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Poque posted:Orlando City Soccer Club makes me so mad. That isn't the name of your town. The way that MLS and its fandom tries to emulate European soccer, specifically the premiereship, sucks so bad. We don't have to copy other leagues, America has great fans and great traditions. We got people walking around here in Austin FC scarves and poo poo, no one in history has worn a scarf in Austin TX prior to 2018. Invent your own traditions. In America we name teams after plural nouns. If we run out of names that end in -s, we can use other irregular group nouns, but nobody is happy about it.
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will_colorado posted:https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2024-03-26/minor-league-baseball-indicted-jack-box-del-taco-insider-trading I had no idea Jack in the Box bought Del Taco. No wonder the quality has nosedived.
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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?
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AndrewP posted:I mean yeah, things can always get worse I suppose, but the way I see it Rubenstein is 74, already made his billions, is from Baltimore and very likely won't be trying to extort the city for a new stadium. I don't know the guy's motives of course but I can't believe the guy is doing this just to cheap out and become hated in his hometown I'm not sure why none of the fail-sons end up the fun loving party type who wants to spend lavishly on things like good baseball players. I guess if they had that personality they'd be taking the Hunter Biden path not running their dad's baseball team.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Ted Turner supposedly considered renaming the Braves to Eagles to match Hawks and Falcons. But think about the years and years of discourse we would've lost
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Ted Turner supposedly considered renaming the Braves to Eagles to match Hawks and Falcons. *chomps beak* Screeeeeeeeooooooooeeeeooooo Screeeeeeeeooooooooeeeeooooo
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Sydin posted:This makes sense though, I mean look how poor the Yankees are: the poor st. louis cardinals just can't afford to spend money to attract high quality free agents
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Mike_V posted:the poor st. louis cardinals just can't afford to spend money to attract high quality free agents Their value is in the red, that means it went down right 
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Ted Turner supposedly considered renaming the Braves to Eagles to match Hawks and Falcons. when names started being added to player uniforms Turner paid Andy Messersmith to put "Channel" on the back his number 17 jersey to promote WTBS
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IcePhoenix posted:Their value is in the red, that means it went down right Even the lovely rear end 2023 Mets were more valuable than the 2022 Mets, who won 101 games and made the playoffs.
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zoux posted:The way that MLS and its fandom tries to emulate European soccer, specifically the premiereship, sucks so bad. We don't have to copy other leagues, America has great fans and great traditions. We got people walking around here in Austin FC scarves and poo poo, no one in history has worn a scarf in Austin TX prior to 2018. Invent your own traditions. In America we name teams after plural nouns. If we run out of names that end in -s, we can use other irregular group nouns, but nobody is happy about it. I dunno, I thought Washington Football Team was great and they should have kept it
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Acuña in the Players Tribune with some nice stuff about his family, path to the major leagues, his injury, etc. Nothing super juicy discourse-wise afaict.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Even the lovely rear end 2023 Mets were more valuable than the 2022 Mets, who won 101 games and made the playoffs. It's just a finance joke to make fun of them using the team colors on their chart lol
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IcePhoenix posted:It's just a finance joke to make fun of them using the team colors on their chart lol I know. I was pointing out that it's pretty much impossible for any team to lose money, regardless of their record. The Mets spent a shitload of money on players, their record dropped from 101-61 to 75-87, and they STILL made more money than the previous year.  Any team owner who cries poor is lying
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I know. I was pointing out that it's pretty much impossible for any team to lose money, regardless of their record. The Mets spent a shitload of money on players, their record dropped from 101-61 to 75-87, and they STILL made more money than the previous year. A good and fair point.
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I was just looking at the Jays from 2019 and I am unsure if I was just checked out for that season, or really was that forgettable? Trent Thornton had the most starts, Clay Bucholz was on this team, Edwin Jackson on his 14th team got some disastrous starts, Freddy Galvis was the starting SS, and both Justin Smoak and Aaron Sanchez were still with the team (I thought they were gone years prior). It feels like a fever dream. I only started looking at this team again because of Foolish Baseball's recent video about Elvis Luciano.
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David Rubenstein posted:“When this opportunity came along, I thought, ‘OK, what I can do is help support the town that was good to me growing up. The town that my parents were born in, that I was born, my parents are buried in, and I will no doubt be buried in as well,’” Rubenstein told The Baltimore Banner. “I don’t want to oversell what I can do, but I would say I do feel an obligation to pay back the country and also pay back Baltimore for my good fortune.” https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/...adfu-Bl1aXH6kA0
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https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1773053621510266895 feels like a pretty good deal for the best not-braves NL catcher to be locked down forever
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IcePhoenix posted:Yes but you see I only have a rooting interest in one of those teams so therefore that one is worse. stupid sexy Mauer
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Eric the Mauve posted:I dunno, I thought Washington Football Team was great and they should have kept it agreed, no idea why they didn't, or why Cleavland didn't become the Cleavland Baseball Team
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Tatsuta Age posted:https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1773053621510266895 10 years for a catcher sure is a decision
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:10 years for a catcher sure is a decision He IS leading the league in PAs
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:10 years for a catcher sure is a decision Just start calling him Pudge, it'll be all good
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:10 years for a catcher sure is a decision 10 years is probably too long but $14m a year is also an underpay so it's basically just a deferral
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Smith is probably the most underrated catcher in MLB right now in that he gets pretty much zero fanfare despite playing on the Dodgers and averaging >3 WAR a season. Singing him through his age 39 season is a bit optimistic but yeah as pointed out it's essentially a deferral without being an deferral.
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Twin Cinema posted:I was just looking at the Jays from 2019 and I am unsure if I was just checked out for that season, or really was that forgettable? Trent Thornton had the most starts, Clay Bucholz was on this team, Edwin Jackson on his 14th team got some disastrous starts, Freddy Galvis was the starting SS, and both Justin Smoak and Aaron Sanchez were still with the team (I thought they were gone years prior). That was the year I really started watching and boy howdy were they bad
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zoux posted:What, and give up the stupidest name in professional sports history I mean the Commanders are like right there Naming a DC team after the antagonists in The Handmaid's Tale is some galaxy brained poo poo.
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The Pussy Boss posted:Brewers-Mets and Braves-Phillies opening day games are rained out
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will_colorado posted:when names started being added to player uniforms Turner paid Andy Messersmith to put "Channel" on the back his number 17 jersey to promote WTBS I like to think there’s a parallel Earth where George W Bush was nothing more than the doofiest MLB commissioner, Donald Trump was nothing more than an NFL owner everyone hated, and Ted Turner spent the rest of his days doing Charley Finley poo poo like that.
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The Pussy Boss posted:Brewers-Mets and Braves-Phillies opening day games are rained out SoCal is supposed to get a shitload of rain, hoping the games down there don't get rained out as well. Edit: Rain actually looks like it doesn't start till Saturday, probably good then
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zoux posted:The way that MLS and its fandom tries to emulate European soccer, specifically the premiereship, sucks so bad. We don't have to copy other leagues, America has great fans and great traditions. We got people walking around here in Austin FC scarves and poo poo, no one in history has worn a scarf in Austin TX prior to 2018. Invent your own traditions. In America we name teams after plural nouns. If we run out of names that end in -s, we can use other irregular group nouns, but nobody is happy about it. 50/50 scarves for some random league fixture deserve to die a horrible death. A cup final one as a momento? Vaguely acceptable but I'd never wear one
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Tatsuta Age posted:https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1773053621510266895
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10 years feels super long for a catcher who turns 29 tomorrow but 14 mil a year for for a top 5-10ish catcher is about what they're getting on the market recently
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its like deferment inception, they're doing the old NHL thing of making the contract duration longer to spread it out and lower the AAV, then there's deferrals on top of that Friedman stays winning
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zoux posted:The way that MLS and its fandom tries to emulate European soccer, specifically the premiereship, sucks so bad. We don't have to copy other leagues, America has great fans and great traditions. We got people walking around here in Austin FC scarves and poo poo, no one in history has worn a scarf in Austin TX prior to 2018. Invent your own traditions. In America we name teams after plural nouns. If we run out of names that end in -s, we can use other irregular group nouns, but nobody is happy about it. One of the reasons I've bounced so hard off soccer I think is how much people in the US just cargo cult fandom from Europe. There's the NYCFC vs Red Bulls games which are the Hudson River Derby and people I know who were all born in the US will say "darby" and it's so fuckin' dumb.
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