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Jeter Arod and Matt vasgersian…….someone rescue big papi he’s outnumbered
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Did you hear about Matt Vasgersian getting hate and called sexist for saying he hates bachelorette parties?
I had to look this guy up. I just want to know if he feels the same way about bachelor parties held at ballparks. If not, then he IS engaging in a sexist double standard.
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New GIF tagged food, baseball, delivery, meal, mlb network, mlbn, harold reynolds, matt vasgersian via Giphy https://ift.tt/3b5Wvke via https://cutslicedanddiced.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/how-to-prevent-food-from-going-to-waste
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“It's not like watching a Padres-Rockies game in September....much more interesting.” lmao Matt Vasgersian being fucking savage while while calling the WBC, dang
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After switching from watching the world baseball classic from my laptop to mlb network I just realized mlb.tv's announcers for this game are completely different than the mlb network announcers, I thought I was going crazy when Paul Severino suddenly transformed into Matt vasgersian
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matt vasgersian keeps calling ronald “ron marinasio”. me dead, me injured
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AL WILD CARD GAME: YANKEES AT RED SOX
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021, at 8:08pm
Broadcasts:
ESPN: Matt Vasgersian, Alex Rodriguez, Buster Olney, and Marly Rivera
ESPN2: Statcast Broadcast: Jason Benetti, Mike Petriello, and Eduardo Perez
Red Sox Pitching
Nathan Eovaldi will get the ball for the Red Sox to start the game out, and while he has come back to earth a bit from his insane start of the season (specifically with the long ball), Eovaldi is still a dang good pitcher.
He led the AL in games started, led the AL in FIP, and led the majors in BB/9.
His April/May were unsustainably good, specifically the one home run he allowed over eleven starts, but he’s done an excellent job of limiting walks and throwing strikes. He averaged 16.1 pitches per inning this season, and batters were only ahead in the count ~21% of the time this year. Eovaldi is a flamethrower -- he throws his four seam fastball roughly 42% of the time and it sits at 96mph -- doesn’t have a lot of spin (29th percentile) or vertical movement (10% less drop than average) but it does have 46% more horizontal break (12.2 inches of horizontal movement) to the four seam. He also mixes in a slider vs righties (13.7% of pitches thrown and has average movement) and a curve vs lefties (18.8% of pitches thrown and also has average movement.) Neither pitch gets hit a lot but when the slider does get hit it’s usually for extra bases. He’ll also mix in cutters and splitters -- the splitter is an out pitch and gets a good amount of strikeouts, the cutter is a bad pitch that should get hit hard.
That is his pitch chart from his most recent start against the Yankees.
And the chart of when he’s throwing his pitches -- now it’s a good thing for him that he’s getting ahead in the count, because you can see that when he is behind, he’s essentially only throwing fastballs. When batters ARE ahead in the count, they’re slashing .280/.414/.527 against him, which is actually well below MLB league average. He also really struggles the third time through the order:
So I would assume that Eovaldi goes 4, maybe 5 innings before being pulled for the bullpen.
Nathan also has been significantly worse vs right handed hitters than vs lefties:
And importantly, has already faced the Yankees six times this season: going 2-2 with a 3.71 ERA in 34 innings -- giving up 38 hits, five home runs, four walks, and striking out 34 batters. That’s a .279/.310/.434 slashline for the Bombers.
Now, when the Red Sox do end up going to the bullpen, they’ll have a lot of right handed relief options to go to: Garrett Richards, Garret Whitlock, Hirokazu Sawamura, Adam Ottavino, and Matt Barnes. The Sox ended the season with the 13th best bullpen ERA, but the 23rd best bullpen WHIP -- so they’ll let guys on base.
Garret Richards was legitimately bad as a starting pitcher this year, but a move to the bullpen may have revitalized his career:
He was a guy with two decent pitches -- a four seam fastball and a slider, and by moving to the bullpen he’s been able to increase his fastball velocity and not have to worry about showing other pitches. He still has the 12-6 curve he can pullout in emergencies, but he’s not having to throw a near eephus pitch a couple times an inning just to give guys a different look. Garrett Whitlock is in an interesting situation -- he was one of the best stories in baseball this summer and was looking like one of the best relievers in the AL…until he wasn’t. He started to get hit around a bit in May, and then in September started to really struggle, but its hard to know how much of it is him, and how much of it was his injury. He went on the IL on September 21st with a pectoral strain, but he was activated before the final game of the season for the Red Sox, so it’ll be interesting to see if Cora throws him into the fire with no rehab appearances on Tuesday.
Old friend Adam Ottavino was doing well for the Red Sox this season (if you ignored the lefty/righty splits for the first half of the season) until this September, where in his last 13 appearances he’s given up a 1.152 OPS against and a 7.36 ERA. So yeah, typical Otto! Lastly, Matt Barnes also had a dominating first half of the season before falling off a cliff after the trade deadline, and has a 6.48 ERA since the All Star Break.
Red Sox Lineup
The good for Boston- this offense is really, really good from top to bottom. The bad for Boston -- JD Martinez sprained his ankle running to the outfield during the last game of the season and Alex Cora said he’s questionable for the Wild Card game. They can just play both Schwarber and Dalbec if that’s the case, but if he does miss the game it would be a huge loss. The other bad news for Boston -- they’re literally the worst team in baseball at fielding. Boston’s defensive efficiency was at .659, meaning that roughly 66% of balls put into play ended up being outs. The next worst team were the Angels at .680, and the Red Sox committed more errors than anyone other than the Marlins. According to Statcast’s Outs Above Average, other than Enrique Hernandez in CF, every Red Sox player was either neutral or bad defensively this season. They have some good arms, especially Hunter Renfroe, but this is a bad defensive team that the Yankees should hopefully take advantage of (Devers and Bogaerts especially are beyond awful.) That said, as bad as Bogaerts and Devers are defensively, they more than make up for that offensively:
Devers in particular has become one of the game’s best hitters, and might be the best hitting third baseman in the AL.
And Bogaerts is no slouch either, putting up a monster year of his own at shortstop.
This is a team that also hit Cole hard, and if JD Martinez is able to play, then I’d expect them to start Schwarber at 1b and then use Dalbec as a pinch hitting option late as a counter to either Luetge or Wandy or Chapman. I’d also expect them to call up Jarren Duran, one of the fastest players in baseball, to use as a pinch runner late if they need to.
Fenway Park
It’s a major hitter’s park -- its currently the second most favorable hitter’s park (behind Coors Field) over the past three seasons, and that’s with it being a below average park for homers. Expect lots of doubles and triples and singles here due to the wonky dimensions and fences. It’s also the #1 left handed hitter’s park.
Yankees Offensive Keys to Success
Make Eovaldi work and get behind in the count, letting them tee off on his fastballs
The lefties have to do work -- whether thats Gardy or Rizzo or Gallo or Wade or Odor or Velazquez, a couple guys from that group have to punish the purely right handed bullpen of the Red Sox.
When the Red Sox let our guys get on base, the team has to take advantage of it -- whether its through stealing bases or productive outs or just not grounding into a double play right away.
Someone other than Judge and Stanton needs to carry some of the load offensively and get a big hit
Yankees Defensive Keys to Success
Cole needs to get through the first inning -- over the course of the season he allowed a .839 OPS against and a 4.80 ERA against in the first inning, and he allowed almost a third of his home runs in the first inning. Get past that first challenge by Devers and he should be good.
Don’t be afraid of giving up the long ball -- it’s better to attack this Boston team and give up some damage then nibble around them and have the big hits count for more than one run. They’re going to get theirs, it just comes down to whether its a couple solo shots or a couple three run bombs.
Don’t worry about the steal -- other than Duran (who’s in the 96th percentile for sprint speed) this is a really slow team that stole the second least amount of bases in baseball. If someone gets on, don’t be overly worried about the runner and get distracted, just focus on getting your outs.
Please catch your pop ups.
Prediction Time
I’m going to say Yankees win this 5-3, mostly because I trust the Yankees bullpen more than Boston’s at this point. If the Red Sox bullpen was clicking like it was in April and May I’d feel differently, but especially in a Wild Card game where starters rarely go more than five innings, it’s just a lot to ask of this Boston bullpen to be able to give good length.
#Yankees#Red Sox#New York Yankees#Boston Red Sox#Fuck the Red Sox#MLB Playoffs#MLB Wild Card#MLB Postseason#David Ortiz Did Steroids#He Is Still Getting to the Bottom of It
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#XFL2020: Welcome to Make Football Great Again!
Yesterday, WWE Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon announced that the XFL will be returning in 2020. Splashed with the league's revitalized and actually less “xtreme” logo behind it, McMahon gave a cryptic announcement almost as bizarre looking as Donald Trump's following the Access Hollywood tape revelation. But the reality here is that McMahon's desire to bring back the XFL caters to both he and Donald Trump's interests and that this new XFL will be in no way like the old one.
In order to look back at the history of the XFL, it's only really necessary to watch one game: the first one. This game actually drew high ratings when it premiered and I re-watched it a few months ago because I sometimes have nothing better to do than remember the XFL.
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The problem with the XFL was that McMahon couldn't get himself away from his WWE roots. Immediately, The Rock is cutting a promo to introduce the league. At 17:30, quarterback Ryan Clement and a team cheerleader cut easily the most awkward promo I've ever seen likely because Ryan Clement is a quarterback who has never cut a promo and the cheerleader is a cheerleader who has never cut a promo and they likely just met that day and now have to try to sell what’s basically a sketch with sexual overtones. By the end of this game, McMahon removed young play-by-play man Matt Vasgersian (who shed off this horrible experience to become a respected announcer who just joined ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball team) from the main broadcasting team for his refusal to make “enthusiastic commentary” about the cheerleaders dancing with men in the crowd (go to 40:14 in the video to hear Vasgersian wait for 15 seconds before saying “I feel uncomfortable”). As much as McMahon wanted the league to be tougher and crazier, he went backwards in allowing the XFL to be like the “Attitude Era,” and not surprisingly, there are a chunk of football fans and Americans who have no interest or even scoff at pro wrestling. Where McMahon deserves credit is that concepts like the X Cam and cameras in locker rooms are now used in the NFL and have become the norm.
Why is the XFL returning when it was perhaps only less embarrassing for McMahon than the Val Venis “choppy choppy your pee pee” storyline on RAW? McMahon sees an opening with the general public's anger in America let alone towards the National Anthem. He also has always long been poised to upend the NFL and seek revenge for this XFL loss. However I think it lies much deeper than that.
McMahon and Trump have obvious ties dating back to the 1980s. They rivaled each other in a “Battle of the Billionaires” match at Wrestlemania 23. Linda McMahon, Vince's wife, donated $7 million to pro-Trump PACs and was ultimately chosen to lead the Small Business Administration under the Trump administration. Over the past year, Trump went on the attack against the NFL and professional athletes in other sports over kneeling during the National Anthem or not visiting the White House. In the same way that “Make America Great Again” found an audience among angry whites feeling they've lost whatever America they feel they grew up in or expect it to be so too does the XFL likely feel it could hit these same people and others in its return.
It's no coincidence that the XFL will kick off in 2020. Yes, McMahon's first incarnation was haphazardly put together so he can posit this 2020 kickoff as being related to taking the right amount of time to get a proper league in place. But it also makes sense that the XFL will arrive just in time for Trump's re-election campaign where this National Anthem controversy will still be in the President's back pocket to bring up. McMahon's commentary already appealed to the base. A coded phrase like “family friendly” means players will definitely stand for the anthem. The WWE has long pushed itself as an organization tied to veterans and the military and so the XFL will continue to do that as well. McMahon even used the phrase “conservatively” in his announcement. While McMahon says the league will be “fan first,” that likely just means that the league will primarily appeal to fans that side with Trump's perspective and hope to grab independent football viewers purely interested in the entertainment of the game.
The XFL has really no plans in place other than this announcement and it hasn't decided which cities it will be in. It's a little odd since the XFL did exist and has some kind of a history where perhaps it would return to the same cities and teams it once had. But I believe that the XFL is aligning itself politically as well so I would not be surprised if a majority of the cities that get selected are in historic swing states on the electoral map. It allows for Trump 2020 and #XFL2020 to work hand-in-hand. I would expect at least New York or Los Angeles to get a team since they are the biggest markets in the nation and can appeal to the coasts. But then I believe the remaining cities will be selected from a pool along these lines: Las Vegas, Denver, a Florida city, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Detroit, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Charlotte. It caters to the major cities of swing states. It also makes the XFL feel more like a Midwest and South league which is both in McMahon's wheelhouse given the history of wrestling was based in territories and those areas of the nation have some of the biggest popularity when it comes to wrestling and a platform for Trump's re-election.
It's a nice notion that McMahon sees this league as “fan first” but any wrestling fan can tell you that McMahon has never been about the fans. He's about the dollar signs associated with the fans but not necessarily fan perspective. It took undersized Daniel Bryan pretty much winning over every fan to have Vince grant him with the WWE title. Vince turned the WWE more “family friendly” to appeal to his wife's Senate candidacy than he did with what wrestling purists would have liked. The music choices for Wrestlemania and some of the other PPVs have always seemed years behind relevancy. Vince is still Vince and the XFL is more “Make Football Great Again” than it is something that will provide a forward-thinking alternative to the football fan.
Nevertheless, I'm likely going to watch Week One much like I did with the first incarnation of the XFL. That's what McMahon knows he can grab at: the regular football fan interested in at least seeing what the carnival event has to offer. That first game in 2001 was so bad that I didn't watch the league again (and neither did so many others as ratings tanked almost immediately). Could it win me and other football fans over? It's possible but the league would have to address the biggest issues for football fans that actually care: be safer and have an actual concussion protocol that gets followed, have disciplinary action that makes sense especially in cases of domestic violence, don't make fans feel like they are dollar bills that don't matter, have some forward-thinking ideas for the game that contrast the NFL, and produce an entertaining product. Is the XFL likely to do that? Decades of history of how the WWE has operated makes me think it won’t happen.
The XFL happened in large part because McMahon was able to work alongside longtime friend Dick Ebersol to put it on NBC. There is no way in hell that NBC will be putting the XFL on their air again because of the embarrassment of it the first time and now Trump's commentary and criticism of the network. So it seems likely that the XFL will devolve to being aired on FOX News or some other such network as evidenced by FOX News already covering the XFL announcement and caring about the National Anthem issue. If you wanted to win over football fans that care like myself, this isn't the way to do it. I don't want to watch football that was the dream of Rush Limbaugh just like I don't want to watch football that was the dream of Gloria Steinem. I just want to watch football that appreciates and advances the game, a game which has many current issues that make me not particularly happy with myself that I’m supporting it.
I expect there to be few if any remnants of what the XFL once was in this new version. The last one was an embarrassment to McMahon and so he won't do anything to connect these two. But, personally, as an unbiased football fan, I expect this new XFL to be an embarrassment in a different way: as a wing to an initiative of a presidential re-election campaign.
#xfl#xfl2020#wwe#vince mcmahon#donald trump#football#nfl#matt vasgersian#trump2020#presidential election#linda mcmahon#ryan clement
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Alex Rodriguez to Join ESPN's 'Sunday Night Baseball'
Leave it to Alex Rodriguez to do something extra. The former baseball player will be part of the Sunday Night Baseball cast, but will still keep his job as a sports analyst for Fox Sports, according to Mark Feinsand of MLB.com.
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Why I’m embarrassed of being a woman. It’s people like her: http://sarahbethlibrarian.tumblr.com/post/176090424695/i-a-lady-was-watching-this-game-last-night-and (submission)
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As I said before, if he's against bachelorette parties at ballparks, but has no problem with bachelor parties, then he is engaging in sexist double standards. However, I won't call him a sexist until he clarifies his remarks.
But the worst thing about that post is the fact that OP is a Cubs fan.
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MLB Announcer Catchphrase Compilation.
1. “You can put that on the board! Yes!” -Ken Harrelson.
2. “It is outta here!” -Duane Kuiper.
3. “Good bye! Home run!” -Gary Thorne.
4. “It’s outta here!” -Gary Cohen.
5. “See ya!” -Michael Kay.
6. “That baby is gone!” -Glen Kuiper.
7. “See! You! Later!” -Bob Carpenter.
8. “Clear the deck! Cannonball coming!” -Greg Brown.
9. “Big fly!” -Victor Rojas.
10. “He’s out of room! It’s outta here!” -Rick Manning.
11. “Santa Maria!” -Matt Vasgersian.
12. “He gone!” -Ken Harrelson.
13. “Raise the jolly roger!” -Greg Brown.
14. “Light that baby up!” -Victor Rojas.
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