posts about the national pastime

THEIR SALARY IS DERIVED FROM MANUAL LABOR WHAT THE FUCK ELSE WOULD THEY BEEEEE

The Kansas City Royals generated approximately $330 million in revenue last year. Who deserves a greater percentage of this money?

What pro-salary cap baseball fans who make the “millionaire vs billionaire” argument always miss is the critical fact that a huge part of the players’ labor movement is specifically tied to being classified as employees because previously they were just considered property.

This distinction matters to them. It means they have rights!

MLB team owners have twice been told in legal rulings that their labor practices were illegal and a violation of common law rights to labor and contract (1914, 1975) in lawsuits filed against them by their players. MLB players in 1975 essentially created professional sports free agency by consistently pushing back on their league’s unfair practices.

Being an employee is a point of pride for them and is fundamentally nonnegotiable because most of them, historically, weren’t.

They fought relentlessly for a century and a half to be considered employees. Several players were blackballed and publicly smeared for pushing back against the owners for this. The least we can do as fans is acknowledge the work that’s been put in and consider them as the employees they are.

The employees are currently watching (under what is essentially a gag order until November!) as their bosses try to persuade the customers to help bully them into accepting institutionalized salary suppression, because it’s easier for the bosses than holding each other to task and closing some revenue sharing loopholes.

I will create the world's first ontologically evil baseball team

Yankees beat you to it by like 113 years

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not asking this to judge anyone, just curious

also say in the tags the first player u thought of if u want

i think the catcher should be allowed to make out with the pitcher during the mound visit. as long as they want. this would be good for morale, ratings, and the game of baseball itself

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Combined faces of top 1800 MLB players

there he is joe baseball

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tumblr keeps putting rpf baseball yaoi on my dash, and like, okay fine I get it. Whatever. But it’s all rpf baseball yaoi of fucking YANKEES PLAYERS. YANKEES PLAYERS??? Tumblr thinks I’m a fuckin YANKEES FAN???? Tumblr coming into my house and accusing me of being a goddamn motherfucking yankees fan???????? You say that to my face. You come to my house in the great beautiful city of Boston Massachusetts and say that to my fucking face tumblr. Ohh when I get my hands on you tumblr. Yankees yaoi. I’m actually for real mad about it.

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baseball is basically about man butt and the short violent arc of American history.

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who is the Toronto baseball warlock

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Baseball teams should add a position, whose role is to take a bean ball and die at home plate, whose training consists of treading the veil between, befriending psychopomps, angering deities, whose uniform includes an ornamental bullseye, and whose position title is that of "forsaken pig".

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The more I learn about baseball, the more interesting it seems, which is weird because I'm not really a sports person

Anyways I wanna share something neat that I learned but I'm gonna preface this by saying that I'm not "into" baseball. I'm just visiting the baseball zoo and reading the little blurbs the have on the cages

With that out of the way, when you swing a bat, your momentum naturally goes with the bat, right? So for righties, immediately after batting, their momentum starts to take them to third base, meaning they have to fight against the bat's momentum before running to first

But for lefties, the bat's momentum is already taking them to first! Apparently lefties can, on average, reach first base a sixth of a second faster than righties

Apparently it also makes a difference in receiving a pitch, since a righty receiving a pitch from a righty will see it coming from behind their shoulder, but a lefty receiving a pitch from a righty can clearly see the ball

Because of this, they started bringing in lefty pitchers to counteract the lefty batters and the result is a sport with 2-4x as many lefties as the general public

even as a sports nerd, I had heard of lefty batters having an advantage seeing righty pitchers, but not the idea of lefties getting to first base slightly quicker (which would make a difference on close throws).

Also fielding angles make lefties better suited to certain positions

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Actually, Anon, fandom is significantly older than fan base or fanbase; the OED gives the first known citation of fandom meaning “the community of fans of a thing” from 1903, while their first entry for fan base isn’t until the 1970s. If you compare the frequencies of the two terms in Google Ngram Viewer, you’ll see that fandom has historically been far more frequent, with fan base running a distant second (and the closed form fanbase an even more distant third).

The OED also rejects your portmanteau hypothesis, though I suppose sportswriters from the 1900s might’ve been trying to be quirky and different when they coined fandom from the productive derivational suffix -dom, which the OED also gives copies examples of throughout the 1800s (including BA-dom, old fogey-dom, blizzard-dom and theater-dom.

Respect the fandom, guys. It’s older than Steve Rogers. 

So, seeing as the OED does not provide free access to its sources, I looked this up. According to various webpages, included this one, ‘fandom’ was used in 1903 by the Cincinnati Enquirer to refer to baseball fans.

Thus not only do we have an early example of a word that combines ‘fanatic’ with ’-dom’ as in 'kingdom’, we also have a useful reminder that when it comes to excessively liking things to the point of it being its own subculture, people who are into sports have the rest of us beat by several orders of magnitude.

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another win for baseball, the greatest sport ever

Actually, Anon, fandom is significantly older than fan base or fanbase; the OED gives the first known citation of fandom meaning “the community of fans of a thing” from 1903, while their first entry for fan base isn’t until the 1970s. If you compare the frequencies of the two terms in Google Ngram Viewer, you’ll see that fandom has historically been far more frequent, with fan base running a distant second (and the closed form fanbase an even more distant third).

The OED also rejects your portmanteau hypothesis, though I suppose sportswriters from the 1900s might’ve been trying to be quirky and different when they coined fandom from the productive derivational suffix -dom, which the OED also gives copies examples of throughout the 1800s (including BA-dom, old fogey-dom, blizzard-dom and theater-dom.

Respect the fandom, guys. It’s older than Steve Rogers. 

So, seeing as the OED does not provide free access to its sources, I looked this up. According to various webpages, included this one, ‘fandom’ was used in 1903 by the Cincinnati Enquirer to refer to baseball fans.

Thus not only do we have an early example of a word that combines 'fanatic’ with ’-dom’ as in 'kingdom’, we also have a useful reminder that when it comes to excessively liking things to the point of it being its own subculture, people who are into sports have the rest of us beat by several orders of magnitude.

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what if the pitcher threw a christian baby but it got raptured at the moment of the swing but since the batter swung it counted as a strike and it cost them the game

rule 6.01(e)

the umpire would be justified in awarding the batter with the run as if the pitch had connected and they would be able to win the game (and the millions of dollars)

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I don't believe in christian babies. I believe in babies, i believe in christians, but a baby doesn't have the agency and cognitive abilities required to chose and/or live a faith. There's babies of christian parents, of course, as well as babies that have been introduced into the system that is the christian church, but that does not make them christian yet.

Long story short, i did not hit a christian baby into the stratosphere, officer.

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Neighbors: Isn’t it a little early for the Halloween decorations?

Me:

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