We’re a month into Spring Training and it’s time to get this thread rolling. I’ll refrain from starting off with the train wreck that is unfolding in the Yankees camp and instead lead off with something far more important. The company New Era designs hats for Major League Baseball, and comes out with new designs every year for teams to sell as novelties. This year the hats involved team names with the first letter of the team overlaid. All parties involved approved this cap for the Texas Rangers.They had to know.
We’re almost 20 games in the season and everyone in the league is mediocre except the NL west. Oh— the White Sox suck. I’m seeing the Jays play “Oakland” and Cleveland next month. The newly renovated Skydome is the tits.
I’ve been watching a ton of baseball so far this year. I’m taking advantage of my Prime membership and watching a bunch of west coast games, in addition to the local teams.
Tyler Soderstrom of the Athletics leads the Major League in home runs at the moment with 8. He also happens to be a graduate of my old High School and is the only reason I am watching any baseball anymorre. From all accounts of people who know him and his family, he is a very straight up guy.
I assumed it was partly due to Sutter Health park being a minor league park and therefore smaller than an MLB park but it's almost identical to the Coliseum
To be fair, the Braves, Marlins, Nationals, and Rockies all currently have worse run differentials than the White Sox do (and the Rockies are MUCH worse in that regard), and a few other teams are basically tied with them there. The White Sox are still bad, but that's at least...something.
Agreed. Last year was like a planetary alignment of loserness for them. For any team, ever. Anything is an improvement from 2024 for them.. I always felt sorry for them as a franchise. They are overshadowed by a much better (as a product) and more beloved Chicago MLB franchise, and the World Series win was the biggest “who gives a shit” ever, despite being their first in 80 years.
Nobody has posted this gem? https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FO...-csvm-diamondgcp-asset_1280x720_59_16000K.mp4 An inside-the-park, walk-off home run. Funny part is if Ramos paid slightly better attention and went for the triple from the start, he probably doesn't score - the first baseman would not have had a reason to make a panicked throw.
Anyone else think the right fielder should have been making that throw? That ball went deep in outfield foul territory. Where the hell was RF playing that FB beat him to that ball? If I'm Coach, that's who I'm screaming at... RF, the lazy fucker that didn't sprint to back up a throw.