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Hello fellow baseball nerds
Glad to see this new subgroup!
Trying to jump ship from Reddit after 16 years there. Been in and out of Tildes since it started and just realized there’s no baseball discussion at all, and coincidentally Deimos just added this subgroup!
Hope we can get some activity going in here. Highlights, stats, prospects, team discussion etc.
Go Dodgers!
Happy to finally have a place to discuss baseball here. I'm a pretty big fan (Go Red Sox!) and have been for many years now. Hope to see enough of an interest from the community to see highlights and discussion around big events like trades and the ASG.
Great to hear it. There have got to be dozens of us, dozens!
I grew up watching baseball with my brother, lost interest for a while, but was reignited when I started to play in a fantasy league. Sabermetrics are my favorite, I’ll probably be posting FanGraphs articles periodically.
It would have been awesome to have a group like this for the WBC. What an insane event, pure fun!
Go Sox!
There's a good chance this will be my most visited page on the internet in short order. The thing I missed the most in leaving reddit was a place to catch up on baseball news throughout the day, so I'm excited there's a place for that here now.
I was (am?) a mod at /r/brewers, and love the sport in general. Although I've got to say I'm looking forward to the all star break because since 2014, the brewers are like a .300 win team in the week leading up to the break, so the sooner we can get through that, the better.
Oh nice. I'm a mod over at /r/redsox. Though I've been spending less time in the sub and more in the Discord since Reddit's bullshit.
Yeah, tbh most of the /r/brewers mods had migrated to discord several years ago. I was planning on stepping down anyway at the end of the season cause I don't spend enough time on the sub anymore as is.
I'm just taking a break from modding what few subs I'm still a moderator of. I love the /r/redsox community too much to completely leave. But my focus is more on the Discord for now.
Braves fan here. I've really been enjoying what our GM has put together. We have a young core of a team that's locked down, and some of the moves, like keeping Arcia over Swanson seem almost psychic-like. I've been a fan since the 80's but this is definitely the deepest team we've had.
Orioles fan checking in. Happy to be relevant again and stupid excited for all the young guys coming up. I was born in '86 so I missed our real heyday, but I've been to every home playoff game in my adult life (all 6 of 'em!) and can't wait for that atmosphere again.
Nice to see Gunnar turning it on after a rough start. He might make me forget about Manny. Cowser and Westburg contributing immediately has also been a nice boost. Pumped for the 2nd half!
Orioles are very exciting to watch right now! AL Beast has been living up to its name finally.
Some fantastic prospects lately. Jorge Mateo started up well but kind of fell off? Agreed on Westburg and Gunnar, really fantastic.
Also Santander has been solid after a rough start to the year.
Hope you guys keep this up!
fellow orioles fan! we like our ducks.
Let's go Mets! Fan since 1986 here. Their annual June nosedive seems to be behind them, and hopefully they haven't buried themselves too deep to make a run at a wildcard spot. We'll see.
One hope I have for this group is that we get a good proportion of articles instead of the links to tweets that dominate /r/baseball.
Obligatory lolmets from a Braves fan. But seriously, I hope y'all get it going.
I mourn for your losses of Edwin Diaz and DeGrom (again). Otherwise it looks like you have all the pieces there but something isn't adding up, which is especially crazy after the record-breaking spending they've been doing.
Thanks. I hated seeing deGrom go but it was the right move. The Diaz injury was a bigger blow and we're paying the price in the bullpen all season. Couple that with some other departures and an overall old team and it felt like some regression from last year was inevitable. But hey, at least Alvarez and Senga are fun to watch.
I grew up on absolute peak baseball following the Mariners in the late 90s through the early 00s. Unfortunately still a diehard fan. I think as of yesterday the Ms have a 7 game losing streak when playing a game to get us to .500. Great times. Somehow I'm hopeful every year. I really need to get over that someday.
Oh baby - I'm about to post The History of the Seattle Mariners, it's amazing. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend.
M's are such a crazy and great team. I root for them as underdogs, probably growing up watching that same era with Ken Griffey Jr. and Ichiro. I was a diehard Yankees fan growing up (sorry) and definitely remember some incredible moments.
Right now I love watching M's pitching. Hope you guys can really up the offensive performance to match!
Oof, a Yankees fan? Sorry pal, instant thumbs down from me.
But yes I think we have many good pieces but how is a team supposed to deal with the our gosh darn division. You have to be so good to beat out the Astros and the AL East to squeak out a wildcard spot. At least our playoff drought isn't old enough to drink now! Kind of a sad way to end it though, no return to the playoffs in sight unfortunately.
That Ms documentary series is just amazing. As if I couldn't like the team any more. I think they have since found the guy who came up with the Mariners name.
I would love to score some runs, maybe during my lifetime.
Honestly I’ve been thinking about switching teams from the Cardinals to the Mariners. I’ve just not enjoyed watching or really even hearing about the Cardinals for a few years now. My fav football team are the Seahawks and I love the Kraken and the Blues equally, but my god the Kraken had an amazing second season so I’m more excited for their season this year than the Blues. My wife and I ended up getting season tickets for the Blues last year…which with how poorly they did ended up making the season tickets…disappointing
Agreed, it's very nice to see this subgroup!
My favorite period in baseball is the 70's - early 90's and I'm wondering what good memories or favorite players you all have from that era?
It's gotta be Ricky Henderson for me, the potential for excitement with his every at-bat was palpable. Not to mention when he got on base and how skittish the pitchers became, he was such a terror at stealing.
What are your stand-out memories from that period?
Yankees fan here. I'm excited to see this group get started and looking forward to where it goes!
I moved from the DC area to the NYC metro in 2009 and realized I had to choose either the Mets or Yankees to have a realistic way of following the games. I casually watched a few of each team's games, but the core four easily won me over that year, and I've been a big fan since then.
Currently, I'm anxiously awaiting Judge's return, as the team appears to be barely treading water at this point, although there have been some impressive performances recently from guys like Bader and German, and Volpe is starting to look like he may live up to the multi-year hype.
Grew up a Yankees fan watching late 90s early 00s dominance, such a fun team to watch and see win so many World Series as a kid.
Judge was incredible last year, he helped me win my fantasy league. Really a bummer about the injury this year - Ohtani is on track to match his homers, which is insane as well.
German is just... bizarre to me. I feel like he is not really a standout pitcher, and yet just threw the first perfect game in over a decade..? Imagine being Gerrit Cole and witnessing that 😂
Hard to say what their problem is right now outside of Judge being injured (and the eternal injuries of Stanton). There's obviously talent there, but something is missing..?
Go Yankees! Just have to hope they can play .500 or so ball until Judge comes back, glad to see some players heating up but quite a few, most notably Sevy has fell off a cliff.
Actually going to the game either tomorrow or Sunday, try to get to 4-5 a year at least.
Cubbiessss since I was a toddler - really hoping we don't sell at the deadline... Again.
Bleeding Cubbie blue here too. I was arguing with my friend all the way back last season - we've got something here that's worth building off of.
We are a top-3 fanbase and franchise. There is no reason other than greed that the ownership should be claiming poverty. Run it at a loss if ya have to, ya cheap jerks!
Lifelong Braves fan here. Excited to see the discussions that come about.
Pumped for this weekend series against the Rays. I missed the O’s one so hopefully I can catch a little bit of this one. Really happy with how the team’s built and to see if we can snatch another title with this group.
Hell yeah go bridegrooms (Dodgers)!
It’s been a really fun season so far. Even for a year where we cut the budget and have a rotation of rookies (and that Kershaw guy he’s pretty good), we’ve continued to play some high quality baseball. I love watching Mookie on the infield, he’s just an ESPN top ten plays factory.
My family has been rooting for the Dodgers since they were in Brooklyn and I’m a life long east coaster, so I only get to see our boys in blue a few times a year. I’m excited to see them when they play the Mets next weekend! Maybe I’ll get lucky and get a ball signed this time.
Let's go Rockies!!!!
I go to Coors Field to fight Dinger and put him in his place!
I'd love to see some good baseball discussion here. I played in high school, which was a lot of decades ago. When I watch the game, I'm one of those who still kinda experiences it viscerally, as a player. I agree with the Crash Davis assessment of strikeouts being boring and fascist, and sometimes (okay not always) feel the same way about home runs. What lights me up most is seeing great fielding and baserunning.
Unfortunately I live in the middle of the baseball blackout desert of Iowa, in a place about equidistant from half a dozen big league towns none of which I can buy streaming for, and I'm not willing to go the pirate route, so I don't get to see much ball. We do have the Cubs' AAA affiliate in Des Moines and have cheered them on a few times. Though maybe partial to the Twins and Brewers, I don't care a great deal about the wins and losses and haven't yet managed to form a strong fan attachment to any MLB team.
Just this summer I made it to my first MLB game in several years. We had family vacation in southern Ohio and stopped for a couple of nights in Cincinnati on the way. My wife and I showed up at the GABP for what turned out to be Joey Votto's first game back after his shoulder rehab. That was a great time. I find I like the pace with the pitch clock, and maybe it's because we were in an upper deck but I didn't have the trouble with high-decibel noise that I sometimes run into at minor league games. Just an enjoyable evening from beginning to end.
Can I ask why you’re not willing to go the pirate route?
Seriously, modern pirate streaming websites make things super easy. I cannot in good conscience pay for Bally.
Honestly, they're a pain in the ass. I use them to stream O's games b/c I'm not paying for a cable package just to watch baseball, but it's not a particularly enjoyable experience. It beats nothing, but it's really annoying that sometimes streams just don't work, freeze regularly, can't always pick home or away feed, and they always lag a decent amount behind real time.
I agree that the streams mostly suck, but during the brief period where I borrowed a working cable login, the official stream for my team's games wasn't much better. It froze often, the audio usually wasn't synced exactly, commercial inserts were mistimed, and sometimes the stream wouldn't work at all.
Guardians fan here! I've been following the franchise since I was a kid so early 90s and on.
Season has been rocky but they are doing what is normal for the franchise and starting to gel by all star break. Granted the ALC is a weak division but we do have a chance at running for it again so it's a positive for the fan base.
Let's go guards! Went to a game a few weeks ago, my first of the season, and the stadium was electric. Really great seeing the guys come together recently for sure.
No Cards fans yet?! I feel so alone. I am the product of a father from southern Missouri who loves the Cards and a mother from Chicago who loves the White Sox (like, grandpa proposed to grandma at Sox Park in 1961, it's deep), so at some point I was asked to choose a religion growing up. Most recently I flew to London to watch them forget how to play baseball for about eight out of nine innings, but no hard feelings, it was the experience of a lifetime chatting with the UK baseball fans sitting around me.
Regrettably checking in as a White Sox fan haha. Existence is pain, but at least I can discuss ball now with fellow fans! Hope this group picks up activity!
It seems like Cease might be back, but sadly he’s been getting very little run support. I wonder if he’ll be traded for prospects? How is the farm team looking?
The White Sox have very little to be excited about in the farm, it's pretty depressing. Our current core was supposed to be competitive. The core has a lot of raw talent, but are some of the laziest and most uninspired players I have ever seen. I truly believe they would excel in a different environment, I think it's something internal with the organization that is holding them back.
With how weak the central division is this year, we should be able to absolutely run away with it, but we do all of the baseball fundamentals poorly and as a result, are a bad baseball team.
Sox need to sell off their assets while they can and try another rebuild. Problem is most of the fans don't trust the current leadership to do it properly.
Do you think hiring TLR killed any chances that core might've had?
Given the way the team is playing this year without him, I think it's safe to say the blame doesn't fall entirely on TLR, but I do think it was the wrong decision and probably laid the groundwork for the uninspired play we are seeing. It was a young core, they needed someone that was more in touch with the modern game and to energize with them.
It's easy to play the blame game, but it definitely wasn't all on TLR.
Marlins fan checking in. Let’s talk about fire sales sometime? After following the team since its inaugural year I pretty much checked out after Jose Fernandez’s boating accident since he was the only reason to tune in, but this season’s been…nice. I’m digging the changes Theo’s implemented and find myself getting sucked in again.
Go Dodgers indeed! I do find myself missing the r/NLBest and my other teams' subs pretty often, but I think I'm okay spouting off my nonsense takes into twitter at the moment. Looking forward to seeing how the discussion here turns out. Although, I normally prefer writing out my online work without proper capitalization and the like. using that with normal grammar feels so formal and writing like this feels so much more my style
I'm a split fan but I think it's okay since one team is AL Twins and the other team is NL go Brewers! Plus there's no way they'd play each other in a world series (hoping to jinx it). It's frustrating to be a fan though living nearby because of blackout games and stuff so I don't really get to watch many games and only attend 2 or so a year. It's always a blast when they play each other though and feels like I win no matter which team wins.
Love Brewers stadium, and atmosphere. Cincinnati has a cool stadium. I've unfortunately been unlucky in the new twins stadium and dealt with cruddy cold weather. I'm a bit disappointed they didn't take a page from the Brewers on that one. Would love to hear what other baseball fans love or hate about their or other stadiums!
Starting to get into some baseball card collecting not sure this is the right space for that but figured I'd share that too because it's a new interest of mine and love to know what people know about it.