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Lumpy posted:Mine started during Ford / Carter... so lol on me I guess. I played pee wee baseball (poorly) during the Carter administration. Sup, old goon buddy
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Still looking for one more person for my MLB.tv group.
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Kinfolk Jones posted:Still looking for one more person for my MLB.tv group. Yo.
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I'm looking for a MLB.tv group too. Is there a thread for that in Coupons or something?
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Padres signed Jered Weaver to a 1yr/3M deal. He's good to eat some innings at least, I guess.
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Niwrad posted:Looking forward to my large friend hitting some dingers this Spring. I stopped following the baseball threads here during the offseason, but now that Spring Training is back, I'm also back to sing the praises of My Beefy Lad. Also, since I'm still in mourning over Dex to the Cards, it makes all of the BestFans tweets especially good/bad. https://twitter.com/BestFansStLouis/status/833314681339121664
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Stick to your job and let the professionals (people with Twitter accounts) handle the politics. Alright? It's especially dumb because his wife is Iranian and they can't go visit her family, so it literally directly effects him.
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Since I posted that like five minutes ago, Fowler tweeted this. https://twitter.com/DexterFowler/status/833393294268731392 Haha. The racists are gonna run him out of town by year 3.
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Feb 19, 2017 20:18
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Haha Dexter you have no idea what you signed up for, buddy.
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DeepDickPizza posted:Since I posted that like five minutes ago, Fowler tweeted this.  He's gonna have a bad time. 
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Feb 19, 2017 20:22
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Fowler well on his way to being the first Cardinals player to be consistently booed at Busch and applauded at Wrigley.
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Sydin posted:Fowler well on his way to being the first Cardinals player to be consistently booed at Busch and applauded at Wrigley. Fowler will be the first batter the Cubs face in the 2017 season.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Fowler will be the first batter the Cubs face in the 2017 season. I honestly hope he hits a dinger, just for the story it'll generate. And then I hope the Cards trade him back to the Cubs.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Fowler will be the first batter the Cubs face in the 2017 season. And I'm sure it'll be an incredible frustrating 8-10 pitch AB that results in Fowler drawing a lead off walk and eventually coming around to score. And that's fine because Fowler owns.
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Feb 19, 2017 21:03
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DeepDickPizza posted:Since I posted that like five minutes ago, Fowler tweeted this. See, his Twitter and general adorableness have me okay with the overpay for his later years. Then again, the only Cardinals jersey I wear is Curt Flood's because Curt Flood was awesome. I may be a bit of an oddity among Cardinals fans. PS: Everyone should read "A Well-Paid Slave".
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Feb 19, 2017 21:28
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Craptacular! posted:Unfortunately my friend never even got as far as being some late round bust because a shoulder injury claimed him in high school. School coaches give no fucks about your future, especially if you're the pitcher. Jeff Passan was signal boosting people on Twitter naming and shaming high school coaches who ran pitchers into the ground last spring. It was horrifying.
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I like baseball and would like to join an mlb.tv group if that is happening here (and if it isn't, sorry...but still pm me if you have a spot)
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Luigi Thirty posted:Jeff Passan was signal boosting people on Twitter naming and shaming high school coaches who ran pitchers into the ground last spring. It was horrifying. That was pretty upsetting. I think Passan overlooks that proving that you're durable as well as talented is how guys make it to the next level, whether that's college or professional baseball. I don't think coaches should knowingly run players into the ground since helping kids succeed and get to the next phase of their life is a basic tenant of coaching but showing injury issues as a teenager is one of the ways a lot of talented young players end up focusing on hitting instead of pitching.
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Feb 20, 2017 13:56
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Sydin posted:Fowler well on his way to being the first Cardinals player to be consistently booed at Busch and applauded at Wrigley. oops https://twitter.com/2xBirds/status/833383747634528257
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They're just mad because Dex expressing sympathy for people who are more vulnerable than him might violate the team's handshake deal with the devil.
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Feb 20, 2017 14:21
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I still love Dex, but being a rational and decent human being is going to make his time in st Louis Hell. I hope he can get traded somewhere cool.
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Feb 20, 2017 15:04
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Man I consistently mix up Fowler and Heyward in my head, I'm sorry everbody.
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Mallex Smith is awesome and the Rays fans are lucky he landed with their team. https://twitter.com/TBTimes_Rays/status/833340412077211649/photo/1 He seems like a really cool guy. I only saw him interviewed once, at Braves Fan Fest last winter, and he was clearly trying not to laugh his way off his stool at the absurdity of the bad questions he was being asked by the panel host but he handled them all without falling back on a single lovely cliche.
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SupahDren posted:I like baseball and would like to join an mlb.tv group if that is happening here (and if it isn't, sorry...but still pm me if you have a spot) MLB.TV brought the hammer down last year and starting banning for account sharing. I have no idea how I dodged the bullet on that. Regardless it's safe to say the party is over.
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Jose Oquendo posted:MLB.TV brought the hammer down last year and starting banning for account sharing. I have no idea how I dodged the bullet on that. Regardless it's safe to say the party is over. gently caress that poo poo. I'm gonna run this poo poo into the ground. I've possibly got one more spot open in my group if anyone wants in. PM me.
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Jose Oquendo posted:MLB.TV brought the hammer down last year and starting banning for account sharing. I have no idea how I dodged the bullet on that. Regardless it's safe to say the party is over. They started banning for using VPNs to defeat blackouts, not for account sharing.
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Feb 20, 2017 17:13
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Not that Cleveland fans would have been any nicer to him, but man I wish we'd signed Dex, they need a leadoff guy. Sanatna ain't cuttin' it and Kipnis is better suited in the #2 spot.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Not that Cleveland fans would have been any nicer to him, but man I wish we'd signed Dex, they need a leadoff guy. Sanatna ain't cuttin' it and Kipnis is better suited in the #2 spot. Santana walks 100 times per year and is a top 25 guy in baseball for OBP. He's a great lead-off hitter, speed aside (he was actually their best hitter last year among every day players). What they really needed Fowler for was playing CF since Naquin is not good at it.
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tadashi posted:Mallex Smith is awesome and the Rays fans are lucky he landed with their team. http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2017/1/16/14281230/the-10-best-moments-of-the-mallex-smith-era-mariners Edit - PM sent on mlbtv spot. Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:Jeff Passan was signal boosting people on Twitter naming and shaming high school coaches who ran pitchers into the ground last spring. It was horrifying. Keith Law routinely does the same, mostly with college managers.
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bewbies posted:Man I consistently mix up Fowler and Heyward in my head, I'm sorry everbody. He played a year there then went to Cubs so its kind of ingrained. At least Fowler should play well enough that the droning white fanbase wont look to lynch him on two fronts, jesus christ. Its sort of like the Colin Kaepernick effect: Decent/Good on the field + politics = hmm there appears to be a stir Bad on the field + politics = punching bag I'm not a very big Cardinals fan 
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I met Mallex a few times last spring at Braves ST and he was far and away the nicest guy on the team.
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saintonan posted:They started banning for using VPNs to defeat blackouts, not for account sharing. Are you sure? I recall in this thread and the sharing thread there were people not using VPNs or DNS things being banned. We figured that the only reason would be account sharing.
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Julio Cruz posted:Are we doing a Meet the Teams thread again this year? Probably but last year's thread wasn't until about a week or so before opening day
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I might be a little late to little league chat, but in 4th grade I played on the Phillies. Every team had a local sponsor and while some teams had cool sponsors like the local pizza place or restaraunt, we were proudly sponsored by: METRO THERAPY For some reason the font on our shirts was about 4 times bigger than any other team too, which was pretty great. Having psychiatrist office sponsor our team was pretty apt though as I think we lost every single game that year. And how can we talk about best threads ever without bringing up the BILLY MAYS APPRECIATION THREAD
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tadashi posted:Santana walks 100 times per year and is a top 25 guy in baseball for OBP. He's a great lead-off hitter, speed aside (he was actually their best hitter last year among every day players). I agree about the CF aspect but I feel like Santana doesn't make enough contact, plus the lack of speed.
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Julio Cruz posted:Are we doing a Meet the Teams thread again this year?  Or wait until the WBC/more Spring Training battles are decided
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I agree about the CF aspect but I feel like Santana doesn't make enough contact, plus the lack of speed. How you reach when leading off is pretty unimportant. He sees a lot of pitches and reaches base at a high rate. You can argue that his power is underutilized when he's guaranteed to start around a quarter of his at bats with the bases empty. But there's a decent amount of pop elsewhere in the lineup.
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