Around Baseball 2018

[Captain Adama]

 

If AA is gonna handle this remotely similar to Yunel Escobar...

 

Get 'er done Shatkins.

[Boxcar]

Lol @ mending the wounds

 

Calling your friends fags @ 18 years old at a time when the word was far less taboo is creating wounds, apparently.

 

Good f***ing lord.

[Boxcar]

In other ******** news, has anyone talked about how Jack Morris made it into the HOF despite failing to do so in his 15 years on the ballot? All of a sudden, apparently some tribunal can just decide he was good enough. I suppose we should retroactively let in a bunch of pitchers. Christ, baseball is getting s*****.

[Jimcanuck]

In other ******** news, has anyone talked about how Jack Morris made it into the HOF despite failing to do so in his 15 years on the ballot? All of a sudden, apparently some tribunal can just decide he was good enough. I suppose we should retroactively let in a bunch of pitchers. Christ, baseball is getting s*****.

 

* yawn *

[King]

[Jonn]

Jesus Christ this s*** is getting out of hand. A lot of these tweets I'm reading are song lyrics anyway. The one where Newcomb said he was on his Donald Trump s*** was one of Mac Miller's first singles before Trump got close to being President and people actually kind of liked him on The Apprentice.

 

Every MLB player should have their agent hire an intern to scrub these social media accounts for any bad tweets immediately though.

 

Every person born before the year 2000 has called someone a fag whether it was at school or someone cutting them off on the road. Shits just stupid.

 

Is calling someone a Cock Sucker a gay offensive term because I don't know if I can let that one go.

[Pendleton]

The broadcast crew is discussing the idea of Yadi becoming the first player/manager since Pete Rose, how awesome would that be?

[Jonn]

The broadcast crew is discussing the idea of Yadi becoming the first player/manager since Pete Rose, how awesome would that be?

 

I'm all for it. If you have someone like a Yadi that you feel can do it well while still performing you know all the players are going to respect you more because not only are you calling the shots but you're playing with them trying to win. It would probably just mean the bench coach would have more responsibility. He would likely be the one making the pitching changes why Yadi is catching. It would probably be something he would do at the tail end of his career I would imagine though.

[Boxcar]

What I seem to be gathering from the outrage mob is that this behaviour is swept under the rug because white people.

 

Cuz idk about you guys, but I've never met a homophobe who wasn't white.

https://youtu.be/KUogZWhlyt0

 

E: lmfao, apparently one of the tweets Turner is getting nailed for is a quote from the movie White Chicks. Jesus Christ I don't want to live on this earth

Edited July 30, 2018 by Boxcar

[Boxcar]

Do you really think I'm complaining for myself?

 

Yes

 

If I was Kyle Hendricks I would invest my entire off-season to Driveline Baseball.

 

Swing and a miss, Jonn.

[Slade]

[Krylian]

Something must've been in the water in 2011 & 2012. All these "offensive" tweets we're posted in those years it seems.

[Stoneyen]

Something must've been in the water in 2011 & 2012. All these "offensive" tweets we're posted in those years it seems.

 

High School happened

[Krylian]

High School happened

 

Same class I mean.

 

All these racist and homophobic youths. I, for one, am outraged. Burn them at the stake.

[Orgfiller]

 

I'm glad all of the comments are calling them both out.

[King]

Sheryl Ring weighs in on the triggered by trigger debate

 

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mlb-twitter-and-baseballs-looming-age-problem/

[BTS]

Sheryl Ring weighs in on the triggered by trigger debate

 

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mlb-twitter-and-baseballs-looming-age-problem/

 

Framing this as an age issue, in which there's objectively a problem here that young people see and old people are too ignorant to see, is ridiculous. Sheryl Ring is a ridiculous person. I have no idea who Mary Craig is, but she seems like an insane person. Fangraphs needs to fire everybody but Sullivan and Szymbroskithfy and start over.

[Brownie19]

Framing this as an age issue, in which there's objectively a problem here that young people see and old people are too ignorant to see, is ridiculous. Sheryl Ring is a ridiculous person. I have no idea who Mary Craig is, but she seems like an insane person. Fangraphs needs to fire everybody but Sullivan and Szymbroskithfy and start over.

 

She's f***ing AIDs to the site.

[Pendleton]

Cards supposedly shopping Jose Martinez. He belongs in a DH spot and probably isn't a fit for us, but damn I'd be tempted anyway due to the bat and years of control.

[Boxcar]

Sheryl Ring weighs in on the triggered by trigger debate

 

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mlb-twitter-and-baseballs-looming-age-problem/

 

I'm saddened by the lack of push back. I'm uncertain if it is simply sane people ignoring this drivel or that the young people watching this game are absolute snowflakes.

Edited July 30, 2018 by Boxcar

[Boxcar]

Cards supposedly shopping Jose Martinez. He belongs in a DH spot and probably isn't a fit for us, but damn I'd be tempted anyway due to the bat and years of control.

 

Why isn't he a fit? Lose Morales and he'd fit in great

[King]

williamnyy

Too many problems with this post to address, but the reason I clicked on the link was because I thought it was a serious look at MLB fan demographics and not a series of politically motivated one-liners. I am not interested in the latter, but it would be nice if Fangraphs, of all sites, would use a more rigorous standard when it comes to making claims like MLB doesn’t have many young fans or is a “white man’s sport”. I find myself visiting Fangraphs less and less and it transitions away from its founding, and that’s a shame.

 

My criticism is not so much the politicization of posts (and it’s more pervasive than one author) as much as the loosening of critical rigor. No one would accept random anecdotes as the basis for making a bold claim like Bryce Harper is better than Mike Trout, for example, so why do so for claims like MLB has no young fans or is a white man’s game? The demographics of the player population refute the later, and there are some interesting surveys floating around that suggest MLB is doing OK with millennials (https://tinyurl.com/y7gcqsn3). Also, baseball/softball participation at youth levels are on the rise. Sure, MLB’s TV audience skews old, but national TV audiences are not a good way to judge MLB’s popularity, both overall and in terms of demographics. As much as I would prefer FG avoid the injection of politics into the site, what is increasingly keeping me away is the less analytical rigor being applied.

[King]

Why isn't he a fit? Lose Morales and he'd fit in great

Are you Skin Blues?

[Boxcar]

Are you Skin Blues?

 

I don't post on Fangraphs

 

E: not joking or anything, honestly never have and never will.

[Bobthe4th]

williamnyy

Too many problems with this post to address, but the reason I clicked on the link was because I thought it was a serious look at MLB fan demographics and not a series of politically motivated one-liners. I am not interested in the latter, but it would be nice if Fangraphs, of all sites, would use a more rigorous standard when it comes to making claims like MLB doesn’t have many young fans or is a “white man’s sport”. I find myself visiting Fangraphs less and less and it transitions away from its founding, and that’s a shame.

 

My criticism is not so much the politicization of posts (and it’s more pervasive than one author) as much as the loosening of critical rigor. No one would accept random anecdotes as the basis for making a bold claim like Bryce Harper is better than Mike Trout, for example, so why do so for claims like MLB has no young fans or is a white man’s game? The demographics of the player population refute the later, and there are some interesting surveys floating around that suggest MLB is doing OK with millennials (https://tinyurl.com/y7gcqsn3). Also, baseball/softball participation at youth levels are on the rise. Sure, MLB’s TV audience skews old, but national TV audiences are not a good way to judge MLB’s popularity, both overall and in terms of demographics. As much as I would prefer FG avoid the injection of politics into the site, what is increasingly keeping me away is the less analytical rigor being applied.

 

Baseball is popular with grumpy old men, and young(ish) nerds who like stats/spreadsheets.

[Pendleton]

Why isn't he a fit? Lose Morales and he'd fit in great

 

Yeah if we lose Morales then he fits just fine. I guess part of that statement also had to do with the direction of the team and him being a DH bat who isn't exactly young.

[BTS]

I'm saddened by the lack of push back. I'm uncertain if it is simply sane people ignoring this drivel or that the young people watching this game are absolute snowflakes.

 

I was at -9, now I'm back up to 0. She must have linked the post on twitter so all her SJW followers had first crack.

[P2F]

He has Mariners written all over him.

 

Can't even play a respectable 1B but good enough to patrol the Mariners' outfield on a regular basis, no diggity.

[Pendleton]

He has Mariners written all over him.

 

People get bad tattoos all the time

[BTS]

Dammit, I'm going hard in the paint in the FG comments section. I hate you King.