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MLB is allowing yet another game to happen in dangerous wildfire smoke conditions beacause profit.
It's bad and irresponsible. At the same time, if they were going to cancel/reschedule games because of the wildfires, they basically should just cancel the season because those fires in Canada aren't going to go away until it gets cold again.
 

Rascally Badger

El Capitan de la outro espacio
(He/Him)
The end of the Royals game last night, a walk off balk, meant I got to review the balk rule:

BALK RULES! IMPORTANT!
1.
You can’t just be up there and just doin’ a balk like that.
1a. A balk is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can’t do that.
1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can’t be over here and say to the runner, like, “I’m gonna get ya! I’m gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!” and then just be like he didn’t even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you’re about to pitch and then don’t pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there’s the balk you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn’t been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn’t typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b(2)-b(ii). “get in mah bellah” – Adam Water, “The Waterboy.” Haha, classic…
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
2. Do not do a balk please.
 

Adrenaline

Post Reader
(He/Him)
The balk rule is so silly. It's never called for the reason it was intended, to prevent deception of baserunners. Meanwhile, pitchers with good pickoff moves are praised for their deception that doesn't technically break the balk rule.
 

muteKi

Geno Cidecity
I think the best part is that it appears to have been caused by a malfunction in the pitch call electronics they've been using
 

Kirin

Summon for hire
(he/him)
Jesus, as a total baseball-layman I went to actually look up this rule, found a promising-looking web page laying it out, and twenty page-downs later I was like man, I'm glad I'm not a pitcher and also baseball is kind of weird.
 
Watching a pretty large chunk of people rush to absolve Trevor Bauer of everything forever because he settled his suit and released a video showing why he totally didn't do it guys for realsies, is not surprising, but it's still disgusting. Never a good time when the domestic abuse enjoyers log on.
 

ShakeWell

Slam Master
(he, etc.)
I was live at the AmFamClam last night as the Brewers got dick-punched out of the playoffs by the D-Backs.

Every wild card series was a sweep, which is kinda weird. Anyways, we'll get 'em next season. Go Twins, I guess?
 

Beta Metroid

At peace
(he/him)
As a Tigers fan, I'm on board.

And hey, the Twins aren't playing the Yankees, so there's an actual chance they won't fold instantly!
 

Mr Bean

Chief Detective
Alas poor Orioles. Getting swept out of the first round after such a dominant season is always such a buzzkill.
 

Adrenaline

Post Reader
(He/Him)
First ever full-length season where no team in the LCS won more than 90 games.

But like, Texas had a better run differential than Baltimore. The regular season tells us more about teams than the playoffs, but it isn't perfect either.
 

ShakeWell

Slam Master
(he, etc.)
I'm mad that the D-Backs swept the Brew Crew out, but fuck the Dodgers, and I'm no huge Phillies fan, so I guess that's where I'm at now? (I'm not really watching anything that's left, hockey and football are in full-swing and NBA starts in like a week and a half.)
 
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