***2024 MLB Regular Season Thread***

Originally posted by TheXFactor:

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Originally posted by RishikeshA:
I watch when Jacob deGrom pitches, he's fast becoming the pitcher of the generation.

Ya, hes something else. Sucks that hes been stuck on a bad team. He would be easily winning 20 games a year on a good team.

bad team? They are in 1st in their division lol

cards beating up cubs pitcher right now

lol @ cubs fans cheering foul balls on rizzo's at bat

Originally posted by SoCold:

he was hilarious during friday's game. cubs legend bill murray lmao

Thoughts on this?


Only thing that is confusing to me is making a change like this in the middle of the season. What happens if there are HRs everywhere now? Do we make batters use a stick instead of a bat? Just figured if this is what the MLB wanted, it'd be done between seasons. Guys have been using these things since they were kids in high school. Not saying banning these things caused the injury, but you gotta assume he is physically causing more torque on his elbow for pitches now when he was used to other things in the past. They were saying on MLB Network earlier since pitchers were warned recently, spin rates on pitches have dropped considerably. Gerrit Cole has got hit hard. Gonna be interesting to see where this goes.

Originally posted by jrg:
Thoughts on this?

"I am telling you, I truly believe that's why I got hurt... I'm frustrated that they don't understand... Pitchers need to be able to have some control & grip on the ball. I don't want this to happen to anyone else." - Tyler Glasnow

(via @TriciaWhitaker)pic.twitter.com/a7FXD56GoQ

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) June 15, 2021

Only thing that is confusing to me is making a change like this in the middle of the season. What happens if there are HRs everywhere now? Do we make batters use a stick instead of a bat? Just figured if this is what the MLB wanted, it'd be done between seasons. Guys have been using these things since they were kids in high school. Not saying banning these things caused the injury, but you gotta assume he is physically causing more torque on his elbow for pitches now when he was used to other things in the past. They were saying on MLB Network earlier since pitchers were warned recently, spin rates on pitches have dropped considerably. Gerrit Cole has got hit hard. Gonna be interesting to see where this goes.

Why wait to stop cheating though?

They juiced the balls in 2019, so pitchers started using that spider tack stuff. The balls have been corrected, so now its time to correct the pitching.

Pitchers took s**t too far with the bio engineered tack that gives them +500 spin rate.

Batters can't pick up the spin and a pitch they think is going to be just inside ends up in their face before they can react.
THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM

It would be like giving batters aluminum bats.

Should have just outlawed the tack. Saying they can't use "anything" is another botched situation by MLB.

smdh

Originally posted by SoCold:
Pitchers took s**t too far with the bio engineered tack that gives them +500 spin rate.

Batters can't pick up the spin and a pitch they think is going to be just inside ends up in their face before they can react.
THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM

It would be like giving batters aluminum bats.

Should have just outlawed the tack. Saying they can't use "anything" is another botched situation by MLB.

smdh

mostly

lol at Glasgow complaining that the reason he got hurt was because he can't cheat anymore. what a moron.

Originally posted by boast:
lol at Glasgow complaining that the reason he got hurt was because he can't cheat anymore. what a moron.

"Me being six seven and throwing a hundred is why I got hurt but that contributed to it."

https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3369272/ryan-spaeder-just-unleashed-a-s**t-storm-of-cheating-allegations-against-mlb-players-and-clubs

And he's right, this is all MLBs fault. They are horrible at keeping their sport clean, and they are also enablers.

Originally posted by TheGore49er:
https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3369272/ryan-spaeder-just-unleashed-a-s**t-storm-of-cheating-allegations-against-mlb-players-and-clubs

And he's right, this is all MLBs fault. They are horrible at keeping their sport clean, and they are also enablers.

Which is ironic since these are the same dips**ts who have all these unwritten rules that they live by and all that kinda s**t has done is kill the sport and the respect people have for it.

Baseball should've just left the sport alone. It didn't need fixing post PED's. The minute they started trying to speed the game up with the pitch clock is when it started to snowball. They're so obsessed with making the game faster and more captivating for the casual Zoomer that they started messing with how the balls are manufactured. Manfred is clueless.

Originally posted by JustinMT:

Originally posted by TheGore49er:
https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3369272/ryan-spaeder-just-unleashed-a-s**t-storm-of-cheating-allegations-against-mlb-players-and-clubs

And he's right, this is all MLBs fault. They are horrible at keeping their sport clean, and they are also enablers.

Which is ironic since these are the same dips**ts who have all these unwritten rules that they live by and all that kinda s**t has done is kill the sport and the respect people have for it.

Ya, very ironic.

Btw, loving David Samson on the DLB show, always letting out baseballs dirty little secrets, and they have a lot lol.