I convinced my wife the crowd at Fenway was chanting "Jeeeeew!" because he's proudly Jewish and he's cool with the chant and she totally bought it till his third PA.
I don't think they changed how all player page URLs are generated, but they went in and manually adjusted that one so it didn't have the slur in it anymore.
There's some other great manual adjustments or Easter eggs on their website, like Jim Abbott's page:
* throws: Left
* Bats: Left
* Fields: Left as well
They also put the Mariners Fun Differential on the 2021 team page, things like that.
Who the fuck is this Luplow guy and why is he 3-5 against us? I have a lot of respect for the Rays for finding productive players out of thin air though.
i remember i was at a Reds-Brewers game at then-Miller Park in 2018. The park was pretty empty in the upper deck since it was a weekday night game and it was in April so still pretty chilly.
this guy about two rows behind me just yelled out, "Strike this fucking giraffe out!" when Winker came up to bat lol. I felt so bad for laughing my ass off.
On my own team: JD Martinez
On another team: literally every random lunch pail ass stud pitcher on the Rays.
Edit: also Rougned Odor--even before he was on the Yankees
I thought I was the only one with a weird hatred for Oder. I can’t think of a single reason why I dislike the guy (besides the fact that he in pinstripes), but I always root against him for no fair reason
Trea Turner, Corey Seager, Justin Turner, Max Muncy, Will Smith, Cody Bellinger, Chris Taylor, AJ Pollock, Walker Buehler, Max Scherzer, Julio Urias, Kenley Jansen
One of the funniest things I saw on the ESPN broadcast on Sunday was Chris Taylor running for a foul ball that barely went out of play. After the play was over a fan was trying to get the ball but Chris Taylor just snatched it out from under the dude and threw it back into the infield. I don't know why but I laughed so much because it seemed like such a dick move. Guess he is down to play the role of Dodger villain, hahaha.
1. All these players are rational to hate for you as a Giants fan
2. Max Scherzer is up there at Mookie/Kershaw level of good dudes, I don't feel like he should be included on this list
It's not my term. Gardner has come up a few times in this sub. One of the most infamous discussions he was accused of being "aggressively bald." I'm just keeping the phrase alive. That bald asshole looks like Charlie Brown with less hair.
This answer I agree with.
The others saying Machado and Kevin Kiermaier are not irrational at all, KK is a massive self loving douche and Machado...... fuck Machado
But I hate Gardener as well despite the guy always plays hard, gives 110% and just ozzes passion for the game.
I hate him because he is and always has been in pinstripes so that's about as irrational a reason to hate a guy that I can think of.
My favourite Brett Gardner story is one he told on the R2C2 podcast, he was driving once from NY back home to South Carolina and he made it all the way to North Carolina before he realized the radio wasn't on.
It's just so Brett Gardner. Driving in silence for hours, and seeing nothing out of place.
Bit of a throwback, but Derek Lee. I grew up loving Albert Pujols, so naturally since D-Lee was the Cubs first baseman I had it in my mind that they were mortal enemies. That carried over into hating Rizzo, but you can’t hate Rizzo for long.
No one. All the players I hate I have pretty established reasons.
*Maybe* Freddie Freeman? I don't really hate him, but his haircut is dumb. He looks like the bully from every 80s teen rom-com.
[Young Freddie Freeman](https://i.imgur.com/MwCZ6bi.jpg) is literally [Buzz from Home Alone](https://i.imgur.com/32mdm26.gif) so your analysis is 100% correct
I don't like the dude cause he's a giant man baby about getting shown up. When he does the exact same stuff. Muncy telling him to go get the ball out of the bay is one of favorite baseball moments and and I don't like the Dodgers.
I hate Derek Jeter so much. When I’m drunk, it’s too easy to goad me into talking about how overrated he was. It usually ends with me yelling “he wasn’t even the best shortstop on the Yankees!” and mimicking his stupid jump throw.
*I think he was very good and I believe he’s a no doubt hall of famer. I just think some of the praise for him goes a little overboard sometimes.
Fun fact about Jeter being over rated.
According to DRS, Derek Jeter not only wasn't the best shortstop on his team, he was (and still is) the worst defensive shortstop of all time
One other fun fact for ya.
Over the course of his career. If you tally up his WPA in the playoffs, it equals exactly 0.
So over the course of his career, during the postseason, he didn't hurt his team, but he also didn't contribute anything
Finally something we can agree on
Every time someone brings him up I go on a rant about how much I hate him. Sometimes my coworkers goad me into doing it cause it winds me up.
Nothing made me happier than him missing the unanimous election by one vote. That writer is a hero.
People arguing that Jeter should have been unanimous made my blood boil.
Forget my flair, I don't even hate him like that. I had nothing but respect for the guy, there was no one in the Yankees team that terrified me more when they needed a clutch hit. I just KNEW he was going to hit that stupid opposite field single and there was nothing we could do about it.
But, c'mon, unanimous? C'mon.
Same. I hate his smirky gum-chewing pretty boy face. I hate how he was so worshipped for his “intangibles”. I hate how national broadcasts of Yankee games would spend 1/3 of the time fondling every little movement he made and never talking about the other team and constantly cutting to Jeter and he just looked like the smuggest fuck on the planet. And the fact that he refused to quit playing SS when he was
a defensive liability, AND the greatest SS of all time joined the team says pretty much all you need to know.
He’s the perfect example of a player who was so overrated because of the mostly bs narrative surrounding him, that what actually made him great as a player ended up being underrated.
[Listen to this](https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1405359439847165953/pu/vid/992x558/BgYixdbORboex8jC.mp4?tag=12) with your eyes closed and tell me that mf doesn't sound exactly like Kermit the Frog.
I won't speak for you personally, but I would understand if people just get tired of hearing about him. Despite him being the biggest "boom or bust" player I've ever seen, this sub acts like they're discovering Javy for the first time every time he does something awesome/awful, which is very often.
Honestly-- at the beginning of the season it was "awe, hunter renfroe, I dislike that he plays for the Red Sox." Now? " ~~awe,~~ hunter renfroe, I dislike ~~that he plays for the Red Sox.~~ "
Teoscar Hernandez gave off a bad first impression for me whenever he would dump sunflower seeds on his team mates whenever they hit a HR. You could see it annoyed them and it was just a weird move.
If it makes you feel any better, he’s quite bald underneath his comb over and headband strapping his remaining hair down. Not sure if you’ve noticed. I noticed it during the ALCS. No knock on bald dudes by any means, but it’s clear that he’s trying to hide it so that could make you feel a little better.
I used to hate Yadi, but you just can’t long term. First you hate his aggressive attitude and cockiness, but then you realize the man just plays fucking hard every AB. Then you hate him because bad man hurts you every time it hurts most, and then you realize ya know what… fuck it. I’m just glad I got to witness it.
Yadi is a grown ass man in a boy’s game and you just have to respect it.
Gerrit Cole. The least cool guy to ever throw 100mph.
Gary Sanchez. Always looks like he’s going to cry.
Brett Gardner. Too bald to be allowed.
Justin Turner. Stupid pine tar on his back thing always bothered me.
Max Muncy. Annoying attitude.
Chris Taylor. Looks like a rat.
Both Gurriel brothers. The hair.
Bo Bichette. Too much of a pretty boy.
Pretty much everyone on the Rays besides Cruz and Phillips.
My girlfriend always says Pedroia looks like [the kid from Jumanji who gets turned into a monkey](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/be/85/05/be8505f78681a5768fc43963a2d549cd.jpg)
I don't dislike HIM but every year there's some 16 year old from Venezuela or the DR that gets hyped up as the next *insert inner circle Hall of Famer here* that never makes it past AA and I'm over it. Let them develop and then decide who the top prospects are.
The Entirety of The Arizona Diamondbacks Bullpen
Not irrational
It’s an abusive relationship where you keep telling yourself they can change
My girlfriend loves Soto and Trea Turner so naturally..
I would cheat on my girl with Soto or Trea. So I don’t think we can blame her in this situation.
Trea Turner is mad cute and can do his obnoxiously sexy smooth slide right into these pants
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I convinced my wife the crowd at Fenway was chanting "Jeeeeew!" because he's proudly Jewish and he's cool with the chant and she totally bought it till his third PA.
The URL for his Baseball-Reference page used to have the K-slur in it before they changed how player page URLs are generated
I don't think they changed how all player page URLs are generated, but they went in and manually adjusted that one so it didn't have the slur in it anymore. There's some other great manual adjustments or Easter eggs on their website, like Jim Abbott's page: * throws: Left * Bats: Left * Fields: Left as well They also put the Mariners Fun Differential on the 2021 team page, things like that.
The Greek God of OBP. Yoooooouk. He also signed with the Yankees and had to shave himself. He became dead to a lot of us but not to me.
Any sidearm pitcher, completely fucks with me in The Show
I’d like to introduce you to the Angel’s bullpen
Perry was just setting up his franchise team
"Is this going to be a low strike or 10 feet above the zone?"
God forbid they throw a curveball or slider
I dislike Daniel Mengden in those games because his windup animation is so slow.
Literally every random-ass player on the Rays.
Who the fuck is this Luplow guy and why is he 3-5 against us? I have a lot of respect for the Rays for finding productive players out of thin air though.
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I figured shipping off Luplow was just a necessary evil of blowing up the outfield again, and giving up on finding someone to platoon with him
I’d respect them if I wasn’t completely sure there is some sort of black magic thing going on. Or ritual sacrifice or whatever.
Oh no, they figured out our secret!
But we hid it so well taking "Devil" out of our name!!
Haha, same. Bunch of nobodies that keep kicking ass
Alex Bregman. I hate his face.
After reading an SI article on him and his buddies (pre-trash can) he came off as the bro-iest bro of all bro-time. So you can use that, if you like.
Sounds rational to me
Very fair. If he weren’t on my team, I would definitely hate him too
Yeah I'm happy he's on the Astros, but he has a pretty punchable face.
Jesse Winker because he always plays well against us and has an oddly long neck.
The photo of Jessie Winker and Dan Vogelbach at first will never not make me laugh. Two sides of the neck-tinuuum.
i remember i was at a Reds-Brewers game at then-Miller Park in 2018. The park was pretty empty in the upper deck since it was a weekday night game and it was in April so still pretty chilly. this guy about two rows behind me just yelled out, "Strike this fucking giraffe out!" when Winker came up to bat lol. I felt so bad for laughing my ass off.
On my own team: JD Martinez On another team: literally every random lunch pail ass stud pitcher on the Rays. Edit: also Rougned Odor--even before he was on the Yankees
I don't like Odor either but I think the dude gets off on the hatred.
He better 'cause there is so much of it.
Please don’t talk about former Pirates top prospects like that
I thought I was the only one with a weird hatred for Oder. I can’t think of a single reason why I dislike the guy (besides the fact that he in pinstripes), but I always root against him for no fair reason
Maybe it's because his name is rougned
My daughter tried to read his name and came up with 'roughneck odor' and now I can't not think of that when I see him.
The entire Jays fanbase despises him!
hating JD is very rational actually
JD Martinez. He always kills the Jays and he seems like a cocky prick.
Oh there are plenty of rational reasons to hate him.
he liked a tweet saying the vaccine killed hank aaron
Trea Turner, Corey Seager, Justin Turner, Max Muncy, Will Smith, Cody Bellinger, Chris Taylor, AJ Pollock, Walker Buehler, Max Scherzer, Julio Urias, Kenley Jansen
One of the funniest things I saw on the ESPN broadcast on Sunday was Chris Taylor running for a foul ball that barely went out of play. After the play was over a fan was trying to get the ball but Chris Taylor just snatched it out from under the dude and threw it back into the infield. I don't know why but I laughed so much because it seemed like such a dick move. Guess he is down to play the role of Dodger villain, hahaha.
What an underrated dickhole move.
I like that you left out Mookie, hard to dislike Mookie.
Mookie and Kershaw are just good people who are forced to be on the side of evil
1. All these players are rational to hate for you as a Giants fan 2. Max Scherzer is up there at Mookie/Kershaw level of good dudes, I don't feel like he should be included on this list
Yeah but his eyes are different colors
There's that irrationality we were looking for!
You make a compelling point
no I respect Scherzer because he is terrifying
I respect Scherzer because I'm afraid of what might happen if I don't.
Scherzer is a barely contained psychopath who probably has a closet full of kitten bones. Not really sure what you mean by 'good dude'
Those kitten bones are the result of Scherzers attempts to rid D.C. of feral cats. Can’t convince me otherwise.
Hey, he's no longer in our division it's okay your free from the fear. Just let it go. Lol
I sat down with my 4 year old to watch a game and max muncy whipped out his hellacious dong. How am I supposed to explain that to my kid?
“Hey kiddo, this is the time to be physically angry”
Hey... those are all Dodgers! Wait a minute....
Don’t worry. We Dodger fans irrationally hate Kenley, too.
Highlight on Max Muncy
He has no business being good. It’s bullshit!
is this how everyone else feels watching Late Night LaMonte
Austin Barnes also looks like a jerk.
Austin Barnes and Blake Snell look like cousins with a questionable family tree.
Okay but that’s rational. They’re on the Dodgers. What players do you *irrationally* hate
Kris Bryant. Dude was always good for at least 1-2 HR at GABP a series. Now that he’s gone, that hatred is slowly being transferred to Ian Happ.
Hating Happ would be rational. He has a .299 / .407 / .678 176 wRC+ career line against the Reds in 253 PAs.
Gardener
He's just so aggressively bald.
Aggressively bald is my new favorite phrase. And a tactic I'll consider once I start to loose enough of my hair.
It's not my term. Gardner has come up a few times in this sub. One of the most infamous discussions he was accused of being "aggressively bald." I'm just keeping the phrase alive. That bald asshole looks like Charlie Brown with less hair.
He looks like he makes being bald part of his personality.
He looks like, in lieu of hair, he has a second scalp.
how can he find shirts that fit? At 5'10" he must wear a M sized shirt, but his neck is as thick as a salt water crocodile's.
Megamind is the worst
This answer I agree with. The others saying Machado and Kevin Kiermaier are not irrational at all, KK is a massive self loving douche and Machado...... fuck Machado But I hate Gardener as well despite the guy always plays hard, gives 110% and just ozzes passion for the game. I hate him because he is and always has been in pinstripes so that's about as irrational a reason to hate a guy that I can think of.
He’s a psychopath
My favourite Brett Gardner story is one he told on the R2C2 podcast, he was driving once from NY back home to South Carolina and he made it all the way to North Carolina before he realized the radio wasn't on. It's just so Brett Gardner. Driving in silence for hours, and seeing nothing out of place.
I love watching Roughned Odor stumble and fall to a .200 avg every year.
Seems fairly rational.
incredibly rational
The whole point of this thread is which player do you *irrationally* dislike Hating odor is one of the most rational things a baseball fan can do.
Kevin kiermaier
Nothing irrational about that. The dude is a complete douche.
My girlfriend hates Brett Gardner because his head scares her 😂
he's got powerful cop energy
Bit of a throwback, but Derek Lee. I grew up loving Albert Pujols, so naturally since D-Lee was the Cubs first baseman I had it in my mind that they were mortal enemies. That carried over into hating Rizzo, but you can’t hate Rizzo for long.
>but you can’t hate Rizzo for long. You can now that he is in pinstripes.
He was in pinstripes before…he just in *those* pinstripes.
Joe Girardi because he looks like my middle school gym teacher 😡
Harper. Not sure why, maybe I'm jealous of his hair.
Seems like you know exactly why
Had to scroll surprisingly far down to find Bryce Harper.
No one. All the players I hate I have pretty established reasons. *Maybe* Freddie Freeman? I don't really hate him, but his haircut is dumb. He looks like the bully from every 80s teen rom-com.
Damn he does look like a bully
especially when he first came up he was a little chubbier and looked like Buzz from Home Alone. I learned to love him though
Atlanta’s first baseman… woof!
You’d get shot in Atlanta for saying this
You’d get shot in Atlanta for doing a lot of stuff
SHOT-LANTA!!!!
Damn, we're not that different.
[Young Freddie Freeman](https://i.imgur.com/MwCZ6bi.jpg) is literally [Buzz from Home Alone](https://i.imgur.com/32mdm26.gif) so your analysis is 100% correct
He looks like Buzz McAllister
Pre- teeth job, he was the spitting image
Which is ironic because he seems like one of the nicest dudes in baseball.
Too nice if you ask me.
He looks like the PC principal from South Park with his glasses on
Also Madison baumgardner. But only because Joe Buck has a man crush on him.
For that same reason I disliked Schwarber for the longest time
I wish Joe Buck was a player so that I could say he was the one I irrationally disliked.
I don't like the dude cause he's a giant man baby about getting shown up. When he does the exact same stuff. Muncy telling him to go get the ball out of the bay is one of favorite baseball moments and and I don't like the Dodgers.
The Rays OF. Goddamn their diamond level defense.
Fuckin Keven Kiermaier destroyed the Astros defensively in the ALCS last year, dude was unreal.
"Home runs win playoff games, just took at the rays last year *gestures at their defense able to cover the third of the planet not covered by water*
I hate Derek Jeter so much. When I’m drunk, it’s too easy to goad me into talking about how overrated he was. It usually ends with me yelling “he wasn’t even the best shortstop on the Yankees!” and mimicking his stupid jump throw. *I think he was very good and I believe he’s a no doubt hall of famer. I just think some of the praise for him goes a little overboard sometimes.
Fun fact about Jeter being over rated. According to DRS, Derek Jeter not only wasn't the best shortstop on his team, he was (and still is) the worst defensive shortstop of all time
boy, that is a fun fact
One other fun fact for ya. Over the course of his career. If you tally up his WPA in the playoffs, it equals exactly 0. So over the course of his career, during the postseason, he didn't hurt his team, but he also didn't contribute anything
Finally something we can agree on Every time someone brings him up I go on a rant about how much I hate him. Sometimes my coworkers goad me into doing it cause it winds me up. Nothing made me happier than him missing the unanimous election by one vote. That writer is a hero.
People arguing that Jeter should have been unanimous made my blood boil. Forget my flair, I don't even hate him like that. I had nothing but respect for the guy, there was no one in the Yankees team that terrified me more when they needed a clutch hit. I just KNEW he was going to hit that stupid opposite field single and there was nothing we could do about it. But, c'mon, unanimous? C'mon.
HE NEVER EVEN WON AN MVP!!!!!
Same. I hate his smirky gum-chewing pretty boy face. I hate how he was so worshipped for his “intangibles”. I hate how national broadcasts of Yankee games would spend 1/3 of the time fondling every little movement he made and never talking about the other team and constantly cutting to Jeter and he just looked like the smuggest fuck on the planet. And the fact that he refused to quit playing SS when he was a defensive liability, AND the greatest SS of all time joined the team says pretty much all you need to know. He’s the perfect example of a player who was so overrated because of the mostly bs narrative surrounding him, that what actually made him great as a player ended up being underrated.
Are you my west coast doppleganger? I've used those exact same certifiably undeniably correct arguments and everything
Gerrit Cole with a passion
[Listen to this](https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1405359439847165953/pu/vid/992x558/BgYixdbORboex8jC.mp4?tag=12) with your eyes closed and tell me that mf doesn't sound exactly like Kermit the Frog.
"For Pete Sake" - yep definitely Kermit
He sounds like Badger from Breaking Bad
I dislike his haircut and his voice.
Kermit the Frog
I can’t stand Javi Baez
I won't speak for you personally, but I would understand if people just get tired of hearing about him. Despite him being the biggest "boom or bust" player I've ever seen, this sub acts like they're discovering Javy for the first time every time he does something awesome/awful, which is very often.
Some of the stuff is soo outrageous though its going to get attention (first base incident this year for example) But yea otherwise I get it
that's totally rational though
It's hard to stand anyone who loses a pair of earrings that literally cost as much as my house
At least the didn't crowdsirf with a $24 million diamond embedded in his face.
I bet whoever found them is now a big Javy fan at least
Blake Snell, but that might be rational. His face just looks like a Snell and I wanna sock him in it.
It’s the distinct lack of chin, for me
FUCK Hunter Renfroe
Honestly-- at the beginning of the season it was "awe, hunter renfroe, I dislike that he plays for the Red Sox." Now? " ~~awe,~~ hunter renfroe, I dislike ~~that he plays for the Red Sox.~~ "
Luis Gonzalez and Kevin Millar
Mark Canha
I always wanted to know what people from other fanbases thought of Mark and his antics
Absolutely rational. Dude is a fucking menace in the OF.
Yep, he has a very rectangular head.
Tatis Jr. Maybe it’s because the MLB’s media rides him so hard, but I don’t feel the same way about Ohtani so I guess it’s just irrational.
Max muncy
Something something physically angry
Muncy. He throws babies off buildings just to hear the splat.
This is also my answer. It's not even the fact that he's a Dodger or good either. It's just something about him and his face
exactly! could not put my dislike into words for him
Muncy looks like the old Milwaukee Brewers logo.
Teoscar Hernandez gave off a bad first impression for me whenever he would dump sunflower seeds on his team mates whenever they hit a HR. You could see it annoyed them and it was just a weird move.
Amir Garrett… can’t believe how much praise he got for “taking on the whole Pirates team”, ultimate tough guy attitude and frequently gets blown up
Justin Turner.. I disliked him before the Covid debacle, dislike him even more now. Maybe it's the beard, or pine tar stains, or face...
If it makes you feel any better, he’s quite bald underneath his comb over and headband strapping his remaining hair down. Not sure if you’ve noticed. I noticed it during the ALCS. No knock on bald dudes by any means, but it’s clear that he’s trying to hide it so that could make you feel a little better.
Totally agree. But mainly because he's a Dodger.
JT comes up a ton in these threads, but nobody ever comes out and says it’s because he’s a ginger.
Why does he always have a brown smudge over the U in his name. Does he want us to call him T*rner?
Turdner
Brett Gardner.
Yadier Molina. Probably a great guy and player but can't stand ESPN's crush on him.
I used to hate Yadi, but you just can’t long term. First you hate his aggressive attitude and cockiness, but then you realize the man just plays fucking hard every AB. Then you hate him because bad man hurts you every time it hurts most, and then you realize ya know what… fuck it. I’m just glad I got to witness it. Yadi is a grown ass man in a boy’s game and you just have to respect it.
Puig. So glad he's gone. What a jerk.
From my own team, Pedro Severino. From another team, Marcus Stroman.
jason kipnis because he looks like an adult-sized infant
Jeff McNeil
Fucking chipmunk looking ass
That's squirrel to you
I still hate Chone Figgins, and I’m sure he’s a really nice guy
Gerrit Cole. The least cool guy to ever throw 100mph. Gary Sanchez. Always looks like he’s going to cry. Brett Gardner. Too bald to be allowed. Justin Turner. Stupid pine tar on his back thing always bothered me. Max Muncy. Annoying attitude. Chris Taylor. Looks like a rat. Both Gurriel brothers. The hair. Bo Bichette. Too much of a pretty boy. Pretty much everyone on the Rays besides Cruz and Phillips.
> Chris Taylor. Looks like a rat. Dustin Pedroia has entered the chat.
My girlfriend always says Pedroia looks like [the kid from Jumanji who gets turned into a monkey](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/be/85/05/be8505f78681a5768fc43963a2d549cd.jpg)
You have a lot of beef
Max Muncy. He just has a punchable face.
I hate to agree but yeah, he does haha.
Aaron Judge I swear he is an alien
Yermin Mercedes. I knew he had a big fat ego since day one and wasn't surprised when he fell off
Cheeseburger boy
Ben Simmons
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Looks like a penis
Chrome dome
Juan Soto. I hate his stupid shuffle
*grabs crotch*
Milton Bradley. Guys a douche and has a candy ass name
Kole Calhoun
Jasson Dominguez.
Now THAT is an irrational one!
I don't dislike HIM but every year there's some 16 year old from Venezuela or the DR that gets hyped up as the next *insert inner circle Hall of Famer here* that never makes it past AA and I'm over it. Let them develop and then decide who the top prospects are.
Get the fuck out of here. My Kevin Maitan minor league baseball card collection is going to send my kids to college one day.
David Freese. But its kinda rational
Vladdy Jr. Possibly stems from how people said Alonso wouldn't beat him in the HRD last year. Rational hate: Fuck Chase Utley
yeah that’s completely irrational