2025 MLB Thread

[oblong]

19 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Was reading about the end of Brandon Inge's time.  I had forgotten he was good-ish until he hit a wall coinciding with him catching mono in 2011.  Then he was not good.  The career end can be sudden for some. 

I thought it was the 0-fer in the HR Derby!

 

[romad1]

1 minute ago, oblong said:

I thought it was the 0-fer in the HR Derby!

 

He was a good athlete for sure.  He was never going to be a hitting scientist.   

[IdahoBert]

5 minutes ago, romad1 said:

He was a good athlete for sure.  He was never going to be a hitting scientist.   

And yet they pitched to him like he was Ted Williams or something. 

[romad1]

3 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

And yet they pitched to him like he was Ted Williams or something. 

Not sure if you were tracking the phenomena of him always being the player of the game no matter what his accomplishments because he had a female fan club (purported to be consisting of low-rent downriver gals). 

I hope he took advantage of that status and I hope he wore protection. 

[romad1]

The mind reels at Brandon Inge's juggalo fans

[IdahoBert]

3 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Not sure if you were tracking the phenomena of him always being the player of the game no matter what his accomplishments because he had a female fan club (purported to be consisting of low-rent downriver gals). 

I hope he took advantage of that status and I hope he wore protection. 

Oh, I totally remember the player of the game stuff. it was kind of a running joke.

[oblong]

I think it's because it reminded white moms of their little boy playing little league.  They can't relate to "The mexicans".  Besides, they had a hidden bias agains tthem because they had mustaches and facial hair at 13 so they assumed they were older.  But "my little Brandon..."

 

[romad1]

8 minutes ago, oblong said:

I think it's because it reminded white moms of their little boy playing little league.  They can't relate to "The mexicans".  Besides, they had a hidden bias agains tthem because they had mustaches and facial hair at 13 so they assumed they were older.  But "my little Brandon..."

 

Of course we are talking about this stuff that happened over 10 years ago like none of us went through it in real time.   Good times. 

[VegasTiger]

I'm just thrilled the current team is enabling this arguement.

[papalawrence]

22 minutes ago, VegasTiger said:

I'm just thrilled the current team is enabling this arguement.

Amen! It's been a long 8 years

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

He was a good athlete for sure.  He was never going to be a hitting scientist.   

He complained pitchers were pitching him like he was Ted Williams. Well, Ted hit .400, so if they were pitching him like they did Williams, he woulda hit better. 🤫🤫

[Motor City Sonics]

Why AI can never be trusted.  Ever.   I googled.  Matt Vierling Seattle Mariners and trade and this is what it said. 

 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Why AI can never be trusted.  Ever.   I googled.  Matt Vierling Seattle Mariners and trade and this is what it said.

google AI overview is definitely useless. Yesterday my SO's mac kept going into overdrive and she mostly has a bunch of chrome tabs open, so I asked it how to stop background processing in Chrome  on MacOS. It came up with a nice step by step. Total fantasy - no such menus, no such settings. It's their own damn browser!

Edited 13 hours ago by gehringer_2

[Tiger337]

chat gtp is usually pretty good if you give it clear directions, although it recently told me I am married and have three children which suprised me.  I am unmarried and have no children.  I think they confused me with my father who has almost the same name.  

[davidsb623]

13 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

 I think they confused me with my father who has almost the same name.  

Was your dads name Tiger336?