The State of the MLB as Described by Barney Stinson
By: Schwartz
The past few months in the MLB have been ridiculous. Wacky. Unreal, even….legendary. I figured that really, the only person who can explain it all is the Master of the Possimpible himself, Barney Stinson. Pictures aren’t enough to capture the emotions and messages that His Awesomeness has to offer, so I decided to present them in gif form- here they are, in chronological order in which the MLB events happened. This is going to center largely around the Astros cheating scandal, since it’s really the most memeable event to come out of the past few months. Hope you all enjoy!
The Nationals after winning the World Series, completely oblivious to everything that was about to happen in the coming months
All of the Houston Astros players, coaches, and executives’ message to Mike Fiers after he broke the news of the team’s misconduct
The 2017 Astros with their stupid trash cans
This was how every single MLB fan, manager, player, janitor and anyone else felt when Rob Manfred refused to punish any individual Astros players for their team’s egregious cheating
Altuve and Bregman, staunchly and bravely maintaining simultaneously that they are sorry but also that the Astros did basically nothing wrong and should not be punished
Members of the Astros organization, as well as fans, continuing to celebrate, and be the only people in all of America to have any respect for their “totally legitimate” 2017 title
A conversation held between CC Sabathia and Carlos Beltran after CC found out that his old friend and teammate was the “ringleader” of the Astros’ cheating
Gerrit Cole pulling on the Pinstripes for the very first time
Me, and I’m sure everyone else, when the season got postponed when we were less than a month from Opening Day
Literally every single one of us during the impossibly long Corona break
Every MLB fan watching the players and league both make absolutely no attempt at a compromise, costing us all the chance to watch baseball for most of summer
Rob Manfred and the rest of the MLB assuring us that there would be baseball this year, even at a time when about a month of “good faith” negotiations between the players and league had been completely and utterly fruitless
Every AL and NL West pitcher collectively deciding to make sure the Astros break the team record for most times hit by a pitch in a season, despite the fact that there’s only 60 games
My immediate reaction while watching Scherzer vs. Judge in the top of the first on Opening Day
Me, just moments later, when Judge and Stanton decided to put on a clinic against Scherzer until the stupid rain ended the game
(Future) Pitchers absolutely bruising Astros hitters all year, with Manfred lurking to spoil the fun with fines and suspensions
(Future) Jose Altuve after he gets drilled in the ribs with the first pitch he sees in the Astros opener
(Future) Altuve again after Chapman drills him in the head during the ALDS
(Future) Alex Bregman in November, upon being asked if he’s watched any highlights from the epic Yankees-Dodgers World Series
The entire sport of baseball, pulling itself out of the wreckage of labor negotiations and thankfully, at least giving us SOME games to watch this summer and fall