live with fruit posted:Player, singular. And Ohtani's getting this because they can slap his face on a bunch of poo poo at an unprecedented scale. It's all poo poo. Everything is poo poo.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 00:40 |
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Meanwhile, literally everything at the stadium and on the broadcast is sponsored and covered in advertising and crappy beer costs $15. I think I might hate MLB.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 00:42 |
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As you should, but it’s not the players’ fault.bravesword posted:They’re going to flip him, probably for more than they could have gotten for Evan White. Assuming no money changes hands in this deal and they can find someone to take Stassi, they will have unloaded almost all the dead money they picked up in the Kelenic trade. In more important news, this happened. (To the White Sox for PTBNL.) Everyone share your favorite memories of the Max Stassi era.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 00:45 |
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EXTRA EXTRA! THERE'S A HUGE NEW DEAL! https://twitter.com/Braves/status/1733630112925434315?s=20 e: gently caress I got scooped I'm gonna lose my newsie cap!
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 00:46 |
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bravesword posted:As you should, but it’s not the players’ fault. It's not James Outman's fault but Ohtani's making complicit money.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 00:47 |
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i echo an earlier poster who said they remember vividly how insane ARod's deal for $252m was and how it seemed like the most impossible number imaginable. and yet we are just a couple years away from some $1b player, most likely in baseball
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 00:48 |
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live with fruit posted:Player, singular. And Ohtani's getting this because they can slap his face on a bunch of poo poo at an unprecedented scale. It's all poo poo. Hopefully they can rectify that soon.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 00:49 |
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Kirios posted:Man that's such a massive gut punch for Blue Jay fans. Not to this one, I never expected that the Jays would land Ohtani at all, so I didn't buy into any of the hype or get my expectations raised. Also, I think not getting him leaves much more flexibility for spending to fill more holes. I don't think getting Ohtani would be the silver bullet to fix the Blue Jays and take them from mediocre to the World Series. I don't think there are any silver bullets.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 00:50 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 00:50 |
Okay please stop I am adrift
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 00:51 |
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live with fruit posted:"My billionaire owner is better than yours" is owner propaganda. what about a billionaire player, which is what Ohtani will be in a few years
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 00:52 |
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I’m glad Shohei is getting paid but it’s kinda boring that he’s going to a team that has already won 100 games 5 of the last 6 non-Covid years
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 00:52 |
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Jesus gently caress thank god he didn't go to the goddamn Cubs
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:00 |
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:03 |
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bawfuls posted:yeah it’s a shame that Guggenheim money hasn’t ended up in the pocket of any other great baseball players, just this one The Dodgers have four players making over $10 million in 2024: three of the most marketable players in the game, and Chris Taylor.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:08 |
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imo the Angels should be contracted
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:08 |
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Carlosologist posted:imo the Angels should be contracted Move them to Las Vegas too.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:10 |
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Kirios posted:As someone whose team never had a chance to sign Shohei this entire saga has been highly depressing.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:11 |
Carlosologist posted:imo the Angels should be contracted
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:11 |
This loving sucks. Now I can't even buy a jersey. I'd feel like an rear end in a top hat.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:13 |
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General Dog posted:700 mil/10 years would be too much for Jesus Christ, even if Jesus Christ was the best baseball player in the world, and He lands you a bigger fanbase than Japan. Are you saying Jesus Christ can't hit a curve ball???
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:15 |
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General Dog posted:700 mil/10 years would be too much for Jesus Christ, even if Jesus Christ was the best baseball player in the world, and He lands you a bigger fanbase than Japan. Jesus Christ? Who'd he ever beat?
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:16 |
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I am feeling for you mdemone, as my Pynchon/McCarthy homie and also as somebody who just over ten years ago watched my all-time baseball hero, the man who literally turned me into a fan of the sport overnight, Albert Pujols sign with...the Los Angeles Angels. It's like poetry, it rhymes etc.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:16 |
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mdemone posted:This loving sucks. Now I can't even buy a jersey. I'd feel like an rear end in a top hat. What Angels fan would care? It's not like Ohtani betrayed the team.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:18 |
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I’m glad Shohei is getting paid but it’s kinda boring that he’s going to a team that has already won 100 games 5 of the last 6 non-Covid years Yeah it is pretty lame but he's done his time, RIP Tungsten arm.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:20 |
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Its Rinaldo posted:What Angels fan would care? It's not like Ohtani betrayed the team. The bigger problem was that the Angels should have traded him at the deadline if the market was known to go that high.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:24 |
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live with fruit posted:The Dodgers have four players making over $10 million in 2024: three of the most marketable players in the game, and Chris Taylor.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:25 |
Craptacular! posted:The bigger problem was that the Angels should have traded him at the deadline if the market was known to go that high. Or offer him $800M and none of this ever happens Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:27 |
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mdemone posted:Or offer him $800M and none of this ever happens Dodgers fans are fine to say "not my money" but this was a number few orgs will touch.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:29 |
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The deferral being “most of his salary” means it isn’t really a number other teams can’t touch
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:32 |
Craptacular! posted:Dodgers fans are fine to say "not my money" but this was a number few orgs will touch. Arte Moreno decided not to sell because he was informed that his franchise valuation was going to increase substantially BUT
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:33 |
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I'm so happy rogers didn't spend money, my phone bill is high enough I am now becoming a dodgers fan, ohtani jersey is en route
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:37 |
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I'm glad Ohtani is getting paid, good for him. I'm sad Ohtani is still not going to get rings when the Dodgers lose to the Astros. I'm not sad the Dodgers will lose.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:41 |
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bawfuls posted:The deferral being “most of his salary” means it isn’t really a number other teams can’t touch It is if you don't want to pay loads of tax. And who knows if he made that offer to other teams (I'm presuming he was interested in staying geographically close to the west coast here.) I'll be called an owner propagandist, but I'm also the first person to say that there should be a salary floor tied to revenues. If you want to take on this kind of contract value you're going to be paying in loads towards teams that don't. I think it's a serious problem but the owners just agreed to add one more team in a revenue sharing location and remove a team from a high-value market in one stroke so the problem is only getting worse before it gets better.
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:44 |
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"We need to recreate Shohei Ohtani in the aggregate."
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:51 |
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Criminal Minded posted:Jesus gently caress thank god he didn't go to the goddamn Cubs mods
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:52 |
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I am happy for my beautiful boy Shohei, make that paper son I am also happy for bawfuls, seems fun to sign the most talented baseballer in a century during his prime Me to Jed Hoyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0_f5fkrCTA Bregor fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Dec 18, 2023 |
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R.D. Mangles posted:mods I already got my heart broken by a girl in Chicago this year, I don't need this additional suffering
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:53 |
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I can't believe he signed with the Angels cross town rivals
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:53 |
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well thank god he's out of the AL at least
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# ? Dec 10, 2023 01:57 |