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bawfuls posted:bye bye little giants I wonder if you're going to get so numb from so many games being won that beating the Giants will no longer provide any kind of endorphin reaction. Like you become a stone faced emotionless robot who can no longer feel due to excessive shutouts. The Giants just become another unremarkable casualty in the inevitable expressway, not worthy of note or celebration. Good luck, The Rest of Baseball, dealing with that Dodgers rotation. Maybe one of these franchises can win a series by either pitching two perfect games in one trip, or otherwise find which one of their interns is entering the Konami code in the basement before the game.
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Kirios posted:I thought the Vegas stuff was a done deal at this point and just delayed? Fisher got the money he asked for from the government, but doesn't have the money that's supposed to come from his end. (Well, he maybe does, but he wouldn't be fabulously wealthy if he spent most his fortune in a single day). When the Raiders came to Nevada, Davis pulled it off by taking huge loans from banks that likely put the team up as collateral since it was the only rich man thing he owns. Fisher's plan is to sell stakes in the team like that time the Wilpons sold bits of the Mets to guys like Bill Maher and Anthony Scaramucci. He has suggested he can find wealthy people in Southern Nevada who would like to be minority owners, but so much of the wealth of the city is built upon gambling that a list of the wealthiest people who aren't casino executives looks mostly like a bunch of former executives or their estates (and our ex-casino aristocracy currently prefers spending their money buying federal politicians from both parties.)
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Well Played Mauer posted:Edward M. Bernstein, attorney at law, to buy 49% of the team. That one attorney who has billboards all over town that says "more cowbell" and "like Epstein, this billboard didn't hang itself" has to be either going broke or trying to figure out what to do with too much money.
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Stadium lists that put San Francisco very high and Detroit very low always amuse me because from TV the only difference is proximity to water. They even both have the Triples Alley corner, though SF eventually cut it down as an amnesty to hitters not named Bonds.
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I've been to SF, Oakland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Diego, and Toronto, of which only SF/OAK/LA were actually on game days. The other four I was in the area for other things; Seattle was actually for Wrestlemania 19. People poo poo on SkyDome apparently, but the way the dome works combined with the attached hotels and restaurants looking onto the field is architecturally neat. It could be more modernized in a few places, but most complaints seem to stem from fake grass (which has improved tremendously and shouldn't be an issue anymore) and it being from the same sort of "concrete everywhere" 70s futurism like the Renaissance Center, to which I say at least it feels like a good example of that sort of architecture compared to the Trop. Popete posted:I think the worst crime a stadium can commit is being a huge hassle to get in/out of and/or needing to drive too. I hate leaving a game and knowing it's gonna take 45 minutes to even get out of the vicinity of the stadium. Their aversion to day games is the worst because getting to and from their stadium would at least be somewhat tolerable if you aren't also fighting DTLA commuter traffic for a 6PM start.
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maffew buildings posted:best stadium - wrigley The first list where PNC is at the bottom
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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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bawfuls posted:Japanese speakers on Twitter are saying that the Ohtani quote about talking to them is a poor translation. You'd think the guy would have a good translator after so many years. We've reached a point where nobody realiably knows what Ohtani is saying, which is extremely hilarious, but you'd also think the Dodgers could go to Little Tokyo and wave money at someone who works at the Kinokuniya. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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All the talk about moving the mount and pitch clocks feels like a band-aid to avoid tipping the sacred cow of "out on three strikes." A part of baseball so ingrained that even our justice system sometimes invokes it. But I would say fewer max effort pitches per mans at the plate would help the elbows.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Changing the number of strikes for a strikeout would be loony, but I could possibly get behind limiting the number of foul balls you're allowed to hit before you're out. What about an out if you hit it over the netting on two strikes? There have been fewer instances of infielders crowd surfing the audience since the netting was extended for crowd safety, but with that come fewer outs at the edges around the dugouts. Making it an out if you foul into that territory on two strikes would make a change but to a certain extent it would be reversing the trends back to where they were a decade ago.
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Sydin posted:So Ippei is simultaneously a scheming mastermind who managed to siphon $16M away from Ohtani over 4+ years without Ohtani, any of his financial people, or his agent cottoning on, and also a complete and total dipshit who openly confesses to his shady bookie that he's dogshit at gambling and good for his debts because he's stealing. It sounds like the old goon joke of "my ISP is angry at all the Linux ISOs that I torrent", except it's "these wagers which are totally mine and not my mysterious benefactor's"
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For the low price of sitting in the right spot, YOU can get a manager kicked out of games. I have never been a robo-ump supporter but this season is really testing me.
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LobsterMobster posted:Players Weekend, but this time without fun nicknames on the jerseys "Fun Causes Appreciation" is either the most vague headline ever made, or the name of a rock album.
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