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A Place for Baseball (fanaticus.social)

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When reddit goes dark this month and forever after, I'll be looking for a new home on the internet to discuss my favorite pastime, baseball.

I am not here to convince you that lemmy is the next best thing or that it's going to replace reddit but it's the best we have now. If people of like minds or similar interests band together, we can create our own place and ensure that place doesn't disappear or decay because it's controlled by companies or individuals who don't have the community's best interests in mind.

To that end, I've created this lemmy instance, separate from the main lemmy.ml instance, in order to create a space for sports fans to discuss and share news about their favorite sports, teams, players, etc.

I think it's important for durability's sake that there is no mass migration from reddit to a single lemmy instance. That defeats the most powerful part of lemmy: the federation.

If a community can own and run it's own servers, it can never be beholden to anyone.

Despite a first pitch homer from Shohei the Dodgers fall to the Rangers 5-2 (www.mlb.com)

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The Rangers avoid the sweep. Roki looked ok today. But DeGrom was unflappable.

I’m bummed and more than a little drunk

Max Max Max Muncy Muncy Muncy hits 3 HR to walk off the rangers (www.mlb.com)

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8-7 Muncy walks the rangers off with his 3rd solo HR of the night.

Corey Seager returned to LA to cheers that turned to boos when he hit a 3 run homer to take an early lead.

Shohei got on base For 43 straight games breaking Ichiros record for a Japanese player.

Diaz let Texas back in in then 9th giving up 3 runs to tie it 7-7.

But max Muncy wasn’t having it. His third homer of the game walked Texas off 8-7.

Sheehan gets the start today. Let’s go Dodgers!

MLB Rookie Still Can’t Believe The Sunflower Seeds Are Free (theonion.com)

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Ohtani said fuck cuz he got hurt [video] (youtube.com)

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8 teams unveil new City Connect uniforms (www.mlb.com)

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Jays snap Dodgers road streak. Ohtani on base streak continues (www.mlb.com)

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Blue jays fought hard and edged out the Dodgers today 4-3.

Shohei didn’t have his best stuff but held them to one run until the pen let up 3. He has been on base in 42 straight games now. Amazing. Our pen has been amazing up until today, blue jays bullpen held it down.

Great game sucks to lose but a great game to watch.

The boys come home to face the Rangers this weekend

Red-hot SF Giants rookie apparently can't stop making his family's toddlers cry (www.sfgate.com)

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Great job, Susac. Don't leave us. ♥️ (infosec.pub)

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Braves pitcher Reynaldo Lopez and Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler were ejected after a brawl between the two players Tuesday night (www.espn.com)

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Blue Jays Alejandro Kirk to undergo surgery on broken left thumb (www.mlb.com)

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Yoshi returns to Toronto and wins. Again. (www.mlb.com)

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Dodgers roll thorough for another win in Toronto.

Yoshi is an enemy of Canada.

Kim and Freeeland look great.

Shohei gets on base for 42 games in a row.

Vesia looks good. Treinen looked good. Diaz closed it out.

Dodgers win again.

Standings after week 2 (lemy.lol)

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How has MLB.tv got so much worse? (lemy.lol)

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When MLB.tv first came out it was revolutionary. For years there after it was still by far the best streaming option. When WWE Network launched, they hired the guys from MLB.tv to design and implement it.

One of the things I was always most impressed by was the ability to do radio commentary with the TV display. Sync between the two was amazing, which is super hard to implement from my experience. Radio audio has always been my preference. I love baseball on the radio, and when I was a kid in the 80s-90s whenever the game was on broadcast TV (we didn't have cable) my dad would turn down the volume and put on the radio. Doesn't work now-a-days with digital TV.

Originally you could choose either teams broadcast, and any of the audios (i.e. the BlueJays broadcast on Sportsnet with Tigers radio from 97.1 the Ticket, for example). A few years ago, they switched it so you could only pick radio from the same TV (if you watched the Bluejays stream you could only have Bluejays TV or radio audio). That wasn't that big a deal. The camera view is [practically?] the same. Only noticeable difference is how the digital scoreboard looks

This year it is practically unwatchable. Even if I keep audio on the TV audio the audio doesn't line up with what is showing on the screen.

I'm not sure if it is as bad when you watch live, I normally put on last night's game in the background the next morning while I'm at work, but I would be surprised if audio/video sync is better live, if anything I'd expect worse.

This doesn't happen if I watch it on ESPN linked to my MLB.tv. I do prefer watching it on ESPN because of the commercials. Personally, I'd rather have actual commercials than the silence along with "commercial break" showing on the screen. The audio/video does sync on ESPN, but I've lost the ability for radio audio.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks the recent degradation is specifically about trying to draw folks to the ESPN streaming experience, but my logical mind says there is no way of that.

I'm not the only one, right? Do you have any different experience? Any idea why the quality has gone to crap. Enshitification?

OQB @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca

thanks, I hate it (lemy.lol)

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Things could be worse (lemy.lol)

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Jo Adell robs three home runs in one game to help the Angels close out a 1-0 victory (imgur.com)

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Text from ESPN

You've done something special when Torii Hunter, a nine-time Gold Glove Award winner known for his acrobatic catches, calls what you just did "probably the greatest defensive game I've ever seen."

That was the praise Hunter heaped on the Los Angeles Angels' Jo Adell after the right fielder made three homer-robbing catches, the last a spectacular leaping grab while crashing into the seats near the right-field foul pole in the ninth inning of a 1-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night.

"I've never seen three home run robberies in one game, and I've never seen a guy on the third one fall into the stands, catch the ball and keep his feet in like he's a wide receiver," said Hunter, a special assistant to the general manager who watched the game from the bench. "I was jumping up and down. I almost passed out."

Adell, who struggled on defense for several years before transforming into a Gold Glove finalist in 2024, leaped high above the yellow line on the wall in straightaway right field to deny Cal Raleigh of a solo homer in the first inning and made a nearly identical catch to deny Josh Naylor in the eighth.

J.P. Crawford then led off the ninth with a drive toward the right-field corner, where Adell raced toward the ball, leaped to catch it, flipped over the low wall and fell into the first row of seats before holding up his glove to present the catch, which was upheld after a replay review.

"After the first one, I was pretty fired up," Adell said. "When I got to the second one, which looked identical to the first, I thought, 'Wow, my routes are on point tonight.' The third one was just grit. Top of the ninth, you have to get it done. It was crazy.

"You just get there, then it's decision-making. The ball was hit high enough to where I could get there. I watched it [into my glove], fell over and ended up in somebody's lap. I don't know who it was, but it was a softer landing than I expected. The fans were as fired up as me."

According to Inside Edge, Adell has 10 home run robberies since 2020, tied with Kyle Tucker of the Los Angeles Dodgers for the most in the big leagues. The outfielders with the most home run robberies in the 2025 season were Jacob Young of the Washington Nationals and Fernando Tatis Jr. of the San Diego Padres. Both had four.

This was believed to be the first time in baseball history that a player has robbed three homers in one game.

"It was like a movie scene," Hunter said about Adell's third catch. "It was like the music was playing, then he caught the ball, then he went down and we didn't see him anymore. The music paused, he came up and said, 'Yeah!' I started cheering and almost blacked out."

Hunter, the former Minnesota Twins, Angels and Detroit Tigers star, has worked extensively with Adell on defense during the past few years.

"His impact has been huge," Adell said. "It's mental when you're out there. It's a mindset of going to get the baseball, being aggressive. Early, I was caught in between on some plays, and sometimes, that happens.

"When you err on the side of being aggressive and trying to make the plays, you'd be surprised at how many plays you make. That's the mindset Torii had all those years, winning all those Gold Gloves."

Oracle park is pretty cool (lemy.lol)

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