A Boy Named Seo

Hey bucket, please ask Bernie if he admires the Rays for the smart way they run their business against industry giants or if it's just another billionaire exploiting the working class with low wages, k thx.

deGrom as a closer seems like a great idea, but I wonder if more frequent outings hurt him less/more/the same than every 4th or 5th day? I bet the Rangers don't wanna pay $37M for a closer either. This passage in the article jumped at me. Seven to 10 days might be enough to get a sense of where this situation is headed, but it's very possible deGrom will be out longer. Data from the Baseball Prospectus Four-Year Injury Map for 2020–22 shows that the average time missed by a pitcher with elbow inflammation is 60 days; more granular data from the site's Recovery Dashboard for 2016–22 shows an average of 54 days missed and a median of 36 days. In other words, we may not see him pitch in May. Feel better, Jake. See ya in summer.

I'm sure Texas had nervousness baked into the recipe. So far, it's been exactly what everybody would've expected. DeGrom is lights out when he is on a mound but he's not there as often as anybody would like.

I look like a dickhead with a mustache. He looks pretty great, I gotta say. I've seen clips of him with Rob from Pitching Ninja and he seems like a cool guy. Brash, but still likeable. I didn't know about the poli-sci nerd stuff, but that makes me like him a bit more.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: That was a genius way of getting us to take this affront. Exactly. Everybody's caught up in how it was made better without recognizing how awful it is from a baseline. thisthisthisthisthisthisthis Branding has become so stupidly ubiquitous in sports that people were actually livid when the STAPLES™ Center in LA was re-named because they allowed the brand to be synonymous with the Lakers like it was Magic Fucking Johnson Arena or something.

Edgy MD wrote: I was showering. Was Scherzer ejected for arguing or arguing because he was ejected? It's interesting that all this finger checking occasionally amounts to something. An inning (I think?) prior, they made Max change his glove, which pissed him off. Then they threw him out with the new glove. The radio guys were confused by it. They said they could read Max mouthing "it's rosin, it's rosin" over and over and didn't know why they didn't run him originally if he had a substance.

Edgy MD wrote: It was there last night. Ah I missed that. They were going without in spring and folks (and me) were assuming the worst. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/dodgers-make-small-change-to-uniforms-after-more-than-20-years-as-other-teams-introduce-ads-on-jerseys/https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/dodgers-make-small-change-to-uniforms-after-more-than-20-years-as-other-teams-introduce-ads-on-jerseys/

Edgy MD wrote: No doubt. Also, nothing but the LA insignia on the Dodgers' sleeves. I thought the Dodgers removed the "LA" paving the way for Staples or Planet Hollywood to take its place.

Edgy MD wrote: The elements on that Texas uniform pop nicely, but that insignia feels a little too Nazi-Gothic to me. I can't see the numbers too well, but they kind of recall the Expos' digits to me. I've always wanted to see the Rangers take the field in cowboy hats. Thankfully they were inspired by the Dallas Eagles and Ft. Worth Panthers respectively, and not the Frankfurt Fascists. I think the numbers are especially cool and the red really pops on that cream jersey amidst all the black. [FIMG=600]https://news.sportslogos.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/texas-rangers-2023-city-connect-uniform-explained-panthers-spurs-eagles-dallas-fort-worth-arlington-mlb-nike-sportlogosnet-1000x1000-2.jpg[/FIMG]

The Braves Hank Aaron-inspired set has already debuted this year, too. [FIMG=600]https://news.sportslogos.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/mlb-nike-city-connect-uniforms-all-teams-2023-sportslogosnet-1000x1000-04-17.jpg[/FIMG]

The Rangers dropped their City Connect this morning and I think they look pretty damn great. I'm not sure how much I dig the dark pants, but everything else looks killer. https://news.sportslogos.net/2023/04/17/dreaming-the-big-dream-texas-rangers-unveil-new-city-connect-uniforms/baseball/https://news.sportslogos.net/2023/04/17/dreaming-the-big-dream-texas-rangers-unveil-new-city-connect-uniforms/baseball/ [FIMG=600]https://news.sportslogos.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/texas-rangers-city-connect-uniform-nike-mlb-sportslogosnet-graphic-1000x1000sq-cream-top-black-cap-TX-logo-sleeve-patch.jpg[/FIMG]

So with these new sponsored patches hogging up the real estate on one sleeve, I wonder if this trend will lead to less of those one-year-only commemorative patches, like for example, stuff like this: [FIMG=177]https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0330/9935/0060/products/new-york-mets-25th-anniversary-patch.jpg?v=1582835376&width=990[/FIMG] or this [FIMG=177]https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0330/9935/0060/products/new-york-mets-50th-anniversary-patch.jpg?v=1585068950&width=990[/FIMG] Where would they put them? Some teams have been stacking two patches (club patch on the bottom, in-memoriam patch above, for example), but it looks predictably clunky.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The price for these is something like a stadium naming rights deal, is what I was told. It is awful and ugly Side note, why does a hospital (1) need to pay millions of dollars a year to advertise and (2) could that money be used to, you know, treat sick people? This is awful all around. Was thinking about this last night, specifically how many NYP patients could get treatment on the house if the ad rights fee was applied as such. Then again, if we're all doing sponsored jumping jacks during the 7th inning stretch, our cardiovascular systems won't require medical care. All of this. Tying this back to soccer and their longstanding use of on-shirt sponsorships, I eyeballed my favorite league (USL Championship, second tier American soccer) and there are 8(!!!) health care companies as front-of-shirt sponsors. MLS (first tier of American soccer) has 7! I checked the English Premier League and there are lots of airlines and online betting companies, but zero health care sponsors. Also zero in La Liga in Spain. Same goes for the Bundesliga in Germany and Ligue 1 in France, too. No health care sponsors in the top 4 soccer leagues in the world because heath care isn't the privatized, for-profit monster it tragically is in the US. Sickening is the pun I'm looking for.

That is so so bad. I'm happy it's not red? But why can't it be a rectangle that just borders the stupid logo and not that huge square. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Teams have now been moving the club sleeve logo to the player's non-dominant arm so it's always facing front when they're batting (right-handed hitters have the sponsor patch on their left arm and lefties vice-versa). Really? I did not know that. So the same team will have its logo on both the right and left sleeves, depending on the player? Which teams did that? Per Uniwatch: To make matters worse, the positioning of the uniform ads will be non-uniform. In order to maximize TV exposure, some players will wear the ads on the left sleeve and others on the right, depending on whether they bat or pitch left-handed or right-handed. (Switch-hitters will apparently be issued two jerseys and wear the appropriate one based on the opposing team's starting pitcher.) [FIMG=500]https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd81a4c92-90d1-44de-9a29-c299655364c7_1456x928.webp[/FIMG]

Yeah, the bright red is gonna be more distracting than the baby blue ADT the Marlins have. But I guess drawing the eyes is the point. It's going to harsh the uniform vibes sooooo much. Teams have now been moving the club sleeve logo to the player's non-dominant arm so it's always facing front when they're batting (right-handed hitters have the sponsor patch on their left arm and lefties vice-versa). I wonder if the Mets will do the same. Maybe Lindor will wear NYP patch on both arms.

NewYork-Presbyterian is the sad answer to this question. https://www.mlb.com/news/press-release-new-york-mets-announce-multiyear-partnership-with-newyork-presbytehttps://www.mlb.com/news/press-release-new-york-mets-announce-multiyear-partnership-with-newyork-presbyte This is their logo so this will undoubtedly look fucking terrible, however it's presented. [fimg=500]https://www.nyp.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/NYP-Triparty-Logo-White.svg[/fimg]

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Too bad it's not as good IRL, but I guess I get it. I do like the idea of more exciting ballpark eats, though. If I'm getting hit like $12 for a dog or $14 for chicken strips, might as well be a sushi burrito or that fried chicken donut thing. I keep seeing other teams selling food that's notable only because its GIANT. The Rangers did a huge $50 sandwich or something. I didn't see anything like that amongst the Mets offerings? That's good. Edit: 2-foot burger for $35 is good stadium value? Yikes. https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/tmy7y3FHo6FUGqZ.RBFpVA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTcwOTtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/us.abcnews.gma.com/fc81082012ed70fa292a85d003226da5>

It's super weird and very challenging (in a good way, like pretty much all A24 films are). It puts a middle-age female immigrant as the bad-ass hero figure, which is a late change to the script and central to the whole thing. Jackie Chan was originally supposed to be the protagonist and it would've been a completely different (less successful IMO) movie if they'd stuck with him instead of Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn. There's also a queer daughter storyline and some hilarious Georgia O'Keefe-like vagina imagery that helps drive a "strong women bossing shit" message underneath. When it ended, I was like "what the fuck was that???" but wanted to watch it again right away.

Ok all we need is 11 little runs, lets go

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https://twitter.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1641659911775088641 Damn The Angels, man. Pissing away the production of a top 10 all-time player and the most uniquely talented player in the history of the game. Imagine a competent team with BOTH these players.

deGrom struck out 7 in 3.2 innings (hey that's good) but gave up but gave up 5 ER on 6 hits (they that's shit). He exits his first start with a 12.27 ERA.

Why is Alcantara pronounced Alcantra ? It's not. BB-R has it like this: Sandy Alcantara - \all-KON-ta-ra\ but it's probably closer to \all-KON-ta-da\ if you try and hit the "r" right at the end