2025 MLB running thread

[Baron Scicluna]

Rudy Giuliani is the A's PR director?

 

[outofplace]

I hadn't seen Jurickson Profar's statement about getting busted until this morning. It is the usual crap. He would never cheat, but he takes full responsibility. If you didn't cheat, why are you taking responsibility? One of those things is a lie, jackass.

Braves' Profar gets 80-game ban for PED violation

In a statement passed along by the MLB Players' Association, Profar called Monday "the most difficult day of my baseball career" and said he was "devastated" by the news. Profar added that he was tested eight times for PEDs during a surprising breakthrough season offensively in 2024 and "never tested positive." The positive test, according to Profar, occurred "this offseason."

"This is especially painful for me because anyone who knows me and has seen me play knows I am deeply passionate about the game," Profar wrote as part of his statement. "There is nothing I love more than competing with my teammates and being a fan favorite. I want to apologize to the entire Braves organization, my teammates, and the fans. It is because of my deep love and respect for this game that I would never knowingly do anything to cheat it."

 

[HanSenSE]

Final damages: Cubs 18, A's 3. Carson Kelly hits for the cycle, a drone interrupts the game in the seventh inning, press box wi-fi was sporadic, knocking both teams' radio broadcast off the air at times, and a position player mopped up on the mound for the A's. Those "Let's Go Oakland" chants morphed into "Sell The Team."

 

[DanOregon]

It always makes me laugh. Baseball players can tell if a bat of theirs is an ounce too heavy or too light, what pitch a guy threw them two months ago to strike them out and we're to believe they "may have" ingested an illegal substance unknowingly? It was a mislabled energy drink? A bad burrito?

 

[outofplace]

It always makes me laugh. Baseball players can tell if a bat of theirs is an ounce too heavy or too light, what pitch a guy threw them two months ago to strike them out and we're to believe they "may have" ingested an illegal substance unknowingly? It was a mislabled energy drink? A bad burrito?

heck, most of these guys are very particular about what they put into their bodies. Profar and the others who get busted need to own it or just shut up.

 

[dixiehack]

Julio hits a two-run homer and the Ms salvage a series split against visiting Sacramento (that's what I am calling them, sorry MLB).

If they aren't claiming it for themselves can't we go all in and call them West Sacramento?

 

[jr/shotglass]

As in, "Ah, West Sacramento in the spring ..."

 

[micropolitan guy]

The Yankees are becoming equipment trailblazers.

 

[HanSenSE]

If they aren't claiming it for themselves can't we go all in and call them West Sacramento?

The SF Chronicle announced before spring training it would call them Sacramento, even in agate. Not sure how many other media outlets are.

 

[HanSenSE]

Surprised this hasn't been posted here yet.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Devers is 0-for-19 with 15 Ks so far. Truly impressive.

But don't forget about the four walks.
Seriously, some dude plucked randomly off a college roster could probably strike out fewer than 15 times in 23 plate appearances.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

The Rays are going to set team single-season highs in scoring because they're playing outside this season.