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Actual Human Being and World Series Champion Drew Butera was still playing baseball in TYOOL 2020. What a world.
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gently caress TLR. He's gonna squander that very young, very talented lineup.
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achillesforever6 posted:https://twitter.com/JMackeyPG/status/1325847913793269760/retweets/with_comments He's gonna be recovered just in time to get locked out.
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bawfuls posted:Managers of the year are Kevin Cash and Don Mattingly. By far the silliest award MLB gives out, seems appropriate they'd give one to the manager who's team experienced the largest COVID outbreak. At least the Marlins made it to the playoffs with a winning record.
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elentar posted:There's a fun little browser game called You Are Jeff Bezos and in it you wake up one morning as the Beezer and you realize what you really want to do is spend all your money to make the world a better place, and then you just try to do that while your family and your lawyers do everything up to and including kill you to stop you from doing so. This is the biggest thing I learned in manager mode of almost every game. Owners are insane and expect you to work miracles without providing the money to do so, and everyone else in the sport doing your job is in the exact same position, and if you do get the budget, as soon as you've accomplished that goal, they add three more but budgeting for two. But this is baseball, so you get the even further bullshit of the results being effectively random even when you've done the math, and so even if you actually did your job really well and put yourself in the best position to accomplish something it still might not happen and it's all your fault. 
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Nov 18, 2020 00:12
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I mean, I recognize that the Hall of Fame as an institution is basically pointless, as is the entire sport of baseball, but if Bonds doesn't get it, what's the point of having the loving thing? I feel like everyone that makes the argument "B-b-b-but he was a HoFer before he juiced, he didn't need it!" is pretty much admitting that he belongs there. Clemens, too. Schilling stays out though. 
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Nov 21, 2020 15:12
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:This sounds to be a custody dispute and those are always wild in some fashion This is my assumption as well. I hope the kid stays safe.
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Nov 24, 2020 21:38
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Popete posted:I hope we can do another Chicagoon outting to a Dogs game next year. That was a lot of fun and they put on a good show. Also historic in that it was Big Z's last pro game.
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Sydin posted:Pretty sure the whole COVID situation is like, the textbook contractual definition of "act of god." I was thinking the same thing. I'm honestly not sure who to be cheering on here: the parasitic owners or there parasitic insurance companies, who I'm sure will be using that line on regular people as well as billionaires.
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IcePhoenix posted:I guess we know why Thad Levine wanted nothing to do with them Maybe he can work with them enough to pry Wheeler from them.
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Niwrad posted:Also one of the coolest SI covers ever. Peak '70s baseball.
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Negro League news is great. If 2020 counts, there's no reason the shorter seasons for those guys shouldnt. Sucks for counting stats, but for rate stats and whatnot, awesome. It's about time.
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Apparently Fuld was "runner-up" to Cora with the Red Sox, by which I assume he was the last name drawn out of the hat when it came to make the list of guys they were presenting as evidence that they didn't want Cora the whole way. edit: Also this seems relevant https://elitesportsny.com/2019/10/14/new-york-mets-manager-job-sam-fuld-declines-to-interview-report/ rickiep00h fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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Dec 22, 2020 20:18
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I love these Dads moves but I, too, wonder about their relevance vs having the Dodgers in the division. That's not to say they should roll over or anything. I just want to see my beautiful Yu to win a ring. And that Dodgers team is gonna be in the way no matter what.
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Dec 28, 2020 20:18
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R.D. Mangles posted:I was all in on the sox but TLR is a bridge too far, I despise that guy. He's gonna nuke all the fun of what is statistically* the most fun team in the league. Like, I'm a Twins fan and I was actually getting pumped about heading down Red Line when things calmed down. But nope. Let's just take all that youthful energy and squander it. *This is a fact and I will not debate it.
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Twins, but the moves they're making at TBD, apparently.
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Popete posted:Anyone with a Twitter account should be ineligible for the Hall Well now I'm definitely not getting in.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:He was a career 122 OPS+ and an amazing defender at 3B He never pitched a 10-inning no-hitter Game 7.
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Mustached Demon posted:Android has device to device sharing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJV2OrVxc_E
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Carlosologist posted:I’ve always loved Donaldson’s approach of rotational hitting where you’re actively rotating your shoulders and hips to get to the ball and hit the snot out of the ball. You really have to understand your body and your swing to make it work though. I’ll see if I can dig out the clip because it really is a great concept https://youtu.be/NyWNCrxVzPU "You tell him 'no.'" Edit: this video is literally why I was happy when he came to the Twins, and I've been nothing but happy since, even with injuries.
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GoutPatrol posted:I say this in all unironicness, try watching the Japanese leagues when they start up again. I find it more fun to watch. Plus they have Tanaka this year!
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Chamale posted:I wonder if you can quantify the value of taking longer at-bats (other than the impact of more walks and strikeouts). We know that tired pitchers perform worse, although that has to be untangled from the times-through-order penalty. The value of an individual high-pitch-count PA is probably effectively meaningless unless the batter has a higher good-outcome rate with longer PAs. I think it would be something akin to RBIs where it's less of an individual predictor stat but an indicator of the team's, I dunno, "effectiveness?"
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Feb 11, 2021 16:40
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logger posted:Some days I just have to ask myself why the organization I root for is the Mariners. I think the Dorktown series really put it the best: they have been both the best and the worst team, and they consistently have great, likeable stars, and are a team that shouldn't, by most accounts, exist; at least, not really. So in a world where nothing really matters, the least of which being professional sports, why not cheer on the most enjoyably chaotic team? Nothing matters, but the Mariners make that nothing mattering at least interesting if not fun.
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Nodoze posted:Hot (maybe mild?) take but I don't care if the players get it ahead of me or some rich guy does, it's more people getting it at the end of the day and they are actually getting the doses used. 
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more falafel please posted:We Are From Chicago *nods* We Are From Chicago
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e: Fuckin' whoops. Probably should have done my Googling like Phil should have. rickiep00h fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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