**2015 MLB Season Thread: This is how the chapter ends (4 Viewers)

[Raider Nation]

Adam Eaton; @AdamSpankyEaton: We are gonna do our best to take the crowd out of it early.. Wish us luck..

It is being televised, yes? I gotta see this.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

Random, but I went to a game at Camden Yards about seven years ago when the O's were playing the White Sox, and they had to finish a suspended game from Chicago before the start of the regular game. I thought even THAT seemed weird to have the White Sox be the home team in Baltimore, even for an inning or two.

 

[Raider Nation]

The Yankees are showing solidarity with the Orioles; also playing in front of no fans.

 

[Raider Nation]

http://picload.org/image/idcigri/4-30-20151-01-52pm.jpg

 

[Grahamburn]

http://picload.org/image/idcigri/4-30-20151-01-52pm.jpg

Tough to fill them when you're charging $5k.

 

[Raider Nation]

LOL

 

[Swing 51]

Braun out of lineup again wtf?

yea something called "gerardo parra" is listed as batting third tonight. really weird.

Yeah I've had about enough of Braun already. Some "minor injury" has him out tonight, guy is terrible and needs to go on the DL. And when I say DL, I mean teh juise.

Made an appearance as a PH last night and promptly struck out. Thanks for contributing Braun!

Hit a homer tonight. I'm thinking about ordering a marching band and confetti to his residence tonight.

 

[jfranco77]

Apparently there are fans standing outside the stadium watching the O's game. Just saw Chris Davis hit a home run ball out to them.(Game is free on MLB tv today)

 

[jfranco77]

6-0 Orioles in the bottom of the 1st. They're never letting the fans back in.

 

[Raider Nation]

https://vid.me/uFWj

 

[Peyton Marino]

Danny Santana still looking for that elusive first walk of the year.

maybe they're throwing him a lot of strikes

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Danny Santana still looking for that elusive first walk of the year.

maybe they're throwing him a lot of strikes

Well at least they have the ultra selective Torii Hunter hitting behind him.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

I quit Team Kipnis. He is literal walking garbage.

 

[Eephus]

Too bad the Orioles game was such a blowout. I would have liked to see a critical late-innings situation happen with no crowd noise.

 

[shadyridr]

Too bad the Orioles game was such a blowout. I would have liked to see a critical late-innings situation happen with no crowd noise.

insert tb joke here

 

[RnR]

I quit Team Kipnis. He is literal walking garbage.

Good. Now that we have removed the clubhouse cancer, Team Kipnis has decided to produce tonight.

 

[Frostillicus]

I quit Team Kipnis. He is literal walking garbage.

Ha!

 

[Limp Ditka]

Every at-bat Hanley gets makes me feel like I'm watching a ####tier version of Manny.

 

[Raider Nation]

Charlie Sanders 11-yard pass from Greg Landry (Benny Ricardo kick) ..... 7-0

Benny Ricardo 34-yard FG ........................................................................ 10-0

Chuck Foreman 6-yard run (Fred Cox kick) .............................................. 10-7

 

[Limp Ditka]

Charlie Sanders 11-yard pass from Greg Landry (Benny Ricardo kick) ..... 7-0

Benny Ricardo 34-yard FG ........................................................................ 10-0

Chuck Foreman 6-yard run (Fred Cox kick) .............................................. 10-7

Limp Ditka Doesn't Like This​

 

[Northern Voice]

Did Chutley get old?

 

[Limp Ditka]

Every at-bat Hanley gets makes me feel like I'm watching a ####tier version of Manny.

This is because pretty much 99.9% of hitters are a ####tier version of Manny. To have the guy come out and hit 10 jacks before April is done is extra

 

[Limp Ditka]

Did Chutley get old?

Haven't seen a lot of his ABs this year, but he hammered that ball in his last AB. Bourjos just outran it.

 

[Eephus]

Vogelsong is pitching BP tonight

 

[Limp Ditka]

Vogelsong is pitching BP tonight

I think you're looking for the players that stink thread

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Alex Guerrero has a 1.564 OPS, Puig is out, Crawford is out, and Guerrero is still on the bench.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

More Pedro, less Harold. TIA.

 

[Limp Ditka]

More Pedro, less Harold. TIA.

He's fitting in real good.

And I couldn't tell if it was him talking or Harold mumbling, because they cut away from the studio shot, but I think he went third person earlier and called himself funny.

'Yeah. Pedro is funny'

 

[Smack Tripper]

Pedro could be baseball's Barkley

 

[MattFancy]

Does it feel like the All-Star voting opens earlier and earlier every year?

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Did Chutley get old?

A little bit, but his BABIP is lowest in the majors at .102. He's still making some good contact, so certainly he will improve.

 

[rockaction]

Every at-bat Hanley gets makes me feel like I'm watching a ####tier version of Manny.

This is because pretty much 99.9% of hitters are a ####tier version of Manny. To have the guy come out and hit 10 jacks before April is done is extra

Yeah, I was sort of talking about their approaches, which led to the comparison.

Glad he's doing well. I hope he has a career year.

Nice of you to bump a two-week old post when a guy gets hot. Doesn't seem petty at all.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Every at-bat Hanley gets makes me feel like I'm watching a ####tier version of Manny.

This is because pretty much 99.9% of hitters are a ####tier version of Manny. To have the guy come out and hit 10 jacks before April is done is extra

Yeah, I was sort of talking about their approaches, which led to the comparison.

Glad he's doing well. I hope he has a career year.

Nice of you to bump a two-week old post when a guy gets hot. Doesn't seem petty at all.

Gets hot? His slash on 4/12, when you posted this, was .320/.333/.680.

 

[rockaction]

Every at-bat Hanley gets makes me feel like I'm watching a ####tier version of Manny.

This is because pretty much 99.9% of hitters are a ####tier version of Manny. To have the guy come out and hit 10 jacks before April is done is extra

Yeah, I was sort of talking about their approaches, which led to the comparison.

Glad he's doing well. I hope he has a career year.

Nice of you to bump a two-week old post when a guy gets hot. Doesn't seem petty at all.

Gets hot? His slash on 4/12, when you posted this, was .320/.333/.680.

Nope. Posted during the Sunday night game. Probably before the home run, considering the score was 10-3 in the fifth that night. At that point, he had two home runs and five runs batted in. (Don't bother with the RBI lecture -- it merely serves to give one an idea). Still a really nice .318/.348/.591, but with a whopping two home runs.

He had sat out the day before. I'd call eight home runs in seventeen days "hot." And I'm using your "jacks" argument, so to switch to the slash line is pretty basic.

But I was more commenting on bumping the two and a half week old post. Good work, detective.

 

[Limp Ditka]

you new here?

 

[rockaction]

you new here?

Yeahhh... If this is par for the course, my apologies. I keep my posting here to a minimum because I don't follow baseball like I did in the nineties. The hockey thread has its own ways also. I hope Hanley stays injury-free, hits forty home runs, and we can all laugh at what a dumb posting that was as the Red Sox make the playoffs.

 

[Limp Ditka]

2 weeks is like a RN millisecond

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Guys I don't think the Phillies are very good.

 

[fdas2]

Guys I don't think the Phillies are very good.

The hottest of takes yet

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Last night I had to explain to my son why the right side of the Phillies' infield gets paid $40 million to hit .152 collectively, while there are millions of children starving in Africa. Do you want to explain that to my son, Mr. Amaro? We are all ears.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Last night I had to explain to my son why the right side of the Phillies' infield gets paid $40 million to hit .152 collectively, while there are millions of children starving in Africa. Do you want to explain that to my son, Mr. Amaro? We are all ears.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Great, now my fingers are charred nubs.

 

[Eephus]

Last night I had to explain to my son why the right side of the Phillies' infield gets paid $40 million to hit .152 collectively, while there are millions of children starving in Africa. Do you want to explain that to my son, Mr. Amaro? We are all ears.

Well, they donated thousands of 2009 World Champs and 2010 NL Pennant winners shirts to the cause.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Guys I don't think the Phillies are very good.

They did knock around a AAA pitcher for 2-and-a-third today.

 

[jabarony]

Why are the Cubs batting their pitcher 8th? What's the strategy there?

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Why are the Cubs batting their pitcher 8th? What's the strategy there?

Old article, but rationale is still the same obviously.

http://www.hardballtimes.com/is-larussa-right-to-bat-his-pitcher-in-the-eight-slot/

 

[njherdfan]

Why are the Cubs batting their pitcher 8th? What's the strategy there?

Here's a numbers-heavy article, but the reasoning the Mets manager has given about thinking of using the strategy is that you're more likely to have runners on base for your best hitters (hitting 3rd and 4th in the lineup) if you have legitimate hitters in the 9-1-2 spots.

 

[jabarony]

Why are the Cubs batting their pitcher 8th? What's the strategy there?

Old article, but rationale is still the same obviously.

http://www.hardballtimes.com/is-larussa-right-to-bat-his-pitcher-in-the-eight-slot/

Thanks.

 

[RnR]

I quit Team Kipnis. He is literal walking garbage.

Good. Now that we have removed the clubhouse cancer, Team Kipnis has decided to produce tonight.

Feels like we traded Milton Bradley over here. Team Kipnis lives!

 

[shadyridr]

I know everyone hates him but that go ahead missile HR by ARod, 660 to boot, amid piercing boos at Fenway was pretty ####### cool.