2016 MLB Season

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Nobody posted this yet so I will. Things you should definitely argue about with conviction:

Even year for the Giants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Royals success/fluke/not a fluke/etc.
The Dodgers being very good/actually sucky/really dumb/etc.
The Red Sox media bias, favoritism, etc., etc.
The D-Backs and whatever they're doing
Make Baseball Fun Again

I am glad to say that game 1 featured my Tigers already in mid-season form with the bullpen. Although banking on a bunch of older guys coming off of one hit wonder years or sudden improvement was always risky. We didn't have the resources to do much else, alas.

 

[choxorn]

Trevor Story is the first player in major league history to hit 4 home runs in his first three major league games.

Robinson Cano also has 4 homers in 3 games. In both of the last two years, he didn't hit his fourth home run until June.

They also both have zero non-homer hits so far.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

V-Mart has now made two plate appearances this year, both as a pinch hitter, both resulting in home runs.

 

[choxorn]

And now Story's at 6, in his first 4 games. He even finally had a non-homer hit!

It's like he's playing MLB The Show 2016 on Rookie Difficulty, or something.

 

[daft]

Blue Jays gonna take the WS in 2016, watch and see...

 

[Martin Alvito]

Somebody needs to put a stop to this Arrieta thing. Saw him Saturday at Wrigley, he was off his game and it was still insane. Get into a jam with a man on third and one out? No problem. A grounder to first and a K later...

 

[choxorn]

16-0 no-hitter... apparently the largest margin of victory in a no-no since 1884.

 

[warpus]

When I first came to this country I fell in love with baseball. It was right before the Blue Jays won the thing twice in a row. It was just such a weird and different sport, you get to hit a ball with a bat, how cool is that? I played it all the time at school and slowly learned the rules. The then BJs won the thing twice in a row and it was awesome.

Then I loaded up Hardball 3 on my 386DX PC computer and.. what, they play a game every friggin day? What the.. My love with baseball fell apart. I couldn't watch it any more. It was boring. If there was a game a week that would have probably not happened, but it was baseball overload. Such a slow moving sport, and just tooo much of it. I put it on my hate list.

Last year, I decided to watch a bit of teh Blue Jays here and there. My roommate is a fan and usually has the "ball game" on, so I'd join him for an inning here and there. I'm open minded, so why not! Anyhow, I slowly learned all the players names and I slowly got pulled back into the sport. The BJs were doing well last season and had some very memorable moments.

Now I know most of their starting players, if not all of them. I know about their dugout and who's in it. I know enough to be able to follow the team and have my emotions pulled on during and after games.

So anyway, yeah, go Blue Jays! I usually do not watch a full game, generally just the first couple innings and/or the last 2 or 3 innings. Like I said, if there was 1 game a week I would probably watch them in full. But there's a game every friggin day, that's far too much baseball, I do not want baseball overload to happen again. If a game lasted a half an hour, fine, I would watch full games, but naahh.. I'll wait until the BJs make it to the postseason. Only then will I probably watch full games again.

Either way, I'm now converted again, find baseball enjoyable again.

 

[shadowplay]

ah, that old .500 baseball feeling, how I've missed you.

 

[KMRblue1027]

Somehow my Phillies are .500 as well. It's been a really fun early season.

 

[choxorn]

Anyone know a good way to defeat BABIP curses? There seems to be one on Kyle Seager right now and that makes me sad.

 

[Light Cleric]

I don't know how the hell the Braves are 4-16. They don't look nearly that good. Our pitching is up and down but at least our offense is consistent(ly garbage).

We have 3 home runs this season. Like, what.

 

[choxorn]

All praise his holiness, Bartolo Colon, thrower of fastballs, loser of helmets, and now, hitter of a home run.

 

[classical_hero]

Give hope for anyone.

 

[Martin Alvito]

All praise his holiness, Bartolo Colon, thrower of fastballs, loser of helmets, and now, hitter of a home run.

I loved how they cleared the dugout. Brilliant.

 

[choxorn]

What is this strange feeling? Is this... is this what winning feels like?

 

[dgfred]

Look out Joey Bats

 

[daft]

Bautista gets sucker punched and suspended as well?
And that Odor guy got only 8 games?
What a bunch of baloney!
If I was Bautista I'd sue MLB and Odor for millions, baseball's not boxing! that was assault!
And then the stupid American sports fans again with the "USA" chant!
What a bunch of ignorant and disrespectful folk those people(fans) are! shame on them!
Most of the players on the Toronto team are Americans!-you so called Rangers fans-(dummies).

 

[choxorn]

I just think it's hilarious that the fans chant "USA!" when a Venezuelan punches a Dominican.

 

[shadowplay]

I have to admit the Oakley's flying off Bautista's face made me laugh.