MLB master thread(non-Royals related) (no longer the official Mets thread)

[mocat]

https://twitter.com/Complex_Sports/status/654675802575888384

the "what is the game coming to????" crowd is the same crowd that bitches about people always being on their cell phones but forgets about

[mocat]

ok, here's the favoriteness list.  feel free to use it to form your own favorites.

1. pillar - dreamy eyes, distinctive nose, fast, great at diving catches.
2. goins - cute, good at defense.
3. price - played for detroit, seems nice, good at pitching.
4. revere - fast.
5. colabello - good backstory with the indy league thing.
6. martin - really good at catching, fast for a catcher.
7. hendriks - former royal.
8. kawasaki - does funny stuff in the dugout and on gifs.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ below this line, the players are not liked.
9. navarro - kinda sloppy looking (out of shape).
10. dickey - dunno, doesn't let people steal, maybe?  dunno, just don't like him.
11. encarnacion - only thing he does is that stupid parrot thing.  no personality.
12. bautista - seems like he takes himself pretty serious.  stretches too much.
13. tulowitzki - always hurt or walking around like he's gonna be hurt, face is narrow, white guy with a line in his hair.
14. donaldson - see mocat, he's got a better list than mine.

any player not listed is neutral (right on the dotted line).

this is a pretty great list actually. i nodded with approval at almost every name & descripto.

my modifications: i would take dickey out of the dislike group. i watched some story about him being a sexual abuse victim as a child and it was real emotional and he seems like a good guy (despite hillibilly tennessee or something accent)
you replace dickey with justin smoak. look at this freaking guy's IRL face:

[mocat]

other tidbits (with a + or - in likeability index):

david price wanted to go to Toronto mostly because of their popcorn apparently being awesome. (+)

dickey is an illegal pitch-style pitcher (-)

josh donaldson seems like the most annoying guy. like when someone in the clubhouse tells a joke he is probably like "i don't get it" and then makes this face:



(-)

[MakeItRain]

Hate the list. Munenori and Bautista are amazing humans. I also like Dickey and Encarnacion. Revere and Tulo, also cool. I hate David Price, like a lot, he's what steffy would call, a bitch. I don't really like Russell Martin but acknowledge that it is unreasonable just because he played for the Yankees, he's also take baseball serious guy. Everyone else, meh.

[DQ12]

i like bautista too

[mocat]

i was going to take take bautista off the hate list too, but sys' reasoning is "stretches too much" and i can't argue with that

[Brock Landers]

I've been a fan of Jose Bautista, or "Joey Bats" as the kids call him, for years.  I still hope he goes like 1 for 17 in the ALCS with his one hit being a solo homerun in a game the Royals are ahead by about 12 runs.

[DQ12]

i was going to take take bautista off the hate list too, but sys' reasoning is "stretches too much" and i can't argue with that

yeah he does stretch an awful lot.  maybe i don't like him as much as i thought.

[steve dave]

all of those guys are trash

[kso_FAN]

i was going to take take bautista off the hate list too, but sys' reasoning is "stretches too much" and i can't argue with that

yeah he does stretch an awful lot.  maybe i don't like him as much as i thought.

Yes, and static stretching is largely useless and silly.

[kso_FAN]

What the .ca people are saying:

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/bad-blood-makes-alcs-matchup-the-one-everybody-wanted/

[Rage Against the McKee]

i was going to take take bautista off the hate list too, but sys' reasoning is "stretches too much" and i can't argue with that

Plus Ventura doesn't like Bautista. If you can't even get along with Yordano Ventura, then you probably have some personality flaws.

[steve dave]

these guys are all trash and their trashy hockey fan trash fanbase is trash and their stadium is trash

[steve dave]

and for this week only norm kelly is even trash.

[kso_FAN]

and for this week only norm kelly is even trash.

Would you care to address Canadian football? I mean...

[Cartierfor3]

i can't imagine anyone liking Josh Donaldson unless he played for their team.

[DQ12]

bish played for toronto 

[steve dave]

I'm going to try to start twitter beef with norm

[MakeItRain]

i was going to take take bautista off the hate list too, but sys' reasoning is "stretches too much" and i can't argue with that

Plus Ventura doesn't like Bautista. If you can't even get along with Yordano Ventura, then you probably have some personality flaws.

lol

[420seriouscat69]

I'm going to try to start twitter beef with norm

Did you not get my tweet today with adorable Raccoon action shots?! 

[steve dave]

I'm going to try to start twitter beef with norm

Did you not get my tweet today with adorable Raccoon action shots?! 

yes, I liked it. ty

[420seriouscat69]

I'm going to try to start twitter beef with norm

Did you not get my tweet today with adorable Raccoon action shots?! 

yes, I liked it. ty

Anytime! 

[sys]

i will remove dickey and replace him with smoak (mentally, not on the posted list).  thanks, mocat.

[420seriouscat69]

Hate the list. Munenori and Bautista are amazing humans. I also like Dickey and Encarnacion. Revere and Tulo, also cool. I hate David Price, like a lot, he's what steffy would call, a bitch. I don't really like Russell Martin but acknowledge that it is unreasonable just because he played for the Yankees, he's also take baseball serious guy. Everyone else, meh.

David Price's gf is a K-Stater, so that's good enough for me.

[CHONGS]

Up one!