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Crazy Ted posted:Thanks. It's been...frustrating. I'll try to make a REALLY long story short: Glad you're doing better. My youngest was also born in October of 2020. He ended up being diagnosed with infantile spasms/epilepsy. Luckily we haven't seen any issues with him in over two years. My wife developed some level of autoimmune condition (and recently, a double carotid dissection) and I got type 2 diabetes. And the Cubs have been such dog poo poo overall I haven't watched a game in almost all that time.
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live with fruit posted:The Dbacks are looking good. I can't wait for them to win the division after the scandal-embroiled Dodgers fall apart and the Padres somehow post a record setting pythag under-performance.
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I was unaware that Sarah Langs is in this year's edition of MLB: The Show so that was a fun surprise when I fired up a new RTTS career I will abandon after maybe one season.
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Poque posted:We as a society need to move past these disgusting messy milkshakes with poo poo on the outside of the glass. That's chocolate.
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Mar 27, 2024 05:58
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Gonna have to find out what stand that milkshake is at and sit near it when the Twins are in town.
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Mar 27, 2024 06:04
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Twins ownership cut payroll by $30 million, or in other words, one Jordan Montgomery. gently caress them.
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Mar 27, 2024 12:08
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Woke up to the news that those poor teams can't outbid those big market DBacks for a lefty. Many such cases 
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Mar 27, 2024 13:30
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Yeah it's almost like there's an agreement among the owners not to offer Boras clients anything but 1+1 years at $25-30M
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Mar 27, 2024 13:31
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rickiep00h posted:Gonna have to find out what stand that milkshake is at and sit near it when the Twins are in town. That's all part of Reinsdorf's plan to get people into the park without paying players
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Eric the Mauve posted:Yeah it's almost like there's an agreement among the owners not to offer Boras clients anything but 1+1 years at $25-30M Oh, did you not hear about our FRANCHISE RECORD salary for 2024? It's only $50 million below the it's totally not a salary cap. Watch out everybody the small market teams are BACK
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Mar 27, 2024 13:35
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Eric the Mauve posted:Yeah it's almost like there's an agreement among the owners not to offer Boras clients anything but 1+1 years at $25-30M There has to be some bullshit like that going on. There is no way five good to excellent players all got dick.
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It's definitely to some end collusion to adhere to the first level of tax as a salary cap, and it's undeserved angst about player salaries ballooning. Boras also overplayed his hand and as a result his clients lost money. The MLB GMs are likely trying to weaken his influence by loving over his clients. On the other hand, it means the Diamondbacks have a real rotation
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Mar 27, 2024 14:11
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Captain Log posted:There has to be some bullshit like that going on. There is no way five good to excellent players all got dick. I think it was just the penalties they put on themselves for the luxury tax as a way to enforce a silent collusion. They also incentivized teams to go ahead and promote young players instead of continuing to take chances on vets who are, in the short term, always more expensive. Owners are very much all about the short term.
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Mar 27, 2024 14:11
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Considering pitchers are blowing out their arms every other year, I think it's loving insane Snell and Monty couldn't have found better deals. Baseball owners have proven themselves to be pieces of poo poo at nearly every turn, and baseball being exempt from antitrust laws since 1922 gives them all they need to be assholes. I don't think for a second there isn't some bullshit going on. If you take out the Dodger's spending from this offseason, nobody ponied up any cash at all. We talk about young players getting some shine through all of this, then have the Orioles send down Holliday and Kjerstad for "reasons."
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Mar 27, 2024 14:58
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Don't know if it's specifically to gently caress with Boras but it's very clear that baseball's ownership has come to a decision -- as a group -- that labor costs need to go down. Hopefully some idiot put it down on paper.
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Captain Log posted:Considering pitchers are blowing out their arms every other year, I think it's loving insane Snell and Monty couldn't have found better deals. Baseball owners have proven themselves to be pieces of poo poo at nearly every turn, and baseball being exempt from antitrust laws since 1922 gives them all they need to be assholes. I don't think for a second there isn't some bullshit going on. The Orioles are in the middle of a sale so a remotely aggressive decision on rookie service time is not going to happen. They're cheap as gently caress but they're trying to sell the team and there's more flexibility for the next owner if there's 0 service time on the top prospects. They're also embarrassingly cheap, though.
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Why would the Rangers need to sign somebody like Montgomery when they have uh... oh https://x.com/JonHeyman/status/1772678404808061100?s=20
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Penisaurus Sex posted:Don't know if it's specifically to gently caress with Boras but it's very clear that baseball's ownership has come to a decision -- as a group -- that labor costs need to go down. Boras will find the proof eventually. He's smarter than the owners are.
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Penisaurus Sex posted:Don't know if it's specifically to gently caress with Boras but it's very clear that baseball's ownership has come to a decision -- as a group -- that labor costs need to go down. I think we can say Boras, and agents like him, have helped cause this but it's also not like they did anything to harm the game. At the end of the day, the game has been harmed because owners are now applying fintech bro thinking to the game and it's going to be bad for the game, in the long run. Literally every industry I can think of has decided that the only way left to inflate profits is by demanding less workers do more work for less money.
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The O’s incoming owner gave an interview and said he would “follow the recommendations of his GM”. Could be an empty nothing statement, could mean he will do what Elias wants. And I hope Elias wants to spend some more money than he’s had recently.
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Captain Log posted:We talk about young players getting some shine through all of this, then have the Orioles send down Holliday and Kjerstad for "reasons." I mean Cowser made the team, which is encouraging. Kjerstad is pretty raw and Holliday may need some time defensively. I don’t think the Orioles are doing anything out of bounds here. Would’ve liked to see them give Holliday the Chourio deal like I said before but I guess the sale of the team is still making things difficult.
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AndrewP posted:The O’s incoming owner gave an interview and said he would “follow the recommendations of his GM”. "Within the constraints of the budget I give him" is unspoken but understood
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Mar 27, 2024 15:09
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One good thing this season is that the Yankees don't have that loving moronic day off after opening day OR the home opener.
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I'd like to see Kjerstad and Stowers on the team, but sending them to Norfolk gets regular starts so I kind of understand it. Then you have Coby Mayo to figure in too. There's just a logjam of players at basically every position between the "old" guard of guys who still have one or two arb years left and the legit new crop of rookies.
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Here's something to consider the day before Opening Day: The Chicago Cubs
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AndrewP posted:I'd like to see Kjerstad and Stowers on the team, but sending them to Norfolk gets regular starts so I kind of understand it. Then you have Coby Mayo to figure in too. There's just a logjam of players at basically every position between the "old" guard of guys who still have one or two arb years left and the legit new crop of rookies. Kjerstad is one of those "old for his age" rookies who lost a ton of development time around the COVID season, I think it's pretty defensible for him to be starting the year in AAA. But yeah, the O's have top prospects being blocked by other top prospects at most positions and the fact they haven't traded for every available SP is wild to me. R.D. Mangles posted:Here's something to consider the day before Opening Day: The Chicago Cubs #ThatsCube
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R.D. Mangles posted:Here's something to consider the day before Opening Day: The Chicago Cubs I already cleared my calendar
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R.D. Mangles posted:Here's something to consider the day before Opening Day: The Chicago Cubs I really hardly ever consider that
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R.D. Mangles posted:Here's something to consider the day before Opening Day: The Chicago Cubs Oh? The Bears have a farm team? Are there other cities that have some kind of theme about their sports teams across leagues or just the Windy Apple?
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Made sure to set myself to wfh tomorrow so I can watch afternoon opening day baseball 
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Inspector_666 posted:But yeah, the O's have top prospects being blocked by other top prospects at most positions and the fact they haven't traded for every available SP is wild to me. I wonder if Westburg gets traded for pitching at some point.
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zoux posted:Are there other cities that have some kind of theme about their sports teams across leagues or just the Windy Apple? The Jets and the Mets
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IcePhoenix posted:The Jets and the Mets Oh right, the Jets, Mets, Nets, and Wets.
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zoux posted:Oh? The Bears have a farm team? Do they still call the Tennessee Volunteers' women's teams the "Lady Vols"?
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zoux posted:Oh? The Bears have a farm team? Lot of blue/orange in NY (Mets, Knicks, Islanders) and black/gold in Pitt, if that counts as a theme zoux posted:Oh right, the Jets, Mets, Nets, and Wets. Chicago has other teams besides the Bears and Cubs as well
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IcePhoenix posted:The Jets and the Mets The Giants are just as much of a dogshit joke as the Jets are.
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zoux posted:Oh right, the Jets, Mets, Nets, and Wets. that's not the connection I was making there lol mcmagic posted:The Giants are just as much of a dogshit joke as the Jets are. not this either
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Poque posted:Lot of blue/orange in NY (Mets, Knicks, Islanders) and black/gold in Pitt, if that counts as a theme And every other team strays further from God's light with each day
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