Baseball

[VladimirIlyich]

Based on zero evidence I always thought I’d be fucking ace at baseball.

The boys were always better than the girls at rounders in my school days so why not Baseball too?

[Dougie Do'ins]

Major League Baseball: London Stadium to host two fixtures in 2019

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/baseball/44038752

[Champ]

Am I being dim, but which is the London Stadium? West Ham’s ground?

[Dougie Do'ins]

Am I being dim, but which is the London Stadium? West Ham’s ground?

Yes and yes.

[Mike D]

Was going to post clips of The Simpsons episode where Mr Burns employees a load of professional baseball ringers. So many clips to post might aswel just post the whole episode. https://www.watchcartoononline.com/the-simpsons-episode-317-homer-at-the-bat-2

[Karl_b]

Definitely want to go to this.

[A Red]

Watched the Atlanta Braves play the Phoenix cowards or whatever they're called, a few years back. Mildly entertaining although I have no idea who won or by what.

 

Its all a bit strange, basically people eating and drinking interrupted by watching baseball for a few minutes then going off and eating and drinking more. The biggest excitement seemed to be for the fans sat behind the batsman hoping he top edged the ball so they could try to catch it. 

[3 Stacks]

Watched the Atlanta Braves play the Phoenix cowards or whatever they're called, a few years back. Mildly entertaining although I have no idea who won or by what.

 

Its all a bit strange, basically people eating and drinking interrupted by watching baseball for a few minutes then going off and eating and drinking more. The biggest excitement seemed to be for the fans sat behind the batsman hoping he top edged the ball so they could try to catch it. 

 

Arizona Diamondbacks?

 

Yeah, one of the traditions of going to a baseball game is bringing a glove on the off chance that a foul ball or home run comes near you and you can try to catch it. 

[A Red]

Arizona Diamondbacks?

 

Yeah, one of the traditions of going to a baseball game is bringing a glove on the off chance that a foul ball or home run comes near you and you can try to catch it. 

Yeah, thats the ones

[VladimirIlyich]

Should only be played by teenage schoolgirls. Bloody Rounders.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Baseball itself is utterly shit however the day out can be quite fun and is mostly very alcoholic. I’d recommend tickets that include the club or something similar. I’m going to the Cincinnati Reds Opening Day (150 year old tradition) in a couple of weeks. The parade, events and all day drinking around the stadium will be far better than the actual game and I intend to watch as little of that as possible

Opening day is always ace.

We’ve got a semi-pro team where I am and it’s a great day out. Tickets are under 20$ CDN and a tin of beer is 6$. They get aboot 4000 fans per game and lots of old people who are ace to talk to. Old people at baseball games love to chat and they never complain or are crumodgenly.

 

Compare that with the Gridiron football team (10$ for Budweiser) or the ice hockey team who charge 70$ to sit up top in the arena to 175$ in the lower section.

 

Can’t beat a day out in the sunshine with ice cold beer, smell of fresh cut grass and the crack of the bay.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Am I being dim, but which is the London Stadium? West Ham’s ground?

Because it has a running track they can configure it for baseball.

[Josef Svejk]

Red Sox have obvious Liverpool links. Yankees have less obvious United links.

 

Therefore, it matters.

[Dougie Do'ins]

How to explain Yankees-Red Sox rivalry to foreigners

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-44047565/how-to-explain-yankees-red-sox-rivalry-to-foreigners

[Scott_M]

Remember to stretch during the 7th innings.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Remember to stretch during the 7th innings.

It's usually when they cut off beer sales so its more of a sprint to the beer concessions.

[Trumo]

Earlier this week, the Texas Rangers won their maiden World Series title, but there's a slightly quirkier tale from Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, where the Hanshin Tigers have just won the Japan Series for the first time since 1985.

 

Why quirky? Well, after that 1985 win, fans of the team had lookalikes of the players jump into a local canal. As they couldn't find a lookalike of the (bearded) American player in their team, they got hold of a Colonel Sanders statue and lobbed that into the canal instead. Since then, they'd gone decades without winning the big one. They've managed to recover parts of the statue since then but it's still missing the glasses and the left hand. 

 

Whatever they've done, the "Curse of the Colonel" has now been lifted.

 

Baseball throws up quite a few of these tales.

[chrisbonnie]

Shohei Ohtani will receive $700 million over 10 years, guaranteed from the Los Angeles Dodgers, this is the largest sporting contract, in the world, ever........... 

 

Converting Shohei Ohtani’s contract:

$70,000,000 a year for 10 years.
$5,833,333 a month for 120 months.
$1,346,153 a week for 520 weeks.
$191,780 a day for 3650 days.
$7,991 an hour for 87,600 hours.
$133 a minute for 5,256,000 minutes.

[George Costanza]

Got Todd Boehly and Saudi investment all over it.

 

Crazy money for a sport nobody outside America (Cuba & Japan) gives a flying shit about

[chrisbonnie]

8 minutes ago, George Costanza said:

Got Todd Boehly and Saudi investment all over it.

 

Crazy money for a sport nobody outside America (Cuba & Japan) gives a flying shit about

 

its just hard to believe a team can actually warrant paying a player that much, and guarantee it for 10 years, im genuinely flabbergasted at it. 

 

plus as you said, its baseball, its not like he'll be a household name like ronaldo or messi, crazy.

 

but fair fucks to him 

[3 Stacks]

16 minutes ago, George Costanza said:

Got Todd Boehly and Saudi investment all over it.

 

Crazy money for a sport nobody outside America (Cuba & Japan) gives a flying shit about

Baseball is huge in Korea, Taiwan, the Caribean,  Central America and Venezuela.

[3 Stacks]

4 minutes ago, chrisbonnie said:

 

its just hard to believe a team can actually warrant paying a player that much, and guarantee it for 10 years, im genuinely flabbergasted at it. 

 

plus as you said, its baseball, its not like he'll be a household name like ronaldo or messi, crazy.

 

but fair fucks to him 

Contracts in baseball have been massive for a long time.

[chrisbonnie]

1 minute ago, 3 Stacks said:

Contracts in baseball have been massive for a long time.

 

yeah, but this is nearly double what the next biggest was. thats a fair jump

[3 Stacks]

4 minutes ago, chrisbonnie said:

 

yeah, but this is nearly double what the next biggest was. thats a fair jump

He's a once in a lifetime talent and he hits and pitches at a high level. He's a unique player.

[chrisbonnie]

1 minute ago, 3 Stacks said:

He's a once in a lifetime talent and he hits and pitches at a high level. He's a unique player.

there;s no denying that.

 

i wonder will he pitch as good in 2025 after his recent surgery, i think i read thats his 3rd tommy john surgery now