Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Posted

just now tuning into the derby on my dvr. i see that espn is still choosing to use a split screen, the dumbest thing possible. apparently wood hit one 486 feet. too bad i wasn’t able to actually watch and appreciate it. dumb.

  • Hook 'Em 2
  • Rage+1 1
Posted

One magic town. 60 pro players. And they're all related to Ronald Acuña Jr.

 

Quote

You've likely heard of some of baseball's biggest family ties. The sport has a long tradition of them.

The Boones, the Alous, the Guerreros -- the last, a seemingly endless gene pool of players seen blasting dingers across Dominican sandlots year after year.

But there's one group of relatives that outranks them all. One mixture of five families, from one tiny, baseball-obsessed, way-out-of-the-way town in Venezuela that has so many pro players, even most members have lost count.

"It's amazing how many people in the family have signed professional contracts," former pitcher Kelvim Escobar told me in a phone call. "Eight Major Leaguers, and I don't know how many more have signed pro contracts."

"There are a lot," Ronald Acuña Jr. said through an interpreter. "It’s more than 60."

"Well, I think it's around 50-something, almost 60, something like that," former shortstop José Escobar said through an interpreter. "From a town of just four streets. ... It might be a Guinness record."

 

Continued:

https://www.mlb.com/news/ronald-acuna-jr-whole-family-plays-pro-baseball

 

 

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 1
Posted
21 minutes ago, Derka said:

just now tuning into the derby on my dvr. i see that espn is still choosing to use a split screen, the dumbest thing possible. apparently wood hit one 486 feet. too bad i wasn’t able to actually watch and appreciate it. dumb.

Get rid of the fucking clock and it fixes everything. 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted
27 minutes ago, Derka said:

just now tuning into the derby on my dvr. i see that espn is still choosing to use a split screen, the dumbest thing possible. apparently wood hit one 486 feet. too bad i wasn’t able to actually watch and appreciate it. dumb.

Switch over to the statcast feed. 

Posted
3 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

This version of the derby is so dumb. You don't even get to enjoy the HR leaving the park. They're throwing the next pitch while the previous hit is still in the air.

Yep. Because baseball isn’t meant to have clocks. 

Posted

jessica mendoza: “did you see where that last one was?!?!?!!!”

me: “no i did not, espn’s camera angle was coming from the moon.”

Posted
3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Explain to me why there is a wrestling belt?

I cant explain why people over the age of 9 even give a shit about wrestling, so I got nothing for ya here. 

  • Hook 'Em 2
Posted
18 minutes ago, Derka said:

so now you get a hr derby trophy, a piece and chain, as well as a wrestling belt. ok.

If they don't get one of these next year for the champ, they are just doing it wrong.

image.jpeg.83e604137fd2bd7a0f9fbc8780c40b6a.jpeg

  • Haha 2
  • Drool 1
  • Fuck Around and Find Out 1
Posted

This was a really good derby. I love the Derby for some reason. I watched the ESPN2 broadcast and it was so much fucking better. The camera angle from behind the mound on the main broadcast? We don't care. 

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Baboontyme said:

This was a really good derby. I love the Derby for some reason. I watched the ESPN2 broadcast and it was so much fucking better. The camera angle from behind the mound on the main broadcast? We don't care. 

No shit, the camera from behind the mound is so that you can see the pitch, yet they stick with it even though absolutely no one cares about the pitch.  

Open secret -- the Derby is a billion times better than the actual ASG.  

Edited by Beau Vine
  • Like 1
  • Drool 1
Posted (edited)
58 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Open secret -- the Derby is a billion times better than the actual ASG

all it would take to fix this is for the managers to agree (prompted by the league or otherwise) to start the two best staters, but to save some of your best pitchers and hitters for later in the game. let’s watch mike wazowski vs zack mckinstry in the 4th inning so that we can see hunter brown vs shohei ohtani in the 8th or 9th. give the participation trophy players an AB or an IP early on and save a few of the big dawgs to be subbed in throughout the game. if the best players decided the game in the 9th it would mean more.

Edited by Derka
  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 1
Posted
7 hours ago, Derka said:

all it would take to fix this is for the managers to agree (prompted by the league or otherwise) to start the two best staters, but to save some of your best pitchers and hitters for later in the game. let’s watch mike wazowski vs zack mckinstry in the 4th inning so that we can see hunter brown vs shohei ohtani in the 8th or 9th. give the participation trophy players an AB or an IP early on and save a few of the big dawgs to be subbed in throughout the game. if the best players decided the game in the 9th it would mean more.

Why have RP make the team then 

Posted
7 hours ago, Derka said:

 

I’d love to know the lore behind the myth of catcher being the most valuable position. To me it’s 4th behind pitcher, shortstop, and center fielder. 

Posted
10 minutes ago, Helobious said:

I’d love to know the lore behind the myth of catcher being the most valuable position. To me it’s 4th behind pitcher, shortstop, and center fielder. 

How many good pitchers are there. Now do CF. Now do SS. There's about 3 elite catchers. That's why 

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 1
  • Drool 1
Posted
51 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:

How many good pitchers are there. Now do CF. Now do SS. There's about 3 elite catchers. That's why 

So in other words most teams still win without an elite catcher. Which proves my point. 

Posted
1 hour ago, Helobious said:

I’d love to know the lore behind the myth of catcher being the most valuable position. To me it’s 4th behind pitcher, shortstop, and center fielder. 

quote-you-have-to-have-a-catcher-because

 

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Haha 1

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.



×
×
  • Create New...