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elentar posted:meanwhile MLB is straight up lying about the balls issue
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fess up, which one of you is this? https://twitter.com/Josh_Frydman/status/1761132465173954893
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Congrats cubsposters, you manifested it through tireless posting
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Redeye Flight posted:It's been a different NL West member both of the last two years, so given that it's also an Even Year, I'm going to say the trend continues and this year it's the Giants. It’s the Rockies turn to face LA in the DS (SF in 21, SD in 22, AZ in 23). This is the funniest outcome for at least two reasons: 1) duh it’s the Rockies ffs 2) it would mean that every NLWest opponent has beaten the Dodgers in the NLDS except the Giants, who lost to the Dodgers after setting a franchise wins record
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Apparently Bauer pitched a simulated game in his own gym against some Barstool blogger dweebs and gave up multiple hits, then posted about it on Twitter. He is elite at self-owns
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Feb 26, 2024 20:37
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Sydin posted:but I have to imagine his agent would have known pretty quickly after putting out feelers that nobody wanted to touch him with a 10ft pole and maybe he should just ink another NPB deal or something. She’s maybe not that good at her job
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Puig had the good sense to drop her, which is funny Edit: in terms of Bauer yeah he’s a self deluded dipshit who can not admit what he did wrong and still thinks he was a victim of overreaction. Shaikin did a decent interview with him in the LA Times last week where Shaikin conducted it as an owner asking Bauer to justify why he should get signed. Bauer comes off terribly, it’s clear why no one will touch him. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Feb 26, 2024 |
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zoux posted:Big developments in the "Is Kiké Hernandez back?" saga
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uggy posted:Just casually speculating that the woman who also worked for the mlbpa and who got Bauer the first 40m a year contract is bad at her job It was an Andrew Friedman dream deal, the exact kind of contract structure he’d been trying to get good players on for years. And he got Bauer on it cause Bauer famously, arrogantly proclaimed he would take 1-year deals to maximize his AAV and bet on himself. It didn’t take some masterful achievement of negotiation on his agent’s part to get that deal.
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Feb 26, 2024 23:22
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In fact he said he’d let his friend shoot him in the junk with a paintball gun if he ever signed a multi year deal Then of course he said the player opt outs made it not count when people trolled him on Twitter about it
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Feb 26, 2024 23:46
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uggy posted:Masterful work by Andrew Friedman to pay Bauer tens of millions of dollars to pitch half a season What exactly is your point here? You tried to give her credit for getting an AAV-record deal but that wasn’t an innovation she had much to do with. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Feb 27, 2024 |
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Timby posted:This is why the owners continue to push for expanded playoffs. MLB salaries are paid out from Opening Day through Game 162. Teams in the playoffs get a share of the gate receipts but no further base salary, so all that parking and beer and hot dog revenue is free money for ownership. Cause apparently thats a thing owners worried about
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Feb 27, 2024 04:31
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To fix a game now you’d need to have a player who’s gotten into deep debt to gamblers who then offer him debt forgiveness to throw games. Luckily the game keeps gambling at arms length and there’s no way an active player could fall into such a hole!
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Feb 27, 2024 17:00
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Yeah the globalized nature of online sports betting makes more obscure lower leagues the biggest targets for match fixing, as even those have enough betting volume to be worth it. Even if there's only 300 people in the stands at a 3rd tier Italian soccer game, there's gambling addicts betting on it around the planet.
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Feb 27, 2024 18:48
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Yeah even the NBA scandal that involved refs wasn't fixing game winners and losers, but point-shaving so that gamblers could win betting the over or whatever. Baseball has so many micro-events to bet on now it's ripe with opportunities.
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Feb 27, 2024 19:11
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in very important news, Ohtani will be hitting in a baseball game today https://twitter.com/ericstephen/status/1762495085013557589
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they're really going through it in the bay these days https://twitter.com/KNBR/status/1762578928680780076
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Julio Cruz posted:DHGate is what I usually use Ace Jameson posted:some reporter just asked him if he liked SF and considered signing there, and they basically told him that was a dumb question and he wasn’t going to answer it
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So apparently Kris Bryant didn’t realize the Rockies are a dogshit joke of an organization when he signed there. Strikes me as a pretty big gently caress up by his agent to let him feel rushed into such an impactful decision.
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Sydin posted:I was gifted The Baseball 100 which I've been enjoying very much, something of a history lesson of MLB told through 100 of the greatest players of all time. I don't agree with all of the rankings necessarily but the prose is consistently interesting and - very importantly - the author correctly believes that Ichiro is the true hits king and not Rose.
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The importance of the hit record to Pete Rose personally is one of the reasons I like recognizing Ichiro for it instead
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requesting a wellness check on the city of San Francisco https://twitter.com/KNBR/status/1763714946339377291
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The Giants spent 50 years in California without a championship and it did such deep psychic damage that by the time EYBS rolled around it only got worse.
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mcmagic posted:I feel like Soto is going to have an incredible season this year and he's going to love NY and we're going to love him and then Boras will put him on like the Angels next year for 600 million and everyone will be miserable.
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mcmagic posted:Boras has a history of putting players in bad situations to get the biggest contract. See Rod, A.
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if he does this bad thing a lot more than other agents then one would think you'd cite a few more recent examples than literally 2 decades ago
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I think if he had a well established rep of bullying players into teams they don't want to play on for his own enrichment, Boras wouldn't be the most popular agent among players
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In his first three spring games Ohtani is sporting a 2.207 OPS Between that and Yamamoto's debut 2 innings, I've seen all spring training I need to. Can we start the season now?
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mcmagic posted:Do you think he did a good job for Bellinger, Chapman, Snell and Monty this offseason? Throw JD Martinez in there too. People keep citing Bellinger Chapman Snell Montgomery as evidence Boras overplayed his hand but the same people were all saying how flawed each of these guys is at the start of the winter. And JD Martinez took a one year deal last year too. He’s a 36 year old DH, he’s just at that point in his career now. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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Maybe that reason was Judge is old af? Juan Soto this year will be the same age that Judge was in his Rookie season.
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I’m sure this will go great, no issues at all https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1764646273800614294
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I get the feeling Melvin’s primary goal is to communicate “I’m not Gabe Kapler”
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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
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It’s ok he said “it’s not about politics” so surely that will be the end of it
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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.
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The Pussy Boss posted:I was whining about this in the GDT but it is maddening that I can't watch Giants spring training games. NBC Bay Area or w/e is broadcasting a grand total of FOUR games this spring: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/jenkins/article/want-watch-giants-spring-training-broadcast-good-18698339.php. The last time they were on TV at all was the Angels broadcast a week ago
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sounds like things are going great in Boston https://twitter.com/PeteAbe/status/1765030834682147256
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:He's still only 34!!! Clayton Kershaw's age 34 season was his 7th consecutive year making fewer than 30 starts due to injury
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