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chamois posted:get owned cobb county assholes Good on MLB for actually taking a stand, I really expected them to do nothing. "The real victims are the poor business owners  "
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The law is poo poo but like, this actually does do some damage for Atlanta area business right? Especially since I'm sure a lot of the entertainment/tourism industry in that area took a dive from the pandemic too? Hopefully this will get them to actually look at the law and how stupid they are buuuut I doubt it. Or am I thinking about this in an entirely wrong way? The games usually bring in like 60-70m into the area.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:The law is poo poo but like, this actually does do some damage for Atlanta area business right? Especially since I'm sure a lot of the entertainment/tourism industry in that area took a dive from the pandemic too? I mean boycotts by default cause collateral damage. It’s just how it works. The hope is if the cause is just than the good outweighs the bad.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:Hopefully this will get them to actually look at the law and how stupid they are buuuut I doubt it.  No. No it won't.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:The law is poo poo but like, this actually does do some damage for Atlanta area business right? Especially since I'm sure a lot of the entertainment/tourism industry in that area took a dive from the pandemic too? Yes this will hurt businesses but the real victims are people being disenfranchised by voting restriction laws. Business need to take this up with their representatives who caused this to happen. Also I'm not convinced Manfred did this for the right reason and it wasn't just a lucky coincidence of him trying to shorten the ASG game time down to 0.
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Crazy Ted posted:
That lovely trans law in Carolina got dumped in part due to boycotts so it isn't impossible
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As a general principle, I would prefer if people left offsite stuff off the site, even if (especially if) they are posting about how everyone here is their posting enemy.
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Popete posted:Also I'm not convinced Manfred did this for the right reason and it wasn't just a lucky coincidence of him trying to shorten the ASG game time down to 0. One weird trick to shorten pace of play, Republicans hate it!
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Popete posted:Also I'm not convinced Manfred did this for the right reason and it wasn't just a lucky coincidence of him trying to shorten the ASG game time down to 0. I'm not convinced loving AT ALL he did it for the right reason. I guarantee you there were sponsors contacting MLB and telling them to get the hell out of Georgia or we are out. Just like Washington and FedEx. The sponsors just didn't have to make it public before it happening. $$$ rules.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:I'm not convinced loving AT ALL he did it for the right reason. I guarantee you there were sponsors contacting MLB and telling them to get the hell out of Georgia or we are out. Just like Washington and FedEx. The sponsors just didn't have to make it public before it happening. $$$ rules. Does it really matter if they did it for the “right reasons”
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That's the closest any giant for-profit entity can ever get to doing something for the right reasons, though.
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Baseball is real and good and fun and even when my boys lose 90 games along the way it's gonna be worth the ride. 
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Artix posted:Baseball is real and good and fun and even when my boys lose 90 games along the way it's gonna be worth the ride. i disagree baseball is miserable and causes me great anguish and i'm going to enjoy every second of it
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https://twitter.com/FabianArdaya/status/1378112098698321920 didnt like that demotion to AAA very much
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wasn't Maddon in charge when La Stella went walkabout too?
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he mad (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Julio Cruz posted:wasn't Maddon in charge when La Stella went walkabout too? Yeah but I don't think these decisions are up to Maddon. La Stella was going through some relationship stuff at the time if I remember correctly and didn't take another demotion well, almost quit playing all together.
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Suntrust Park or whatever the gently caress it is now is literally in the middle of a giant suburban strip mall across the street from a Red Lobster, it's an absolutely bizarre move to make in the twenty-first century when most sports franchises have been trying to put their stadiums in more urbanized, walkable areas.
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Hahaha hahaha hahaha this owns. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Popete posted:Yeah but I don't think these decisions are up to Maddon. La Stella was going through some relationship stuff at the time if I remember correctly and didn't take another demotion well, almost quit playing all together. Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Suntrust Park or whatever the gently caress it is now is literally in the middle of a giant suburban strip mall across the street from a Red Lobster, it's an absolutely bizarre move to make in the twenty-first century when most sports franchises have been trying to put their stadiums in more urbanized, walkable areas. Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Apr 2, 2021 |
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Aye Doc posted:https://twitter.com/FabianArdaya/status/1378112098698321920 Ty Butt Tray
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Popete posted:Yeah but I don't think these decisions are up to Maddon. La Stella was going through some relationship stuff at the time if I remember correctly and didn't take another demotion well, almost quit playing all together. yeah I'm not saying that it's Maddon's fault, it's just interesting that a guy walking out after being demoted is nearly unheard of and then it happens twice to the same manager
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Julio Cruz posted:yeah I'm not saying that it's Maddon's fault, it's just interesting that a guy walking out after being demoted is nearly unheard of and then it happens twice to the same manager 
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R.D. Mangles posted:i disagree baseball is miserable and causes me great anguish and i'm going to enjoy also hate every second of it
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Chuds hating one of the most chuddy sports is pretty funny. Not gonna lie.
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Owners find new ways to save a couple nickles I see. https://twitter.com/jjcoop36/status/1377815223617392642
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Thom P. Tiers posted:I'm not convinced loving AT ALL he did it for the right reason. I guarantee you there were sponsors contacting MLB and telling them to get the hell out of Georgia or we are out. Just like Washington and FedEx. The sponsors just didn't have to make it public before it happening. $$$ rules. I don't believe this at all.No way there was that much advertising behemoths like the NFL with Colin. This was from the players union and the players. I honestly believe this and if i'm wrong the change in the last few years is amazing.
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mcmagic posted:Chuds hating one of the most chuddy sports is pretty funny. Not gonna lie.
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Sydin posted:Owners find new ways to save a couple nickles I see.
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Sydin posted:Owners find new ways to save a couple nickles I see. still twice the size it needs to be
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Seeing chuds online calling for the end of baseball's antitrust exemption as a result of this, as if this is the thing that's going to do it.
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I always kinda liked the draft days when they would just go until every team had selected the kids of everyone in the front office and gotten bored with calling out random names. Especially since once in a great while you would get a Piazza or someone out of it. hmm that was an unexpected doublepost instead of one edited post elentar fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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bewbies posted:still twice the size it needs to be
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bewbies posted:still twice the size it needs to be Eh, the late draft rounds are fun and, in a callous way, necessary. Fun because every once in a blue moon some nobody late rounder puts it together and it's always a fun story, and necessary because there simply aren't enough capital P Prospects to field multiple minor leagues worth of teams, so you need filler guys for those prospects to play and develop against. The whole idea MLB originally had was to drastically cut down the draft, and put everybody else in "Dreamer Leagues" which would basically act as a filler farm teams could pull from as needed, except with less signing bonuses given out and guys in said league somehow being paid and treated even worse than MiLB guys are now.
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so, I dunno, get rid of the bloated system of affiliated minor league ball and let indie and college baseball breathe properly again
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bewbies posted:so, I dunno, get rid of the bloated system of affiliated minor league ball and let indie and college baseball breathe properly again Major League Baseball was basically able to use the Covid pandemic to put one hell of a squeeze on non-MLB baseball in the United States.
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bewbies posted:so, I dunno, get rid of the bloated system of affiliated minor league ball and let indie and college baseball breathe properly again Unless the financial landscape of college sports and indie ball attendance changes dramatically all this results in is less young players getting paid so ownership can save a few nickels. Yes, MiLB guys get paid like absolute dogshit, but that's still more than the "nothing" and "might as well be nothing" you get playing for a university or in Indie ball.
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Sydin posted:Unless the financial landscape of college sports and indie ball attendance changes dramatically all this results in is less young players getting paid so ownership can save a few nickels. Yes, MiLB guys get paid like absolute dogshit, but that's still more than the "nothing" and "might as well be nothing" you get playing for a university or in Indie ball. well, MLBs cornering of the baseball market by dominating the minor league tree and raiding college ball wasn't accidental. this anticompetitive effort goes back decades. I get this is an anti owner rant but you're mad at them for the wrong thing.
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bewbies posted:well, MLBs cornering of the baseball market by dominating the minor league tree and raiding college ball wasn't accidental. this anticompetitive effort goes back decades.
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