MLB Thread

[ebk57]

3 minutes ago, DMK said:

The Red Sox city connects are an homage to the Green Monster.

I like these better than the yellow ones.  Which is, I'm sure, a ringing endorsement.

[DMK]

9 minutes ago, ebk57 said:

I like these better than the yellow ones.  Which is, I'm sure, a ringing endorsement.

They still kept the yellow ones. They retired the blue jersey to keep the yellow ones. Which… ugh. They’re ugly.

[ProudMary]

34 minutes ago, DMK said:

The Red Sox city connects are an homage to the Green Monster.

That's what I figured. Thanks for confirming.

[Lantern7]

I didn't realize that. I thought that was wrong until I image-search the unis and the Green Monster.

It's still off-putting, though.

When do the Yankees get their alternate uniforms? 🤪

[Lantern7]

14 hours ago, shoregirl said:

Be careful what you wish for.. Yesterday it was reported that Aaron Civale requested a trade because he was moved from starter to bullpen. Today the Brewers traded him to the White Sox.

Just found this on Facebook.

Worse, Aaron probably won't be able to come back to Milwaukee and extract vengeance, like Jesse Winker did in the NLWCS after Polar Bear's home run.

[mojoween]

Ah!  Since I can’t stand the Green Monster (unless baseballs are flying over it out of the stadium) that’s why I thought they are ugly.  And did you see the Phillies ones?  Barf.

[DMK]

A lot of them are ugly. The Rangers look like auto mechanics or a/c repairmen.

The Padres look like ‘80s Trapper Keepers.

[Jane Tuesday]

14 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

When do the Yankees get their alternate uniforms? 🤪

They could just go like the Cardinals and have CCs that are basically simple tweaks of past spring training uniforms.

Which I'm fine with, BTW. At least they aren't hideous. And they fit my own personal logic that the Cardinals don't need to put steamboats or toasted ravioli on their uniforms to connect with the city, because the Cardinals and St. Louis are already deeply embedded within each other.

Edited Saturday at 06:25 PM by Jane Tuesday

[DMK]

Some lady at the Brewers Cardinals game I’m sure got her phone blowing up if anyone she knew saw her when the camera was taking crowd shots. Because she was clearly making a blowjob joke at the time. Goes to show, you never know who can see you…

I like, blinked and was all, did I just see what I think I saw? (rewind) Yep!

And then it occurred to me to see if someone on X saw it. Oh yeah…

 

[Lantern7]

3 hours ago, Jane Tuesday said:

They could just go like the Cardinals and have CCs that are basically simple tweaks of past spring training uniforms.

Does ANYONE from St. Louis call their city “The Lou”? I wouldn’t think so. Too easy to make toilet jokes.

[DMK]

Not really, it’s not like this is England. Lou=loo didn’t even occur to me.

[ProudMary]

Tonight, the Red Sox are wearing neon yellow jerseys with "Boston" in stenciled light blue letters across the front, and a "617" patch on the left sleeve. I recognize 617 as Boston's area code. (How unimaginative.) Their caps are light blue. Yellow and light blue? I got the green connection last night, but tonight's unis have me scratching my head. 🤔

[DMK]

They’re the city connect version 1.0 that they decided to keep. It’s the color scheme for the Boston Marathon.

[ebk57]

5 minutes ago, DMK said:

They’re the city connect version 1.0 that they decided to keep. It’s the color scheme for the Boston Marathon.

Thank you for warning me last night that they were still wearing these or I would have been surprised, in addition to sad, to see them tonight.

[DMK]

2 minutes ago, ebk57 said:

Thank you for warning me last night that they were still wearing these or I would have been surprised, in addition to sad, to see them tonight.

That’s what I was talking about when I said Boston retired their blue jersey because they wanted to keep the first set of city connects (they’re the only team with new city connects that kept them, all the other teams retired their first versions). 

The teams are only allowed 5 uniform sets. So for Boston, it’s home white, road gray, alternate red, city connect yellow, city connect green.

[mojoween]

Grey roadies, home pinstripes and that is IT.  Now if only they would make them shave again we would be rolling.

[kathyk2]

2 hours ago, DMK said:

They’re the city connect version 1.0 that they decided to keep. It’s the color scheme for the Boston Marathon.

I love the yellow jerseys they were a symbol of recovery from the Marathon bombing.

[Jane Tuesday]

5 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

Does ANYONE from St. Louis call their city “The Lou”? I wouldn’t think so. Too easy to make toilet jokes.

It's honestly a matter of some debate. Some people will swear that no one has ever called it that, but I mean... I call it that? Not sure where I got it, but I definitely didn't make it up on my own. 

The Cardinals specifically got it from Nelly's Country Grammar: "I'm from the Lou and I'm proud." They even used Nelly in all the promotional material. Some people will say "the Lou" is only "a young Black thing", but I'm neither young nor Black. So I think it's more wide-spread than those people think it is. 

And yeah, I've seen the loo references from fans of other teams online. But I think it's mainly one of those things that proliferates on social media. I doubt many of Americans would make that connection organically. 

[DMK]

I think the conversation about Boston and St. Louis perfectly illustrates the point of the city connects. It’s meant to resonate with the local fans. Most non-residents don’t “get it”, but the locals do and they seem to like the references. For the most part, anyway.

[smittykins]

14 hours ago, ProudMary said:

Tonight, the Red Sox are wearing neon yellow jerseys with "Boston" in stenciled light blue letters across the front, and a "617" patch on the left sleeve. I recognize 617 as Boston's area code. (How unimaginative.) Their caps are light blue. Yellow and light blue? I got the green connection last night, but tonight's unis have me scratching my head. 🤔

It kind of reminds me of this old WGBH station ID, but I don’t know if it’s intentional.

[Jane Tuesday]

If anybody enjoys a good old bench-clearing brawl, today's Cardinals v. Brewers game looks promising. 🤣 

(He's talking about Rhys Hoskins, BTW. Yesterday's game got a little interesting. And today Mikolas is pitching, who has a history of plunking guys.)

Edited Sunday at 05:40 PM by Jane Tuesday

[mojoween]

Well Happy Fucking Father’s Day.

I blame the husband.  Because even though there are books and pillows and towels and flags and plywood wall hangings and videos of the Yankees in this house, he doesn’t actually like them.  He manifested this.

[Lantern7]

21 minutes ago, mojoween said:

Well Happy Fucking Father’s Day.

I blame the husband.  Because even though there are books and pillows and towels and flags and plywood wall hangings and videos of the Yankees in this house, he doesn’t actually like them.  He manifested this.

The Mets’ weekend isn’t much better. Tampa Bay is about to sweep them at home, and they’re heading to Atlanta. Bad things usually happen there. I know the Braves are stuck in the second division, but I can’t count them out.

[smittykins]

28 minutes ago, mojoween said:

Well Happy Fucking Father’s Day.

I blame the husband.  Because even though there are books and pillows and towels and flags and plywood wall hangings and videos of the Yankees in this house, he doesn’t actually like them.  He manifested this.

I hear ya, mojo.  I was married to a Mets fan,

(I can’t believe he’s been gone twenty years now.)

[DMK]

Red Sox just traded Rafael Devers to the Giants.

KABOOM!

[ProudMary]

3 minutes ago, DMK said:

Red Sox just traded Rafael Devers to the Giants.

KABOOM!

Wow! Yankee killer gone from the AL East. ❤️

 

[mojoween]

Sox couldn’t have done that on Thursday huh?

[DMK]

Somewhere Gerritt Cole is smiling because he won’t have to do this near as much anymore:

[baldryanr]

I guess the Boston bean counters decided they really didn't want to pay Devers the rest of his contract.  And unless that more is spectacular, the Sox just announced they've given up on the season.

[ebk57]

Can we just play the Angels every game for the rest of the season??

[mojoween]

No we get the Angels next (PLEASE make them pay for how embarrassing this weekend was) and then we get you!

Edited Sunday at 11:26 PM by mojoween

[DMK]

What’s really gonna be fun is that the Red Sox play the Giants next weekend.

[Salacious Kitty]

8 minutes ago, DMK said:

What’s really gonna be fun is that the Red Sox play the Giants next weekend.

I'll totally hate watch that! 😂

[mojoween]

The Giants are on Sunday Night Baseball right now.  I wonder what Karl and David and Eduardo are talking about?

[Salacious Kitty]

41 minutes ago, mojoween said:

The Giants are on Sunday Night Baseball right now.  I wonder what Karl and David and Eduardo are talking about?

They found out about half an hour before the game. Harrison was supposed to pitch for the Giants, so they emergency started a bullpen guy. 

[shoregirl]

9 minutes later .......

 

This trade is insane. Allegedly Devers wasn't even shopped around the league 

Boston is not really out of contention only a half game out a wild card spot and they just took 5 of 6 from the Yankees . Jordan Hicks has a 6.47 era .

The Phillies swept the Blue jays today but the jays left fielder made a amazing catch and hit the wall so hard he left an eye black mark on the wall 

 

 

Edited Monday at 02:09 AM by shoregirl

[Jane Tuesday]

Yeah, Jordan Hicks is not good. This definitely makes the Red Sox a worse team in 2025.

It tells me the interpersonal situation with Devers must have been really untenable. What a toxic mess. 

[Fukui San]

On 6/14/2025 at 6:57 PM, kathyk2 said:

I love the yellow jerseys they were a symbol of recovery from the Marathon bombing.

Somehow they have an ungodly good winning percentage when wearing the IKEA employee uniforms. 37-16 if the AI summary is to be believed.

On the one hand, Devers and the management were at odds. They have a lot of young position players coming up and competing for playing time, and Devers is only a hitter and not an asset in the field. The taking his salary off the books could result in a more balanced theam.

On the other hand, no one has anything good to say about the players they acquired for Devers, so what the actual fuck? We couldn't get a decent set up man or actual prospect or something? 

[Black Knight]

Boston wasn't getting to the World Series this year. This move sets them up well for next year onwards.

4 hours ago, Fukui San said:

On the other hand, no one has anything good to say about the players they acquired for Devers, so what the actual fuck? We couldn't get a decent set up man or actual prospect or something? 

There's plenty of good to be said about them - check out Giants forums. There's one flier, but two pitchers are still quite young and can work things out, and Tibbs is tearing it up in the minors and should get to the majors next year. But also the Red Sox unloaded Devers's entire contract which gives them a lot of flexibility for other players. It's been reported that other teams are surprised Boston was able to get much talent back in the trade given that.

[bosawks]

I mean, I don't really want to spend that money on essentially a DH but it still hurts.

If it was all about dumping the contract there were probably not many suitors and jumped on the offer they had.

But, still, 

[DMK]

1 hour ago, Black Knight said:

But also the Red Sox unloaded Devers's entire contract which gives them a lot of flexibility for other players.

Now they can give Bregman whatever he wants.

I say it’s win-win. Giants finally got that longed-for big bat super star that has eluded them for years. Red Sox got rid of an albatross contract and a disgruntled player.

By the way, I bet Netflix is kicking themselves that they didn’t do all the filming for their documentary THIS year instead of last year.

[mojoween]

Ok so I don’t work in a baseball front office so there are nuances that I will never get, but if Devers’s contract was so shit, why did they give it to him?

[DMK]

The previous front office regime did it. I’m guessing that the current regime found it not worth it, considering that it hindered them on signing other, more flexible free agents. And if you’re gonna pay someone 300+ million dollars, shouldn’t he be a bit more amenable? Every single other player I’ve ever seen that got their big paycheck was very flexible about where and when to play. But Devers dug in his heels and mouthed off to the press every chance he got.

If Devers thinks he’s getting to play 3B in San Francisco, he’s greatly mistaken, as that’s the team with the one of the OTHER great gold glovers in the position. And also has a big void at 1B. He’s basically in the same boat.

[kathyk2]

2 hours ago, mojoween said:

Ok so I don’t work in a baseball front office so there are nuances that I will never get, but if Devers’s contract was so shit, why did they give it to him?

They had to sign Devers because the fans were upset about trading Mookie Betts. I don't understand the local media. Earlier this season they were mad because Devers was overweight and wasn't hitting now they are mad because the Sox traded him make up your mind.

[Fukui San]

Giants management hasn't burned bridges with Devers yet, so he'll probably happily play first there is my guess. Or else SF might be happy to leave him at DH.

The Red Sox let Betts and other stars of his generation go, so they signed Devers to an extension so that they could point to somewhere they spent money. And Devers did hit well, so it wasn't money wasted.

[DMK]

1 hour ago, Fukui San said:

Giants management hasn't burned bridges with Devers yet, so he'll probably happily play first there is my guess. Or else SF might be happy to leave him at DH.

Or the Giants management might be more explicit about their expectations. And more adamant about his candidacy to the press.

[grommit2]

Red Sox?  Traded off Rafael Devers to the Giants.
Why?  Because he was unhappy with being moved off 3rd base?
Because he did not want to play 1st base?
He did not like being only a DH?
Gads...Sox fans must be a bit annoyed.

 

[mojoween]

Ooh Nick Castellanos was benched for saying something naughty and I really want to know what it was.  If it was homophobic the irony will kill me dead.

[shoregirl]

He was mad that he got taken out for defense in the late innings. They are not saying what he said but I had to guess he called is Canadian manager a Hoser than said the Dunkin is better than Tim Hortons and that Canadian maple syrup sucks 😂. 

[mojoween]

I hope someone clips Gerrit Cole saying “I have not felt the balls” on this broadcast because I am 12 and that was funny.