Baseball Thread

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

Kershaw gets 3000 strikeouts. He had to labor through the outing, throwing 100 pitches over 6 innings but got the final strikeout with his 100th pitch.

On a side note, seeing his wonderful white family cheering in the stands reminded me just for a moment, that there is still beauty in this world.

Kershaw is one of Reddit's most recent person non grata because he wrote a bible quote on his Pride Night ballcap a few weeks back.

I came across someone the other day using as evidence that he participated in a "Faith and Family" night that he should face wrath.

 

[Fleetwood]

Kershaw is one of Reddit's most recent person non grata because he wrote a bible quote on his Pride Night ballcap a few weeks back.

I came across someone the other day using as evidence that he participated in a "Faith and Family" night that he should face wrath.

He can just ignore that shit all the way to the HOF

 

[Iron Hamster]

Kershaw gets 3000 strikeouts. He had to labor through the outing, throwing 100 pitches over 6 innings but got the final strikeout with his 100th pitch.

On a side note, seeing his wonderful white family cheering in the stands reminded me just for a moment, that there is still beauty in this world.

He's been laboring the last couple years really.

 

[Random Internet Person]

There is lore to this.

 

[A.P. Hill]

Jazz Chisholm is one of the most annoying niggers in sports period. I hear all this media talk about how "he's such a fun loving guy from the new generation" when he does a choreographed touchdown dance on a meaningless solo homer down 7-2, but when I watch him he's always chirping and whining, going after guys on the other team, causing benches to clear, and all sorts of other niggerish garbage. I really hope someone rocks him Jose Ramirez-style one of these days. The same "let the kids play" type stuff got said about Tim Anderson and he was one of the biggest locker room cancers in baseball. Almost like Bumgarner had a point.

 

[Iron Hamster]

Jazz Chisholm is one of the most annoying niggers in sports period. I hear all this media talk about how "he's such a fun loving guy from the new generation" when he does a choreographed touchdown dance on a meaningless solo homer down 7-2, but when I watch him he's always chirping and whining, going after guys on the other team, causing benches to clear, and all sorts of other niggerish garbage. I really hope someone rocks him Jose Ramirez-style one of these days. The same "let the kids play" type stuff got said about Tim Anderson and he was one of the biggest locker room cancers in baseball. Almost like Bumgarner had a point.

He's gotten tossed twice this year for arguing strikes hasn't he?

 

[A.P. Hill]

He's gotten tossed twice this year for arguing strikes hasn't he?

He did. And they weren't chimpout style ejections, they were "can't stop talking" ejections. And he was wrong both times.

 

[Señora Airi]

There is lore to this.

The real question is - is this worse than the Dodgers having a Hololive night?

 

[Franz Joseph]

Kershaw is one of Reddit's most recent person non grata because he wrote a bible quote on his Pride Night ballcap a few weeks back.

I came across someone the other day using as evidence that he participated in a "Faith and Family" night that he should face wrath.

I said before that I love baseball to death, I despise how it has the most Reddit fanbase of any of the major North American sports.

 

[Looseleaf Paper]

I said before that I love baseball to death, I despise how it has the most Reddit fanbase of any of the major North American sports.

I think Hockey is worse. Baseball still has enough boomers that dislike woke stuff. Hockey is full of (may god forgive me for even uttering the word) Canadians.

 

[Franz Joseph]

I think Hockey is worse. Baseball still has enough boomers that dislike woke stuff. Hockey is full of (may god bless me for even uttering the word) Canadians.

Which I find funny that a broken, cucked nation like Canada loves an alpha sport like hockey.

 

[Señora Airi]

I think Hockey is worse. Baseball still has enough boomers that dislike woke stuff. Hockey is full of (may god forgive me for even uttering the word) Canadians.

That actually makes it better, cause you can see the seething of Canadian fans (especially Leafs fans) when they lose the Stanley Cup to yet another Southern team.

I'd say NBA is the worst, just because it has the worst part of analytic autism from baseball plus a way to constantly trash older generations from their own sports. It is the only sport where I see this constant trashing of older legends because "they played against plumbers" (despite the fact these role players have every advantage the old ones didn't yet they still can't score that much in a game).

 

[Random Internet Person]

That actually makes it better, cause you can see the seething of Canadian fans (especially Leafs fans) when they lose the Stanley Cup to yet another Southern team.

I'd say NBA is the worst, just because it has the worst part of analytic autism from baseball plus a way to constantly trash older generations from their own sports. It is the only sport where I see this constant trashing of older legends because "they played against plumbers" (despite the fact these role players have every advantage the old ones didn't yet they still can't score that much in a game).

The NBA has something even worse, especially amongst the pundits: GOAT debates. Baseball is think is free of those, though.

The real question is - is this worse than the Dodgers having a Hololive night?

You tell me.

 

[Preferred Penne]

That actually makes it better, cause you can see the seething of Canadian fans (especially Leafs fans) when they lose the Stanley Cup to yet another Southern team.

I'd say NBA is the worst, just because it has the worst part of analytic autism from baseball plus a way to constantly trash older generations from their own sports. It is the only sport where I see this constant trashing of older legends because "they played against plumbers" (despite the fact these role players have every advantage the old ones didn't yet they still can't score that much in a game).

The plumber debate comes up constantly when discussing early 20th-century baseball players. Some people don't realize that professional sports didn't pay a full year's living wage back then and the players actually had to get jobs in the offseason. Hell, even Mickey Mantle was a steelworker in the winter months.

 

[Señora Airi]

The plumber debate comes up constantly when discussing early 20th-century baseball players. Some people don't realize that professional sports didn't pay a full year's living wage back then and the players actually had to get jobs in the offseason. Hell, even Mickey Mantle was a steelworker in the winter months.

There's also a comment I read that also put things in perspective; the 10s/20s have their greats going against podcasters and streamers, the 90s/00s have their greats going against actors and rappers, and the 70s/80s had their greats going against druggies.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

I said before that I love baseball to death, I despise how it has the most Reddit fanbase of any of the major North American sports.

Even Reddit surprises and confuses me sometimes.

Here's the video of Alex Cooper of the Call Her Daddy podcast (being mentioned as the Joe Rogan Experience for Gen Z women) getting booed while singing Take Me Out To The Ballgame at Wrigley Field over the weekend.

Here's the corresponding r/baseball Reddit thread about it, where the usual insufferable Redditors fucking hate her antics, despite, ya know, being a woman.

They can't even put into words what is so egregious and what they are so upset about (although half of them are like me - ??Who??).

AFAICT, they hate her because she is a slutty successful influencer (not very Reddit-like?). And because she somehow broke & dishonored the sacred Wrigley tradition of singing TMOTTBG by hamming it up e-girl style?

Maybe they hate her especially because she used to be associated with Barstool/Dave Portnoy?

I watched the clip myself, and while cringe, was very surprised that some e-thot making it all about herself made Reddit big mad.

 

[Major Filth]

AFAICT, they hate her because she is a slutty successful influencer (not very Reddit-like?). And because she somehow broke & dishonored the sacred Wrigley tradition of singing TMOTTBG by hamming it up e-girl style?

Scanned the thread and a lot of it is ripping on her rise to fame. I was watching on ESPN and they never show the stretch, so I had to find an online recording to see what the fuss was about. Yeah - it was bad, but I think she was trying for a Harry Caray angle despite having been 3 years old when Harry died.

As for the fans in the stands, the Cubs were kicking the shit of the Cards, and I'm sure they just wanted a quick, easy stretch so they could enjoy the rest of the beatdown. Y'know - sing along, slam the rest of your beer, heckle the woeful redbirds, hit the bar after. This threw a wrench into those plans, so she got booed. If the score had been reversed, she may have needed the Bartman treatment to escape the stadium alive.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

The Alex Cooper booing thread also taught me that she was fucking Noah Syndergaard prior to 2023 when she was a poor groupie then broke up him with and mocked him publicly when she was more successful and he was hurt and close to retirement.

 

[The Big A]

Speaking of dudes that fucked models and are now old and on the verge of retirement: Justin Verlander is 0-6 after 14 starts with a negative WAR and an ERA of 4.84.

I really thought he had an outside chance at being the last guy to reach 300 wins after 2019, but even if you had him play two full seasons where Corona and Tommy John never happened in 2020 and 2021, he still likely stalls out around 285-290, then plays to 45 tying to pick up those last 10. He currently sits at 262, and may be the last guy to ever break 250.

 

[Local Fed]

Speaking of dudes that fucked models and are now old and on the verge of retirement: Justin Verlander is 0-6 after 14 starts with a negative WAR and an ERA of 4.84.

I really thought he had an outside chance at being the last guy to reach 300 wins after 2019, but even if you had him play two full seasons where Corona and Tommy John never happened in 2020 and 2021, he still likely stalls out around 285-290, then plays to 45 tying to pick up those last 10. He currently sits at 262, and may be the last guy to ever break 250.

Verlander's chance of 300 is definitely out the window at this point. He really hasn't been bad this year overall though. It's just been a few very bad starts, particularly in this first half of April. His last game against the A's was awful too, but before that he had an ERA of 3.31 in his last nine starts. He's been a bit snake bitten too in terms of decisions, like at the start of May where he held the AAA team that Colorado has to 2 runs over six and two-thirds while getting the loss, or at the end of June where he only gave up 1 run to the White Sox over six innings yet got a no decision as his team lost.

I have to imagine that this is Verlander's last season unless he really is delusional enough to think that he still has the stuff to get to 300. Realistically if he surges in the second half of 2025 he could get to 270 wins (he's at 262 as of right now,) but that seems a little unlikely too. He's only 4 and 6 wins away though from tying Bob Feller and Jim Palmer respectively though which is no small feat. The two closest active pitchers aren't going to touch him as they're peers from his generation in Scherzer (almost 41 and clearly isn't an ace anymore) and Kershaw (37, injured half the time, clearly not an ace workhorse anymore and has been linked to retirement for the last few winters) who are both at 216. After that it's an injured and soon-to-be 35 year old Gerrit Cole all the way down with 153 wins.

200 wins is definitely going to be the new 300. The youngest active pitcher to even have triple digit career wins is Jose Berrios who is 31.