• Voytrekk
    2·
    13 days ago

    Reds are doing pretty great though, which has been a pleasent suprise.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    13 days ago

    I was shocked when the Mets beat the Giants 9-0 recently. This isn’t the Giants of my childhood for sure.

    Fun fact though: Japan has a baseball league, and the Giants have a sister team there (same name and logo). Wish I knew that when I was a kid.

    • robocall@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      13 days ago

      The logos are similar that a lot of Japans merch looks like SF merch. I see the YG logo hat occasionally in SF. Their merch can be less expensive online than MLB merch, which surprised me. I wish the two teams cross promoted or collabed. It would be awesome to see them in an exhibition game together.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        13 days ago

        That’s a good point, I never thought of buying merch from another league if they have a similar team. Like minor league teams that use the same logo. I mean if you really want to wear the logo.

        I guess the leagues can’t really work together? I looked up the difference between the league rules, and they are very minor. As opposed to, say, chess and shogi (Japanese chess). I don’t think the differences would matter in most games, but they would have to decide which set they’re going to follow, even if the differences only lie in the technicalities.

        At least players can go from one to the other. I don’t recall his name, the guy who plays for the Dodgers. I know, Giants fans call them something else, but I’m trying to be civil and I don’t really hate the Dodgers. Especially since they have a Japanese guy playing for them. I think that’s awesome.

        One thing I wish for American sports is that musicians get involved more. I’ve heard of a couple songs (in Japanese) about their baseball teams. One I recall, the singer actually shot her music video in their stadium, it was a whole cross promotional thing. I wanna say it was LiSA (singer) and the Dragons (team) but I’m not sure. It probably does happen more, but I don’t hear about it. (I’m also not a huge sports fan.)

        • robocall@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          12 days ago

          During World Baseball Classic, they managed to get a few musicians to create music for the event. Becky G and Young Miko did songs. A few other artists. But it mostly supports your point that it was for an international audience and not an American audience.

          I feel like a K-pop band could write lyrics about baseball with some cheeky innuendos in there.

    • Platypus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      13 days ago

      Devers is hitting .190 with an OPS+ of 59. I don’t think that bat fixes the Red Sox season to date lmao

      • robocall@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        13 days ago

        I have not been impressed with Devers since he came to the Giants. I have no idea why Red Sox fans miss him.

        • Platypus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          12 days ago

          He’s been a consistently above average hitter who’s fun to watch when he’s right, and for a Sox fanbase reeling from the loss of Mookie he slotted right in as the homegrown star. His defense and his cold spells, however, are hard to miss.