MLB N/V Spring Training: Aroldis touching the upper 90s again.

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Tatsuta Age: Apr 21, 2005; so good at being in trouble

I wouldn't want to live near DC I don't blame him

# ? Mar 4, 2024 16:37

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# ? May 28, 2024 22:13

mcmagic: Jul 1, 2004; If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

Poque posted:

He probably should have taken the huge deal from the Nats. This is a rotten time to be entering free agency

Ehh, he's gonna do fine. The best guys always get paid.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 16:45

Sydin: Oct 29, 2011; Another spring commute

Poque posted:

He probably should have taken the huge deal from the Nats. This is a rotten time to be entering free agency

Yeah but then he'd be stuck on the Nats

# ? Mar 4, 2024 16:55

mcmagic: Jul 1, 2004; If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

I actually think the Yankees are gonna keep him.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 16:56

Bregor: May 31, 2013; People are idiots, Leslie.

Tatsuta Age posted:

I wouldn't want to live near DC I don't blame him

I moved away from that swamp ages ago, just visited some friends this past weekend and it was great but I absolutely do not want to live there again.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 17:09

Sydin: Oct 29, 2011; Another spring commute

The Cubs have a decent chunk of money coming off the books next year - even more so if Bellinger has another great year and opts out - and I'd like to see them take a swing at bringing Soto in. Realistically speaking though yeah, my guess is he's probably going to end up a Yankee or a Met. Alternatively he's the next Angels vanity project who gets insanely overpaid to immediately fall off.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 17:11

Julio Cruz: May 19, 2006

Poque posted:

He probably should have taken the huge deal from the Nats. This is a rotten time to be entering free agency

Ohtani got ~$500M in actual value a couple months ago

# ? Mar 4, 2024 17:12

bravesword: Apr 13, 2012; Silent Protagonist

This is kind of Dombrowski�s MO, no

Once he gets a team winning he signs all the players to billion-dollar extensions then does the shocked pikachu face when those players get old and aren�t worth the money anymore

# ? Mar 4, 2024 17:13

live with fruit: Aug 15, 2010

Julio Cruz posted:

Ohtani got ~$500M in actual value a couple months ago

And Yamamoto got $300. There's money out there for great players, which Soto is and Bellinger and Chapman aren't.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 17:26

Dinosaurs!: May 22, 2003

Sydin posted:

Yeah but then he'd have the privilege of being stuck on the Nats

# ? Mar 4, 2024 17:36

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

live with fruit posted:

And Yamamoto got $300. There's money out there for great players, which Soto is and Bellinger and Chapman aren't.

Bellinger probably could be, but it would take 2 more years of his MVP-level self to "prove" it. (Although then he's 30 and welp.)

# ? Mar 4, 2024 17:50

bawfuls: Oct 28, 2009

I�m sure this will go great, no issues at all

https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1764646273800614294

# ? Mar 4, 2024 18:28

Popete: Oct 6, 2009; This will make sure you don't suggest to the KDz
That he should grow greens instead of crushing on MCs; Grimey Drawer

Way to set a tone with your new team that you're an absolute dweeb.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 18:33

bawfuls: Oct 28, 2009

I get the feeling Melvin�s primary goal is to communicate �I�m not Gabe Kapler�

# ? Mar 4, 2024 18:47

Sydin: Oct 29, 2011; Another spring commute

bawfuls posted:

I�m sure this will go great, no issues at all

https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1764646273800614294

lmao loving goober, are they also gonna bring back Sam Coomrod?

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:02

bawfuls: Oct 28, 2009

Giants manager: setting a National Anthem policy

Dodgers manager: showing off breakdancing moves and getting his rear end slapped by Mookie Betts

https://twitter.com/alden_gonzalez/status/1764712231428644972

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:13

RCarr: Dec 24, 2007

mcmagic posted:

I actually think the Yankees are gonna keep him.

Same. I don�t see them letting him walk unless he absolutely bombs this season.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:15

Inspector_666: Oct 7, 2003; _{benny with the good hair}

bawfuls posted:

I�m sure this will go great, no issues at all

https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1764646273800614294

Who the gently caress is this even for?

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:23

Intruder: Mar 5, 2003; I got a taste for blown saves

Inspector_666 posted:

Who the gently caress is this even for?

All the conservative flag humping patriots in... San Francisco...

Next he's going to invite Aubrey Huff as a bench coach

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:25

Sydin: Oct 29, 2011; Another spring commute

Inspector_666 posted:

Who the gently caress is this even for?

Apparently... the other team???

quote:

�Look, we�re a new team here, we got some good players here,�� Melvin said Friday, �it�s more about letting the other side know that we�re ready to play. I want guys out here ready to go. There�s a personality to that."

�It has nothing to do with whatever happened in the past or whatever, it�s just something I embrace."

�You want your team ready to play and I want the other team to notice it, too,��

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:31

Intruder: Mar 5, 2003; I got a taste for blown saves

lol that's even dumber

You know we're ready to play because we partake in the same mindless ritual they force on grade schoolers

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:35

Popete: Oct 6, 2009; This will make sure you don't suggest to the KDz
That he should grow greens instead of crushing on MCs; Grimey Drawer

I'm not sure if that's better or worse. At best it's tone deaf to previous protests surrounding pro athletes kneeling during the anthem.

I don't think the other team cares that you made all your players stand outside the dugout pre-game.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:35

Sydin: Oct 29, 2011; Another spring commute

It just feels like a weak smokescreen. There are plenty of other ways to enforce team discipline and unity - even via rituals - without specifically zeroing in on the very public ritual steeped in patriotism and rife with current political messiness. Could've done "every day no matter what the whole team is going to take full batting practice" which similarly demonstrates hey the whole team is here every day giving it 100% and is ready to play.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:39

bawfuls: Oct 28, 2009

It�s ok he said �it�s not about politics� so surely that will be the end of it

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:42

mcmagic: Jul 1, 2004; If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

The Yankees really need to stop playing God Bless America every game.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:43

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

I'd wager they'd be the very last team to stop doing so. We only do it on Sundays.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:44

live with fruit: Aug 15, 2010

There was an article written at the end of last season about how Machado wouldn't show up for infield drills or on time for the bus and this set the tone for the whole team so I'm guessing this is Melvin trying to flex on his new team.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:47

Sydin: Oct 29, 2011; Another spring commute

According to the article Melvin had the exact same policy in Oakland and San Diego, and would "crack down" on players who didn't comply, but honestly yeah idk if Machado would give a poo poo. What're you gonna do Bob, not play your AS 3B making $40M a year? That's what I thought.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 19:55

Exodor: Oct 1, 2004

bawfuls posted:

Giants manager: setting a National Anthem policy

Dodgers manager: showing off breakdancing moves and getting his rear end slapped by Mookie Betts

https://twitter.com/alden_gonzalez/status/1764712231428644972

Also spending time with Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur remembering some guys

# ? Mar 4, 2024 20:37

elentar: Aug 26, 2002; Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

Twins running with a Gunkel-Winkel battery

# ? Mar 4, 2024 20:40

Exodor: Oct 1, 2004

UL Washington has died

I always had a weird fascination with UL. As a kid playing little league my team had this thing where the Player of the Game would get a ball signed by a KC player. I only won once and my reward was a ball signed by UL. I kept that thing on my desk my entire childhood and I'm pretty sure I still have it somewhere.

Farewell UL. I'll shove a toothpick into my mouth in your honor. :smith:

# ? Mar 4, 2024 20:41

Bogus Adventure: Jan 11, 2017; More like "Bulges Adventure"

bawfuls posted:

I�m sure this will go great, no issues at all

https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1764646273800614294

Preller made the right choice in letting him go, lmao

# ? Mar 4, 2024 20:58

bawfuls: Oct 28, 2009

It is definitely funny that the Giants fired their manager because of a perception that the clubhouse was too loose and lacked structure and discipline, so they brought in the guy who couldn�t bring structure and discipline to the Padres clubhouse.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 21:02

live with fruit: Aug 15, 2010

bawfuls posted:

It is definitely funny that the Giants fired their manager because of a perception that the clubhouse was too loose and lacked structure and discipline, so they brought in the guy who couldn�t bring structure and discipline to the Padres clubhouse.

The Padres have quit on two managers in the past three years. Shildt would be wise to rent.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 21:04

Sydin: Oct 29, 2011; Another spring commute

bawfuls posted:

It is definitely funny that the Giants fired their manager because of a perception that the clubhouse was too loose and lacked structure and discipline, so they brought in the guy who couldn�t bring structure and discipline to the Padres clubhouse.

Joc will stand solemnly every game for the anthem but will he stop blasting music and betting his day's wages on pusoy dos in the clubhouse after losses?

# ? Mar 4, 2024 21:06