#baseballposting

[adrivedeepintoleftfield]

witnessed history

[blubushie]

ok so i didnt mean to imply spy was like a 'helpless pathetic uwu babygirl 🥺🥺🥺' when i said he was the weakest. he's obviously still a trained mercenary that is incredibly good at what he does and could absolutely rock someone's shit. i meant in terms of raw physical strength among the mercs, he's the weakest. and if you think it'd actually be scout, i respectfully disagree. my brother plays baseball and hes actually quite strong; it takes a decent amount of upper body/arm strength to swing a metal bat hard enough to hit a ball 100+ meters let alone cave someone's skull in

Nah by "weakest" I'm talking more "performance in a hand-to-hand fight".

I think Spy can throw a punch, better than your average person, but still not on the level of the rest of the mercs. I'll say the same of Scout—he's better than Spy, and he could probably give a mean hook, but the muscles you engage during a jab AND batting aren't used the same way (with the exception of core muscles), and the shared muscles of the arm and shoulder aren't much—mostly shoulder work and tendons for batting and pitching, whereas punches use grip strength, practically every muscle from wrist to shoulder, and shoulder as well. You'll build your bicep on pitching and batting but you'll probably pull something in an actual fistfight because the muscles aren't being used in a way they're accustomed to.

Also tell your brother to use wooden bats if he can/is allowed to (I'm assuming it's minor leagues/local if he's using metal?) Metal ones ain't shit—they don't give the ball enough bounce, and wooden bats have more mass which means you get better distance. Balls come off the bat faster and harder (which makes them go further) than they do off metal. Wood is always better balanced than metal too, and it gives you better feedback on the ball (you can't tell if you're hitting the sweet spot on a metal bat or not but you can tell with a wooden bat and it sorts you real quick). Downside, wooden bats can break. That's their only downside. At the least he should be training on a wooden bat even if he's forced to use a metal bat during games.

I'm not sorry for making this about baseball. You hit the baseball button ← played baseball for a decade and most of that time I was a batter and relief pitcher (I was one of two pitchers, relieved our pitcher when he got tired). I actually preferred batting. Oh and I was a rightfielder. But god I hated right field. We didn't play many lefty batters :(

[joeryan41]

I’ve been telling my non-baseball IRLs (aka almost all of them) how the MLB off-season feels a lot like a TV show in between seasons in how things get a little bit crazy, and this off-season is particularly so due to Shohei Ohtani’s free agency. And I can say here that less than a month after the conclusion of the World Series that we’re reaching levels of stir-crazy that I didn’t expect to see until at least December. Here’s an article headline from the official MLB app (yes I check the mlb app religiously even in the off-season, crazy recognizes crazy):

We’re rapidly approaching BBC Sherlock levels of hiatus brain here. If things keep escalating at this rate I predict we’ll have a baseball version of TJLC by mid-January.

[dilfsisko]

rockies lost 9-17 to the twins painful day baseball fans

[rhysstrongforksfagswag]

Few things are funnier to me in sports than the one-sided rivalry. Like, don’t get me wrong, there is something beautiful about mutual rivalries that burn with the heat of a thousand suns and will until the stars go out, but the one-sided rivalry? Where one team is full of hate and the other indifference? Unparalleled.

[leosgreyfringe]

boo I was hoping for another subway series

[bagel-lox]

this is perhaps the best notification I've ever seen in my life

[mountainsatellite]

I have finally seen the new uniforms for the Minnesota Twins and I have to say: what the fuck

[shreeky]

[adrivedeepintoleftfield]

castellanos kicking the camera guy out of the phillies dugout

[east-coast-snowboarder]

i NEED the phirkenstocks

[joeryan41]

I’m kind of obsessed with these pictures from the place where Mauer and Morneau were living together in the early-mid 2000s.

I feel like I’ve been in this house before. Like this is where 20-something Midwestern bachelors all live. Behind every MLB all-star is an absolute dork of a man.

[dilfsisko]

not the rockies loosing 3-5 against the bluejays..............

[elokitties]

my baseball team is getting werked by that old man’s baseball team….. humiliating

[joeryan41]

"Felix had stayed in Seattle, and he'd given this team and these fans every piece of himself, until there wasn't much of anything left. The team was going to move on. When he took the mound for the last time, everyone knew it was the last time.

It's true that his final start was a loss that dropped his record to 1-8 on the season, that he allowed 5 hits and 4 walks in 5 innings and change, and that the Mariners were lucky to only be losing 3-1 when he left the mound. It's true that just weeks later, the Washington Nationals would win a championship, leaving the Seattle Mariners as the only team in Major League Baseball that has never even appeared in a single World Series.

But when I watch him say goodbye, and when I watch the King's Court pour out enough love to last him through whatever comes next, I mean, who gives a shit?"

- Jon Bois and Alex Rubenstein, The History of the Seattle Mariners

[359] Sure, play another song. I’ve got nothing better to do.

[bagel-lox]

opening day bench clearing i am a messy bitch that lives for drama