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Shimrra Jamaane posted:If you enjoy rage Thanks for this haha. Some highlights: A Red Sox fan: "and if one more person says tHeY wOn FoUr WoRlD sErIeS I'll go postal on them" A reference to THE IBLOOMINATTI (referring to stat nerds) "This would never have happened if Dave Dombrowski was here"
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Dodgers winning it all in 2023. https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1600913297280073728?t=dMGmlkeY7oOjvvbRQBf2Ig&s=19
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Dec 8, 2022 19:05
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https://twitter.com/Alden_Gonzalez/status/1600913717314482176 e: poo poo, beaten. i love the idea of j-hey and bellinger possibly doing a straight swap though
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Dec 8, 2022 19:07
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Bellinger inspiring the Cubs in the post season: "Dudes. C'mon."
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Dec 8, 2022 19:09
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Lots of stuff about the Yanks interest in Rodon https://twitter.com/jackcurryyes/status/1600912468590534656?s=46&t=-ulA4GJTSpUCFF7t_7UUVg
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Dec 8, 2022 19:14
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I look forward to his New Swing (tm)
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Dec 8, 2022 19:16
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IDK if Rodon's bat is what the yankees need
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Dec 8, 2022 19:19
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fast cars loose anus posted:A reference to THE IBLOOMINATTI (referring to stat nerds) Well that's pretty yikes, but Boston fans gotta live down to their stereotype I guess.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:21
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Professor Funk posted:Lots of stuff about the Yanks interest in Rodon Why didn't they just sign him before last season? He was a FA..... Could've had him for less than he's going to get now too. Johnny Bravo posted:https://twitter.com/Alden_Gonzalez/status/1600913717314482176 It's going to be quite funny if the Dodgers are paying Heyward and Bellinger 40 million next year and Heyward plays better.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:27
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Inspector_666 posted:Dodgers winning it all in 2023. The new swing to end all new swings.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:28
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Nodoze posted:Bauer did not have the same baggage at the time of signing him that he does now He was an rear end in a top hat that many fans didn’t want to root for even if he was really good for our team. That’s not all that different from how many LA fans now view Correa.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:29
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mcmagic posted:Why didn't they just sign him before last season? He was a FA..... Could've had him for less than he's going to get now too. Fair enough…but werent you just upset the other day that you weren’t seeing any reports about the Yankees being in on Rodon?
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Dec 8, 2022 19:30
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Ya there was talk of the Jays trying to land him and I'm pretty sure most of the Jays fans here were extremely upset about that idea.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:30
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mcmagic posted:It's going to be quite funny if the Dodgers are paying Heyward and Bellinger 40 million next year and Heyward plays better. Heyward was released by the Cubs so they’re on the hook for his salary this year, minus whatever minimum the Dodgers pick up. And they signed him to a minor league deal. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Dec 8, 2022 19:31
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Professor Funk posted:Fair enough…but werent you just upset the other day that you weren’t seeing any reports about the Yankees being in on Rodon? Yeah I didn't think they would bring back Judge and also sign Rodon but if they do it's a good start to the offseason for sure. I think they really need to hit the trade market now because the fixes they need to do right now aren't really in FA no matter if they get Rodon or not...
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Dec 8, 2022 19:31
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Remember when Trevor Bauer lost two World Series games to the Cubs? 
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Dec 8, 2022 19:32
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bawfuls posted:Bellinger is in his final arb year. He was non-tendered by the Dodgers, they aren’t paying him anything. https://twitter.com/matthewpouliot/status/1600914512676360238 Looks like the cubs are still paying Heyward for the last year of his deal.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:34
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e. ^ Yes we cut Heyward a year early and are on the hook for his salary in 2023. Yeah it was well known even prior to his big sexual battery/assault incident that he was a piece of poo poo to women and just kind of a grating rear end in a top hat most other players didn't like much. There's also the whole thing where he was just blatantly cheating with sticky stuff in 2020 after initially calling out the league and them shrugging their shoulders, guess the Dodgers just figured a league crackdown would never come? Either way it was an insanely stupid signing and all the Dodger fans I knew IRL were pissed about it.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:34
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mcmagic posted:https://twitter.com/matthewpouliot/status/1600914512676360238
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Dec 8, 2022 19:35
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The dude got salty about getting the hook and threw a ball over the batters eye, even Scherzer doesn't do poo poo like that
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Dec 8, 2022 19:35
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bawfuls posted:He had a lot of baggage and plenty of fans were furious at the signing when it happened for the exact reason that we knew he was a piece of poo poo rear end in a top hat who treats women poorly, based on his twitter harassment alone. Feel free to search my post history here and on Twitter from that time for receipts. The team dismissed those concerns in a pretty condescending manner at his introductory press conference. I am not disagreeing with you about that. However, both can still be true that while he was definitely a controversial figure when they signed him there is still a big leap from that to what he was later accused of doing. Obviously neither one is great but one is considerably more of a problem than the other
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Dec 8, 2022 19:36
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bawfuls posted:Yea it is possible the Cubs pay $40M for those two players this year but not that the Dodgers do so as you suggested It was a typo, I meant the cubs.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:38
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zoux posted:The dude got salty about getting the hook and threw a ball over the batters eye, even Scherzer doesn't do poo poo like that That was pretty funny actually.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:46
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zoux posted:The dude got salty about getting the hook and threw a ball over the batters eye, even Scherzer doesn't do poo poo like that Scherzer doesn't strike me as an rear end in a top hat he's just insane.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:46
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Nodoze posted:I am not disagreeing with you about that. However, both can still be true that while he was definitely a controversial figure when they signed him there is still a big leap from that to what he was later accused of doing. Obviously neither one is great but one is considerably more of a problem than the other We knew Bauer was a petulant, lovely teammate, a bigot, and a harasser of women online. These are characters flaws which require significant work to overcome and improve. Just pitching well was never going to be enough to alleviate these concerns among the fans that care about them. Correa transgressed against the team and should make amends for it if he comes to LA, but otherwise all he has to do is play well for the issue to fade away. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Dec 8, 2022 19:47
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zoux posted:The dude got salty about getting the hook and threw a ball over the batters eye, even Scherzer doesn't do poo poo like that i still think this was real funny in a "what a fuckin pouty child" way certainly nothing to applaud or be proud of, but god drat. a grown man making millions of dollars throwing that kind of a tantrum will always be funny to me tito getting caught on camera asking "what the gently caress is wrong with you?" as he got to the mound was the cherry on top Johnny Bravo fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Dec 8, 2022 19:48
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mcmagic posted:That was pretty funny actually. For sure but it would give me some pause if my team was trying to sign a dude like that. Popete posted:Scherzer doesn't strike me as an rear end in a top hat he's just insane. Oh I wasn't saying that, I was saying it was something you couldn't just chalk up to intensity.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:48
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The general sports media fawned over Bauer though, they would always interview him during games and call him "the most intelligent pitcher". So if you weren't following him that closely at the time you probably were fine with your team picking him up.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:48
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bawfuls posted:I would still rather the Dodgers have been hesitant to sign Bauer at that time based on what we knew then, than be hesitant to sign Correa now based on the banging scheme. The Dodgers don't need Correa to be a winning team next year. There are other good baseball players they can get to come play for them! Why put your fans in a situation where they have to root for a guy who THEY KNOW cheated their team!
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mcmagic posted:The Dodgers don't need Correa to be a winning team next year. There are other good baseball players they can get to come play for them! Why put your fans in a situation where they have to root for a guy who THEY KNOW cheated their team! The point is this: if they are hesitant to sign Correa now, they should have been even more reluctant to sign Bauer when they did even knowing only what we knew at that time about Bauer
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bawfuls posted:I would still rather the Dodgers have been hesitant to sign Bauer at that time based on what we knew then, than be hesitant to sign Correa now based on the banging scheme. The fact that the reverse appears to be true is what Travis correctly noted is troubling. It's also important to note, though we ignore it here often for comedy and trolling purposes, is that fanbases aren't monoliths and all run the gamut from extremely cool and chill people to the worst people on the planet. I've seen countless Browns fans online tearing their hair out over Deshaun Watson because they don't want to root for a rapist and would rather go 0-16 than have him under center but I've seen pics of fans at the game with all kinds of "Watson is innocent/who cares" signs and, I guess, dioramas? Displays involving mannequins. I even went over to r/dodgers to see what they were saying and while the gently caress CARLOS stuff was being upvoted to the top, there were plenty of people like "it's stupid to trade wins for hurt feelings from seven years ago". Like, if Joe Kelly was somewhat good, I wouldn't think twice about the Astros signing him to a decent contract. Bellinger has talked insane poo poo about the team for years but Astros fans were mostly like "sure, why not" when he was connected to Astros signing rumors. zoux fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Dec 8, 2022 19:52
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Popete posted:The general sports media fawned over Bauer though, they would always interview him during games and call him "the most intelligent pitcher". Extreme Aaron Rodgers vibes
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To put it another way, the nature of Correa’s transgressions allow for the possibility of a transformation, whereby fans eventually feel “he’s a sonofabitch but he’s OUR sonofabitch.” Nothing Bauer could have done on the field could have had this effect, because his failures fell outside the game of baseball.
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Dec 8, 2022 19:57
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Inspector_666 posted:Dodgers winning it all in 2023. Guarantee if Heyward makes the team he is a better hitter than bellinger this season.
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Dec 8, 2022 20:02
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Sab0921 posted:The Dodgers are essentially homegrown OP. I guess they had Freeman, Betts, and Trea Turner but the latter 2 were trades that utilized their farm to pick up and they only signed Betts. I should have clarified in my original post, because a few people have mentioned this. I just meant the Dodgers always seem like a team willing to spend money to build a winning team, whether the player is homegrown, traded for, or signed as a free agent.
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Popete posted:The general sports media fawned over Bauer though, they would always interview him during games and call him "the most intelligent pitcher". So if you weren't following him that closely at the time you probably were fine with your team picking him up. MLB has such a dearth of players with an academic background that pretty much any time somebody does have one or can speak in vaguely academic terms they're lauded by the media as a genius. Like how every time announcers want to talk about how smart Hendricks is they bring up he's got an undergrad degree in Economics from Dartmouth as if this somehow translates in any way to pitching well. Bauer having graduated HS a year early and going into mechanical engineering - along with his vocal embrace of early pitching science stuff coming out of places like Driveline - was like candy to folks who wanted to create a narrative of him being super smart. Which unfortunately also seemed to paper over the fact that as early as his first year in the league he was building a reputation as a piece of poo poo both on and off the field.
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Popete posted:The general sports media fawned over Bauer though, they would always interview him during games and call him "the most intelligent pitcher". So if you weren't following him that closely at the time you probably were fine with your team picking him up. That Bauer’s bigotry and harassment of women is a far more serious transgression is immaterial to this FO. And that sucks rear end!
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Dec 8, 2022 20:03
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Dodgers already have cheating Mookie from the cheating Red Sox, so there shouldn't be any issue getting cheating Carlos from the cheating Astros, too
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https://twitter.com/PeteAbe/status/1600761292528111616 "Well I'd say my greatest weakness is hitting too well" *GMs in stunned silence* Oh and this is, in fact, the longest contract ever signed by a guy aged 30+ zoux fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Remember when Trevor Bauer lost two World Series games to the Cubs? In his defense, he had just sliced his hand open playing with a toy like an idiot.
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