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Harlock: Jan 15, 2006; Tap "A" to drink!!!

The Why
We just can't get enough of animated .gif files on the internet, especially when they come to our favorite sports. With the Baseball season quickly getting underway, there's plenty of memorable moments that we all want to relive in precious Graphics Interchange Format. Some of us even have folders devoted to Raul Ibanez's fielding.

Sometimes compression can't even save the best of .gifs from getting too unwieldy for casual browsing. Instead of cluttering up the main MLB news/views thread with those hypnotic moving beauties, a repository thread can serve best for requests or for people to post their creations.

The How
If you have absolutely no experience and don't care to learn how to make your own .gif, there are people who are willing to fulfill request within a reasonable timeframe. There are also sites such as Gifulmination which probably makes the most notable of .gifs faster than you can request it.

If you want to try your own hand at it, there's a swath of resources at your disposal.

TVIV Mod Aatrek has compiled a great post on how to make .gif files. This guide is also mirrored here.
Additional guide by forums user Butt Wizard.
Additional guide by forums user MazeOfTzeentch.

That's great.. but where do I get the video source for my .gifs?
Baseball highlights can be found primarily on MLB.com and sometimes pop up on Youtube.com. The best way to download these files is to use an extension in either Chrome or Firefox. Personally, I use Downloadhelper in Firefox to grab the .mp4 highlights from MLB.com. However, there may be something you wish to capture that hasn't already been turned into highlight format. Luckily, programs such as Fraps are able to capture MLB.TV video from your desktop as you play over the selection you wish to capture.

The What

# ? Apr 12, 2012 15:19

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# ? May 26, 2013 04:25

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Requesting gendo classic of Panda tripping on a cake.

# ? Apr 12, 2012 15:22

Scob: Jul 17, 2005

make a gif of torii hunter flopping face first into the wall from last night.

# ? Apr 12, 2012 17:49

stimpy: Jul 27, 2004; Cap'n Scrap'n of the Hit Brigade

euphronius posted:

Requesting gendo classic of Panda tripping on a cake.

stimpy fucked around with this message at Apr 12, 2012 around 18:05

# ? Apr 12, 2012 18:01

RembrandtQEinstein: Jul 1, 2009

Scob posted:

make a gif of torii hunter flopping face first into the wall from last night.

Somebody else already made it, it's glorious

# ? Apr 12, 2012 18:10

Declan MacManus: Sep 1, 2011; THREE STAR RECRUIT

_{rip bama's title hopes

9/1/12-11/10/12}

stimpy posted:

The crawl at the end is what really makes it

# ? Apr 12, 2012 18:10

Squall: Mar 10, 2010; "...whatever."

I tried.

# ? Apr 12, 2012 21:14

Harlock: Jan 15, 2006; Tap "A" to drink!!!

Does... does he hit himself in the face with the throw?

# ? Apr 12, 2012 21:19

Squall: Mar 10, 2010; "...whatever."

Harlock posted:

Does... does he hit himself in the face with the throw?

Nah, I don't think so.

# ? Apr 12, 2012 21:34

KYOON GRIFFEY JR: Apr 12, 2010

Squall posted:

Nah, I don't think so.

It looks like he hits himself.

# ? Apr 12, 2012 21:49

Squall: Mar 10, 2010; "...whatever."

Different angle:

# ? Apr 12, 2012 21:57

Captain Tolerable: Sep 29, 2010; In 1999, I took part in a political rally, and got teargassed by the cops.

Home Run of the Year:

# ? Apr 12, 2012 21:59

Scob: Jul 17, 2005

RembrandtQEinstein posted:

Somebody else already made it, it's glorious

This made me laugh so hard last night watching it on quick pitch I had to rewind it 5 or 6 times to get it out of my system, still funny.

# ? Apr 12, 2012 23:32

Bard Maddox: Feb 15, 2012; BOOM
BOOM
BOOM

This was on SBNation:

# ? Apr 12, 2012 23:40

Captain Tolerable: Sep 29, 2010; In 1999, I took part in a political rally, and got teargassed by the cops.

Barry Bonds going Japanese Style

# ? Apr 13, 2012 00:21

DemeaninDemon: Jul 27, 2007

Thunder Hammerfist posted:

This was on SBNation:

The more I look at this the more I think Garza just wanted to give a fan a souvenir.

# ? Apr 13, 2012 00:27

The broken bones: Jan 3, 2008; And sometimes when I'm falling, flying or tumbling in center I say
Whoa so this is what NedCo means.

euphronius posted:

Requesting gendo classic of Panda tripping on a cake.

Gendo didn't make that one, that was from Dodger Blues.

Good thread.

# ? Apr 13, 2012 02:28

Harlock: Jan 15, 2006; Tap "A" to drink!!!

Afternoon Baseball fun.

Harlock fucked around with this message at Apr 13, 2012 around 21:01

# ? Apr 13, 2012 20:51

CancerStick: Jun 3, 2011

What's the story of the Cabrera one

e: the last one

# ? Apr 13, 2012 21:00

Harlock: Jan 15, 2006; Tap "A" to drink!!!

CancerStick posted:

What's the story of the Cabrera one

e: the last one

Cabrera was complaining about the Batters Box not being correct:

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/4/13/2...igers-white-sox

# ? Apr 13, 2012 21:00

Jerkface: May 21, 2001

And he was right! Crafty, crafty grounds crew

# ? Apr 13, 2012 21:02

TUS: Feb 19, 2003; I'm going to stab you. Offline. With a real knife.

He promptly went and popped out on the very first pitch.

# ? Apr 13, 2012 21:16

nice mattimer: Mar 3, 2008; the wind that shakes the buttcheeks

Are those 2 indicative of Young overall? Because that seriously looks like me at a baseball tryout when I was 10 and there was no coming back from it that year.

# ? Apr 13, 2012 21:23

RalphTheWonderLlama: Jan 22, 2006; Baseball is serious business.

When discussing Yankee free agent signings with my dad, I had to pull open my SA bookmarks when pops expressed optimism in the signing of one Raul Ibanez.

# ? Apr 13, 2012 21:29

RembrandtQEinstein: Jul 1, 2009

nice mattimer posted:

Are those 2 indicative of Young overall? Because that seriously looks like me at a baseball tryout when I was 10 and there was no coming back from it that year.

Yep. He is just atrocious in the field. He has a cannon for an arm, but everything else about his fielding my god.

# ? Apr 13, 2012 22:17

Harlock: Jan 15, 2006; Tap "A" to drink!!!

Slight update.

[Kermit is a Yankee fan confirmed

]

Why does St. Louis attract so many animals?

# ? Apr 13, 2012 23:37

hcreight: Mar 19, 2007; Realistic Sucking Action

RalphTheWonderLlama posted:

When discussing Yankee free agent signings with my dad, I had to pull open my SA bookmarks when pops expressed optimism in the signing of one Raul Ibanez.

Speaking of, did anyone end up gifing the play from last Sunday where he attempted a sliding catch and completely missed the ball?

# ? Apr 13, 2012 23:48

Pumpkin McPastry: Mar 8, 2004; What else do I have to do to impress you people?

Can we get a .gif of the rear end in a top hat/weird fans behind the wall at about ~0:40 seconds in this A.J. triple from today?

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c...878818&c_id=cws

And maybe Santiago's arm twirl celebration

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c...878818&c_id=cws

Gif this whole game!

\/\/\/ Hahahaha excellent

Pumpkin McPastry fucked around with this message at Apr 14, 2012 around 02:47

# ? Apr 14, 2012 02:34

Harlock: Jan 15, 2006; Tap "A" to drink!!!

Pumpkin McPastry posted:

Can we get a .gif of the rear end in a top hat/weird fans behind the wall at about ~0:40 seconds in this A.J. triple from today?

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c...878818&c_id=cws

And maybe Santiago's arm twirl celebration

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c...878818&c_id=cws

Gif this whole game!

Harlock fucked around with this message at Apr 14, 2012 around 02:53

# ? Apr 14, 2012 02:46

RalphTheWonderLlama: Jan 22, 2006; Baseball is serious business.

hcreight posted:

Speaking of, did anyone end up gifing the play from last Sunday where he attempted a sliding catch and completely missed the ball?

This, I need to add to my collection.

# ? Apr 14, 2012 18:55

MondayHotDog: Feb 18, 2006; Worked-up silent dork without sex ability seeks oblivion and demise.

hcreight posted:

Speaking of, did anyone end up gifing the play from last Sunday where he attempted a sliding catch and completely missed the ball?

Yeah, zakharov did.

# ? Apr 17, 2012 01:17

Arctic Baldwin: Nov 22, 2006; In BOD we trust

Whats the story with the Blue Jays gif where they run out and back?

# ? Apr 17, 2012 01:49

Jeff Wiiver: Jul 13, 2007; So I parallel double park that mutha fucka sideways
Old folks talkin bout "Back in my day..."
But homie this is my day

Arctic Baldwin posted:

Whats the story with the Blue Jays gif where they run out and back?

I think it was the grounds crew coming out in the middle of an inning by accident.

# ? Apr 17, 2012 02:41

pkid: Jan 30, 2005; I was raised on the dairy, BITCH!

Jeff Wiiver posted:

I think it was the grounds crew coming out in the middle of an inning by accident.

Why was the mascot with them!?

# ? Apr 17, 2012 05:48

piratepilates: Mar 28, 2004; So I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it.

pkid posted:

Why was the mascot with them!?

After like the fifth? inning at home games for the Jays the "world's fastest ground crew" comes sprinting out of left field to clean up the infield, Ace (the mascot if for some unfathomable reason you don't know who Ace is

) joins them and plays the role of a mascot, usually doing something 'comical' when they have to go back through left field like slide but end short and get locked out or slam in to the wall.

# ? Apr 17, 2012 06:14