2021 MLB Regular Season Thread

Post by **brian** » Tue May 18, 2021 11:01 am

Fuckin' barf. Do not need multi-hour hagiographies on these assholes like Jordan, Jeter, etc.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Tue May 18, 2021 11:09 am

Who will the next Jordan brand athlete to get a hagiography be?

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Tue May 18, 2021 11:12 am

Eh... Jordan is an interesting figure, primarily through his hypercompetitiveness. Jeter just seems like a cipher (albeit one who fucks hot chicks).

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Tue May 18, 2021 11:13 am

Jimmy Garoppolo

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Tue May 18, 2021 11:15 am

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 11:12 am Eh... Jordan is an interesting figure, primarily through his hypercompetitiveness. Jeter just seems like a cipher (albeit one who fucks hot chicks).

The NY media tried for 20 years to find something interesting about him and failed.

Post by **brian** » Tue May 18, 2021 11:17 am

I played HS baseball against Jeter and even I couldn't care less about his life.

ETA:
(To be accurate, he played. I was a bench body and got in some games against the smaller schools in our conference, not Kalamazoo Central.)

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue May 18, 2021 11:26 am

I'll look for you during my Episode 1 viewing party.

Post by **brian** » Tue May 18, 2021 12:25 pm

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Tue May 18, 2021 12:51 pm

:D

...JFC, the amount of slobbering and knob-waxing will be historic.

Good thing I'll never see it :P

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue May 18, 2021 1:04 pm

[quietly tears up view party invitation to Max]

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue May 18, 2021 1:05 pm

I'll be 2kipping thi2

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Tue May 18, 2021 1:36 pm

hahaha
we could do it old-school Crossfire style. i'd provide witty family-friendly rebuttals. e.g. "Giambi was actually safe" and better yet "he actually caught that damn ball in fair territory but apparently didn't know how to stop himself from breaking his own nose"

mister d wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 1:04 pm [quietly tears up view party invitation to Max]

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Tue May 18, 2021 2:03 pm

No question this documentary is going to suck. But a 6-part series on all the idiots who obsessively hate on him would be fascinating TV.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue May 18, 2021 2:31 pm

I just want one entire episode devoted to this:

Post by **brian** » Tue May 18, 2021 2:50 pm

Unless Derek Jeter kills his wife in the next year or so, I question why you need to spend almost as much time on him as was devoted to OJ: Made In America.

Documentary bloat is a real thing.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue May 18, 2021 6:16 pm

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Wed May 19, 2021 12:11 am

M's no-hit for the second time in 13 days.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Wed May 19, 2021 12:12 am

Feast or famine with the Mariners. Not only the 2 no-nos but they be held hitless late in other games.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Wed May 19, 2021 12:23 am

80 years ago Joe DiMaggio started his famous hitting streak. The guys at this week in baseball history give a game by game recap.

EdRomero · Post by **EdRomero** » Wed May 19, 2021 6:28 am

If only LaRussa cared about written DUI rules as much as unwritten baseball rules.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Wed May 19, 2021 7:14 am

I think we can all agree that there are some unwritten rules of MLB, e.g. the unwritten rule of when and how to throw at a batter to send the message means you hit from the letters down.

But in my 40 years of avidly following baseball, I never once heard of “no green lights on a 3-0 count in a blowout” until Tatis, Jr. last year.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed May 19, 2021 7:47 am

Really? Feel like that one is pretty ubiquitous. Dumb, but certainly not unheard of.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Wed May 19, 2021 7:53 am

I know you don't steal when you're up big; I can recall Curt Schilling drilling Barry Bonds back in the late 90s for that very infraction. I just never heard that you have to take 3-0 when during a blowout. I was dumbfounded there was pushback when Fernandito did it.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed May 19, 2021 8:24 am

God, LaRussa is such an ass.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed May 19, 2021 8:30 am

I get no stealing in a blowout, that's stat-padding bullshit and forcing action. Taking your PA is mandatory.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Wed May 19, 2021 8:34 am

What are you supposed to do when they bring in a position player in a blowout? Intentionally swing and miss three times?

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed May 19, 2021 8:42 am

Ugh, I hate agreeing with Trevor Bauer.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Wed May 19, 2021 8:51 am

No bunting either up big.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed May 19, 2021 8:54 am

If I were another manager I would be dying for a chance to blow out Chicago now and have all of my hitters instructed to take until they got a strike unless it was 3-0. Just let him lose his shit in the dugout for fun.

duff · Post by **duff** » Wed May 19, 2021 9:04 am

And it always seems that the unwritten rules are only to appease the pitchers.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed May 19, 2021 9:06 am

If I somehow make it to 3-0 on the show, I'd sitting dead red on the power swing no matter the situation. So it's cool in my book.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed May 19, 2021 9:54 am

Kinda wonder if this means anything ...

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Wed May 19, 2021 10:59 am

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 12:12 am Feast or famine with the Mariners. Not only the 2 no-nos but they be held hitless late in other games.

They need to shitcan everyone in the organization, and then back up a Brinks truck to Theo Epstein's house. Turning the Red Sox and the Cubs into WS winners will look like a piece of cake compared to this disaster.

20 years! 20 years without even sniffing the playoffs...and that's including when the playoffs were expanded!

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Wed May 19, 2021 11:11 am

June 1st I will be sitting in the WestJet Flight Deck in right field at Sahlen Field when the Buffalo Blue Jays host the Marlins.

First major league game in Buffalo with fans in over 100 years, I'm pretty jacked.

(...what's the Swamp-judgement on a 50yr old bringing his glove? I'll have my daughter (15) with me (which she may veto the glove decision anyways because she doesn't want to stick out in any way...) so maybe I'll look less...weird?...)

(also going to Friday June 4th game against the Astros)

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed May 19, 2021 11:20 am

No glove once you're out of grade school.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed May 19, 2021 11:22 am

Also am I the only one who didn't know there was a no-hitter last night?

Post by **brian** » Wed May 19, 2021 11:26 am

mister d wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 11:22 am Also am I the only one who didn't know there was a no-hitter last night?

I was aware.

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Wed May 19, 2021 11:27 am

DAMMIT

....

(i've already violated that...)

mister d wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 11:20 am No glove once you're out of grade school.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed May 19, 2021 11:58 am

Making my first visit to Comerica in June!

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed May 19, 2021 12:10 pm

Feels like the white Sox players are ready to see Larussa out. Not sure I’ve seen this kind of open unrest before...