[MLB] 2023 Major League Baseball Season (MLB Thread)
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Yes he did. Sadly, that was in batting practice.Hey, at least one guy put it clear out of the ballpark.
Well @DarkAudit guess your trip couldn't be too perfect.
Context: that exchange was just after Taillon lost his no-hit bid in the 7th,
That's still as close to a no-hitter I've ever been to.
Astros are back above .500. If the Rangers do their traditional All Star Game collapse, the Astros could catch them.
Pirates Pirating tonight. 6-1 lead now a 7-6 deficit.
So many what-ifs with them. What if Sen. Symington of MO had minded his own business and let the expansion go on MLB's timetable. What if the franchise hadn't gone bankrupt. What if someone other than Bud bought the team. What if Bud had lost in court right before the 1970 season began.
I mean, it's hard to be really good when 3 of your 5 starting pitchers are either on the DL or gimped out from tendinitis. It's also hard to be really good when your bullpen has seen so many pitches that they've completely worn out, and your best relief pitcher hasn't even been seen yet due to an injury from the previous season (which has apparently been bothering him on and off for the last 4 years). And, it's hard to be really good when the heart of your batting order goes a combined 20 hits for 90 at bats in 7 games, and one of them has to be sat to get his head back on straight - but at least team management now has the balls to do that, instead of being completely useless or afraid to sit the "star players".
I think the thing that hurts the most, as a Mariner's fan, is that they looked so promising earlier in the season. Felix obviously didn't have his old stuff - his velocity was down, he wasn't getting the strike calls that he used to, and he wasn't getting people to swing at his off-speed stuff as well as he used to - but the bullpen was solid, Ianetta did a damn good job of keeping all of the pitches in front of him (no matter how off target they were), and we occasionally had some run support for him. Kuma is also getting old (let's face it, the only reason he's a Mariner this season is because he failed the physical for the team that was going to buy him in the off season), but he'd been hanging in pretty well for the most part. Walker was an inconsistent kid, but when he was on, he was really on. Miley took some calming down, but once he was settled in, he became a nice solid pitcher, and Karns has been consistent. But, we have no depth in the outfield (or at SS, really), so an injury to our CF right when his bat was heating up, following an injury to our SS right when his bat was heating up, followed by injuries to the King, Walker, and Miley and we're right back to the Mariners of yesteryear - buying up whatever cheap pitching we can to try to plug all the holes in our starting rotation and our bullpen, and swinging at every god damn pitch in the hopes of hitting enough solo home runs to win games. Now we're in a race to the bottom, and it's tough to tell what's going to get there first - support for the team, or the team's record.
Edit: Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 3 of our starting 5? Surely I misspoke - that's 4 of our 5 starters. Tonight's was scratched before he even threw the first pitch - tightness in his surgically repaired elbow. And, of course, to follow up that wonderful news, one of our best AAA prospects was banned 80 games for PED use.
I think the thing that hurts the most, as a Mariner's fan, is that they looked so promising earlier in the season. Felix obviously didn't have his old stuff - his velocity was down, he wasn't getting the strike calls that he used to, and he wasn't getting people to swing at his off-speed stuff as well as he used to - but the bullpen was solid, Ianetta did a damn good job of keeping all of the pitches in front of him (no matter how off target they were), and we occasionally had some run support for him. Kuma is also getting old (let's face it, the only reason he's a Mariner this season is because he failed the physical for the team that was going to buy him in the off season), but he'd been hanging in pretty well for the most part. Walker was an inconsistent kid, but when he was on, he was really on. Miley took some calming down, but once he was settled in, he became a nice solid pitcher, and Karns has been consistent. But, we have no depth in the outfield (or at SS, really), so an injury to our CF right when his bat was heating up, following an injury to our SS right when his bat was heating up, followed by injuries to the King, Walker, and Miley and we're right back to the Mariners of yesteryear - buying up whatever cheap pitching we can to try to plug all the holes in our starting rotation and our bullpen, and swinging at every god damn pitch in the hopes of hitting enough solo home runs to win games. Now we're in a race to the bottom, and it's tough to tell what's going to get there first - support for the team, or the team's record.
Edit: Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 3 of our starting 5? Surely I misspoke - that's 4 of our 5 starters. Tonight's was scratched before he even threw the first pitch - tightness in his surgically repaired elbow. And, of course, to follow up that wonderful news, one of our best AAA prospects was banned 80 games for PED use.
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In case you missed it, MLB put on a baseball game at Fort Bragg, NC - the first regular-season Major League game in North Carolina, and the first ever MLB game played on an active military base.
The game wasn't that spectacular - the Braves are in last place, and the Marlins handled them relatively easily - but the big story was something that happened off the field...
The game wasn't that spectacular - the Braves are in last place, and the Marlins handled them relatively easily - but the big story was something that happened off the field...
that dude is the saddest motherfucker i've ever heard of in baseball, for a myriad of reasons. even "Marlins Man" didn't go.
You run around like an asshole snatching them before other people can catch them.
Dave
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But that's nearly impossible. You'd have to be in exactly the right position every time. Ballparks are huge. I call bullshit.
He mostly hangs out during batting practice, and he knows enough about baseball to choose which side of the bleachers to be on for each batter. Then he runs around like an asshole, trying to beat others to the ball.
Eagle goes "peace out, bitches!" instead of flying to it's handler at Monday's Dodger game.
Dave
Staff member
And if you read the Twitter comments, both ABC and KTLA asked the guy who filmed it permission to use. That's well done!
This is what we have to deal with in America in 2016, people.
Chris Sale "sent home" for cutting up Sox '76 throwback jerseys
Chris Sale "sent home" for cutting up Sox '76 throwback jerseys
Uniwatch will be all over this, guaranteed.
Also WTF, WGN? don't the Brewers fans suffer enough just being Brewers fans without you poking them?
