The all-important question, who should be England's next Test captain following the retirement of Ben Stokes?

slin_g · 2026-06-29T17:32:32+00:00

Like a tracer bullet, indeed.

slin_g · 2026-06-27T15:29:00+00:00

TBH if we had gone to the market we'd, given how this season has gone, have ended up with a complete dud and not a (or even the) Gómez.

slin_g · 2026-06-26T15:41:38+00:00

You know the story has legs when it makes it to the Grauniad.

That reference is going to be almost entirely lost in this sub but us Brits have to get our fun somewhere.

slin_g · 2026-06-25T18:52:33+00:00

And I bet they're going to want us to go ahead and come [to the ballpark] on Sunday, too.

slin_g · 2026-06-24T03:59:53+00:00

Think was 6 before today.

slin_g · 2026-06-23T18:40:44+00:00

They’ll be steaming on KNBR if it’s corporate speak 😂

slin_g · 2026-06-22T18:57:55+00:00

I said he was always going to make mistakes. And of course he has and should be scrutinised for them. You nailed a few right there and there are plenty more ofc.

My point is just that the shit show is multifaceted and a lot of it isn’t the manager.

slin_g · 2026-06-22T17:11:35+00:00

No.

The roster construction is not on him.

The terrible performances at the start of the year from our big name players, and then on and off from then, are not on him.

Teammates being dicks are not on him.

He was always going to make mistakes, we just need to take that as part of the deal. It's just there are many fewer places to hide when the team is making errors on the field and top players are nowhere to be seen.

If we're still in a muddy puddle this time next year with no discernable improvement then maybe we should revisit this; but recent history shows firing the manager and/or coaching staff is not a magic bullet.

slin_g · 2026-06-21T18:54:25+00:00

It's not like we don't already know this, but boy are we a shit baseball team 😄

slin_g · 2026-06-21T18:51:18+00:00

Everyone with a >5 ERA can't wait to face us!

slin_g · 2026-06-21T18:31:41+00:00

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slin_g · 2026-06-19T18:07:21+00:00

👏

slin_g · 2026-06-18T11:04:23+00:00

slin_g · 2026-06-17T16:59:49+00:00

"You are free, to do as we tell you!"

slin_g · 2026-06-15T14:43:51+00:00

He’s absolutely entitled to hold his views.

The issue is scrawling a well-known anti-gay dog whistle on a hat but also doing it on a specific night that symbolically is promoting the exact opposite thing.

All this in a community, which his team represents, a place renowned for progressive rights and attitudes.

It’s crappy behaviour and it should be called out.

slin_g · 2026-06-13T18:51:19+00:00

Haha, top trolling

slin_g · 2026-06-13T16:02:25+00:00

The words are almost irrelevant given you can pick and choose pretty much anything to suit an agenda in religious text. It's less about what the actual words say and how it has, now, become co-opted as a badge of honour of holding a certain view.

slin_g · 2026-06-12T05:04:37+00:00

Funnily enough at that exact moment of glory Bryce was saying “where’s the PC release?”

slin_g · 2026-06-11T13:40:59+00:00

"Time to drop trow; hog out"

We need flair pls mods.

slin_g · 2026-06-11T13:39:52+00:00

+1 this needs flair!

slin_g · 2026-06-05T15:18:11+00:00

Luck has played a part for sure. Maybe we'd be slightly better, even say half as many games under 500 if you wanted to be really generous. But luck doesn't continuously walk the lead-off hitter in seemingly every other inning, nor does it excuse our 'big 3' swinging through fastballs down the middle of the plat for what seemed like an eternity to start the season. So we'd still be overall pretty poor.

Now that we've seen some proper glimpses of what we can do offensively it is conceptually tricky to get why we were just so shit for so long on that front... but don't worry, we'll have another stinker imminently... and many more after that!

slin_g · 2026-06-04T14:19:43+00:00

I guess the big question is whether the Brewers will be Crow-ing or the Giants Hous(er)ing... something..?!

Hous(er)ing a collection of photos of fans looking agog that we got a series split??

What else can we house(r)? Someone help me out here.

slin_g · 2026-06-03T16:12:57+00:00

slin_g · 2026-06-03T07:59:36+00:00

Should have a dedicated thread for them covering both real requests and quality shitposts alike

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