Welcome!
This dude is fast af
This is where it all turns around!
Hell yeah, Higgy!
Wild and exciting game. Loved the technicality that led to that ending. Very baseball
100% Ippei’s his best friend! That’s how you know Ippei’s a real one. Only a best friend would fall on his sword like that
Best case scenario as a Yankees fan. Those Astros rumors were making me nervous. I didn’t want the Yankees to sign him but I sure as hell didn’t want the Astros to land him either.
Pre-season stats matter very little for pitchers but I agree, the rotation looks bleak without Cole.
There’s no way this isn’t a TJ situation right? I mean, I guess Tanaka pitched with a partially torn UCL but I’m not hopeful. My guess is that they’re holding off on announcing for as long as possible so they don’t hurt ticket sales.
Absolutely brutal loss. The Yankees won’t win finish above 3rd place without their ace.
That’s ok I’ll keep the birds going this year. All it takes is one!
Here’s our PR into the original redball repo. The Lemmy version of the bot is still on a fork.
You got it and you’re welcome!
@cerevant@lemmy.world runs the Phillies bot and I’m sure he’ll have it back and running this year!
Just because users don’t have anything to say doesn’t mean the posts are useless.
Thank you for saying that! I feel the same way but it was a long season of defending a whole army of bots that seemingly weren’t being used by anyone.
Reducing bot traffic in order to prevent user-created posts from being drowned out is really my goal here so I think by default I’ll leave the pre and post game threads turned off (unless someone really wants them). I also didn’t really find the play-by-play comments useful for my purposes so I’ll leave those off as well.
Can bots instead change the title of a post, uh, post post?
They certainly could if it was coded that way but I’d have to extend the bot a bit more to do that (and add another config option probably).
You got it! What do you think of skipping the Pre-Game and Post-Game threads and just having a single Game thread? Just thinking that three posts a game is a little much. It might be good to consolidate until at least there’s more volume.
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All in all…I’m torn. I appreciate some rule changes that shorten game time without affecting the all holy numbers. But I don’t really like the standardization he’s brought to the game. Some of my favorite things about baseball are the unique characteristics of each team, city, and stadium. Baseball is a local game, not a national one like the other major sports. I’m intensely invested in my team’s division and, to a lesser extent, those in my league.
Considering I’m both a Yankees fan and a big baseball fan generally, I’m torn. I could see myself hate watching this for sure.
As far as dramatization goes, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a sport that lends itself to drama more than baseball. How can you not be romantic and all. Then again, the season is long and players are always coming up with whacky ways to entertain themselves in the dugouts so IDK how they’ll be able to spin that with a straight face.
All in all it sounds like a good way to attract new fans to the sport which I’m all for!
Love to see the young guys get signed long time to their home club. I hope the trend continues
I’m here for it! Welcome to America’s past time!
Beautiful! How old?