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I just noticed today that five games into the season the Tigers would rather play Zach McKinstry over Javy at SS.  With the Tigers he's now sitting at a combined >1150 PA's and just a 76 wRC+, which is completely untenable even paired with GG defense at SS. I genuinely wonder if there's the possibility of a bounce back buried in there at some point: he did massively cut down his K% last year to something actually respectable, but it came at the expense of a lot of dogshit weak contact for outs. It really has been a spectacular flame out for one of the game's most popular stars. e. As I was typing this he's starting in G2 of the doubleheader and got an RBI knock, poorly aged posts in real time! Sydin fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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Sydin posted:I just noticed today that five games into the season the Tigers would rather play Zach McKinstry over Javy at SS. I was listening to a podcast say that the Tigers hitting coach(es) may have hosed him up, getting him to be slightly more selective also means he's not hammering pitches in the zone so his hot streaks are even fewer and farther between. And when he gets to two strikes he still just flails at everything. It's really sad to see him like this 
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Apr 4, 2024 22:17
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Sydin posted:e. As I was typing this he's starting in G2 of the doubleheader and got an RBI knock, poorly aged posts in real time! Don't worry, he just grounded into a double play just now.
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Apr 4, 2024 22:25
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FlamingLiberal posted:I'm trying to think of a team that willingly moved out of an MLB park to a AAA stadium in order to eventually move to another city altogether Closest I can think of in modern times are the Expos part time in Puerto Rico, though there was a thought of making money via popularity of Montreal's Latino players. The 1899 Cleveland Spiders spent most of the season on the road because other teams refused to travel because of the lack of fan support in Cleveland. Of course that was because of Cleveland purposefully being gutted.
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Apr 4, 2024 22:26
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Popete posted:Although they did somewhat recently put limits on tailgating, you have to enter the stadium 30 minutes after the game beings. Sure but not a big deal because everyone is tailgating hours before the game even starts. The funniest era was when they realized so many tailgaters didn’t even have game tickets. People would just buy stadium parking and party there all day, especially on sold out games like Opening Day where it’s a pain in the rear end to get game tickets. But now you have to verify game tickets to get parking. Then people would just walk in to the parking lots, party with friends then walk to a bar once you got kicked inside the stadium. Hand Row fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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Apr 4, 2024 22:27
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Hand Row posted:I am hard pressed to name another MLB club that gets anywhere near the tailgating experience that the Brewers have. Well, the A's once did, but then wealthy people took care of it with intentional tanking and raising prices.
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https://twitter.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1775965321083736378 lol what exactly are the mets doing
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RC and Moon Pie posted:The 1899 Cleveland Spiders spent most of the season on the road because other teams refused to travel because of the lack of fan support in Cleveland. Of course that was because of Cleveland purposefully being gutted. I have to imagine someone floated the idea of the A’s just being a full-time road team for these years, playing at the other team’s park and batting in the “home” half of the inning for 81 of the games. But who wants more home gates against the A’s? Feels like the first time in ages there’s across of an MLB team folding outright.
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This whole saga really drives home how vehemently owners will fight for the ability to extort municipalities for hundreds of millions of dollars. Fisher is willing to to play in a tiny AAA for 3+ years, he’s willing to take less money and less land from Vegas than Oakland, and the other 29 owners are willing to let him destroy the brand like this for years, all in order to teach local governments one lesson: give us your money without a fight or else. I wonder what they’ll do in KC after the voters told them to eat poo poo. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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Apr 4, 2024 23:41
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Yeah I think this is more of a statement by MLB ownership than anything. With all the push back on public funding for sports stadiums in recent years they want to punish Oakland to show they should be taken seriously.
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Popete posted:Yeah I think this is more of a statement by MLB ownership than anything. With all the push back on public funding for sports stadiums in recent years they want to punish Oakland to show they should be taken seriously.
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It's absolutely what happened, but I also think Fisher probably outright lied to the other owners about how liked up Vegas was, and from the results of the vote in KC, the whole thing may have backfired. EDIT: Fisher looks wholly incompetent, Oakland comes out looking like the better party who were unfairly treated, and cities have pretty much told owners to get hosed in every public "Money please!" stadium deal since then. Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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https://twitter.com/SamBlum3/status/1776027958467297500 smh
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River Cats season ticket holders get priority access As tickets I guess that’s one way to force people to continue to buy River Cats tickets
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FlamingLiberal posted:gently caress this season Absolutely brutal When are they gonna invent bionic elbows
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Is there a sports gambling site that will give me odds on “Shohei Ohtani Heel Turn”quote:Shohei Ohtani said (via interpreter Will Ireton) that he met with the fan who caught the ball.
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Shohei Ohtani must be remanded into federal custody until his deferrals kick in
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https://x.com/yankees/status/1776037145032982806?s=46 now why did they think they could play a game in an eclipse
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Vertical Lime posted:now why did they think they could play a game in an eclipse If you didn’t know it was happening you might not even notice there
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not gonna lie I don't give a poo poo that they didn't authenticate the signatures to increase their sale price if that's what they mean
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I think they’re saying the Dodgers wouldn’t authenticate the ball. Also Japanese speakers on Twitter are saying that the Ohtani quote about talking to them is a poor translation. Very dumb own-goal if the Dodgers hosed this up
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as in they wouldn't authenticate the homerun ball, so it could have been any old ball not the right one? I thought they meant the ball they got was signed by him but they wouldn't issue a COA
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e. ^ No what the fan is alleging is that they were told by security staff that if they refused to turn Ohtani's HR ball over that the Dodgers in turn wouldn't authenticate it for them, which functionally renders it worthless from an auction perspective. The main part of the story that's kinda hosed is that they separated the husband and wife and wouldn't let them talk until the wife - surrounded by security staff - was pressured into surrendering the ball. Everything else kinda sounds par for the course though, teams do this stuff because they don't want to set a precedent that catching a milestone HR ball might mean you could cash in on a ton of money by auctioning/bargaining it. They want you to take some signed tat and fork the ball over.
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abuse culture. posted:Is there a sports gambling site that will give me odds on “Shohei Ohtani Heel Turn” He did that in December
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Sydin posted:e. ^ No what the fan is alleging is that they were told by security staff that if they refused to turn Ohtani's HR ball over that the Dodgers in turn wouldn't authenticate it for them, which functionally renders it worthless from an auction perspective. Ahhhh got it So yeah I don't give a poo poo about that part of it. The separating them and surrounding her with security is hosed though e: vvv Yeah I guess I never thought much about that aspect of it. What would motivate a team to authenticate it anyway? So if it comes back to the player they know it's legit? I can't imagine they want to help fans keep and then sell milestone balls Intruder fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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They were saying they were pressured to take the deal because the Dodgers were threatening not to authenticate the Ohtani home run ball if she took it home to make a decision, which would make it worthless, not that they wouldn't authenticate the signed stuff she was pressured to trade it for after being separated from her husband by team staff
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1775969585017020742 Tigers can win it all we just need every team we face to keep being cursed all year
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If the Tigers or O's won it all I'd be all in for that
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I guess it doesn't come up often enough to really matter that much but I am kinda surprised the league just hasn't created some kind of standardized policy that lays out a process in which teams are allowed to compel a fan to surrender baseball for milestone reasons, but are then required to offer that fan some form of merch compensation from a per-defined catalogue. I have to imagine you could put some very basic language in the contract for tickets that says "you can be compelled to surrender any playing equipment that happens to end up in the stands" and to put together a little list of "2x signed hats, 3x signed balls, 1x signed bat" etc that you get to pick from if it happens. Seems like it would be a whole lot smoother of a process than having to corner people and haggle.
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bawfuls posted:At Dodger stadium if you loiter around your car for more than a few minutes in the parking lot, security will come along and tell you to get moving. Given past events in that parking lot this seems like the smart move.
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I think a signed bat is way cooler than a ball
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Oh yeah like, if I caught one of those balls I'd just take a signed bat/hat and if the player was willing get a picture with them. Put 'em both up on the wall and you've got a lifelong conversation piece.
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In the past I'd have asked for Ohtani's autographed game worn jersey, but in the era of fanatics.......... Also I'd never, ever sell the jersey, that bitch would go in a case and never leave my wall until someone broke in to steal it e: you can tell it's game worn because it's the color of sweat 
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Vertical Lime posted:https://x.com/yankees/status/1776037145032982806?s=46 Boooo, I assumed the timing was intentional and there would be an eclipse party in the middle.
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Inspector_666 posted:Boooo, I assumed the timing was intentional and there would be an eclipse party in the middle. The airplane scene from Superman Returns except it's the eclipse instead
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Sydin posted:Oh yeah like, if I caught one of those balls I'd just take a signed bat/hat and if the player was willing get a picture with them. Put 'em both up on the wall and you've got a lifelong conversation piece. I don't have an issue with the exchange, I have an issue with how poorly a professional baseball team conducts itself with fans. Yes, it's good to have protocols in place for when you're dealing with shitheads but immediately assuming anyone who catches a ball is said shithead is just not a good look. But it's the Dodgers, so I'm not super surprised.
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HOW ARE ALL THE GAMES ALREADY DONE TODAY EXCEPT FOR THE WHITE SOX GETTING DESTROYED???? MODS????????????? MANFRED????
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