Big Dumper: The Thread

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by monkeyman576

https://youtu.be/qpLtmPz-UkU?si=MMg5h-G_7YrMjMJ-

He's got to be careful with that honorary trident. Somebody could get speared with that thing!

[monkeyman576]

Hopefully the other team.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by monkeyman576

Hopefully the other team.

Okay, that was a chuckle!

[monkeyman576]

Big Dumper #46!

I'm not sure if the M's tendancy to underperform against bad teams(i.e. Orioles) and overperform against good teams(i.e. Mets) is a good thing or bad thing, I guess since they'll be playing good teams in the playoffs(Hopefully if they get there) I'll take what I can get. They are a team that could be scary in the playoffs with their deep pitching rotation.

[Westheim]

You probably don't watch the Mets on a daily basis but ...

They are NOT a good team.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by monkeyman576

Big Dumper #46!

I'm not sure if the M's tendancy to underperform against bad teams(i.e. Orioles) and overperform against good teams(i.e. Mets) is a good thing or bad thing, I guess since they'll be playing good teams in the playoffs(Hopefully if they get there) I'll take what I can get. They are a team that could be scary in the playoffs with their deep pitching rotation.

Originally Posted by Westheim

You probably don't watch the Mets on a daily basis but ...

They are NOT a good team.

Yes, I watched him club da Mets to det last night. Words from the 1985 song by Dire Straits floated in my head: "The man's too big; The man's too strong."

[Westheim]

Guy's gotta lay down the cheat codes. A Platinum Glove catcher leading the league in home runs?? Come on!!

...and the Mariners might still not make the playoffs.

[Amazin69]

I was shocked to learn that Cal's nickname (which I figured had something to do with his "dumping" dingers in the seats or whatever) is actually about his ass. (Courtesy of Winker the Stinker, perhaps unsurprisingly.)

I dunno, he's got a decent curve and some junk in da trunk, but he's no Anthony Recker, I'm just saying. Yeah, yeah, "the bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'", to quote Spinal Tap…but still.

I saw Mike Piazza, the king of butt-torque. When he hit a bomb, I would literally say "he got all his ass into that one!" I just don't see that with Cal, Winker's propensity for juvenile nicks aside.

Cal is in fact a fine player. Perhaps one day he'll get a nickname worthy of his talents.

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

I was shocked to learn that Cal's nickname (which I figured had something to do with his "dumping" dingers in the seats or whatever) is actually about his ass. (Courtesy of Winker the Stinker, perhaps unsurprisingly.)

I dunno, he's got a decent curve and some junk in da trunk, but he's no Anthony Recker, I'm just saying. Yeah, yeah, "the bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'", to quote Spinal Tap…but still.

I saw Mike Piazza, the king of butt-torque. When he hit a bomb, I would literally say "he got all his ass into that one!" I just don't see that with Cal, Winker's propensity for juvenile nicks aside.

Cal is in fact a fine player. Perhaps one day he'll get a nickname worthy of his talents.

I think I speak for all of us when I say "No comment".

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

I think I speak for all of us when I say "No comment".

Well at least Anthony Recker's prodigious tush is still spoken fondly about all up and down Long Island!

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Westheim

Well at least Anthony Recker's prodigious tush is still spoken fondly about all up and down Long Island!

I think I speak for all of us (on Long Island) when I say "No comment".

[kq76]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

This guy has an expressive face. Here he is, after a strikeout perhaps?

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Whenever I see his face I can't help but think how much he looks like a child. And yet he's somehow one of the greatest home run hitters in the game today? Sure, the older we get the more most younger people look like kids, but I think he looks a lot more like a kid than most. If I was better at photoshop I'd stick his head here on a kid's body just for effect.

[Déjà Bru]

Mariners’ Cal Raleigh Launches Line of ‘Lil’ Dumper’ Baby Diapers



[Psst. This is from The Needling, "Seattle's Only Real Fake News".]

[Déjà Bru]

This must be recorded here.

Cal Raleigh sets single-season home run record for catchers as Mariners top Athletics 11-4

"Raleigh passed Salvador Perez’s total with the Kansas City Royals in 2021 to set the record."

I think a few of us have pointed out that this is a loose interpretation of "catching", meaning primary position. Indeed, the article mentions "In the second inning, Raleigh drilled a changeup from Lopez 412 feet. The homer was Raleigh’s 40th of the season while catching".

But I believe that I read, and confirmed in baseball-reference.com, that Perez DH'd in 40 games that season. Raleigh has done so in 30 games so far this year. So it's a new record for "catchers", not "as a catcher".

[monkeyman576]

Mariners not dumper related but yahoo sports says the M's are in the mix for Walker Buehler. Good thing or bad thing? T Mobile is obviously more of a pitchers park than Fenway.

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/3-p...193949702.html

[monkeyman576]

If I caught the Mantle Cal Raleigh home run ball I'd want $1-2M to give it back to him. I'm not giving it back for season tickets and signed jerseys or something.

Mariners look like the scariest team in the AL right now. We beat Toronto in the playoffs previously, we swept Detroit this year, and we play well against Houston in general.

[Westheim]

But are you fast enough to play the Yankees dizzy?

[Déjà Bru]

60 home runs! Breakdown of Cal Raleigh's historic 2025 season

[CONN CHRIS]

What a feat!

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

What a feat!

Heh, unfortunately for him, he is a year early for his "walk year". Anticipating that, though, I hope Seattle pays him what he is worth when the time comes. I would like to see more free agents stay home for a change.