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IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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https://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2018/08/13/2380049883/1534129472044/asset_2500K.mp4


DUMB PREDICTIONS AND TOXXES!





League leaders as of the morning of 09/05





https://i.imgur.com/cZ9mFtT.mp4


https://i.imgur.com/vqPmvou.mp4

IcePhoenix fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Sep 21, 2018

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IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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GalacticAcid posted:

Pirates called up a bunch of bums. Nick Burdi I guess might be a functional major league reliever lol

The Twins didn't even want him

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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Nice month

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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GalacticAcid posted:

Roofs are the coward's way out

:hai:

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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League leaders (as of today) added to OP

Dunno if anyone cares but I like having them there so it annoys me when MLB's site isn't working when I make the thread!

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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https://twitter.com/FOXSportsBraves/status/1037374986170716160

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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Carlosologist posted:

drat, Ohtani out until 2020 and probably won't pitch again. this stinks

basically since Ohtani was under 23 he was under the general international rules when it came to his MLB contract. so six years of team control, but I think NPB and MLB had to work out a specific deal since his circumstances were different

No special deal, it's why a few teams were doing what they could to get more IFA money last offseason.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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Worthleast posted:

Just wear umpire uniforms.

:golfclap:

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1037688996267208707

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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slev posted:

Didn't the cardinals put some guy in left field that couldn't throw and have him basically underhand it to the relay guy? Just do that with Ohtani so he can always play.

Good news, friend! He's on a team where they're allowed to have a hitter that doesn't need to field, in exchange for the pitcher not hitting.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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I have no idea how this wasn't a balk

https://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2018/09/08/2474028683/1536370009974/asset_2500K.mp4

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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Check out Twins/Royals if you get a chance

e: :q:

IcePhoenix fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Sep 9, 2018

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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iospace posted:

You had to say something

correct

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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GalacticAcid posted:

Is there any way to watch Arizona Fall League games

go to them

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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https://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2018/09/12/2482930883/1536718806865/asset_2500K.mp4

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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I love this man so much

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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I love this man.

Look at this glorious statline

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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Hey remember when people were arguing about Ohtani trying to rehab instead of just going in for surgery? Here's another reason why you generally want to avoid it if you can, from Pro Wrestleman Dean Ambrose

quote:

"It’s good to get back out in front of people." Ambrose said of his return. "I had a lot of frustration I needed to really get out that built up over the last eight months. It was a long, long period of time. Much longer than I would have been anticipated. It was just one nightmare after another. It was a pretty challenging period of time to go through. I ended up having two different surgeries. I had this MRSA, Staph infection, I nearly died. I was in the hospital for a week plugged up to this antibiotic drip thing, and I was on all these antibiotics for months that make you puke and crap your pants.

So it was a pretty rough time. My arm wasn’t healing correctly, and my triceps. It’s kind of an indeterminate period where I initially hurt it." Ambrose said. "I thought it was, we call it Dusty elbows. It’s a pretty typical wrestler thing. You just get this bursa sac of fluid on your elbow from banging it on the mat or whatever. I’ve had that dozens of times on both elbows. It usually just goes away. It was kind of disguised. By the time I finally went and got the first surgery, my triceps was already starting to atrophy and look weird. I wasn’t able to flex my triceps for a really long time, and then the first surgery didn’t really, something went wrong in the process. Probably due to that infection. It’s kind of hard to say when that really even got in my body. This is a long answer to your question, but for a minute there, it was getting scary." Ambrose revealed. "By the time I got that second surgery, it was March I think. My arm was so shrunken and skeletal that it was weird. I hadn’t been able to move it or flex it in so long that I was starting to get scared I wasn’t ever going to get it back. To go from not being able to eat my Froot Loops, to being able to get back in the ring and throw people around and throw punches and do everything back to normal, it was a very gratifying feeling."

So yeah...things can go south real fast for even a routine surgery.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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Timby posted:

It's highly unlikely that all thirty teams suddenly found Jesus in the same offseason.

Some of them had probably already found it previously, to be fair.

Also wasn't there a stat that like 75% of the "top" unsigned Free Agents in January or February were Boras clients? I'm all for trying to milk as much as you can out of the owners but I think he pretty clearly overplayed his hand.

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Sep 18, 2005

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Thom P. Tiers posted:

Jordan Hicks has filthy stuff and I hope he never breaks.

https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1042404662488518656

What the gently caress that last pitch shouldn't be legal

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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Good Dog posted:

The best parts of the moneyball year that were left out were the Athletics losing to the Twins in the first round of the playoffs even though the Twins had just as lovely of payroll and the Angels winning the world series.

And they don't mention much of how disgustingly good Zito, Hudson and Mulder were and they were all on basically league minimum salaries at the time.

Didn't Lewis originally want to write about the Twins instead but they turned him away?

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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rickiep00h posted:

oh good that's going to bring closure for everyone.

isn't that why they traded for him in the first place?

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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watch the whole thing for glorious slo mo

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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Thom P. Tiers posted:

lol I think that's the first time I've made it into a title, thanks Ice!

:D

I would love to take credit but the only titles I can set are the ones when I post the thread, otherwise only mods can change them.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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Went to the Twins game tonight and got some A+ quality gear



Also saw them score a run in the second (or maybe third?) by walking four straight times to start the inning. They scored more but that was the funny bit.

Also also I am like 99% sure Mauer is retiring at the end of the year. He got pulled in the sixth after ripping a single to get on base for the third time and was really just taking in the ovation he was getting from the crowd, which isn't a very Mauer thing to do normally.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

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I'll have a new N/V thread up as soon as the scores for the day are finalized.

I am not taking submissions for the thread title.

Not that I ever really do but, you know, don't try to say something funny and thread titleable if that's your thing.

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Sep 18, 2005

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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3870220

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