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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27011227/ortiz-shooting-case-mistaken-identity Everyone involved except Ortiz are exceedingly stupid
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Gary Sanchez needs to take some pitch framing lessons from this kid: https://mobile.twitter.com/JeffEisenband/status/1141198897211150336
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27011227/ortiz-shooting-case-mistaken-identity quote:The alleged shooter is a skinny, tattooed 25-year-old whom U.S. prosecutors said is wanted on armed robbery and gun charges in New Jersey. His driver was captured immediately after the shooting when he fell off the motorcycle he was trying to use to escape. lol
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So the tl;dr is that some drug lord had a beef with his cousin and hired a bottom shelf group of dipshits to carry out the hit, and because of a bad photo they mistook a 6'3", 250 man covered in expensive jewelry for some rando because he was wearing white pants? Also one of the accomplices got ahold of the gun used to shoot Ortiz and decided the best way to hide it was to drive to his mom's house and bury it in the garden. 
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https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1141761834434871297?s=21
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That sounds awesome but also like it would be a complete disaster for their fan base (lol) unless it's just cover for them to slowly transition to Montreal permanently.
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Jun 20, 2019 18:42
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Might as well just leave Tampa altogether
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Allons-y
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Jun 20, 2019 18:43
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Just move to Montreal you cowards.
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zut alors
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gently caress it, play june and july in puerto rico
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shyduck posted:Might as well just leave Tampa altogether Ironically they’re not even in Tampa now!
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Just move!!!!
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Tampa Bay Quebecois Alternatively, they are a perma road team and barnstorm the season
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That's really loving stupid.
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Montreal is the best city so anything that gets baseball there is cool imo
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Spring Break My Heart posted:That's really loving stupid. Ya basically. I can’t imagine players would like it
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ladies and gentlemen, your tampontreal exrays!
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Spring Break My Heart posted:That's really loving stupid. There’s no way this would work, it has to be a way to entice Montreal to build a stadium or scare Tampa. Forget the fan base issues, just the logistics make this a non-starter.
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GoatSeeGuy posted:There’s no way this would work, it has to be a way to entice Montreal to build a stadium or scare Tampa. Yeah, it's an incredibly dumb idea. Leave it up to the Rays to ruin the idea of baseball in Montreal.
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this idea is so dumb, it comes all the way back around to good
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This is a creative but dumb idea. It’s like a soft launch for Montreal baseball lol
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Jun 20, 2019 19:04
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https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/status/1141767819924824066 famous last words
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It pains me how much the big four drag their loving feet about the single biggest market they could have access to. gently caress your LAs and Chicagos we have a whole goddamned country trumping your numbers.
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Tampa Bay gave us the concept of the opener so gently caress it, let's try dual homes.
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don't the Rays have some really awful lease or something keeping them in the trop? I suppose playing half your home games somewhere else isn't technically breaking it
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At first this seemed incredibly loving stupid, but now its starting to make sense. Montreal lost their team due to attendance. This is basically MLB saying "show us you want them". If the stadium has respectable crowds up north and barren in Tampa, then you know what happens next.
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IcePhoenix posted:don't the Rays have some really awful lease or something keeping them in the trop? They need to move across the drat Bay. I don’t even live in the state anymore and it still annoys me how much of a pain in the rear end it is to get to games. It’s not worth the hassle even if you got free tickets.
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This is an absurdly dumb idea.
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Rigel posted:Montreal lost their team due to attendance. This is basically MLB saying "show us you want them". Show me where MLB displays that it actually cares about stadium attendance
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Zigmidge posted:It pains me how much the big four drag their loving feet about the single biggest market they could have access to. gently caress your LAs and Chicagos we have a whole goddamned country trumping your numbers. Canada is 37M people spread all across... Canada, while LA is 18M people in one CSA. With that said, why not move the Rays?
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I can't stop laughing. https://twitter.com/AGoot18/status/1141769789402210306
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colachute posted:They need to move across the drat Bay. I don’t even live in the state anymore and it still annoys me how much of a pain in the rear end it is to get to games. It’s not worth the hassle even if you got free tickets. I mean, yes, this is accurate, but the city doesn't care as long as they get their lease money. And they refuse to help the Rays in any way while they're under the current lease for the Trop.
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Florida has about 21M population. Ontario & Quebec combined have 22M population. Give each 1.5 teams and share the love.
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Rigel posted:At first this seemed incredibly loving stupid, but now its starting to make sense. Montreal lost their team due to attendance. This is basically MLB saying "show us you want them". It’s not like MLB would ever use Tampa in order to get a city to build a stad...what? https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/10/23/mark-purdy-giants-almost-left-san-francisco-for-tampa-bay-area-20-years-ago/ Well surely it’s just that one tim...huh? http://www.raysindex.com/2013/08/a-look-back-at-the-time-the-white-sox-nearly-moved-to-tampa-st-pete.html I’m sure nothing dishonorable is happening here.
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