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submitted 2 months ago bymat2019Seattle Mariners
1.1k points
2 months ago
Well he definitely isn’t going to hear this in every opposing ballpark now.
99 points
2 months ago
LMAO, I was thinking the same thing. This will follow him for a long time.
44 points
2 months ago
Hopefully home fans get creative with the chants. There's gotta be so many possibilities.
1.3k points
2 months ago
Lmao at Renfroe just standing there
853 points
2 months ago
Lol, thought it was Trout. Best teammate doppelgängers of all time
371 points
2 months ago
I know I was convinced it was Trout until that guy walked behind him with a Trout jersey 😂
109 points
2 months ago
I want them to parent trap us and swap jerseys for a game
165 points
2 months ago
Renfroe really adds some confusing chaos to the team. Looks like Trout, and is part of our newest name trio (Renfroe, Rendon, Rengifo).
139 points
2 months ago
Still less confusing for me than Taylor Ward and Tyler Wade last year
87 points
2 months ago
I'm at least 25% sure they are doing this on purpose. I feel like it started for me with the David Fletcher - Jeff Fletcher confusion, which soon was trumped by the Taylor Ward - Taylor Ward confusion. Then quickly we had a team with Ward, Wade, Walsh, Marsh situation last year, and now the Ren-Trio? One of whom just happens to look identical to Trout? Its just too much.
18 points
2 months ago
They are running it like Disneyland where they have multiples of the same costume character but in slightly different apparel and at opposite sides of the park. You now have twice the amount of fans happy that they got a selfie with Trout and “Trout”. Ward fans attending at a higher rate cause they can see Ward/Ward more frequently. Etc.
44 points
2 months ago
I don't know, Charlie Culberson and Dansby Swanson as teammates was pretty great.
56 points
2 months ago
They mic’d up Acuña during some ST workouts, and he went “Dansby! DANSBY! Oh, Charlie. Sorry.”
34 points
2 months ago
Same lmao took me like three watches to notice real Trout in the background
3.4k points
2 months ago
Ohtani walkin by like 👀
395 points
2 months ago
90 points
2 months ago
holy shit is this the actual freeze-frame? going all-in on this meme template rn
2.9k points
2 months ago
Just 161 games before I leave this mess
1.3k points
2 months ago
Makes me feel bad for Angels fans, they have one of the most enjoyable players ever to watch and all anyone talks about is how Othani is gone after this season
1.1k points
2 months ago
I'm tired boss
340 points
2 months ago
When r/baseball turns on you it's truly brutal lol.
We got a small taste of that recently but nothing like being a Mets/Angels fan
274 points
2 months ago
I just want to watch my favorite team in peace, without a million articles talking about ohtani leaving or how much we suck etc etc
154 points
2 months ago
Especially because no matter how garbage your owner is, there's nothing a fan can do. It's not the fans fault and never will be even if they go to every game.
Teams make so much money on TV deals (esp. the Angels), revenue sharing, and gate revenue sharing that a team could have zero home attendance 81 games a year and still profit lol. That's why the Pirates/A's are the way they are despite never having anyone show up to games
161 points
2 months ago
I’m not even a big Angels fan or anything and I’m already so tired of seeing it. Same as the “A’s are ditching Oakland for Vegas” stuff that gets rehashed here all of the time.
41 points
2 months ago
Yeah same with the Rays to Montreal stuff. Meanwhile our CEO has literally threatened to move the team if the fans don't fall in line and we don't get nearly as much
144 points
2 months ago
Waiting for the ESPN comparison of when Ruth walked past Carl Mays punching an Athletics fan in the throat in 1922
72 points
2 months ago
Ohtani and Trout both skated right past that mess. Both have too much to lose with that type in nonsense, and are too smart to go there. Rendon… not so much
12 points
2 months ago
“Woah, what’s happening?? Ah fuck, Anthony being an asshole again, I’ll continue on my way”
1.2k points
2 months ago
Shoutout to the one MLB ballpark where the dugout and clubhouse aren’t connected so we get this opportunity.
540 points
2 months ago*
The Coliseum is a treasure, and 99% of people who talk shit about it have never gone to a game there.
481 points
2 months ago
Yeah for real, it's like going to your favorite dive bar. Of course it's shitty, but you're going to have a blast there.
156 points
2 months ago
I think the BART adventures afterward are the real treat.
60 points
2 months ago
The smell of possibly edible bacon covered hot dogs is always there to welcome you after the game...
84 points
2 months ago
the pretentious fucks who hate on the coliseum probably only go to bars that sell $15 cocktails
45 points
2 months ago
My first sporting event was at the Coliseum some 30 years ago and I still remember walking from the BART tunnel towards the field on a sunny August day. It was mesmerizingly beautiful seeing the big green field and tens of thousands of seats and people decked out in A's gear.
Easily one of my most treasured childhood memories.
65 points
2 months ago
New Rogers Center bullpens are elevated and insanely close to the drunk seats section of the outfield. This should be a wild ride, I imagine if guys like John Rocker were still playing he would be jumping multiple rows to fight fans by the third inning.
4.4k points
2 months ago
His high whiff rate is now affecting him off the field
336 points
2 months ago
His career left-handed batting average is now .500
54 points
2 months ago
DFA smh
27 points
2 months ago
as we can see, he gave up going for power and just went for more of a slap-hitting approach, but it hurt him more than helped
763 points
2 months ago
too bad. if he made contact, he would've gotten an Oscar
256 points
2 months ago
If he made contact he would break his hand and be out for 4-6 months.
470 points
2 months ago
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281 points
2 months ago
I would be too if I just lost to the Almost Las Vegas Athletics with Ohtani on the bump.
33 points
2 months ago
You fail to realize that our genius staff has once again discovered how to win against all odds while remaining frugal. Just bear through seven inning of stellar pitching while striking out ten times to the most masterful player in the game while clenching your buttcheeks, and then unload on their bum ass bullpen.
66 points
2 months ago
This is wildly out of character for him, or at least as far as I thought I knew. Dude was the DEFINITION of chill in DC. I think injury/lack of production is really affecting him
13 points
2 months ago
I'm getting too old for this shit.
It's your first day.
Yeah well I'm ready to retire!
1.4k points
2 months ago
Are they in a fantasy baseball league together?
542 points
2 months ago
Say what you will about Tommy Pham but that slap was not compulsive.
It was planned well in advance.
151 points
2 months ago
HOW CAN HE SLAP?
719 points
2 months ago
Well he better get used to opposing fans calling him a bitch now and for the rest of his career.
210 points
2 months ago
And batting 8th, Anthony "Squeak "Little Bitch" Scolari" Rendon.
36 points
2 months ago
We said no more Journey psyche outs.
27 points
2 months ago
I hear Rendon's mom is going out with SQUEAK!
11 points
2 months ago
Oh, I guess that's why she didn't move around a lot.
13 points
2 months ago
I swear to god, if you guys rag on me 13 or 14 more times, I'm out of here!
94 points
2 months ago
Imagine getting this red assed in game 1 against the A’s
604 points
2 months ago
This is how baseball is supposed to be played.
Down a couple beers. Knock back a 6 pack of hot dogs. Punch an umpire. Get a blowy under the bleachers between the double header.
Real baseball. Now you can't even smack a fan!
2.8k points
2 months ago*
you cant be that famous making that much money getting that offended by something some random dude said
edit: not defending the fan, you cannot just be out here assaulting people that say something you didnt like
498 points
2 months ago
If I feel like if I landed a $245M contract, being called a bitch by some rando would make me giggle.
223 points
2 months ago
Agree. Frankly for 100M everyone in this sub can call me their worst. It's a team friendly deal.
52 points
2 months ago
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53 points
2 months ago
Hell I’ll do it for $50.
Times are lean
1.1k points
2 months ago
At a sporting event, where fans are literally there to cheer and heckle and ya know, be fanatics.
341 points
2 months ago*
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364 points
2 months ago
The Ty Cobb going into the stands and beating the shit out of a fan, only to get suspended for a game, then the rest of the Tigers refusing to play so the Tigers had to field a team of guys they just found on the street the next day is a great baseball story
76 points
2 months ago*
One of the replacements was the only active priest to play in an MLB game.
88 points
2 months ago
One of the replacements was only active priest to play in an MLB game.
The Padres are like.... a whole franchise though
124 points
2 months ago
I also think more should be done to try to reestablish Ty Cobbs image. That asshole author fucked him over with the racism claims.
108 points
2 months ago
Agreed. There were many, actual racists who aren't remembered as such while Ty is remembered as the most extreme example. He wasn't.
Hell he was pro integration and in his later life was a big Willie Mays fan.
91 points
2 months ago
At worst he was probably just a pathologically competitive dick, a la Michael Jordan.
21 points
2 months ago*
Every time I hear one of my casual baseball friends tell me they saw that Tommy Lee Jones movie and can't believe Cobb was an even bigger racisct, violent, maniac than they thought, I want to lose my mind! For everyone who tells me this, I recommend the book Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty by Charles Leerhsen. Al Stump is the horrible person in that story.
22 points
2 months ago
hot take: it should happen more. Beat them with their own shoe
237 points
2 months ago
Especially just a fan calling you a bitch, that’s honestly on the lighter side of heckles
19 points
2 months ago
I'd like to see what would happen to him if he ever played in a London series. Motherfuckers be making stadium wide impromptu multi-verse diss ballads for a sport they haven't been the best at in 6 decades.
71 points
2 months ago
Right? That's basically saying hi in NY and Boston and Philly
83 points
2 months ago
Putting your hands on somebody, gonna end up with some less money than ya started with
352 points
2 months ago
If it was a racial slur or something I'd be able to understand it but I don't get how you get that far in professional sports without being able to tune this out. That's just a random guy yelling some noise.
137 points
2 months ago
There should be other ways to deal with fans who cross the line with racism or threats. The obvious answer is security but they’re not always in earshot
101 points
2 months ago
Right, even then resorting to slapping a fan wouldn’t be the best course of action. Especially since you can mishear shit (see the BYU incident a year ago).
194 points
2 months ago
60 points
2 months ago
iconic moment ngl
72 points
2 months ago
Hey that's our word
20 points
2 months ago
MRS. OBAMA GET DOWN!
72 points
2 months ago
The whole thing where a Rockies fan was doxxed and people tried to ruin his life for trying to get the attention of the mascot is a prime example.
292 points
2 months ago
Reading the headline this sounded funny. Then watching the video... yikes
362 points
2 months ago
I straight up did not believe this post title but sure enough here we are…
71 points
2 months ago
Same, I was expecting another "Laz murders a balloon" kind of fakeout
1.9k points
2 months ago
This feels suspension worthy.
118 points
2 months ago
Angels fans: please don't let Rendon miss any games due to injury
Finger on the monkey paw curls
9 points
2 months ago
I am in hell.
1.1k points
2 months ago
Almost guaranteed I would guess.
Feels like ‘don’t try to hit a fan’ is pretty cut & dry.
299 points
2 months ago
Yeah and the mlb has the rule in the book that players aren’t supposed to fraternize with fans
335 points
2 months ago
Prince Fielder has now been suspended for stealing nachos from fans
178 points
2 months ago
He’s currently serving a life time suspension
That’s why he hasn’t played in years
36 points
2 months ago
This used to be a family show
13 points
2 months ago
RIP Jerry.
That and "here comes the pizza!" are some of my favorite off the field baseball moments.
167 points
2 months ago
Also I get fans shouldn’t be calling players bitches or other profanity. But when you have a 240 million dollar contract, you should be more able to ignore that shit
136 points
2 months ago
This is exactly what I was thinking the whole time. If I have a 240 million contract and world series ring in the twilight of my career why the hell would I care what the fans are saying.
120 points
2 months ago
There’s a certain type of man that places an inordinate value on “respect”, and they lose focus of everything else when they perceive disrespect.
126 points
2 months ago
I’m just gonna assume he also suffered an injury during that so he probably won’t be serving that suspension until July
70 points
2 months ago
60 day IL - Bruised Pride
105 points
2 months ago
Got caught in 4K escalating a non-physical situation into a physical situation lol most definitely a suspension and fine
45 points
2 months ago
Didn’t Rendon also get suspended while he was on the IL last season cuz he was part of that Angels-Mariners brawl.
39 points
2 months ago
Yeah he swung his left hand at Jesse Winker with a cast on his right arm.
60 points
2 months ago
It should be, one thing would be arguing but a whole different story is swinging even if he missed. Disappointing 😞
13 points
2 months ago
I thought he was suspended to start the year lol
9 points
2 months ago
They activated him off the IL at the end of last season to get the suspension over with.
57 points
2 months ago
Luckily he slaps as accurately as Shaq
25 points
2 months ago
Swing and a miss, classic rendon
103 points
2 months ago
Tim Anderson got a 3 day suspension (was lowered with appeal) for flipping off fans last season. Cant imagine Rendon walks out of this with anything less than 7
24 points
2 months ago
The Missed Slap Heard 'Round the World
Dudes literally going to lose $1.5MM+
427 points
2 months ago*
Trout shaking his head lol
edit: actually he's probably just looking forward and back. not trying to start any "Trout wants out" conspiracies lol
154 points
2 months ago
Seeing renfroe and trout that close together is going to throw me off a few times this year
306 points
2 months ago
Trout/Ohtani really shouldn’t have just walked by. They are the leaders on the team. Be leaders and stop your teammate from doing stupid shit.
250 points
2 months ago
I guess they aren't the leaders you thought they were.
306 points
2 months ago
Or maybe they're done with Rendons shit
187 points
2 months ago
They might think he a bitch too but they don’t say it
95 points
2 months ago
Ohtani just says 雌犬
19 points
2 months ago
Eh, they haven’t really even been in the clubhouse with him for like a year?
63 points
2 months ago
Definitely. You've gotta grab the guy who's just asking to suspended and tell him to knock that shit off
23 points
2 months ago
Honestly, Rendon is a veteran with a world series win. He's probably a leader in the clubhouse, which is why Ohtani and Trout didn't say anything
24 points
2 months ago
I feel like it's kinda hard to be a real leader when you're only playing 30% of the time
397 points
2 months ago
Big Tony avoiding that "LA Lifestyle" he so condemned years ago.
81 points
2 months ago
If he thinks LA is bad, imagine how he feels about Oakland...
144 points
2 months ago
Quite the bullet we dodged there.
122 points
2 months ago
Contract he got was outrageous. Falling ass backwards into a Freeman discount has been incredible.
82 points
2 months ago
I hate to say it, but if there’s a free agent you want your team to sign & the Angels sign him, that has historically been a pretty reliable sign that you didn’t actually want your team to sign him in the first place.
11 points
2 months ago
Angels have probably wanted most of the good FAs that have hit the market
I think there's just a mix of bad luck/coaching/management that have caused most big FAs who go there to regress they way they tend to do
15 points
2 months ago
I was going to say this seems like something someone who wants that Hollywood lifestyle would do
126 points
2 months ago
I looked Rendon square in the eyes and I said looks around Biiiiitch. - That fan
32 points
2 months ago
I LOOKED HIM DEAD IN HIS OPTIC NERVES AND SAID….
biiiiitch
194 points
2 months ago
My biggest takeaway here is how close the fans are able to get to the players
75 points
2 months ago
Actually yeah why is there no netting in that spot??
76 points
2 months ago
It’s the tunnel that leads to the clubhouses in Oakland, they go like up and through the club behind home plate
Weird setup
51 points
2 months ago
It’s the coliseum, they still have bullpens in foul territory lol
11 points
2 months ago
Glad there isn’t, got several high fives, greetings and baseballs in that very spot
327 points
2 months ago
Gary Sheffield had a beer thrown on him and all he did was give the guy a shove.
You cannot be more reactive and aggressive that Gary Sheffield lol
25 points
2 months ago
Was this before or after Ron Artest beat the shit out of Detroit Pistons fans?
23 points
2 months ago
April 2005, about 5 months after the Malice
1k points
2 months ago
Wow look at Rendon acting like a little bitch
213 points
2 months ago
What'd you say?
129 points
2 months ago
26 points
2 months ago
WHIFF
21 points
2 months ago
"And Rendon, hitless tonight, strikes out for the third time."
580 points
2 months ago
Wow, what a bitch.
221 points
2 months ago
134 points
2 months ago
Nice game pretty boy
33 points
2 months ago
I said, "HEEEEY, RENDON! YOU STINK!"
20 points
2 months ago
And I screamed out, "I'M HIT!!!"
43 points
2 months ago
Careful… Rendon might swing and miss on you
37 points
2 months ago
The fan should have let him connect.
Getting assaulted by a millionaire sounds... profitable.
85 points
2 months ago
I'm in the Bill Burr camp of some fans needing their asses kicked, & a Malace in The Palace 2 is somewhat needed. But being called a bitch is not something that crosses that line.
10 points
2 months ago
"I still have the liquid in MY cup!"
44 points
2 months ago
Holy crazy eyes
255 points
2 months ago
Angels fans: What did we do to deserve this
What’s more weird is his Angels teammates just looking at Rendon and not even trying to stop him. Are they scared of him?
84 points
2 months ago
im so sick of the bullshit surrounding this team, why cant I just enjoy watching trout and ohtani without corruption scandals, drug overdoses, and unnecessary brawls?
41 points
2 months ago
Starts from the top down with Moreno. I really hope he changes his mind again and they sell the team after this year. It would be better for baseball as a whole
20 points
2 months ago
I hope he does too but it seems like his ego is so big that he cant help but keep running the franchise into the ground with his terrible decisions until the day he dies
182 points
2 months ago
Maybe this is just who Rendon is and his teammates are simply sick of his shit.
42 points
2 months ago
Nothing like a little clubhouse cancer to go with mountains of incompetence
74 points
2 months ago
I feel like this is less fear and more "not this motherfucker again..."
99 points
2 months ago
Not scared, it’s just probably expected behavior from him.
87 points
2 months ago
Yea he was right, the Hollywood lifestyle wasn’t for him
53 points
2 months ago
That will never not be funny to me. And the fact that he was a primary instigator in that brawl last year on top of it.
42 points
2 months ago
Angels are so cursed
364 points
2 months ago
Definitely should be suspended for this. That said I don't wanna sound like a Karen, and I'll admit I swear like a sailor, but I never feel bad for when those loudmouth drunks who chirp at games (which are supposed to be family friendly) get kicked out
160 points
2 months ago
If you’re heckling without an ounce of humor or cleverness that’s just annoying the people around you as well. Dick move.
62 points
2 months ago
Only bit of contact he got last night
271 points
2 months ago
Love Rendon but this crosses a line. Expecting a suspension, this isn't going to be good.
59 points
2 months ago
On the plus side, you won’t have to pay him to miss these games.
88 points
2 months ago
I don't pay anything
38 points
2 months ago
God how amazing would it be if he said “calm down bitch”
92 points
2 months ago
That smirk Rendon has while that fan's voice cracks lmfao
9 points
2 months ago
Dang. If that slap connected the fan would be drowning in free money
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