General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[Cubswin11]

The greatest team of all time, Dodgers, are close to being swept out of Philly for a 4 game series and Justin Turner had to leave the game after a HBP to his hand/wrist and Seager has been sitting out games lately with a elbow/arm and ankle injury. They aren’t going to even hit our 103 mark from last year.

[17 Seconds]

Have we discussed the lamest baseball feud ever? Zack Greinke wouldn't sign an autograph for Pat Neshek and Neshek's mad online.

 

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set up a meeting with zack hample to mediate and then shoot them all into the stratosphere

[mul21]

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[Regular Show]

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Wow. Mike horsefeathering Matheny as a sabermetric savant lol?

 

My take on that horrible idea...

 

[javy knows my name]

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It's...just so beautiful

 

[treebird]

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should have sent

 

a poet

[Irrelevant Dude]

Apparently the Marlins new ownership group is planning to clean house of special assistants including Jeff Conine, Tony Perez, Jack McKeon, and Andre Dawson. Not a huge story really, but I have to imagine the Cubs would be interested in bringing Dawson back to the organization.

 

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[weis21]

Apparently the Marlins new ownership group is planning to clean house of special assistants including Jeff Conine, Tony Perez, Jack McKeon, and Andre Dawson. Not a huge story really, but I have to imagine the Cubs would be interested in bringing Dawson back to the organization.

 

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this would bring me great joy. i don't care in what capacity. just have him in wrigley often and occasionally show me him during the game so i can remember my favorite player of all time and i'll think about the time when i told my friend matt he was awesome and then he put one in the baskets on the next pitch when i was 10 or so

[Bull]

Apparently the Marlins new ownership group is planning to clean house of special assistants including Jeff Conine, Tony Perez, Jack McKeon, and Andre Dawson. Not a huge story really, but I have to imagine the Cubs would be interested in bringing Dawson back to the organization.

 

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this would bring me great joy. i don't care in what capacity. just have him in wrigley often and occasionally show me him during the game so i can remember my favorite player of all time and i'll think about the time when i told my friend matt he was awesome and then he put one in the baskets on the next pitch when i was 10 or so

 

12 ear old me practically had his room wallpapered in andre dawson posters and cards.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Javy could do this but damn

 

https://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2017/09/25/1849183283/1506320750439/asset_1800K.mp4

[Liam Neeson]

I really hope Robin Ventura is hired as the Mets manager.

 

http://nypost.com/2017/09/26/odds-are-high-mets-next-terry-collins-will-be-a-familiar-face/

[UMFan83]

Love this twitter feed

 

 

 

[woodchip2153]

This is my favorite.

 

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[Little Slide Rooter]

Just thinking about the gut-punch dealt to the Brewers. With their win and Colorodo’s loss today, if only the Brewers could have hung onto that 6-0 lead last night, they’d have pushed a 1 game playoff to advance to a 1 game playoff.

[UMFan83]

Just thinking about the gut-punch dealt to the Brewers. With their win and Colorodo’s loss today, if only the Brewers could have hung onto that 6-0 lead last night, they’d have pushed a 1 game playoff to advance to a 1 game playoff.

 

The Brewers game yesterday ended right as the Rockies game was starting. Both yesterday and today the Rockies lifted most of their regulars during the game. Both games would have been played differently if they were meaningful

[Omar]

From Reddit

 

"It's Finally Over" -- Some really bad MLB contracts have now mercifully ended

Alex Rodriguez - 10 years, $275 million with the Yankees; released in August 2016

Carl Crawford - 7 years, $142 million with the Red Sox; traded to Dodgers in August 2012; released in May 2016

Matt Cain - 6 years, $127.5 million with the Giants

Josh Hamilton - 5 years, $125 million with the Angels; traded to Rangers in April 2015; released in August 2016; re-signed with Rangers in Janaury 2017; released in April 2017

C.C. Sabathia - 6 years, $147 million with the Yankees

Andre Ethier - 5 years, $85 million with the Dodgers

Anibal Sanchez - 5 years, $80 million with the Tigers

Melvin Upton Jr. - 5 years, $75.25 million with the Braves; traded to Padres in March 2015; traded to Blue Jays in July 2016; released in April 2017; signed by Giants to minor league deal; released in August 2015

Matt Harrison - 5 years, $55 million with the Rangers; traded to Phillies in July 2015

Ubaldo Jimenez - 4 years, $50 million with the Orioles

Matt Garza - 4 years, $50 million with the Brewers

Billy Butler - 3 years, $30 million with the Athletics; released in August 2016; signed with Yankees in August 2016; granted FA

[Ding Dong Johnson]

meanwhile, Bobby Bonilla is still cashing checks

[Sammy Sofa]

JACQUE'S KNOCKERS SHOCKER:

 

https://deadspin.com/lawsuit-says-nationals-hitting-coach-shared-revenge-por-1819236533

 

The Washington Nationals announced Friday night that they had suspended assistant hitting coach Jacque Jones with pay, pending an investigation into a “legal matter.” The announcement came a little more than a week after a lawsuit was filed in San Diego by a woman, under the name Jane Doe, who said Jones vengefully and without her consent distributed a photo of her naked breasts to a mutual friend over Facebook Messenger. Her lawsuit says Jones shared the photos to “to embarrass and humiliate Plaintiff and to emotionally devastate her.”

 

She is suing Jones and the Nationals under the California revenge porn law, as well as multiple claims of negligence. In the lawsuit, Doe says that “employees and management” with the Nationals “knew of prior bad conduct of Coach Jones involving emotional abuse and intimidation of women.”

 

The lawsuit, filed Sept. 29, says Jones and Doe, who lives in San Diego County, “began an intimate and sexual relationship” this past January, despite Jones’ job with the Nationals keeping him in Washington D.C. and on the road for half of the year. They would see each other on breaks from the season, during which Jones lived in Escondido, Calif., according to the lawsuit.

[Banedon]

There's a lot of whining this morning about the replay on the pickoff call last night...that review is nitpicking this "coming off the bag for a split second" thing, and that that's bad...somehow.

 

I think it's a bad argument, but I did see the suggestion that perhaps bases should be flat...in the ground, rather than raised. This would potentially help with sliding injuries, and would reduce the chance that you "bounce" off the bag sliding in. It might increase sliding "past" the bag, but is that a fair tradeoff for the reduction of injury? Might it make sliding into first base more acceptable?

 

What's the downsides of this idea? Harder to find the bag if you're not looking at it as a fielder? Catchers manage it...

 

Any other thoughts on this?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

There's a lot of whining this morning about the replay on the pickoff call last night...that review is nitpicking this "coming off the bag for a split second" thing, and that that's bad...somehow.

 

I think it's a bad argument, but I did see the suggestion that perhaps bases should be flat...in the ground, rather than raised. This would potentially help with sliding injuries, and would reduce the chance that you "bounce" off the bag sliding in. It might increase sliding "past" the bag, but is that a fair tradeoff for the reduction of injury? Might it make sliding into first base more acceptable?

 

What's the downsides of this idea? Harder to find the bag if you're not looking at it as a fielder? Catchers manage it...

 

Any other thoughts on this?

 

Off the top of my head, other downsides:

 

- runners being unable to run hard through first because they'd lose balance when landing on the slicker surface, like a cartoon character on ice

 

- incessant wiping of the bases every time there's a play at one

 

- turning a double play becomes a lot more difficult and hazardous

 

If you make the base material more spongy that would help with some of those.

[Banedon]

On the running hard through first thing...I don't know that I've ever seen a player slip on home plate as they run home. Most of the time, they're cruising in, but there's plenty of cases where players have run hard through the plate and not slid.

[Cubswin11]

Running the bases is a little harder to since you can’t use a flat base as leverage (for a lack of a term) while rounding it going to the next base.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

On the running hard through first thing...I don't know that I've ever seen a player slip on home plate as they run home. Most of the time, they're cruising in, but there's plenty of cases where players have run hard through the plate and not slid.

 

The number of times people run *hard* through home plate without sliding compared to how many times people run hard through first base pales in comparison though. It's probably literally 100x more common at 1st base, maybe twice that.

[Banedon]

On the running hard through first thing...I don't know that I've ever seen a player slip on home plate as they run home. Most of the time, they're cruising in, but there's plenty of cases where players have run hard through the plate and not slid.

 

The number of times people run *hard* through home plate without sliding compared to how many times people run hard through first base pales in comparison though. It's probably literally 100x more common at 1st base, maybe twice that.

 

Absolutely. Just saying that you'd think if that was much of a danger, you'd have seen it happen at home plate at some point. And maybe it has and I'm just not aware of it.

[We Got The Whole 9]

I brought up this idea on another board several years ago and I got pretty heavily roasted, mostly due to the over-sliding issue.

 

I still think it's worth exploring.