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Re: MLB

Posted: Thu January 03, 2019 8:33 pm
by PHATJ
Nellie Cruz to the Twins is kinda fun.

Re: MLB

Posted: Fri January 04, 2019 5:33 am
by Bammer
Simple Torture wrote:40 days until pitchers and catcher report.
Which catcher?

Re: MLB

Posted: Fri January 04, 2019 5:01 pm
by Simple Torture
Bammer wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:40 days until pitchers and catcher report.
Which catcher?
If there's a buffet, probably Sandy Leon.

Re: MLB

Posted: Fri January 04, 2019 5:01 pm
by Simple Torture
I'm going to go out on a limb here: maybe Florida just isn't a baseball market?

Rays eliminate upper-deck seating, reduce capacity to 25,000

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2568 ... city-25000

Re: MLB

Posted: Fri January 04, 2019 5:31 pm
by philpritchard
Why stop there? Trim it down to 15,000 and you can brag about selling out most games!

Re: MLB

Posted: Fri January 04, 2019 5:33 pm
by philpritchard
Wait... nevermind. With a capacity of 15,000, the Rays still only would have had 22 sellouts last year. Yikes.

Re: MLB

Posted: Fri January 04, 2019 10:46 pm
by numbers
At least in the old days they had that really loud fan.

Re: MLB

Posted: Fri January 04, 2019 10:47 pm
by Norah
HEY JOHNNY!

Re: MLB

Posted: Sat January 05, 2019 2:29 pm
by philpritchard
numbers wrote:At least in the old days they had that really loud fan.
His Jays target was always Eric Hinske for some reason.

Re: MLB

Posted: Sat January 05, 2019 6:57 pm
by washing machine
Simple Torture wrote:I'm going to go out on a limb here: maybe Florida just isn't a baseball market?
Vexing that people pilgrimage to that state every year for one month in spring, yet their local teams just don't seem to matter to anyone.

Re: MLB

Posted: Sat January 05, 2019 10:17 pm
by Bammer
Simple Torture wrote:I'm going to go out on a limb here: maybe Florida just isn't a baseball market?

Rays eliminate upper-deck seating, reduce capacity to 25,000

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2568 ... city-25000
“First rate fan experience”

OMG WTF give the team to Montreal

Re: MLB

Posted: Sun January 06, 2019 2:12 am
by Monkey_Driven
Bammer wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:I'm going to go out on a limb here: maybe Florida just isn't a baseball market?

Rays eliminate upper-deck seating, reduce capacity to 25,000

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2568 ... city-25000
“First rate fan experience”

OMG WTF give the team to Montreal
Or any other city really.

Re: MLB

Posted: Mon January 14, 2019 7:07 pm
by Simple Torture
Didn't someone in this thread mention the impending work stoppage recently? Anyway, here's an extensively depressing summary of what's going on from The Ringer today: https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/ ... ssion=true

Re: MLB

Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 4:30 pm
by Bammer
I was just getting all excited to go to opening day but looking at my calendar and I have a small claims court appearance. Dammit.

Re: MLB

Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 4:32 pm
by Norah
I should go to Seattle for opening day.

Re: MLB

Posted: Tue January 15, 2019 7:22 pm
by Bammer
cutuphalfdead wrote:I should go to Seattle for opening day.
Bring a raincoat

Re: MLB

Posted: Wed January 16, 2019 12:01 am
by Norah
John Wetteland has been charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2576 ... use-charge

Re: MLB

Posted: Wed January 16, 2019 12:21 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
cutuphalfdead wrote:John Wetteland has been charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2576 ... use-charge
he was framed

Re: MLB

Posted: Wed January 16, 2019 12:23 am
by doug rr
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:John Wetteland has been charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2576 ... use-charge
he was framed
by jorge posada

Re: MLB

Posted: Wed January 16, 2019 12:23 am
by doug rr
man do i hope the baseball guys here get that joke :peace: