You can’t spell ‘no big contracts’ without RSN: 2024 regular MLB season thread!

his title is Professor; show some respect

Brent Rooker - Oakland (sic) Athletics DH - 2 HRs in the 3rd inning.

the a's are about to be .500 after they finish murdering the phish today. I didn't think they'd be this competitive.

Fisher said win a ring and MAYBE I'll turn this car around

if the a's won, fisher would give them old-school pop-can tabs for rings

He’d probably ship all the players out for making him look bad

Noted #1 star of the Dodgers and epitome of the Baseball Body, Max Muncy with a 3hr night

DO IT MUNCE

Also for those unaware, Andy Pages has been the most entertaining player on the Dodgers since he was called up a week or so ago. He has a .338 average in 65 PA but with 0 walks, and an absolute disgust for balls thrown of the plate. Last night he walked off the braves in a 4 hit game after winning the award for “ball fouled off furthest from the plate in a game H.P. has watched”. Man absolutely REFUSES to be walked.

https://i.postimg.cc/52gDh90c/IMG-0497.jpg

Like look at pitch 7? Just disgusting

Probably only a couple of pitchers currently in the league I ever wish an actual shelling on (Chapman, Germán) and one of them (Clevinger) has given up 3 runs to Tampa after two innings and 46 pitches. Hoping for more of the same till he gets pulled.

Only 4 ER in two innings cos the White Sox pulled him out after he gave up three successive hits and a walk, the reliever they put in got out of the inning unscathed and neither inherited runner scored :(

Also, Jhoan Duran’s closer entrance rules.

Jhoan Duran's entrance, just like I always wanted to see on the #MNTwins broadcast. Awesome. pic.twitter.com/ieBzKe1pNo

— Chris Hanel, Baseball Enthusiast (@GoTwinkiesGo) May 4, 2024

That’s so stupid i love it

Oh huh - they do something similar for Romano too

cubs got too cute leaving imanaga in the game late

guess it doesn't matter tho lol

Braves won but they still look very bad. Acuña's head is on another planet.

also absolutely brutal shot to the arm that contreras took from jdm. oooooouuuuuuccccchhhhhh

I can’t bring myself to watch that video. Poor Contreras :(

Max Muncy continues to be Max Muncy, hitting an oppo granny in the 1st

20 strikes in a row from Yama as well to start the game, 18 off Bartolo’s silly record which I want to see broken

goldschmidt may never get a hit again the way he’s looked the past two games against the mets

Paul Skenes is pitching on Saturday!

Please stay off the pulled pork thread Skenes

He’s only twelve years old, he’s got lots of time before he hits the sandwich shop

I heard he got rizzed up by lizzy

Steele(!!!! He’s back!!!!) vs Skenes has the potential to be the most interesting pitchers duel of the day.

I've been reading about Skenes--mlb.com has no fewer than five links up:

Skenes arrives ready to go: 'Just want to put us in a position to win'

Get to know MLB No. 1 pitching prospect Paul Skenes

Is Skenes the best pitching prospect ever? Let's take a look...

Paul Skenes has 5 (!) pitches -- and here's his take on all of them

Are MLB's top two pitching prospects in the same org?

Dylan Crews(Skenes’ teammate at LSU) is now the most high ranked prospect still to debut. The Nationals drafted him 2nd overall last year. He’s still in double A but his ETA says 2024. September I guess?

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/top100/

mlb has been going HARD on skenes it's kind of amazing. never seen this sort of thing before even from like Baseball America. i've having all these articles pushed up to the top of my app i'm like, did i press the wrong button?? wha happen

I saw people compare it to the hype around Stephen Strasburg’s debut?

I did search and Strasburg had a thread on here over a year before his debut!

Post by Andy K from Stephen Strasburg, pitcher and Scott Boras client on ILX - Stephen Strasburg, pitcher and Scott Boras client

My gf hardly ever talks about the NL, but was talking about Skenes weeks ago. Dude is def getting a lot of hype

My mlb.com login still works, so I think I'll make an effort to watch (free today).

lol same except with my husband

https://i.postimg.cc/MH59DQJx/IMG-0614.jpg

meanwhile today mets prospect christian scott is pitching his second game ever against... the braves. that'll be a litmus test

These commenters are a trip. “You saw it, just minutes before he left the dugout the sun came out”

Retire now!

Lol

Glad I switched to the Skenes game

A walk? WASHED

I wanted that third K...Game was three pitches in when I got home, so I'll never be able to say I saw his first pitch.

How is Bellinger back already after fracturing his ribs and swinging away? I guess he self medicates for the pain. 😮‍💨

xp first pitch was a ball, he stopped and stood on the mound for a second and looked slightly awed before he remembered the pitch clock existed

meanwhile today mets prospect christian scott is pitching his second game ever against... the braves. that'll be a litmus test

In other electrifying news, Vlad pushed his average over .260 and Bo hit his second HR today.

Look as someone who grew up watching football (soccer) can I just say that MLB ad where they try to liken the two sports using the Wrexham club is FUCKING INANE

It’s enough to make me think about watching on BT sport again, which has the worst ads of all time

xp is Bo injured or playing through something? He seriously looks nothing like himself this year.

Thanks for reminding me that this monster is going to be a free agent at 27 if he stays healthy and isn’t pulled pork by then

Quite possible. He really lost it on an umpire the other day, which was very out of character.