2021 MLB Season / 21-22 Offseason Thread

[Meacon Keaton]

I wouldn't even mind it if it was an actual "Woo" but it's them doing it in a shrill half-Woo/half-howl at the moon sound. I had to mute it. It made my head hurt right between my eyebrows. I don't think I've ever experienced a sound that had that kind of affect on me before.  

[The Buscher]

In the midst of another complete no-show from the offense, Mets fans just booed Lindor during the 18th game of an 11-year contract.

[The Buscher]

On 25/04/2021 at 16:37, Meacon Keaton said:

I had a moment like this at work the other day. Got a resume' for someone born in 2002. I graduated in 2003. I saw it, laughed thinking it was a joke or mistake, and then realized that yes, I'm the old-timer now.

Now I've had a moment like this today too!  If you were to tell me we were hiring a 20, soon to be 21 year old, I'd have given it no thought.  But entering his new hire info and seeing the date of birth as 7/31/2000 completely messed with me as a 2007 graduate.

I think I still viewed everyone from my high school class as kids for years, even after we'd all finished college and were working and some got married and had kids.  Just keeping up with friends and seeing acquiantances on FB, in my mind everyone looked the same as we used to.

And then the 10-year reunion rolls around and even though I wasn't going, I still decided to break out the yearbook for old times sake.  It was at that moment that I looked at those pictures and realized with horror that we all looked like babies.

[DYSI]

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What is the ump even trying to call here? 

 

 

[The Buscher]

Jacob deGrom will, as usual, not throw any teammates under the bus and he’ll say it’s his fault for giving up a run at all.

In reality, he could murder a teammate on live TV in the middle of the field and I don’t think a jury would convict him.

[Meacon Keaton]

It's like clockwork. It really is one of the most mindboggling things I've ever seen in sports. 

He only has himself to blame, I guess. He did go 0-for-2 at the plate, after all.

[The Buscher]

The Mets have made every Red Sox pitcher look like prime Pedro.  It’s insane.

[gunnar hendershow]

He gave up 3 hits. What a bum.

[Meacon Keaton]

14 minutes ago, damshow said:

He gave up 3 hits. What a bum.

And only 9 strikeouts. Way to rely on your defense there, guy.

[The Buscher]

Matt Barnes strikes out the side basically effortlessly to close it out.  Boston wins 1-0.  The teams combined for 7 hits and 30 strikeouts.

So many players around the league are doing nothing but taking helpless home run cuts every at-batband this might kill interest way more than any terrible rule changes will.

[Maxx]

Across 81 starts since 2018, deGroom has a 1.99 ERA, the Mets are 38-43 in those games.

[Your Mom]

Speaking of masterful pitchers...we may have lost 10-0 but my favorite Cub Rizzo struck out NL MVP Freddie Freeman and still has a 0.00 ERA  

[Draevyn]

7 hours ago, Your Mom said:

Speaking of masterful pitchers...we may have lost 10-0 but my favorite Cub Rizzo struck out NL MVP Freddie Freeman and still has a 0.00 ERA  

I just watched the video on MLB.com and the smiles on both their faces after it happened was just great. Rizzo's going to have that ball encased in gold on his shelf.

[Meacon Keaton]

Both of those guys are two of my favorites. They’re both great guys and the fact they both could laugh about it, especially Freeman, shows just how much fun they actually have playing something that so many take too seriously.

[gunnar hendershow]

Yeah the thing that's going to "save baseball" are these young guys who just have a ton of fun being allowed to constantly have a ton of fun. For how serious a sport football and how intense guys get during plays you'll sometimes even see in between plays opposing players yucking it up. And then after games it's a lovefest. NBA is even more prominent with that, you'll have players ask how the wife and kids are, then drop a vicious dunk on them 10 seconds later.

[Meacon Keaton]

Another loss from that pathetic extra-inning rule. Loaisiga gets the loss despite giving up a bunt and a flyball to centerfield. This is so stupid. 

[DanishmadePunk]

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31366185/roberto-alomar-placed-mlb-ineligible-list-2014-sexual-misconduct-allegation

[Meacon Keaton]

Piece of shit being a piece of shit shocker. 

[SeanDMan]

On 29/04/2021 at 11:40, damshow said:

Yeah the thing that's going to "save baseball" are these young guys who just have a ton of fun being allowed to constantly have a ton of fun. For how serious a sport football and how intense guys get during plays you'll sometimes even see in between plays opposing players yucking it up. And then after games it's a lovefest. NBA is even more prominent with that, you'll have players ask how the wife and kids are, then drop a vicious dunk on them 10 seconds later.

I have always thought that what happens in a game is part of the game but if you're hitting vicious dunks on a dude's family that is a step too far.

[Meacon Keaton]

When Aaron Judge is healthy he's so friggin' good.