[MLB] 2023 Major League Baseball Season (MLB Thread)

[DarkAudit]

A baseball reddit thread full of awesome.

 

[jwhouk]

Only thing that would have topped that would have been meeting/talking to Vin.

 

[Cheesy1]

Damn it, Giants! Stop sucking already!

 

[Tress]

Damn it, Giants! Stop sucking already!

I know. It's been hard to watch the last few weeks.

 

[blotsfan]

I'm not falling for this one again.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

dear Astros - please win some more. thanks

 

[Gruebeard]

Dear Astros - thank you for losing against us. We especially appreciated it since we are down a couple of our best players.

 

[jwhouk]

Dear Astros - Sorry, we really don't want Carlos Gomez back, tnxkbai - Love, the Brew Crew

 

[Cheesy1]

Dear Giants - Please hold onto a sizable lead and not blow it at the very last possible moment. P.S. - Get a new and competent closer.

 

[Tress]

Dear Giants - Please hold onto a sizable lead and not blow it at the very last possible moment. P.S. - Get a new and competent closer.

...and on the days when your pitchers actually play well, stop getting blanked on the scoreboard. Thanks.

 

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[jwhouk]

Bite me, Pierogi Boy. [emoji14]

Sent from my Nextbook

 

[Cheesy1]

The Giants need a new closer NOW. They have to have at least a two-run lead when Casilla comes in because he almost always gives up at least one run.

 

[Tress]

The Giants need a new closer NOW. They have to have at least a two-run lead when Casilla comes in because he almost always gives up at least one run.

They should start by getting an actual closer. Casilla was never meant for this role, hence the blown saves.

 

[Tress]

Casilla strikes again.

The Giants are the most frustrating, disappointing team I've ever watched. I really don't give a shit what your sob story might be, the Giants are the saddest. So much talent and potential just pissed away every night.

 

[Cheesy1]

As soon as I saw them warming up Casilla, I knew our lead was gone.

And then big fucking surprise, look what happened.

 

[jwhouk]

Don't mind me, I'm just sitting here not having any sympathy as I look up the standings at pretty much everyone in the Central.

 

[blotsfan]

I can't be the only one sick of the David Ortiz Farewell Tour.

David Ortiz is sick of it too.

 

[jwhouk]

Sorry. One of my franchise's two greatest players ever was basically a career DH.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

I can't be the only one sick of the David Ortiz Farewell Tour. Well, not so much that as the media gushing over each new career milestone. So he just passed Mickey Mantle on the HR list? Yeah, right. You know how many home runs Mantle hit as a DH? ZERO. Nor a solitary hit. I'm a National League guy, and to me a career DH is half a player. All those accomplishments came with the luxury of sitting on his ass in the dugout when his other teammates had to grab a glove and play the field.

He ain't all that.

career DH's are going to get into the hall of fame since no one on earth gives a solitary fuck about watching pitchers hit and it rules also their HRs count exactly the same. also, the best thing about DH's? They never get errors.

 

[blotsfan]

The reason I'm opposed to DHs is that not having one can lead to non-pitchers pitching in a game.

 

[Tress]

Fuck you, Bochy. How many times do you have to put Casilla in and have him blow it before you learn?!

 

[jwhouk]

Hey, who's that Farmer guy pitching for the Sox?

 

[Tress]

This is the first time I've ever hated being a Giants fan.

What.the.fuck.

 

[jwhouk]

The Dodgers are playing for Vin. And the Giants are just imploding.

 

[Cheesy1]

This is the first time I've ever hated being a Giants fan.

What.the.fuck.

I stopped watching once they got to the bottom of the Ninth with only a one-run lead. That's how little faith I have in the Giants' bullpen anymore.

 

[jwhouk]

Leaving this here for @jwhouk, et al...

Those who get it will hear a certain voice by the second bar.

Oh. Yeah. TWIB.

And TBH I wasn't even a baseball fan yet, really, in mid 1977. I didn't go to my first game until '78.

 

[sixpackshaker]

MLB seems to get it. It's not DMCA happy like the NFL is when it comes to posting classic games on YouTube. So you get stuff like this, which was just posted yesterday. I bring you, Disco Demolition Night, July 12, 1979...

I remember the coverage, but in rural Texas we did not get this game.

 

[PatrThom]

Leaving this here for @jwhouk, et al...

Those who get it will hear a certain voice by the second bar.

You can't have that without following it up with Gathering Crowds, man.

--Patrick

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Jose Fernandez died

 

[blotsfan]

I don't know much about him as a player, but reading this, especially in the context of how he died is super-depressing.




Edit: And apparently he also had a kid on the way. This is awful.

 

[jwhouk]

That's the damndest thing about it. Survives jumping out of a boat to try to make it to the US from Cuba - and dies in a boating accident.

This kid was supposed to be the Marlins' new ace pitcher. He loved the game. Loved life. He had a family, a child on the way.

Damn.

 

[blotsfan]

How was Nolan Ryan so bad? That better be super-recent.

 

[Tress]

How was Nolan Ryan so bad? That better be super-recent.

It was.

*snip*

EDIT: Ninja'd

 

[Tress]

The playoffs are set! The Giants somehow managed to limp their way into the playoffs. On the other hand, they played their best baseball of the second half over the last 10 games, and it's an even year...