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Ice To Meet You posted:Aoki can be an all-star but only if he wears a Royals jersey. This would actually be amazing.
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Brandon McCarthy is a rad loving dude
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DICKS FOR DINNER posted:Yeah how dare you vote the way you want for this dumb popularity contest that means nothing Excuse me, I believe you will find that this time it matters
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Jun 16, 2015 21:56
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As a punishment, I demand every trade involving the Cardinals in the past year to be voided
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DICKS FOR DINNER posted:Yeah how dare you vote the way you want for this dumb popularity contest that means nothing
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Jun 16, 2015 22:04
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The All Star Game is a proud institution reserved for true legends like Mark Redman, we can't go making a mockery of it.
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Jun 16, 2015 22:08
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Crimson Sox posted:As a punishment, I demand every trade involving the Cardinals in the past year to be voided That's fine, we'll take Shelby back. gently caress Heyward.
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MourningView posted:The All Star Game is a proud institution reserved for true legends like Mark Redman, we can't go making a mockery of it. Having lived through those teams does kind of make me say gently caress it and be ok with putting all the Royals in. Looking that team up Mark Teahan was actually the most deserving (at least over the entire season). That would have been cool, he was a likeable guy. e: Oh god Ambiorix Burgos was the closer that year. An actual murderer. Grittybeard fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Jun 16, 2015 |
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Jun 16, 2015 22:15
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i voted for all the royals as a troll move and because it gives my team a better chance of having home field
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Some Numbers posted:This would actually be amazing. I want to see the NL wear all Royals shirsies during warm-ups. They would delay the game and piss people off if they took the field that way, but I just hope they stick it to the Royals somehow. I think MLB should institute a rule that any team that gets 7 or more starters elected gets to keep the remaining 1 or 2 players elected to the starting lineup. If you elect 7 Royals, Mike Trout and Nelson Cruz, you get to keep Cruz and Trout after the game. That would get people voting, right?
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Assuming this all works out and the Royals get their whole squad in the all star game, what happens when they make it to the world series this year and don't have home field advantage? Will they wise up and next year have the same voting effort except it will be for really crappy NL players? You're 2016 NL all star starting lineup: Martin Maldonado Yangervis Solarte Chris Owings Cody Asche etc
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N: Marlins beat writer reporting that Dan Jennings is favorite to manage Marlins in 2016. V: KILL ME
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I think an appropriate punishment for the Cardinals would be to demote the entire franchise to AA.
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DoctaFun posted:Assuming this all works out and the Royals get their whole squad in the all star game, what happens when they make it to the world series this year and don't have home field advantage? They are going to win the game. It's going to happen because baseball is full of bullshit. Plus, Yost can just pick reserves to make-up for whatever he doesn't get from his own players.
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DoctaFun posted:Assuming this all works out and the Royals get their whole squad in the all star game, what happens when they make it to the world series this year and don't have home field advantage?
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Retail Slave posted:I think an appropriate punishment for the Cardinals would be to demote the entire franchise to AA. Demote the Cardinals, replace them with the Hartford Yards Goats.
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Jun 16, 2015 22:32
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Twins are 4-11 in June  Joe Mauer is old and sucks now and I am sad
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ROCK THE HOUSE M.D. posted:That's fine, we'll take Shelby back. For real, I miss Shelby.
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Senf posted:gently caress the Cardinals and gently caress the Angels. Hard to argue with that
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So the a's have the worst bullpen ever.
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After scoring either 1 or 2 runs in 6 games during their 7 game losing streak, the Astros have scored 10, 1, 13, 6 and 8 in their last 5 games. Feast or famine with this team
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Grittybeard posted:Having lived through those teams does kind of make me say gently caress it and be ok with putting all the Royals in. You cannot force a fanbase to accept the idea that Ken Harvey is a legitimate all star one year and then get mad at them for not treating it with the proper respect the next. Ken Harvey played 12 games after his all star year, compared to that Infante is like Ted Williams.
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The only fair way to make things right for the Astros is for MLB to force the Cards to take a player of the Astros choosing out of the AL West since it'll make their lives easier. If that means forcing the Cards to sign Mike Trout, then so be it, the Cards will just have to deal with their punishment
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MourningView posted:You cannot force a fanbase to accept the idea that Ken Harvey is a legitimate all star one year and then get mad at them for not treating it with the proper respect the next. Ken Harvey played 12 games after his all star year, compared to that Infante is like Ted Williams. Better than Bryan Lahair!
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vegeta dentata posted:N: Marlins beat writer reporting that Dan Jennings is favorite to manage Marlins in 2016.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9r8QfUpEDg Watch an Astros fan get hit in the face by Hank Conger's homer
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Demote the Cardinals, replace them with the Hartford Yards Goats. This seems like the only reasonable recourse. Cardinals found guilty of "not playing the right way". Or is this actually the right way? I'm confused.
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Just saw NBC Nightly News do an interesting take on the Cardinals/Astros situation. They found a Houston fan at Busch who thinks he's solved a mystery. When asked what he thought about the hacking of the Astros' player development and trade talk data in 2013, he sagely said, "That explains why Houston has lost to the Cardinals in the past." Yes, those decades of domination the Cardinals visited upon their National League rivals, the Houston Astros, is explained by the fact that after the Astros moved to a new league, someone in the Cardinals organization read some 'Stros emails about trades and saw the development plan of some of their prospects. Oh, if only this story had come out in time to disqualify the Cardinals from the 2004 postseason! The reporter indicated that the Astros are the rivals of the Cardinals, which wasn't true at the time this hacking took place (and isn't true today and hadn't been true for a couple of years before the hacking), and summed up his report by saying that "historically, when the Astros were in the National League, they were often owned by the Cardinals, whlie now the Astros are in the American league, and ironically lead the AL West." In the report were also soundbytes related to how teams will do anything to gain a competitive edge, even though the people doing the investigation are pretty sure that this had nothing to do with gaining a competitive edge. I'd like to be able to say that they're trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill, but honestly, it looks like lazy journalism. "One team hacked another? They must have been trying to get an edge so they could beat them. Run with that. It's the only possible explanation."
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tarlibone posted:In the report were also soundbytes related to how teams will do anything to gain a competitive edge, even though the people doing the investigation are pretty sure that this had nothing to do with gaining a competitive edge. I'd like to be able to say that they're trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill, but honestly, it looks like lazy journalism. "One team hacked another? They must have been trying to get an edge so they could beat them. Run with that. It's the only possible explanation." Out of morbid curiosity what is your explanation of this?
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I think Brandon McCarthy should be in the HoF for his contribution to MLB through twitter.
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tarlibone posted:
Don't forget this a multi-billion dollar business where the difference between going home at the end of the season and the playoffs is winning five more games than someone else.
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Retail Slave posted:I think an appropriate punishment for the Cardinals would be to demote the entire franchise to AA. Too late to save Oscar Taveras and Josh Hancock though
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Vlad Antlerkov posted:Too late to save Oscar Taveras and Josh Hancock though They'd need AAA to do that.
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Vlad Antlerkov posted:Too late to save Oscar Taveras and Josh Hancock though Poque posted:They'd need AAA to do that. 
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Grittybeard posted:Out of morbid curiosity what is your explanation of this? I think someone wanted to see if Luhnow had implemented some sort of proprietary analytical system in the Astro's baseball operation that he'd developed while working for the Cardinals. This is also roughly the same theory that the investigators seem to have, according to the New York Times: quote:Investigators believe Cardinals officials, concerned that Mr. Luhnow had taken their idea and proprietary baseball information to the Astros, examined a master list of passwords used by Mr. Luhnow and the other officials who had joined the Astros when they worked for the Cardinals. The Cardinals officials are believed to have used those passwords to gain access to the Astros’ network, law enforcement officials said. Given the facts that in 2013, the Astros and Cardinals were in different leagues both literally (AL vs. NL) and figuratively (the Astros were the worst team in baseball while the Cardinals won the NL pennant), this theory regarding the motive of the Cardinals official responsible for hacking the Astros actually makes sense. When you further consider the fact that what the hackers ended up getting access to would have answered any concerns the Cardinals had regarding the new system Luhnow had installed in Houston, it's a likely explanation. The information compromised wouldn't have been very useful in helping an AL West team beat the Astros, much less the Cardinals. tarlibone fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jun 17, 2015 |
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Vlad Antlerkov posted:Too late to save Oscar Taveras and Josh Hancock though This right here. This is a good post.
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Poque posted:They'd need AAA to do that. hahaha
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tarlibone posted:"One team hacked another? They must have been trying to get an edge so they could beat them. Run with that. It's the only possible explanation." This is probably correct, agreed
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