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Let's talk about something not related to the Dodgers and bawfuls for a sec: https://twitter.com/therealjpap58/status/1738253661745397908?t=QpgSKYbBUu-5yHWz2IO-jg
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Mustached Demon posted:Same number of rings as the Chicago Cubs too. I actually love bawfuls too and he was the only Dodger fan I remember seeing or hearing that hated the Bauer signing from Day 1 and wanted Friedman to be held accountable to some extent. I’m just giving him poo poo because I’m jealous.
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Dec 23, 2023 00:01
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I like it when teams I hate build rosters of likeable guys because it makes me like baseball more in the aggregate. You could even convince me to maybe root for the Yankees in certain matchups because they employ cool and good players (while also having a disturbing trend of hiring lovely dudes who are good at baseball, which is why I still don't LIKE them.) Which is all to say I am excited to see a bunch of cool and good players all on the Dodgers even without the guarantee of championship success like the Padres did. It'd be neat if they were all in Denver hitting monster dongs off the Rocky Mountains themselves, but hey. LA is Fine. It'd be neat if my team did literally anything to address what is almost assuredly a sucking chest wound of a back-half rotation, but I can applaud guys getting paid to play in nice places with other good guys.
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Dec 23, 2023 00:02
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anakha posted:Let's talk about something not related to the Dodgers and bawfuls for a sec: The fact that this shithead doesn't like Verdugo is a mark in his favor.
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Dec 23, 2023 00:02
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i don't care for the dodgers getting all of these cool players on their team because i would like them to play for my team, instead
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Dec 23, 2023 00:04
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I know it doesnt mean much but as a casual baseball fan all this Dodgers stuff just checks me out for at least this season. Having at least some sort of parity, or at least the false illusion of competition, makes pro sports much more enjoyable to me and I have no interest in watching one team flaunt their endless pocketbook to buy all the best talent. e: and this is totally unrelated to the Blue Jays being so unbelievably poorly managed and coached I promise...
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Dec 23, 2023 00:09
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Furnaceface posted:I know it doesnt mean much but as a casual baseball fan all this Dodgers stuff just checks me out for at least this season. Having at least some sort of parity, or at least the false illusion of competition, makes pro sports much more enjoyable to me and I have no interest in watching one team flaunt their endless pocketbook to buy all the best talent. actually,,,,,,,,
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Eric the Mauve posted:Definitely way better than the four world championships in 1955-1965 They’ve won more games during this era. (They also abandoned Brooklyn during that time which probably soured a few fans). They’ve broken the previous franchise wins record three times in the last five seasons. They’ve won 100+ games eleven times in their history, and six of those were in the past decade. 2013-2015 was the first time the Dodgers made the postseason in three consecutive years, and they’ve now got an active streak of 11. This was in fact the specific achievement I allowed myself to hope for when McCourt sold the team, I thought it was too greedy to hope for a championship and the baseball gods would punish me for it. This era has also blessed us with Kershaw, the franchise leader in WAR and strikeouts. Yeah yeah “rings bitch” and “bawfuls regular season trophy” blah blah. An alarming number of Dodgers fans I see online or talk to in real life share that myopic sentiment. They’re fools, this has been an absolute blessed decade for Dodgers fans and I genuinely feel sorry for any who’ve taken that for granted. Teams just don’t get runs like this often, we gotta savor it in the moment.
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Dec 23, 2023 00:29
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Furnaceface posted:I know it doesnt mean much but as a casual baseball fan all this Dodgers stuff just checks me out for at least this season. Having at least some sort of parity, or at least the false illusion of competition, makes pro sports much more enjoyable to me and I have no interest in watching one team flaunt their endless pocketbook to buy all the best talent.
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Furnaceface posted:Having at least some sort of parity, or at least the false illusion of competition, makes pro sports much more enjoyable to me and I have no interest in watching one team flaunt their endless pocketbook to buy all the best talent. Sounds like pro sports is just not for you.
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Dec 23, 2023 00:40
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Furnaceface posted:I know it doesnt mean much but as a casual baseball fan all this Dodgers stuff just checks me out for at least this season. Having at least some sort of parity, or at least the false illusion of competition, makes pro sports much more enjoyable to me and I have no interest in watching one team flaunt their endless pocketbook to buy all the best talent. You're wrong to feel this way and let me tell you why
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Dec 23, 2023 00:43
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I’m old enough to remember when the Mets and Padres were destroying competitive balance with their reckless, astronomical spending
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Dec 23, 2023 00:45
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Before a few years ago all of the records for most wins in X consecutive seasons, I think for every value of X between 1 and 9, were held by the Cubs of the 1900s. I should look it up but the current Dodgers may have started bumping them out of a few of those or at least making a hard run at them (though the pandemic hosed that up a lot). Which given how much more competitive modern baseball is than the baseball of 110-120 years ago is really remarkable.
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Dec 23, 2023 00:49
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R.D. Mangles posted:i don't care for the dodgers getting all of these cool players on their team because i would like them to play for my team, instead Hear, hear! I'm acutely mad at the Yankees for fumbling Yamamoto this hard.
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Dec 23, 2023 00:58
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Remember Tauchmania? It's back, in video form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpHWdQZI-sI
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Dec 23, 2023 00:59
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bawfuls posted:We're really still doing this two weeks later? Fair enough, I concede. I did not know the specifics of the structure. Also I don't care if they were to have been ripped off. Players deserve their share, Shohei deserved his.
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Dec 23, 2023 01:00
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Inspector_666 posted:Hear, hear! I'm acutely mad at the Yankees for fumbling Yamamoto this hard. The Yankees are just not a well run organization man.....
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Dec 23, 2023 01:07
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bravesword posted:I’m old enough to remember when the Mets and Padres were destroying competitive balance with their reckless, astronomical spending The difference here is the Dodgers aren't hilariously incompetent
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Dec 23, 2023 01:12
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Intruder posted:The difference here is the Dodgers aren't hilariously incompetent Neither are the Astros, Crane is just cheap
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Dec 23, 2023 01:27
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If you want the actual dark times look at the MLB payrolls from 15 to 20 years ago, 2005 in particular. Freaking Yankees have like the same payroll they do today at 200 plus. Only two other teams were barely over 100 and a ton of teams were sub 50.
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Dec 23, 2023 01:32
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bravesword posted:I’m old enough to remember when the Mets and Padres were destroying competitive balance with their reckless, astronomical spending The mets and padres didn't do the luxury tax fuckery the dodgers are doing with ohtani. Cohen is paying the full freight.
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mcmagic absolutely obsessed with poor John Fisher getting His Fair Share
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MrMidnight posted:You're wrong to feel this way and let me tell you why Am I at least allowed to hate the Yankees and Cardinals for absolutely no reason at all?
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mcmagic posted:The fact that this shithead doesn't like Verdugo is a mark in his favor. Remember when he choked Bryce Harper lmao
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You're perfectly right to be disinterested by a lack of parity. Just don't get duped by talking heads into thinking baseball has none because of this or any other big free agent signings.
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Also I’m not really reading the last three pages, is it all Dodgers Discourse?
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Dec 23, 2023 02:21
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Bregor posted:Also I’m not really reading the last three pages, is it all Dodgers Discourse? there was a little bit about whether or not Verdugo is a bitch, also highly skippable
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Bregor posted:Also I’m not really reading the last three pages, is it all Dodgers Discourse? What does your heart tell you?
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Bawfuls man your problem is you’re new to being the bad guy. Don’t bother telling people the way they feel is wrong (eg the Yankees didn’t buy a dynasty, they developed amazing players and spent to keep them and complemented them with free agents any team could have afforded). Tell them they’re right and it’s their problem they’re mad, then make a portmanteau with Yamamoto and Ohtani like Ohtanamoto. After sparring with Astros fans for nearly a decade it’s your turn to put on the nWo tshirt. In short, kiss the rings and Kershaw is a regular season pitcher
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Don't tell me how to have fun on the internet, I'll gently caress it up all on my own thankyouverymuch
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it's time to embrace your destiny
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The famous lack of parity in baseball, where participants in the championship series last year were the wild card from the Dodgers own division and the wild card that tied with their division rival that won two championships, won the league twice more, and were one game away from that twice MORE in the past six years. All these ownership groups consist of literal billionaires, including a few multibillionaires. Parity. Lol. Lmao, even.
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R.D. Mangles posted:it's time to embrace your destiny This gif couldn’t exist for the Dodgers because that camera shot is from the second inning.
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Well Played Mauer posted:This gif couldn’t exist for the Dodgers because that camera shot is from the second inning. 
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lmao but also I cannot think of Justin Turner without also thinking of extra innings postseason reliever John Lackey.
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i think it's cool when there are super teams to root against but also bawfuls "woe is me my team wins 110 games every year but we lose in the playoffs" thing is annoying oh no i get to root for the best team in baseball year in and year out and we win way more than we lose isn't it hard to be me
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The Dodgers are bad because they're not my team and everything else is working backwards from that.
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 the 'Godzilla Matsui' guy got roasted.quote:“Ty Schmit, you are a spectacular scumbag,” Passan said with a lisp, referencing Schmit’s Lou Holtz impression. “You are a scumbag. This show understands scumbaggery better than any show out there. Would you not say what Ty did last night was about as bad a thing as you could do to an entire fanbase? To make them think that the one guy all offseason they wanted — this was going to complete the offseason — and then, because of bourbon .. your sources were named Jack, Jim and Jose!” The tweet in question: https://twitter.com/tyschmit/status/1737993190181892273
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Well Played Mauer posted:This gif couldn’t exist for the Dodgers because that camera shot is from the second inning. 
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