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Kevlar v2.0 posted:This is true for literally every MLB owner, so it evens out
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Eric the Mauve posted:Uh I might be missing a joke here but you do know Kirby threw that knuckleball as a tribute to Wakefield?
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I really wish the Knuckleball documentary was available for streaming. It covers RA Dickey and Tim Wakefield and is just phenomenal. Wanted to show my wife the other day and found it's literally unavailable to stream. edit: I did find you can buy the DVD on Amazon so I did that instead. Highly recommended for anyone that's a fan of the game. Walked fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Oct 2, 2023 |
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Walked posted:I really wish the Knuckleball documentary was available for streaming. It's absolutely fantastic with the small annoying flaw of being put together a year too early. Dickey pulling a CY Young award the season after they finished it was crazy and would have made such a good ending.
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Walked posted:I really wish the Knuckleball documentary was available for streaming. I watched it on Netflix, so I guess it must've been taken down since then.
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Bellinger and the Cubs is a relationship that should continue. He has been an inconsistent performer and it really worked there. I could see him coming to the Yankees and being Joey Gallo 2.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Nope, I did not there is also a short tribute to him at the top of the OP
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N: Rockies OF Nolan Jones became one of nine players, and the only rookie, to have at least 19 homers, 19 doubles, 19 steals, and 19 outfield assists in a single season. V: lol, the names on that list. ![]() will_colorado fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Oct 2, 2023 |
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The Guardians traded him and immediately he started hitting
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FlamingLiberal posted:The Guardians traded him and immediately he started hitting Gotta make room for Myles Straw
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FlamingLiberal posted:The Guardians traded him and immediately he started hitting it's not just the altitude this time ![]() will_colorado fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Oct 2, 2023 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:Unfortunately for Cubs fans it’s an election year, and the Ricketts need to take the money for Bellinger and put it into a Trump PAC Last two presidential election years were the Cubs winning the WS and the last time the Cubs made it to the postseason. If anything the rest of the world should be mortified if the Cubs are good next year because we all know what comes next after they win it all.
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Sydin posted:because we all know what comes next after they win it all. Yeah Poque and I get to be in the victory parade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOqBDNcAIhg
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Credit where it's due, if you had asked me at the beginning of the season if I'd have been satisfied with the Rangers even sniffing the wild card, I'd have very quickly told you yes. And yet here we are, they're in the wild card and I really can't frame it as anything other than a colossal disappointment. A franchise of maestros in the art of disappointment. It is pretty funny that they'll be facing the other "what the hell happened in the first half" team in the Tampa Bay Rays.
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Red posted:Gotta make room for Myles Straw Thanks for reminding me the Astros got Yainer Diaz for Straw ![]()
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https://twitter.com/mlbrums/status/1708667314059575394?t=3FBH5f7NZPGTB82v5gc47A&s=19 Huge if true!!
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Oh boy, the Bauer stuff has kicked back up again. He's given his side of the story, not gonna link it but it's easy to find if you want to go down the rabbit hole again.
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seiferguy posted:https://twitter.com/mlbrums/status/1708667314059575394?t=3FBH5f7NZPGTB82v5gc47A&s=19
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seiferguy posted:https://twitter.com/mlbrums/status/1708667314059575394?t=3FBH5f7NZPGTB82v5gc47A&s=19 This is so comically silly and empty I love the Hell out of it. RUMOR: Tony Phillips is expected to think it would be cool if they were interested.
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seiferguy posted:Huge if true!! ![]() ITEM!
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![]() Hola, Amigos. Long time since I hot stoved at ya.
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seiferguy posted:https://twitter.com/mlbrums/status/1708667314059575394?t=3FBH5f7NZPGTB82v5gc47A&s=19 le gasp! The team that overbid against itself trying to court him 5 years ago is still interested after he won three MVP awards? I don't believe it!
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(team) interested in Shohei is the most nothing headline imaginable
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Intruder posted:(team) interested in Shohei is the most nothing headline imaginable Every GM: Wait, a ballplayer who can pitch and hit?
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Mariners always seemed like a legit threat to get Ohtani to me.
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https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1708959098954256401?s=46&t=qe_Y8YJnNikGLo_JUDPyAQ
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Boone wasn't the main problem but him staying won't appease the masses
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One thing is for sure, Boone knows when his guys are havin' a hell of a game, and he won't stand for an ump not seeing that.
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https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/38550277/jim-caple-former-espn-national-mlb-writer-dies-61 Jim Caple died, apparently of ALS. I used to really enjoy his articles because they were pretty lighthearted reading. He was 61.
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Bregor posted:https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1708959098954256401?s=46&t=qe_Y8YJnNikGLo_JUDPyAQ I loving love that the Yankees finished just well enough at the end to run it back. They're never going to learn. And it rules.
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Dog Faced JoJo posted:https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/38550277/jim-caple-former-espn-national-mlb-writer-dies-61 Awwww hell ![]() Caple was a great writer. And ALS is just a horrific way to go.
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Boone’s job was safe the second Judge publicly supported him. Judge’s opinion matters much more than the screaming masses. But also I don’t think Cashman or the Yankees have fired a manager since Buck. It’s a business style more than anything else. Boone isn’t the problem. Managers are fired as scapegoats. The Yankees don’t do that since Steinbrenner died and to some extent that’s probably because of what an rear end in a top hat Steinbrenner was with that tactic. The Yankees were somehow the worst constructed team in history and also the worst managed team in history and also the most underperforming team in history. Trolls gonna troll. You just gotta ignore them. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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Phil Nevin out as Angels manager
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still can't believe they kept Nevin around to lead our potential last season with Ohtani. Just why.
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STAC Goat posted:Boone’s job was safe the second Judge publicly supported him. Judge’s opinion matters much more than the screaming masses. basically everything I said about the team was right yet i'm trolling according to you heh. i will agree with you that manager doesn't matter that much but i don't see why the Yankees need to have a manager who is universally thought of as mediocre. there isn't anyone in the world who thinks that boone is a top half of the league manager and i don't see why the yankees shouldn't have one of the best managers in the sport but the organization is both incompetent and arrogant and it's likely they will change nothing in the way they do things because they legitimately think everything is going great.
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They’ve talked extensively about completely reevaluating their usage of analytics and all. They made a deliberate shift to their young prospects the last month and going back to the decision to make Volpe and opening day starter. They’re still gonna have big contracts and they’re probably gonna re-sign Gleyber and they’ll have competition for Ohtani and Bellinger. So people are gonna scream and be mad because they want some kind of complete transformation with no actual practical plan of how to do it. So they’ll just keep complaining. I’d point out that everything you said didn’t come through and you’ve been predicting a Yankee collapse for years and congrats you finally got one. If you constantly predict failure you’ll eventually be right every time. But we all both know there’s no point to this. We’ve done this. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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Bringing in a bunch of McKinsey ghouls to tell management what they want to hear isn't really all that impressive to me. Sorry. The team hasn't been in the world series in 14 years so what i've been saying about the horrific way the team has been built in the last few years is pretty valid. They had literally no choice but to bring up young players in September. That is what every single team that is out of the playoffs does. They have made a clear choice not to start to turn over this roster for years and years of failure and for you to say that they can't remake the roster unless they sign Ohtani or Bellinger (which I'm against) is just completely foolish. They can clearly turn this roster over without signing either of those guys if they realy recognize that something is wrong with the way the team is built which I have no idea if they do or not. We'll see what they do.
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I would be genuinely curious as to what you think their path forward is beyond firing people.
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