Calico Joe

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I tend to talk about baseball. Jon Heyman’s an idiot. Lou Whitaker’s a Hall of Fame baseball player. ESPN wants to kill off Baseball. #TheYearofKevinMcGonigle

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Personally never been a huge Pete Alonso guy, but seeing him ripping stogies in the dugout has me reconsidering my stances

The Detroit Tigers have reached a pre-agreement with 12-YEAR-OLD Kevin Sosa for a $4.0 million signing bonus, making him the youngest player in international baseball history to secure a deal of $4.0 million or more. 🤯 (Per Wilber Sánchez)

What the fuck is Jack Flaherty doing bro 😭

Not enough people talk about how sick the World Series trophy looks Truly a work of art by whoever designed it

Random fan: “Drake or [Lil] Wayne?? Drake or [Lil] Wayne??” Junior Caminero: “I’m the best.”

Tigers ‘26 1st RD Pick Cam Flukey after his first 4 pro starts: 10.1 IP 14 K 0 ER 1.06 WHIP 16.35 P/IP I know it’s Low-A… but holy s—t.

Just blow it up.

The Year of Kevin McGonigle starts with a single in his first plate appearance of spring training. Exit velocity: 104.5 mph.

3,500 K’s for Justin Verlander First ballot HOF.

Videos

Watch Anya Live

Nearly flawless mechanics I could watch this all day

Super cool behind the scenes video on the process behind Justin Verlander’s gift from the Tigers Elite craftsmanship

You gotta be a special kind of stupid to think this would work You learn this type of quirky nonsense doesn’t work in little league

YOU JUST GOT TORKED #RepDetroit Back-to-Back seasons with at least 25 HR, third season with at least 25 HR in the last four 👀

Never thought an end of season recap video of a 76-86 team would have me fired up, but here we are. Props to Detroit SportsNet #RepDetroit

Ketel Marte being caught by random guys on TikTok at the casino while nursing an “injury” is maybe one of the wilder things I’ve seen play out in Major League Baseball in some time

In honor of Angel Hernandez retiring, I am making a thread of my favorite fuck up’s of his throughout the years Enjoy, and please feel free to add your favorite as well.

Two things here. 1. Spiking a baseball to your temple (willingly) is one of the most insane things ever to do 2. I whole heartedly believe that whole “Chris Sale cut up the jersey with scissors” story now

RIP Barry Melrose “Cool as the rule” Hockey lost one of the best today

I’ve never seen a baseball delay of this kind during a baseball game. Truly a “see it to believe it” thing.

Live by the pitch clock, die by the pitch clock Everybody loves a solution, until it creates a problem

Two things: 1) Pete Alonso going top button-bottom button as his two button choices is psychotic behavior 2) the deafening silence in the room is killing me

Quite possibly the worst ABS challenge of the year here from Jorge Soler. The customary zoom-in showing how much that ball was in the zone is cinema, too.

Okay, here’s the 2013 NL All-Star Team Reserve introductions

Barry Bonds talks about baseball like I would expect Einstein to talk about mathematics How you make something so hard sound so easy is incredible

“I go to lunch at Capital Grille with David Ortiz, and he says [Benoit] is tipping his changeup….. I go to Joaquin and say you need to not tip your changeup. He says ‘man, I’ll get David Ortiz out any time’” -Torii Hunter on the 2013 ALCS, Benoit/Ortiz Game 2 at-bat

Max Clark’s 2026 season (so far): 58 R | 8 HR | 28 XBH | 20 SB | .351 OBP This is oddly the highest I’ve ever been on Max Clark. He is “struggling” and still has a wRC+ of 104… with all of the athleticism and playmaking on defense you want Watch out 👀

Easily one of the coolest baseball videos I’ve seen in a while. MLB needs to incorporate more content like this into broadcasts/Sunday Night Baseball. Outfield “Mic’d ups” are cool, but this gives just so much more perspective of the game.

I miss when ESPN was actually good and covered the full baseball slate from the previous day. Also, just an insane amount of good games this day. Holy shit.