7/27 White Sox (Ranaudo)@ Cubs (Hammel) 7:05 WGN/ESPN

[jersey cubs fan]

 

Yeah, a packed Wrigley with everyone on their feet for a full inning....This guy is a spectacle.

 

Meatballs love the spectacle of someone hitting 100+ mph and watching the speeds come up on the board. When he was with the Reds the place would be half-empty and still go nuts and get on their feet once he came in.

 

People have every right to get excited without being thought of as dumb meatballs for it. This guy is physically doing something that is unprecedented, and does it at an elite level of performance for over a half decade now. It's exciting stuff, sucks he tainted it.

they have the right to be excited but no such right exists to prevent them from being thought of as meatballs

[Omar]

meatballs are great revenue streams

 

they are the type of people that will buy merchandise at the venue

[NOLA]

Only on NSBB would we argue if someone is an amateur fan for getting pumped about our new flame throwing closer throwing 100+ on the gun. It's a game FFS. We are allowed to enjoy things.

[Derwood]

I would really love a gif of the closeup ESPN had of the Sox' starter right before he was taken out, with his weirdly twitching/clenching jaw after Baez annihilated his world.

 

With tears welling in his eyes

[Derwood]

Here's the beauty of that Javy-bomb: it's rare that a guy will absolutely sell out and swing for the fences like that and actually crush the ball. And when they do swing like that, it's almost always on a 2-0 or 3-1 count. Javy had two strikes on him, got fooled on a breaking ball earlier in the count, and still swung like he was trying to hit the ball 600 feet. He absolutely deserved to pimp that thing. I wish he would've moonwalked around the bases

[Omar]

"I'm not impressed," winning pitcher Jason Hammel joked. "I thought we were getting the guy that was throwing 105. He only hit 103."

[UMFan83]

He's right but haha Hawk

 

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