U-S-A!
I know gifs don’t have music, but I can still hear the faint notes of Lee Greenwood belting out “I’m proud to be an American.”
My favorite part about this is how relentlessly excited the guy’s friend is.
"Everybody gets to believe they might be in for an amazing season. Everybody willingly participates in this borderline delusion, and in fact without it, baseball would be duller than it is. Everybody starts with dreams. Ultimately, almost none of those dreams come true. For roughly 97 percent of dreamers, those dreams get dashed at some point. Maybe they’re dashed early on, when a team stumbles out of the gate and never finds a groove. Maybe they’re dashed later, after a crippling losing streak, or a series of injuries, or a bunch of close losses. Maybe they’re dashed in the playoffs. But only three percent of everybody gets to smile at the end. Everyone else is left to consider how they should’ve seen it coming. Most dreams, in hindsight, are nothing but dreams, no more substantial, no more fruitful than a wish on a dandelion.
We know full well that, for most people, the dream won’t come true. Yet we know full well that, for some people, it will. We want to be able to hang onto the dream for as long as is possible. It’s the existence and preservation of that very dream that gives baseball its soul. When the dream is alive, our fandom’s alive. When our fandom’s alive, this whole investment makes actual sense."
We know full well that, for most people, the dream won’t come true. Yet we know full well that, for some people, it will. We want to be able to hang onto the dream for as long as is possible. It’s the existence and preservation of that very dream that gives baseball its soul. When the dream is alive, our fandom’s alive. When our fandom’s alive, this whole investment makes actual sense."
— Jeff Sullivan (via bonusbaseball)
Welcome back, baseball. Welcome back.
(Source: everythingmariners, via itsallyduhh)
DICK’S Sporting Goods Baseball Commercial - Every Pitch (by DicksSportingGoods)
This is by FAR the best Baseball Commercial I’ve ever seen! I’d love to see a film like this!
Ok, I’m ready for baseball now.
This is not just a terrific baseball commercial. This is a terrific commercial, period.
(via beastrickwillis)
Oregon pitcher Jeff Gold induces a comebacker, then can’t get the ball out of his glove. So he throws the entire thing over to first. And who better to deal with a ball stuck in webbing than a Duck?
It’s the fans that need spring training. You gotta get ‘em interested. Wake ‘em up and let ‘em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll. - Harry Caray
(Source: captainstaal, via idkmybffgio)
PITCHERS AND CATCHERS.
TODAY.
BASEBALL.
BASEBALL, YOU GUYS.
7/8/12: Royals prospect Wil Myers breaks a video camera behind home plate with a foul ball
Time to bubble wrap all the cameras.
This is what you get for using this ugly camera angle during an at bat.
The Best Dive of the Night
I told myself I wouldn’t laugh. I told myself I wouldn’t laugh.
(via Mocksession)
Just staring at him afterwards… HAHAHA.
Here’s Orioles reliever Darren O’Day rolling through Citi Field aboard his Solowheel. This brings up the following questions:
- If Darren O’Day goes to the All-Star Game one year, and he gets called to come in and pitch, will he leave the bullpen riding his Solowheel and cruise nonchalantly all the way out to the mound?
- Would that be an even better entrance than Heath Bell’s slide?
- Will Future Baseball™ feature players zipping around the bases on electric unicycles?
- YES
Source: Buck Showalter pranks reliever
(Source: bonusbaseball)
Potential Courses of Action When Your Teammates Decide to Ignore You
Chase them all into the clubhouse
Pretend they’re not ignoring you — they’re just invisible
Party all by yourself because who needs them? Not you!
Ignore Buck Showalter
(GIF Credit: Showalter .gif from NotGraphs, resized)
(Source: bonusbaseball)
All-Star Lineups Released
Hey, you. Did you feel that? That trembling, chaotic shift in the ground underneath your feet? Because that was the All-Star game rosters being released and the Earth groaning and creaking under the immense weight of their importance. Do you want names? Check out all the names under the cut:
