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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:The Yankees are the most boring loving franchise in sports if just because you know they're going to construct a team full of fat men who can hit the ball over the porch and some obese oval office from Staten Island will show up at your family events and never shut the gently caress up about how good they are. Your reg date says 03 but this post is ripped straight from the year 2000
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:we need a cap The game is better when there were owners like Steinbrenner who were willing to spend dipshit amounts of money because he wanted to see his team win, not just make money. More owners should be spending that much money.
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Mar 6, 2019 15:07
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Feels Villeneuve posted:The game is better when there were owners like Steinbrenner who were willing to spend dipshit amounts of money because he wanted to see his team win, not just make money. More owners should be spending that much money.  Steinbrenner was a lot of things, but at minimum he packed his team with stars you'd want to pay money to see do their thing, which is, y'know, the point of entertainment products.
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Mar 6, 2019 15:15
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lol the Angels reported the Harper comments about wanting Trout on his team to MLB for tampering
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Mar 6, 2019 15:39
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FlamingLiberal posted:lol the Angels reported the Harper comments about wanting Trout on his team to MLB for tampering  Angels Good to focus on this vs building a team that can make the playoffs and make Trout want to stay. I mean I know Eagles season tickets aren’t cheap, but why did Trout even sign his first extension? As opposed to going (anywhere) else.
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Mar 6, 2019 15:54
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MazelTovCocktail posted:I mean I know Eagles season tickets aren’t cheap, but why did Trout even sign his first extension? As opposed to going (anywhere) else. Because he was only in his third year in the league and had three more years of arbitration before free agency, so signing it protected him (financially) from a disastrous injury.
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^^--or this realistic take MazelTovCocktail posted:I mean I know Eagles season tickets aren’t cheap, but why did Trout even sign his first extension? As opposed to going (anywhere) else. He's the living embodiment of boring when doing anything other than playing baseball and he probably thought it'd be too much trouble to move? Grittybeard fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Mar 6, 2019 |
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Mar 6, 2019 16:01
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This covers most of the labor stuff posted before, except for the implementation of "All-Star Election Day." http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/26150351/mlb-all-star-election-day-planned
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Mar 6, 2019 16:33
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IcePhoenix posted:Because he was only in his third year in the league and had three more years of arbitration before free agency, so signing it protected him (financially) from a disastrous injury. Okay that actually explains things very well and makes a lot of sense.
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Mar 6, 2019 16:44
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Your Taint posted:This covers most of the labor stuff posted before, except for the implementation of "All-Star Election Day." My initial thought on All-Star Election Day is that it's dumb but actually I think it might be neat. For those that don't want to read the article: Fan voting works as normal until a certain date, and then there is another round held on "Election Day" where the only options are the top three vote getters at each position from the initial voting, and the winners of that poll are the all-star starters.
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Mar 6, 2019 16:44
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So the Cubs are just hoping that trotting the same guys out there again works somehow I guess. What a lovely offseason.
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Mar 6, 2019 16:56
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beejay posted:So the Cubs are just hoping that trotting the same guys out there again works somehow I guess. What a lovely offseason. That and reliever roulette. Bound to be a serviceable pen out of the 50 randos they picked out.
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Mar 6, 2019 17:06
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I don't think the Cubs are being unreasonable in expecting that Bryant and Darvish won't be playing hurt and that they will contribute a lot more this season, and that guys like Happ and Schwarber could be a little better, but I also would have enjoyed it if they signed Machado and/or Harper and flung Russell into the phantom zone.
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Mar 6, 2019 17:10
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Bryant and Darvish will be good, no opinion on Happ, Schwarber is straight rear end
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Mar 6, 2019 17:20
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For what it’s worth (very little) the Athletic gave the Cubs a C- for their offseason, compared to an A- for the Cards, a B for the Reds, a B- for the Brewers and a D for the Pirates.
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Mar 6, 2019 17:43
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D feels a bit harsh for the Pirates since it doesn't take into account bringing in Archer last season, but otherwise that feels about right. I'm not sold on Happ. He's got power for days but he kinda sucks at every position he fields, doesn't have the base running instincts to reliably turn his plus speed into stolen bases, and has a big long swing that makes him incredibly strikeout prone. He's young and was rushed up from the minors way too quickly so maybe some of that will get ironed out with more experience, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Mar 6, 2019 18:14
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so i'm just starting to dive into fantasy this year and....I'm not sure that in the 20 or so years i've been playing fantasy baseball that i've ever seen a weaker position than catcher this year. Gary sanchez is going #2 on espn right now (83rd overall) and he hit .186 last year for fucks sake. Is this reflective of some broader trend to get good bats away from that position or is this just a one off thing?
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Mar 6, 2019 18:17
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Pancakes posted:For what it’s worth (very little) the Athletic gave the Cubs a C- for their offseason, compared to an A- for the Cards, a B for the Reds, a B- for the Brewers and a D for the Pirates. I can agree with all of those, at least in terms of the relative grades.
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Mar 6, 2019 18:21
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bewbies posted:so i'm just starting to dive into fantasy this year and....I'm not sure that in the 20 or so years i've been playing fantasy baseball that i've ever seen a weaker position than catcher this year. Catcher has been a wasteland for years now, but it's definitely coming to a head. 2013 was the last time ten catchers had enough plate appearances to appear on the qualified leaderboard on FG, and that's not even getting into whether their production was a net positive for fantasy. Here's a telling graphic from Eno Sarris (this is part of an article behind the paywall, but his Tableau stuff is public so I'm fine with sharing it.)  The third bar in there is Salvador Perez, too.
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Mar 6, 2019 18:24
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bewbies posted:Is this reflective of some broader trend to get good bats away from that position or is this just a one off thing? The correct answer is to draft Yadi and hope that Jordan Hicks doesn’t destroy his balls this season.
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Mar 6, 2019 18:26
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I'm real mad that Salvy is having surgery because no one ever picks him where he should go in my league and I always get him way late.
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Mar 6, 2019 18:27
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Chief McHeath posted:I'm real mad that Salvy is having surgery because no one ever picks him where he should go in my league and I always get him way late. bewbies posted:Is this reflective of some broader trend to get good bats away from that position or is this just a one off thing? These two things reminded me of the story last year where Salvy bought a tee to put a baseball on that was like a golf tee height. The thought process (which I can't disagree with) is that he thought he'd never be able to lay off balls in the dirt so he might as well practice hitting them.
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Mar 6, 2019 18:32
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Pancakes posted:The correct answer is to draft Yadi and hope that Jordan Hicks doesn’t destroy his balls this season. I think in a lot of fantasy formats there might actually be a case to be made to just go without a catcher. Unless you get one of the top end dudes and they actually play up to where they should (Gary I'm looking at you,) whoever you pick up will probably be an active drag on your numbers. I guess anything they add to counting stats in roto helps but almost no catcher in the league is going to really be helping you at all on AVG/OBP/SLG a combo thereof at a spot where you likely couldn't get a better player overall at another position. All that said I am absolutely going to be taking Willians Astudillo way too early in my league.
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Build-a-Team: Millennium Edition is up. It's been a few years since I did one of these, so I'm looking forward to ya'll's updates.
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Mar 6, 2019 19:11
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My big beefy Canadian friend Tyler O'Neill has four hits this spring. They are all dingers. 
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Mar 6, 2019 19:43
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Bucs-Red Sox broadcast had Joey & Alex Cora both mic'd up, it was  (Joey is the Pirates' third base coach)
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Pancakes posted:For what it’s worth (very little) the Athletic gave the Cubs a C- for their offseason, compared to an A- for the Cards, a B for the Reds, a B- for the Brewers and a D for the Pirates. I think the Reds should have the highest grade in the NL Central, since their team feels like it's improved the most between the end of last season and today.
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GalacticAcid posted:Bucs-Red Sox broadcast had Joey & Alex Cora both mic'd up, it was I looked it up on fangraphs and Joey Cora had a negative WAR in 1995 and I finally realized why people hate sabermetrics!
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It sucks that Wright is the last knuckleballer out there since he's such a big piece of poo poo. https://twitter.com/lindseyadler/status/1103403004106063872
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What the gently caress do you take to make a knuckleball better?
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Well Played Mauer posted:What the gently caress do you take to make a knuckleball better? He had the same knee surgery Pedroia had, with similarly meh results so it was probably to help speed along his recovery. He of course is claiming no knowledge how this happened.
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Isn't this his second suspension? I could have sworn he got one a year or so ago.
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Easy Diff posted:Build-a-Team: Millennium Edition is up. It's been a few years since I did one of these, so I'm looking forward to ya'll's updates. not that anyone really reads the OP but I threw this in there
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Kirios posted:Isn't this his second suspension? I could have sworn he got one a year or so ago. That was for domestic abuse
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Response from Cameron Maybin re: DUI arrest: https://twitter.com/CameronMaybin/status/1103373121401339904
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Response from Cameron Maybin re: DUI arrest: "I got a DUI. Oops." -Cameron Maybin
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it's actually a better and more believable apology than we often get in these situations
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There's nothing believable about "oh I guess I shouldn't drink and drive" from a guy in his 30s. gently caress him.
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