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Fiwi Karmer 69420 said:
Wish I could tell you but I only really follow the Phillies. If he's as bad as these a-holes hopefully he got the hint and stopped.
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Marlins Man is a guy who wears some orange colored Marlins gear at all sorts of other teams games and other sports games, not just Marlins games. I think it was originally some protest against the Marlins sell off when they dumped Yelich and Stanton. He sits behind home plate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlins_Man
 
Fans chirping from the stands makes baseball fun. I took my dad to see a game a few years back in Cincinnati. I believe it was against the Nationals and we had seats in the first row behind the Reds dugout. Really awesome and got to bullshit with our neighbors. Eventually we caught on to the home plate umpire's motion to signal a strikeout, which was this really funny motion he did with his index finger pointing directly at us with a wrist flick. I think he caught on to us mocking him (he was making shitty calls all night, to be fair) and ended up getting security to tell us to knock it off. Considering it was a toilet bowl of a game anyway, nothing happened as we continued to push the envelope and repeated the strikeout motion.

It's all part of the game, just like the 7th inning stretch and hot dogs.
 
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Neighborhood Janny said:
Fans chirping from the stands makes baseball fun. I took my dad to see a game a few years back in Cincinnati. I believe it was against the Nationals and we had seats in the first row behind the Reds dugout. Really awesome and got to bullshit with our neighbors. Eventually we caught on to the home plate umpire's motion to signal a strikeout, which was this really funny motion he did with his index finger pointing directly at us with a wrist flick. I think he caught on to us mocking him (he was making shitty calls all night, to be fair) and ended up getting security to tell us to knock it off. Considering it was a toilet bowl of a game anyway, nothing happened as we continued to push the envelope and repeated the strikeout motion.

It's all part of the game, just like the 7th inning stretch and hot dogs.
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true but when it's just yelling a player's number over and over without any actual wit to it, you're just acting like a jack ass and ruining the experience to me.
 
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Fiwi Karmer 69420 said:
What is it with the fans sitting behind home plate not being able to chirp?
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They're there to watch a ball game, not watch some drunken faggot make a scene. Doubly so for those paying for the best seats in the house.
Neighborhood Janny said:
Fans chirping from the stands makes baseball fun. I took my dad to see a game a few years back in Cincinnati. I believe it was against the Nationals and we had seats in the first row behind the Reds dugout. Really awesome and got to bullshit with our neighbors. Eventually we caught on to the home plate umpire's motion to signal a strikeout, which was this really funny motion he did with his index finger pointing directly at us with a wrist flick. I think he caught on to us mocking him (he was making shitty calls all night, to be fair) and ended up getting security to tell us to knock it off. Considering it was a toilet bowl of a game anyway, nothing happened as we continued to push the envelope and repeated the strikeout motion.

It's all part of the game, just like the 7th inning stretch and hot dogs.
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Ages and ages ago, we went to see a game in Cincy. We were sitting in the right field seats kinda by the smokestacks at Great American. Some drunk guy was heckling loudly and being extremely disruptive.

They were playing the Astros, and I distinctly remember him shouting "JEFF FAGWELL" and "LANCE BERKMAN YOU SUCK!"

MeatMom eventually blew up at him, in a display of anger I've rarely seen from her before or since. He and the girls he was with acted like she was being a bitch, but eventually fucked off after that. At least one party of fans nearby thanked her.
Point being: there's a fine line between cheering or chirping, and being a disruptive jackoff.

And what the fuck is your major malfunction, Ohio? You are Florida, but colder and uglier.
 
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Fiwi Karmer 69420 said:
what I meant is that the ones that try to chirp fucking suck at it and kind of just make it annoying for everyone else.
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Like I said, they're either serious fans or paying good money, so they aren't experienced at it. The chirpers are usually the trash in the cheap seats.

Unless the whole crowd is getting in on it, you're just making an ass of yourself.
 
Meat Target said:
Like I said, they're either serious fans or paying good money, so they aren't experienced at it. The chirpers are usually the trash in the cheap seats.

Unless the whole crowd is getting in on it, you're just making an ass of yourself.
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The other problem is snowflake umps that can eject people for no fucking reason. I've seen umps eject organists at minor league parks because they got their panties in a bunch due to the organist playing 3 Blind Mice.
 
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blahblahblah678 said:
The other problem is snowflake umps that can eject people for no fucking reason. I've seen umps eject organists at minor league parks because they got their panties in a bunch due to the organist playing 3 Blind Mice.
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Okay, that's some God-tier trolling on the organist's part.
 
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So this happened. Damn, Michael Kay has a 5 head.
 
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I read that the nigger league stats will now be fully integrated into MLB's official stats, which of course means that the records landscape for many categories will pretty much be upended.

I'm curious as to how they would ensure the veracity of records collected from so far back. It's not as though they have recordings of the games to go through in autistic detail...and let's not pretend that niggers had interest or capability to maintain accurate stats.

The few NPC YouTubers covering Baseball who I grudgingly follow to learn more about this sport seem to be in agreement that this is great for the game, but I want to hear your opinions.
 
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Armor of God said:
I read that the nigger league stats will now be fully integrated into MLB's official stats, which of course means that the records landscape for many categories will pretty much be upended.

I'm curious as to how they would ensure the veracity of records collected from so far back. It's not as though they have recordings of the games to go through in autistic detail...and let's not pretend that niggers had interest or capability to maintain accurate stats.

The few NPC YouTubers covering Baseball who I grudgingly follow to learn more about this sport seem to be in agreement that this is great for the game, but I want to hear your opinions.
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Jeez, this is pretty rotten. Negro Leagues record keeping was shoddy at best, and often, teams were comprised of pick up players.

I can't say I have any issue with the better negro leaguers being given general recognition by the MLB, but integrating the stats?!? Get the fuck outta here. So does that mean Josh Gibson is the new HR king?
 
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GloryHole Stalker said:
Jeez, this is pretty rotten. Negro Leagues record keeping was shoddy at best, and often, teams were comprised of pick up players.

I can't say I have any issue with the better negro leaguers being given general recognition by the MLB, but integrating the stats?!? Get the fuck outta here. So does that mean Josh Gibson is the new HR king?
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Yes, it appears that this Gibson fellow is now the new career batting average and career OPS leader...of all time.

When you read anecdotes about nigger league games, it seems as though it's a mix of some Harlem Globetrotters showboating and straight up rec league tier shit.

Of course, this is current year that we're talking about and American "culture" has been boiled down to nigger worship in every imaginable form, so I shouldn't be surprised.
 
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I think the NBA sort of recognizes ABA stats. Like you can go to Basketball Reference and sort by NBA, NBA/ABA combined, and just ABA. Something like that probably would have made more sense for MLB to do, rather than this bullshit.
 
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Here's the thing about the integration of the Negro Leagues stats: they have been ignored by the MLB for so long that the recognition is long overdue. In the time Negro League baseball was played, the MLB had its golden age of popularity. The Negro Leagues benefitted from that, especially in areas that the MLB had no presence. The Negro Leagues had some amazing talent that never got to play in the MLB because of segregation policies/laws of the time, and that's a god damn shame. So recognizing their careers and stats is something that I feel is appropriate. With that said, I'm not sure having those same stats integrated into MLB records is right. If a player was active in both MLB and the Negro Leagues, then those stats should be compiled together. That makes sense to me, especially in cases such as Jackie Robinson. A lot of MLB players also had great opinions on Negro Leagues players. Ty Cobb, noted "racist" by many, was always happy to discuss them. Babe Ruth would regularly play Negro Leagues teams during his barnstorming tours and would even mingle with fans in the stands, players in the dugout, and be a highly outspoken voice for integration with the MLB.

I think this should open the door for a discussion on MLB stats as a whole. For example, we can look at ground rule doubles. Why? Because ground rule doubles weren't an official rule until 1929 and any ball that bounced over the outfield wall was ruled a home run. That calls into question Babe Ruth's 1927 season where he hit 60 home runs. So how many were actually ground rule doubles? Do we just go back and change the amount of home runs Babe actually hit or do we just ignore it?

I'm fine with recognizing Negro Leagues players and their stats. Some of those guys were on a whole different level of playing and could have absolutely set MLB on fire at a time where it was already white hot. Imagine the likes of Josh Gibson, Martin Dihigo, Gus Greenlee, and Cool Papa Bell playing against the likes of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Lefty Grove, and Ted Williams. But the Negro Leagues was never about being part of the MLB, it was about being different. It was about showcasing the talents of players that weren't allowed or otherwise not welcomed in the MLB. I'm glad they are finally recognized by the MLB, but I don't think integration of stats was a smart move.
 
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