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bawfuls posted:Then came 2020, and revelations of The Cans conveniently in a season where no fans would get the chance to let the Astros know how we felt about it, and of course no real consequences for them either. The first time the Dodgers faced the Astros that summer, Joe Kelly rose to the occasion. He throws at Bregman AND Correa, the first resulting in a walk and the second in a wild pitch that puts Bregman on 3rd. Then he strikes out Correa on a couple filthy breaking balls to end the inning. Correa gets big mad, yelling at him, which is what gifted us this exchange and a fantastic meme: IIRC he wasn't mad about the cans he was mad because he felt the players had thrown Hinch under the bus e: the best part of that was his wife going on Instagram and insisting he didn't throw at them on purpose, he just isn't a very good pitcher so he has no command at least you've dropped the he wasn't throwing at them act Intruder fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Dec 24, 2023 |
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R.D. Mangles posted:aren't the blue jays supposed to be in on bellinger???
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FlamingLiberal posted:I don't see any chance he goes to the Yankees. There's nowhere for him to play. Correct, but if they don't sign Snell they're going to be desperate to sign the last marquee free agent available and try to sort it out later. it will be glorious. Likelier they'll give Snell a hilariously huge contract though since they need another pitcher a lot more than they need another outfielder.
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mcmagic posted:This is mental gymnastics. The tax operates in reality like salary cap does in the NFL. If you found out that the Pats had been paying Tom Brady in some kind of side deal so that he would take a far under market value deal would that be super cool and fine? The tax was created because nobody spent nearly as much as New York and Boston for the longest time. Luxury tax discussion ITT is kind of funny, particularly you being against the fuckery of it, because the 'No Caps Ever, Give Players Billions' crowd here essentially idolizes George Steinbrenner for spending more money on salary than the team actually generated, using his shipbuilding company as a piggy bank to buy Everybody's Best Player. That's what I was referring to when I said that owners aren't going to go "full Howard Hughes", because Hughes was known for relying upon his family's reliably and wildly profitable oil drilling tool company to pay for huge debts racked up in aerospace and movie studios, because he had a huge boner for airplanes and movies and wasn't going to let something like "this business can't make money with how much we're spending" get in the way. Steinbrenner and possibly Ted Turner are the only people I know of who have gone full Hughes in baseball. That's what people in this thread want, they want teams spending more money on players than they actually make because Rich Daddy is giving the business an interest free loan. It worked out well for New York, because it turns out being able to say "Twenty-Seven Fine World Championships" on the outside of your stadium raises the franchise value. (Although whether it raises it as efficiently or as dramatically as having huge ownership stakes in cable TV networks for the past few years is questionable, but the cable business is a dying albatross for ESPN and it will be for MLB teams soon as well.) Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Dec 24, 2023 |
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Buying good players to build successful teams is what I'm after, not flushing money down the drain on fringe lovely players that will barely get airborne due to their size.
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Adun posted:As a Porsche Driving Athlete I just assume he has a set amount of free Porsches to give out every year and was getting to the end of the year without using up his allotment has there actually been any sighthings of Ohtani driving a car? I am still skeptical that he even knows how yet
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rickiep00h posted:Buying good players to build successful teams is what I'm after, not flushing money down the drain on fringe lovely players that will barely get airborne due to their size. The best position to be in, the one the Yankees were in not long ago, is the one where when your whole team of superstars gets injured your AAA team is capable of beating many MLB teams because they've been blocked by superstars for who knows how long. Some years ago the Yankees came to San Francisco with an entire squad of unrecognizable minor league guys with no baseball cards and destroyed the Giants. No Judge, No Stanton, no problem. It turns out when your majors team is loaded with immovable contracts that you can have quite a talented farm system if you just draft well.
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R.D. Mangles posted:aren't the blue jays supposed to be in on bellinger??? Lmao
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Bellinger's whole deal is that he's content to hold out until spring training starts asking for an insane mega contract, figuring some team will eventually panic they've let too many pieces come off the board and give him like $300M. There are a lot of teams "in" on him but mostly in the sense that they're waiting for the price to come down.
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Sydin posted:Bellinger's whole deal is that he's content to hold out until spring training starts asking for an insane mega contract, figuring some team will eventually panic they've let too many pieces come off the board and give him like $300M. There are a lot of teams "in" on him but mostly in the sense that they're waiting for the price to come down. Hopefully the Twins and Guardians don't wait for Bellinger to trade their lefty bats.
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Ohtani had evidently gone full anime in that last WBC at-bat:quote:With two outs, the last batter he faced was Mike Trout, his colleague on the Angels. E: full anime indeed https://twitter.com/sponichibunsha/status/1639376796683767808 anakha fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Dec 24, 2023 |
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Did someone say full anime Ohtani???
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Wayne Knight posted:Mervis to the Mariners IT'S NOT OK TO SAY THINGS LIKE THIS
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bawfuls posted:Did someone say full anime Ohtani??? FullTungsten Smashing It
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Wayne Knight posted:Mervis to the Mariners Splash Mervis
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maffew buildings posted:IT'S NOT OK TO SAY THINGS LIKE THIS Hosmer to the Mariners. Now you're relieved 
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R.D. Mangles posted:correa screaming at him THROW ME A FASTBALL BRO after getting struck out on a bunch of breaking balls is one of the funniest stupid baseball things. even pedro cerrano wouldn't yell that. I liked the part where Correa says "if I'd hit a homerun..." like yeah dog, if you had hit a home run. If my cat had wheels she'd be an RC car.
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Chief McHeath posted:I liked the part where Correa says "if I'd hit a homerun..." like yeah dog, if you had hit a home run. If my cat had wheels she'd be an RC car. Doesn't the RC stand for Remote Controlled. Do you control your cat with a remote?
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IcePhoenix posted:Doesn't the RC stand for Remote Controlled. Do you not?
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rickiep00h posted:Do you not? I do not control their cat with a remote, no
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Happy Rickey Henderson day to all who celebrate That's what's up, Rickey is the greatest of all time and it's always the best time of year to reflect on our favorite Rickey moments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et_8GqJZJkI
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maffew buildings posted:That's what's up, Rickey is the greatest of all time and it's always the best time of year to reflect on our favorite Rickey moments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et_8GqJZJkI I love that Secret Base interrupted their own Dave Stieb documentary to spend 15 straight minutes detailing just how brutally Rickey Henderson clowned on the Blue Jays. https://youtu.be/eaTCyQMyOu8?si=nEo91LjY_0IoETyO Skip to about 18:00.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Mariners signed Mitch Garver for 2 years, $24 million good signing
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Shine posted:I love that Secret Base interrupted their own Dave Stieb documentary to spend 15 straight minutes detailing just how brutally Rickey Henderson clowned on the Blue Jays. My favorite part was Rickey tipping his helmet to the Toronto fans after getting picked off
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Shine posted:I love that Secret Base interrupted their own Dave Stieb documentary to spend 15 straight minutes detailing just how brutally Rickey Henderson clowned on the Blue Jays. That entire documentary is great and now through the power of science we can review the Cy Young and other awards winners of that time and see somehow the BBWAA is actually significantly less brain dumb now
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Cody Bells, Cody Bells
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Eric the Mauve posted:My favorite part was Rickey tipping his helmet to the Toronto fans after getting picked off Yeah, that loving rules. Rickey was playing his usual mind game with the pitcher, he got caught slipping, he gave the crowd the touché they'd earned, and he moved on. Those are the fun villains: the ones who get that part of showmanship is being willing to let the crowd have their little victories. Rickey's gonna get on base again, and Rickey's gonna run again. Whatchu gonna do, Reynolds? You ready for Rickey to run? Rickey's gonna go!
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Rickey's the kind of villain who can call the stolen base champ, tell them they disappointed him and hang up, and years later it's somehow one of the most endearing baseball stories ever. Rickey Henderson was the goddamn loving best.
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I also like the story about him telling John Olerud "Rickey used to play with a guy in Toronto who wore a helmet in the field" not because it's true (it isn't) and not because it's believable because Rickey was that dumb (he was a space cadet but he remembered everything), but because it's completely believable that he'd say that and act dumb just to gently caress with Olerud. Rickey was great and there will never be anything like him again, in more ways than one.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Man, Rickey played in the wrong era, imagine how many fuckin wild stories never got told On the other hand, if he played in like the ‘20s or ‘30s we’d have a lot of serious baseball historians soberly declaring that most of the stories people tell about him were apocryphal or likely myths, so maybe it’s better this way It’s kind of wild how much of early baseball history is of questionable veracity, even with reporters all over the place. Lefty Gomez would say anything about anybody if it got a laugh from whoever he was talking to at the time, and he’s your primary source for a lot of Joe DiMaggio stories
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