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Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Continuing from the last thread, the Astros should give up all their best prospects for George Kontos and Hunter Strickland. Oh and Johnny Cueto too maybe.

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Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Giants sweep the Pirates in Pittsburgh and it's pretty easy to find the root cause

https://twitter.com/peterhartlaub/status/880579489754951681

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Which players would your team keep in an MLB expansion draft?

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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So what's the king up to these days?

https://twitter.com/PavlovicNBCS/status/883840796792836096

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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The hits keep coming for the Giants, as prospect callup Austin Slater is out for 2-3 months after tearing some hip muscle.

:suicide:

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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https://twitter.com/flippingbats/status/884433990643593216

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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I'm digging the decorative Things That Look Like AT-AT Walkers.

Also the reason the A's got their revenue sharing reduced was because (thankfully former) owner Lew Wolff was pocketing it and spending nothing on the team.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Popete posted:

Pretty sure those are cranes for unloading from ships

They are yeah but as kids we all called them "things that look like AT-AT walkers"

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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tadashi posted:

Sacramento - I guess you could move the A's there but they'd end up fighting with LA for market rights

Sac would be divided between the A's and LA? What?

Anyway Sacramento's not getting a new team since it's already totally saturated between the Giants and A's. California as a whole is already pretty spoken for between the A's/Giants/Dodgers/Angels/Padres. Same thing with Inland Empire (the Riverside - San Bernadino area), it's got a bigger population than Detroit but won't get any new baseball teams because Southern California already has three.

A team in Mexico City would own because it would instantly become the sport's largest market.

Zigmidge posted:

Hey, maybe let's not celebrate it.

Hell yes let's absolutely celebrate it

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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I don't care about the Cubs but here's some good words about the Marlins.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Also, lol:

https://twitter.com/BaseballAmerica/status/885513975869427713

https://twitter.com/BaseballAmerica/status/885604970128703488

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Feel bad for Sandoval :(. He was the first homegrown All-Star the Giants produced in years, and a big part of the three World Series championships. I expected the deal wouldn't age well for Boston, but not that he'd fall off a danged cliff.

Fortunately I didn't have to watch the last three years so I can ignore his inglorious departure and focus on the good times instead.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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https://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/886331655157403649

Do you like a ton of strikeouts and not a lot of walks? Do you like guaranteed 200 IP every year? Do you like seeing dingers hit and don't care which team hits them? Than Jeff Shark is the pitcher you need.

Give me your prospects.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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I think it's time to accept KBO is better than MLB

https://twitter.com/ShtBallPlayrsDo/status/886067179174731779

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Japanese Beat the Freeze is as nuts as I'd expect.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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All time great Giant.

https://twitter.com/truebluela/status/888162663548633089

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Craptacular! posted:

Is this real because it seems like outside of NL baseball and hockey I never really see it. A's fans talking among themselves seem to not like the Angels but they don't reserve any special hate for them, if anything the two California teams seem to agree that they should be dissing the two Texas teams more.

Likewise, lots of people who do not like the Raiders for reasons surrounding the "tough" image they welcome and pander to seem to like the 49ers, or maybe it's only to piss off Spanos. And 49ers fans, depending on the era, used to either dislike the Bears (Montana era) or Cowboys (Young era) or Seahawks (modern era) more than the Chargers.

Most GSW fans loathe the Lakers and Clippers, though I think everyone hates the Lakers (as they should). And the 49ers and the Rams had a pretty deep rivalry before they moved to St. Louis. The Cowboys can gently caress off always, however. I will agree with you that the A's/Angels rivalry never seems to reach the level of Giants/Dodgers.

IDK about hockey.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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lol if your favorite pitcher only has one career grand slam.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Giants make it official.

https://twitter.com/SFGiants/status/888831944632315904

achillesforever6 posted:

I was also thinking of something, what is your team's favorite loss? For me its easy because I have never laughed harder at a baseball game when this happened

Probably the game last year where Madison Bumgarner hit another homer off Clayton Kershaw.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Sydin posted:

Oh hey sweet, I thought the word was he was going to AAA. I'm absolutely going to hit up an SJ Giants game to watch Panda crush some scrub A ball pitchers. :toot:

It's just until the Rivercats gets back from their roadtrip

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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https://twitter.com/davelozo/status/888917486938337280

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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https://twitter.com/McCulloughTimes/status/889221902182400000

Dodgers going all in by trading Kershaw for a postseason pitcher.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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According to reports, David Price got into an altercation with Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley last month over a comment made about another pitcher during a broadcast.

GobiasIndustries posted:

Wait is Verlander really getting traded? If so, that sucks, and what are they looking for for him?

I can't imagine the Tigers get anything for him without eating his entire salary.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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:siren: EDUARDO NUÑEZ HAS BEEN HUGGED :siren:

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/890065155706544128

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Grant Brisbee raises an important point:

quote:

Also, when we get the names of the pitchers, it’s absolutely essential that we refer to the trade as:

Eduardo Nuñez

for

Minor league pitcher
Minor league pitcher
Pablo Sandoval
$65 million

This is how it must be. It’s canon.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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lol

https://twitter.com/PeteAbe/status/890283828337451009

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Not everything is bad for the 2017 Giants

https://twitter.com/TimFlannery2/status/890662931624370176

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Meanwhile in Korea:

https://twitter.com/Spotv_sports/status/890854850199560193

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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:siren: METS HAVE TRADED CESPEDES TO THE MARLINS :siren:

https://twitter.com/Joelsherman1/status/891130815849037824

no idea who Ricardo Cespedes is.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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https://twitter.com/PavlovicNBCS/status/891423726469734400

Career minor leaguer Carlos Moncreif made his MLB debut as a pinch hitter. He walked.

https://twitter.com/PavlovicNBCS/status/891425037973995520

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Weirdos on the internet can complain about Bochy or Sabean or everyone as much as they like, but it seems to me that most of the Giants' struggles can be laid at the feet of the atrocious outfield defense. Span/Pence/Gorkys would be fourth/fifth/minor league outfielders in most other organizations.

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Sep 7, 2010

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https://twitter.com/extrabaggs/status/892261400210358272

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