Running 2015 MLB Regular-Season Thread

See my previous response to Hammond on the drawing Mohammed thread.

 

Who cares.

For those that this bothers, how much baseball do you actual watch? This happens in every game, by both teams.

People hate Harper, that's the issue.

 

Fortunately the Nats guaranteed Papelbon's 2016 salary ($11 million) to get the trade done.

 

It has to be really fun to have to cover both Werth and Papelbon, two total assholes prowling the same clubhouse turf.

 

Irritates me when I see Pujols jogging to first base on every groundout, even potential double plays (which aren't really "potential" because they're alwayd double plays).
And to me, Cano looks like he just doesn't give a shit ... ever. Doesn't run out anything, all those underhand flip throws. He's too cool for school. The most effort I've seen from him was yesterday when Johnny Giavotella (yes, effing Johnny G) stretched a routine single into a double. The center fielder (Miller) was the slackard but when he finally threw it in, Cano dived to try to tag Giavotella but was late.

 

This is a freeze frame from the Nationals' broadcast. The photog didn't exactly spring into action:

 

I would think that, like Curt Schilling, Papelbon is gold for the people who cover him. It's just his teammates that hate him.

 

He's got a 500mm lens on that thing. At that range, the best he could have hoped for was a shot of the microbial life living off the fecal matter that is Jonathon Papelbon.

 

That's true, but a lot of guys keep a short lense camera at the ready just in case they have to shoot something close up at a moment's notice.

 

How do those underhanded flip throws turnout?

You want Pujols, despite his injury history tearing down the line on a meaningless groundout?

You must have hated watching Ken Griffey jr play.

 

Nationals suspend Jonathan Papelbon, ending the closer's season

 

I think Williams was dead man walking anyway, but his reaction to that dugout skirmish makes me wonder if anyone should hire him for another major-league job. Seriously, your best player and your closer are in a fight that a bunch of the people in the dugout had to go break up, and you claim you didn't notice it? Unbelievable.