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ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
Don't forget new rules this year.

https://twitter.com/MLB_PR/status/1227699302757289985?s=19

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ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

Popete posted:

Has anyone ever played Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2019? It looks fantastic but I probably wouldn't make it out of the main menu.

I play it every day. Lvl 102.

edit:

Sorry I don't. I confused it with "Pro Yakiyu Spirits Ace" the mobile game before I clicked the link.

ScottyJSno fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Feb 13, 2020

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

Popete posted:

That's the part that has me the most intrigued.

The Road to the Show analog has a dating sim built into it, and you can buy stuff to put into your digital dudes house. TVs and sofas and junk. I need to get a PS4.





edit: you can get married but you have to buy a car first.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

Julio Cruz posted:

B-R has Adam Dunn listed at 6'6 285

but his body was proportioned just a little bit differently to Judge's

The largest NPB ever listed was an ex Astro Mexican who got kicked out of the league for PEDs in 2018.

Japhet Amador listed at
193 cm
141 kg

6'4"
311

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
Please don't forget my boy Tsutsugo. He is going to rake this year.

https://twitter.com/gaijinmades/status/1232093101906264065

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

ketchup vs catsup posted:

The ootp nfl game needs to hurry up and come out

The dude who was the lead developer or something for that died 2 years ago and they halted development.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1237952267325550593?s=19

Fell down a Twitter hole...

https://twitter.com/TChitester/status/1237952396837490688?s=19

https://twitter.com/TChitester/status/1237929661591629832?s=19

https://twitter.com/TChitester/status/1237760410918555653?s=19

https://twitter.com/TChitester/status/1235041511697334272?s=19

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

Poque posted:

There should still be regularly scheduled doubleheaders anyway. Bring them back.

Restart in June and a double header everyday. Two 26 man squads. Day squad night squad. Combined record. They can afford the payroll.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

Johnny Bravo posted:

If you haven't done it already, you should go google Angels roster and enjoy the Shohei Ohtani picture. Alternatively, just google Shohei Ohtani. His Wikipedia picture is also great.

Baseball was supposed to start next week and it's not going to and I am bummed out.

NPB was scheduled to start yesterday. With everything seemingly under control here in Japan everything is supposed to just be back to normal in April.

(I fear it is a ticking time bomb but who knows)

Teams have been playing televised spring training games with no fans. I think the plan right now is to start on April 10th. They play games Tuesday through Sunday. Generally every Monday off. Weekdays games start at around 6:00pm weekend games are mostly all day games that start at noon. So 5am on the east coast 2am on the west coast on week days and 11:00pm/8:00pm on weekends.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

MrMojok posted:

Are people who have contracts with guaranteed money getting paid? Or is everyone getting paid? Or nobody?

Reddit had a post on how in the CBA the Commissioner could suspended contracts in times "National Emergency". But who knows at this point.

They should get a head start on the new CBA, like Sale getting TJS.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

I doubt NPB is going to start soon/play for long now. One team had a pitcher come down with COVID19 and the day after they postponed the Olympics, Tokyo new infection numbers shot up by 4x.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
Welp RIP Kenta Maeda.
https://twitter.com/maeken1988/status/1245180051840106496?s=19
(He is working out on a trampoline)

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
https://twitter.com/maeken1988/status/1245487384407371776?s=19

Kenta Maeda heard baseball will be back on 7/4. He read it in the "News"

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

I love that Contreras is conflicted. "I know I should get between him and the ump, but gently caress that."

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
I went in my back yard and practiced throwing curve balls for an hour with my son today. Now my arm feels like it is going to fall off.

Thanks for reading my story.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
I thought there was a roster freeze?

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
I found the worst post on twitter. Do not look I beg you. :barf::barf::barf:

https://twitter.com/jojo_p30/status/1262449543536414721?s=19

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
So I did some sluthing and found the first MLB game I ever went to.

It was June 1992 Cubs@Pirates. 3 Rivers Stadium. It is one of two games in the 3 game series. The middle game I was 100% not at. (Greg Maddux pitched 8 innings and won the game. I know the one I watched had the Cubs lose.)

I saw the Cubs lose, but saw super stars such as...

Sandburg
Grace
Dawson
Bonds

And for some reason Steve Buechele who was a nobody journeyman who I though was great in 1992.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
You know what I starting to think I don't care if Cubs comes back.

gently caress off Ricketts

https://twitter.com/davesund/status/1267646197034033152?s=19

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
Didn't Dex put out a tweet about Rizzo not being a not racist?


https://twitter.com/DexterFowler/status/1267839435879530496?s=19

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

ScottyJSno posted:

Didn't Dex put out a tweet about Rizzo not being a not racist?


https://twitter.com/DexterFowler/status/1267839435879530496?s=19

And he put anyone keeping their mouths shut on blast...

https://twitter.com/DexterFowler/status/1267992480181518345?s=19

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

pseudodragon posted:

Draft is 100% the reason. There is absolutely no reason for teams to run academies with a draft, it’s one or the other.

The only league that runs both is the MLS which is known to choose the stupidest possible way of doing things and even there, you can see as academies become more prominent and bringing up the best prospects, the draft becomes more and more pointless.

What a different world it would if Baseball was more like Soccer.

Teams using money and prestige to fight for a 14 year old wunderkind. Then Trout would get his contract bought for $200 million and he ends up playing in Japan.

Edit: gently caress it I am going to download Football manger for the first time in 20 years.

ScottyJSno fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Jun 10, 2020

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1271988448166121472?s=19

MLB to players "gently caress you, you greedy fucks."

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
NPB starts on Friday night Japan time. :japan:

Any players want to defect to Japan. I bet they would fast track citizenship. Then you wouldn't count against their foreign player limit.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
Oh boy basebal until November. I am getting hyped. I think I am going to start a NPB thread tommorow.

"Season starts June 19

Each team will play 120 games

The Central League is scheduled to finish on November 11, and will NOT be holding a playoff (Climax Series).

The Pacific League will hold a playoff for only the 1st and 2nd place teams. It will be a 4 game series with a 1 game advantage for the 1st place team. The team to reach 3 wins first will advance to the Nippon Series.

The PL Climax Series is scheduled to begin November 14"

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

GalacticAcid posted:

Cubs making strategic errors to constrict their capacity for fanbase growth? :yeshaha: :bisonyes:

One of the reasons the Yomiuri Giants are the most popular allover Japan is the ownership group owns one of the most popular broadcast channels in the country. Turns out if you show every game to everyone, tons of people are going want to spend money on your poo poo.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
Check out the New NPB Thread.

NPB 2020: The Highest Level Baseball You Will See This Year

We have all the MLB stars!
  • Kosuke Fukudome
  • Nori Aoki
  • Hisashi Iwakuma
  • Kyuji Fujikawa
  • Daisuke Matsuzaka
  • Tsuyoshi Wada
  • Zelous Wheeler
  • Jon Edwards
  • Tyler Austin
  • Reed Garrett
  • Matt Koch
  • Dennis Sarfate
  • Jerry Sands
  • J. T. Chargois
  • Jay Jackson
  • Adam Jones
  • Kris Johnson
  • Cory Spangenberg
  • D. J. Johnson
  • Brandon Dickson
  • Zach Neal
  • Drew VerHagen
  • Frank Herrmann
  • Spencer Patton
  • Alan Busenitz
  • Justin Bour
  • Scott McGough
  • Nick Martinez
  • Matt Moore
  • Brandon Laird
  • Stefen Romero
  • Andrew Albers
  • Rick van den Hurk
  • Neftalí Soto
  • Steven Moya
  • Christian Villanueva
  • Wladimir Balentien
  • Jabari Blash
  • Gerardo Parra

Ariaga! Ariaga II! Bariaga! Aruglia! And Pizzoza!

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

Shiroc posted:

Kuma is still playing? I was trying to figure out if he was but it didn't look like he pitched at all last season. I love that guy and have always hoped he would get back to playing.

He signed with the Yomiuri Giants before the 2019 season. He was out all last year with shoulder stuff. He should be ok to go from the bullpen this year.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

bawfuls posted:

The extra inning runner thing is so stupid

Just do what NPB does and let regular season games end in a tie after 12 innings, play it out till someone wins if it’s the postseason

NPB postseason games can end in tie. In the best of 3 Climax series of all three games end on ties the team with the best regular season record advances. If that is tied it goes to head to head regular season record.

In the Japan series you have to win 4 games. So if the series is tied after game 7 they play game 8. Still tied game 9 and so on...

In other news I am at my son's first practice here in Japan. Feels good to hear bats and gloves and stuff.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

Sydin posted:

So there's a whole preamble to this video but the short story is that Darvish got bored because no baseball is being played and decided to try to invent a new pitch that he's calling "The Supreme" that is a hybrid splitter/two-seamer.

Here's him throwing it at 93MPH (Tanaka approves):

https://twitter.com/t_masahiro18/status/1274166183382532099

Yu rules.

I love Darvish. But the dude has millions of dollars and he drinks garbage beer. He keeps tweeting little photos of what he is eating and his garbage beer.

https://twitter.com/faridyu/status/1274486542916923392?s=19

That Asahi The Rich is garbage. It is a low malt liqueur injected with CO2. Taste like beer but is cheep as gently caress. It is what I drink because it is cheep and I am poor. He is in Arizona and can get something better.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!

Chamale posted:

Maybe it's nostalgic for him. In some regions of Japan, non-alcoholic beer mixed with grain alcohol is a popular drink because it was cheaper after the war and people kept drinking it.

The dude is 33. He is not drinking crap beer to feel nostalgic over something that is 80 years old at this point.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
Why is America so afraid of the tie? I mean in NPB you only get 3-4 ties per team in 140ish games.

Do they still do a shoot out in MLS?
Did NHL change too?

I haven't watch either sport for like 20 years.

ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
https://twitter.com/BleacherNation/status/1276140911219691520?s=19

I was just thinking how lopsided this "regional rivals" thing is.

So the teams will be play ing their "regional rivals" for 10% of the schedule.

Padres get Seattle - Lucky.

D'Bags gets Astros - bad Luck.

Cards get Royals - Boo.

Pirates get Detroit.

Nats get the O's.

Mets get NYY.

And that is just me thinking about the NL.

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ScottyJSno
Aug 16, 2010

日本が大好きです!
:siren:OFFICAL NEW 2020 RULES:siren:

  • National League DL
  • Extra innings start with a runner on second. The dude on second is the dude in the batting slot before the current batter. For scoring the dude on second is there by way of uncharged fielding error.
  • Three-batter minimum rule is a go.
  • BUT no limits on who or when a fielder can be a pitcher in the game.
  • Strictly enforced unsportsmanlike conduct for social distancing. Players or managers who leave their positions to argue with umpires, come within six feet of an umpire or opposing player or manager for the purpose of argument, or engage in altercations on the field are subject to immediate ejection and discipline, including fines and suspensions.

ROSTER STUFF
  • We got a 60 Man Club Player Pool. This is like the teams AAA team for the year. Teams can add players at any time, but removing them is like coming off the 40 man, they got to trade, release, DFA, or outright them. They can not be added back to the 60 man.
  • On opening day teams have to have active MLB roster of 30 men (min of 25). All pulled from the 60 man.
  • 15 days after the season starts the MLB roster goes 28.
  • 29 days after the season starts through the rest of the season and post season the roster is 26 men.
  • You can have on extra dude for a double header.
  • Teams will travel with a 3 man taxi squad one of which has to be a catcher. This group is just to save a replacement a flight if somebody get injured. Standard roster rules apply when adding them to the team. (No NPB like switching out yesterdays pitcher for a fresh player.)
  • August 31st will be the 2020 trade deadline and September 15th will be the 2020 Postseason eligibility deadline.
  • We got a 10 day IL and a 45 day IL. Then a special COVID19 IL that you have to show no symptoms and pass two COVID19 test to get off of.

HEALTH STUFF
  • Teams got a COVID19 Plan
  • No spitting
  • Pitchers got a wet rag
  • Everyone should try and keep their distance
  • No Pregame lineup exchange

I am disappointed by the taxi squad. I thought player could move on or off of it freely.

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