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As someone who does not watch football at all it has been extremely funny to listen to Chicago sports radio since moving back to the area, because I feel like fans and pundits have gone through the five stages of grief at least five full times in regards to Justin Fields.
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Oh cool we're doing this again https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1750606891603120340
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Sydin posted:As someone who does not watch football at all it has been extremely funny to listen to Chicago sports radio since moving back to the area, because I feel like fans and pundits have gone through the five stages of grief at least five full times in regards to Justin Fields. I remember in 2020 some shop in Chicago put out signs saying "please maintain at least 6 feet of distance from other people, 6 feet is about the average distance Mitch Trubisky misses an open receiver by"
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bawfuls posted:If that’s what they’re doing then it’s very low effort kayfabe. Forgetting what position he played? Talking about Rangers players from 10 years before he even got there? Nobody gets paid to say common sense things like "Yes Adrian Beltre should be in the HoF", that doesn't make for interesting talk radio. The argument doesn't have to make sense, in fact the less sense it makes the better because the point is to get people mad.
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Popete posted:Nobody gets paid to say common sense things like "Yes Adrian Beltre should be in the HoF", that doesn't make for interesting talk radio. The argument doesn't have to make sense, in fact the less sense it makes the better because the point is to get people mad.
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Sydin posted:Oh cool we're doing this again
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The article makes it sound like they'd make more getting paid $14.75 an hour than they would would as part of the CBA deal.
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That makes me suspicious of the MLBPA negotiators, how did they manage to land on a salary that’s below AZ minimum wage?
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quote:Last year, Major League Baseball approved a new collective bargaining with minor league players. Minor leaguers got an increase in pay, subsidized housing, health care and retirement benefits. But many believe these ballplayers are still getting shortchanged. Obviously this isn't providing a whole lot of context but reading between the lines a bit I assume however the CBA is set up provides set wages that aren't subject to how much off the field work you do, whereas the AZ law is written such that any time a player is performing job related activities (team workouts, off-day bullpen work, etc) they'd be entitled to hourly wages. Also since we don't similarly see MLB publicly going after higher minimum wages in states where MiLB teams exist like CA, NY, etc this is presumably about the Cactus League which probably also has different compensation rules written into the CBA specifically for it.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:It's the only explanation as to why Skip Bayless and Colin Cowherd still have jobs. If the Sean Taylor stuff didn't get Cowherd fired nothing will short of a Brockmire-like meltdown or a slur
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Cody signed yet? No? Ok, see you tomorrow.
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Twitter says Joc Pederson signed with Arizona, which will bring him to 60% of the NLWest. I hope he completes the cycle, ending his career with some majestic fat old guy dongs in Colorado.
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Popete posted:That's the entire point of sports talk radio. It's manufactured anger by stating blatantly dumb opinions for people to get mad about. Yeah .
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I have an acquaintance who worked with Skip Bayless for a while (like 10+ years ago now) who told me he doesn't actually believe almost anything he says on TV. It's all to feed the outrage machine. I have no reason not to believe him. He said off camera Bayless is kind of a prima donna but no less than any other TV face. Mostly he's just fanatically private and doesn't want to talk to anyone about anything. Which makes sense in light of the gods only know how many death threats a week he's been getting for 20 years.
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It's funny because his brother RIck Bayless is awesome and has hosted a show about Mexican cooking on PBS (and now YouTube) for years and he seems like a really nice guy. I actually lived in the same neighborhood as Rick Bayless for a brief period and one morning I looked up well walking on the sidewalk to see him and his wife presumably coming back from the farmers market, it took me a second to realize it was him and by then he was walking past and I regret not stopping him to say hi and how much I love his show.
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Popete posted:It's funny because his brother RIck Bayless is awesome and has hosted a show about Mexican cooking on PBS (and now YouTube) for years and he seems like a really nice guy. I actually lived in the same neighborhood as Rick Bayless for a brief period and one morning I looked up well walking on the sidewalk to see him and his wife presumably coming back from the farmers market, it took me a second to realize it was him and by then he was walking past and I regret not stopping him to say hi and how much I love his show. You should have called him Skip
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Rick Bayless is a Chicago icon. Topolobampo has had a Michelin Star for like 12 straight years.
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Eric the Mauve posted:I have an acquaintance who worked with Skip Bayless for a while (like 10+ years ago now) who told me he doesn't actually believe almost anything he says on TV. It's all to feed the outrage machine. I have no reason not to believe him. I'm sure someone else said this about another talking head, but gently caress me if I can't remember who it was. Hell, it may have been Skip they were talking about
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I'm sure someone else said this about another talking head, but gently caress me if I can't remember who it was. Hell, it may have been Skip they were talking about I assume this is true for every talking head who plies their trade through outrage.
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“MLB claims that minor leaguers are different from other workers because much of their time exercising, training, and watching videos isn’t tracked on an hourly basis.” Okay, so track it. Or is there a reason that mlb wouldn’t want to do that 🤔
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:“MLB claims that minor leaguers are different from other workers because much of their time exercising, training, and watching videos isn’t tracked on an hourly basis.”
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Continuing on Vegas, I think VGK coming in and immediately being really good probably has cemented Vegas as a hockey city. I know most of them were Raiders fans from before they moved there, but the Raiders haven't been good in over 20 years. There's no reason to be excited over the A's coming to town. There are tons of Cubs and Mets fans here, owing to how many people seem to come here to escape winter (and a good number of the gambling industries being based in those areas for decades.) The Cubs (used to?) do a Big League Weekend event where they played a Spring Training game at the shittiest AAA stadium before it was retired for the current one. Lots of Dodgers/Angels/Giants as well. The Dodgers have a team store around here somewhere. Either everybody is from farther east and does not give a poo poo about the A's, or is a California transplant already pre-programmed not to give a poo poo about the A's. They'd be better off in Montreal. Timby posted:Yeah, that's the thing that boggles my mind and cooks my noodle about the A's being so hellbent on moving to Las Vegas. Not only does it automatically become, I'm pretty sure, the smallest stadium in all of MLB (I believe I read that the capacity is going to be only 33,000) and on a horrendously compact and cramped parcel of land, but they're going to be playing 81 games in the middle of the loving desert. Last I recall reading, the stadium is going to have a retractable roof, and, sure, I guess they could open it up during a late October / November run (lol A's), but it seems to me that it would be cheaper and more cost-efficient to just build it with a fixed roof. Arizona already exists, you'll have to asks a D-Backs fan about how often they open their roof. Inspector_666 posted:I think I'm misremembering and Fisher wanted multiple times that, but it turns out that Oakland was putting up more money than Vegas actually is ($380m), so Fisher definitely just threw a tantrum over his pride rather than accepting less than he thought he "deserved." It's more that Fisher wants revenue sharing money. He's happier on the league payola. If simply getting a bigger number from the government was his priority, Oakland already did that. The team was also content to keep playing in the deteriorating Coliseum while getting revshare money until the Leauge stopped looking the other way and told him that the Bay Area can't be considered a small market no matter how thoroughly the Giants have won minds. So now he wants to move to a place where he continue to be a taker, so the average resident here being too poor to afford pro sports is a benefit if anything. (The seats will be filled with tourists, and being like a landlocked Hawaii we'll always be too tough a market to make financial sense without receiving welfare stimulus from New York.) However that small touristy crowd will likely be paying the highest prices of any city anywhere to watch pro baseball, so he'll still make money burning his candle at each end. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Jan 26, 2024 |
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Man, if the Guardians' offseason acquisitions began and ended at Austin Hedges... Man.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:https://twitter.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/1750710839915507735/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1750710839915507735%A4tTweetUser=TalkinBaseball_ https://twitter.com/lisettecarnet/status/1750383952177856693 This tweet is from his agent so maybe there’s more before who knows
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You know, ever since “best shape of his life” became too much of cliche for anyone to take seriously, I think my favorite offseason stock phrase has become “Team is exploring the market for such-and-such” It’s so stupidly grandiose. It makes me envision some pasty front office type putting on a pith helmet and delving into the Amazon in search of the Legendary Reliever Who Can Pitch The Seventh For A 76-Win Team JJ Piccolo sweating in front of an ancient pedestal trying to decide if he can switch out a bag of sand for Matt Wisler without setting off every trap in the temple
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:This seems like a solid signing. I love D-Rob deeply, but he looked bad in Miami.
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zoux posted:They had Will Smith closing half the drat year put some respect on the mans name! the only consecutive WS 3 year winner on 3 different teams!
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JPM is a dude that has had his effort level questioned until this last year. He has the potential to be a really solid 4th outfielder. He just needs MLB ABs and to continue taking the game seriously. The Rangers outfield is stacked for the next few several, so hopefully he gets a shot in Atlanta.
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https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1750923991403958301 Highly rated prospect in our program (I was actually at his first big league start) and showed flashes of brilliance that were too often overshadowed by control problems. I wish him the best....but not too the best, it is STL
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