The Marlins must stink.

APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

There’s a better chance of finding life on Mars than there is of Lynn and Gibson both finishing the season in the starting rotation.

The unwillingness to add another legit starter is baffling.  There memories of 2023 faded quickly.

The 2022 Pujols/Molina farewell tour worked out because they got lucky with Pujols’ home run chase, which admittedly was a lot of fun to watch. But they essentially torpedoed the 2023 season so Wainwright could get to 200 wins. Maybe the DeWitts have done research that indicates their fans have become more apt to buy tickets for nostalgic reasons than competitive ones. It’s the only explanation I have for bringing back Carpenter. Good luck to them. I won’t be funding it. This will be the first season since 2004 that I won’t buy the Extra Innings or a streaming package.

There’s a better chance of finding life on Mars than there is of Lynn and Gibson both finishing the season in the starting rotation.

JV wrote:

WTF is going on with Mikolas all of a sudden? An implosion like this often precedes a stint on the IL...

You're saying the Cardinals should be concerned because a guy hitting .109 who looks like he just played in the Little League World Series hit a home run into the upper deck off him?
 

This is the second time I've seen Strider pitch against the Cardinals this season. I hope it's the last.

JV wrote:

If anyone still gives a shit and has also been watching the games, what's up with all the lost baserunners lately? Has the team gotten extra aggressive or just sloppy at times?

I think it may be time to move on from ol' Pop Warner as the third base coach. 
 

Also, in the interest of curbing message inflation, I'll just ask here if "Liberatore" is Italian for "Hit this out"?

I'll know more once Schwindel's home run lands somewhere in Wisconsin.

APIAD wrote:

Love watching games in person. I wish it wasn't such a hassle. I also wish baseball wasn't dead. My girls like the people watching not the game. I got it. I don't think anyone watches the game because they like the small games inside the game. It seems like it is just the novelty of going and posting it to fb.

I'm going to the Friday and Sunday games in a couple of weeks when the Cardinals are at Fenway Park. The Red Sox almost never offer promotions or discounts, but they had some sort of promotion this week that if you bought tickets to see the Reds or the Orioles, you got a voucher for a discounted ticket to another game involving a good opponent. I bought my tickets back in February or March, before the discount was offered, but that's a good thing. I can't imagine going to that dump of a ballpark with no parking and shitty access to the shittiest public transit system in any major city in North America to see two shitty teams in which I don't have a rooting interest. 

 

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/carlos-martinez-recently-cut-red-sox-suspended-peds?cid=Yahoo&partner=ya4nbcs

What an asshole.

 

Doesn't appear to have helped much

It's hard to pitch effectively when you have your head up your ass.
 

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

Tommy Pham and Joc Pederson apparently got into an argument tonight about which one of them is more obnoxious. No punches thrown, but they agreed to meet on the playground after school to settle things once and for all.

Hey, the fantasy football waiver wire is serious business.

Yeah, at least it's something important.
 

But I'm not getting sick of watching Goldschmidt hit like he's playing slow pitch softball.

JV wrote:

What's next? Waino as DH?

Before DeJong got sent down, I thought they might let Wainwright hit for himself and DH for DeJong. 
When I was in college, we had a pitcher who would DH for our second baseman on days he wasn't pitching. To say the second baseman wasn't pleased about being a "designated fielder" was an understatement.  
 

Helesly please ...