2016 MLB Thread

[Meacon Keaton]

Don't be rude, Eddie. I'm sure it's a lovely video, ElTiburon.

[The Buscher]

I love watching Bartolo Colon play baseball.

[The Buscher]

I should have known that by openly saying the Mets should win like 15 of their 19 games against the Phillies this year that they'd immediately lose 2 of their first 3 against them. Because of course.

[ThrillhouseMAX]

On 4/9/2016 at 18:37, EddieG said:

Would help if you set the privacy settings to public.  

Oh  I fixed it, if you wanna see it

[DMN in the House]

On 4/9/2016 at 11:56, Buscha Syndergaard said:

Got chills watching that last banner go up yesterday, even if it hurts a bit knowing they were an ill-advised Familia quick pitch and two fielding errors away from it saying "World Champions".

That 1999 one though...ugh.  That's probably up there on the list of dumb sports banners.  I loved the 1999 Mets and it was the first time in my life that I saw the Mets make the playoffs.  But the "& Division Series Winners" bit is just stupid on the level of the Colts AFC Finalists banner.  It also makes the 2006 Mets who were way better than the 1999 Mets look worse because their NLDS win went unmentioned.

If they must have a banner for every playoff team it should just say "1999 NL Wild Card Winners", but even then you're still celebrating finishing in second place without technically being a champion of anything.  There's not a whole lot more room on the ledge where these things are so maybe a few more division titles will force them to jettison it altogether.

I'm still waiting for the day a team who made it to the Wild Card game and lost puts up a banner just for having technically made the playoffs.

Not to be a dick, but it seems really strange to put up a banner just for making the playoffs. Division Champions? Sure? If  you're a Wild Card who wins the league/conference? Of course. Just being the Wild Card? Pass.

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

2 hours ago, DMN said:

Not to be a dick, but it seems really strange to put up a banner just for making the playoffs. Division Champions? Sure? If  you're a Wild Card who wins the league/conference? Of course. Just being the Wild Card? Pass.

I think it's a little different in baseball when only 4 teams in your league make the playoffs. That 1999 team is a 97 win team. 

[The Buscher]

The Mets seem to be afraid to remove that banner because the 1999 Mets were very popular and, record-wise, one of the best Met teams ever assembled.  They've also been trying to remedy the complaints about the first few years of Citi Field's existence that there is very little Mets history in there and it's mostly just the Wilpons indulging in their Brooklyn Dodgers love affair.

But I'm totally fine if they take that banner down someday.  They're called championship banners, there is no such thing as a Wild Card or Division Series champion.  It was a fun team but they have Ventura's bat or something from the Grand Slam Single game in their team museum along with other memories from that team.  That's more than enough.  Better than permanently memorializing a year in which the Braves won the NLCS and the Yankees won the World Series.

[GhostMachine]

Banners like that make them look retarded, though. 

[Toe]

At least it's not this...

[GhostMachine]

Seriously?

If anyone wants to own a piece of a baseball team, you can buy stock in the Braves. Unfortunately, it didn't go so well when it was offered yesterday.

Edited April 19, 2016 by GhostMachine

[Your Mom]

Still Classy

 

I didn't see the game but apparently when Jason Heyward came up to bat last night the Cards fans were screaming racial slurs at him. Grow the fuck up man

[The Buscher]

Curt Schilling posts a meme bashing transgender people, then says people insulting him for being intolerant of his intolerance are just as bad.

In other news, a piece of shit is still a piece of shit.  Wonder if ESPN will finally cut bait with him.

[Maxx]

It would be mighty hypocritical of Disney not to fire him, considering the stance they took on Georgia's anti-trans law.

[Meacon Keaton]

Super Christian-Super Conservative Curt Schilling, still a tool. 

[The Buscher]

As a HR person stuff like this just kind of baffles me.  I mean as terrible and misguided as his opinions are...how dumb do you have to be to continually post things after being warned/suspended by your employer for doing it?  I always hear people complain that it's not right that a company can potentially fire you for posting your opinions on social media, but if they have a policy on it and you post things that directly contrast with your company's beliefs - they can.  If you don't like it, work somewhere else.

Come to think, I almost wonder if Schilling is just actively daring them to fire him at this point.

[gunnar hendershow]

Schilling has a spot waiting for him over at Fox News if he does get fired.

Maybe that's his plan.

[The Buscher]

Curt Schilling...
 

 

[MalaCloudy Black]

Add "good judgment" to the list of things Curt Schilling can't wrap his head around, alongside "run a video game studio", "take criticism" and "get along with teammates". >_>

[MalaCloudy Black]

 

[Meacon Keaton]

Still love that trade during the off-season. Happy to have Aaron Hicks.