MLB 2024

[Lowerdeck]

The Red Sox managed to give up on the season by mid-April.  It's incredible.  Bad defense, sloppy play, a checked out manager, and a budget roster.

[GhostMachine]

6 hours ago, Lowerdeck said:

The Red Sox managed to give up on the season by mid-April.  It's incredible.  Bad defense, sloppy play, a checked out manager, and a budget roster.

Definitely going to be just as bad, if not worse, than last year.

The Reds aren't looking much better, sadly. 

[gunnar hendershow]

Long season ahead of us but this is currently in the lead as the catch of the year.

 

[The Buscher]

Those are so fucking boring. Not ugly, just boring. Other than the tiny traces of purple there's nothing that shows any Queens character at all.

I honestly think the Yankees having a stick up their ass about City Connect played a part in this design. They have all but said they aren't ever going to do one. And so MLB wanted the Mets to come up with something generic that could be marketed to all NYC baseball fans instead of something unique or interesting. Meh.

[Maxx]

It looks like MLB just forced the Mets to adopt the City Connect they had planned for the Yankees.

[Toe]

I didn't notice the logo on the hat at first and genuinely thought that WAS a Yankees uniform.

[Meacon Keaton]

Now the Mets finally get the chance to feel like Yankees, other than, you know all the former Yankees that they've already got on the team...

[Your Mom]

@GhostMachine did you have this poster as a kid?  

[GhostMachine]

1. Fuck the Yankees

2. This crap is getting old

3. If I had baseball poster on my wall, it would have probably been Johnny Bench, but he retired in 1983.

4. See #1

[The Buscher]

I know some of the AI stuff is cringe but this is just so firmly in my wheelhouse in every way.

 

[gunnar hendershow]

Aaron Boone just got ejected because of something a fan said. After one batter. And I assure you the umpire will face zero repercussions.

 

[GhostMachine]

If umpires faced consequences, Joe West and Angel Hernandez would have had very short careers.

MLB should have fired that incompetent piece of trash Hernandez after his laughable discrimination suit, but somehow he's still out there fucking up games. Struck out a guy the other day when most of the `strikes' were out of the box.

 

[DragonCore]

Red Sox being without Casas just adds to my despair.  The pitching being so good may be unsustainable, but without these injuries the Sox may actually have susprised some people.  Not anymore.

[Meacon Keaton]

On 20/04/2024 at 12:14, Your Mom said:

@GhostMachine did you have this poster as a kid?  

No joke on nothing, but I did.

I stole it from @GhostMachine's room. 

[The Buscher]

6 hours ago, gunnar hendershow said:

Aaron Boone just got ejected because of something a fan said. After one batter. And I assure you the umpire will face zero repercussions.

 

These guys aren’t getting basic human element stuff wrong, they’re getting the most blatant shit wrong and having the biggest egos about it because the union makes them impervious.

Things like this and Angel Hernandez seemingly going out of his way to get every call wrong make me wonder if before the year is done, someone’s gonna lose it and strike an umpire.

[Your Mom]

On 22/04/2024 at 18:47, The Buscher said:

These guys aren’t getting basic human element stuff wrong, they’re getting the most blatant shit wrong and having the biggest egos about it because the union makes them impervious.

Things like this and Angel Hernandez seemingly going out of his way to get every call wrong make me wonder if before the year is done, someone’s gonna lose it and strike an umpire.

Said Umpire will then rule that it was actually a ball  

[Pogue Mahone]

On 22/04/2024 at 18:39, gunnar hendershow said:

Aaron Boone just got ejected because of something a fan said. After one batter. And I assure you the umpire will face zero repercussions.

 

 

 

[The Buscher]

I didn't have Jackson Holliday having statistically the worst start to a big league career since Gary DiSarcina in 1990 on my bingo card.  Not even a case of bad luck either, he was making contact with less than 70 percent of the pitches he was swinging at in the strike zone, which is pretty unheard of for a consensus top prospect with a 70/80 hit tool.

He did lace a hard single yesterday and called MLB pitching the first actual challenge he's faced in his baseball career, so he's got the right mindset to sort this out before long.

[gunnar hendershow]

He's been bad. Constantly going down 0-2 and taking middle middle pitches. I wasn't convinced his power was really there yet and in the modern MLB that becomes a big hindrance. I think he's just overwhelmed himself because of that and is overthinking what he sees.

Colton Cowser was awful last year and look at him now. Gunnar Henderson stunk until June. The majors are tough. Have a lot of confidence in the organization's coaching to target exactly what needs to be targeted to get Holliday rolling again. But as my friend said last year "one of these elite prospects has to be a bust" It's impossible for them all to hit.

[Meacon Keaton]

On 09/04/2024 at 21:44, Meacon Keaton said:

Jackson Holiday, #1 Prospect in baseball, 

was optioned back down to AAA.