#1
happy felix day sports fans

if u need stream links pm me i got the hook up
#2
i'm a slav but yeah i like baseball
#3
baseball should be heard but not seen
#4

gyrofry posted:

baseball should be heard but not seen



mariners have very good radio announcers

#5
i was listening to the radio feed and some younger guy started using all these stats and i was like who's this guy and then like the old guy came back from like i dunno taking a shit or something and then went back to the standard old dude talk like this guy's got a great eye etc.
#6
baseball shouldn't be heard or seen.
#7

Lykourgos posted:

baseball shouldn't be heard or seen.

sometimes it's like i don't even know you

#8

getfiscal posted:

i was listening to the radio feed and some younger guy started using all these stats and i was like who's this guy and then like the old guy came back from like i dunno taking a shit or something and then went back to the standard old dude talk like this guy's got a great eye etc.



THE SABRMETRICS MAFIA

#9
baseball is up there with soccer and cricket as like the worst sport ever, and european people dont even like it
#10
Baseball is a good ambient sport
#11
organized sports are an inferior proxy to war and a sponge for the righteous bloodlust of the workers
#12
ive been reading Simon "Fuckboy" Schama's book Citizens and altho it makes the usual boring trendy attempts to deMarxise the historiography of the French Revolution the research is immensely detailed and i can't help but notice how the proto-jacobin mobs were driven as much by boredom as hunger
#13
hey faggots no one wanted ur fucking opinions ok

this game is rly good Ms just came back in the 8th with a rally, fuck the rangers
#14
RIP patrice o'neal
#15

babyfinland posted:

hey faggots

don't use hateful language you jerk

#16
is it that time of year where people briefly remember baseball exists before everyone forgets again until around september when the the fans of playoff teams remember it again and everyone else continues not caring?
#17

getfiscal posted:

babyfinland posted:

hey faggots

don't use hateful language you jerk



suck my wing wang losing team lover

#18
game winning catch http://t.co/Tf9sEMPC1u
#19

babyfinland posted:

suck my wing wang losing team lover

baseball isn't about winning. it's about having fun. and the blue jays have fun.

#20
Sabermetricians are just positivists with a more noxious view of the surrounding world
#21
i liked the movie 'moneyball'. they used math and did well in baseball.
#22
#23
Nothing sexier then a communist playing baseball
#24
we need to revive baseball as a passion to unite america's disparate social fabric.

baseball fascism
#25

Waylondo posted:

we need to revive baseball as a passion to unite america's disparate social fabric.

baseball fascism



agreed, and we are in our biennio rosso

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/fashion/soccer-particularly-englands-premier-league-growing-in-popularity-in-new-york-creative-circles.html?_r=0

#26
Oh, you like soccer? Whoops I mean football. How sophisticated. How European.
#27
football is the communism of sports if you don't like it get out. all you need is a fucking ball
#28
creatives of all nations, unite!
#29
pls dont talk about ur gay bullshit itt. ballhedz only.

i went to the game last night here some pics





#30

Groulxsmith posted:

Sabermetricians are just positivists with a more noxious view of the surrounding world



well ok but sabrmetrics can be very useful, far more useful in many cases than the standard stats

#31
my mom didn't get the r.a. dickey bobblehead today but she has a hookup that is going to give her one.
#32

getfiscal posted:

my mom didn't get the r.a. dickey bobblehead today but she has a hookup that is going to give her one.



is he back in form or what

#33
he's not doing well in general. he did well today though.
#34
felix had a 1 hitter through 4, then in the fifth went single single, then threw 9 balls in a row (except for one swining strike) last night which walked two in a row, walking in the run, then a 2 rbi double tied the game up :\ rangers blew it open in the 8th n 9th against our wet paper bullpen but the offensive is rly coming together when they try
#35
my dad forced me to play little league and steroids/parity and i think it's boring, but going to an actual baseball game is fairly chill imo.
#36

NoFreeWill posted:

my dad forced me to play little league and steroids/parity and i think it's boring, but going to an actual baseball game is fairly chill imo.



Cool story nerd thanks for dropping by

#37

babyfinland posted:

Groulxsmith posted:

Sabermetricians are just positivists with a more noxious view of the surrounding world

well ok but sabrmetrics can be very useful, far more useful in many cases than the standard stats



Yeah but the problem it's useful but not the end of discussion that so many of its evangelists make it out to be. More than any pro sport baseball is very developmental where players peek at different times (and sometimes reinvent their entire approach; a strikeout pitcher at 25 becomes a one-out groundball specialist at 35) and in those cases I think there's no control for variables possible.

It's also annoying in that the point of Moneyball was finding players undervalued by the rest of the league, while 15 years later every single team does those things, but the stat people still love the victim complex. Like because Vin Scully mentions game winning RBIs instead of someone's VORP and Mike Scioscia calls for a sacrifice you are somehow marginalized, ugh shut up

I also just really like stolen bases and bunts and 80s style baseball

#38
our new manager lloyd mcclendon has been having ppl bunt all the damn time and it drives me crazy, i rly dont like bunting

i dont like nerds either man um
#39
seeeeeager with his 5th HR in 4 games to give the Ms a 1 run lead in the 8th (Nice.) <3 u kyle
#40
I went to the blue jays-mets exhibition at stade olympique last month and there were 55,000 people for a meaningless game in a bad (but very outwardly attractive imo) stadium that sold out of concessions and the toilets flooded, it was the most fun i've had at a game since i was a kid