2016 MLB Season Thread Baseball • Page 151

Yay Correa

 

Rob Refsnyder doesn't ever have a bad at-bat pretty much.

 

Whenever a game is on Fox or ESPN, it's like they need to hit you over the head with a thousand different statistics to prove they're better than local broadcasts or something. Like do I really need to know Nova had a 43% whiff rate on sliders 5 years ago? Like give your fucking research departments a minute off, goddamnit.

 

I find it so hard to enjoy national broadcasts. Whenever the Cubs are on Fox or ESPN, I find myself wanting Len and JD so much. They know the team better, they have great chemistry, and they're insightful and funny.

Even when I watch other teams on national broadcasts, I'm just not enamored or captivated by the broadcasters.

 

I actually like Vasgersian and Verducci well enough but they just keep hitting you over the head with stats that like halfway through this game my brain was just like "okay, I'm out" lol

 

I'm not sure if it's still as true as it felt years ago, but I always thought some of ESPN's stats were ridiculous.

"This guy bats .385 against left-handed pitchers named Jon who were born in August, when playing on the road, when Mars is in retrograde."

There's too many weird qualifiers.

 

That's the beauty of stats!

 

They still do that on Sportscenter. Like "he's the youngest short stop under 6 foot that bats left handed to hit 6 HRs by May 1st in a leap year".

Like oh? Cool? I guess?

 

I always laugh when they talk about a player being the first to do something incredibly specific. It's like of course they are, and there likely won't be another to do whatever it is.

 

Dave Flemming, who is a regular Giants broadcasters but also does multiple sports for ESPN including baseball, went into the downsides of national broadcasts quite a bit on Jonah Keri's podcast. It's a great listen in general but I enjoyed what he had to say about that particularly, since he actually works in the field, is on national broadcasts and is still annoyed by aspects of them that a lot of baseball fans are.

 

That sounds fascinating. I'm going to listen to that episode very soon. Thanks for mentioning it!

 

still early but George really putting it all together now... been on fire since moving into the leadoff spot, i hope to see him, Altuve and Correa at the top of the order for years and years.

 

Motherfuck. The Sox keep losing these damn close games late.

 

Cleveland has the best intra-divisional record in baseball behind the Cubs, and yet have somehow managed to lose almost all of the games they've played against the Twins. Silly baseball.

 

Andrus just deked Romero on a sac fly to shallow LF to score.

 

Two of the best infielders in the league.

Anyone paying attention knew Lindor was already one of them after last year. Would be fun if Ramirez can keep it up.

 

I love those throwback unis.

 

Agreed. Since they're gonna ditch the cream ones, I would be all for replacing them with last night's.

 

It hurts my heart to say this but I don't even want to go to any Braves games this season. Not even to say goodbye to the Ted.

 

Longoria and Morrison slayed in this series against the Twins.

 

Only team better than Rangers ATM is the Cubs. Calling it now TEX over CHC WS, TEX in 7.

 

MadBum in the derby would be incredible.

 

I like the Giants. Buster Posey is from here and he is sweet as can be.

 

Bullpen is shit. Right field at Yankee Stadium is shit.