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More pictures of the Rangers' ballpark video: https://twitter.com/GlobeLifeField/status/1275444851970961408 It got roasted by wise guys on Twitter: https://twitter.com/five6four/status/1275843880815071233 Anyway here's some more pics. I like the brick pillars, and the roof is cool from an engineering perspective. Would look a lot better covered in anything but sheet metal. Also soooo many girders or w/e, I wonder if popups will be hard to see with the roof closed? https://twitter.com/MLBcathedrals/status/1275611313968947200  
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GalacticAcid posted:Somebody talk me into being excited for baseball. I feel the same way. I think there will be outbreaks in camp and the season will be cancelled before it starts. And it didn't have to be this way. MLB could've cancelled in May. Instead, the players and owners spent months arguing over money in a time when millions of people are unemployed. Great optics there. Both sides claimed to really want to play ball, while accusing the other side of preventing that from happening, which is a great negotiating tactic, but really irresponsible in a pandemic. The message to the public was, it's safe to play. I mean, gently caress the owners, but the players are to blame here too. They were 100% right to insist on full pro-rated salaries , but that's not what really matters right now, is it? And now they've painted themselves into a corner with the "tell us when and where" stuff, and it won't be easy to stop the season even if a lot of people get sick.
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When you have to transform a MLB stadium into a spring training complex: https://twitter.com/PavlovicNBCS/status/1278924538286391296 More details here: https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/giants-make-big-changes-oracle-park-july-1-training-begins quote:Essentially, the plan is to use the main field for training and then have a new facility, so to speak, extend from Triples Alley to the player's parking lot, which sits beyond the left-field wall. In addition to the four new bullpen mounds, the Giants will have two cages set up in tunnels that will be used as extra bullpen mounds. They also will have three hitting tunnels, two of which can also hold full-length pitching mounds. The plan is to be flexible within those nets, allowing for BP sessions but also bullpen sessions.
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MLBN/MLB.com is doing live look-ins on training camps all day, and interviewing players and managers and stuff
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https://twitter.com/TomHanslin/status/1279096484932263938
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Harper was hitting BP bombs just now and maybe I'm a hypocrite for saying this but gently caress yeah baseball
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The Spiders is such a badass name for a team
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This seems like a bad time to buy a baseball team Although I wonder if a few owners will be forced to sell when the season is cancelled.
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Buster missed practice for "personal reasons" for the 3rd straight day and beat writers are speculating he's gonna opt out Update from D-Backs camp: https://twitter.com/nickpiecoro/status/1281364627117314052
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Baseball? On the TV?
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Still don't think the season happens, but I just wanna say that the Giants schedule is pretty brutal https://twitter.com/ktvusports/status/1280276335345102849 Seven games against the Dodgers in LA and only three in SF. Six games (1/10th of the season) in Coors Field. And the only under .500 teams I see on there are Texas and Seattle (the Rockies don't count because, again, Coors). If the whole team doesn't die maybe they can get the #1 pick in next years draft at least.
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I'm watching an intrasquad game in an empty stadium with players in t-shirts sitting behind home plate and piped-in crowd noise and the home plate umpire is a minor league skills coach. You know, normal stuff.
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This seems like a crazy time to be thinking about huge new contracts, during a pandemic with no end in sight
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So it's safe for the Pirates to play in PNC, but not the Blue Jays? 
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Hunter Dozier got the roni. He played in Monday's game against the Astros.
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Dog Faced JoJo posted:What, your amp doesn't go to 11? The schedule is heavy on division games, period. Each team plays 40 division games and 20 interleague games in the same geographic area. So the White Sox play the Twins, Tigers, Indians and Royals 10 times each, and 4 or 5 games against every NL Central team, and that's it. Which makes sense, you want to limit travel during a pandemic, but it makes this years schedule really unbalanced. According to Fangraphs, the teams with the hardest strength of schedule are the O's, Marlins, Mariners, Giants and Rockies - bad teams in the East and West who don't get to play the weaker Central divisions (hey, Fangraphs said it, not me OK)
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Jul 23, 2020 17:36
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https://twitter.com/extrabaggs/status/1286346801772146690 With Longo and Belt on the IL, and Posey opting out, this roster sure is... a bunch of guys No Chadwick Tromp  , but at least Joseph McCarthy made the team!
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Shrecknet posted:how do you even fall off a cliff like this? Thoracic Outlet Syndrome is death to pitchers. It fucks up the blood flow to your pitching arm and does nerve damage or something too IIRC. Pitchers rarely come back from it
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https://twitter.com/mi_guardado/status/1286441459328008192 Heineman has 12 PAs in the big leagues and McCarthy is making his MLB debut
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UZR IS BULLSHIT posted:Baseball is truly a microcosm of America A public institution owned by billionaires that is unable to set aside profit to take collective action that would save lives, due to ideology? Hmm, this checks out.
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IMO it's not really fair to blame the Marlins players here. This was inevitable. You can absolutely blame baseball players collectively, they pushed very hard to start the season. Their "tell us when and where" PR campaign was insanely stupid. But let's not blame individual players for getting sick.
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This fuckin sucks. I could type a lot more words but just, gently caress this. So God damned stupid.
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GalacticAcid posted:A lot of people who used to hate throwing at batters seem to really love it now. Interesting It's pretty disappointing, yeah. That Jomboy video is gross too, gently caress that guy for celebrating headhunting. And if it was up to me Joe Kelly would eat a 30 game suspension.
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I wonder what would've happened if the players had just refused to report to camp. Wonder if Manfred would've imposed a season anyway, and gone to court to compel them to play, or what.
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