General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[Sammy Sofa]

Hmmmm, maybe Tebow IS the Chosen One...

 

 

Or maybe not:

 

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[jersey cubs fan]

that beer brand was going out of business before that happened.

[Sammy Sofa]

Hopefully his healing touch upgraded that slob's shorts/flip-flops combo.

[imb]

amazing, someone didn't die as the result of a seizure. first time ever

[Cubswin11]

I remember my first beer and heat stroke at a Arizona Fall League game

[Tracer Bullet]

that beer brand was going out of business before that happened.

 

um, that's Montero.

 

Miggy is going to have a huge horsefeathering series against the Dodgers!

[snoodmonger]

Makes sense, but I feel like I just started noticing them in the playoffs. Have these been around for awhile now?

 

I'm 40 and I had one in high school.

[We Got The Whole 9]

that beer brand was going out of business before that happened.

 

um, that's Montero.

 

Miggy is going to have a huge [expletive] series against the Dodgers!

Sounds like his back could keep him out of the series entirely.

[David]

this is incredible

 

Show Spoiler

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Tim Tebow is in the Arizona Fall League. He might be better suited to playing in an Arizona high school league. His presence here is a farce, and he looks like an imposter pretending to have talent he does not possess.

 

Tebow the baseball player is not a baseball player; he's a washed-up quarterback who has size and nothing else. His swing is long, and he wields the bat like someone who hasn't played the sport in more than a decade, which he hasn't. He can't catch up to 90 mph, which is well below the major league average for a fastball, and was cutting through fastballs in the zone on Wednesday night. He rolled over twice on fastballs, which is something you generally see professional hitters do only on off-speed stuff, and he showed below-average running speed. In left field, his routes look like those of a wide receiver, although he managed to eventually make his way around to a fly ball in left.

 

In short, there's absolutely no baseball justification for Tebow to be here.

 

The Mets' decision to sign Tebow for $100,000 as, essentially, an undrafted 29-year-old free agent, where any other player would be lucky to get $1,000 and a plane ticket, was a craven, mercenary move befitting an independent-league team desperate for the added revenue from ticket sales, not something a major league team with postseason aspirations should be doing. The Mets had to use one of their AFL roster slots to send Tebow here, and he's playing 3-4 days a week -- because this is a part-time job for him -- in place of, well, players who can actually play. This is all in service of adding jersey sales, but if MLB and the Mets were being honest about this, the front of Tebow's jersey would say "Avarice" in Comic Sans.

 

There are organizational players -- players who fill out minor league rosters but have little to no chance to play in the majors -- in the AFL every year, but they're at least credible in the role. Tebow is the only hitter I've seen here this year or in any recent year who couldn't even square up a below-average fastball.

 

Chasing celebrities is no way to run a player-development department, an organization or a league. Everyone involved in the decision should be embarrassed when they're done counting their money.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

The confusing thing to me is that if it's a money thing, they sure put themselves in a decent sized hole with that signing bonus. Do they really think they're going to get more than $100,000 of profit on Tebow jersey sales? Are they going to let him start every day for Ft Lucie when it looks unlikely he can even hit at Jordan-at-Birmingham levels?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

they started a bidding war and were the only ones to show up

[Thusly Boned]

I love how the guys over at Mets Refugees are just taking it for granted that their super rotation is going to be fully intact and healthy next year.

 

What do we think the odds are that Harvey/Syndergaard/DeGrom/Matz are all fully healthy and pitching together for any significant length of time ever again?

[RammyFanny]

that beer brand was going out of business before that happened.

 

um, that's Montero.

 

Miggy is going to have a huge [expletive] series against the Dodgers!

 

Hmm.

[Banedon]

https://twitter.com/ParkerHageman/status/787778694450339841

[Derwood]

Line drives clog the bases

[Laura]

Can't walk across home plate.

[ConstableRabbit]

You ever seen a top 10 ground ball rate?

[CubinNY]

I'm pretty certain that Dusty spewed that same nonsensical horsefeathers when he was in Chicago.

[BigSlick]

Man, Dusty must love Heyward at the plate

[Rex Buckingham]

Man, Dusty must love Heyward at the plate

 

Should probably offer Heyward for Harper or Turner.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Man, Dusty must love Heyward at the plate

 

Should probably offer Heyward for Harper or Turner.

you typed Turner, I read Taylor. you, sir, were about to get scolded.

[biittner77]

Man, Dusty must love Heyward at the plate

 

Should probably offer Heyward for Harper or Turner.

 

No thanks on Harper. He hits too many HRs and HRs are real rally killers. Or as Dusty would have said when he was in Chicago:

 

"If you're fishing for striped bass in a lake, you don't use a fly reel with a bobber, you use a spoon in case there's a lot of Crappie. You know?"

[toonsterwu]

I've got zero idea why this is on my mind this morning/noon, but with Hazen in Arizona now, I really wonder if we might end up matching up with them this offseason, and namely, perhaps for Pollock.

[CubmanPi]

Being in the military has forced me to swim in the deep end of the meatball pool for many years now. After the Dodgers went up 2-1, one of the meatballest of them all (Red Sox/Pats fan), who was trying to be cool and just engage in conversation because I was on the edge of the cliff, tried explaining to me that the Cubs just aren't clutch.

 

After trying to say that clutch doesn't exist (and predictably getting nowhere with it), I pointed out the late inning heroics in both games in SF and again in game 1 against the Dodgers. "But those were all just aberrations." After the Cubs destroyed LA in game 4, I asked if that counted as clutch. Of course it didn't. So I just said that, in that case, clutch won't get them to the World Series, it will be baseball badassery and bloodbaths.

 

Since Cleveland is almost as un-clutch as the Cubs, I'm assuming there's no way the Cubs can actually do anything clutch in the World Series.

[CyHawk_Cub]

FFS

 

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