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Hey, inspector 666, curling is on NBCSN
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Der Meister posted:Also this is definitive proof that California is better than Texas. Especially when your other choice is LA. I mean, c’mon.
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Nov 3, 2018 02:07
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Regarding the whole Kershaw only take short term deals under his true market value, is he not some kind of Pentecostal christian or something? Might be some weird humbleness/guilt thing going on.
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Nov 3, 2018 02:20
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Big Mean Jerk posted:
All of Texas is poo poo, sell it back to Mexico.
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Nov 3, 2018 02:31
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zapplez posted:Regarding the whole Kershaw only take short term deals under his true market value, is he not some kind of Pentecostal christian or something? Might be some weird humbleness/guilt thing going on. Kershaw is super into Jesus but I don't think that has anything to do with it. Probably more about leaving the door open to retire in your mid 30's with uh, plenty of money.
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Nov 3, 2018 02:41
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Big Mean Jerk posted:
Regional rivalries aside, Dallas is a fun city It's no San Antonio
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Nov 3, 2018 02:46
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iospace posted:Hey, inspector 666, curling is on NBCSN Oh I know it, motherfucker.
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Nov 3, 2018 03:07
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Yo I did a curling class last year. Highly recommend. Probably one in your area
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Goodpancakes posted:Yo I did a curling class last year. Highly recommend. Probably one in your area I'm already signed up for a proper league this year.
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Intruder posted:Regional rivalries aside, Dallas is a fun city Maybe it’s just because I go there so rarely, but I’ve always found Dallas to be extremely boring. You have the JFK Museum, Six Flags, and (outside the city) Collin Street Bakery and that’s it.
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Nov 3, 2018 03:35
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Inspector_666 posted:Oh I know it, motherfucker. 
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Nov 3, 2018 03:47
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I feel bad because I gave STAC Goat poo poo and he hasn't posted since Wasn't a real accusation my dude 
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I found a thing: https://tecmobowl.org/files/file/538-bad-news-baseball-2017/ oh my god, YES: https://tecmobowl.org/files/file/583-ken-griffey-baseball-2018/ will_colorado fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Nov 3, 2018 |
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Nov 3, 2018 05:37
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will_colorado posted:I found a thing: There's also MVP Mods for MVP Baseball 2005, which I could never find a copy of and just found out that at least one website classifies as abandonware 
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Nov 3, 2018 06:06
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With Kershaw I wonder if he and the team know enough about his back to know he's not gonna go late into his 30s, and any team doing a physical would find the same thing, so why not lock in your career with the same team?
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Well Played Mauer posted:With Kershaw I wonder if he and the team know enough about his back to know he's not gonna go late into his 30s, and any team doing a physical would find the same thing, so why not lock in your career with the same team? I still gotta say, its incredibly impressive to me the guy has such character he doesn't just force a way for some team to sign him for $250 million for 8 years or whatever. Many players even if they figured would be unable to play well or play through injury past year 4 of that deal would still want teams to sign them for it.
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zapplez posted:I still gotta say, its incredibly impressive to me the guy has such character he doesn't just force a way for some team to sign him for $250 million for 8 years or whatever. Many players even if they figured would be unable to play well or play through injury past year 4 of that deal would still want teams to sign them for it. I would argue that it is the players' moral imperative to extract as much money from ownership as they possibly can.
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Chris Woodward, former journeyman junk player who once managed an OPS+ of -100 (admittedly in 10 PAs), and the Dodgers' 3B coach for the last three years, is the new manager of the Rangers.ego symphonic posted:I would argue that it is the players' moral imperative to extract as much money from ownership as they possibly can. In general I agree, but Kershaw obviously saw what happened in last year's free agent market, and with teams that have more money than God like the Cubs doing salary dumps and saying they don't plan on doing much, maybe he figured he wasn't going to beat what the Dodgers were offering. Bird in the hand beating two in the bush and all that. Timby fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Nov 3, 2018 |
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Nov 3, 2018 15:24
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I’m still confused why Joe Girardi did interviews and then bailed on being considered for all of those jobs.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I’m still confused why Joe Girardi did interviews and then bailed on being considered for all of those jobs. This is a guy who got fired after winning Manager of the Year, and then got fired after coming within a game of the World Series. I get the feeling that he isn't the easiest person in the world to deal with. Or he decided he wants to wait for the Cubs job to open up, who knows? 
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FlamingLiberal posted:I’m still confused why Joe Girardi did interviews and then bailed on being considered for all of those jobs. Why even bother? Girardi earned 21.3 million over his catching career and his last 4 year contract before he left NY was for $16 million plus bonuses. He's probably not bored yet.
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Nov 3, 2018 16:58
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https://twitter.com/rangers/status/1058765846103891974?s=21
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ego symphonic posted:I would argue that it is the players' moral imperative to extract as much money from ownership as they possibly can. If the theory that he knows his back is bad and he will never be able to live up to the contract, I'd say he is just fine playing the contracts in short term. Normally I'm all gently caress the owners, but if you believe your medical condition might make you incapable of playing, it's pretty honorable to not sign a contract you believe you wont be able to even do attendance for. It's much different than just being 32 and expecting you might regress but don't expect yourself to become incapable whatsoever of pitching possibly.
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Couldn't you just sign a longer contract and then retire if you don't feel you can fulfill it? Owners are not going to be so honorable 3 years from now and offer him the same amount of money he could have demanded now. Popete fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Nov 3, 2018 |
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ego symphonic posted:I would argue that it is the players' moral imperative to extract as much money from ownership as they possibly can. My point was more that this may be the most money he can extract if whatever's bothering his back can show up on an MRI. If he has some awful degenerative problem, the chances of a big market team not seeing that and offering him a long-term deal is pretty much zero. This may be a situation where he was able to get a loyalty bonus to finish his career in LA. Like how Kobe's final contract was way over market value, but the Lakers did it anyway because of his legacy.
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Timby posted:In general I agree, but Kershaw obviously saw what happened in last year's free agent market, and with teams that have more money than God like the Cubs doing salary dumps and saying they don't plan on doing much, maybe he figured he wasn't going to beat what the Dodgers were offering. Bird in the hand beating two in the bush and all that. I'd be really mad if I was a pitcher right now and saw that the best pitcher in a generation only received an additional one year on his contract. This looks bad for a lot of players currently available on the market.
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Nov 3, 2018 19:53
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Rand alPaul posted:This looks bad for a lot of players currently available on the market. Yeah. Patrick Corbin's dream of a $125 million deal just went up in smoke, that's for sure.
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Reminder that the AFL Fall Stars game is tonight.
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I think Kershaw loves the Dodgers and wants to spend his whole career there, has made $160 million already (~$260 million by the end of this extension), and didn't want to opt out a week after losing a second consecutive world series. Seems reasonable to me and I don't see how his decision affects how much money Patrick Corbin or anyone else gets.
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Owners will look for any excuse to pay players less. The best pitcher of his generation getting so little is a problem for the rest of the pitchers because it gives owners another argument against long-term financial security for the rest of them. In theory Kershaw being off the market raises the prospects of the other FA starters this offseason by moving everyone "up" a slot but I think both AAV's and deal lengths will be lower than they'd have been if Kershaw had gotten more in his extension, let alone if he'd gone to FA. This is all just hypothetical rambling but that's what we do until Opening Day, right?
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The Pussy Boss posted:I think Kershaw loves the Dodgers and wants to spend his whole career there, has made $160 million already (~$260 million by the end of this extension), and didn't want to opt out a week after losing a second consecutive world series. Seems reasonable to me and I don't see how his decision affects how much money Patrick Corbin or anyone else gets. After last winter, anything is possible.
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The Pussy Boss posted:I think Kershaw loves the Dodgers and wants to spend his whole career there, has made $160 million already (~$260 million by the end of this extension), and didn't want to opt out a week after losing a second consecutive world series. Seems reasonable to me and I don't see how his decision affects how much money Patrick Corbin or anyone else gets.  about it
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Rand alPaul posted:I'd be really mad if I was a pitcher right now and saw that the best pitcher in a generation only received an additional one year on his contract. This argument is complicated by the fact that these long contracts usually end up looking so obviously terrible at some point. I'm all for milking the billionaires, but my sense is that owners have enough ammunition as is in the contracts of Albert Pujols, Carl Crawford, Jacoby Ellsbury, Felix Hernandez, etc. to justify giving players less years/money. Besides, that's all a red herring anyway since the real issue for the players is having to play for relative peanuts during a silly amount of arb/pre-arb years.
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bawfuls posted:Kershaw did what every fan says they want their players to do, take a home town discount because he genuinely wants to be here. And people are all He could have done this and taken a longer contract to stay with LA until the end of his career. Unless he really thinks he'll only be able to pitch for 3 more years.
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The best pitcher of his generation might just not love baseball (or a giant contract) as much as the fans or other players do. Heck, his priorities might be more like 1 - Family 2 - God 3 - Setting up some amazing new charities with the already 100 mill i've earned 4 - Retiring sooner to spend more time with my family and to start expanding the outreach I can do Africa and South America, etc 5- Baseball playoffs are fun I guess 6- Need to negotiate for more money 7- Need to negotiate for the good of the players association. So I'd totally get why he would just sign an extension even if some posters see it as hurting his union brothers. Now if I am totally wrong and this isn't just a really amazing, giving guy. Maybe is a stupid stats head and wants to retire before his real decline and be on paper the best pitcher of the post pedro era. It would be guaranteed if he doesnt do the last 3 years of averageness or terribleness most great pitchers do. vincentpricesboner fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Nov 3, 2018 |
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bawfuls posted:Kershaw did what every fan says they want their players to do, take a home town discount because he genuinely wants to be here. And people are all A lot of people are fans of their team first and fans of players, generally, second. It'd be great for the Cardinals if Carlos Martinez, Jack Flaherty and Harrison Bader all signed 10-year extensions to play for $1M a year but it'd be terrible for labor generally and after I stopped dancing around the room in my Cardinals jersey I'd look down at Curt Flood's number and be sad.
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Apparently the Orioles expect their search for a new GM to take as long as six more weeks ... which would put them past the non-tender deadline and potentially the winter meetings. In the meanwhile, Brady fuckin' Anderson--one of the few people who kept their job in the front office purge--is calling the shots under the supervision of the Angelos brothers. 
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