Amateur film critic, fanatical book reader, WoW glad + LoL diamond. Pitcher every 5 days or so. Gonna be a YouTuber when I grow up.
@Sara__stock
is my hero.
My wife and personal hero,
@sara__stock
, gave birth to our baby girl yesterday and I’ve been on a very sleepy cloud 9 since. There were many “I can’t do this!” and “Nothing’s happening!” but it was and she could 🤣 I’m the most appreciative husband in the world. I love you both!
If you don’t vote for Barry Bonds to be in the HoF you’re a clown. The amount of skinny pitchers who took roids to recover and stay healthy between starts is innumerable. Thinking you’re the arbiter of of steroid use is ridiculous.
It’s not acceptable to wait outside a player’s home for an autograph. Their hotel is similar. Earning a hefty salary because you’re good at your job doesn’t mean you don’t deserve a little personal space at the place you (currently) live.
After a game one one time a fan approached me with my own bat and asked me to sign it. Incredulously I asked him how he got my bat. He said my teammate traded it to him for some baseball cards (of himself). Months later that teammate was released for rampant stealing.
Sources: The Yankees cut third-round pick Jake Sanford after he allegedly stole bats and gloves from teammates and tried to sell them online. He also allegedly scammed fans, selling autographed equipment and never delivering:
Congratulations to Randy Arozarena and Jonathan India for both having hit homeruns off of me. And also for winning RoY. Their success versus me was taken into large consideration by the voters I’m sure.
One day when I’m a FA that people care about, Im giving
@FoolishBB
the news first. But people are gonna think he’s just messing around with funny player/uniform combos. This is now a goal of mine.
Every morning in spring training Adam Wainright would help me do the crossword puzzle and Yadier Molina would work on my blocking/receiving at 6am in February. I was a 20yo minor league rookie and 12 years later I love them for it. Outstanding human beings.
Thank you for all the support everyone!! Considering I walked approximately 40 batters, it went about as well as it could have. I’ll dial it in next time and make it more fun to be a fan of mine. Now time to make sure my wife doesn’t follow through on her threats 😂
Mets' Max Scherzer arrives in Porsche, joins fellow pitcher Gerrit Cole and other players as union and MLB meet for a third straight day in an attempt to salvage opening day on March 31 amid lockout.
That's the height of entertainment right there. The hardest thrower in baseball gets taken 400+ feet to center by the most exciting player in baseball, only to be robbed by the reigning MVP.
High school baseball is extremely unimportant. Enjoy your family. If your goal is to play MLB, your attendance in a HS tournament doesn’t matter at all. With all the training tools available to kids these days, don’t let any single coach bully you around.
PSA...Players...Skipping your HS teams spring break tournament to go on vacation with your family, isn't an option. I can't believe this even needs to be said, but it does.
Guardians and Mets ninth inning comebacks is a reminder that you’re extremely sensitive and/or dumb if you get upset when the opposing team tries to score runs when you’re playing a professional baseball game.
MLB players currently accept less pay than they’re worth for their milb years & the first 7+ of their big league careers. This helps poorer teams compete with richer teams. Those “poorer” teams are not trying to compete and baseball is worse because of it. This is an owner issue.
Ohtani is the most talented baseball player the game has ever seen by a significant margin. Elite at everything. It’s a shame we don’t get to see him play defense.
On LGBT night we need to accommodate the institution that’s been doing their best to eradicate LGBT acceptance for centuries (and still to this day)?
Nahhh we really don’t…
My favorite breakdown to date. If there’s a single writer who doesn’t vote this man into the HoF on day one, they need to be drawn and quartered. (Or just lose their vote, they get to decide)
Old baseball players cannot believe that players have gotten better as time goes on. It blows my mind. Does he think Walter and Randy Johnson were similar in skill? (Walter had better stats)
Billy Ripken had an MLB Network editor sync up videos of current pitchers next to pitchers from 20 years ago in effort to prove that today’s players aren’t throwing the ball any faster
My wife has been cracking up reading all the quote tweet translations of this picture. “It looks like he just woke up”. “It looks like he’s just standing against the wall and his wife took the photo”. These are exactly correct. I thought this photo was only for my visa 😂😂😂
Analytics is ruining baseball. We need to go back to a time when it was about avg, rbi, hr, sb, W/L record, era, k, sv, and ip. You know, before “analytics”.
The more my surgeon tells me that Rookie of the Year is not based on scientific fact, the more I’m convinced it’s a heavily guarded secret. Time to get to the bottom of this.
Reminding everyone that when Barry Bonds hit 8 homeruns in the playoffs, he did it in 45 abs (because he was walked 27 times). One of a hundred reasons why I don't entertain any arguments about the best hitter of all time.
Shohei Ohtani hasn't taken batting practice all season, Angels hitting coach Jeremy Reed told
@Buster_ESPN
🤯
Ohtani currently leads baseball in home runs with 32 😁
(via Baseball Tonight Podcast)
I haven’t seen one good argument against the structure of Ohtani’s contract. And the only understandable one is you simply wish he played for your favorite team instead.
So many people tweeting this are mistaking extreme efficiency for low effort. The best in the world make it look easy, but they’re trying as hard as they can. This is true of every profession in the world.
Drafted at 19yo, 3 extended spring trainings, parts of 8 seasons in A ball (not rehab), been put on the phantom DL, and released from affiliated 3 times. 1.5 stints in Indy ball and a free agent job in Mexico. Finally made it to AAA at age 28 and the big leagues a month later.
Spent last week arguing with finance bros about the verification methods of banks and how there’s no way a bank lets Shohei transfer money without him knowing. And then today we find out Ippei calls the bank and just has to say “Hi, yes, it’s me Shohei”.
The people downplaying the Jan 6 insurrection were the ones telling you how dangerous and scary it was to wear your hood up and be open carrying skittles.
Meanwhile every time they put a mic in front of John Smoltz (which is far too often) he does nothing but talk about how disgusted he is by the state of modern baseball. Kevin Brown did nothing wrong here.
I remember in college our coaches got mad at us for showering after bp and before the game. Then I got to pro ball and 100% of the players do that, and it’s reason number 384924 why college baseball is full of eyewash.
Sources: Baseball players union proposed a minimum salary of $775M, up from $570.5M. MLB proposed a rise to $600M. Both sides do agree younger (pre arbitration) players should receive a bump. There r bigger $ differences elsewhere but it’s good they’re talking.
I’ve been getting the occasional negative feedback on Twitter, and I want all my haters to know that you don’t want this smoke. This is for your own safety.
Pit bulls have the highest euthanasia rate at shelters due to some harmful misconceptions. If you have a pit bull, please help us combat this narrative by replying with your favorite pictures of them! ❤️
The challenge system being used in AAA will improve MLB. It’s fun because it forces players to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to complaining. And when they’re right it pressures umpires to not be so egregiously bad. And the fan wins because it’s entertaining.
After watching this postseason I’m starting to not feel so bad about giving up a walkoff hr to Randy Arozarena when I faced him in the Mexican winter league three years ago.
MLB argues for minor leaguers to stay unpaid in spring training: "It is the players that obtain the greater benefit from the training opportunities that they are afforded than the clubs, who actually just incur the cost of having to provide that training”
Wedding photos came in today after weeks of impatient waiting, but I must say they were worth the wait because I look really good. Thanks to everyone involved for making it my special day!
Watching the DR vs PR in Spanish so the announcer can yell “SIT DOWN!” after every strikeout instead of some old guy talking about how he hates spinrates is 🔥🔥👌👌
There’s two fundamental things that many Ohtani disbelievers don’t understand:
How unimportant $4.5 million is to him.
And how much you need to blindly trust your interpreter when you’re living overseas.
“The Dodgers are ruining baseball” says the fan of an opposing team that will be completely sold out when the Dodgers come to town because people want to watch them play so badly.
If I was an owner locked in a labor dispute and had evidence of my poor revenues then I’d display them as proof. If I didn’t have evidence and was full of sh*t, then I’d get lackeys to lie for me in public. But that’s just me, I can’t speak for anyone else.
To any teams interested in acquiring me, I will go ahead and answer the first interview question on everyone’s mind. - No, it does not concern me that the potato formerly known as Mr. Potato Head now has an ambiguous genital situation.
It does seem more than a little weird that the owners and players are prepared to completely shut down a financial system that individual parties on both sides are exploiting in the last days and hours before the CBA deadline. Talk about mixed messages.
I’ve just thought of a better, more applicable drill. You swap out the lacrosse stick for a baseball bat! It’s perfect because you’ll get better feedback on what’s a good bunt or not. Amazed I’m the first to think of this.
Robert Stock (
@RobertStock6
) just came in to shop where I worked. Got to chat with him for a few minutes. Really cool dude, back home for the season after tearing his hamstring.
10 years ago Jason Isringhausen spoke to all the Cardinals’ minor league pitchers and he told us his approach to closing a ballgame is that he has 3 open bases to strikeout 3 batters. Joe Kelly woulda been at that meeting too. It worked!
I just drank a sparkling water then burped into my mask and somehow the carbonated burp got into my eyes and they’re burning. Like and subscribe for more content like this.
I’ve read articles that playfully argue that a batter may be better off by never swinging. An MLB pitcher would instantly recognize that and do exactly what Milner does here and just start piping fastballs.
The correlation between team chemistry and winning games is predicated on the fact it’s fun to be good at baseball. And being bad at baseball is not fun.
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If this happens you’re gonna have to get used to watching dudes from AAA you’ve never heard of throw important innings for your team (because of injuries).
Source - Dude from AAA you’ve never heard of.