Running 2017 MLB regular season thread

I still have nightmares over Shawn Green's monster game, which singlehandedly destroyed a fantasy baseball week for my team.

(Yeah, I know, nobody gives a fuck about my fantasy team, but it was so long ago).

 

The only time it's happened in a professional game it looks like came in a double-A game in 98. It has not happened in a major league game, as of yet.

Horne's 'home run cycle' has yet to be replicated

 

Still trying to figure out how what Jerry Remy said is racist. Xenophobic, perhaps, and certainly awkward, but not racist. He stated only that translators shouldn't be allowed. I'm guessing that goes for everyone. If there was a German pitcher on the mound who didn't speak much English, the same statement would apply. The player in this case happened to be Asian and people jumped to conclusions.

Ultimately, though, Remy is a homer. He's a color analyst and former player for the Red Sox. It's the same reason Tommy Heinson believes only the Celtics are called for fouls.

When Koji Uehara needed a translator a little while back, Remy said nothing of the sort. But it's the Yankees and he made an awkward comment. To label this as racist is plain silly.

 

Jeez Louise, what a crappy lede on that story:

In "All You Need Is Love," the Beatles sang, "There's nothing you can do that can't be done."

Tyrone Horne might beg to differ.

 

Samardzija is on a seven-game streak with 59 strikeouts and one walk. First time ever a pitcher has gone 50> and 1< in seven starts.

Of course, the Giants being the Giants, he is 2-3, 2.97 in that stretch (though they are 4-3 at least).

 

And that's why you never draft Samardzija if you're in a league that counts wins.

 

You can predict how his team is going to hit?

 

175 starts, 61 wins. He never fucking wins more than 8 or 9 ... career high is 12.

 

It's the Giants, who make the "hitless wonders" White Sox look like the 1927 Yankees.

 

A couple weeks ago Fangraphs had a story about how dominant he'd been early in the season but unlucky. Soon after, the Chicago Tribune ran a column about how crazy the Cubs were to pursue him. "He has a 5.00 ERA! One win!"

Guess who I put more stock into.

 

Winners win