2016 MLB Thread

[LL!]

I woke up to the news. Just awful. I don't really follow baseball, never mind attend games, but I was supposed to go to today's game and just.. what awful news, man.

[Meacon Keaton]

To make matters even worse, apparently he announced just last week that his girlfriend/fiance is pregnant.  

[MalaCloudy Black]

 

[gunnar hendershow]

That was really terrible news to wake up to. Not getting over it anytime soon.

[james_ewing88]

When I woke up Sunday morning, I got the alert on my phone. When I saw it, I legit got sick. Seeing something like that happen (no matter what age you are) is sickening. Loss of life, only 24 and just starting his potential HOF career. Just...nothing else to say. Rest in Peace, Jose.

[thatshortguy]

21 hours ago, Cloudy said:

 

There are tons of outstanding Fernandez moments, but this is absolutely my favorite.  For a moment, everyone turned from millionaire athletes into kids playing a game again.

[RoHitman Reigns]

Yeah I got called into work yesterday and holy fuck was it rough getting everything taken care of for the tributes for him that the teams wanted for jerseys. Such a sad moment for sure.

[The Buscher]

Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, and Keith Hernandez were all on the verge of breaking down discussing Jose Fernandez in the SNY booth tonight.  

This is a rare Mets loss I can't complain about.  The Marlins needed this win.

[RoHitman Reigns]

Even today there are still ALOT of Miami orders piling in, will def help keep us busy for another few days at work getting these jerseys done for him that some are buying up. 

[MalaCloudy Black]

http://deadspin.com/tim-tebow-hit-a-home-run-on-the-first-pitch-1787186666

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Former NFL quarterback and current New York Mets prospect Tim Tebow hit an opposite-field home run on the first pitch he saw in today’s instructional league game. 

 

[Meacon Keaton]

John Jaso was more or less gifted the cycle last night. He got his second double of the night and advanced to third on a throwing error, but they ruled it a triple, for reasons?

Also Mark Teixeira hit a walk-off grand slam last night to beat Boston. Great way to wind down his career.

[The Buscher]

The Mets have locked down the top NL Wild Card spot.  Unbelievable.

No Wright. No Walker. No Harvey. No Wheeler. No Matz. No deGrom. Starting Seth Lugo, Robert Gsellman, Gabriel Ynoa, Rafael Montero, and Sean Gilmartin in games down the stretch. 2 games under .500 on August 20th. 13 games over on October 1st.

Unreal. I'll gladly eat crow for how this year has turned out. I don't like Collins' managerial decisions most of the time, but he has to get some credit for keeping the clubhouse together.

Yeah it's not going to be easy against Bumgarner or Martinez in the WC game but the fact that they are even there is a small miracle. They're playing with house money at this point.

[gunnar hendershow]

Gonna be a wild final day. O's and Blue Jays are both in with a win, if either or both loses it's time to watch the Mariners score and a potential Indians-Tigers makeup on Monday.

NL is a little more simple. Giants in with a win. Cards in with a win and Giants loss.

[The Buscher]

10 hours ago, damshow said:

NL is a little more simple. Giants in with a win. Cards in with a win and Giants loss.

Actually, a Giants win and Cards loss means a Game 163 for the 2nd Wild Card tomorrow in St. Louis.  A lot of Mets fans are hoping for that and then a Cards win because New York's lefty-heavy lineup would be better served against Martinez than Bumgarner.

But I don't like the idea of the Mets facing a team that has had 1 day of rest when the Mets themselves will be on 3 (I count today as rest as most of the starters are expected to sit).  Rest almost feels like a detriment in the baseball playoffs, look at how many 1 seeds have been bumped off by the Wild Card team since the switch to the new playoff format.

[Draevyn]

So we need to beat Baltimore on Tuesday to make the actual World Series. I do not like this. I feel like even if we make it, we're going to get eliminated first thing because of how streaky we've been this year. This is a sad cry from last years Jay's.

[Meacon Keaton]

Pains me to say this...ugh, go Blue Jays. But only for tonight.

[Meacon Keaton]

Wow, what a grab by Pillar. And excellent hustle to get the ball in to prevent the runner from getting to third. Great, great play.

And then Trumbo immediately hits a two-run jack to take the lead. Toronto's fans went from a super high to a super low in like 45-seconds.

We've got tons of Canadians and @damshow and @The Handsome Luchadore. I know I can't be the only fool (A Yankees fool, no less) watching this.

[Draevyn]

I think the Jay's need to take some risks in this game. Baltimore seems poised to risk some base stealing and see what they can pull off whereas the Jays are playing it safe.

[Meacon Keaton]

Love me some Kevin Pillar. Kid's a ballplayer. He should shave the beard and play for the Yanks.

Awww, man and that didn't score a run! Damn.

[Draevyn]

Someone other than Michael Saunders needs to be on base. Anyone else and we'd be tied up.