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Until he retired this offseason, the most famous professional baseball player was Tim Tebow.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:His name is an anagram for "Northside as kelp". Thanks, Nisei Lounge Twitter account
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Mar 8, 2021 01:58
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Sydin posted:Nobody has a clue at this point. The Nats released Jeffress out of the blue for "personal reasons", Jeffress immediately took to twitter to blame his former agent for "ruining [his] life", and said former agent made a couple response tweets that he hasn't even talked to Jeffress since 2019 - let alone represented him - so he's confused why Jeffress is blaming him for anything. It was "personnel" reasons which is way weirder frankly
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Mar 8, 2021 19:33
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Jeffress has a history of being kind of a piece of poo poo off the field, and his former agent is also a complete nutter, so either one could be at fault.
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Dinosaurs! posted:Curious to hear what other pitchers think. MLB said they were going to de-juice the ball (that they’ve never admitted to juicing) this year, right? Or did I imagine that? They've said they adjusted the manufacturing process to reduce the COR (bounciness) towards the lower end of the acceptable range and reduce the weight, and there's going to be 10 ballparks using humidors now. They didn't say anything about the seams, but higher seam height = more drag, so that would make sense too.
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Mar 10, 2021 01:33
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R.D. Mangles posted:took a sporcle quiz to name all cubs opening day starters from 1990, and while i was incredibly proud of a few pulls (mike fontenot, junior lake, carlos pena, ian stewart, and somehow pulling marlon byrd from the deepest recesses of my brain) i was very disappointed to see that i did not remember mark bellhorn, jeff baker, bill mueller, how to spell mark grudzielanek, the fact that i conflated grudz and mark de rosa into the same guy, and forgot about SAS favorite darwin barney. i also completely forgot about the cubs playing the legend of mike olt at third while they hosed with bryant's service time, anyway if you are bored at work i highly recommend taking a sporcle quiz and trying to remember some guys. Think you got the year wrong, unless you're thinking of Les Lancaster, Lloyd McClendon, and Luis Salazar. Oh man yeah thanks for the recommendation, I am currently Remembering Some Guys
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Mar 10, 2021 05:08
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R.D. Mangles posted:It was all opening day starters from 1990-2020. Oh, that makes... a lot more sense
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Mar 10, 2021 06:04
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I think I may hate getting rid of the shift more than the runner on 2nd in extras poo poo, which is really saying something. I really hate banning the shift. As written it also bans 4-man outfields (although, not 5-man infields) and the Rizzo bunt-charge move.
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Mar 11, 2021 22:29
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Seattle looks like it may be the best of the retractable roof parks, but in general retractable roofs look like poo poo, at least Milwaukee and Houston do.
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Mar 12, 2021 02:53
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I don't know if I'm gonna put on this headset again.
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Mar 12, 2021 03:14
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Intruder posted:A friend of mine used to print out his nosebleed e-ticket with the seat number altered but the same barcode so he could sit in the lower sections but nearly got caught once and stopped because he was afraid of being banned from the stadium At White Sox games they just close the upper deck when attendance is low and tell you to sit wherever you want if you have an upper deck seat.
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Mar 12, 2021 03:59
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I miss John Jaso. Did he come back to shore yet?
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Mar 17, 2021 03:48
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ScottyJSno posted:NPB quick update. NPB already ended games in ties after 12, I think, so fans are used to it.
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Mar 20, 2021 14:45
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Ties are fine, especially in a 162-game season where every team in a division plays each other 19 times, and plays every team in the other divisions in the league 7 times. It's not really going to result in more ties in the standings.
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Mar 20, 2021 15:34
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My move is usually just to use the TouchTunes app to play Go Cubs Go in St. Louis bars
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Mar 22, 2021 18:54
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Randy Johnson was on Effectively Wild a couple years back and literally only wanted to talk about the fine folks at Kingsford Charcoal and their great grills and charcoal products
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Mar 23, 2021 19:30
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Man, now I just want an interview with Andre Dawson about his funeral home.
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Mar 23, 2021 19:46
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Chamale posted:According to Johnson, he gets asked about it "nearly as much", and more often than anyone talks about his Cy Young awards or his perfect game. There've been 23 perfect games, there's two Cys Young every year, but only once as far as we know has a very tall man just completely obliterated a dove with a 98 mph four seamer with movement from the left hand side
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Mar 23, 2021 19:53
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I could care less about Bryant at this point. I don't think he's ever going to put up the consistent numbers he had in 2015-16, he always seems to have been battling through an injury that's got his mechanics all screwed up, and he's going to cost a lot. I want Javy, Contreras, and Rizzo to retire as Cubs but it's unlikely that will happen.
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Mar 26, 2021 02:02
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Poque posted:While I'm sure it's service time fuckery, Nico's 2020 ended up mediocre enough where I don't mind him getting more time to hopefully continue mashing against AAA pitching. It REALLY seems to have helped Happ. Almora shoulda had the same thing. He'll only get to have like 6 games at AAA, right?
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Mar 27, 2021 18:56
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Can't decide if that's better than Guaranteed Rate
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Mar 30, 2021 20:20
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Chief McHeath posted:Great American Ballpark brought to you by Skyline Chili GABP is already named after an insurance company, it just sounds like they named it like a six flags attraction
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Mar 30, 2021 23:31
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Holy poo poo its opening day tomorrow. Yeah I think I'm traumatized by last year. It doesn't feel like it should be opening day for like 2 months
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Mar 31, 2021 19:01
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Krono99 posted:Looking to get into an MLB.TV sharing group, am I in the right spot? There's a thread in coupons & deals: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3960688&perpage=40&noseen=1
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Mar 31, 2021 19:33
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I've been staring out the window and waiting for spring for far, far too long at this point. I'm going to be able to go back to Wrigley Field and see the grass and hear whoever the new PA announcer is and whoever the new organist is and see whatever lefty reliever with a 5.64 ERA they trade Javy for at the deadline blow a lead in the 8th, and go to Nisei and drink about it. I'm in.
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Apr 1, 2021 04:24
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jng2058 posted:Eh, the best broadcast team in Chicago is Bonetti and Stone. The difference between Benetti/Stone and Hawk/Stone is night and day. Benetti's the best. I've liked Boog fine on ESPN broadcasts so I'm optimistic. Might listen to more games on the radio though. Pat is an old man who doesn't understand OPS or the fact that you can buy tickets secondhand, but he's got one of the best voices and flows in the business. Does anyone know if broadcasters are traveling with the team? It was obvious that they hated broadcasting off a monitor half the time.
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Apr 1, 2021 05:57
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Ogmius815 posted:I must be an idiot because looking at Francisco Lindor’s offensive numbers I don’t see what makes him worth such an astronomical amount of money. I get that he plays a premium position (or rather THE premium position) but he looks to me like a ++starter, not the perennial MVP candidate implied by that deal. That's what a ++starter at a premium position with above average defense goes for. If you want to make sure he's going to play for your team for a long time, you have to pay him
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Apr 1, 2021 06:50
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Ogmius815 posted:I read that it is the third biggest contract ever. Mike Trout this guy is not. Mike Trout is also comically underpaid
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Apr 1, 2021 07:07
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$341m right?
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Apr 1, 2021 09:14
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I love day baseball but it's weird that there's just no games on right now.
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Apr 2, 2021 02:19
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Sydin posted:Speaking of Bote, still lol'ing that Ross and Jed bent over backwards to suck his dick and talk about how he "unanimously" earned the starting 2B job over Nico and it's "his turn" and then... he gets pulled in the 5th of the season opener as part of a double switch and so, uh... *checks notes* ah yes, Eric Sogard and Matt Duffy could get some AB's late in a close game. Definitely feeling that ringing endorsement of the organization's belief in Bote's ability. Ross pulled him because he had made the last out and the pitcher's spot was up, and they needed to use 17 pitchers to issue that many walks
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Apr 3, 2021 03:04
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It would be funny if it didn't have a chance to ruin this fun and promising white sox team
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Apr 5, 2021 05:47
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No Safe Word posted:Hopefully it's just because you literally can't get it within 90 days of a positive test result. That quote doesn't make it clear that he wouldn't get one, but as mentioned above: Yeah, it sounded like he was saying "I'm not trying to get it ASAP, because I just had COVID, but other guys should get it"
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Apr 5, 2021 21:22
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Slimy Hog posted:If you're talking about the one on North, that place rocks. Aren't they at every Home Depot? I go to the one on Kimball/Addison all the time. Depot Dogs are great though.
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Apr 6, 2021 01:37
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lol get hosed
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Apr 7, 2021 21:20
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Traxis posted:I hope this kid makes it to the majors is that the i hit dingers kid from the LLWS a few years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqy1gVzdQ98
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Apr 8, 2021 04:24
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Yeah, it doesn't significantly increase home or road team's winning chance, what it does increase is the chance that the teams will score different amounts of runs in a given inning, which will end the game. I don't like it, but MLB and the players do so it's probably here to stay.
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Apr 8, 2021 08:54
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Poque posted:Wow Bao is bad Wow Bao isn't good, but it's fine, the worst part about it is the tagline of "Hot Asian Buns"
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Apr 8, 2021 20:04
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Wow, Boog and JD are showing fly ball data that says the average fly ball is going 9 feet less far as it has in recent years through the same time in the season. New ball and humidors are really working it seems like.
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Apr 8, 2021 20:07
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Victor Caratini went 13 starts between no-hitters
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Apr 10, 2021 04:54
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League average OPS (100 OPS+) is typically around .750, with a slash of something vaguely like .250/.325/.425. It's much harder to say aaasf darSfffda what a 0 WAR slash line would look like, because it also includes defense and depends on position, but yeah. The idea behind replacement level is that it's the level of player that you can have on your roster tomorrow without giving up significant cash or trade pieces. He's at AAA already, he's available on waivers and is making league minimum, he's someone's 26th man and they'll trade him for a PBTNL. If I had to guess what an average 0 WAR player's slash line was I'd go something like .200/.265/.325, so OPS of .590? But again that depends on baserunning, defense and position
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Apr 10, 2021 17:29
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