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https://twitter.com/DexterFowler/status/1278420394009980929?s=19 St Louis pizza tastes like a Baseball? ScottyJSno fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Jul 1, 2020 |
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Spring Training 2: Electric Boogaloo Spring Training 2:The Reckoning! Also, looking at the pictures of the new stadium. It's.....too big? Even though Tropicana is a shithole, every seat has a good view. And because it's always empty and has a roof, you can hear.......everything! Truth is it's the most fun stadium to watch games in, if they did this..... Market the game to tourists of the opposite team. Work with Airlines,Hotels and Bars to bring them down then cater to the OTHER teams fan base. Become the Washington Generals of MLB. Profit? But then Covid happened! Strictly sarcasm for the humor challenged but that stadium is too big and since it's the newest one, probably the last one like that ever. 2020 man, 2020.....
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Jul 1, 2020 21:47
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iospace posted:gently caress the DH Came here to post gently caress the DH as well.
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Jul 1, 2020 21:48
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ScottyJSno posted:https://twitter.com/DexterFowler/status/1278420394009980929?s=19 I can’t believe I ever liked this guy.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:02
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Intruder posted:I think specifically to have a retractable roof Also to shuffle money around. This is a golden age for grifters but there is no grift like the publicly financed stadium grift.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:03
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chilihead posted:
I have never in my life been prouder to type the astros cheated in the world series and still lost
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Jul 1, 2020 22:12
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ScottyJSno posted:https://twitter.com/DexterFowler/status/1278420394009980929?s=19 The hell is this?
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Jul 1, 2020 22:13
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Somebody talk me into being excited for baseball. I don’t want to be a wet blanket here but I just can’t get enthused given the public health situation. Just seems really far fetched to me that it’s gonna happen at all or feel at all real without fans, and with the shortened season.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:28
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GalacticAcid posted:Somebody talk me into being excited for baseball. I think it's better than 50/50 that the season starts but doesn't finish.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:30
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GalacticAcid posted:Somebody talk me into being excited for baseball.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:35
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If the season starts... I dunno. I'm sure I'll watch "Opening Day" and see what happens. Right now I just... baseball makes me sad. And I'm not a Cubs fan so that's not a draw.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:36
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I'm very ambivalent about this season. I'm gonna watch it and it'll probably be pretty fun cause it's gonna be full of dumb poo poo and 60 games means the Mariners are definitely gonna make the playoffs this year. I just am not particularly attached to the results of this season. It'll be a fun cliff notes to think back upon. But I can't even get that worked up about the extra innings thing, like it just doesn't really matter.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:38
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GalacticAcid posted:Somebody talk me into being excited for baseball. I also don’t believe the season is happening until there’s an actual pitch and I struggle with my desire to watch because I don’t think they should be playing. And while it’ll be strange for games to be in empty parks, this is a unique chance for the mics to pick up some excellent pro-level chatter. E: Well, unless safety precautions prohibit poo poo talking. Dinosaurs! fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Jul 1, 2020 |
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Jul 1, 2020 22:45
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The past seven years have already beaten my psyche into this weird state where regular season Dodgers baseball is just a kind of purgatory, waiting for the inevitable agony of a new postseason exit. The only respite from this was attending games in person, which is always a good time with friends. I have zero faith that the league will make it to the postseason this year, and I definitely am not attending a game, so I can't get up for a few weeks or a month of regular season baseball.
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Happy Bobby Bonilla Day everyone! https://twitter.com/shrecknet/status/1145676459425574912
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Jul 1, 2020 23:56
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Well that's a grievancing https://sports.yahoo.com/rob-manfred-admits-mlb-never-intended-to-play-more-than-60-games-223213827.html quote:“The reality is we weren’t going to play more than 60 games no matter how the negotiations with the players went, or any other factor,” Manfred told Patrick. “I think this is the one thing we come back to every single day: we’re trying to manage something that has proven to be unpredictable and unmanageable. I know it hasn’t looked particularly pretty in spots, but having said that, if we can pull off this 60-game season, I think it was the best we were going to do for our fans given the course of the virus.
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Jul 2, 2020 00:14
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Its Rinaldo posted:Well that's a grievancing Pretend I posted oh my god he admit it dot gif because I'm not catching another 24 hours for ~meme provenance~ Anyway, I'm glad Rob Manfred is a massive idiot goober because we can definitively point to the owners being the ones who capped this at 60 games the entire time while trying to smear players in the media for months on end... and it almost worked! Spoeank fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jul 2, 2020 |
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Jul 2, 2020 00:15
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Should be some good ammo to get a look at the books.
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Jul 2, 2020 00:36
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Intruder posted:I think specifically to have a retractable roof In fairness, it’s basically asking for trouble to play sports in an open stadium in Texas during summer and it’s only going to get worse in the years to come. It’s too bad their solution to this problem was to superglue MMP’s brick and glass elements to a loving CostCo though lmao.
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Jul 2, 2020 00:46
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The Rangers had a better excuse for a new stadium than the Braves did, but at least the Braves didn't get a giant tool shed built.
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Jul 2, 2020 02:40
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ScottyJSno posted:https://twitter.com/DexterFowler/status/1278420394009980929?s=19 Hahaaaaa good one Dex  I am cautiously pessimistic about baseball's 2020 return. edit: also Shrecknet posted:Happy Bobby Bonilla Day everyone! https://twitter.com/shrecknet/status/1145676459425574912
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dex how could you
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Jul 2, 2020 03:09
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Can someone with photoshop skill put Bartolo Colon's face on this Simpsons meme:
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Jul 2, 2020 03:12
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ccubed posted:Can someone with photoshop skill put Bartolo Colon's face on this Simpsons meme: Bartolo is now a svelte boy I'll have you know e: I think? Can't find it, but I think earlier in the offseason someone posted a gym photo of him looking skinny... well skinnier
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Jul 2, 2020 05:09
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Even at his biggest weight, Bartolo was never remotely an unathletic tub of poo poo like, say, Bob Wickman.
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Jul 2, 2020 06:05
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I worked in a deli in college and Bob Wickman looked almost identical to a guy I worked with
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Jul 2, 2020 06:29
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Mustached Demon posted:Came here to post gently caress the DH as well. Came here to agree with this guy. gently caress the DH.
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Jul 2, 2020 06:56
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One of the things I am looking forward to this season are the confused emotions of NL fans as their DHs hit HRs and drive in runs.
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Jul 2, 2020 06:57
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Serious emotional post Steve Blass retired from the broadcasting booth last year. A lot of Pirates fans poo poo on him but he is a genuinely wonderful human being and one of the nicest people I've ever met.  I'm seriously torn up that this is the first time in my life that he won't be in the broadcast booth.
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Jul 2, 2020 06:59
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STAC Goat posted:One of the things I am looking forward to this season are the confused emotions of NL fans as their DHs hit HRs and drive in runs. "One of the things I am looking forward to this season are the confused emotions of chess fans as the new rules ensure that the newly created chess pieces are checkmating the king and creating new hosed up situations."
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Jul 2, 2020 07:00
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The way DH fans sell this poo poo as a positive because the runs number will go up like never before is fuckin hilarious. Like they don't even understand the game.
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Jul 2, 2020 07:02
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There's like a dozen reasons I can't process that metaphor. But yeah, I guess that would amuse me too? I dunno.
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Jul 2, 2020 07:03
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STAC Goat posted:There's like a dozen reasons I can't process that metaphor. Rules are rules. A chess piece can score or not score according to the rules. Modifying the rules so more pieces can score more often does not make chess better.
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Jul 2, 2020 07:04
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That doesn't feel like the proper way to explain chess to someone at all.
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Jul 2, 2020 07:05
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DH fans have brain damage and can't understand that rules are what they are for a reason? You don't say? Think about that time you got all the cheats to a video game and got bored of it and quit playing it way before you would have had you not had the cheat codes.
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Jul 2, 2020 07:07
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I'm not sure you wanna start tossing around ideas like "brain damage", my friend.
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Jul 2, 2020 07:09
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The point of the game isn't "more runs are always good no matter what", which is what you were arguing. More runs *within the rules* are good. The DH rule adds nothing to the game. It doesn't make the game better or more interesting. Your argument in the original quoted post seems to be that NL fans will suddenly love the DH when their teams score more runs with the new idiot rear end in a top hat rule. The game was fine without the idiot rear end in a top hat rule. More offense with it isn't an unqualified positive.
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Jul 2, 2020 07:11
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NL fans liked the game just fine the way it was. NL attendance has been higher than AL attendance for decades, because we liked the game the way it was. Forcing the DH on us is not a positive. We will not be happy about it.
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Jul 2, 2020 07:13
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You make a very valid point. I made the false assumption that fans of teams would experience some degree of happiness when their teams scored runs. That is a very odd and unsporting assumption to make. Forgive me for I am merely an idiot rear end in a top hat DH fan.
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STAC Goat posted:You make a very valid point. I made the false assumption that fans of teams would experience some degree of happiness when their teams scored runs. Agreed The game is the game, and there are rules. Modifying the rules so the number goes up doesn't make the game better if the rule modification is completely arbitrary.
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