2021 MLB Regular Season thread

Preach! If you didn’t have a flaming bat Dale Murphy poster on your wall, fuck off!

 

I’m proud to have honored y’all’s wishes by continuing to hate the Braves all through the 90s.

 

Baseball Hall of Fame calls Joe Pepitone’s Mickey Mantle bat lawsuit a shakedown

From the Athletic:

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum described Joe Pepitone’s claim to ownership of Mickey Mantle’s 500th home run bat as a “shake down,” in a federal court filing Friday.

Pepitone last month sued the Hall for $1 million and the bat, claiming he has always owned it. In his version of events, he lent the bat, inscribed with his signature, to Mantle and then to the Hall.

However, the Hall’s lawyers blasted away at Pepitone in a motion to dismiss, even suggesting the former Yankee might risk imprisonment for not being truthful during his 2010 bankruptcy. In that Chapter 7 proceeding, Pepitone disowned any ties to the Mantle bat, and the court discharged — let him walk away from — $130,000 in debt, the Hall alleged.

Baseball Hall of Fame calls Joe Pepitone's Mickey Mantle bat lawsuit a shakedown – The Athletic

 

What could Joe Pepitone have been, had he actually played baseball?

What an curiously odd, ill-fated, self-destructive life and career. Abused by his father and uncle as a kid, accidentally shot by his friend in high school, blessed with incredible talent only to throw it away on a series of stupid choices, while reveling in his Big Apple popularity. Quit the game, went to Japan, quit the game, ended up in AAA, quit the game. Terrible businessman.

Pepitone is to New York what Denny McLain is to Detroit (except perhaps without the prison time).

 

And he also put a piece of popcorn in his foreskin to claim a new venereal disease.

 

Yeah, well, Christian Bale shoved a tube hard up his pee hole ...

 

Jeez, no credit for designing Central Park?

 

I would have loved to have seen it when his teammates loaded his hair dryer (probably the only one who used one) with talcum power. He turned it on and covered himself. And that reminded me of the time in the Dodger Stadium bullpen when somebody dropped a bag of flour on Steve Howe's head. He, too, was covered in the white stuff.

 

As Bouton said, "He looked like an Italian George Washington."

 

Max Fried just tossed a 90-pitch Maddux.

Only five pitchers have thrown fewer pitches in a Maddux, which is a complete game shutout in fewer than 100 pitches. Adam Wainwright just threw an 88-pitch Maddux on Aug. 11. Interestingly, two of the other four came within 16 days of each other in 2019, with a 93-pitch one in the middle of those two.