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sfgiants:

#VoteMelky

7 hours ago -

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This is a great thing to see in baseball, any time during the season.

1 week ago

Barry Zito just drew a bases loaded walk…

…!?

1 week ago -

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(Source: br0cklee, via hittingbombsinmccovey)

2 weeks ago -

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rileyclem:

Sergio Romo is the most baller motherfucker.

Three strikeouts to end the game, of course.

2 weeks ago -

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Old Time Family Baseball: Like Snowflakes, They Are

oldtimefamilybaseball:

Every year, baseball is played every day, all summer long. And despite the sheer volume of these games, we (as humans) keep precise logs for these games in the guise of boxscores. So it would make sense if there were a few games in the history of recorded baseball that played out the same way, wouldn’t it? Not so.

Using retrosheet, Jonathan Falk of The Hardball Times, located the two most similar, though not exact, games in the history of the sport. Oddly enough, they both feature the Tigers.

Writes Falk:

“They are the only games with identical run lines, hits, walks, and strikeouts for both teams. So for anybody who says that one baseball game is pretty much like another, point out that of the almost 170,000 games for which we have line scores, they’re all different.”

Just what two games are they? Well, you’ll have to check it out on your own to find out.

2 weeks ago -

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I reject the term “piracy.” It’s people listening to music and sharing it with other people, and it’s good for musicians because it widens the audience for music. The record industry doesn’t like trading music because they see it as lost sales, but that’s nonsense. Sales have declined because physical discs are no longer the distribution medium for mass-appeal pop music, and expecting people to treat files as physical objects to be inventoried and bought individually is absurd.
The downtrend in sales has hurt the recording business, obviously, but not us specifically because we never relied on the mainstream record industry for our clientele. Bands are always going to want to record themselves, and there will always be a market among serious music fans for well-made record albums. I’ll point to the success of the Chicago label Numero Group as an example.
There won’t ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that’s fine with me because that industry didn’t operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about.
Free distribution of music has created a huge growth in the audience for live music performance, where most bands spend most of their time and energy anyway. Ticket prices have risen to the point that even club-level touring bands can earn a middle-class income if they keep their shit together, and every band now has access to a world-wide audience at no cost of acquisition. That’s fantastic.
Additionally, places poorly-served by the old-school record business (small or isolate towns, third-world and non-english-speaking countries) now have access to everything instead of a small sampling of music controlled by a hidebound local industry. When my band toured Eastern Europe a couple of years ago we had full houses despite having sold literally no records in most of those countries. Thank you internets.

Steve Albini

2 weeks ago -

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Girlfriend // birthday

:3

3 weeks ago -

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Position players pitching is my favorite thing. Go O’s, boo Sox!

oldtimefamilybaseball:

Chris Davis is Sunday’s MVP.

From the plate: 0-for-8, 5 SO, 5 LOB, 1 GIDP

On the mound: 2 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 1 BB, 2 SO

Oh yeah, he averaged nearly 89 mph, nearly 13 mph more than Jamie Moyer who is actually paid to pitch, and he got his opposing hitter-turned-pitcher, Darnell McDonald, to ground into the game-ending double play.

The Orioles also have the best record in the game. Baseball, everybody!

3 weeks ago -

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