sports MLB 2020: The herpaderpaderpening.

[Sawdy]

14 minutes ago, Seight said:

I love how Oakland doesn't even show up in this picture btw.

 

[molarbear]

Rickett's are upset by the performance of the Cubs this Season

 

 

[Seight]

You remember the commercial where the animatronic goes "Hi, I'm Orville Redenbacher!" and everyone in the room has a look ranging from "No you are not" to "God has left this place"?

That's what it felt like seeing "Harry Caray" sing the 7^th Inning Stretch last night.

[molarbear]

11 hours ago, Seight said:

You remember the commercial where the animatronic goes "Hi, I'm Orville Redenbacher!" and everyone in the room has a look ranging from "No you are not" to "God has left this place"?

That's what it felt like seeing "Harry Caray" sing the 7^th Inning Stretch last night.

I see that look everyday

[Lemming]

Mark Maguire, Sammy Sosa, and Michael Jordon all go out with eau de bano.

[Lemming]

Flatus. I’m British.

[Seight]

I just realized they got rid of the one game tiebreaker if two teams finish with the same record.

Because they want more playoff games but they...don't want more playoff games???

[scoobdog]

6 hours ago, Seight said:

I just realized they got rid of the one game tiebreaker if two teams finish with the same record.

Because they want more playoff games but they...don't want more playoff games???

They want more playoff teams, not more playoff games.  

[Seight]

*reminds myself to use this the next time somebody gets owned unless a better version comes along later*:

[Top Gun]

Narrator: "A better version came along later."

[Seight]

I think Yankees fans should look on the bright side

Spoiler

At least the Cowboys are 5-2 and Dak's back

 

[Seight]

"The Astros are going to win another World Series, but Dusty Baker will become a WS-winning manager"

Me: 

[scoobdog]

2 hours ago, Seight said:

"The Astros are going to win another World Series, but Dusty Baker will become a WS-winning manager"

Me: 

 No they aren’t.

[Seight]

New York Mets Learn From The Past Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

includes $26.5 million in deferred payments that he won't completely receive until 2042

[Seight]

The perfect bobblehead doesn't exi-

 

[Seight]

"Which team's closer got injured celebrating advancement in the World Base-"

"You already guessed the New York Mets, didn't you?"

[molarbear]

The CUBS HAVE A WINNING RECORD!!!!!!

[molarbear]

I got home and pulled up a stream just in time to see the perfect game bid lost in the 8th.....

[Seight]

John Fisher: "Oh no, we're serious, we're going to Las Vegas if the city of Oakland doesn't give us a stadium deal-"

Oakland:

[scoobdog]

How does Oakland fuck up so bad they go from 3 major professional sport franchises to.. 0?

[Gemini]

19 hours ago, scoobdog said:

How does Oakland fuck up so bad they go from 3 major professional sport franchises to.. 0?

I don't which is worse: This or the fact the Athletics baseball team will be moving to a fourth city! That's right. Las Vegas will be the fourth city to call the Athletics their own.

So for those who want to keep track...
The franchise started out as the Philadelphia Athletics in 1901 and played there through the 1954 season, then moved to Kansas City in 1955. They've been in Oakland since 1968, but are now set on moving to Las Vegas by as late as 2027.

Edited April 22, 2023 by Gemini

[Seight]

9 hours ago, scoobdog said:

How does Oakland fuck up so bad they go from 3 major professional sport franchises to.. 0?

They've been one of the few cities to not play the "We want a new stadium/arena and want the city to foot the bill for it even though we're super rich pro sports owners" game.

[scoobdog]

5 hours ago, Seight said:

They've been one of the few cities to not play the "We want a new stadium/arena and want the city to foot the bill for it even though we're super rich pro sports owners" game.

That’s mostly the case.  But it doesn’t explain how they lost Loeb and the Warriors at the height of their most recent dynasty.

More importantly, they’ve allowed the Oakland Coliseum to become literally the worst stadium in the country.  If they were interested in keeping the As in Oakland, making their current home a hellscape probably isn’t going to help.

[Gemini]

4 hours ago, scoobdog said:

That’s mostly the case.  But it doesn’t explain how they lost Loeb and the Warriors at the height of their most recent dynasty.

More importantly, they’ve allowed the Oakland Coliseum to become literally the worst stadium in the country.  If they were interested in keeping the As in Oakland, making their current home a hellscape probably isn’t going to help.

In fairness to the Warriors, all they did was move back to San Francisco. As for the A’s, I completely agree. Of course, it didn’t help that they had to share Oakland Coliseum with the Raiders off and on for three decades either.

Edited April 22, 2023 by Gemini

[molarbear]

If an adult entertainment company doesn't step up on this one and at least get naming rights to the team.... I'm not watching porn for at least 15 mins

 

[Seight]

Just to add additional context

 

[scoobdog]

No one's suggesting Fisher isn't primarily at fault here given he's the one that is making the decisions about his own team.  At the same time, the stadium was in disrepair when it had two shitty owners as tenants.

[Seight]

If I had a nickel for every time a pitcher for Arizona hit a bird with a pitch, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

[molarbear]

5 hours ago, Seight said:

If I had a nickel for every time a pitcher for Arizona hit a bird with a pitch, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

Right?! I mean the first one was thrown by this guy (Randy Johnson for those of you wondering what ever happened to the Jolly Green Giant) a guy who's so fucking tall I don't any of his baseball cards actually have a full body shot of him, they get the upper torso and part of the Sears tower in the photo and the camera just evaporates from the kinetic energy generated from his windup

a 2nd time though?

AZ is either on to some kind strange voodoo or those birds are suicidal 

 

[molarbear]

OMG the mullet, the uniforms, the cars, the 80's were just gross

[MasqueradeOverture]

I like how the one Met game I go to this year still had them inventing new ways to lose... and then immediately afterwards they come back and win 6-games straight.

Edited July 8, 2023 by MasqueradeOverture

[Seight]

Cincinnati: "Okay, we'll start the season in the wilderness again, call up our top prospect in early June, and give them enough service time to maybe set up a run at the playoffs next season."

The Top Prospect: 

 

[molarbear]

After teasing a few times for just over 100 games....

The Cubs are above .500 again

...and people on reddit are comparing the Braves 2021 team to this team saying the Cubs have better numbers and should really buy, and I'm over here thinking of all the potential times before 2016 the Cubs had some flash

 

 

[tsar4]

Reds vs Cubs at Wrigley.  Long fly to left by Nico Horner and the left fielder ends up losing track of the ball because it is heading for "the well".  The fielder spins one way then another, getting all twisted around and losing the ball, which hits the wall and ricochets away from him.

Jim DeShaies: "Drunk Uncle has the joystick again..." 

[Seight]

hey let's check in on the completely normal AL Central:

 

[molarbear]

5 hours ago, Seight said:

hey let's check in on the completely normal AL Central:

 

oooh seight

you gotta link the whoooole fight

https://youtu.be/AT_Sb22Fw38?t=23

well... I tried

Ramirez straight up knocked the lights out in tim anderson... he lands that hook and anderson just straightens and drops

After things settled another scuffle broke out, and then once that settled... who the fuck comes running out of the dugout talking shit like he didn't just get his ass knocked out on TV? Tim Anderson

 

[Seight]

5 hours ago, molarbear said:

oooh seight

you gotta link the whoooole fight

https://youtu.be/AT_Sb22Fw38?t=23

well... I tried

Ramirez straight up knocked the lights out in tim anderson... he lands that hook and anderson just straightens and drops

After things settled another scuffle broke out, and then once that settled... who the fuck comes running out of the dugout talking shit like he didn't just get his ass knocked out on TV? Tim Anderson

 

It's so much worse that Tim was the one that DROPPED HIS GLOVES IN THE FIRST PLACE.

(And also why would the White Sox's broadcast partner post such a clear shot of that punch holy shit)

[molarbear]

18 hours ago, Seight said:

It's so much worse that Tim was the one that DROPPED HIS GLOVES IN THE FIRST PLACE.

(And also why would the White Sox's broadcast partner post such a clear shot of that punch holy shit)

Dunno

I originally saw it after someone mentioned it. I had to watch it in 7 or 8 video clips on twitter, I wish I had saved that because I have not be able to find it since

The angle of the video I saw you had a clear view of Ramirez and Anderson, I originally thought it was just a shove and he tripped...nah dude straight up ascended for a microsecond

[MasqueradeOverture]

So how about that football?

[tsar4]

New Rookie Cubs Pitcher Jordan Wicks - first batter HR.  Second batter Single,  Third batter Walk...mound visit by pitching coach...Fourth batter KO, Fifth batter KO, Sixth batter KO

Second inning: Seventh batter KO, Eighth batter KO, ninth batter Ground out

quarter of the way to Kerry Wood's 20 KO game.

7 KOs through 3 innings

9 KOs through 4

3 up 3 down in the 5th, no KOs - probably done for the evening.  15 consecutive outs.

Edited August 27, 2023 by tsar4

[Seight]

Let's check in with the Los Angeles Angels 

[molarbear]

On 8/27/2023 at 6:10 AM, Seight said:

Let's check in with the Los Angeles Angels 

I don't remember a season where a team bought at the trade deadline and then released all the players weeks later when it didn't work out

 

[scoobdog]

1 hour ago, molarbear said:

I don't remember a season where a team bought at the trade deadline and then released all the players weeks later when it didn't work out

 

Probably because there hasn't been a team this far in the shitter with the prospect of signing a player for the cost of Michael Bay film budget and the entertainment value to match.

[molarbear]

[Seight]

5 hours ago, molarbear said:

*sees the YT tab*

But enough about Oakland and Kansas City 

*buh dum TISH*

[molarbear]

18 hours ago, Seight said:

*sees the YT tab*

But enough about Oakland and Kansas City 

*buh dum TISH*

"They had to turn a plane around mid flight"

[Mode 7]

[SwimOdin]

The Braves being in the playoffs means baseball exists for me. That was quite a game.

[Seight]

I want to see Texas/Arizona in the World Series because if Manfred's going to screw with the playoffs we might as well get the most GOOFY AH championship series out of it.

[SwimOdin]

See you all next playoffs! (Only if the Braves are in)