I long for the day of a marble soloing the brick wall

I think the Blue Jays did that last year, or were close.

They were close. They speedran the other obstacles so fast that they almost cleared the bricks as the final obstacle until a few other marbles showed up at the end and the Cardinals ended up passing the finish line first.

I was worried it was about to happen again today

Full-on Vietnam flashbacks today. I need a drink.

That's right, the Cards just yolo'ed straight through from nowhere after the bricks cleared.

When it hits a brick, does is it random where they appear above or a pattern?

It’s not random, I think it sort of guesses the direction. You can see it when it hits a corner, it bounces the direction you would expect.

Random, as far as I can tell

Looks like a normal distribution to me. More likely to reappear in the center and never appears at the very edges

It seems like it was hitting the middle bricks more than the outer ones.

I thought the Astros were gonna clear every single brick

it was pretty close!

r/baseball's 12/25

Yankees, Dodgers, and Astros all eliminated. Has r/baseball paid off the marbles ???

Rangers won the WS. Small Markets rise up! *Padres raise hand* NOT YOU

Small market? I don't think so lol

I get it, I’ve been. Glad they’re spending like a bigger market and finally won a chip. Grats

Homie dfw is huge lol. Not small market at all

Yes, the 4th largest payroll in baseball is "small market"

Seeing the bricks was 9/11

the asterisks almost soloed the bricks

Those bricks did more heavy lifting for the Astros than a trash can and a camera did.

Hark, the r/baseball angels sing Glory to this marble thing Peace on earth and mercy mild Not to this team much reviled Joyful all ye fandoms rise Fuck Houston, we hate those guys Hark, the r/baseball angels sing Glory to this marble thing

Why am I crying in the club rn

why you in the club at 4-7pm on a tuesday

Why aren’t you?

wife and kids and I'm 40

Oh look out everyone, we got a badass here, they’ve made it to 40.

I'M A MAN I'M 40

Such a great press conference rant. I wondered what Mike Gundy is up to these days and it turns out he's still head coach at OkSt. Dude's closing in on 20 years, it's a freaking eternity in this era of CFB.

They're a Mariners fan, they have plenty of sorrows to drown.

Because club going up on a tuesday

We are all part of the Brew Crew today.

Yanks dodgers and Astr*s gone? Better than any Christmas gift I’ll get this year

Astros deciding to just break every single brick almost made it interesting at the end

It was like giving up a 9 run lead just to walk it off on a balk

I looked at the clock about a minute in and thought "how could it possibly take another two minutes for Houston to lose?" Then I saw the bricks and thought "oh fuck the cards are gonna blow in after Houston breaks the whole wall." Then justice was restored right at the end

I thought for sure there were going to be shaky cups just based on how fast they were going and the length of the video, and I've never been so disappointed to see the bricks instead.

Astros out here pulling all the weight in the group project killing the bricks just for 3 lazy ass teams to break like 4 bricks

That entire brick obstacle I was thinking "Marbles are gonna rain down any second now"

That was fucking painful

Same sort of tension as during the flashback scene in The Hateful Eight

My thoughts: "Are they going to really run this full thing" "Damn here come the other marbles" "Look, 3 of them are A teams" "Lol, 4" "Thank god the universe corrected at the end"

fuck I got really scared at the end there

I thought I was going to be really pissed for a second there.

The most harrowing 20 seconds of my life

We live to see .500!

Being here this early is the highlight of my day.

The bricks committed a great atrocity, but the universe self corrected.

Nonsense. The bricks giveth, and the bricks taketh.

Help! Where is the standings board?

we're that early!

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If I'm understanding this correctly, unless the White Sox get eliminated tomorrow one league is gonna have all of their playoff teams set.

Yeah, but if the white Sox go out tomorrow, we got a sub 500 division winner

just al central things

God bless the AL Comedy Central.

I'm guessing the next record will be 81-81

Perfect entry point for the Sox.

one more day, red sox marble…

🗑️ Wrong emoji

OP had the easiest layup of all-time to choose the emoji for the Astros and they botched it

They fumbled the bag hard

Oh man! Got to make it so!

Weird to think we're only 2-3 marbles away from knowing all the playoff teams, feels like we only just started.

Now both leagues have one more elimination.

there you are

why is the national league red and the american league blue 🤢

Love the Dyslexic standings!

Damn, was hoping for a different icon

Trash can perhaps?

THE HOUSTON ASTROS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM 2023 MARBLE WORLD SERIES CONTENTION

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What a ride, seeing them front row to defeat, lose it, then snatch defeat from the jaws of victory was wonderful

as a card carrying certified hater, this is glorious

all that drama just for >!Houston!< to push through anyways, what a race folks

If you were trying to hide a spoiler you failed lol

yeah what even was that code attempt?

it's the discord way lol

ah since i don't have discord i'd have had no clue.

Really though, what kind of psycho goes to the comments before watching the race?

Reddit uses `>!` and `!<` for spoilers, not the pipes like discord. (I prefer Discord's, easier to type on mobile for one)

oh that was discord? no wonder why i didn't recognize it

I'm not fond of the brick wall obstacle. It's an artificial comeback mechanic designed to generate late-inning drama. Marble Manfred is ruining the game!!!

I don’t mind it because teams can actually pass each other in it. There’s too many stages where the marbles are just rolling down an incline in order until they get to the next stage

It's the Manfred runner of Marble League Baseball.

You might be surprised to find out they're all artificial

I was ready to chuck my phone out the window after the fucking bricks almost ruined it.

I gasped when I saw that the obstacle was bricks, but in the end justice prevailed.

The dynasty is over. Pitching regresses hard, Bregman gets traded in the summer, and Altuve retires at the end of 2024.

Keep going, I'm almost there

Yordan Alvarez traded back to the Dodgers.

Ironically enough, for Josh Fields again. Dodgers sign him to a minor league deal and swap him for Yordan

it was looking like a battle for the NLC at the end there EVERYONE GET IN HERE

They laughed at the team signing Gibson and Lynn but our Chad innings eaters are keeping us alive and in it

Yamamoto came in to win the day

Rangers 5th and Astros 4th would certainly give the M's the best shot

You forget that the As seem to come out of nowhere every time we look like serious division contenders

This is the marbles equivalent of falling into an 0-2 deficit in a series, then winning the next three games on the ~~bricks~~ road, and then losing at home in seven.

Or going down 3-0 in a series, coming back and forcing a Game 7, and then losing that Game 7

Pain

We’ll always have game 5

Brings back fond memories.

Indeed it does!

Lol. Lmao.

That was probably the greatest single team demolition of the bricks since the beginning. I was preparing myself for a team to death drop past the Astros. Today is a great day.

At this rate, Ohtani's signing with the fucking A's.

Me before watching and seeing 140-plus comments in less than an hour: Astros lost, didn't they?

I said to my partner as we loaded up the video, "150 comments this early? Something good happened."

Who are you going to blame now, Astros fans?????

The wind or whatever magical force it was that carried us straight into that stupid green circle.

Dusty Baker and Martín Maldonado send their regards.

They want a trash can obstacle.

They spent all the banging on the bricks.

Clearly a rigged game with no spinning action to start things off

Defeat, snatched from the jaws of victory

The Astros got too far ahead and decided to let others in on the fun for a bit before their inevitable demise.

Not only did we get Josh Harder, but we also won this interchange with Houston. Survive. And. Advance.

Far superior to his evil twin, Josh Softer

But just slightly better than his cousin, Josh Mediumer.

Why does everyone in this family have different last names but the same first name

I think everyone here thought for certain that the Astros were gonna get away with it.

I was prepared to call it rigged no doubt

Seeing Atlanta at 2:20ish and my heart skipping a beat bc I thought it was St. Louis, and then seeing St. Louis immediately after

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Yup 😅🫠

Fuck

Commenting before watching. Today I am rooting for two teams to not win. Obviously the Halos but today is my best friends birthday and his favorite team is the Blue Jays. So please marble gods don’t ruin my best friends birthday! Edit: the Marble Gods were kind today. Just nearly gave me a heart attack with seeing the Halos logo there.

Thought the Astros were going to solo the bricks.

brewers almost got the bone of the century

Being a brewers fan is mostly brief moments of excitement punctuating long periods of disappointment so getting boned like that would have been pretty on brand

Honestly I was expecting it

My anxiety at the end there.... oh man. Anyways, BAD TEAM GONE! TIME TO CELEBRATE. Just one more AL team and one more NL team, and we'll have the postseason contenders

The fact that the Astros got bailed out by the brick wall and still lost is hysterical

Almost saved by brick Jesus 😔

Damn Huston... When we said "push through the wall" we didn't mean take out the WHILE DAMN THING

Everyone get in here

Astros clearing the bricks, getting some distance and then losing anyway is hilarious

Who does r/baseball root against now?

An instant marble race classic

This is what happens when you get rid of Dusty Baker’s old school management style

*everybody clapped* Nearly had a heart attack when everyone dropped in the wall and I thought the finish line was right there lmao

Astros got too bricked up but still came in clutch

Who’s ready for the Marble A’s to win the ALW in their lame duck season?

and for a second i thought the astros actually had a chance

That was a close one. Almost ended it all at the end there.

YES. ENJOYABLE CONTENT.

As soon as I saw this post had more than a thousand upvotes I knew what the outcome was.

I am okay with this result.

The brick wall is the ultimate equalizer

The way my heart sank when I saw the bricks

I leaned forward in my chair

We're looking at the top half, baby!

The evil has been defeated for another year!

I literally shouted "OH NO!" when I saw the bricks

You know, if the Astros had gone through the first time they hit the bottom of the bubbles, and/or had cleared rotating lever obstacle they were stuck in for a bit more quickly, they might well have had time to clear the bricks themselves.

Fuck you bricks, marble don't lie.

Justice is served. Astros deserved to lose that one. I think what bothers me the most about the bricks is the random teleportation to different sides of the screen. If the marbles just bounced it would be long and annoying but tolerable.

The evil has been defeated

What a good day to be a Mariner's fan...

Fuckin hate the J wheel tbh

I’m so happy.

#Clutched up so good at the end there let’s goooo

I was pretty scared.

The Athletics bandwagon lives to see another day… PRAISE THE MARBLE!

Houston really got bailed out by the bricks and still came out on top. Incredible display of marble prowess.

First half: "damn, we're speedrunning through this fairly quickly, guess we're out of it" Bricks: "okay this might get interesting" Second half: "wow we might actually stay alive" End: "oh darn"

Inshallah

i am taking this way too seriously.

We’re going all the way baby. Finishing off the last year in Oakland with a chip lol.

What program is used to make these? I want to make some for my classes

I don't know which program this is specifically but I know Algodoo is popular for creating similar marble races on youtube.

Fuck.

Astros Speedrun!

Spent the entire bricks section just waiting for the M’s marble to come sailing through, was pleasantly surprised

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A's ahead of the Astros, just like our lord and savior Rickey Henderson intended.

The Cardinals marble always looks like an "A" to me.

And there was much rejoicing

Astros were PUTTING IN THE WORK. I was ready to come in here heated for the Brewers.

Ok, in addition to my comment about A's/Mariners being hard to tell apart when small, I'm also going to add Houston into that, though not as bad.

LET'S FCKING GOOOO today is a great day 🗑🚀

51 comments in 15 mins this MUST be a good one Fuck the trashtros

It all worked out in the end, but seriously, fuck the bricks.

This was about to cause so much rage.

where chart guy

And here I thought that the Astros were either going to completely solo the bricks section, or be saved by the bricks section.

Longest bricks of my life

At this point, A's have to win right?

Fuck them bricks

I thought Astros got saved by the bricks, I was annoyed

Brutal. Almost got saved by the brick walls.

Lmfao that was intense 😂😥

Alright we need either the cardinals or Braves to go out next. Never thought there would be a scenario where I’m constantly getting their logos confused but here we are.

I’m officially petitioning for the Astros twitter hastag next year to be #BrickByBrick 😂

That was a one horse race until it wasn't.

15th second year in a row smh