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Bassomatic said:
LMFAO My boomer ass thinking simpsons.
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You're not foolish for thinking of that, they're literally named after the team that was in that old Simpsons episode from 2001. When the Calgary Cannons relocated to Albuquerque in 2003 there was an online vote in the big local paper and the 'Isotopes' name won with about 2/3 of the 120,000 votes sent in.

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Local Fed said:
You're not foolish for thinking of that, they're literally named after the team that was in that old Simpsons episode from 2001. When the Calgary Cannons relocated to Albuquerque in 2003 there was an online vote in the big local paper and the 'Isotopes' name won with about 2/3 of the 120,000 votes sent in.

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IIRC the owners also publicly endorsed the Isotopes name.
 
Goyaanisqatsi said:
That is a good point. Like the poster above mentioned, guys like Zumaya were once the exception but now there's probably more guys than I can count on two hands that hit triple digits on speed.

Then you had guys like Kerry Wood and Felix Hernandez ruining their longevity by throwing breaking shit that still hit low 90s.

It's crazy how much pitching has advanced in the last 30 years. I do long for the finesse of guys like Greg Maddux though.
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If you liked Greg Maddux you're gonna love Zac Gallen
 
Not a huge Durant fan but thought this was cool:

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Local Fed said:
You're not foolish for thinking of that, they're literally named after the team that was in that old Simpsons episode from 2001. When the Calgary Cannons relocated to Albuquerque in 2003 there was an online vote in the big local paper and the 'Isotopes' name won with about 2/3 of the 120,000 votes sent in.

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Lmao yeah there's a bunch of Simpsons shit around the ballpark. You can sit next to Marge and Homer statues on benches around the home plate concourse. I was super fucked up on opening day, but I'm p sure the Simpsons benches were covered in saran-wrap to prevent people from catching covid from a statue or something. They definitely lean heavily into pop culture (as they should) at the ballpark. I have an Isotopes t-shirt in the "Better Call Saul" title card style that says "Better Play Ball."

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Ralph Cifaretto said:
Lmao yeah there's a bunch of Simpsons shit around the ballpark. You can sit next to Marge and Homer statues on benches around the home plate concourse. I was super fucked up on opening day, but I'm p sure the Simpsons benches were covered in saran-wrap to prevent people from catching covid from a statue or something. They definitely lean heavily into pop culture (as they should) at the ballpark. I have an Isotopes t-shirt in the "Better Call Saul" title card style that says "Better Play Ball."

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Hopefully they will be uncovered soon

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This whole Mercedes/Tony La Russa incident is basically what everyone was predicting when Chicago hired this fossil;
>Chicago beating up on Minnesota
>Minnesota throws in a position player to pitch
>Mercedes hits a bomb off him because the guy put a 40mph pitch over the plate
>TLR goes out and publicly criticizes his OWN PLAYER for daring to hit a homer in a 3-0 count and threatens that "there will be consequences"
>Mercedes refuses to apologize (and why should he?)
>Minnesota pitcher throws at Mercedes
>TLR still won't stick up for his own player


So much for "let the kids play"
 
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Tony La Russa has no fucking business managing a team in the year of our lord 2021.

With all of the fucking Latino players on the team, they would have been better off giving someone like Eddie Perez a shot.
 
I'm more of a fan of tradition and whatnot in sports, but I've never understood this idea that it's "disrespectful" or wrong to keep running up the score in pro sports. Is it not disrespectful to stop trying to score? We're not talking about 8 year old kids who are going to start crying out on the field because they just want to get home to soothe themselves with pizza and their Xbox before school tomorrow; these are grown men who are making over half a million dollars a season minimum if they're full time Major League players. Their job is to go out and perform to the best of their ability, whether that means the score ends up 3-1 or 21-3.

I get it for more physical sports like football or hockey in that maybe you shouldn't be trying to light someone up with a massive hit in a 41-7 game late in the 4th quarter or in a 7-0 game in the 3rd period; no one wants to get hurt in a situation where it's really not going to affect the outcome of the game. Swinging for the fences in a blowout baseball game is an entirely different thing whether it's your best player at the plate or some guy that's an emergency call up from your AAA team. I'd recommend not making a hard slide into a base or something for the reason of a potential injury that I mentioned, but La Russa seems like a bitch for whining about his guy taking a hack at a pitch like that.

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I assume that everyone has seen by now, late in Monday night's game between the Mets and Braves Kevin Pillar of New York got smoked right in the face by a fastball from Braves' reliever Jacob Webb. It was an obvious accident as the bases were loaded in the 7th inning with New York leading 1-0 at the time with two outs. I was watching as it happened and it was pretty brutal. He was pouring blood out of his nose and it later ended up confirmed that he has a couple of nasal fractures and will be out for some time. Otherwise though he seems okay all considered.

Also that same night, Mike Trout came out of the game in the 1st inning with a calf strain against the Indians. He was then put on the IL and is expected to be out 6-8 weeks. Big time bummer especially as he was off to another MVP caliber season.

Hate to double post, but Corey Kluber of the Yankees just finished throwing a no-hitter in Texas against the Rangers.
 
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The Giants have called up 3-time All-Star and former Rays ace (which seems like a lifetime ago now) Scott Kazmir to start today against one of his former teams, the Dodgers. They're the last team that he played with. It'll be his first Major League game since 2016. Due to injuries he only pitched in 12 innings of high-A ball in 2017 in the Dodgers' system, then didn't play at all for two years, then pitched 20 innings of Indy ball last season, and just over 6 innings this season in AAA for the Giants in 2021.

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Also Atlanta absolutely mauled the Pirates last night 20-1. They hit seven home runs, two of which were grand slams (one by Acuna in the 2nd inning, the other being a pinch hit grand slam by Ehire Adrianza in the 3rd.) Speaking of Acuna, he hit another homer run today on the first pitch that the Braves faced and now has the MLB season home run lead.

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Yesterday afternoon the Rays and Brewers made a four player trade that sent Tampa's shortstop Willy Adames to Milwaukee. Tampa called up one of their top infield prospects Taylor Walls to take his sport, but we seem to be inching ever closer to 20 year-old all-world and the consensus #1 prospect in the sport Wander Franco debuting. His teammate and also highly regarded 23 year-old infield prospect (who at least is already on the 40-man roster) Vidal Brujan might get the call first as he's crushing AAA pitching at the moment.
 
Went to my second AAA game this season Monday night. Cody Bellinger was doing a rehab assignment for the OKC Dodgers so that was cool even though he went 0-3. I also got to see an inside the park homerun for the first time ever live, but it was only because Steven Souza absolutely fucking ate the wall at full speed in deep right field and had to be helped up afterward. He stayed in the game though so it wasn't as bad as it looked originally.
 
This is it. The dumbest play in the history of baseball. Pirates first baseman tries to start a rundown between home and first.

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"There were two outs" is trending on twitter. MLB's official account is trying to spin this as "Javy Baez magic" because I guess that's a better tagline than "holy shit the Pirates are bad".
 
FaramirG said:
This is it. The dumbest play in the history of baseball. Pirates first baseman tries to start a rundown between home and first.

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"There were two outs" is trending on twitter. MLB's official account is trying to spin this as "Javy Baez magic" because I guess that's a better tagline than "holy shit the Pirates are bad".
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A couple of video breakdowns of the play from Youtube:

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By FAR the dumbest baseball play I've ever seen. That kind of play would get a little-leaguer yelled at. Unbelievable lack of awareness by the Pirates' 1st baseman there.

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