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7 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

I think they want the whole nation to bask in the glory of Boston v New York.

So much for that.

Side note - can someone explain to me how HRs work at the field of dreams? Is there a fence in front of the corn field?

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Laughed until I cried...So how do I walk?  really got me.  

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This throw deserves the MLB thread.   

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So in 2009, my daughter and I were in Omaha at the CWS.  I got an email from her softball coach saying that they had a kid drop off the All-Star team and would she want to replace her?  But she'd have

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24 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

The Big Lebowski Brandt GIF

 

also, the twins and tigers are playing a double-header tomorrow.  after 4 full days off for most of them, and 2 full days off for a few of them.  this is how much mlb wanted tonight to just be the yankees and the red sox.

lol mlb.

edit to add - so are miami and philly.  so dumb.

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AARON JUDGEOF, NEW YORK YANKEES

Aaron Judge, Kyle Higashioka and Gio Urshela are the three Yankees who are currently in the COVID-19 protocol.

Judge, Higashioka and Urshela are following protocols; while Nestor Cortes, Jonathan Loaisiga and Wandy Peralta are the three Yankees who are confirmed positives. Judge was at the All-Star game, so this of course opens up contract tracing issues related to players he was in contact with in Denver. The five players on the Red Sox who made the All-Star team are currently undergoing testing, but this obviously could result in testing for all of the players Judge was in close proximity with at the event. 

this is like the opening scene of a disaster movie.

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they should have to get vaccinated to play, in any sport, at any level.  it's not that difficult.

the report said there were 5 red sox all-stars and not all were vaccinated, but they knew during the asb this was going on.

cancelling games = lost revenue.  nothing else really matters to these people.  why not done?

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just so we're clear, this was the snippet i was referencing:

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Rafael Devers told Marly Rivera of ESPN that they were asked not to do interviews at the All-Star Game because one of the players for the Yankees at the event tested positive for COVID-19.

Red Sox manager Alex Cora confirmed that the five All-Stars for the Red Sox will undergo testing, and that not all of those players have been vaccinated. Three players for New York have tested positive for COVID-19, and three more are undergoing tests. That has resulted in Thursday's game being postponed, and Friday's game is up in the air. 

this tells me that at least one of the 5 sox players are/were not vaccinated, and it also tells me that at least devers knew that "one of the yankee all-stars tested positive" on fucking monday (press day).  and we all know devers wasn't in on some confidential shit.

the other article i posted said judge was in protocol, but did not name him as one of the positive tests.  the other 2 nyy all-stars were cole and chapman, and of those 3, only judge was referenced in the other story (that listed 6 yankees total either with pos tests or in protocol).  if people knew judge was positive on monday, that's some bullshit.

the all-star game is the definition of a super-spreader event, because it has players and fans coming from every direction and then going back in every direction.  fucking mlb, get it together.  i seriously don't know the answer to "why aren't they all vaccinated?"

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57 minutes ago, Helobious said:

That’s so dumb that they’re still cancelling pro sporting events for covid. It’s been around over a year & a half, either play accepting the risks or sit out.

Who hijacked your account?

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so as we suspected, judge tested positive.  cool.

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Jeff Passan of ESPN reports that Aaron Judge, Gio Urshela and Kyle Higashioka will be placed on the COVID-19 injured list.

The three players had been quarantined following contact tracing and it's now confirmed that they've all tested positive. They join Nestor Cortes, Jonathan Loaisiga and Wandy Peralta in landing on the COVID-19 IL. The Red Sox and Yankees are tentatively scheduled to play Friday but will have to get through another round of testing without any new positives this afternoon.

and if the devers conversation is accurate, people knew about this on monday, before judge was scheduled to be in the vicinity of the best players on every team (except the astros).  great fucking work, mlb.

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Could be the end of the MLB road at 26. 

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The Tigers announced Friday that they’ve designated outfielder Nomar Mazara for assignment and optioned infielder Willi Castro to Triple-A Toledo. Outfielder Derek Hill and infielder Isaac Paredes are up from Toledo in a pair of corresponding roster moves. Detroit has also appointed lefty Miguel Del Pozo as the 27th man for today’s doubleheader against the Twins.

Still just 26 yeas old, Mazara once ranked as one of baseball’s elite prospects, entering the 2016 season as one of the consensus 25 most promising minor leaguers in the sport. He looked the part when he made his MLB debut that season, too, hitting .266/.320/.419 with 20 home runs in 145 games. It wasn’t a dominant showing, of course, but Mazara was just 21 years old at the time and was making the jump with only 23 Triple-A games under his belt. It was an impressive showing, and it was reasonable to expect that he’d only improve with more reps against big league pitching.

That, however, never really proved true. Mazara spent the next four seasons as the primary right fielder in Texas but more or less just kept repeating his 2016 season. He posted a 93 OPS and 91 wRC+ as a rookie in ’16 and, from 2017-19, posted collective marks of 94 and 92 in those same respective categories. He hit exactly 20 home runs again in 2017 and 2018 before hitting 19 in 2019. Essentially, he’d settled in as a slightly below-average hitter with well below-average defensive grades. The Rangers trade him to the White Sox during the 2019 Winter Meetings.

At that point, Mazara was a highly interesting change-of-scenery candidate. He’d plateaued in Arlington, to be sure, but he was a former Top 25 prospect who was heading into his age-25 season with two years of club control remaining. For the White Sox, it was a sensible enough roll of the dice to see if they could help Mazara take the next step. Instead, he turned in a career-worst .228/.295/.294 batting line with just one home run and a career-high 29.5 percent strikeout rate through 149 plate appearances last summer. Chicago non-tendered him in the offseason.

Mazara took a chance with his second AL Central club, landing with the Tigers on a one-year, $1.75MM deal late in the offseason. Things have gone a bit better in Detroit than in Chicago, but only by a slight margin. Mazara’s strikeouts are down a bit and he’s shown a little more pop. However, his overall .212/.276/.321 batting line through 181 plate appearances so far simply wasn’t enough for the Tigers to keep giving him at-bats over more controllable players who are hoping to emerge as long-term fits in Detroit.

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22 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

The Big Lebowski Brandt GIF

 

also, the twins and tigers are playing a double-header tomorrow.  after 4 full days off for most of them, and 2 full days off for a few of them.  this is how much mlb wanted tonight to just be the yankees and the red sox.

lol mlb.

And both games are postponed due to weather. 

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And nice little payday for Lance. 

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The Chicago White Sox and All-Star right-handed pitcher Lance Lynn have agreed to terms on a two-year, $38 million contract extension, which includes a club option for the 2024 season.

Under terms of the extension, Lynn will receive $18.5 million in both 2022 and 2023, with the White Sox holding an $18 million option for 2024 with a $1 million buyout.

Lynn, 34, has gone 9-3 with a 1.99 ERA (20 ER/90.2 IP) and 105 strikeouts over 16 starts this season, his first with the Sox after being acquired from Texas on Dec. 8, 2020, in exchange for right-hander Dane Dunning and lefty Avery Weems.

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33 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I have no dog in this fight but Boston just had bases loaded with two outs and two of the strike calls against that last batter looked like bullshit calls. Especially the third one.

Cry about it. 
 

Verdugo threw a bitch fit because a fan threw a ball at him, Red Sox walked off the field like pussies. They went back out, and the Yankees took them back to back to take a 3-1 lead. Game likely to be called now with all the rain, and it’s official too since they’ve played 5. Red Sox totally got what they deserved.

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25 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Cry about it.


Verdugo threw a bitch fit because a fan threw a ball at him, Red Sox walked off the field like pussies. They went back out, and the Yankees took them back to back to take a 3-1 lead. Game likely to be called now with all the rain, and it’s official too since they’ve played 5. Red Sox totally got what they deserved.

Unlike me, you obviously do have a dog in that fight. I just call ‘em as I see ‘em. 

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Cry about it. 
 
Verdugo threw a bitch fit because a fan threw a ball at him, Red Sox walked off the field like pussies. They went back out, and the Yankees took them back to back to take a 3-1 lead. Game likely to be called now with all the rain, and it’s official too since they’ve played 5. Red Sox totally got what they deserved.

Imagine forming your entire identity around criticizing the behavior of another fanbase, and then just casually brushing off one of your own THROWING A BALL at an opponent during a game.
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Cry about it. 
 
Verdugo threw a bitch fit because a fan threw a ball at him, Red Sox walked off the field like pussies. They went back out, and the Yankees took them back to back to take a 3-1 lead. Game likely to be called now with all the rain, and it’s official too since they’ve played 5. Red Sox totally got what they deserved.
This is embarrassing even for you.

You may be a Yankee fan but you're also a Texan and we Texans don't condone or tolerate that type of classless behavior. No fan should ever throw anything at players on the field, it's disrespectful, threatening, and potentially dangerous. I can't imagine defending any jack-off goon who would embarrass the Astros fanbase just because we cheer for the same team.






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Lol. Yeah Texas is just full of righteous, good-hearted people. No one does anything bad here. And no one cared (not even Stanton) when a Sox fan tried to hit him with a ball after he homered at Fenway 2 years ago. But a Yankee fan does it to that bitch verdugo and we’re all just evil assholes.

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1 hour ago, Lobo said:

That’s fucking horrible on so many levels.  They catch the fucker yet?  

Apparently it was an exchange of fire between two cars outside the stadium. One fan outside stadium hit by a stray bullet, a couple targets in the cars hit too. No one with any serious injuries. That’s not an event that would ever even make the news, it just happened to be at a high profile location.

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9 hours ago, Helobious said:

Lol. Yeah Texas is just full of righteous, good-hearted people. No one does anything bad here.

Not what I said, but your Yankee-fan identity is so important that won't call out dumbass goons if they're being dumbass goons at Yankee stadium. What functioning adult brain thinks it's acceptable to throw a baseball at a player on the field and why would you defend it?

Verdugo had every right to react as he did and the Red Sox were within their rights to step off the field until security handled the situation. I don't know why anyone would have a problem with that. 

 

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Never said it was “ok” to throw the ball at him, just that verdugo was dumb to completely lose his composure like that. Stanton brushed it right off when it happened to him at Fenway. The Sox leaving the field was way over the top too, glad it probably helped cause them to blow the game right after.

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Story goes that Verdugo tossed the ball to a young Red Sox fan but the adult Yankees fan intercepted the ball.  Then when Verdugo turned around to walk away from the Yankees fan threw the ball at him and hit him in the back.

Of course Helobious doesn't see a problem with it as he is so used to getting hit by ballsacks.

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