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Dejan Bimble posted:2 actual major league journeymen, lenny russel and thad bosley put music out together under the name "ball players" Thad Bosley’s had a pretty interesting life, actually. He was a coach for the Moneyball A’s, and appears in the book for a hot minute This isn’t his first go-round with music, either. He wrote and produced music for over a decade in between his playing and coaching careers
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Dejan Bimble posted:2 actual major league journeymen, lenny russel and thad bosley put music out together under the name "ball players" Bosley, as an A's coach, made a one-scene appearance in Moneyball (the book), wherein Ray Durham was astounded to learn Bosley had stolen 90 bases in a season once in the minors. He stole 47 in his major league career. e: dammit bravesword 
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FlamingLiberal posted:Seems like the Red Sox are trying to unload some bad contracts Even though he probably won't be that good I'd like it if the Dodgers brought back Jansen
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congrats to the goon who has outted themselves as trevor bauers child psychologist, dunno why you decided to share that here but you aren't required to carry water for your rapist clients hth
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Bogus Adventure posted:It started off when he was a kid. Baseball Doesn't Exist released a pretty good breakdown of Bauer after 2021 This is the video that got me to unsubscribe from Baseball Doesn't Exist. E: oh no wait it was this other one he made that is also way too forgiving of Bauer https://youtu.be/kZjcGXDRYOw Kevlar v2.0 fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Bogus Adventure posted:I thought he was okay as well until I looked at his stats. He was signed for 5yrs/$90m and provided 0.6 fWAR in his first year. He started off incredible and was like, impossible to get out. Then the wheels came off.
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I've never heard of this man in my life, but I already can't stand to look at his dumb face
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Yoshida had a really good first half of the season (0.872 OPS) then faded in the second half due to the schedule and travel, at least according to what I read. The optimist can say he'll likely improve next season as he adjusts to the workload, while the pessimist can question how much further improvement can be expected from someone his age. His defensive shortcomings can be somewhat covered up by playing LF in Fenway but a low-power lefty like him seems like a questionable fit for DH. Still, if Boston trades him 1 year after signing him to a 5-year contract, that's not gonna be a good look if they're trying to attract more NPB players in the future.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:This is the video that got me to unsubscribe from Baseball Doesn't Exist. Yeah, those videos do go too light on Bauer.
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Trevor Bauer already got a second chance, he got to go play in Japan well also receiving the money from his Dodgers contract. He isn't owed a chance to play in MLB again and any team that takes him on should be ridiculed.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I saw this from the ESPN article about the Franco case Franco was paying the mother and there was some kind of sugar daddy thing going on for the daughter but the mother wasn’t giving the money to her and what the gently caress this guy should be kept away from anyone under 70 and the mother should be kept as far away from them both as possible
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:This is the video that got me to unsubscribe from Baseball Doesn't Exist. Yep same, it's unfortunate because I thought some of their earlier stuff was interesting but as soon as they branched out of obscure and wacky former players to talk about current MLB drama it turned out the guy running it has some real dogshit opinions. Popete posted:Trevor Bauer already got a second chance, he got to go play in Japan well also receiving the money from his Dodgers contract. He isn't owed a chance to play in MLB again and any team that takes him on should be ridiculed. Extremely funny to see people whine online about how Bauer's life has been RUINED BY CANCEL CULTURE when he's made over $100M in his playing career and will be able to live in the lap of luxury for the rest of his life even if he never makes another dollar playing baseball.
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mcmagic posted:Which lovely pitcher winning the cy young was stupider? robbie ray or rick porcello? I mean, Robbie led the AL in era, starts, innings pitched, and led the majors in strikeouts that year. Seemed pretty deserving.
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mcmagic posted:Which lovely pitcher winning the cy young was stupider? robbie ray or rick porcello? Bartolo Colon
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The NL Cy race this year was really weird. Snell won on his extremely low ERA but his peripherals are nutty: 5.8 H/9, 5.0 BB/9, 0.8 HR/9, 11.7 K/9, most walks allowed by a qualified pitcher at 99. He was pretty darn wild but also impossible to hit so it didn't matter he was walking the planet because none of those guys were likely to actually be batted in. Meanwhile Strider posted an insane 13.5 K/9, led the league in strikeouts, and had a FIP and xERA that were both almost a full run lower than Snell's, but he also somehow paired with with a near-4 ERA that kicked him all the way down to fourth on the ballot.
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There is some local speculation that the reason the Red Sox are operating this way; being cheap, shedding contracts, etc. is to prep for being sold
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Me for literally every Trevor Bauer post:
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“Don’t be so hard on Trevor Bauer. He beat the poo poo out of his girl and choked her unconscious, yes, but have you considered maybe it’s because some people made fun of his training methods?” Is certainly a take
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Bullying is bad but being a narcissistic psychopath is worse. I understand trying to contextualize why he’s a piece of poo poo but plenty of kids got bullied all the time (myself included) and didn’t develop a pattern of sexually assaulting their partners and spewing their one-degree-off-Schilling opinions all over the place. Very big Patrick Bateman “I’m a child of divorce” vibes from this poster.
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Nodoze posted:There is some local speculation that the reason the Red Sox are operating this way; being cheap, shedding contracts, etc. is to prep for being sold
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I was bullied as a child and yet have never committed sexual assault. Some say there are millions like me with nary a YouTube hagiography nor millions of dollars to our names. We're all very noble.
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Maybe I’m too optimistic, but even if Bauer could come back and be decent for dirt cheap, it does seem like he has enough stink on him that even the grossest owners won’t want any part of him. He legitimately has a reputation that will cause a certain portion of fans to get turned off the product. The trade off doesn’t seem worth it to win a few more games for cheap but have a ton of people stop coming to games.
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I would assume that the quasi apology was basically teams saying “we’re not even talking to you unless you do some damage control”. So hopefully if there’s just way more “that is incredibly gross, gently caress him” then “poor guy” bullshit they’ll all take a walk.
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DeepDickPizza posted:Maybe I’m too optimistic, but even if Bauer could come back and be decent for dirt cheap, it does seem like he has enough stink on him that even the grossest owners won’t want any part of him. He legitimately has a reputation that will cause a certain portion of fans to get turned off the product. The trade off doesn’t seem worth it to win a few more games for cheap but have a ton of people stop coming to games. Most baseball fans will not give a poo poo. Signing Bauer isn’t going to tank any team’s attendance, especially to a team like Tampa (what attendance?) or Houston (already conditioned to supporting players everyone else hates). Now he’s doing the boilerplate “apology” tour, which was the thing he had to do for teams to consider him. He has to prove that he can sit through softball interviews and give PR responses instead of ranting and sounding like a lunatic. Once he checks that box teams will come looking. Our hope before was that he’s such a self-entitled prick he’d be constitutionally incapable of doing this. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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I don’t think it will “tank” any team’s attendance. Not even like 10% or anything. But at that scale, 1 or 2% is still huge and not really offset by the couple extra wins. Especially when paired with such fans being vocal in their disapproval. And I dunno what casual fans you’re talking to that have adapted to a gold digger narrative. Most people I talk to are pretty checked out on the details and just know the initial story and maybe that he’s been banished to Japan for it. People don’t pay close attention to this stuff but the know the broad strokes are gross. It’s not like he’s a likeable guy otherwise.
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I’m skeptical that there will be any measurable attendance hit for the team that signs him. American sports fans as a whole are pretty poo poo and don’t generally care about this kinda thing. Opponents will boo him and fans of his team will be galvanized by it/make excuses once he’s “their guy.” Some people will be mad, but not enough to matter and their views won’t be what gets amplified by mainstream sports media. There was a time when Braves fans I knew hated Ozuna. Then he started hitting again and they didn’t give a poo poo about his awful DV record. Most fans don’t want to think about any of this when watching their team. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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personally I hope Bauer's Tesla burst into flames while he's driving and the doors lock and won't open. I just assume he drives a Tesla.
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He was on WFAN and he was just as annoying as I remembered.
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bawfuls posted:There was a time when Braves fans I knew hated Ozuna. Then he started hitting again and they didn’t give a poo poo about his awful DV record. Most fans don’t want to think about any of this when watching their team. Yeah it's this, the reality is fans of whatever team didn't sign him will hate him and fans of the team that does sign him will either also hate him if he's now bad or be extremely smug about him if he's good. For every fan who cares enough to not tune into their favorite team because he got signed there are thousands who won't give a poo poo. DeepDickPizza posted:And I dunno what casual fans you’re talking to that have adapted to a gold digger narrative. Most people I talk to are pretty checked out on the details and just know the initial story and maybe that he’s been banished to Japan for it. People don’t pay close attention to this stuff but the know the broad strokes are gross. It’s not like he’s a likeable guy otherwise. Bauer made zero secret about his politics prior to the sexual assault allegations cropping up and from what I've seen where you fall on the Bauer situation has less to do with how plugged into baseball news you are and more if you're a chud or not. Like that really seems to be it: if you're conservative then Bauer is an innocent good boy whose life was maliciously destroyed by an evil gold digger, and if you're not then he's an obnoxious peace of poo poo who you probably already didn't want on your team even before poo poo hit the fan, and all everything else since has done is galvanize you in that regard.
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I honestly think there's only a couple of teams he could not sign with. Mets, Jays, Dodgers. That's the list I think. Might be wrong about the Mets.
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To be clear, the only thing I meant is that Bauer being bullied throughout his life and career might have contributed to him being the piece of poo poo he is now. I didn't mean that it should be an excuse for his views, actions, or sexual assault, or to garner any sympathy for him. If that's what it sounded like, then I'm sorry. I think he's a bad person who should be paying for his actions in jail, and has no business getting a second chance to play professional baseball. It was a bad post I wrote late at night, and I'm sorry.
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bawfuls posted:I’m skeptical that there will be any measurable attendance hit for the team that signs him. When I lived in the Pittsburgh area I was astounded at how many women I saw wearing Roethlisberger jerseys
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:I honestly think there's only a couple of teams he could not sign with. Mets, Jays, Dodgers. That's the list I think. Might be wrong about the Mets. I hope the Yankees wouldn't get near him with Cole on the roster.
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If there’s truth to their limit on Ohtani being Cole’s contract, they’d definitely stay away from a guy he has known beef with.
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bawfuls posted:Most baseball fans will not give a poo poo. Signing Bauer isn’t going to tank any team’s attendance, especially to a team like Tampa (what attendance?) or Houston (already conditioned to supporting players everyone else hates). I’m going to go out on a limb and say there’s zero chance Tampa will wander into this mess
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Luigi Thirty posted:I’m going to go out on a limb and say there’s zero chance Tampa will wander into this mess lol
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Luigi Thirty posted:I’m going to go out on a limb and say there’s zero chance Tampa will wander into this mess lol
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Luigi Thirty posted:I’m going to go out on a limb and say there’s zero chance Tampa will wander into this mess 
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Luigi Thirty posted:I’m going to go out on a limb and say there’s zero chance Tampa will wander into this mess 
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