MLB Discussion Thread

Hurdle, Bell, Puig and Garrett needed several more games.

 

Probably would have swung & missed Hyde.

 

Awesome, but surprised it took this long...

 

Curious to see what the end up doing with the field, it's basically little league size right now.

 

New item on my bucket list: see a game, any game, there

 

So very awesome.

 

Dodgers & Indians need a new closer.

 

Funny article in Washington Post....

Spend enough time around an MLB team — trail them from city to city, shoot the breeze, press your ear into their conversations — and you’ll notice something: Players never know what day of the week it is....
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“Oh, it’s impossible,” Washington Nationals closer Sean Doolittle said. “Here’s how it goes: Every start of a series is a Monday, no matter what. Every last game of a series is a Wednesday. But there are other wrinkles, too, like how every day game is a Sunday. So, wait, uh …”

Doolittle realizes the problem. By that logic, if it can be called that, a day game that finishes a series is both a Wednesday and a Sunday.
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So it’s hard to blame Doolittle, way back in May, discussing a pair of rough outings at his locker in Washington. It was a Monday. His most recent appearance had come that past Friday. But he kept referring to that appearance as “Monday” — because it was the first game of the series — and proceeded to do so six times in a 12-minute interview. Like, “I just didn’t have it on Monday.” Or, “Monday didn’t go my way, but if I get out there today [editor’s note: actually Monday], I’m confident these changes will work.” It was trippy.
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I’m relatively new to the baseball beat, about a year in, and so now I never know what day of the week it is either. I often wake up not knowing what city I just slept in. I first realized this in May, one morning in New York, staring at the ceiling and wondering where I was.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/08/22/mlb-players-never-know-what-day-week-it-is/

 

Red Sox @ Padres:

 

OD'd and choked to death on his own vomit. Such a ****ing waste, just another data point in the opioid epidemic.