MLB 2025 Spring Training Thread

[dixiehack]

None of these workaday schmucks. An ELITE Tampa-based group.

What does that even mean there? The dancer of the year at Mons Venus is chipping in?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Let's play a new game I like to call "Does that guy look like a sports talk radio host or the new second in command at the FBI."

Why can't he be both?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I know it's a miracle he turned out even semi-normal, but holy shirt, does anyone try harder and look like a bigger dork than Bryce Harper?

Phanatic fanatic: Harper sports tattoo of mascot

 

[MTM]

Check out the Mets X feed. They are covering today's game with stick figure drawings

https://x.com/mets/status/1894837696163352776?s=46&t=h1YWdUfrDR3Ohg5n5XAiiQ

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Check out the Mets X feed. They are covering today's game with stick figure drawings

https://x.com/mets/status/1894837696163352776?s=46&t=h1YWdUfrDR3Ohg5n5XAiiQ



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Damn. And I thought the Wilpons sold the team.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Damn. And I thought the Wilpons sold the team.

The funny thing here is the Mets socials are infinitely funnier since Jeffy got the boot.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

The funny thing here is the Mets socials are infinitely funnier since Jeffy got the boot.

I guess not working for an incredibly awful person has its advantages!

 

[Twirling Time]

Something you don't see every day.

Two-RBI sac fly and no RBI on the third run since it was an error. heck, a two-run sac fly is rare enough by itself.

 

[qtlaw]

Someone NOT invited:

Accused of giving away his team's pitches, Derek Bender reckons with the world's mistrustAccused of giving away his team's pitches, Derek Bender reckons with the world's mistrust

Wow how do you even get this close to the sun? Even if he was wrongly accused, his batting coach is right on, he was selfishly immature.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Today in ChatGPT prompts: Roast the DH.

Ah, the DH (Designated Hitter) rule — the baseball equivalent of letting someone else take the hit for you. It's like saying, "You know what? Swinging a bat is too hard, so let's just let someone else do it while I sit here and collect the same paycheck."

It's the rule that says, "We don't trust pitchers to hit, but we still want them to pitch," as if those guys can't throw a 100-mph fastball but can't be trusted to swing a bat without injuring themselves. You've got all these baseball purists clutching their bats in agony, watching the game get less strategic and more like a slow-motion home run derby.

And what's the point of *having* a DH if you're just going to let pitchers get a free pass? Like, we're one step away from a rule where players can just wear bubble wrap and get a free walk to first base. What's next? The Designated Baserunner? Do we just start outsourcing every skill now? At this rate, why even bother with a game? Just hand out participation trophies and let the players lounge in the dugout.​

 

[micropolitan guy]

Today in ChatGPT prompts: Roast the DH.

Ah, the DH (Designated Hitter) rule — the baseball equivalent of letting someone else take the hit for you. It's like saying, "You know what? Swinging a bat is too hard, so let's just let someone else do it while I sit here and collect the same paycheck."

It's the rule that says, "We don't trust pitchers to hit, but we still want them to pitch," as if those guys can't throw a 100-mph fastball but can't be trusted to swing a bat without injuring themselves. You've got all these baseball purists clutching their bats in agony, watching the game get less strategic and more like a slow-motion home run derby.

And what's the point of *having* a DH if you're just going to let pitchers get a free pass? Like, we're one step away from a rule where players can just wear bubble wrap and get a free walk to first base. What's next? The Designated Baserunner? Do we just start outsourcing every skill now? At this rate, why even bother with a game? Just hand out participation trophies and let the players lounge in the dugout.​

This is just stupid. We've had the DH since what, 1973? That's 52 seasons. And which of the above bolded items has happened? None, of course.

 

[Hermes]

We have pitch clocks and replay, but I'm supposed to yearn to watch a guy one pitch away from Tommy John surgery who makes $30 million a year stand in the batter's box instructed not to take the bat off his shoulder?