Baseball Miscellany

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So you’re saying MLB had an issue, even had some policies on the books to address it, but largely ignored those policies and allowed things to evolve for decades, then picked a time in the middle of a season in progress to enforce said policies threatening multigame suspensions and using Umpires as TSA screeners for players leaving games?

Sounds pretty far fetched.

What’s next? Ghost runners scoring unearned runs?

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628

That’s just crazy talk!!

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629

Good morning.

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631

I told myself not to click on that link but did I listen? Nope.

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632

Thank you!

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633

I love that twitter account, I won’t look at it for a month and then waste an hour scrolling. Thought this was solid:

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634

That’s a cool account the guy’s hilarious.

635

To wit:

https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1406998427586662413?s=19

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636

Helpful! TY!

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Don’t know if it’s been posted, but episode 18 of Goldstein’s podcast Chin Music has an interview with retired MLB pitcher Jerry Blevins. His takeaway: the MLB ball has always been shit, way different than other balls used throughout the minors, hard to grip and it thereby encourages the use of sticky stuff. He says “fix the baseballs and pitchers won’t need any help and MLB should then outlaw (and enforce) any stick stuff help.”

638

Hold up.

You’re telling me that MLB fucked something up unnecessarily and then, instead of taking the easiest, cheapest, most sensible approach to solving the problem, they decided to just fuck themselves in the ass with their thumb; all while screaming through tears about the thumb in their ass? No way.

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639

“That’s the Rob Manfred promise! Y’all sign up for my leadership seminar, ya hear?” - The Commish

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640

Man, these are bad.

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642

Those suck. They should just wear their team uniforms.
Did I mention how much Manfred sucks?

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643

Manfred sucks even more than OU

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644

Really they should do both… over the offseason not in the middle of fucking June

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645

Active players with >5000 plate appearances and a .300 career batting average:

Miguel Cabrera .311
Jose Altuve .310
Mike Trout .305
Joey Votto .303
Charlie Blackmon .302
Buster Posey .302
Michael Brantley .300

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646

Honestly haven’t been paying much attention to the Diamondbacks so wasn’t aware that they…

  • Are 3-33 since May 15
  • Had a 13-game losing streak during the first part of that stretch
  • Topped that with a later 17-game losing streak
  • Last night lost their 24th straight road game which is an MLB record

D-Backs visit MMP in September.

(After Josh Reddick hit .366/.366/.512 in 11 games for them in May, he’s hitting just .175/.213/.228 in 20 games in July)