General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[tfarks]

Initial read is that it could be 2-3 months.

 

This makes it sound a little too optimistic to me actually. I have nothing to support this claim, but thumb injuries are a bitch. The Cards are death-spiraling.

[Banedon]

Initial read is that it could be 2-3 months.

 

This makes it sound a little too optimistic to me actually. I have nothing to support this claim, but thumb injuries are a bitch. The Cards are death-spiraling.

 

Definitely seeing Cardinals fans concerned that it's something that could linger throughout the season.

[NOLA]

Initial read is that it could be 2-3 months.

 

This makes it sound a little too optimistic to me actually. I have nothing to support this claim, but thumb injuries are a bitch. The Cards are death-spiraling.

 

Definitely seeing Cardinals fans concerned that it's something that could linger throughout the season.

#nextmanup #thecardinalway

[Cubswin11]

This is really cool, saw it on a Mets board. It has every starting pitcher, at least every meaningful one, logged with a gif of them throwing all their pitches.

 

http://www.pitcherlist.com

[Clem Fandango]

This is really cool, saw it on a Mets board. It has every starting pitcher, at least every meaningful one, logged with a gif of them throwing all their pitches.

 

http://www.pitcherlist.com

 

For a pitch that was thrown just 4.2% of the time, it sure is filthy. Guess how many XBH Arrieta's Changeup allowed in 145 thrown last season? None. Not a single one. It must be difficult to hit a Changeup with an extra 3.4 inches of lateral movement than the rest of the league at 91 MPH. He's too good.

 

Sweeeeeeet

[David]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14943065/goose-gossage-rips-jose-bautista-toronto-blue-jays-nerds-ruining-baseball

 

TAMPA, Fla. -- Hall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage called Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista a "disgrace to the game" and blasted "nerds" for turning baseball into a "joke" during a 10-minute interview Thursday.

 

"Bautista is a f---ing disgrace to the game," Gossage told ESPN. "He's embarrassing to all the Latin players, whoever played before him. Throwing his bat and acting like a fool, like all those guys in Toronto. [Yoenis] Cespedes, same thing."

 

Bautista famously flipped his bat after launching a three-run, seventh-inning homer to give the Blue Jays the lead in the Game 5 of the American League Division Series.

 

Eight years before Bautista was born, Gossage began his playing career in 1972. After pitching for 22 years, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008. He is among a group of former Yankees greats who are in camp to help out the current players.

 

"He's a great ambassador for the game," Bautista told ESPN after being told of Gossage's comments. "I don't agree with him. I'm disappointed that he made those comments, but I'm not going to get into it with him. I would never say anything about him, no matter what he said about me. I have too much good stuff to worry about his comments. Today is my first game [of the spring], getting ready for a new season; hopefully, we will whoop some more ass."

 

On a separate subject, Gossage, 64, said he does not like the trend in baseball to have people who never played at the highest level running the game.

 

"It is a joke," Gossage said. "The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it.

 

"I'll tell you what has happened, these guys played rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the f--- they went and they thought they figured the f---ing game out. They don't know s---.

 

"A bunch of f---ing nerds running the game. You can't slide into second base. You can't take out the f---ing catcher because [buster] Posey was in the wrong position and they are going to change all the rules. You can't pitch inside anymore. I'd like to knock some of these f---ers on their ass and see how they would do against pitchers in the old days."

[jersey cubs fan]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14943065/goose-gossage-rips-jose-bautista-toronto-blue-jays-nerds-ruining-baseball

 

TAMPA, Fla. -- Hall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage called Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista a "disgrace to the game" and blasted "nerds" for turning baseball into a "joke" during a 10-minute interview Thursday.

 

"Bautista is a f---ing disgrace to the game," Gossage told ESPN. "He's embarrassing to all the Latin players, whoever played before him. Throwing his bat and acting like a fool, like all those guys in Toronto. [Yoenis] Cespedes, same thing."

 

Bautista famously flipped his bat after launching a three-run, seventh-inning homer to give the Blue Jays the lead in the Game 5 of the American League Division Series.

 

Eight years before Bautista was born, Gossage began his playing career in 1972. After pitching for 22 years, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008. He is among a group of former Yankees greats who are in camp to help out the current players.

 

"He's a great ambassador for the game," Bautista told ESPN after being told of Gossage's comments. "I don't agree with him. I'm disappointed that he made those comments, but I'm not going to get into it with him. I would never say anything about him, no matter what he said about me. I have too much good stuff to worry about his comments. Today is my first game [of the spring], getting ready for a new season; hopefully, we will whoop some more ass."

 

On a separate subject, Gossage, 64, said he does not like the trend in baseball to have people who never played at the highest level running the game.

 

"It is a joke," Gossage said. "The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it.

 

"I'll tell you what has happened, these guys played rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the f--- they went and they thought they figured the f---ing game out. They don't know s---.

 

"A bunch of f---ing nerds running the game. You can't slide into second base. You can't take out the f---ing catcher because [buster] Posey was in the wrong position and they are going to change all the rules. You can't pitch inside anymore. I'd like to knock some of these f---ers on their ass and see how they would do against pitchers in the old days."

 

"Oh, and one more thing, Vote Trump!"

[Banedon]

The anti-Harper.

[Clem Fandango]

http://i.imgur.com/JZe8Lfj.gif

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Embarrassed to be from the same city as the guy (although he represents the city very accurately, which is Colorado Springs).

[Derwood]

TRANSLATION: "I'm a bitter old fart who is angry at the world because brown people make more money in a year than I did in my whole career"

[David]

waddle and silvy had him on and he may have been making even less sense

 

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[Sammy Sofa]

Nice try, DJ 3000. You won't trick us into listening that easily.

[UMFan83]

 

Errr ...how many more years until we can sign Cole after he bolts Pittsburgh the first chance he gets?

[Andy]

Supposedly he has rib cage inflammation and Hurdle said he won't be ready by then.

[Thusly Boned]

Well, it seems like Jarrod Parker's career is over. Unfortunate.

[UMFan83]

Supposedly he has rib cage inflammation and Hurdle said he won't be ready by then.

 

Well that's a less fun answer

[David]

Apparently Piscotty got hit by a pitch in the elbow today, went down in pain and had to leave the game.

[Clem Fandango]

Apparently Piscotty got hit by a pitch in the elbow today, went down in pain and had to leave the game.

 

 

[MWV]

Supposedly he has rib cage inflammation and Hurdle said he won't be ready by then.

From a broken heart.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14943065/goose-gossage-rips-jose-bautista-toronto-blue-jays-nerds-ruining-baseball

 

TAMPA, Fla. -- Hall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage called Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista a "disgrace to the game" and blasted "nerds" for turning baseball into a "joke" during a 10-minute interview Thursday.

 

David Roth's summary here is full of his typically delightful use of language. https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/david-roths-weak-in-review-the-old-ball-game-and-the-new-one

 

Earlier this week, as a spring training guest of the New York Yankees, Gossage loosed a densely fragrant mudslide of superheated bitchery into the nearest open microphone—about young players, Latin players, kids today, managers today, geeks, dweebs, weirdos, and how They Make The Orange Juice Too Strong These Days. None of it will seem terribly new to anyone who has had the experience of hearing some sozzled ex-ballplayer spend a half-inning coming really close to using ethnic slurs during a guest slot on some mid-summer broadcast; it is also very much in character for Gossage, a self-styled Old-School Guy who has looked like the disagreeable 51-year-old owner of a bar called Sticky's since he was 25 years old.

 

The world moves faster than we can move through it, and things change, and there is very little that any of us can do about any of that. The greater part of the challenge of getting older is learning how to deal with this; time and toil and the market make common cards of all of us, whether we had Hall of Fame peaks or not. When a reactionary she-golem like Phyllis Schlafly hymns the old days of all-white, Americans-only baseball, she's not really talking about baseball at all—she's talking about a world in which people like Phyllis Schlafly had a bigger share of everything, and what looked at the time like the exclusive rights to the future.

[Sammy Sofa]

Sergio Romo thinks Harper should shut up because Romo's celebrations are totally, totally different than Harper's celebrations. Totally:

 

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25512283/sergio-romo-of-all-people-should-not-be-telling-bryce-harper-to-shut-up

 

"Don't put your foot in your mouth when you're the face of the game and you just won the MVP. I'm sorry, but just shut up."

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

I guess I need to start reading Vice Sports.

[UMFan83]

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[Cubswin11]

I was listening to MLB radio while driving today and apparently Kazmir's velocity is way down, like topping out mid 80s, in his 2 spring starts. Maybe it's nothing and as a older guy he's just easing into things with a few weeks left in ST but at the same time it could be another guy added to the Dodgers already impressive list of pitchers on the DL to start the year.