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Would you like to remember 2016 differently, because it turns out that the Cubs won the World Series that year after going down three games to one versus cleveland. A lot of people forget that.
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Popete posted:Everyone involved in this should be fired and banned from baseball. In fact, just preemptively fire every front office, give the teams to their respective cities. Seize the means of run production
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LeeMajors posted:Andre Dawson, Ryne Sandberg, Mark Grace. I watched Kerry Wood’s 20k game live. 154 games a year on WGN. Harry and Steve Stone. Catching the last few innings after I came home from school.... those were the days, man. And I caught the last few innings of the 20k game after school that day too. Id have given anything to be at Wrigley that day. BigBallChunkyTime fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Is the new Mets FO as evil as the previous one? They were my fallback after I abandoned Cleveland. I know they hired the poo poo GM but then dumped his rear end immediately when things came out publicly. I assume Cohen is evil in same ways as anyone that rich has to be. e: The Padres are already my West Coast team since the Mariners threw themselves into the poo poo too.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:154 games a year on WGN. Harry and Steve Stone. Catching the last few innings after I came home from school.... those were the days, man. All of this sounds very familiar, I used to go over my grandparents house after school and hang out there all day during the summers as a kid. My grandpa was a Chicago transplant that loved the Cubs and 8 year old me grew up watching WGN broadcasts with him. The Cubs sucked from what I remember but that was probably the norm for a long rear end time.
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Shiroc posted:Is the new Mets FO as evil as the previous one? They were my fallback after I abandoned Cleveland. I know they hired the poo poo GM but then dumped his rear end immediately when things came out publicly. I assume Cohen is evil in same ways as anyone that rich has to be. Sandy Alderson seems to be pretty much universally respected and he's unquestionably a much better GM than Brodie Van Wagenen was Cohen is a hedge-fund dickhead but at least he seems to want the team to win, which alone makes him better than probably half the ownership groups in MLB
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Despite the Cubs being terrible for so long they built up a huge fan base thanks to that national coverage. So the logical thing to do is create a cable subscription channel for all their games.
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You should root for the Giants, they'll either be total crap this year or decently good or something in between, and not knowing is half the fun!
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The Giants under Farhan will never lose 100 games again, and I'd guess their floor is like 70-75 wins. He's too competent to leave gaping holes in the roster like that.
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Julio Cruz posted:Cohen is a hedge-fund dickhead but at least he seems to want the team to win, which alone makes him better than probably half the ownership groups in MLB he's also funny on twitter
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The Giants hired Kapler to be their manager and hosted what might be the most uncomfortable, cringy introductory press conference for him I've ever seen to justify the hire despite the poo poo he did.
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Shiroc posted:Is the new Mets FO as evil as the previous one? They were my fallback after I abandoned Cleveland. I know they hired the poo poo GM but then dumped his rear end immediately when things came out publicly. I assume Cohen is evil in same ways as anyone that rich has to be. He's also kinda funny on twitter. Still a billionaire, though.
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Yeah, given that the team is going to be owned by some billionaire, Steve Cohen appears to be better than most of the other current owners. I'll re-evaluate as new information comes along, though. If in 5 years he's trading Lindor after signing him to a big contract and screwing with prospects arb years. I'll say one thing for Van Wagenen, he didn't dick around with Alonso's arb clock. Polar Bear was with the team out of spring training in 2019.
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Julio Cruz posted:Sandy Alderson seems to be pretty much universally respected and he's unquestionably a much better GM than Brodie Van Wagenen was Sandy Alderson seems to keep looking the other way on people they employ sexually harrassing employees considering they've hired/employed 3 high level pieces of poo poo lately.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Sandy Alderson seems to keep looking the other way on people they employ sexually harrassing employees considering they've hired/employed 3 high level pieces of poo poo lately. He's also old as gently caress and had/has cancer. I'm not sure he's really been hands on (hence not having the GM position).
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Goddammit Tito. Welcome to st Louis friend
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More billionaires should take a page out of Cohen's book and shitpost on twitter imo
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:More billionaires should take a page out of Cohen's book and shitpost on twitter imo What's the worst that could happen when a billionaire shitposts on Twitter
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Cohen took me out for a meal, along with several of his financial compliance folks when I was configuring financial compliance software for his company as a representative of the software vendor. The meal was delicious, and he bought be really expensive scotch without me having to expense it, citing that he (correctly) knew my company would never have reimbursed me for it. That's my story of how I didn't have to pay for a glass of 50 year old Glenfiddich. He wasn't bad to talk with, but clearly only cared because of PR reasons. But, I really appreciated the scotch. Imasalmon fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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habeasdorkus posted:He's also old as gently caress and had/has cancer. I'm not sure he's really been hands on (hence not having the GM position). So that's why they fired Ellis AFTER they had fired Porter even though they knew about it since 2018? At a certain point the guy that actually hires all these people needs to be held accountable.
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Like why the hell does Alderson get a pass just cause he's been in the game for 40 years???
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oh gently caress https://twitter.com/Evan_P_Grant/status/1366909353962467331?s=20
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more falafel please posted:Would you like to remember 2016 differently, because it turns out that the Cubs won the World Series that year after going down three games to one versus cleveland. A lot of people forget that. and then a week later a horrible price was paid
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read the whole thread last night, to catch up on the offseason all at once. cool. summary from my dodgers-centric view of the world: padres looking pretty scary. well, I went to this game as a 10 year old: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN199609290.shtml, so glad we can't be swept by them the last three games of the year to lose the division to them arenado to the cards lol i should pay more attention to the american league. like, i'm glad rich hill signed with the rays why are so few teams trying to win? deadening the ball - teams should be allowed to provide their own balls at home, deadening or juicing it as they wish each game. just give in and make coors field play like the neo-vancouver stadium that you could unlock in triple play 99 - also consider replacing grass with what they make aluminum bats out of for extra bounciness goodbye pedro baez, you were sneakily incredibly solid, even if you were the slowest... pitcher... ever goodbye keeks, i always love you for game 5 of the 2017 NLCS, and owning madbum so thoroughly goodbye joc, i'm glad you get to run free and play every day now, i really hope you learn how to hit lefties quick hello trevor bauer? man, i was going to UCLA in 2011 when they had both bauer and cole, even though they couldn't get over the hump. so i have a soft spot for him after that ridiculous year. didn't realize what a dick he is. i suppose i've been trying to turn a blind eye to it. i hope he pitches well for my team again, and i hope he learns how not to be a dick. also give kersh your new sticky stuff so he can live forever. free agents seemed to mostly get screwed again. yay covid. guillotine the billionaires I hope the dodgers win again. but at some point you do have to ask, are we the baddies?
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Spoeank posted:What's the worst that could happen when a billionaire shitposts on Twitter Get elected president and incite an insurrection
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I've spent the whole offseason pissed that the Cards let Wong go and now I find out they let him go to the Brewers? gently caress baseball.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:So that's why they fired Ellis AFTER they had fired Porter even though they knew about it since 2018? Oh, I think he's at least part of the problem. Even if his sin is more of absence and ignorance than commission, it's still not good! And, other than the Wilpons, he was the guy most responsible for hiring Callaway! But I also think you can trace at least part of the pass he's gotten to him being more hands off and dealing with cancer for several years (including 2018). He's not as old as I thought, either. 73 when I thought he was in his 80s. Dude's just had a very high level front office job since he was in his mid-30s. I hope Cohen keeps firing sex criminals and pests, it's really the least he can do, but a first step is fixing how they hire people. IIRC Cohen admitted it was 6 white guys who picked Porter as GM, without looking at anything besides his baseball credentials. The Mets are hardly alone in this, but if Cohen wants to be better than the average rapacious billionaire owner then that's one place that's not that fuckin' hard to start. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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There needs to be leadership that says "if this happens, come to me so we deal with it properly not sweep it under a rug. 0 tolerance is how we approach these things, whistleblowers won't be punished/have their careers curtailed". And then that needs to actually happen. They can claim ignorance on the Porter stuff, but Ellis was employed for years after his poo poo started and only fired after the Porter stuff came out. There's 0 excuse for that. The Callaway stuff makes it that much worse. I'm tired of all the we can teach these people how to hire better. They already know better, they just don't actually give a poo poo until the optics matter.
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Shrecknet posted:Get elected president and incite an insurrection like that would ever happen
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boroda posted:I hope the dodgers win again. but at some point you do have to ask, are we the baddies? Or another way to think about it, the existence of the Dodgers makes the Padres all the more fun for people jumping on that bandwagon. The Padres would be less compelling without the underdog angle.
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They said it couldn't be done. But the cubs get their man. https://twitter.com/BleacherNation/status/1367131858723569664?s=19
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R.D. Mangles posted:They said it couldn't be done. But the cubs get their man. Hey that's Eric "The Face Of Baseball" Sogard, buddy.
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Ah there it is, the veteran utility guy signing who will get 40 ABs over the entire season.
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Inspector_666 posted:Hey that's Eric "The Face Of Baseball" Sogard, buddy. every once in a while I remember this and laugh when I think about mlb blatantly rigging the finals to make sure he didn't win
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