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Gef Mongoose said:
It’s not. I’ve found some places to stream it on my phone.
Currently I’m listening to a radio broadcast for the Braves vs the Padres.
I’m not tech savvy enough to pirate it onto my TV though.

My grandparents like to watch the games as well and they’re even more technologically dumb. I just learned that the FOX affiliate channel here will be airing 15 Braves games this season though.
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So, i'm a huge piracy guy so I can help you and your folks out.
Roku has casting apps you can download on your phone/TV, but some sites don't work on it. if you have a android TV it works great. Firesticks, i'd download Kodi and get some apps on there. you could also say fuck it and buy a IPTV, 120 a year, and get any channel you want.
 
Dodgers managed to eke one out today over the Tigers. Walked a few too many batters for my liking but that's Baseball, as they say.

That Ohtani homer was fucking incredible. There's something about powerfully hit opposite field homers that are special.

Tomorrow's pitching duel between Flaherty and Yamamoto will also be fun to watch.
 
Looseleaf Paper said:
Good evening Saars and Mams, Indians have been a hot topic recently, so I thought I would highlight the FIRST Major League player of Indian descent (half black), Kumar Rocker.

Kumar Rocker of the Texas Rangers is a RHP and the Prospect that has interested me the most. He debuted as a starter last year late in the season during the Garbage Time of the season and was pretty good. Unfortunately, he has had an abysmal spring so far going into the game tonight with a 2 IP total out of 2 starts with a 36.00 ERA. Tonight's game against the Padres would be the first time he would pitch on television, so I did the needful and watched him. Would he REDEEM himself and pitch well, or continue to SCAM the Rangers out of a pitching spot.

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Not only did he dome Fernando Tatis Jr. (Based) but he also gave a homerun to motherfucking Luis Arraez.
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He ended the night with 2.1 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 2 K. Not good, but technically an improvement. Will Kumar Rocker ascend to enlightenment and become the greatest pitcher of all time? Should he have stuck with Cricket? Will he be hired into the Texas Rangers customer service division? Only time will tell. (Probably not the first one, but I still have hope.)
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The Rangers also have another "hot prospect" in their current rotation, Jack Leiter, who also absolutely blows. Maybe they both can have the needful done to them and get sent to AAA within the first month so there's a chance at winning late-rotation games. But probably not. It doesn't really matter anyways, since we're in for a guaranteed Dodgers repeat title.
 
A.P. Hill said:
The Rangers also have another "hot prospect" in their current rotation, Jack Leiter, who also absolutely blows. Maybe they both can have the needful done to them and get sent to AAA within the first month so there's a chance at winning late-rotation games. But probably not. It doesn't really matter anyways, since we're in for a guaranteed Dodgers repeat title.
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I kind of want to see if they try to make Leiter a closer because he has proven nothing to me about his ability to be a starter. He has decent velocity though, so maybe they can hone in on that.
 
Looseleaf Paper said:
I kind of want to see if they try to make Leiter a closer because he has proven nothing to me about his ability to be a starter. He has decent velocity though, so maybe they can hone in on that.
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Probably could work, although I don't have any faith in a guy that's so wild to start with. I remember being in the stands for one of Jacob DeGrom's limited starts and he was absolutely lights out, and then Leiter comes in as the long man and gets absolutely blown up and it ends 11-2 or something stupid. I've only ever seen one wilder starter in person and it was Shintaro Fujinami. I have more faith in bullpen games than in the rookies, and the pen is made up of nothing but guys on minimums that I've never heard of.

At this point I'm just waiting on Bradford and Gray to come back so the rookies can get sent to the pen or AAA where they belong. Honestly, I have more faith in Dunning than them, and he was so bad he got taken off the 40-man roster.
 
jthtgrw33 said:
So, i'm a huge piracy guy so I can help you and your folks out.
Roku has casting apps you can download on your phone/TV, but some sites don't work on it. if you have a android TV it works great. Firesticks, i'd download Kodi and get some apps on there. you could also say fuck it and buy a IPTV, 120 a year, and get any channel you want.
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I'm a huge fuck you spending fan,

but I have good tickets for Phillies putting Jimmy Rollins in the Phils Wall of Fame. My best friend and I will be there and I spent a fair amount but J rol was our whole college and highschool face. Love him.

BTW sure only one game but we are undefeated.

Wow Not Yankees fan but wild open... No cole they aren't looking hot. Mets hit it on Soto....

I think this will be a great season frenz.
 
Mister Ferro said:
Here is a rant about baseball and how my local team is broadcasting 22/162 games ota/free:

Baseball will not grow unless MLB does what the NFL does on Sundays; ie your local team gets televised no matter what.
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I just came across this from Sports Business Journal:

Tegna inks deals with D-backs, Padres, Rockies to air games on local networks​

Several Tegna-owned stations have signed broadcast deals with MLB teams.
  • D-backs - KPNX NBC broadcasts 10 games ota, includes some Friday night games. Fox broadcasts 2 games ota for total of 12 ota games
  • Padres - KFMB CBS & KFMB CW broadcasts 10 games ota , 7 on CBS & 3 on CW. Fox broadcasts 5 games ota. Roku broadcasts 2 games for a total of 17 free/ota games
  • Rockies - KTVD MY NETWORK will simulcast 10 games along with KUSA NBC. Roku broadcasts 1 game. I could not verify any fox games. A total of 11 free/ota games
And I thought the Rangers only broadcasting 22 games free/ota were ridiculous.
 
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Preferred Penne said:
Nestor Cortes' first pitch with the Brewers: HR
Nestor Cortes' second pitch with the Brewers: HR
Nestor Cortes' third pitch with the Brewers: HR

Yankees teed off NINE times and put up 20 runs. Despite most of them being absolute bombs, faggots are still crying about the short porch.
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I had this game on in the background live and didnt realize the significance besides being a blowout win til I read about it later. I did catch Judge's grand salami in real time. NY ended with 9 HR the second most ever. The crazy totals were due if not to bad pitching to a new type of torpedo shaped bat the yanks used. I believe it's holding up as legal so I imagine half the players in the league will buy this bat by next week. We could have another year with Bonds McGuire Sosa type numbers.
 
Fleetwood said:
The crazy totals were due if not to bad pitching to a new type of torpedo shaped bat the yanks used.
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Did the Yankees test out/demonstrate the bats in ST?

Seems like a big risk to implement such a sweeping change in the regular season without trials.

Of course, if the main priority was opsec, I could see why they'd only debut them in games that actually count to try to maximize the early adopter advantage.
 
Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
Did the Yankees test out/demonstrate the bats in ST?

Seems like a big risk to implement such a sweeping change in the regular season without trials.

Of course, if the main priority was opsec, I could see why they'd only debut them in games that actually count to try to maximize the early adopter advantage.
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I didn't hear about it until after the game. I did watch a few spring training games and didn't notice anything off. They are saying an MIT scientist is on the Yankees payroll and developed it. Notably also Judge did not use it to get his multi HR game.
 
non-baseball fan here, isn't it crazy how sort of useless the outfield is? like they were a bigger part of the game during the jump ball era, but in the moneyball era of go big or go home and the current pro-pitching meta, basically the people in the outfield are just sitting around for 90% of the game. 8 hits in a game now is considered above average, and that doesn't take into account homers count too. so like chances are the outfield is just ceremonial for most of the game. especially the outfield where your position means even less.

like if you aren't a pitcher then most of your pro career is sitting in the dugout or standing and watching the game.
 
Get the rope Macaulay! said:
non-baseball fan here, isn't it crazy how sort of useless the outfield is?
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A factor is that they have continually moved the outfield walls in at all parks and removed a lot of the unique features in favor of cookie cutter designs.

Smaller parks mean more dingers, less outfield grass to cover, less worry about quirky designs leading to more triples.

Less balls in play. More Ks. More batters selling out for power with all swing and miss. More one inning fungible relievers throwing smoke. Less pitching to contact, fewer sinker ball pitchers, more high heat.

At least outlawing the shift placed a little more emphasis on the value of outfielders with range and skill.
 
Preferred Penne said:
Nestor Cortes' first pitch with the Brewers: HR
Nestor Cortes' second pitch with the Brewers: HR
Nestor Cortes' third pitch with the Brewers: HR

Yankees teed off NINE times and put up 20 runs. Despite most of them being absolute bombs, faggots are still crying about the short porch.
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Seems the Yanks were on to something in not resigning him.
 
Get the rope Macaulay! said:
why aren't more people mad about how much baseball players wasted their fucking time if a generous pitching clock basically cut game time in half
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The real causes of downtime in sports have nothing to do with the game on the field but everything to do with running more commercials and advertisements for gambling websites. NFL games are stopped dead in their tracks for 'TV timeouts'. NASCAR runs staged racing to take planned commercial breaks after so many laps. MLB games were usually under two hours before televised games became the norm.

You could easily have the average game length be under 120 minutes if you never paused for advertisements.
 
Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
Did the Yankees test out/demonstrate the bats in ST?

Seems like a big risk to implement such a sweeping change in the regular season without trials.

Of course, if the main priority was opsec, I could see why they'd only debut them in games that actually count to try to maximize the early adopter advantage.
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Yes, they did use them in spring training. I have a feeling they will be banned very quickly because these new bats are designed for the hitter's sweet spot. So the reason why they're cranking is because the barrel of the bat is now where they kept missing. So instead of rewarding the pitcher with an out on a poorly hit ball because he missed the pitch, the pitcher is now punished for making a good pitch because of a weird shaped bat. A weird shaped bat that now has 2 contours, so how will they try and explain the shape of the bat away?

They should be forced to make the head of the bat bigger to match the new shape of the bat, see how much heavier they get and if it's still worth it.
 
A.P. Hill said:
I take back what I said about Jack Leiter. 5 innings on 5 hits, 1 ER, only 1 BB, a win and the worst thing that happened to him was getting hit in the penis by an errant throw back. I can't imagine he'll do this every start, but he actually looked like he belonged on the mound on Friday.
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He's been working on that new knuckle/curve/changeup pitch several others have been working on over the summer. You can throw it harder than a normal knuckleball, or changeup and it still has the downward dive they want PLUS they can get it to dive in. It's a cool pitch.
 
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