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FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Things are going to be bad enough for good FAs this year the way MLB is crying poverty, let alone for guys who have struggled to get contracts like Puig

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Nodoze
Aug 17, 2006

If it's only for a night I can live without you
Plaschke was right all along

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Y'all think you've seen collusion but it is nothing like what's going to happen this year, this is disaster capitalism on steroids and nobody's outside of a few of us freak fans are going to care because it's hard to get worked up for people making a minimum 500k salary or to see how lowballing their salaries is symptomatic of what's going on nationwide.

Traxis
Jul 2, 2006

Puig no longer my friend

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003


:toot:

Can't wait for the fans of whichever team he signs with to become passionate about due process

Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another spring commute

Nodoze posted:

Plaschke was right all along

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1321938314589556737?s=20

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

Hell yeah getting hung up on literally the least objectionable thing about hiring TLR

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


please change the thread title to Tony La Russia

General Bullshit
Apr 20, 2020


bawfuls posted:

my friend, no!

https://twitter.com/BR_MLB/status/1321902411313606656

between the league-wide excuses to slash spending and now this, Puig may have played his last game in MLB

NOOOOOOOOoo my hope was that he tore up winter ball and got a deal :(

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

R.D. Mangles posted:

please change the thread title to Tony La Russia

god damnit I didn't even noticed that :lol:

Bird in a Blender
Nov 17, 2005

It's amazing what they can do with computers these days.

Tony loving La Russa. I still can’t believe it.

Nodoze
Aug 17, 2006

If it's only for a night I can live without you

lol, what a dumb thought. What does that matter at all

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
absolute bloodbath incoming, this is just to save a measly $3m (after $500k buyout) for a perfectly serviceable bullpen arm.

https://twitter.com/Braves/status/1321923737382432768

Darude - Adam Sandstorm
Aug 16, 2012

He's thrown 40 innings in 3 seasons.

bawfuls
Oct 28, 2009

boot him out of the HoF pending the conclusion of his managerial career

better wait until he's dead to consider him again, just to be sure

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


the only people in baseball i hate more than tony larussa are the people who own my favorite team

Carlton Banks
Jan 5, 2004

"The Tigers' biggest obstacle to a championship will be keeping a straight face. The Tigers in three."
So do we think TLR already called Pujols to talk him into requesting a trade, or is that his plan for this winter

bees x1000
Jun 11, 2020

Carlton Banks posted:

So do we think TLR already called Pujols to talk him into requesting a trade, or is that his plan for this winter

wtf I love TLR now

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

CWS hiring Luhnow as GM and talking Eckstein out of retirement

Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another spring commute
:siren: A team has picked up a player option :siren:

https://twitter.com/BryanHoch/status/1321957051933839365

GoatSeeGuy
Dec 26, 2003

What if Jerome Walton made me a champion?


^^^ What about Cano and Swisher?

R.D. Mangles posted:

the only people in baseball i hate more than tony larussa are the people who own my favorite team

Maybe this will help.

https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1321979616303718400?s=21

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

Nodoze posted:

lol, what a dumb thought. What does that matter at all

It will rule when he does something objectionable enough that they try to de hall him

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Lmao

https://twitter.com/stevestone/status/1321980115929178115?s=21

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

gently caress ryan braun i'm glad he got cut even if it's probably for covid payroll considerations. call up broxton i don't care at least he's fun

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Yea Broxton is cool. Pirates legend

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

only jersey I own. gently caress ryan braun

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

WEH posted:

only jersey I own. gently caress ryan braun

I hope we figured out who peed in his sample

WEH
Feb 22, 2009

Luigi Thirty posted:

I hope we figured out who peed in his sample

luigi thirty lol

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

Haha get hosed Osuna.

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
https://twitter.com/codystavenhagen/status/1322005449995157505?s=21

Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land





It's not like the Tigers have anything else going for them, the perfect team to bite the Bunch bullet

Kevlar v2.0
Dec 25, 2003

=^•⩊•^=

Sitting next to Hawk for so many years has rotted his brain.

Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another spring commute

:lol::lol::lol:

Der Meister
May 12, 2001


Cool let’s rename the senate the House of Lords and ignore it

Bregor
May 31, 2013

People are idiots, Leslie.
Late to the TLR party but loving lol

I was just watching the 30 For 30 on the ‘89 earthquake and thinking how happy I was that I didn’t have to watch him anymore. I hope Anderson, Robert, and Eloy go full mutiny

Big Mean Jerk
Jan 27, 2009

Well, of course I know him.
He's me.

Ahahahahahahha

bawfuls
Oct 28, 2009

https://twitter.com/TylerKepner/status/1322032388566880256
"during the games"

king

Strelok604
Apr 26, 2020

The absolute universality of everyone agreeing that the Tony La Russa move is dumb as poo poo is hilarious

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MrMojok
Jan 28, 2011

Alright, so this is lame, but baseball is over for the foreseeable future, and I can't think of any reason not to post this. We're just bullshitting here, right?

I Found this kid on YouTube called THE GOAT MAN. One of his videos is about how Koufax is one of the most overrated pitchers of all time.

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...a lot of people have him in their top-ten starting pitchers of all time. Even maybe their top fifteen, or top twenty. And I'm here to tell that that none of those are true, and a lot of those rankings are based on him being a good person, or the prime, insane seasons he had.

For sure, Koufax's story is basically a tale of two careers. He pitched six seasons before he figured things out. He also pitched off the 20" mound at Dodger Stadium, and in a pitcher-friendly era. But this kid talks about how his career strikeout totals are bolstered by the first half, "bonus seasons" when he wasn't really making an impact, but instead "kind of just racking up stats."

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It's almost like what Albert Pujols is doing today, where he's old and not really that good, but he's just still playing in the league, and getting extra stats. Or getting, like, trying to rack up every last stat he can and reach every milestone he can

quote:

While he was in his prime, he did have a 2.19 ERA, and a 156 adjusted ERA, but that still is only six years...

quote:

You can't just make someone an all-time great based on their six best years, where they won two World Series, and won three Cy Youngs and won a league MVP.

My monocle popped off my eye and I had to go lie down for a spell. This is absolute heresy to me. But I post it here to see how many heathens agree with this boy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vlZTP51qs

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