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Dyersville, Iowa, has received a $12.5 million grant to create a permanent baseball stadium at the Field of Dreams site. An old drinking buddy of mine is part of the ownership group that bought the field a year and a half ago, and they're actively lining up financing to not only do the stadium, but build a hotel, retail and restaurant(s) on the property. Just feels wrong.
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I'm glad Mariners fans are finally realizing that Kelenic in fact sucks. I guess this most recent callup finally did it for them.Timby posted:Dyersville, Iowa, has received a $12.5 million grant to create a permanent baseball stadium at the Field of Dreams site. If you build it, capitalism will come. (and ruin everything)
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Aug 10, 2022 17:29
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FlamingLiberal posted:The Braves just called up Vaughn Grissom, who started the year in A ball and had just arrived in AAA Last year: Braves had 7 catchers This year: Braves will have 6 second basemen
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Aug 10, 2022 17:37
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MrMidnight posted:If the Blue Jays could win a game or two the AL East race would start to look interesting Watch the Orioles win the East
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Aug 10, 2022 17:37
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Timby posted:Dyersville, Iowa, has received a $12.5 million grant to create a permanent baseball stadium at the Field of Dreams site. gonna be hilarious 10 years from now when the site is so overbuilt and commercialized the whole "playing in a cornfield" vibe is completely gone and no one wants to pay top dollar to attend those games
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Aug 10, 2022 17:42
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The corn will be exclusively limited to the metaverse in 5 years
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bawfuls posted:gonna be hilarious 10 years from now when the site is so overbuilt and commercialized the whole "playing in a cornfield" vibe is completely gone and no one wants to pay top dollar to attend those games You don't want to know what tickets for tomorrow night's game are going for on the secondhand market. We're talking four figures per ticket for outfield bleacher seats.
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LobsterMobster posted:The corn will be exclusively limited to the metaversus in 5 years
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Aug 10, 2022 17:48
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Field of Dreams is a fine movie but this obsession over the site of it in the middle of nowhere in Iowa is just baseball's version of "induced demand"
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Aug 10, 2022 18:10
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No Safe Word posted:Field of Dreams is a fine movie but this obsession over the site of it in the middle of nowhere in Iowa is just baseball's version of "induced demand" Hey, now. Dyersville is just outside Dubuque, which is a city of about 55,000 people and was the first city established in the State of Iowa and also happens to be my home. It's not the middle of nowhere. 
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Aug 10, 2022 18:14
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if this game doesn't have a new flavortown special delivery from the mayor of flavortown then it's all bullshit
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Aug 10, 2022 18:16
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LobsterMobster posted:Last year: Braves had 7 catchers I thought Arcia turned his ankle but they're saying he felt his hamstrng pop. drat. Arcia's average toop a big dip playing every day for Albies, but he had a bunch of clutch hits. The end of the play hurts to watch as he legged out a double, but was in so much pain he couldn't hold the bag.
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Aug 10, 2022 18:16
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a bunch of yuppie cubs fans getting day drunk in the corn
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Aug 10, 2022 18:20
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Timby posted:Dyersville, Iowa, has received a $12.5 million grant to create a permanent baseball stadium at the Field of Dreams site. Is this all for the 1 game a year they play there? I mean they can probably get a little bit of money from local teams wanting to play there or by hosting some tournaments but I wouldn't think that would be enough to justify building a full stadium in the middle of nowhere.
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Aug 10, 2022 18:24
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https://twitter.com/DanielKimW/status/1557343818273689600?t=HTHcC90sneWKx6KGyLGC8A&s=19 Hell yeah
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Aug 10, 2022 18:25
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shirts and skins posted:Watch the Orioles win the East It would be worth it just to see the melt down that mcmagic would have
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Aug 10, 2022 18:26
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seiferguy posted:https://twitter.com/DanielKimW/status/1557343818273689600?t=HTHcC90sneWKx6KGyLGC8A&s=19 lol that's a crazy bat flip
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Aug 10, 2022 18:27
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Timby posted:Hey, now. Dyersville is just outside Dubuque, which is a city of about 55,000 people and was the first city established in the State of Iowa and also happens to be my home. It's not the middle of nowhere.
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Aug 10, 2022 18:27
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N: https://twitter.com/BlakeHarrisTBLA/status/1557417175056408576 V: 
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seiferguy posted:https://twitter.com/DanielKimW/status/1557343818273689600?t=HTHcC90sneWKx6KGyLGC8A&s=19 I think that bat ended up back in the dugout
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Aug 10, 2022 18:34
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Also Justin Turner is hitting .358/.432/.538 in his last 30 games. This lineup is nuts
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Aug 10, 2022 18:38
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that's cool and all but that's like 2 weeks well except for turner that's a decent sample size
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Aug 10, 2022 18:40
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Intruder posted:that's cool and all but that's like 2 weeks bawfuls fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Aug 10, 2022 |
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Aug 10, 2022 18:41
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Popete posted:Is this all for the 1 game a year they play there? The idea, according to my friend who's in the ownership group, is that they'd host youth baseball and special events like concerts throughout the year, hence the push to build a hotel and have dining and retail options. Just feels bizarre to take a historic site and turn it into a mini-mallpark.
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Aug 10, 2022 18:42
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bawfuls posted:for both Muncy and Bellinger, I will take any sliver of hope I can get muncy whatever he's never been good outside of some brief dodgers witchmagic but what the hell happened to bellinger?
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Aug 10, 2022 18:44
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Intruder posted:muncy whatever he's never been good outside of some brief dodgers witchmagic but what the hell happened to bellinger? Bellinger hasn't been the same since his shoulder surgery.
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Aug 10, 2022 18:46
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Muncy is as legitimate as Justin Turner. He changed his swing and approach when he got to the Dodgers (he spent the entirety of 2017 in AAA working on it), and has nearly 2000 PA of 136 OPS+ over 4 seasons since then, not counting this year. The period you refer to as "brief Dodgers witch magic" is 8x as many PA as his previous "never been good" times in Oakland. I mean idk how you square that post with his actual results: His struggles this year are 100% about the elbow injury he suffered in game 162 last year. He finally looks healthy now and so I do expect him to keep this up. Bellinger is more complicated, he also had an injury coincide with a decline but he's further removed from the injury and it's hard to know what's physical or not. I expect more streakiness from Bellinger, and don't really expect him to ever replicate his MVP season again for an extended period. But he can get hot for a month at a time (like last year when he put up a .906 OPS in the postseason) bawfuls fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Aug 10, 2022 |
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Aug 10, 2022 18:49
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I’m just bummed they had to send Vargas and Outman down. Too many Good Dudes right now to carry them all.
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Aug 10, 2022 18:55
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https://twitter.com/mikemayer22/status/1557375741469270019?s=21&t=JQIZxf5vhPBck-iMXbhuPA
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Aug 10, 2022 19:05
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Bellinger just has the yips. They can go away and he can be good again.
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Aug 10, 2022 19:23
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Intruder posted:a bunch of yuppie cubs fans getting day drunk in the corn If it weren't for the yuppy part this would own so hard. That's basically what college baseball in the middle of the state feels like.
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Aug 10, 2022 20:01
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Honestly I don't see how another team beats the Dodgers this year. They are incredibly stacked. Which...good for them honestly - hopefully it encourages teams to spend more.
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Aug 10, 2022 20:05
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Kirios posted:Honestly I don't see how another team beats the Dodgers this year. They are incredibly stacked. Which...good for them honestly - hopefully it encourages teams to spend more. The Mets and Astro’s are plenty capable of beating them. The Dodgers are the best team in the league but they’re not invincible.
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LobsterMobster posted:
And they’re all hurt Anyways this is way too early for Grissom so just hoping it doesn’t break him in any long term way. elentar fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Aug 10, 2022 |
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davecrazy posted:The Mets and Astro’s are plenty capable of beating them. The Dodgers are the best team in the league but they’re not invincible. Ya. The Dodgers are 1-5 against the Pirates this year, anything can happen in a short series.
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Aug 10, 2022 20:23
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This is going to be a shitshow, I can't wait: https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1557445410339291136?t=u2lx84a7T75UYIwQVTP3YQ&s=19
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Aug 10, 2022 20:26
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Timby posted:Hey, now. Dyersville is just outside Dubuque, which is a city of about 55,000 people and was the first city established in the State of Iowa and also happens to be my home. It's not the middle of nowhere. Sorry you live in the middle of nowhere Traxis posted:This is going to be a shitshow, I can't wait: This should never be a thing
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Aug 10, 2022 20:28
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Traxis posted:This is going to be a shitshow, I can't wait: Is it just a projection mapping of Will Farrell's Harry Caray's impression?
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Aug 10, 2022 20:31
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Traxis posted:Ya. The Dodgers are 1-5 against the Pirates this year, anything can happen in a short series. Perhaps a simpler response is “lol did you watch the last five years of postseason baseball?”
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Kirios posted:Honestly I don't see how another team beats the Dodgers this year. They are incredibly stacked. Which...good for them honestly - hopefully it encourages teams to spend more. If they had a higher profit margin winning the WS with a big payroll than a team that made it into the playoffs with a pittance of a payroll, maybe.
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