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So the Mariners put up 4 in the 2nd inning against Shane McClanahan (RIP to his Cy Young campaing :(). Mariners IG posted about it celebrating.

Rays end up scoring 8 in one inning and go on to win 15-4 as the Mariners burn through most of their pen and end up pitching a position player at the end.
 
I'm an Anglo so I miss a shit load of games meaning my knowledge of the season is lacking and I don't have a team that I need to support. That being said, my arbitrary decision when I got into Baseball was to support the Diamondbacks and I'm sticking to it. So uh.... How 'bout that Shohei Ohtani guy? I sure wish he played for the Diamondbacks, let me tell ya.
 
Tsar Nicky said:
I'm an Anglo so I miss a shit load of games meaning my knowledge of the season is lacking and I don't have a team that I need to support. That being said, my arbitrary decision when I got into Baseball was to support the Diamondbacks and I'm sticking to it. So uh.... How 'bout that Shohei Ohtani guy? I sure wish he played for the Diamondbacks, let me tell ya.
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Everyone wishes Ohtani was on their team.

Also my Rays look fucking cooked. I know they've played a lot of games and need the All Star break but this seems worse than fatigue. This team is just not very good. They have to add arms at the deadline. I can't watch fucking bums like Cherinos, Patino, and to a lesser extent Taj Bradley start every few days.
 
Cpl. Long Dong Silver said:
Also my Rays look fucking cooked. I know they've played a lot of games and need the All Star break but this seems worse than fatigue. This team is just not very good.
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Bruh, what are you complaining about? The Rays have the best record in the AL right now.

Meanwhile, my Royals are on track to be the next 1962 Mets, because the new owner cares more about building a downtown stadium that nobody wants instead of having a team even worth acknowledging.

Not even the mediocre days of the 90's and aughts were this grim for KC.
 
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Looks like Ohtani's unhappy playing for such a trash team. LA deserves to lose him and Trout. The Diamondbacks are doing well, boys. Just saying. Also, the Mets are fat and I'm still salty they won against the D Backs in the game I saw (shitty Angloid BT Sports doesn't show all games in a series unless it's a world series). Highest BMI in major league Baseball. It was an entertaining game, though. Plenty of home runs from both teams with two in a row from the D Backs. Just a shame they were both solo homers.
 
Anyone here play when they were kids? What was your position?

I played third and outfield, but never made the high school team. Now that my arm is shot, I play first base for softball.

I almost like slowpitch better. It's kinda how I imagine playing in the dead-ball days. Easier pitches to hit means more balls in play, and therefore more action.

I also like that it's just for the love of the game. You're not in a futile dick-measuring contest with the jocks from school. Just old guys having a good time.
 
Meat Target said:
Bruh, what are you complaining about? The Rays have the best record in the AL right now.

Meanwhile, my Royals are on track to be the next 1962 Mets, because the new owner cares more about building a downtown stadium that nobody wants instead of having a team even worth acknowledging.

Not even the mediocre days of the 90's and aughts were this grim for KC.
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It may have seemed hyperbolic at the time but the last three weeks have shown the Rays are cooked. It makes me sad but I saw it coming. Team needs some trade deadline help.

Meat Target said:
Anyone here play when they were kids? What was your position?

I played third and outfield, but never made the high school team. Now that my arm is shot, I play first base for softball.

I almost like slowpitch better. It's kinda how I imagine playing in the dead-ball days. Easier pitches to hit means more balls in play, and therefore more action.

I also like that it's just for the love of the game. You're not in a futile dick-measuring contest with the jocks from school. Just old guys having a good time.
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I played 2nd base until HS. I agree about slow pitch.
 
The Mets seem to be admitting that this season is a bust. They traded their top reliever, David Robertson, to Miami on Friday. In an even bigger move yesterday, they sent Max Scherzer to the Rangers for prospect Luisangel Acuna (the younger brother of Ronald Acuna) while paying $35 million of the $58 million of what's left of Scherzer's salary for the remainder of this season and next season.
 
Framber Valdez of the Astros just no-hit Cleveland on 93 pitches.

Today was the trade deadline. There were a quite a few trades in the last few days, but no serious blockbusters outside of perhaps the Scherzer one. Other notable players changing teams include:

  • Justin Verlander dealt back to Houston
  • Jordan Hicks and Paul DeJong to the Blue Jays in two separate trades
  • Jack Flaherty to Baltimore
  • Tommy Pham to Arizona
 
The trade deadline is over and the biggest teardown was the Mets. On top of all the sell off disappointment declaring the season a total loss the Royals beat them on an extra innings walk off balk. Just think, on those HOF plaques for Scherzer and Verlander it will say Mets and this abortion of a season year. Mets get a haul of prospects but very expensive paying a huge chunk of the 2 aged pitchers salaries. Time will tell if this is a future winning team lineup.

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Meat Target said:
Anyone here play when they were kids? What was your position?
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I never played on a competitive team, but when I played in PE or when there was a ball game at the summer drop-in rec program, I'd usually play first or catcher with a preference for any infield position but pitcher.

Meat Target said:
I also like that it's just for the love of the game. You're not in a futile dick-measuring contest with the jocks from school. Just old guys having a good time
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It all depends on the league. When my high school buddies fielded a co-ed slow pitch team, most of the teams were in it for the fun and social aspects and we were friends with some of those teams on and off the field. One team, however, was too competitive for its own good (which it made it all the more fun for us whenever we beat them).

Cpl. Long Dong Silver said:
From tonight's White Sox and Indians game:
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I saw this covered on another site. Sounds like it might have been bad blood brewing form the night before over a play that was overturned on review because the umpire didn't see the 2nd baseman forcibly remove the runner's hand off the base in applying a tag.

With four players and two managers ejected for fueling the brouhahas, I'd expect fines and suspensions to be doled out, especially for the two players in the video who duked it out like hockey players.
 
Kiwi Lime Pie said:
It all depends on the league. When my high school buddies fielded a co-ed slow pitch team, most of the teams were in it for the fun and social aspects and we were friends with some of those teams on and off the field. One team, however, was too competitive for its own good (which it made it all the more fun for us whenever we beat them).
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Ahh, yes. Always satisfying when you can take the tryhards down a peg.

 
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-Falls off a cliff metrics-wise
-Gets rocked in a fistfight by someone shorter than him
-Visibly woozy walking back to dugout
-Spends next day cleansing his twitter of anything alluding to sleep or knockouts
-Proven clubhouse cancer just like the rest of the team

A lolcow player for a lolcow team.
 
Philly Phunk Machine said:
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-Falls off a cliff metrics-wise
-Gets rocked in a fistfight by someone shorter than him
-Visibly woozy walking back to dugout
-Spends next day cleansing his twitter of anything alluding to sleep or knockouts
-Proven clubhouse cancer just like the rest of the team

A lolcow player for a lolcow team.
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The Sox are gutter tier in terms of wins too. Near Rockies-Royals-Athletics tiers of mediocrity.
 
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