Baseball 2018

I still love you, Buster Posey.

Joey Votto - embracing his thickness.

Jokes about working on his fatness in the offseason. Guess the more lean body he's been sporting the past couple of seasons is gone.

Gabe Kapler, the Phillies' new manager, at spring training

I realize that this isn't big time MLB, but Tim Tebow is coming back to PSL very soon!!

Sexy Eric Hosmer is coming to San Diego!

[quote] Joey Votto - embracing his thickness.

Joey Votto has womanly hips.

Gurrrl, Russell Wilson will be getting fucked by Giancarlo Stanton this weekend!

Russell is so thirsty....

Spring training games!

Anyone watching or at the games?

BREAKING: Lincecum heading to Rangers

By Oliver Macklin, MLB.com, 38 minutes ago

Two-time Cy Young Award winner and three-time World Series champion Tim Lincecum will go to Texas, according to MLB Network Insider Jon Heyman.

The right-hander will try and compete for a bullpen spot, according to Yahoo! Sports, which notes that Lincecum is drawn to the Rangers because the club's closer job is up for grabs.

Lincecum, who last pitched in the Major Leagues with the Angels in 2016, won all three of his championships and his pair of Cy Young Awards while throwing both of his no-hitters with the Giants, who were reportedly interested in his services, but not as much as those willing to sign him to an MLB deal.

The four-time All-Star is 110-89 with a 3.74 ERA and 1,736 strikeouts in 1,682 career innings across 10 big league seasons.

LA Dodgers game abandoned after sewage lake forms in foul territory

- Dodgers outfielder Andrew Toles: ‘I smelled it. It was nasty, man’

- Leak blamed on water-main leak at Dodger Stadium

Associated Press, Wed 28 Mar 2018 16.36 BST

Spring training came to a repulsive end on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.

The exhibition finale between the Angels and Dodgers was cut short because of a foul-smelling leak that spilled sewage onto the field in the fifth inning.

The game was halted for good after a 32-minute delay in the bottom of the fifth, giving the Dodgers a 4-3 victory over their Los Angeles rivals. The water-main leak left a brown mess pooling near the Dodgers’ dugout in – appropriately – foul territory as the grounds crew spread a drying agent and worked to clean up.

“I’m not going to tell you what it really was,” Dodgers outfielder Andrew Toles said. “That’s messed up. It’s nasty.”

There was definitely an undeniable stench, according to players. “I thought it was Gatorade or something coming from the stands. I don’t know. They said it was the sewer,” Toles said. “I smelled it. It was nasty, man.”

After about 10 minutes of waiting on the field, both teams returned to their respective dugouts. Umpire crew chief Gerry Davis announced the delay as officials tried to determine if it was a stadium or city issue.

“Apparently, there was a pipe backup on two different levels of the stadium,” Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten said after the game. “We don’t know exactly where the backup was, or what caused it. It had something to do with a main pipe here, as well as main pipe outside the stadium.”

Kasten was unsure if the Dodgers would refund fans, but said officials would discuss the situation on Wednesday.

Because the losing team had at least five chances to bat, the final score and statistics will count as an official game in spring training records. Matt Kemp homered in the fourth to give the Dodgers a 4-3 lead.

“You can always say you’ve seen everything, but we haven’t seen something like that,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. “It’s unfortunate. We’re all winding down spring training. You want to finish strong. When you had a lake forming around the third base area that wasn’t going to stop, it’s just unfortunate.”

The leak might have reached the coaches’ offices, but Dodgers manager Dave Roberts wouldn’t confirm or deny that. “I’ll get back to you guys tomorrow,” he said. “We’ll figure it out.”

Both teams open the regular season on Thursday, with the Dodgers hosting the San Francisco Giants and the Angels playing in Oakland, where leaking sewage at the old Coliseum has been a problem several times in recent years.

I'm so tripped up by the unusual Opening Day schedule now. But I'm thrilled the time has come.

Step off, r1.

I’m crushing on Joe Ross

Joe Mauer had his 2000th hit last night. Although he will never be 2009 Mauer again the last year and a half he has shown he can still be a decent player (he has become a really good defensive 1B) and can recover from the concussion that tanked his career from 2014 to 2016, Not that this is sustainable but right now he is batting over 400 and is leading the league in OBP. It also appears he might actually be as nice as the Joe Mauer persona he is careful to project to the public.

Fun, but sad fact, the last time the Minnesota Timberwolves made the basketball play-offs Mauer had about three hits. They are in the play-offs this year, but Mauer was able to rack about about 1995 hits between play-off appearances.

JOe Ross is so hot

Thanks for mentioning Joey Votto. Love him.

So yesterday Cody Bellinger got benched during the game for not showing enough "hustle."

Today Corey Seager goes on the DL for the rest of the season to have Tommy John.

Poor Dodgers

Doyers

I worship at the Church of Kris Bryant. There I said it.

Philadelphia Phillies fan hospitalized by flying hot dog launched by Phanatic

- Hot dog fired into crowd injures supporter at Phillies game

- Fan doesn’t plan legal action after diagnosis of hematoma

Associated Press, Thu 21 Jun 2018 15.56 BST

Hosmer, you traitor! You didn't even fuck me before you left Kansas City!

r18 at least your manager actually gives a shit. We have three major sports franchises up here, and 2/3 are coached by backwards hicks. The one that wasn't, and had a decent, classy coach fired him this summer (although I see why).

If I hear "well, ya know, tha's thuh game uh baseball" one more time after a bush league loss I'm going to scream. The players need a Belichick sized boot up their asses. They just blow into town, cash the cheques, screw the female reporters, smack their gfs up and leave.

Flyin' Hawaiian officially retires with Phillies

World Series champion Victorino honored during pregame ceremony

By Todd Zolecki, Aug. 3rd, 2018

PHILADELPHIA -- The Flyin' Hawaiian stayed true to his roots and wore a pineapple print shirt on Friday at Citizens Bank Park. Shane Victorino officially retired with the Phillies to stay true to his professional baseball roots, too.

"This organization gave me a chance as a young 25-year-old kid," Victorino said before an emotional pregame ceremony. "To think back then I got the opportunity to come to a city that I didn't really know much about other than it was cold, Rocky was here and it was hard-working, same kind of DNA I had back home. It was a matter of going out there and doing it, and lucky for us, it all worked out."

Victorino played parts of eight seasons with the Phillies from 2005-12, winning three Gold Glove Awards and the '08 World Series. He also made two All-Star teams.

Philly still has a hold over Victorino, just like Victorino still has a hold over Philly. Fans wore Hawaiian shirts to Friday's game against the Marlins. They wore leis. Owner John Middleton and managing partner David Montgomery presented Victorino a hand-painted glove as a retirement gift.

"Philadelphia, I can proudly look you in the eye and say we succeeded," Victorino said. "A World Series championship."

Victorino shed tears in an emotional speech that came from the heart. The crowd roared

"Mahalo, Philly," Victorino said.

The crowd roared again as former Phillies slugger Ryan Howard caught Victorino, who threw out the first pitch.

"It's about all the happiness, all the joy we got to experience together in watching the little boy grow up on the middle of an island come to a city like this and grow up to be a young man," Victorino said. "The city made me the person that I am. I was a 25-year-old kid bouncing all over the place just looking for an opportunity, and I got to come to a first-class organization with first-class people and have a great group of guys that turned into first-class individuals. That's the part where I think everybody gravitated to this group."

The Phanatic is so freaky looking

Not necessarily a gay man (although very possible), but definitely not your run-of-the-mill ball player.

As MLBers are preparing to wear jerseys with nicknames on the back this weekend, Joey Votto explains how the name he's chosen (In Flanders Fields) is a poem.

Love Votto

This is from 2010, but it's Votto working out and talking.

Does he actually beard? Or does he not present any sort of a dating life?

Daniel Murphy who publicly said that he can't agree with the gay lifestyle (or something along those lines) a few years back just got traded to the Cubs.

Joey Votto is not even subtle. He got this fan to take his shirt off for him in front of the crowd. At a Reds game though, so only a couple of hundred tops saw this. Haha... sorry Cincy.

Votto said he wanted to swap shirts, but of course he takes his off out of sight in the clubhouse.

^ Wonder if they hooked up after the game?

Now retired David Wright is married with a daughter? I thought this guy is gay.

All games today are being played simultaneously. No postseason slots up for grabs in the American League, but lots to follow for National League teams.

Dodgers and Rockies competing for the title in the West while the Brewers and Cubs are battling for the Central title (and No. 1 seeding in the NL).

Eric Thames (Brewers) after Milwaukee beat the Cubs today to secure the No. 1 seed in the National League.

Yasiel Puig and his tiny nips after the Dodgers beat the Rockies today to win the National League West.

Dodgers celebrating.

Left to right - Kyle Farmer, Tim Locastro, Yasiel Puig, Kike Hernandez

Puig!

[quote]Daniel Murphy who publicly said that he can't agree with the gay lifestyle (or something along those lines) a few years back just got traded to the Cubs.

Most of them feel this way. They’re just not dumb enough to say it to a reporter.

Goddamnit, sorry about the format.

David Wright and probably Joe Mauer retiring. Both players who stayed with one team for 15 years (Mauer his hometown), great in their 20's and having to deal with injuries,, Mauer's concussion derailing his catching and what looked like was going to be a hall of fame career.

Mauer, never one who liked the spot light, did not announce a retirement, but has been dropping subtle hints so fans knew it might be his last homestand. For someone known to be stoic and even-keeled he showed emotion multiple times, when his twin 5 year old daughters joined him at first before the game, a standing ovation for ever at bat and the crowd going wild with a classic Mauer double. The grand finale though, was when he showed up at the bottom of the 9th in his catching gear that he was forced to give up in 2013 and caught one pitch and disappeared into the dugout. Was not at the game, but I guess the crowd was visibly crying.

He got a lot of flack because of his large contract which was overvalued once he had to leave catching and also his hitting was not as sharp post concussion, none of which was in his control, so it was nice to see him get a lot of love that last week. I have never heard a negative word about him, and he is supposedly one of the nice guys in the game. It seems like just yesterday, he was a 20 year old kid who made his big league debut and stayed there. He was also a football and basketball phenom in high school, so he has been covered by the Twin Cities media since the late 90's. It will be weird to see him go off in the sunset.

Forgot Adrian Beltre and Victor Martinez also departing - a lot of long term stars who were big in the mid 2000s.

This video encapsulates his last day with his press conference -- which is pretty talkative for him. You can see how overwhelmed he is when he puts on the tools of ignorance one last time after a five year absence.

Since they became part owners of the Dodgers this year, Ilana Kloss is on the stage tonight with ownership as the team is being presented the NL pennant.

And Kike Hernandez is running around shirtless in the clubhouse in a pair of sagging shorts showing his red underwear while he's dripping wet with champagne. I wish there was video of that.

Kike & Cody

Hot piece Brad Ausmus got a new managing position with the Angels.

In LA, people are excited about facing Boston in the World Series, but not as excited as they were last year. The only ones exuding unseemly enthusiasm are the local news teams, who these days appear to be self-appointed civic boosters.

Game 1 Tonight at 8PM EST

Go Red Sox

I was rooting for the Brewers because I worship Christian Yelich, but I can’t get excited about either the Red Sox or the Dodgers.