Levi Weaver, but for baseball

I don’t care about Sons of Anarchy either but you’re telling me that Schrute Farms is ARLO GIVENS’ HOUSE?!

HOLY WITT ²!!!!!

HOLY WITT

Honestly, I was so focused on “there are many worse spots” that I didn’t even stop to consider this. I agree with you!

Although I guess one distinct disadvantage of getting hit in the right ankle is your manager might be tempted to leave you in the game to give up a quick five spot

I’m supposed to get this brace off on March 23 and it cannot come fast enough

All due respect to John Smoltz but I don’t think the right ankle is “the worst place to get hit” I think it’s probably the face

It feels like watching Joe Nuxhall but better

It has been really fun to watch Joseph Contreras. It’s one thing to make a massive-underdog Team Brazil at age 17. But to be getting big leaguers out **while still in high school** is just pure baseball giddiness

Junior Caminero, in what looks like a back brace (???) catches a Julio Rodriguez shoulder to the jaw in the walk-off celebration

The pure unadulterated joy. I love it

WBC is already in there! (See: 2023)

I can’t list the whole stat sheet but he hasn’t been that great, playing in China, Dominican Winter League (23-24 was pretty good), and Mexico

Here’s what Tyler Viza has been up to since the last time he pitched in the minor leagues (2022)

The USA has 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 walks (and 0 strikeouts) through three.

Feels a bit karmic that the Americans are the ones having Viza issues

I spelled it right and my phone changed it

Holy moly Trace Thompson

So do we think the Angels will call up Lucas Ramirez before or after this game ends?

Oh no I could pop the rim with regularity. But one summer league game I forgot my basketball shoes and had to play in track shoes — dunked it on Glen Rose HS’s goal during warmups.

Never before; never again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I somehow dunked a ball on an official HS goal ONE TIME in my life, and I still tell people “I used to be able to” dunk

Just getting told Sir This Is a Wendy’s a few times a day for a month after that

If I was 17 and got Aaron Judge to ground into a double play, I think it would at least temporarily make me a completely unlikeable person

Fine. I accept your terms, with the exception of the one hyper-specific scenario laid out above

YouTube video by Liberitas Boots Randolph - Yakety Sax

“But Levi, surely Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) by Kate Bush should be the song”

No I’m sorry. That’s a classic, but Yakety Sax (Benny Hill theme song) should play EVERY TIME the benches clear

youtu.be/Zcq_xLi2NGo?...

In this absurd hypothetical, there is one and only one song that would be playing over the stadium speakers

Between GBs last pitcher and Mexico’s manager we really missed an opportunity to have Gil vs Gill Hill on the hill (at the stadium that used to have Tal’s Hill)

Aroldis Chapman deemed ineligible to represent Great Britain, who is SHOCKINGLY tied 1-1 with Mexico right now in the 8th inning

Thinking a lot more about lineage-based documentation right now than I ever expected to on a random Friday in March.

How could anyone root against a team with a guy named Mužík???

(Trick question, nobody is rooting against Czechia.)

Let’s save this one for when Ben Casparius is on the mound

This barely makes sense but the real WBC-heads know.

[to the tune of My Velouria by The Pixies]

[pointing]

That’s Satoria