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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. So how is it better for players to have less draft rounds, a more robust nation-wide NCAA baseball program, and more players in indie ball? How does this help them make more money, or develop faster, or magically make a ton of people start caring about college baseball or indie ball when they otherwise didn't? Hell, even the minor league system that exists now is fighting for eyeballs and butts in seats, and that was pre-covid. I also understand what you're getting at but I just think the ship has long since sailed on the kind of system you envision.
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Crazy Ted posted:The problem with that: Major League Baseball now pretty much directly controls minor league baseball. They've even signed some kind of agreements with a couple of the indie leagues over the winter, so even those leagues are starting to get pulled in a bit.
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So a new narrative going around is that this move is disrespectful to the memory of Hank Aaron. Let that one sink in.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:So a new narrative going around is that this move is disrespectful to the memory of Hank Aaron. Let that one sink in. those absolutely horrible fuckers. when the Milwaukee Braves moved down to Atlanta, the "price" was that the city had to quickly and enthusiastically ditch all segregation in public accommodations, just like Houston had to for the Colt .45s a few years earlier. Aaron had to be talked into making the move, having grown up in Mobile and not wanting any part of the South again. what's disrespectful to his memory is creating a voting law that is very obviously aimed at disenfranchising Black voters. but you all know that, and so do they, and they aren't capable of shame so instead here i am getting angry and ashamed on their behalf.
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Sydin posted:So how is it better for players to have less draft rounds, a more robust nation-wide NCAA baseball program, and more players in indie ball? How does this help them make more money, or develop faster, or magically make a ton of people start caring about college baseball or indie ball when they otherwise didn't? Hell, even the minor league system that exists now is fighting for eyeballs and butts in seats, and that was pre-covid. In general I'm for anything that keeps players out of the MLB juggernaut. It may well be wishful thinking from an indie baseball enthusiast. A big part of the problem is the entire system is designed as a bigass pyramid to shovel money to the big clubs and their owners. poo poo like this has been a constant for eons: Crazy Ted posted:Hell it goes all the way back to the 1920s when Branch Rickey, IIRC, used the economic conditions of the Great Depression to snap up minor league teams on extremely favorable terms and make them direct affiliates of the St. Louis Cardinals. By dominating the pro baseball landscape, MLB can make the minor leagues less appealing (through roster turnover and playing younger, developmental players over better, older players who don't really have a shot at the bigs), can control the media environment, and increasingly, control their finances directly. Their goal since forever has been to make MLB baseball the only place one can really form long-term attachments to players and teams and reliably get games on TV/radio (which, lol @ this situation recently even for MLB). I'm not under the impression that shortening the draft will solve the problem, but I feel like anyone who has taken in a well-produced indie baseball game should be more or less on the same page with shrinking the MLB affiliation pyramid by any means necessary.
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R.D. Mangles posted:i disagree baseball is miserable and causes me great anguish and i'm going to enjoy every second of it Me watching baseball 
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bewbies posted:still twice the size it needs to be
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18th round pick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI8uH4_pzeo
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Speaking of Bote, still lol'ing that Ross and Jed bent over backwards to suck his dick and talk about how he "unanimously" earned the starting 2B job over Nico and it's "his turn" and then... he gets pulled in the 5th of the season opener as part of a double switch and so, uh... *checks notes* ah yes, Eric Sogard and Matt Duffy could get some AB's late in a close game. Definitely feeling that ringing endorsement of the organization's belief in Bote's ability.
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mcmagic posted:Chuds hating one of the most chuddy sports is pretty funny. Not gonna lie. Chuds are running out of sports to follow Even NASCAR is off limits now since they banned the confederate flag (unless they walked that back)
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Sydin posted:Speaking of Bote, still lol'ing that Ross and Jed bent over backwards to suck his dick and talk about how he "unanimously" earned the starting 2B job over Nico and it's "his turn" and then... he gets pulled in the 5th of the season opener as part of a double switch and so, uh... *checks notes* ah yes, Eric Sogard and Matt Duffy could get some AB's late in a close game. Definitely feeling that ringing endorsement of the organization's belief in Bote's ability. Ross pulled him because he had made the last out and the pitcher's spot was up, and they needed to use 17 pitchers to issue that many walks
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bawfuls posted:Mike Piazza was drafted in the 62nd round And only as a favor to Tommy Lasorda as one of those “hey can you give my distant relative and fellow Pisan a token pick so I can say he got drafted?” things. Him becoming a Hall of Famer was at about the same odds of getting struck by lightning while winning the lottery.
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Wasn't Mariano Rivera only signed as a favor to Ruben Rivera or is that one of those things that you hear somewhere and just internalize it but it never happened
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Intruder posted:Wasn't Mariano Rivera only signed as a favor to Ruben Rivera or is that one of those things that you hear somewhere and just internalize it but it never happened I know that the Yankees planned to demote Derek Jeter and replace him by trading Mariano for Felix Fermin. Their head scout called the GM and threatened to take a poo poo on his desk if they made that move.
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Intruder posted:Chuds are running out of sports to follow They still have... golf??
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Intruder posted:Wasn't Mariano Rivera only signed as a favor to Ruben Rivera or is that one of those things that you hear somewhere and just internalize it but it never happened Yeah Ruben was a WAY better prospect than Mariano was.
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seiferguy posted:They still have... golf?? Polo. I remember there being a stink a few years ago because someone taught urban kids how to play and they were competitive with the rich kids.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Polo. I remember there being a stink a few years ago because someone taught urban kids how to play and they were competitive with the rich kids. This is the best thing I've read all day, and now I want to watch the movie.
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Never change, Zack! https://twitter.com/KleinschmidtJD/status/1378187135753334790?s=20
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Oh man it's always sad seeing cat's on the field, they're so stressed out panting like that.
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That is a super handsome cat and I would adopt it in a second
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Thats just Los Angeles Dodgers Starting Pitcher Clawton Purrshaw
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god drat. he was my dark horse for 1/1...really hope he’s alright. pitching is a dangerous game https://twitter.com/kendallrogers/status/1378200782223237124?s=21
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the best thing about "cat on the field" is that most times they corral it and get it to a shelter and the next day dozens of people sign up to adopt it so yeah, it sucks in the moment but the shelter people will find the best possible home for it once they make sure its healthy and evaluate it
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A new beefy lad for all of us to appreciate https://mobile.twitter.com/whitesox/status/1378213753506893825
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Wow, that's a lot of new posts in the baseball thread today. Something crazy must have happened in a game or maybe there was a big Cub posting thing or something crazy must have happened. I better go see what it is and hold my breath. Hahahahaha!
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https://twitter.com/axios/status/1378333941946404870 MLB is going to lose a lot of money over this. I wonder if Manfred knew what he was doing when he made the decision. It's possible he didn't and he's just an idiot which I think is more likely than that he was actually doing something morally courageous that he knew was going to cost him money.
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mcmagic posted:https://twitter.com/axios/status/1378333941946404870 No they won’t. When the national anthem poo poo went down with the NFL, a bunch of doughy thumb people burned their Steelers jerseys and immediately bought new ones. Boomers are incapable of not spending money for any length of time. Their wallet is their primary point of contact with reality.
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bring the allstar game to camden yards so i can go to a fanfest again for the first time since 1996
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mcmagic posted:https://twitter.com/axios/status/1378333941946404870 I'd be happy to never hear about that man again
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Casnorf posted:bring the allstar game to camden yards so i can go to a fanfest again for the first time since 1996 i live in east atlanta and it would take me maybe 1.5 hours longer to get to camden yards than it would to get to trurist park lets do this
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