Ok rpf glasses off: I think it showed a certain immaturity on Colt Emerson's part that he didn't speak up about his injury, I guess he's showing his age there. Apparently he might even need season-ending surgery?? At first I thought it was an IL stint mostly just to save face about the mariners super-expensive prospect being booted back down to the minors but it sounds serious. On the same topic, I think the M's strength/conditioning staff or their team of trainers should be shot because what the fuck is up with all the injuries this season???
Ok rpf glasses back on: the thought of Colt Emerson purposely hiding his injury from his team and trainers has me bricked.
being a mariners fan is a little like being stretched out on the rack all the time but sometimes they don’t stretch you as much and it feels so so much better than it would if you weren’t being tortured so you just keep getting stretched and you know one day they’ll have to stop surely they can’t go on forever! and it’s been fifty years of this btw
joshcole roleplay: wow you’re sooo much bigger than me we should compare hand sizes wow you’re hugee do you think you’ll even fit
jpcolt roleplay: mommy do you love me 🥺
colecolt roleplay: okay so i’m the most beautiful butterfly in the world and you’re the renowned lepidopterist who has to chase and catch me so you can spread me out and carefully examine me under your microscope before pinning me in a glass case to keep and look at forever and ever
I know we've all been lamenting the graphics recently, but for viewers new to baseball just for a second let's all live in a world where the scorebug works!!! Here's a good one:
I've put numbers next to every little piece of it that I want to talk about. Honestly I'm kinda passionate about these little graphics, I just think that baseball has really distilled this information into the most effective way to get it across. Baseball scorebugs are a thing of fucking beauty!!
Teams that are playing! This is from a New York Mets vs Miami Marlins game.
Current score. Marlins have one run, Mets have zero. (Also let's get this out of the way now, yes, they can be called runs or points. Both get used. The one thing they aren't are goals!)
Runner positions on base. There's one guy on first, so there's no one in scoring position.
Current outs. There are no outs! There's only two dots because as soon as they get the third out, the inning is over and the dots disappear entirely. (Some broadcasts use 3 dots, I just don't like it. 2 dots; nice, simple, concise.)
Inning information. This is the bottom of the 7th inning, meaning it's getting near the end of the game, and the home team (Mets) are batting. When the Marlins get that third out, as mentioned above, this will change to read END 7th instead.
Count! That's the word used to quickly refer to the batters balls and strikes. ("What's the count?") This batter has 3 balls and 2 strikes, which is also known as a full count.
Pitcher. Miami's pitcher Sandy Alcantara is pitching.
Pitch clock. Again, pitch clock rules and violations can get a little complex, but essentially, this is how long the pitcher gets to throw their pitch. Here, the full time would be 18 seconds.
Number of pitches. How many pitches this pitcher has thrown. I believe Alcantara was also the Marlins' starting pitcher this game, so he's been pitching for a while here.
At Bat. Mets 1st baseman (for today) Jared Young is batting, and the number 6 represents that he is 6th in the batting order (out of 9).
Batter's record. (Honestly there's probably a real name for this but I'm not sure what it is.) This one shows that Young has been up to bat twice, and was put out both times. (If you're curious, it was a strikeout and a groundout.)
See what I mean? That's so much good info in a tiny graphic!!!
Let's also talk about another graphic that I hope comes to WPBL soon. These types will pop up when a player comes up for an at bat. (Also some of these lines I don't know the official name for! I just know what they mean, sowwy)
Player and Position. This is Francisco Lindor, and he's a shortstop on the Mets.
Record for this game. Here he's recorded 2 at bats (walks don't count as a recorded at bat), and he hit the ball once.
On base record for this game. Even though walks don't get recorded as an at bat, he did make it on base. With his other hit, he made it on base twice.
His plate appearances in the diamond scorekeeping form. First inning, he struck out looking (backwards k). Fourth inning, he was walked. 5th inning, he hit the ball and made it to first base.
These stats on the bottom line are all season stats.
Batting average. Batter's stat from dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat (with some exceptions). At .229, he's like... literally fine. Nothing special, lol.
Home runs. Number of home runs Lindor hit this season. (Home run - hitting the ball far enough that the player goes around all the bases in one go. Usually this is by hitting the ball out of the park, but if the defensive team fucks up enough, you can also get what's called a "little league home run". I don't think that's like... an official stat keeping term? But you will hear it thrown around.)
Run(s) Batted In. How many runs were able to be scored because Lindor was at bat.
OPS (On Base plus Slugging). Check out my original definitions post for a fuller definition for OPS, but essentially this is a metric of how productive he is for at bats. With .729, Wikipedia grades him as "average".
There's also a lot more things they can pop up on screen, but those get more specific, like about a pitcher's stats, someones salary, how long they've been out injured, etc. etc. The most important thing to know about baseball is that it is ALL ABOUT STATS. Everything is a statistic! Keeping your own scorecard during the game is a common activity!! So this should all get you started if you've never watched before.
Ok, now with all this info, let's do an easy graphic (but not from TV). Take a look at this one (also I swear to god I tried to pull this from the WPBL website but it's just not at all thorough. And I wanted one where the bottom of the 9th wasn't played):
Try your best before reading the next section!
Ok, going left to right, top to bottom.
This was a Marlins vs Mets game at the Mets home stadium. the Marlins have a record of 55 wins and 55 losses, while the Mets stand at 47 wins and 63 losses (You may be looking at this record and thinking, "hey man, it seems like your team loses a lot." Yeah. They do. A lot. They're kind of the bane of my existence. And my mother's existence. And my grandmother's existence. It's a generational wound, you know?)
Marlins are ranked 3rd in their shared division (National League East), while Mets are ranked 5th (aka last). The final score was 4-2, with the Mets taking the win.
The Marlins scored once in the fourth and seventh innings. Mets scored two in the sixth inning and two in the eighth. The X indicates that the bottom of the ninth was not played, since the home team was already leading.
The Marlins ended the game with 2 runs, 7 hits, and 1 error. The Mets ended the game with 4 runs, 6 hits, and 1 error.
Mets pitcher Raley was recorded as the winning pitcher, making his record for this season 5 wins and 5 losses. He has a 2.01 average of earned runs in those appearances. Marlins pitcher Peterson was recorded as the losing pitcher, making his record 1 win and 2 losses. He has an average of 3.20 earned runs. Mets pitcher Williams is credited with a save, for pitching the last inning. This is his 16th save of the season.
(Earned Run - any run that was fully enabled by the offensive team's production in the face of competent play from the defensive team.)
See? Lots of information communicated very effectively! Once you get told how to read it, it's all super easy.
The Kansas City Royals generated approximately $330 million in revenue last year. Who deserves a greater percentage of this money?
Bobby Witt Jr, whose ability to hit and throw a ball has brought the Royals substantial amounts of money from fans going to games to see him, buying his jersey, and otherwise participating in their Royals fandom;
John Sherman, who has done none of that, and whose job seems to consist mostly of asking taxpayers to finance things on his behalf
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.
Cole: Has to get like a yearly abortion bcs he sucks at safe sex. Drank rat poison the first time to induce an abortion. By the second time he has mail-in abortion pills figured out.
Josh: Flies to Canada to get his abortion done here.
J.P: Has the kid (it ruins his season and makes his sonWives pissed as fuck)
Colt: Is extremely pro-life and tells everyone about how getting an abortion is evil. Tells no-body that he's pregnant and coat hangers that thing in privacy. Almost bleeds to death, takes no time off about it, but it barely affects his baseball because he already sucks so bad.
the only way to level the playing field for the mariners is to let them do steroids so they can be somewhat close to the level of offense any other team has
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