Other Sports: Philadelphia Phillies: The Road To .500 (2024 Edition)

[DancingPanther]

Right on cue!

 

[DancingPanther]

The last 40 years wouldn’t have been so contentious if Bill James was only 95% utter prick. He just needed to be able to fake it for an hour here and there. Alas.

What cracks me up about shit like this is him (purposefully, of course) ignoring the fact that Skenes is already special

You're telling me this guy has been too cool for school for the last 40 years? Sheesh

 

[Fire Tortorella]

What a surprise - Astros cheating again!

 

[DancingPanther]

What a surprise - Astros cheating again!

Love to see it. Didn't they check his glove during the no hitter? Not as sticky that time I guess

 

[JojoTheWhale]

What cracks me up about shit like this is him (purposefully, of course) ignoring the fact that Skenes is already special

You're telling me this guy has been too cool for school for the last 40 years? Sheesh

The rabbit hole is deeper than you would believe.

There’s the famous Dick Allen quote — he “did more to keep his teams from winning than anyone else who ever played Major League Baseball. And if that’s a Hall of Famer, I’m a lug nut.” Also long took umbrage with Hornsby’s career because he thought he was a bad teammate.

There’s this absolute gem from 2018 — “If the players all retired tomorrow, we would replace them, the game would go on; in three years it would make no difference whatsoever.”

Lest you think his bullshit is limited to baseball, there’s his infamous Q & A from Grantland on crime with gems like this:

Q: You’re speaking hypothetically, but I’m curious: What would have to happen in order to make you commit a murder? Can you picture a scenario where you kill someone?

A: For most of us who are living successful lives, we systematically steer away from those situations. We steer away from those stresses. But, you know … if the kids have to eat and there’s no money in the bank, who knows what you might do? So you try to keep money in the bank. You try to avoid that circumstance. If a woman drives you crazy, you’ll do things that you wouldn’t normally do — so you try to stay away from women who make you crazy. Or drugs: Any one of us can become a drug addict. And once you do, you will kill somebody to get drugs. So maybe that’s the way to think about this: Any real drug addict will kill you in order to get drugs.

The man is an ass of the highest order.

 

[DancingPanther]

The rabbit hole is deeper than you would believe.

There’s the famous Dick Allen quote — he “did more to keep his teams from winning than anyone else who ever played Major League Baseball. And if that’s a Hall of Famer, I’m a lug nut.” Also long took umbrage with Hornsby’s career because he thought he was a bad teammate.

There’s this absolute gem from 2018 — “If the players all retired tomorrow, we would replace them, the game would go on; in three years it would make no difference whatsoever.”

Lest you think his bullshit is limited to baseball, there’s his infamous Q & A from Grantland on crime with gems like this:



The man is an ass of the highest order.

f***ing ew

 

[Flybynite]

Damn. He threw him under the bus and then had it back-up and run over him again. The reporters were asking about why call for a SACRIFICE BUNT and force the batter to have to commit when the pitcher was wild and Washington was like "What you talking about? He was throwing strikes"

Jojo Romero threw 8 out of 31 pitches in the strike zone. He had walked the two previous batters.

 

[DancingPanther]

Looking into the new bat speed data and Bohm is tied for #10 in blasts, which is a swing that is both faster than average and squared up.

 

[dragonoffrost]

Looking into the new bat speed data and Bohm is tied for #10 in blasts, which is a swing that is both faster than average and squared up.

What's next bunts that stop exactly on the baseline?

 

[DancingPanther]

What's next bunts that stop exactly on the baseline?

Probably not

 

[FLYguy3911]

What's next bunts that stop exactly on the baseline?

Bat path.

 

[PDX Flyer]

The review system is baseball is trying its hardest to pass VAR regarding incompetence

 

[trostol]

All these bad sports review need to take a page out of crickets review system

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Good start.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Rojas’ fielding isn’t showing up this year so far.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Starting to think Keith Hernandez was on to something.

 

[GKJ]

Someone decided to make Ranger throw pitches

 

[Cody Webster]

Someone decided to make Ranger throw pitches

A nice 5 pitch, 4th inning. Following up on Cole's 3 pitch inning yesterday

Also, Nick is a moron. In what world did he think he was turning that single into a double?

 

[GKJ]

A nice 5 pitch, 4th inning. Following up on Cole's 3 pitch inning yesterday

Also, Nick is a moron. In what world did he think he was turning that single into a double?

Yeah, that came at a good time when I think the grounds crew worked the mound.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The hell was that?

 

[Cody Webster]

Oh look, more base running blunders. What a bunch of morons

 

[Rebels57]

LOL Mets are great comedy

That Mets fan is definitely gonna end up on Jomboy

 

[Jack Straw]

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Small ball them to death.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

The Mets need Stu Feiner at the plate.