xie posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urCG4A4fa6k Actual video of Dinger Machine!!!

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

If my Hat Concept is A No-Go, I Require A Miniature Wi-Fi Variant that Moves Synchronously with The Mothership

tadashi posted:

With that much green space on the outfield walls, they could do some awesome video effects on those walls for the tv viewers.

MorningView posted:

You know, some would just build one Dinger Machine and then have us rest on our laurels. After all, why keep trying? We've already done enough, they say. Well you know what happens then? The Japanese start building bigger, better Dinger Machines, and suddenly we're left in the dust. Is that what you want? Sub-par Dinger Machines? Because that's what the laurel resters want. Well, I won't let that happen. Not when it comes to America's Pastime. I demand constant Dinger innovation.

CraigK posted:

I love this exciting new Mariners offense that only scores runs off of dingers

CraigK posted:

the YOSPOS cat thread is the best thread on the forums and I will fight all who say otherwise

CraigK posted:

So on a scale of 1 to '62 Mets, how bad are the A's going to be this year?

Mornacale posted:

The A's are not going to be as good as the '06 Cards.

davecrazy posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urCG4A4fa6k

Behold ye mortals, and despair!

e: guess i missed this earlier

Beatnik-Filmstar posted:

Beatnik-Filmstar posted:

Now in Morneau-O-Vision!

Mornacale posted:

Y'all are thinking too small. The stadium itself should just be a giant dinger machine.

Senf posted:

It should require its own retractable roof.

CraigK posted:

Ten million years from now, extraterrestrial beings will land on the decaying husk that was Earth, and the first thing they find will be the dinger machine

and their historybooks will note how we were a primitive, carbon-based lifeform that worshipped a pastel machine with flamingoes and dolphins on it

Pumpkin McPastry posted:

Ohhh is this why he wasn't playing yesterday?

Exodor posted:

Excellent. Now we just need to convince Paul Allen that baseball is super cool so he buys the team and moves it to Portland.






The A's couldn't possibly be worse than the Blazers and hey, they come with a free Billy Beane.

enuma elish posted:

To defend the Giants a little bit - it's not like they're just doing this to be dickheads. The Giants legitimately have a lot of fans in the South Bay and the A's moving there probably would affect that fanbase. And it's not the Giants' fault that Oakland (rightly) doesn't want to build a new stadium for the A's.

I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to be an A's fan in that horrible stadium with little-to-no hope for a competitive team in the near future. But the situation isn't the Giants', or anyone's, fault as far as I can see.


On the other hand this is dumb as hell, given Giants' fans defense of Barry. Hilarious though.

enuma elish posted:

Even if Oakland had any money, it still wouldn't make sense for them to build one, because it almost never makes any sense for cities to spend a ton of money on a stadium. And, yeah, in this climate when no city has any money it makes less than zero sense.

The Giants do have support in the South Bay, and ceding territorial rights down there probably would impact their fanbase and ultimately cost them money, I think. They're not blocking it just to gently caress the A's. Well, actually, that probably is part of it (and I am willing to entertain the notion that Giants ownership is terrible), but losing the South Bay would weaken the Giants' financial situation and it makes sense to me why the Giants wouldn't want to do that.

As Grozz Nuy said, ultimately it's about a bunch of extraordinarily wealthy guys not wanting to give up a couple bucks. It's a lovely situation, and I honestly do wish the A's were doing better and had a better stadium, because you need that poo poo. I just don't think it's fair to solely blame the Giants and I don't think they're being entirely unreasonable not giving the South Bay to the A's as an act of charity.

maybe I'm just afraid that the Giants will have to slash payroll (and/or that ownership will use this as a justification to slash payroll) and then everything will be terrible. that's probably it.

Grozz Nuy posted:

I totally feel bad for A's fans, I really do. I just don't get why any of this is surprising. Any owner in baseball would do the exact same thing if put in the situation that the Giants are in now. I mean, I don't like my team being the bad guy, but there's hardly anything I can do about it as a fan.

Mr.Showtime posted:

I'm expecting both BP and Votto to be Jays by this time in 2014.

davecrazy posted:

The Dinger Machine lords over all.

Rand alPaul posted:

I hope the Dinger machine has environmental sound effects like in the beginning of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland. You know, some birds and assorted jungle sounds.

Gonz posted:

I have decided that THIS would be the ideal audio to be played while the dinger machine is in operation.

unsanitary posted:

Whenever I play MLB the show I'm always a pitcher because pitching is cool and the best part of baseball

R.D. Mangles posted:

It's the Dinger Machine, not the Gatorade Machine.

R.D. Mangles posted:

Zambrano will throw a bat 350 feet from the mound to the dinger machine and somehow it will explode as he stands cackling in the middle of fire.

Gendo posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUs3f0isdPg

Imasalmon posted:

The pistol will be on the colt .45's replica jersey worn by the astros this season.

Cabbit posted:

If that were the actual speed that thing ran at I'm pretty sure the stadium would take flight.

Rand alPaul posted:

Cespedes hit one hell of a Trotsky today.

Jagfire posted:

Captain Tolerable posted:

As awesome as Yoenis Cespedes is, I feel bad for Coco Crisp, who is voicing why he should be the starting CF but no one is listening.