Random Baseball Musings

Clem Fandango · March 23, 2014

Random thought: Why did BP stop the Hacking Mass fantasy competition?

RammyFanny · March 23, 2014

http://espn.go.com/blog/los-angeles/dodger-report/post/_/id/9067/mattingly-is-running-out-patience-with-puig

ctcf · March 23, 2014

Reading that Kyle Farnsworth is both 37 years old and throwing 87-89 MPH makes me feel old.

March 23, 2014

I mean...I remember following some Kyle Farnsworth starts in our high school computer lab, so that's not all that surprising to me.

More surprising he's still in the game at all (even though I did know that).

Edited March 24, 2014 by David

J.R. · March 23, 2014

I mean...I remember starting some Kyle Farnsworth starts in our high school computer lab, so that's not all that surprising to me.

More surprising he's still in the game at all (even though I did know that).

Yep. Who could have guessed that he would outlast Wood, Prior and Big Z?

jersey cubs fan · March 23, 2014

Reading that Kyle Farnsworth is both 37 years old and throwing 87-89 MPH makes me feel old.

His last two bastards are of drinking age

Sammy Sofa · March 24, 2014

I would kill for the old Dugout archives to be available, just so I could find the awesome one where they realized Yankees-era Farnsworth looked like a coked up Chris Sabo.

jersey cubs fan · March 24, 2014

New York Mets ‏@Mets 4m

That was unintended. We're glad he struck out the side. #DiceK

New York Mets ‏@Mets 15m

Dice-KKK off to a quick start. He strikes out the side in the first inning. #NYMvsSTL

ConstableRabbit · March 24, 2014

I mean...I remember starting some Kyle Farnsworth starts in our high school computer lab, so that's not all that surprising to me.

More surprising he's still in the game at all (even though I did know that).
Yep. Who could have guessed that he would outlast Wood, Prior and Big Z?

That's weirder than anything else to me.

Pushfrog98 · March 25, 2014

Never Forget.

http://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/Kyle-Farnsworth-Paul-Wilson.gif

Banedon · March 25, 2014

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2014/0324/mlb_jersts_600x400.jpg

http://espn.go.com/minor-league-baseball/story/_/id/10669222/durham-bulls-wear-r2-d2-jersey-4

SouthSideRyan · March 25, 2014

David Hale, the rumored return for Kevin Gregg, is opening he season as Atlantas 3rd starter. That's not to say Hale is any good, but more how much in shambles the braves are to start the year. (Minor and Santana are projected to be ready to go a couple weeks into the season)

March 26, 2014

Heard this trivia question today:

Only three active players have at least a .320 career batting average with at least 5000 PA's. Name them.

Clem Fandango · March 26, 2014

Complete guesses:

Pujols, Cabrera, Ichiro?

EDIT: Damn, close. Now I'm gonna be digging through stats all night, lol.

EDIT #2: Not all night. Found him.

TruffleShuffle · March 26, 2014

those three came to mind, plus mauer and votto (don't think votto would have a career .320 BA though).

Derwood · March 26, 2014

Yankees' 15-year streak is over

ConstableRabbit · March 26, 2014

Complete guesses:

Pujols, Cabrera, Ichiro?

EDIT: Damn, close. Now I'm gonna be digging through stats all night, lol.

EDIT #2: Not all night. Found him.

Haha I didn't get one of them because I assumed one that turned out to be wrong was an absolute lock.

jersey cubs fan · March 26, 2014

http://deadspin.com/the-mariners-tried-to-screw-randy-wolf-so-he-walked-aw-1552028250

Randy Wolf is apparently available after Seattle tried to make him unguarantee the guaranteed portion of his contract.

TruffleShuffle · March 26, 2014

i have a new found respect for randy wolf.

neely crenshaw · March 26, 2014

Hawk Harrelson really just said that the White Sox have the best young talent that he has ever seen in a major league camp...then went

on to say that "it's the talk of spring training, everyone is saying it"!

Omar · March 26, 2014

Dear MLB.TV Premium Subscriber,

We know you have utilized MLB.TV on Xbox 360 in the past. Due to a shift at Microsoft in development resources for MLB.TV on Xbox 360, some features will not be available for the upcoming season.

What this means for you is that you will still be able to enjoy HD-quality live video streaming immediately, and home and away broadcast feed selection will be available on Opening Day. Other features, including calendar view, highlights and hide scores, will launch later this April. Unfortunately, Xbox 360 will not support split-screen video.

Xbox One, debuting on Opening Day, will have an HD-quality video experience with a similar advanced feature rollout plan.

We regret any inconvenience this has caused.

Thanks,
MLB.com

[expletive] you MLB.tv

March 26, 2014

Sounds like you should be sayin fu to Microsoft

Cubswin11 · March 27, 2014

One Korean journalist for KBS worked on a feature on baseball players being hit by pitches, and did some firsthand reporting to find out if it hurts to be hit by a baseball. It does!

http://deadspin.com/korean-journalist-seeks-to-find-out-if-beanballs-hurt-1552426237