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MLB 2024: Baseball is for Everyone (subject to local blackout restrictions)

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Timby said:
On-field interviews have always been superficial, meaningless faff
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Agreed. That's one thing that irritates me about spring training, they have so many damn interviews. Sometimes lasting an entire half inning!

I am also not AT ALL a fan of players being mic'ed up. I don't give a crap what they have to say! :lol:

Aragorn said:
Spencer Strider officially out for the season now. Had surgery to repair his UCL.
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That reminds me of something that happened in the playoffs last year. The Braves were playing in Philadelphia and some of the Philly fans had shirts that said IS THIS TOO LOUD FOR YOU, SPENCER?

I thought it was really funny, but I didn't get it. What did he do to earn their ire? :confused:
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
That reminds me of something that happened in the playoffs last year. The Braves were playing in Philadelphia and some of the Philly fans had shirts that said IS THIS TOO LOUD FOR YOU, SPENCER?

I thought it was really funny, but I didn't get it. What did he do to earn their ire? :confused:
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Strider is on record, multiple times, as saying he doesn't like fans being overly loud and that he wishes MLB would return to having no fans in ballparks, like during the COVID season in 2020.
 
Timby said:
he wishes MLB would return to having no fans in ballparks
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:lol: What an idiot.

Him, I mean. Not you. ;)

Seriously, though, why the hell would he ever expect MLB to do that? The pandemic is being managed, people are getting vaccinated, so there's literally no REASON to keep fans away.
 
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Timby said:
I, for one, will not terribly miss calls of "It is high, it is faaaar, it is ... caught at the wall." Sterling was a legend earlier in his career, but over the past, eh, 15 years or so he's basically become a parody of himself with his schtick. Good on him for retiring and I hope he lives his remaining twilight years in comfort and happiness.

I also hope those twilight years don't involve him being anywhere near a microphone.
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As opposed to Harry Carey's "it could be....it might be...it's....caught on the warning track !!!!" :lol:

Or occasionally "it's...off the wall !!!!"
 
Timby said:
Strider is on record, multiple times, as saying he doesn't like fans being overly loud and that he wishes MLB would return to having no fans in ballparks, like during the COVID season in 2020.
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To a certain extent he's not wrong. I've been to a couple of post-Covid games and it does seem that there is a certain segment of fans who are overly loud and obnoxious; whether that is in part because of alcohol consumption or they think they can get away with their behaviour without consequences.
 
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You would think now that money is involved in these sports leagues, they would want to make sure everything was above board and beyond reproach where officiating games is concerned.

It seems none of them give any more of a fuck than they did before.
 
Timby said:
I, for one, will not terribly miss calls of "It is high, it is faaaar, it is ... caught at the wall." Sterling was a legend earlier in his career, but over the past, eh, 15 years or so he's basically become a parody of himself with his schtick. Good on him for retiring and I hope he lives his remaining twilight years in comfort and happiness.

I also hope those twilight years don't involve him being anywhere near a microphone.
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Up here in Canada, Sportsnet loves to buy YES & NESN games and we've had to suffer through both of those, I feel your pain.
 
DarrenTR1970 said:
To a certain extent he's not wrong. I've been to a couple of post-Covid games and it does seem that there is a certain segment of fans who are overly loud and obnoxious; whether that is in part because of alcohol consumption or they think they can get away with their behaviour without consequences.
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Anonymity factor has a big impact.
 
Ar-Pharazon said:
Far from the worst.
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It just seems really odd for the Mets to go with a gray theme, for two reasons: One, gray uniforms are so inextricably connected with the away team. Second, the black text on a gray background is highly evocative of the Yankees. Just a strange thought process.

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And now the METS are into this City Connect crap. :barf:
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Teams make a metric fuck-ton of money from merchandise sales and will do anything to artificially goose those sales numbers, sky blue, water wet, news at 11.
 
So when the A's play in Sacramento the next two seasons, what name are they going to have on their away jerseys?

Reason I ask is that I've been told that when they are playing in Sacramento, they will just be called "the A's". Not the Sacramento A's, just the A's.

Will they just have special away jerseys made with "Athletics" on them, like their home jerseys say?

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Hunter Wendelstedt warns that Aaron Boone will be thrown out if he says anything more.

Boone returns to dugout, says nothing, but a fan behind him yells something.

Wendelstedt throws Boone out anyway. Boone protests that he never said anything, Wendelstedt says "I don't care".

WHAT.THE.FUCK.

Even Angel Hernandez wouldn't stoop that low
 
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