asks, "How come he's not in the lineup on his bobblehead night?" The second guy says, "He's probably just chilling in the stands!"
I finally turn around and say "Archie's a relief pitcher". The second woman says, "Why is a relief pitcher getting a bobblehead?" I said, "Because he hit a 2-run Triple in the Wildcard game."
The friend I was with muttered, "They're Padres fans. They don't understand what the playoffs are like."
Dbacks now have what I think is maybe the most brutal 28-game stretch of games I've seen in a while:
3 at Philly 3 at Washington 4 home vs LA Dodgers 3 home vs Houston 2 at LA Dodgers 4 home vs Washington 3 home vs Milwaukee 3 at NY Mets 3 at Milwaukee
If they go .500 in that stretch I'll be impressed.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 29, 2018 0:28:02 GMT -5
Who saw Pablo Sandoval pitch in the Giants-Dodgers game today? Oh man, that was fun. He's not too bad! Has a good looking curve ball. Saw the Nats manager, Martinez, get deked by the DBacks manager in the game today. In the 10th inning, Dbacks had Dyson (LH) due up, but had Owings (RH) go up and take a few swings. Nats went to make a pitching change to bring in a RHP. Except the Dbacks never announced Owings as the hitter. Nats brought in the RHP and DBacks sent Dyson up to bat. Big OOPS. Around the time the Red Sox went 16-2, I saw quite a few articles of the "best team in baseball!" sort. There was a ridiculous one up at yahoo sports. As soon as I read those, I predicted the Sox were about to lose a bunch of games. Voila. 3-5 since then. Hoping no one writes a ridiculously fawning article about the Dbacks. No media-induced curses, please. Look at the above schedule. Again, still hoping they go .500 over that stretch. Gotta update that schedule now that Oakland has a winning record: 3 at Philly 2-13 at Washington 2 - 0, 1 left4 home vs LA Dodgers 3 home vs Houston ----- ZERO days off within those above 13 games ---- 2 at LA Dodgers 4 home vs Washington 3 home vs Milwaukee 3 at NY Mets 3 at Milwaukee 3 at Oakland Come on, that is a ridiculous schedule. Last 3 days of May the Dbacks host the Reds. Enjoy May, DBacks fans!
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Post by Powerthirteen on May 5, 2018 13:09:36 GMT -5
Watching a Yankees/Cleveland game while I do homework. The Yankees announcers can't stop fawning over Trevor "Make America Great Again" Bauer and how "interesting" his "lonewolf" personality is, for some reason. Ugh.
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Post by Lord Lucan on May 5, 2018 15:56:01 GMT -5
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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on May 6, 2018 18:54:57 GMT -5
Rockies can't hit for shit, have eight quality starts in a row with a ~2.10 ERA in the past 11 games or so, and the most away wins in the league. Go Bizarro Rockies!
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2018 16:10:54 GMT -5
I didn't think anyone could ever challenge mike trout for the crown of best player, but Mookie Betts is really fucking good you guys.
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Post by Jimmy James on Jun 14, 2018 18:50:24 GMT -5
I had to go to YouTube to track this down, seems MLB is trying to scrub it from the internet. It took me a while to dig up this earlier gem I had seen before, for some reason I had misremembered it as Lou Piniella instead of Earl Weaver- but of course, Lou wouldn't be the one to go to the Hall of Fame for fuckin' up World Series.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jun 15, 2018 11:14:44 GMT -5
Guess who has two thumbs and tickets five rows up behind the Mariners dugout for the game on July 8th? Gonna hear some high-quality BASEBALL CHATTER.
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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on Jun 19, 2018 12:12:48 GMT -5
Here's that team I know so well. Where have y'all been hiding all this time?
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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on Jul 15, 2018 17:50:00 GMT -5
All-star break and we’ve somehow bounced back from the June abyss. The NL West remains wide open. Where are thou D-Dweller?
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Post by kitchin on Jul 20, 2018 7:38:35 GMT -5
I had to go to YouTube to track this down, seems MLB is trying to scrub it from the internet. It took me a while to dig up this earlier gem I had seen before, for some reason I had misremembered it as Lou Piniella instead of Earl Weaver- but of course, Lou wouldn't be the one to go to the Hall of Fame for fuckin' up World Series. MLB's pissiness about reproduction rights made me expect it to come up in this story about the newly discovered Ted Williams last appearance color Zapruder film: www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/sports/ted-williams-film-last-game.html Not sure why it's in the wrong aspect ratio - zaftig #9 here - but sports fans don't seem to care, judging by the TV's I see in bars. I also have family members who want it to "fill up the screen" no matter what.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 22, 2018 20:10:05 GMT -5
All-star break and we’ve somehow bounced back from the June abyss. The NL West remains wide open. Where are thou D-Dweller? I'm working 75 hours a week while job hunting!
The NL West has turned into exactly the kind of slog that everyone predicted before the season started. Hoping we don't see the Dodgers win again, but it is starting to look likely.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Aug 1, 2018 11:16:34 GMT -5
So last night Shawn Kelley very slightly lost his temper and threw his glove after giving up a home run in garbage time of the Nat's 25-4 win (seriously, despite everyone talking about it as if he went nuts out there, it's a tiny, tiny thing that he did) and somehow, because of that, he got completely fired by the team. Frankly, this is the kind of horseshit that makes me hate baseball. "He disrespected the manager!" "He showed everyone up! Sure, it's a little bit childish of the pitcher to throw his glove, but it's a hell of a lot more childish of the team's management to respond to it by firing the guy and acting like he called their mom a smelly pirate hooker.
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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on Aug 1, 2018 13:51:18 GMT -5
So last night Shawn Kelley very slightly lost his temper and threw his glove after giving up a home run in garbage time of the Nat's 25-4 win (seriously, despite everyone talking about it as if he went nuts out there, it's a tiny, tiny thing that he did) and somehow, because of that, he got completely fired by the team. Frankly, this is the kind of horseshit that makes me hate baseball. "He disrespected the manager!" "He showed everyone up! Sure, it's a little bit childish of the pitcher to throw his glove, but it's a hell of a lot more childish of the team's management to respond to it by firing the guy and acting like he called their mom a smelly pirate hooker. There's definitely a lot of goofy 'unspoken rules' and he's going to make some other baseball team... satisfied?... so great job, Nats. I don't see how this merits anything more than a stern talking to / benching for a day or two / trip to the minors at the worst. Not like he was writing #*** and #****** over and over on Twitter but that's just me....
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Post by Jimmy James on Aug 1, 2018 15:51:09 GMT -5
A little over one hundred games into the season, more than a third of the Nationals total +61 run differential comes from last night's game.
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Aug 11, 2018 20:43:52 GMT -5
I went to a Jays game today! Turns out they really suck this year.
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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on Aug 13, 2018 16:44:07 GMT -5
Week 21 in the NL West:
Bullpens are for pussies. Real championship teams douse their relievers in gasoline and send them out with lit firecrackers in their hands.
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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on Sept 28, 2018 22:20:59 GMT -5
Rocktober. Inexplicably, a consecutive Rocktober for the first time in history and the potential for even more. Kyle Freeland has solved the Riddle of Coors.
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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on Oct 3, 2018 0:54:40 GMT -5
Tired, tipsy. Sleep now. We made it. Don’t care how playoffs go. Those are a crapshoot. Feels so good to be back. What a season
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Post by Jimmy James on Oct 8, 2018 8:04:02 GMT -5
Braves live to fight another day. I was worried going in that they'd exit the postseason without scoring a single run.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Dec 19, 2018 1:09:39 GMT -5
Good news, base ball fans!
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Post by Powerthirteen on Dec 21, 2018 18:57:55 GMT -5
I saw someone claim that Yasiel Puig - one of the nicest, coolest people in the majors - was a “locker room cancer,” and fuck, man, what the hell is it with people hating Puig? Jesus.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 10, 2019 1:09:52 GMT -5
The Brewers reportedly signed Yasmani Grandal for $18.25 million for one year. ONE. YEAR.
WTF?
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 10, 2019 17:22:17 GMT -5
I saw someone claim that Yasiel Puig - one of the nicest, coolest people in the majors - was a “locker room cancer,” and fuck, man, what the hell is it with people hating Puig? Jesus. I don't follow baseball, but if I recall from when he was first the HOT NEW SPORTS THING, it's that typical baseball mix of racism and someone committing the terrible sin of actually demonstrably showing themselves enjoying playing baseball, right?
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jan 10, 2019 17:44:19 GMT -5
The Brewers reportedly signed Yasmani Grandal for $18.25 million for one year. ONE. YEAR. WTF? They're a big swinging club, and Grandal's got a good bat, plus (despite some fuck-ups in the playoffs last year) he's sound defensively. I thought it was a good signing.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Jan 11, 2019 10:12:55 GMT -5
They're a big swinging club, and Grandal's got a good bat, plus (despite some fuck-ups in the playoffs last year) he's sound defensively. I thought it was a good signing. I also thought it was a good signing. They're paying him a pittance above the QO he turned down from the Dodgers, there's no long-term "aging catcher" downside, and he'll be moving into a hitter-friendly park. Considering that the Brewers came within one win of the World Series last year with a platoon of moldering corpses at catcher, this is a significant upgrade for them.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jan 11, 2019 11:09:16 GMT -5
They're a big swinging club, and Grandal's got a good bat, plus (despite some fuck-ups in the playoffs last year) he's sound defensively. I thought it was a good signing. I also thought it was a good signing. They're paying him a pittance above the QO he turned down from the Dodgers, there's no long-term "aging catcher" downside, and he'll be moving into a hitter-friendly park. Considering that the Brewers came within one win of the World Series last year with a platoon of moldering corpses at catcher, this is a significant upgrade for them. I may have a soft spot for him because he’s a consistent point producer for me in my fantasy league, which is a great way of finding out who’s an under the radar base-hit source.
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