The New & Improved MLB Thread For 2023

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #20 on:** April 13, 2023, 02:10:11 PM »

Quote from: AUJarhead on April 13, 2023, 02:05:35 PM

Well you got that pitcher from SEMO, so that makes us even.

He got shelled by the Padres, so I don't like him anymore.

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #21 on:** April 13, 2023, 05:34:31 PM »

Braves SS, Orlando Arcia, has a fractured wrist. Placed on IR. He was hitting .333 with 15 hits in 13 games. 2 HR and 7 RBI. FRICK!!!

Won't be bringing up up former starter, Ian Anderson, either. Tommy John surgery today.

AUJarhead · « **Reply #22 on:** April 13, 2023, 10:40:19 PM »

5 hits? 5 goddamn hits? And Walker wasn’t one of them.

GH2001 · « **Reply #23 on:** April 14, 2023, 11:45:18 AM »

Quote from: Snaggletiger on April 13, 2023, 05:34:31 PM

Braves SS, Orlando Arcia, has a fractured wrist. Placed on IR. He was hitting .333 with 15 hits in 13 games. 2 HR and 7 RBI. FRICK!!!

Won't be bringing up up former starter, Ian Anderson, either. Tommy John surgery today.

Not sure we were bringing him up anyway....he just couldn't regain that form from the World Series year.

Braves are hurting right now but once healed, should be good. They are sitting ok right now. Not sure how long they can keep it up with this many key guys hurt. Arcia hurts though....no two ways about it.

Buzz Killington · « **Reply #24 on:** April 16, 2023, 11:25:02 AM »

Quote from: Snaggletiger on April 13, 2023, 05:34:31 PM

Braves SS, Orlando Arcia, has a fractured wrist. Placed on IR. He was hitting .333 with 15 hits in 13 games. 2 HR and 7 RBI. FRICK!!!

Won't be bringing up up former starter, Ian Anderson, either. Tommy John surgery today.

Arcia is my fault...I had just picked him up on my fantasy beisbols team.

AUJarhead · « **Reply #25 on:** April 17, 2023, 01:11:50 PM »

Quote from: Buzz Killington on April 16, 2023, 11:25:02 AM

Arcia is my fault...I had just picked him up on my fantasy beisbols team.

What do I have to do to get you to pick up some Brewers?

CCTAU · « **Reply #26 on:** April 17, 2023, 03:52:48 PM »

Obligatory 1 of 40 “pro sports suck” posts for the year.

Carry on; “KNEELERS”..

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #27 on:** April 25, 2023, 12:17:13 PM »

9 total runs scored in the previous 4 games. All loozes. Erupt for 11 last night on 74 home runs. Michael Harris IVVXXII and Travis d'Arnaud are still out. Desperately need them back so we can send Marcel O'ferzuna to the end of the bench. He's now 4 for 55. (.073)

Cards skruggling at 9-14. Still waaayyy too early to read anything into these starts.

Cubbies playing solid biesbol at 12-9. Looks like they found a big ole stick in the line up. Patrick Wisdom already has 9 HR's.

Pirates and Orioles off to maybe their best starts since the Great Depression, at 16-7 and 15-7 respectively.

Break up the Rays. 20-3 with a 14-0 home record. Quick, name one player on their roster.

chinook · « **Reply #28 on:** April 25, 2023, 12:47:17 PM »

Quote from: Snaggletiger on April 25, 2023, 12:17:13 PM

9 total runs scored in the previous 4 games. All loozes. Erupt for 11 last night on 74 home runs. Michael Harris IVVXXII and Travis d'Arnaud are still out. Desperately need them back so we can send Marcel O'ferzuna to the end of the bench. He's now 4 for 55. (.073)

Cards skruggling at 9-14. Still waaayyy too early to read anything into these starts.

Cubbies playing solid biesbol at 12-9. Looks like they found a big ole stick in the line up. Patrick Wisdom already has 9 HR's.

Pirates and Orioles off to maybe their best starts since the Great Depression, at 16-7 and 15-7 respectively.

Break up the Rays. 20-3 with a 14-0 home record. Quick, name one player on their roster.

ur mom

Kaos · « **Reply #29 on:** April 25, 2023, 10:10:37 PM »

Quote from: Snaggletiger on April 25, 2023, 12:17:13 PM

Break up the Rays. 20-3 with a 14-0 home record. Quick, name one player on their roster.

Dan Uggla?

AUJarhead · « **Reply #30 on:** April 26, 2023, 12:35:40 PM »

Cards off to their worst start in 50 years. So we got that going for us, which is nice.

GH2001 · « **Reply #31 on:** April 26, 2023, 02:28:12 PM »

Quote from: Kaos on April 25, 2023, 10:10:37 PM

Dan Uggla?

hey that dude was famous.

Buzz Killington · « **Reply #32 on:** April 26, 2023, 02:31:50 PM »

Quote from: AUJarhead on April 26, 2023, 12:35:40 PM

Cards off to their worst start in 50 years. So we got that going for us, which is nice.

Found a new term this week...Scardenfreude

AUJarhead · « **Reply #33 on:** April 27, 2023, 09:56:21 AM »

Quote from: Buzz Killington on April 26, 2023, 02:31:50 PM

Found a new term this week...Scardenfreude

When the Cards beatwriters are posting things like this:

Bad record. Bad starting pitching. Bad offense. Bad bullpen. Bad defense. Overwhelmed manager, underwhelming front office. Phenom prospect sent to minors. Al Hrabosky on postgame show, talking about broadcasters jumping out of buildings. What the hell is going on?

... You know something is wrong. Hrabosky (radio/tv color guy) was in the home studio last night and said following the broadcast that if he were on the road with the team, he'd request to be on the first floor of the hotel room, because the team is too depressing to watch, and he might jump out the window.

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #34 on:** April 27, 2023, 10:13:02 AM »

Quote from: AUJarhead on April 27, 2023, 09:56:21 AM

When the Cards beatwriters are posting things like this:

Bad record. Bad starting pitching. Bad offense. Bad bullpen. Bad defense. Overwhelmed manager, underwhelming front office. Phenom prospect sent to minors. Al Hrabosky on postgame show, talking about broadcasters jumping out of buildings. What the hell is going on?

... You know something is wrong. Hrabosky (radio/tv color guy) was in the home studio last night and said following the broadcast that if he were on the road with the team, he'd request to be on the first floor of the hotel room, because the team is too depressing to watch, and he might jump out the window.

He's just mad.

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #35 on:** April 27, 2023, 10:26:18 AM »

Baseball was my game growing up. I had dreams, or more like delusions, of playing in the League. I never could figure out why I couldn’t get over the hump with as much hard work as I was putting in. Then last night, I was listening to a post-game interview with Braves SS, Vaughn Grissom, and it became clear. I grew up in a home with a yard that had no trees. Not a leaf to be found. Grissom was asked what gives this team the ability to come back like they did tonight. He said, “Because every guy, one through nine, can rake.”

I don’t think we even owned a rake. I never learned how. There’s no telling where I’d be right now if I grew up in a home with about 20 pine trees in the yard. Just unlucky, I guess.