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[mojoween]

Derby jerseys

The headline calls them retro.  I came up with a whole different word for them.

Edited July 12, 2016 by mojoween

[MyAimIsTrue]

2 hours ago, gutette1 said:

Did MLB stumble over some forgotten warehouse with 70s jerseys??  That is some ugly-ass, "smiley face yellow" jerseys for the ASG.

The same mustard 70's Padres jerseys are being worn for the Homerun Derby. 

[King of Birds]

Do we guess at your word? 

[Rick Kitchen]

That loud music they're blaring during the Home Run Derby is really annoying.

Here are the jerseys:

Edited July 12, 2016 by Rick Kitchen

[mojoween]

52 minutes ago, King of Birds said:

Do we guess at your word? 

I have a feeling you could get it.

[MyAimIsTrue]

40 minutes ago, Rick Kitchen said:

That loud music they're blaring during the Home Run Derby is really annoying.

Is that a euphemism for Chris Berman?

[Lantern7]

Anybody else put off that ESPN only allots two hours for the Derby? That always runs over. I'm not bugged by that, but I can imagine somebody who wants to see the softball game getting frustrated every year.

When will the Marlins next face the Mets? Staton is going to be fatigued for a good while after this.

[xaxat]

Giancarlo Stanton is a baaaad man.

Why he hurt that ball so much?

[mojoween]

My favorite meme was something like "Stanton just looks angrily at a ball and it travels thousands of feet."

I could watch him swing the bat ALL DAY.

[MyAimIsTrue]

I want to dislike Stanton for reasons I don't really understand but he comes across as so damned charming that I can't.

[tom87]

Home Run Derby is so annoying. Berman,  bad music, attention seeking players not even involved in the derby etc,etc.

[mojoween]

Jose Fernandez you shut your damn mouth.

Fuck that.  I am way too competitive to be ok with this.  Also, to hell with Papi.

I was a lot happier with whoever pitched to Jeter remaining coy about the whole thing.

Yes I get it it's a game and an exhibition wah wah wah.  If you're playing, and there's a score, you try to win.  Full stop.

[jennifer6973]

mojoween

 

If you want, I'll help you kick his ass all the way from San Diego to Miami and back.

[mojoween]

Was the Canadian anthem broadcast on FOX?  I didn't see it but I wish I had so I too could decide to be outraged/not outraged at the apparent political statement.

[rallymantis]

Hoz! Salvy!!  Visiting DongTown!!!

i have not. Stopped.  Shrieking!!!!

Edited July 13, 2016 by gutette1
Because "DongTown" is funnier than "Yard"

[Lantern7]

Thought: The result of the ASG should not determine home field for the World Series. Bud Selig fucked up, and he put emphasis on an exhibition game. "Representative of Winning Team at All-Star Game" should fall between "Most Doubles In Extra Innings" and "Coin Flip."

[Slade347]

1 hour ago, mojoween said:

Was the Canadian anthem broadcast on FOX?  I didn't see it but I wish I had so I too could decide to be outraged/not outraged at the apparent political statement.

Of course Fox didn't show the Canadian anthem. I can't remember the last time they did.

And apparently the political statement was all due to a Rogue Tenor.

[Fukui San]

"Rogue Tenor" is an awesome name for something but I don't know what. Not a rock band, though, unless it actually features a tenor.

[rallymantis]

So very proud of my boys!  And Kelvin, with that 1-2-3 inning...pretty sure as Herrera left the mound, Joe Buck said, "The bullpen is on for the Royals!"  Indeed. *grins hugely*

The only sad thing is that Cyborg wasn't there to close it out.  Maybe Hoz'll let him drive the MVP truck around the Plaza.

[rippleintime17]

I am still laughing about the Wizard of Hos. 

ASG is fun, ASG is also kinda dumb. I get all wrapped up in it every year and then the game itself kind of underwhelms me. My favorite team has yet to win the WS at home in three recent championships so it's hard to be too wrapped up in home field advantage anyway. At least my favorite player got into the game and worked the count and didn't make an out on the first pitch. 

[tom87]

So is David Ortiz retiring I don't think they mentioned it. urg.

[cleo]

I'm Canadian and heard the anthem. It mostly just surprised me and then I was a bit irritated.

It also made me think-the singers must be American. Bc even though we do have some Black Lives Matters activists here, the context and history isn't exactly the same.

I supppse I'm a bad Canadian- who knew there were Canadian tenors?

[MyAimIsTrue]

10 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

Thought: The result of the ASG should not determine home field for the World Series. Bud Selig fucked up, and he put emphasis on an exhibition game. "Representative of Winning Team at All-Star Game" should fall between "Most Doubles In Extra Innings" and "Coin Flip."

A-friggin'-men.  It's a meaningless game that is supposed to be just for fun and I'm hoping the new commish (his name escapes me right now) does away with that stupid home field advantage rule.

9 hours ago, Slade347 said:

Of course Fox didn't show the Canadian anthem. I can't remember the last time they did.

The last time I remember was 1993 in Baltimore when Geddy Lee of Rush sang it.  Awesome moment.  I hate that the Canadian anthem is no longer shown as it smacks of jingoism, but what else would I expect from Fox.

[Rick Kitchen]

Maybe they would show it if the ASG was in Toronto.

[ratgirlagogo]

My own peeve is that we DVRed the ASG because we went to an event Tuesday night - only to discover when we got home that the three and a half hour game we recorded only included the last ten minutes of the introductions!!  FUCK.  The introductions are the most fun part of the whole ASG and apparently they were in what our grid listed as the Pre-Game Show.

 

:(

[mojoween]

Joe DiMaggio is at hit 53 today and I have to admit that I am going to be very sad to no longer get the updates when we hit 56. I love that At Bat did this.

[MyAimIsTrue]

Wait, I have At Bat.  What am I not aware of?

[Lantern7]

What should determine which team gets home-field advantage in the World Series? I'm thinking head-to-head record, won-loss in interleague games, team from the league that won the most interleague games . . . or, screw it, go back to alternating between the leagues.

[MyAimIsTrue]

Twenty-three years later and I still love this clip.  Rush is probably my second favorite band after the Beatles, and Geddy Lee is not just a nice Jewish boy from Toronto but he's an absolute baseball fanatic.

[mojoween]

Aim since The Streak started I get these updates every day DiMaggio gets a hit.

Probably because The Yankees are listed as my favorite team on the app.

That link was awesome I love Rush soooooooo very much.

First criteria to get home field in the WS should be won-loss record, then record in interleague if there is a tie, then they can come up with other tiebreakers after that.

Edited July 13, 2016 by mojoween
I'm babbling on tonight

[ratgirlagogo]

1 hour ago, MyAimIsTrue said:

Twenty-three years later and I still love this clip.

Me too and I don't even like Rush.  But Geddy Lee does have a wonderful voice and it's a great a capella performance - since apparently NOBODY IN THE BAND had thought to prepare an arrangement of O Canada.

[Lantern7]

Also: I think the ASG should be played on a Sunday. I know that it would be rougher to figure out when to restart games on Tuesday or Wednesday, but the other major sports hold their exhibition on a Sunday. And surely, MLB can sacrifice a weekend's slate of games.

I had to go to bed early. How long did the Game last? I'm betting after midnight on the East Coast. Only time that wasn't an issue for me was when I went to San Diego in 2003. So trippy to see festivities start at 5. I think that was the year Dusty Baker made Armando Benetiz as the Mets' sole representative.

[MyAimIsTrue]

1 hour ago, mojoween said:

Aim since The Streak started I get these updates every day DiMaggio gets a hit.

Probably because The Yankees are listed as my favorite team on the app.

That's cool!  For some reason I still have the Braves listed as my favorite team and even though I don't allow notifications there wouldn't be anything worth mentioning anyway.

54 minutes ago, ratgirlagogo said:

Me too and I don't even like Rush.  But Geddy Lee does have a wonderful voice and it's a great a capella performance - since apparently NOBODY IN THE BAND had thought to prepare an arrangement of O Canada.

If memory serves that was the same year the great James Earl Jones did a spoken word version of the Star Spangled Banner so perhaps it was a deliberate unplugged evening?

[ratgirlagogo]

42 minutes ago, MyAimIsTrue said:

If memory serves that was the same year the great James Earl Jones did a spoken word version of the Star Spangled Banner so perhaps it was a deliberate unplugged evening?

No, because Jones had a band and some kind of choral group backing him up.  Whereas the Canadians got - bupkus.

ETA:  it was the contrast between the two anthems that really set it unforgettably in my memory - the huge production for the Star Spangled Banner - and then Geddy walks over to the mike to sing O Canada by himself.

Edited July 14, 2016 by ratgirlagogo

[jennifer6973]

2 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

Also: I think the ASG should be played on a Sunday. I know that it would be rougher to figure out when to restart games on Tuesday or Wednesday, but the other major sports hold their exhibition on a Sunday. And surely, MLB can sacrifice a weekend's slate of games.

I had to go to bed early. How long did the Game last? I'm betting after midnight on the East Coast. Only time that wasn't an issue for me was when I went to San Diego in 2003. So trippy to see festivities start at 5. I think that was the year Dusty Baker made Armando Benetiz as the Mets' sole representative.

It was over just after 11, because Joe Buck mentioned something about 3 hour game.

[MVFrostsMyPie]

I get those DiMaggio updates too and I have the Giants (obviously) listed as my favorite team. I think it must be some other setting I need to change because I don't really care to get notifications about his streak! :P

[MVFrostsMyPie]

Also, shout out to my favorite team for winning ESPN's Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year award! :)

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/17034247/chris-paul-san-francisco-giants-nba-win-humanitarian-awards

[Rick Kitchen]

7 minutes ago, MattDuffysCat said:

Also, shout out to my favorite team for winning ESPN's Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year award! :)

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/17034247/chris-paul-san-francisco-giants-nba-win-humanitarian-awards

Yesssssssssss

[Bort]

The DiMaggio notifications are if you have MLB News selected as something you want updates on. I haven't been getting them because I toggled that one off long ago (too many notifications!). I just have Astros news, score changes, and game ending notifications switched on.

[tom87]

Why hasn’t ESPN told Chris Berman people can’t stand him?

http://nypost.com/2016/07/15/why-hasnt-espn-told-chris-berman-people-cant-stand-him/

[King of Birds]

ESPN has to TELL him?  I think he knows. He's a bad comedian whose time and schtick has come and gone a long long time ago.

It's actually that ESPN needs to be told that they are NOT the epitome of sports broadcasting, and that's why they are the #1 reason why people "cut the cord."  They just think they're #1 and everything they touch is gold. Why would they care to tell the bad comedian to get off the stage when they still have to pay him for the contract?

[Rick Kitchen]

1 hour ago, tom87 said:

Why hasn’t ESPN told Chris Berman people can’t stand him?

http://nypost.com/2016/07/15/why-hasnt-espn-told-chris-berman-people-cant-stand-him/

I like Chris Berman.

[topanga]

9 minutes ago, Rick Kitchen said:

I like Chris Berman.

Me too. He actually sounds like he enjoys talking about sports. And I met him in Canton, OH--he's the nicest guy. 

[mojoween]

Me three.  I mean, some of the stuff in the ESPN book was way less than complimentary, but he has never bothered me on air.  

[tom87]

Wow.   I think he ruins the HR derby.   His shtick is old.

[King of Birds]

Oh Berman's dreadful.

Thankfully it's Dave O'Brien and Remy for the Yankees games. I can't stand Steve Lyons. 

Hey Yankee fans, what do you think of this Cashman/ Steinbrenner rift?

[attica]

4 hours ago, topanga said:

And I met him in Canton, OH--he's the nicest guy. 

You weren't wearing leather by any chance, were you? :)

Fam's in town at the end of the month, and we've got Giants-Yanks tix. In-laws are G fans; my Y-loving sister is in a mixed marriage. Should be fun to see neighboring fan reaction.

[mojoween]

1 hour ago, King of Birds said:

Hey Yankee fans, what do you think of this Cashman/ Steinbrenner rift?

I think that I want the Yankees to contend WITH Texeira, Chapman, Miller and Ellsbury.  Is that so wrong?

[Rick Kitchen]

Rangers pitcher Jake Diekman is on the DL after cutting his finger on a broken beer mug.

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/07/15/rangers-pitcher-jake-diekman-placed-on-dl-with-a-beer-mug-injury/?ocid=Yahoo&partner=ya5nbcs&yptr=yahoo

[MVFrostsMyPie]

That's almost as bad as injuring one's hand cutting a sandwich *cough*Cain*cough* or slicing one's hand separating frozen burger patties *cough*Affeldt*cough*.