Baseball & MLB Thread, 2024 edition
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Reporting I read is that he didn’t bet on games he played in. Only time he bet on Pirate games was when he was out on injury. Still, they’ve smacked enough people with season long bans for a couple of bets, what did he think was going to happen when he bet 200 and change times?
Here’s the MLB.com article:
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So it looks like Marcano got smacked with the permaban because even though he was on the injured list, he bet on games involving the major league club that he was currently a member of. Even on the IL, Marcano had a “duty to perform” for the Pirates.
The other four bet on major league games while members of minor league affiliates. No “duty to perform,” per the rule/ruling.
In happier news, Royce Lewis was activated today, and is back in the game for the Twinkies! Wooo!
MLB announces sports betting suspensions for 5 players
Major League Baseball placed Padres infielder/outfielder Tucupita Marcano on the permanently ineligible list Tuesday for violating the league’s sports betting rules and policies. Four other players received one-year suspensions for other gambling-related violations. Athletics right-handed...
So it looks like Marcano got smacked with the permaban because even though he was on the injured list, he bet on games involving the major league club that he was currently a member of. Even on the IL, Marcano had a “duty to perform” for the Pirates.
The other four bet on major league games while members of minor league affiliates. No “duty to perform,” per the rule/ruling.
In happier news, Royce Lewis was activated today, and is back in the game for the Twinkies! Wooo!
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Did an in-game MLB interview cause a player to miss a catch?
Whether it did or not, the Dodgers still won Friday’s game.
The announcers were noticeably hushed after the misplay.
Could be fun trading jerseys to get one that fits.
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I wasn’t expecting much, but could we have seen something less… this?
It’s “active golf wear” for shit-headed up-and-comers on the course in their late 20s to early 30s, getting drunk on the job and being sooooo fucking white it hurts to look at them. Like graduated frat bros in one step up ‘business’ casual.
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I won’t be buying one.
I wasn’t expecting much, but could we have seen something less… this?
It’s “active golf wear” for shit-headed up-and-comers on the course in their late 20s to early 30s, getting drunk on the job and being sooooo fucking white it hurts to look at them. Like graduated frat bros in one step up ‘business’ casual.
New drip: Twins' City Connect unis inspired by 'Ripple Effect'
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Twins were the first North American professional sports franchise to name themselves after their home state, not their home city -- so, it should come as no surprise that the Twins used their “City Connect” jersey as more of a “State Connect” concept. The team...
I won’t be buying one.
I would have loved it had he angrily ripped the earpiece out of his jersey.Did an in-game MLB interview cause a player to miss a catch?
Whether it did or not, the Dodgers still won Friday’s game.www.theverge.com
The announcers were noticeably hushed after the misplay.
"In this case, it didn’t lose the game for the Dodgers — they won by one point in the 11th inning."Did an in-game MLB interview cause a player to miss a catch?
Whether it did or not, the Dodgers still won Friday’s game.
One point?
Writing on the wall: Giants coach Ryan Christenson has turned lineup cards into art
Ryan Christenson has turned lineup cards into art. The San Francisco Giants bench coach uses calligraphy for flamboyant lineup cards, impressing players so much they have him draw art on milestone balls and bats.
Any of you MLB guys watching the World cup T20 cricket going on over there?
Twins fans sport unusual gear ... the coaches' jerseys!
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"But one day, Twins bench coach Jayce Tingler saw a photo of jerseys that were so surprising that he made it his personal mission to bring these fans into the clubhouse -- because that seems to be the only fitting reaction to seeing a pair of fans sporting the jerseys of first-base coach Hank Conger and third-base coach Tommy Watkins together in the stands."
Tonight's game at Rickwood Field, Birmingham, Alabama.
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Here's all you need to know about MLB at Rickwood Field (Tonight, 7 ET on FOX)
Tonight, the Giants and Cardinals will square off for the first regular-season AL/NL game ever played at historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., the site where the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues played for nearly four decades and where more than 180 future Hall of Famers...
I still don’t know how I feel about MLB taking over the (recognized) Negro Leagues history…
Tonight's game at Rickwood Field, Birmingham, Alabama.
Here's all you need to know about MLB at Rickwood Field (Tonight, 7 ET on FOX)
Tonight, the Giants and Cardinals will square off for the first regular-season AL/NL game ever played at historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., the site where the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues played for nearly four decades and where more than 180 future Hall of Famers...
I love baseball in smaller stadiums, it just feels right
It's about being treated as equals. Only the future will tell - maybe it'll be a token, maybe it'll be an actual merge and acknowledgement - but the resolution rests not in the hand of MLB but you and I. It's up to the fans to choose.
The best of the Negro League, in their time, were the among the best baseball players alive. There's no doubt, no contention. It's about time that was recognized.
Yeah, the acknowledgment of those players is what I like about it and recognizing some truly great players of the time. I think putting them into the Baseball Hall of Fame is long overdue, but MLB has been good at ignoring baseball outside it’s purview for a long time. This is the same organization that kept those same players out, and at best ignored them, their leagues and games and are saying “this is ours now.”
Like I said, I still don’t know how I feel about it yet. If nothing else, it’ll be interesting to see a modern MLB game in such a small venue.
Just an FYI, Negro League players have been going into the Hall for quite some time. I mean, Gibson and Paige were inducted in the early 70's, with many more since. Gibson in particular is a standout, since he played only in the Negro Leagues and was the second player who played either all or the majority of their career in the Negro Leagues to be inducted. The first was Paige, and Paige had some MLB time under his belt at the end of his career.
Not that it's really cogent to the conversation. But I did want to point out that the Hall of Fame has been inducting Negro League players for more than 50 years. Major League Baseball, on the other hand....
I was watching that live and thinking "good on the director for letting him speak un-censored and un-interrupted." It really would have undermined the whole idea of the night if they tried to paper over that emotion.
'Encyclopedia of baseball' Santana puts 2,000th game in the books
OAKLAND -- Believe it or not, there are fewer people to have played 2,000 games in the Major Leagues than have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. With Carlos Santana becoming the 250th player to earn that distinction on Friday night at the Oakland Coliseum, the Twins
Two thoughts.
The Dodger's City Connect (2024 edition) jerseys are... fine. They're fine. Not great. Not terrible. Just... fine. I get strong 'Division 2 College' vibes from it.
Second thought?
Bailey Ober through an 89 pitch, 10 strikeout complete game today in a 10-2 Twinkies victory over the Athletics.
89 pitches and 10 strikeouts. Since they started pitch-counting in the late 80s? The only other sub-90 pitch effort with that many K's was David Cone's perfect game.
So yeah, Ober had himself a day.
Also, the Twinkies stomped Oakland. I heard there was seven people, a mule, and two competing flocks of seagulls in attendance.
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The mule's name was Ted. Allegedly. Allegedly Ted.
The Dodger's City Connect (2024 edition) jerseys are... fine. They're fine. Not great. Not terrible. Just... fine. I get strong 'Division 2 College' vibes from it.
Second thought?
Bailey Ober through an 89 pitch, 10 strikeout complete game today in a 10-2 Twinkies victory over the Athletics.
89 pitches and 10 strikeouts. Since they started pitch-counting in the late 80s? The only other sub-90 pitch effort with that many K's was David Cone's perfect game.
So yeah, Ober had himself a day.
Also, the Twinkies stomped Oakland. I heard there was seven people, a mule, and two competing flocks of seagulls in attendance.
Game Ober: 89-pitch complete game a David Cone-ian effort
OAKLAND -- It takes a lot for the offense to become an afterthought on a day in which the Twins sent 12 men to the plate in an inning and exploded for 10 runs. An 89-pitch complete game will do that. Bailey Ober became the first Twins pitcher in 19
The mule's name was Ted. Allegedly. Allegedly Ted.
IMHO "fine" is a great way to describe many of the city connect geqar. A few I think are "ok" but I can't say I really like any of them. Feel free to call me old and/or a purist but I mostly hate the Philly ones. Different color scheme that doesn't really connect to the city besides the text or the liberty bell on the hats. Don't get me wrong: the blue liberty bell cap is a cool looking Philadelphia monument but I just don't see the connection to baseball.
Maybe I just hate how the city connect outfit sometimes throws out established color schemes?
That's how I feel about most of the City Connect unis. A couple are good but most are meh at best and there's a few that are just hideous. For reasons I can't explain I like Boston's the best. I'm a Padre fan and while their City Connect uniform suits the vibe of the city it's not a color scheme I care about.
I’m convinced the only really good one was the cherry blossom Washington Nationals uniform - that should be a permenant third uniform option.
There are some ‘good’, but most are just fine or are outright bad.
'Now, who's got a statue?' Winfield honored in Alaska
FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- More than 50 years ago, a college-aged Dave Winfield embarked on a 2,000-mile journey to play summer ball in a faraway land. In a place he'd never dreamed of playing. In Fairbanks, Alaska. On Friday, with his family by his side, the 72-year-old was back in Fairbanks.
Shit. I didn't think this place was so dusty, and I never knew that man had never earned a statue. It's about time.'Now, who's got a statue?' Winfield honored in Alaska
FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- More than 50 years ago, a college-aged Dave Winfield embarked on a 2,000-mile journey to play summer ball in a faraway land. In a place he'd never dreamed of playing. In Fairbanks, Alaska. On Friday, with his family by his side, the 72-year-old was back in Fairbanks.www.mlb.com
'Just a weird ending': Rox clock Nats with first-of-its-kind walk-off
DENVER -- Tie game. Bases loaded. Full count. Ninth inning. No outs. For the Rockies’ Ryan McMahon, “When you’re a kid, those are the moments you dream up.” But no kid's dream ever ended with the plate umpire -- in this case Hunter Wendelstedt -- springing from his box and
"But no kid's dream ever ended with the plate umpire -- in this case Hunter Wendelstedt -- springing from his box and tapping his wrist in a “you’re late” manner.
That’s because the 2024 MLB leader in pitch-clock violations, Nationals closer Kyle Finnegan, committed his ninth. No other pitcher has more than five. The automatic ball forced in the winning run in the Rockies’ 8-7 victory.
It was the first game to end on a pitch-clock violation since the rule was introduced for the 2023 season. Possibly the least weird aspect is that the setting was the theater of weirdness, Coors Field."
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The Giants are giving tribute to Willie Mays this evening.
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The Giants are giving tribute to Willie Mays this evening.
Giants all wearing No. 24 to honor Willie Mays
SAN FRANCISCO -- It had been more than 50 years since a Giants player wore No. 24 on the field. That changed on Monday -- June 24, as fate would have it -- when the Giants returned home for the first time since Willie Mays passed away at age 93
Phils turn a 1-3-5 triple play 95 years in making
DETROIT -- Aaron Nola had cruised through his first two innings at Comerica Park on Monday night when the Tigers launched an offensive. And so, when Detroit led off the third with back-to-back singles, Nola calmly pulled the rug out from the home team, spearheading the first triple play in
impressive bare-handed catch by fan:
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A barehanded catch on a 108.5 mph foul! Is this the greatest fan grab ever?
It’s possible that the top fan catch of the year happened on Monday night at Camden Yards in Baltimore. In the top of the third inning, Cleveland’s Josh Naylor yanked a foul ball 415 feet with an exit velocity of 108.5 mph that hooked well foul of the right-field foul
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