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R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


alpha_destroy posted:

No matter how much he kills my team, I cannot hate Hunter Pence. And somehow that makes me even angrier.

pence is a human muppet

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alpha_destroy
Mar 23, 2010

Billy Butler: Fat Guy by Day, Doubles Machine by Night
Hunter Pence never leaves a penny.

New Concept Hole
Oct 10, 2012

東方動的

Alan Trammell posted:

The myth of the Good Hitting Pitcher debunked again

Yusmeiro Petit. :smug:

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!
Shields really looks no worse than the other Royals hitters.

Which...yeah.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
Who cares what the umpire has to say?

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair
This is bullshit, umpires aren't people.

alpha_destroy
Mar 23, 2010

Billy Butler: Fat Guy by Day, Doubles Machine by Night
At least our pitcher hit it out of the infield.

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!

alpha_destroy posted:

At least our pitcher hit it out of the infield.

I like to think Aoki is pissed at him in the dugout.

Ice To Meet You
Mar 5, 2007

New Concept Hole posted:

Yusmeiro Petit. :smug:

has a batting average of .049

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


bumgarner is unfair, he should be banned as a PED

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!
Butler honestly should have started instead of Hosmer tonight, but that'll never happen when Hosmer is healthy.

abelwingnut
Dec 23, 2002


R.D. Mangles posted:

bumgarner is unfair, he should be banned as a PED

performance enhancing drawl

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!

Alan Trammell posted:

has a batting average of .049

the joke is he got the fifth hit of his MLB career yesterday.

alpha_destroy
Mar 23, 2010

Billy Butler: Fat Guy by Day, Doubles Machine by Night
~40 pitches through 3.
Here comes the CGSO.

New Concept Hole
Oct 10, 2012

東方動的

Alan Trammell posted:

has a batting average of .049

1.000/1.000/1.000 Forever

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


remember when bumgarner was the giants' third best pitcher

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
Did anyone else just hear Joe Buck say "gently caress"

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe
I really hate the Royals "offense".

Ginette Reno
Nov 18, 2006

How Doers get more done
Fun Shoe

Abel Wingnut posted:

performance enhancing drawl

i don't know why but every time i see him i think of nicolas cage and his awful southern accent in con air. i keep expecting madbum to drawl out "my dearest elizabeth"

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe

alpha_destroy posted:

~40 pitches through 3.
Here comes the CGSO.

How many runs does he give up this inning? We already too far behind to win, might as well pile it on.

rickiep00h
Aug 16, 2010

BATDANCE


Started reading The Book and now I want to throw something at the screen every time they put postseason stats on the screen. I mean, I know small sample sizes and the playoffs are meaningless and everything, but I literally do not care that someone has been hitting .186 in the last four games.

Give me something interesting like how many rashers of bacon Pence can put away in one sitting. The number of times Dyson's been mistaken for a younger sibling. Lincecum's favorite book. It's better than numbers that don't mean anything.

Ice To Meet You
Mar 5, 2007

Ammat The Ankh posted:

the joke is he got the fifth hit of his MLB career yesterday.

No, the joke is that people were sincerely saying Bumgarner should be the Giants DH

alpha_destroy
Mar 23, 2010

Billy Butler: Fat Guy by Day, Doubles Machine by Night
The Royals have literally two hitters with an OPS+ over 100

BearDrivingTruck
Oct 15, 2011

You see the most shocking sights sometimes

Inspector_666 posted:

This is bullshit, umpires aren't people.

It has to be scripted, right? FOX replaced the umpires with real people just for that clip?

New Concept Hole
Oct 10, 2012

東方動的

R.D. Mangles posted:

remember when bumgarner was the giants' fourth best pitcher

First full season was 2011 where he was behind Vogelsong, Lincecum, and Cain in terms of performance.

Ambassador of Funk
Aug 2, 2009

Whenever I'm put to the test, I'm gonna ace it.

R.D. Mangles posted:

remember when bumgarner was the giants' third best pitcher

Hell I remember when he was the biggest liability in the postseason rotation.

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!
I still love this outfield defensively at least.

Akbar
Nov 22, 2004

Hubba-
Hubba.

Alan Trammell posted:

No, the joke is that people were sincerely saying Bumgarner should be the Giants DH

did people really? that's very dumb considering we have this michael morse who literally is useful for the DH and nothing else

alpha_destroy
Mar 23, 2010

Billy Butler: Fat Guy by Day, Doubles Machine by Night
They are really plugging Gotham.

I just realized how bad Shields actually is. He is a fly ball pitcher in a huge stadium with one of the historically great outfield defenses and he's still just okay.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

fknlo posted:

I really hate the Royals "offense".

It looks like they're going by a principle of "If you swing at everything eventually you'll maybe hit the ball?"

I mean, Bumgarner is amazing and it's not like the Royals had such awful plate discipline in games 2 or 3 (I wasn't able to watch 4) but it's just insane the stuff they swing at when Bumgarner throws it.

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe

Inspector_666 posted:

It looks like they're going by a principle of "If you swing at everything eventually you'll maybe hit the ball?"

This has literally been their strategy all year.

alpha_destroy
Mar 23, 2010

Billy Butler: Fat Guy by Day, Doubles Machine by Night

Inspector_666 posted:

It looks like they're going by a principle of "If you swing at everything eventually you'll maybe hit the ball?"

Little known fact. The K has no batting tunnels. The Royals just practice with The Show.

BearDrivingTruck
Oct 15, 2011

You see the most shocking sights sometimes
I think it's lame how they're talking about how Panik's first game was in June, when it actually was technically that one May game against the Rockies that got postponed until August.

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!

Inspector_666 posted:

It looks like they're going by a principle of "If you swing at everything eventually you'll maybe hit the ball?"

I mean, Bumgarner is amazing and it's not like the Royals had such awful plate discipline in games 2 or 3 (I wasn't able to watch 4) but it's just insane the stuff they swing at when Bumgarner throws it.

He's just dominating them. They're free swingers and not very good on the whole for sure but they generally make contact of some sort.

And the Taveras news comes to fox :(

Akbar
Nov 22, 2004

Hubba-
Hubba.
what was that weird fade-out after the Taveres news

rickiep00h
Aug 16, 2010

BATDANCE


Akbar posted:

what was that weird fade-out after the Taveres news

A moment of silence. Pretty rare on TV.

Smashlampjaw
Aug 16, 2008

Akbar posted:

what was that weird fade-out after the Taveres news

Looks like they didnt know if they wanted to goto commerical or not...

Akbar
Nov 22, 2004

Hubba-
Hubba.
jesus buster got rocked

Akbar
Nov 22, 2004

Hubba-
Hubba.

rickiep00h posted:

A moment of silence. Pretty rare on TV.

couldn't you just leave his picture up there and go silent? the fade to black was kind of macabre.

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fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe
Has anyone other than our pitcher hit a ball out of the infield yet?

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