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Sydin posted:Manfred and the current group of owners are going to run the sport into the ground chasing every last possible penny. 
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If they do 16 team playoffs they need to expand the league to 32 teams. More than half the teams in the playoffs is stupid.
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lmao of-loving-course “Oh hey guys we’re gonna do some weird poo poo just for this season and I swear it’ll go back to normal after but oh noooooooooo I guess everyone loves these changes so my hands are tied and now we have to keep them by popular demand whooooooooooooops”
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Sep 16, 2020 05:31
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It's so obviously a move to increase playoff revenue and decrease the incentive to pay free agents. I hope the union has the balls to go on strike if they need to for a better bargaining agreement.
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Sep 16, 2020 05:35
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https://twitter.com/jaseidler/status/1306026230219669505?s=20
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Sep 16, 2020 07:11
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This is some false drat advertising, show me Bartolo playing shortstop you coward
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Sep 16, 2020 07:30
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All he needed was a much larger, much slower ball. I kid, of course. He hit his homer and honestly sports could have ended there and then, but instead we get to watch his rotund self mash beer league dingers like he's the rest of us. What a time to be alive.
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Sep 16, 2020 07:50
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bartolo colon is better at hitting than I am at anything
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Sep 16, 2020 08:16
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You know, it's not a lot of fun when the Jays get hit for 18 runs and 20 runs all within a week.
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Sep 16, 2020 14:51
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Congrats to baseball for making the regular season meaningless and generating even less interest in every game.
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Sep 16, 2020 15:20
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I spent a long time crushing Selig for his arbitrary nonsense but Manfred is on an entirely different level. I guess if we are going to let capitalism destroy our biosphere for profit, there’s no reason to think baseball is exempt or sacred in any way.
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Sep 16, 2020 15:25
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A good article on the incoming Mets ownership, with a first paragraph that's quite well done:The article posted:It is unclear what rich people are for. In the most generous interpretation, the rich are here on earth for the same ineffably profound reasons that other people are: to create and aspire, to love and be loved, to live and die and eat the sandwiches of their choosing. But the ways in which extreme wealth continues to warp and diminish and generally impoverish the world raise the existential stakes significantly on the question. The people who have the most also tend to demand the most, and on a level that ordinary people can’t or won’t demand things. The rich fund institutions and armies of credentialed factotums to recast their greed and dull, atavistic desires as valid ideologies, and politicians spin all that corny dross into policies, and it all piles up downstream from there. It chokes, it floods. Some rich people also collect art, to be fair, although that’s mostly because art is currently the most expensive thing a person can collect. https://defector.com/defective-dynasts-sell-new-york-mets-to-prolific-financial-criminal-fans-rejoice/
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Sep 16, 2020 16:00
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Braves activated Cole Hamels, who after pitching to a single batter will immediately shatter into a thousand parts.
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elentar posted:Braves activated Cole Hamels, who after pitching to a single batter will immediately shatter into a thousand parts. He can get an out???? We're saved!!
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Sep 16, 2020 18:28
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60 Day DL- Arm Explosion
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blossommirage posted:He can get an out???? We're saved!! Who said it would be an out
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more falafel please posted:If they do 16 team playoffs they need to expand the league to 32 teams. More than half the teams in the playoffs is stupid. Honestly with a 162 game season, having a playoff at all is stupid.
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A 16 team playoff ensures that there’s really no incentive to build your roster to be much better than an 85-90 win team. Which is the point, of course.
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Rip this sport
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Sep 16, 2020 21:25
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80 win Cardinals World Series winners for ever
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General Dog posted:A 16 team playoff ensures that there’s really no incentive to build your roster to be much better than an 85-90 win team. Which is the point, of course. But notice none of these kind of things get proposed by the league.
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Sep 16, 2020 21:31
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If they’re set on expanding: 12-team playoffs, with the worst division leaders and the best wild card team hosting a best of three against the other two wild cards. Reseed after so best division winner is facing the worst remaining team. Then Division Series, LCS, WS as usual. Going to 16, with a guaranteed spot for every second-place team, is just ugly in multiple ways.
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Say what you will about the NFL, but it always at least projects a sense that it's desperate to keep the fans happy, perhaps to a fault. I don't know if I've ever seen one of the major leagues be so willing to just openly spit in the fans' face as Manfred's MLB. And that's coming from someone who wasn't especially unhappy with how the Astros scandal mas managed.elentar posted:with a guaranteed spot for every second-place team I'd forgotten, is that the actual format this year, rather than it just being division winners plus five wild cards for each league? We're talking about sub-.500 teams occasionally getting in at that point. General Dog fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Sep 16, 2020 |
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General Dog posted:Say what you will about the NFL, but it always at least projects a sense that it's desperate to keep the fans happy, perhaps to a fault. I don't know if I've ever seen one of the major leagues be so willing to just openly spit in the fans' face as Manfred's MLB. And that's coming from someone who wasn't especially unhappy with how the Astros scandal mas managed. Yes, the first and second spot from each division get postseason spots
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Sep 16, 2020 21:42
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General Dog posted:I'd forgotten, is that the actual format this year, rather than it just being division winners plus five wild cards for each league? We're talking about sub-.500 teams occasionally getting in at that point. There is a non-zero chance the bottom 4 seeds in the NL all are below .500 when the dust settles. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Sep 16, 2020 |
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Sep 16, 2020 23:31
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N: http://www.twitter.com/Phillies/status/1306353944101359617 V: lol
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N: https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1306348593830338561 V: Give Woodruff the GG you cowards
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Sydin posted:N: https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1306348593830338561 Wouldn't it be the Gold Cleat?
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I mean, he's only up because all other OF git hurt. Monaik is clearly not ready for major league pitching, but I really hope he finds the magic steroids or something
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The Dodgers become the first team to clinch a postseason berth this year, with 35 wins. And they gave San Diego their first back to back losses in a month.
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Also apparently one of the hits Yu allowed last night got changed to an error today, so his ERA is now 1.86 instead of 2.00. Every little bit to try and edge out deGrom for that Cy I guess.
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Sep 17, 2020 00:39
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Imagine a team poppin bottles for finishing with 80 wins instead of 79 lol
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Sep 17, 2020 00:55
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James Paxton done for year per ESPN Ticker
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I want Yu to win a Cy this year so bad. Him and DeGrom are neck and neck right now tied with 2.4 bWAR. Fried is ahead with 2.9 so it's gonna come down to the wire.
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Popete posted:I want Yu to win a Cy this year so bad. Him and DeGrom are neck and neck right now tied with 2.4 bWAR. Fried is ahead with 2.9 so it's gonna come down to the wire. good lord Fried was having an amazing year, hope he actually makes it back
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Tatis went 1 for 12 in the series and is in the midst of quite a skid. Is Mookie gonna snag the MVP in the final week? I'd also like to see Yu win the Cy this year, that'd be very cool.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:James Paxton done for year per ESPN Ticker Man I feel so bad for him, he's got the talent and stuff to be a Top 10 pitcher in MLB but he just cannot loving stay healthy.
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Sep 17, 2020 01:03
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Is frank the only other two league MVPer when Mookie wins
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