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this is the current state of Ohtani discourse in Dodgers blogs/discords
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I'm skeptical that the Giants are really going to pay what Ohtani is going to demand Would be surprised if he ends up anywhere other than the Dodgers
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Nov 5, 2023 01:46
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It's based on Heyman's article: https://nypost.com/2023/10/26/sports/more-contenders-join-500-million-shohei-ohtani-sweepstakes/ Which obviously means that none of those teams are in the running. I'm really curious what an Ohtani contract looks like going into 2024 where he will be limited to DHing.
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Nov 5, 2023 01:47
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How many reporters got fooled last year on Judge to the Giants? Because it was at least a handful.
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Nov 5, 2023 01:48
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I’m hearing reports that Ohtani “loves the tropical potential of Chicago”
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Nov 5, 2023 01:53
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Poque posted:I’m hearing reports that Ohtani “loves the tropical potential of Chicago” Possible if he signs a 10-year deal
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Nov 5, 2023 02:05
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I hope Shohei signs a one year deal with Colorado to DH all year, obliterate every offensive record, and then sign a mega deal when he can pitch again
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Nov 5, 2023 02:06
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bawfuls posted:this is the current state of Ohtani discourse in Dodgers blogs/discords Ohtani will get signed somewhere for a gazillion dollars. Half that team's fans will be annoyed because they think they overpaid. Fans of all the other teams in the rumor mill are going to sneer sour grapes, and that no player could possibly be worth that much. Then he's going to prove to be worth that much and everyone in that second group is going to be mad and it's going to be great.
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Nov 5, 2023 02:09
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FlamingLiberal posted:I'm skeptical that the Giants are really going to pay what Ohtani is going to demand Uggghhh I know, it sucks.
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Nov 5, 2023 02:25
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I've been informed that Ohtani loves ketchup on his hot dogs
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Nov 5, 2023 02:37
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Intruder posted:I've been informed that Ohtani loves ketchup on his hot dogs As such hot dogs with ketchup is how Chicagoans will now take their Vienna Beef dags. They'll call it Shohei Style. rickiep00h fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Nov 5, 2023 |
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Nov 5, 2023 02:40
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Q != E
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Nov 5, 2023 02:41
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I hear Ohtani loves viet-cajun crawfish.
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Nov 5, 2023 02:51
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Dodgers are the heavy favorites for Ohtani if only because he doesn't have to move
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Nov 5, 2023 02:52
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They're the best team in baseball, they're going to be the high bidder, and he already lives nearby. He is 95% going to sign with the Dodgers and the other 5% is like the Dodgers are suddenly sold to John Henry or something
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Nov 5, 2023 02:59
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Question for those that are more knowledgeable about this stuff: how are luxury tax payrolls calculated? From what I've been able to gather it's the entire 40 man payroll calculated at the end of the season based on AAV, but it doesn't appear to take payroll concessions from other teams into account. Rangers and Astros both got significant dollars from the Mets towards the Scherzer/Verlander contracts. Am I right in my reading that when it comes to calculating the luxury tax payroll you don't include the Mets contributions?
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Nov 5, 2023 03:14
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That's right
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Nov 5, 2023 03:15
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GPTribefan posted:I love Tom Hamilton as much as most members of my own family, but if you listened to him the last month of the season you would have thought Kole Calhoun was the ultimate veteran pickup and was going to 1993-Fred-McGriff us into the playoffs. And he STILL would have better to keep around than signing Rivas. lol 100% agreed Hamilton hyped up Calhoun waaaaay too much in September. I get that it's literally his job but like. c'mon man we know the score. Rivas is... I dunno. He -could- be good if he continues trending upward, and he's at least got more runway than Calhoun to figure it out, but meh. Not exactly an endearing pickup. I really do hope Spongebob works it out - it was kind of sad not having him on the roster this year just from a morale standpoint but boy did he stink this year.Z Would be deeply funny and very Cleveland if we signed Votto - the management loves picking up aged-out 1B/DH guys for 1-2 years for reasons completely unfathomable, have since the 90s. Monathin fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Nov 5, 2023 |
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Nov 5, 2023 04:33
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Monathin posted:lol 100% agreed Hamilton hyped up Calhoun waaaaay too much in September. I get that it's literally his job but like. c'mon man we know the score. Rivas is... I dunno. He -could- be good if he continues trending upward, and he's at least got more runway than Calhoun to figure it out, but meh. Not exactly an endearing pickup. You just gave me flashbacks to the post Albert Belle era - Harold Baines, Cecil Fielder, Kevin Mitchell, Julio Franco, Kevin Seitzer, Mark Whiten…. Yikes
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Nov 5, 2023 05:06
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Eric the Mauve posted:They're the best team in baseball, they're going to be the high bidder, and he already lives nearby. He is 95% going to sign with the Dodgers and the other 5% is like the Dodgers are suddenly sold to John Henry or something the dodgers just demonstrated again they aren't the best team in baseball and ohtani is on the record he loves deep dish and malort
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Nov 5, 2023 05:07
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Congratulations to fans of the Texas Rangers baseball team
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Nov 5, 2023 05:20
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Pobrecito posted:Question for those that are more knowledgeable about this stuff: how are luxury tax payrolls calculated? From what I've been able to gather it's the entire 40 man payroll calculated at the end of the season based on AAV, but it doesn't appear to take payroll concessions from other teams into account. Rangers and Astros both got significant dollars from the Mets towards the Scherzer/Verlander contracts. Am I right in my reading that when it comes to calculating the luxury tax payroll you don't include the Mets contributions?
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Nov 5, 2023 07:22
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https://x.com/mrjeffu/status/1721155616453153250?s=20
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Nov 5, 2023 16:23
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If I ever go to Japan I'm gonna eat at KFC once. It's such a thing over there but here it's considered dogshit garbage. The recipe's gotta be different, right?
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Nov 5, 2023 17:05
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In the very funny 1992 book Dave Barry Does Japan, the author observed that a number of young Japanese people were wearing t shirts with nonsensical English writing on them. One was the KFC logo and the text read "King Fucker Chicken" He also attended a baseball game and said it was amazing. The stadiums were spotlessly clean and the crowds would sing their team's fight song in unison.
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Nov 5, 2023 17:27
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Well Played Mauer posted:If I ever go to Japan I'm gonna eat at KFC once. It's such a thing over there but here it's considered dogshit garbage. The recipe's gotta be different, right? Some of the folks I deployed with said KFC was way better and actually good over there. I didn't have KFC, but McDonalds was far higher quality than it is in the US. Then again I hadn't had US fast food for over a decade at the time and I still couldn't finish a Big Mac because it tasted like chemicals and horrible, but ymmv.
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Nov 5, 2023 17:32
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Well Played Mauer posted:If I ever go to Japan I'm gonna eat at KFC once. It's such a thing over there but here it's considered dogshit garbage. The recipe's gotta be different, right? I spent 3 teenage years in Southeast Asia and fast food is freshly made and 100% delicious. On a trip to china I had KFC in Xi’an and it was incredible
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Nov 5, 2023 17:43
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If I was Ohtani but also still as lazy as I am now I'd be like okay pay me the most money ever because I'll pitch and bat and then after this coming year being like oh dang doc says illl never pitch again
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Nov 5, 2023 17:51
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maffew buildings posted:Some of the folks I deployed with said KFC was way better and actually good over there. I didn't have KFC, but McDonalds was far higher quality than it is in the US. Then again I hadn't had US fast food for over a decade at the time and I still couldn't finish a Big Mac because it tasted like chemicals and horrible, but ymmv. much, much higher food safety standards there for both basic ingredients and the handling of them than the essentially nonexistent ones here, that makes a huge difference even before accounting for differences in seasoning etc
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Nov 5, 2023 17:52
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canyoneer posted:In the very funny 1992 book Dave Barry Does Japan, the author observed that a number of young Japanese people were wearing t shirts with nonsensical English writing on them. One was the KFC logo and the text read "King Fucker Chicken" It's way more than that. There's coordinated cheering for every batter. A while back I decided on the Tigers as my NPB team and started trying to learn more about them (they're one of the easiest teams to do this with as there's a well-maintained English news blog written by a Canadian expat guy about them called H-TEN). Literally every player has their own song (usually pretty simple, but still). Like here was Kosuke Fukudome's: 
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Nov 5, 2023 18:13
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It's good to have regular reminders that the rest of the world does baseball fandom much better than we do
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Nov 5, 2023 18:18
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I'm standing behind an academy in a huge line to get an autograph from Adolis Garcia. Session starts at 3pm. Wanted to get something signed but they're just handing out a card he'll sign. Which, hey I get....but now begins the endurance run. Is this goofy piece of paper gonna be worth it?
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Nov 5, 2023 18:26
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Shinjobi posted:I'm standing behind an academy in a huge line to get an autograph from Adolis Garcia. Session starts at 3pm. Wanted to get something signed but they're just handing out a card he'll sign. Which, hey I get....but now begins the endurance run. Is this goofy piece of paper gonna be worth it? No. Autographs never are in that type of setting. Go home and watch youtube videos of Adolis hitting bombs in the playoffs, that's much more satisfying.
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Nov 5, 2023 18:33
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more falafel please posted:It's way more than that. There's coordinated cheering for every batter. A while back I decided on the Tigers as my NPB team and started trying to learn more about them (they're one of the easiest teams to do this with as there's a well-maintained English news blog written by a Canadian expat guy about them called H-TEN). Literally every player has their own song (usually pretty simple, but still). American sports fans are uninteresting and, like everything else here, ridiculously individualistic. It's all about being the biggest single lout in a group of beer-swilling, bodypainted louts. In the rest of the world it's about being one massive lout such that the other team is so demoralized they just forget how to play. Fans in the US want to be on TV. Fans around the world want to destroy the stadium and/or win the game.
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Nov 5, 2023 19:02
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bawfuls posted:It's good to have regular reminders that the rest of the world does baseball fandom much better than we do There is no comparison to northeast playoff baseball.
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Nov 5, 2023 19:13
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Shinjobi posted:I'm standing behind an academy in a huge line to get an autograph from Adolis Garcia. Session starts at 3pm. Wanted to get something signed but they're just handing out a card he'll sign. Which, hey I get....but now begins the endurance run. Is this goofy piece of paper gonna be worth it?
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Nov 5, 2023 20:17
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I think it's cool they do individual chants and I'd love to go to a game in Japan/Taiwan/Korea but it also seems kind of exhausting if you just wanna chill and watch a game. Maybe there are more dedicated cheering sections and other areas for people that just wanna drink some brews?
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Nov 5, 2023 20:29
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Popete posted:I think it's cool they do individual chants and I'd love to go to a game in Japan/Taiwan/Korea but it also seems kind of exhausting if you just wanna chill and watch a game. Maybe there are more dedicated cheering sections and other areas for people that just wanna drink some brews? When I went to Korea, the beer in the stadiums wasn't marked up and was cheaper than water. This may be the key to success.
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Nov 5, 2023 20:31
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when do the tacos happen?
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Intruder posted:when do the tacos happen?
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