Baseball Miscellany

A few takeaways:

Fuck Joe Girardi. He’s just as unlikeable in a Phils uniform. Nobody has ever been tossed for being wild, you whiny prick. You get thrown out for intentionally hitting people, and neither of those looked even a drop intentional to me.

The Philly announcers, just based on that clip, might actually be worse than the Yankee announcers, and that is saying something.

Shildt said in his post-game conference: Due to MLB rules, Cabrera needed to face McCutchen to meet the three-batter minimum. Cardinals skipper Mike Shildt said postgame that he would have removed Cabrera after his pitch to Harper had it not been for the rule.

Who’da thunk it. It’s almost like the 3 batter minimum rule is fucking idiotic.

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Manfred is fucking with the game to try to please people that really don’t like baseball. I include him in that category. And the horse he rode in on.

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Girardi flipped out after the warning, as is the custom these days.

To speed things up they should warn both benches, then preemptively eject the manager of the team who just got beaned.

On a serious note that was extremely scary. Glad Harper is ok. And I hope the pitcher can bounce back.

If the pitcher could have turned around and tagged the runner and been fine, the fact that he made the same motion but tossed the ball to first for the out doesn’t seem to have actually impeded anything.

Did you see all the bullshit experiments the Pioneer League, an MLB partner league, is trying this season? Manfred needs to go before he mucks up the game any more than he already has.

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Maybe Shildt would have taken Cabrera out after hitting Harper, maybe he wouldn’t have. Ether way I’m glad he took advantage of the situation to complain about a stupid rule.

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Little League-ish.

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Holy cow. Crane never checked with me on this.

Yeah, as a little kid I thought Reggie was the coolest thing going.

As an older kid I thought Reggie was a tool.

Although he was good in The Naked Gun.

Yeah, this is the first I’ve heard of any of this.

Apparently he’s working on an inner-city baseball project with Crane.

I never liked him much even before he was a Yankee. As a Yankee, I thought he was insufferable. Great hitter, and a big time player, but way too much ego for me.

Reggie, Steinbrenner, and Billy Martin. What a combustible mix.

I’m always shocked when I see how small Reggie is compared to my childhood recollections.

He may be an insufferable asshat* but bravo for a good project.

(*dangling pronoun is intentional)

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And now I’m going to binge The Bronx Is Burning this weekend.

Yep. A bona fide tragedy.

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Can anyone guess what kind of face that story puts in my face?!?

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Interested in the group’s insight to this question:

Wow.

2BU called what he anticipated would happen.

So bad.

1BU blew his call too.