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zoux posted:I don't think there's a single fan who doesn't secretly think his team is dogshit frauds lol I happily believe in my teams and allow the hope to crush me later as it’s supposed to.
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If I remember correctly wasn't it reported that Albies had taken money from some group that loans prospects money in advance who then get a significant cut of their first MLB contract signing? So the deal was even worse financially for Albies. The risk for Atlanta was pocket change, for Acuna it's way higher. Just a bunch of people taking advantage of a guy who made it really obvious he wanted to play in Atlanta with his pal Acuna.
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Intruder posted:I think the pen being nails in the playoffs made us forget just how bad it was last year Josh Sborz in the playoffs was lights out. Look at how he did in the regular season, look at the complete lack of control he had on drat near every relief appearance. I cannot stress enough how badly I felt like I was taking crazy pills. It still makes no goddamn sense. The numbers lied, believe nothing but the baseball gods and that they love you or hate you
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Feb 6, 2024 22:39
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STAC Goat posted:I happily believe in my teams and allow the hope to crush me later as it’s supposed to. That's why you have to think they're dogshit 
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That’s the cowards way. You wanna live as a sports fan? Try believing this is the Knicks year.
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Popete posted:If I remember correctly wasn't it reported that Albies had taken money from some group that loans prospects money in advance who then get a significant cut of their first MLB contract signing? So the deal was even worse financially for Albies. The risk for Atlanta was pocket change, for Acuna it's way higher. Yeah I vaguely remember this too, he took some really dodgy loans out from groups that were preying on minor leaguers with "we'll loan you actual money right now with no immediately required payments or interest, but you owe us some insane percentage of all future MLB earnings." I really hope MiLB unionizing and the improvements to the minor league player pay/housing situations has minimized players feeling the need to use this kind of thing, at least somewhat.
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Feb 6, 2024 22:50
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bawfuls posted:The Dodgers are real and good and there is nothing fraudulent about them. Just their most recent championship
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Sydin posted:Yeah I vaguely remember this too, he took some really dodgy loans out from groups that were preying on minor leaguers with "we'll loan you actual money right now with no immediately required payments or interest, but you owe us some insane percentage of all future MLB earnings." If you represent a ticket to financial stability for your entire family, you likely feel desperate to secure that as soon as possible and not risk losing out on it completely. In that context, the minor league housing and increased pay is not going to move the needle much.
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bravesword posted:Just their most recent championship
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Exactly as real as the Dodgers losing to a team 18 games worse than them in a stadium that actually had people watching a year later, yes
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They're chirpin out there, Rick
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Making a joke about the team with the racist name and racist chant exploiting the structural racism of the league to save money: a personal attack on the posters who like that team, how dare you sir! Calling the 2020 WS fraudulent cause your team didn't win it: all's fair in love and posting!
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bawfuls posted:the Braves blowing a 3-1 NLCS lead was quite real, my friend That's not even the best 3-1 lead blown in recent memory.
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Shinjobi posted:Josh Sborz in the playoffs was lights out. Look at how he did in the regular season, look at the complete lack of control he had on drat near every relief appearance. I cannot stress enough how badly I felt like I was taking crazy pills. It still makes no goddamn sense. The numbers lied, believe nothing but the baseball gods and that they love you or hate you He had about a month there in the middle of the season before he got IL'd where he was lights out too. He's got killer stuff if he can harness it. Also, a full season of Evan Carter and possibly Wyatt Langford in place of fuckall in left and a dash of Garver at DH might mean the offense is even better this year.
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bawfuls posted:Making a joke about the team with the racist name and racist chant exploiting the structural racism of the league to save money: a personal attack on the posters who like that team, how dare you sir! are you implying the latter is a more serious accusation
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Mustached Demon posted:That's not even the best 3-1 lead blown in recent memory.
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Monicro posted:are you implying the latter is a more serious accusation But hey, if we want to get into a Very Serious conversation about which recent championships are "fraudulent" then by all means...
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Michael harris also signed a below market contract but folks don’t seem to talk about him and his contract the way folks do with acuna and albies and I wonder what’s different about them that makes this conversation uneasy whenever it gets brought up
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uggy posted:Michael harris also signed a below market contract but folks don’t seem to talk about him and his contract the way folks do with acuna and albies and I wonder what’s different about them that makes this conversation uneasy whenever it gets brought up
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I know less about the Michael Harris contract but 8/72 is a lot more than Albies insanely low 7/35 so obviously Albies gets more attention. Not saying Harris contract isn't an issue it's just that Albies contract is so incredibly bad it really stands out. Harris is also just at the beginning of his career so it's less obvious in hindsight how much he's being underpaid, were as Albies has been one of the best 2b in baseball for years now so it looks even worse.
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bawfuls posted:Calling the 2020 WS fraudulent cause your team didn't win it: all's fair in love and posting! There was certainly nothing at all unusual about the 2020 season or playoff format whatsoever that might cast doubt over any results it generated, no sir, purely a fandom pissing contest
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oh hell yeah lets double down on this one! I get that you're still mad I made a joke about your racist team doing a racism, but again you don't have to defend it or take it personally. Do you also get mad when people here talk poo poo about the Chop? You could attack the actually reprehensible things the Dodgers have done, like crimes.xls or signing Trevor Bauer or exploiting Kenta Maeda's medical history to sign a team-friendly deal and then manipulating his usage to prevent him from hitting contract bonuses, but you don't because I guess you already know I'm not stupid/stubborn enough to defend those things? bawfuls fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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bawfuls posted:Do you also get mad when people here talk poo poo about the Chop? I don't know about bravesword personally, I've never seen it from them, but there are definitely some people who get more aggressive about doing the chop just to show us or whatever whenever it's criticized
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And those people deserve to get mocked for it. I don't think I see that much around here though. Maybe HOTLANTA MAN used to do it? I forget. anyway lets make some more jokes about recent "fraudulent" championships, except for 2017 we can't talk about that cause that conversation is tiresome, so just the Dodgers, that one's fair game!
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Feb 6, 2024 23:43
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Jesus Christ baseball can’t come quickly enough
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Gerblederp posted:Jesus Christ baseball can’t come quickly enough 
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don't have to worry about waiting until baseball to see people doing the chop, it'll happen this sunday 
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Yeah but it’s less noticeable. Just cut to Taylor.
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bawfuls posted:I suspect in many cases a lot of pressure to get money immediately comes from a feeling of obligation towards their family, at least as much as personal needs to survive in the minors. Soto has said that turning down Washington's offer has caused problems for him with his family.
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live with fruit posted:Soto has said that turning down Washington's offer has caused problems for him with his family.
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bravesword posted:There was certainly nothing at all unusual about the 2020 season or playoff format whatsoever that might cast doubt over any results it generated, no sir, purely a fandom pissing contest This is apropos of nothing, but at work I usually browse with avatars off so I interpreted your username as "braves word" which caused me to interpret this entire discussion really differently.
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STAC Goat posted:That’s the cowards way. looks at wall of "my sacramento kings memories" 
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https://x.com/jeffpassan/status/1755011945067889061?s=46&t=qe_Y8YJnNikGLo_JUDPyAQ This is great news, five more years guaranteed of Altuve not being on a team I like
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Hell yeah. Now do bregman
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Bregor posted:https://x.com/Reds/status/1754958249357394319?s=20 Josh Harrison is awesome and I'm glad he's going to continue to get paid to play baseball even though he's old and bad at it now.
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Intruder posted:Hell yeah. Now do bregman Nah Tucker
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MrMidnight posted:Nah Tucker He's probably gone after being nickel and dimed in arb
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Intruder posted:They must have a lot of faith in Diaz not having a sophomore slump, Abreu having a bounceback year, Altuve and Yordan staying healthy, Lance managing to pitch a couple months without getting hurt, Framber and Javier not being broken, etc I'm bullish on the Astros this year because if any of the things listed go right, that will be an improvement over last season, where they still pulled out 90 wins. If Yainer slumps, that's the same production as Maldy. Jose Abreu looked better at the end of the season. A good chunk of Altuve's missed time last year was bad luck on a HBP. Framber will likely be helped by a full off season instead of going from the WS to the WBC with very little down time. Javier could go the same way, but I'm less optimistic about a guy whose secret weapon is a fastball down the middle that hitters "can't see." There are also going to be some less sexy important things like Chas/Dubon maintaining their production, Julks becoming serviceable to take some outfield stress off Yordan, the early BP guys being decent enough to not have to overuse the killer back-end. It'll be a fight with the Rangers for sure, but I'm pretty confident in the Astros getting back to the playoffs where they can do their thing.
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I mean yeah who's arguing against that
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Acuna's deal pays him 55 million before he would have been a free agent (arbitration years end in 2024) I'd like anyone who brought up Acuma in terms of Tatia to respond to this!
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