MLB Daily Thread: 4/18/18: Sox pound Ohtani into submission with 3 Mookie blasts; Rizzo says MLB plays too many games

[Used 2 B Hu]

Well, maybe he can pursue a career where he doesn't have to "work" so much.

He's welcome to trade places with me any day.

I do not, however, get 3 months off per year during the winter

 

[bksballer89]

Well, maybe he can pursue a career where he doesn't have to "work" so much.

NFL.

You get 6 months off

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

A friend of mine who still cares about baseball said he heard some announcers talking about how this has been a record number of postponements for a month of April, and also a record for most games played under freezing conditions in a month...and we still have nearly two weeks left in April.

The weather in NY does not warm up for another week, and even then it will probably dip back below 40 because it hates me

I've heard the same thing your friend heard. Maybe he'd like to go camping with me.

Meantime, we don't need to go changing the entire game because of record-breaking anomalous weather patterns.

 

[Sportsguy9695]

If rizzo thinks they play too many games it’s a sign to me it’s time to think about retirement

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Pro baseball is the most grueling sport to play

I call horseshit, depending on one's definition of grueling.

The average NFL career lasts, what, three years? It may take less time and travel, and have WAY fewer games, but those guys don't last because of how grueling football is.

 

[packerzrule]

NFL.

You get 6 months off

or the guberment

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Meantime, we don't need to go changing the entire game because of record-breaking anomalous weather patterns.

Correcked. Plenty of other reasons to go changing the game

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

Oh, those poor, dear millionaires.

If they don't like it, they can quit, and probably land a gig pimping a local car dealership for few hundred bucks an appearance.

Spoiler

Whoa there cowboy, did I say I had sympathy for them? No just comparing their schedule with other pro sports.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Correcked. Plenty of other reasons to go changing the game

Like when a fine, upstanding and hard-nosed American breaks a pussy’s knee because he doesn’t know how to block the plate?

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

I call horseshit, depending on one's definition of grueling.

The average NFL career lasts, what, three years? It may take less time and travel, and have WAY fewer games, but those guys don't last because of how grueling football is.

Such a stupid stat. The average career last 3 years because so many of them just aren't good enough and only last a few games, a year or two or whatever. Every year teams brings in players for a few games due to injuries halfway through the season. Those players figure into that stat. That figures into the stat much more than the rare player who was good enough to play 12 years but injuries forced him out of the game after 2 years.

I also said grueling not taxing on the body. Obviously football is harder on the body, that's not what I was talking about.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Every year teams brings in players for a few games, then cuts them. Those players figure into that stat.

Oh, yeah, that never happens in MLB. . .

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

Oh, yeah, that never happens in MLB. . .

You are arguing a point I never made in the first place so I'm out.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

You are arguing a point I never made in the first place so I'm out.

I’m not arguing anything. I’m pointing out that you have a tenuous grasp on the definition of grueling.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

And your dog is gay.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

And your dog is gay.

FINALLY, somebody said it

 

[bksballer89]

@Chewbaccer

Ex-Jays star Bautista joins Braves, will play 3B

 

[bksballer89]

LOL

Cards-Cubs now MLB's 25th postponement

 

[Rock Strongo]

@Chewbaccer

Ex-Jays star Bautista joins Braves, will play 3B

no shit

 

[Rock Strongo]

LOL

Cards-Cubs now MLB's 25th postponement

start later

more double headers

 

[Chewbaccer]

@Chewbaccer

Ex-Jays star Bautista joins Braves, will play 3B

Motherfucker. Hopefully this lasts about as long as the Ryan Howard experiment. I hated that motherfucker.