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bawfuls posted:I dunno, he was on the ‘07 and ‘13 Sox teams but not the ‘04 one that really has historical significance. Meanwhile as a Cub he was absolutely key to their 2016 run. Not only putting up 5.6 bWAR in the regular season (3rd best of his career) but he had an excellent October, winning NLCS MVP, posting a 2.02 ERA across 5 starts, and racking up 19.3% cWPA. While all of this is true, Jon Lester was the first person to show Re2pect to Derek Jeter and he did it by tipping a Red Sox hat so
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bawfuls posted:I dunno, he was on the ‘07 and ‘13 Sox teams but not the ‘04 one that really has historical significance. Meanwhile as a Cub he was absolutely key to their 2016 run. Not only putting up 5.6 bWAR in the regular season (3rd best of his career) but he had an excellent October, winning NLCS MVP, posting a 2.02 ERA across 5 starts, and racking up 19.3% cWPA. It's definitely true from a team standpoint that the Cubs championship was more important, but for him personally, he was with Boston when he beat lymphoma and I have to imagine that counts for a lot. Closer than I was thinking, though! Totally forgot he wasn't there in '04. Feels like he's been pitching forever.
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clearly lester needs to retire an oakland a, after the magical...what, 10 games he pitched for them?
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Popete posted:I work with a few of the old Midway guys who built the electronics for those arcade cabinets. I never knew about a MLB Jam, I'll have to ask them about it next time I'm in the office which may not be for awhile yet. more falafel please posted:I worked at Midway, but I didn't start until 2006, well after the arcade era. There was MLB Slugfest, which was the (console) spiritual MLB version of NBA Jam. Wow Midway games had a bigger presence in Chicago than I realized. I went to junior high school with the son of an executive producer there. It was cool seeing his name in the credits after beating Mortal Kombat II.
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Poque posted:Totally forgot he wasn't there in '04. Feels like he's been pitching forever.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Wow Midway games had a bigger presence in Chicago than I realized. I went to junior high school with the son of an executive producer there. It was cool seeing his name in the credits after beating Mortal Kombat II. Yeah, for those of us in the Chicago game industry that have been around a long enough time, there's basically "ex-Midway", "ex-EA Chicago", and youngins.
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bawfuls posted:He was also very good in both 2007 and 2013 for Boston but he didn’t win a series MVP and those championships certainly don’t mean as much to Boston as 2004. Obviously nothing will ever equal 2004, but that 2013 team comes closest of any of the other three. You had the combination of the bombing, "our loving city," the beards, and winning at home.
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TheFlyingLlama posted:clearly lester needs to retire an oakland a, after the magical...what, 10 games he pitched for them? Ya he can probably get some Bonilla style payment over 10 years and make 750k during the season he actually pitches!
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Wow Midway games had a bigger presence in Chicago than I realized. I went to junior high school with the son of an executive producer there. It was cool seeing his name in the credits after beating Mortal Kombat II. The two guys I work with are both unlock-able players in NBA Jam which was a weird revelation when I first started working there.
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out: the knucklepuck in: the 12-6 curvepuck
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NY media is going to town on him for his alleged involvement with the short sellers. E: also barstool has it out for him.
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Jan 30, 2021 03:35
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(frank costanza voice) you sold short!
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Hey good job by the Cardinals That is awesome
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Rockies sending 50 million !!! Lamo the sport is stupid
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The Cardinals were gonna win the division anyway.
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So now the question is do the Rockies trade Story before the season or in July?
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This is incredibly dumb, the hell is wrong with these teams? Sign a huge name player to a massive contract and then pay someone else $50 million to play for them. Makes the Darvish trade look like a steal.
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Great he goes from my second favorite team to my most hated team And why would they pay the cards to take him geez
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Great now I have to hate Nolan Arenado for the next 6 years well he owns Cubs slap dick starters.
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Sucking Goldschmidt AND Arenado out of the NL West lol
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Poque posted:Sucking Goldschmidt AND Arenado out of the NL West lol They're trying to assemble the best infield of the 2010 NL West... just need Machado for SS and then I'm not sure who the best 2B from the 2010s in the NL West was. Ketel Marte?
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Popete posted:This is incredibly dumb, the hell is wrong with these teams? Sign a huge name player to a massive contract and then pay someone else $50 million to play for them. Makes the Darvish trade look like a steal. The Rockies thought process has always been a bit different than every other team but this might take the cake
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Glad he’s out of the division ... I guess? Now he’ll get imbued with Cardinals devil magic in October though. Pretty weak rear end trade after all the hype about what it’d take to get him bawfuls fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Jan 30, 2021 |
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Poque posted:Nooooooooo Let’s hope that sub-.800 OPS away from Denver holds up because he’s going to destroy the Cubs for years* *Or year. Apparently he’s still gonna have opt-outs the next two winters.
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I just don't see how the MLB can continue to sustain itself with single digit teams actually giving poo poo at any given time.
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