MLB 2025 Season

Speaking of "creepy" and "Mike Trout...."
My nephew's all star team plays Millville, NJ on Saturday in the first round of Sectionals after they won Districts.
It takes 5 seconds last night upon hearing this for one of the parents to say "Oh, that is Mike Trout's old team" and another 5 seconds to tell a Mike Trout story.

"I was getting my nails done last year and this cute little 20-something blonde was in the chair next to me chatting about just returning from CA. I struck up a conversation with her and learned she had been out to see a baseball game, where she her boyfriend's brother is a player. I asked her who the player was...and she says 'Mike Trout'! She is dating Mike Trout's brother and tells me how great their family is and how good a guy Mike is.
Now, I'm not the type to do this normally.,.....but, I asked her if I got her something to sign, if she thought she could get it signed for my son, who (like all kids in South Jersey) idolizes Mike Trout.
She told me 'I don't do that, and he doesn't do that'
I thanked her anyway, and thought to myself 'I don't like you and now I don't like him!'"

A few of the other people chuckled at this....and I wanted to tell her to take one hand and jam it up her ass and the other hand and jam it in her mouth. The girl is supposed to go to her boyfriend in NJ....ask him to mail something to his brother....to sign it, and to mail it back....then give it to his girlfriend, who will meet up with creepy baseball mom and give it to her, so her son can have it?
She won't do it and you don't like her?
Probably gets asked dumb shit like that all of the time. She shouldn't tell people who she knows.
People around here worship that dude.

Amongst the Ani said:

Olney again reiterated that more and more players are open to allowing teams to void contracts of players that pop for PED's. I don't see this happening in the next CBA but is an interesting option. I would more like teams be able to void years instead of the whole deal. 32 year old player has 5 years remaining, let them void the last 3 but keep the terms of the first two if they want.

I just don't see the union buying into that.

Cliffy6745 said:

Baseball players are quickly starting to bend over like NFL players

Wha?

Cliffy6745 said:

Degeneratefk said:

Cliffy6745 said:

Baseball players are quickly starting to bend over like NFL players

Wha?

For the league. The union giving in to too much shit

Ahhhh

pureoc said:

Excited for IMO the greatest player to play his entire career in my lifetime (born in 1980) Ken Griffey Jr to go into the HOF tomorrow. He was a power hitter who played a gold glove CF. Our generations version of Willy Mays IMO. Sweetest swing you'd ever see. Congrats Kid!

I'm taping it since I'll be at the Yankee game but I can't wait to watch this.

Sale seems like a turd

So I was looking at the list of all of the Hall of famers and the more I see it and see what the percentage of votes some of these no doubt hall of famers got, the more I am in favor of taking the votes away from the people that do not vote for certain people.

Here are just a few;
Cal RipKen Jr. A no doubt about it guy got 98.5%. Thise 2 or 3 guys that didn't vote for him should lose their vote for life.

Tony Gwynn. One of the greatest hitters to ever play got 97%.

Rickey henderson. The greatest lead off man and stolen base leader got 94%.

Ozzie Smith. Considered by some as not only the best defensive SS of all time, but the best defensive player ever.l got only 91%.

Nolan Ryan. Most career strikeouts and no hitters. 98%.

My proposal: if a player gets 95% of the vote, the writers that don't for that guy loses his vote for 2 years. If it happens again to the same writer, he permanently loses his vote. There should be no reason why there hasn't been a unanimous vote.

F Me In The Brain said:

I am not sold on Ozzie being be defensive SS ever, nor defender ever. HOF sure, but I thought he was overrated on D.

Agree that the 2 assholes who didn't vote Griffey should be slapped.

Empty seats? They said it was the 2nd largest crowd they ever had for one of these things. Looked packed -- I think people had to go hydrate or get shade at points. The weather has been brutally hot/humid last few weeks in NE.

At first I thought Sale cut up his jersey because he was a sally...now it turns out he cut up a shitload of them "with a knife?"
What a jerk. Trade him.

They will trade him. That's not up for debate. It's just a matter of when.

I'm not sure how you can say ozzie isn't one of the best defensive SS ever. Who is better? He's in the hall for 1 reason, defense. He was around a career .300 hitter with zero power.

As the ceremony began, there was a camera shot from where the MLB channel broadcasters were towards the stage. There appeared to be a block of seats, maybe 30-50 that were empty.

Degeneratefk said:

F Me In The Brain said:

I am not sold on Ozzie being be defensive SS ever, nor defender ever. HOF sure, but I thought he was overrated on D.

Agree that the 2 assholes who didn't vote Griffey should be slapped.

Empty seats? They said it was the 2nd largest crowd they ever had for one of these things. Looked packed -- I think people had to go hydrate or get shade at points. The weather has been brutally hot/humid last few weeks in NE.

At first I thought Sale cut up his jersey because he was a sally...now it turns out he cut up a shitload of them "with a knife?"
What a jerk. Trade him.

They will trade him. That's not up for debate. It's just a matter of when.

I'm not sure how you can say ozzie isn't one of the best defensive SS ever. Who is better? He's in the hall for 1 reason, defense. He was around a career .300 hitter with zero power.

As the ceremony began, there was a camera shot from where the MLB channel broadcasters were towards the stage. There appeared to be a block of seats, maybe 30-50 that were empty.

Ozzie wasn't anywhere near a .300 hitter. Great defense. An okay hitter. If you didn't know who he was and saw his numbers. You probably wouldn't think HOF. If he doesn't have a World Series title he probably doesn't get in first ballot.