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Carlosologist posted:The Rangers are going to have a full crowd in attendance on opening day lmao Might as well, the 20% capacity poo poo other places are doing is just theater. There is no way to meaningfully distance at a stadium when everyone stacks up at the metal detectors or the pisser. I miss baseball but I’m not stepping foot in a stadium this year.
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When you’re packing in line with 5,000 other guys to get in, use the restrooms, or hit concessions it doesn’t really matter how distanced your seats are though. That’s just theater what with the usual chokepoints.
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Mar 10, 2021 20:16
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I’m vaxed and I’ll be watching from my couch, there’s just too much poo poo going on with variants that we don’t know and I don’t trust other people. The Pens had to throw out seventeen people last Thursday who made the game into an anti mask statement and those people paid over $300 to get in.
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Mar 10, 2021 20:24
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, I'm not attending any baseball games but 20% seems at least theoretically manageable. Its a bad idea I would discourage everyone from but I could buy its someone trying. 100% is just not giving a single poo poo if people live or die. I mean, that’s the official stated policy of Texas’s government. A bunch of them froze to death and Rick Perry said they should be happy about that. Mass stadium death is just icing on the cake. If you go to an event until we’ve got a critical mass of people vaccinated you're just flirting with disaster.
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Mar 10, 2021 21:26
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Miz Kriss posted:I’m already fully vaccinated (yay hospital work... There's just way too much we don't know about variants and whether the current vaccines are efficacious about them. I'm fully vaccinated and my wife's second dose is later this month, but I'll let other people be guinea pigs for this poo poo. One of my friends who grew up a Brave's fan and used to go to the park with me when they were in town died from this in August, don't tempt fate if you can avoid it.
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Mar 11, 2021 15:39
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) but here in Illinois, they’re giving shots to anyone over the age of 65, those with chronic health issues (diabetics, immune compromised, etc.) , and anyone working in food service, manufacturing, etc (basically if you’re an “essential worker.”)
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Julio Cruz posted:considering how many bad takes there are ITT it's kinda hard to keep track between the ones that people genuinely believe and the ones that are just being ironic He's only 2.5 stars in OOTP 21, average at best.
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Mar 12, 2021 19:33
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Mar 12, 2021 20:05
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Mar 13, 2021 03:18
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Intruder posted:Time to shoot that shot He's a national treasure.
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Mar 13, 2021 03:53
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My dad grew up in Newark and my mom was all about the David Cone mets so I still have a soft spot for the Mets today.
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Mar 13, 2021 05:21
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Weird that the Yankees named their spring training facility after a Seinfeld character
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Mar 13, 2021 23:33
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GalacticAcid posted:my hatred for cuomo is indescribable his father was in the Pirates minor league system
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Mar 18, 2021 19:41
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The Pirates's star pitching prospect is a 25 year old they drafted in 2014 who couldn't get out of the first inning yesterday against the Rays B squad.
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Mar 18, 2021 20:32
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probably to mask all the f bombs
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Mar 18, 2021 21:18
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During one of the games I watched last year I remember Trevor Wiliams striking someone out and yelling 'gently caress YEAH', they probably just don't want that stuff getting on TV.
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Mar 19, 2021 01:45
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bees x1000 posted:Here I am posting again that I think ties are OK and would be less offensive than whatever Manfred is cooking up. Just change the rules so you can strike out on a foul. That’ll cut yankee / Red Sox game lengths in half and it’s no worse than the DH rule or starting a runner on second in extras or moving the mound.
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Mar 20, 2021 15:37
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Still pointless since there is no giant crowd of potential fans waiting to start going to games once the average length is down by nine minutes, but if they’re so fixated on game length there’s some low hanging fruit out there.
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Mar 20, 2021 15:38
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bees x1000 posted:eehhhhh I would be against this because 22 pitch battles are super neat Just saying, if they really want to shorten the games there are easy ways to do it. The length of game changes are about television and gambling, not the fans
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Mar 20, 2021 16:06
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thrilla in vanilla posted:One time I went to a Springfield cardinals game at like noon or so, met some friends there and had probably four or five big beers in addition to four baby shooter bottles. Made it through the entire game then blacked out as we stood up to leave at the end. Came to outside the stadium barfing in front of a school bus that I later learned was dropping off children from the Boys and Girls Club for what turned out to be the second game of the day’s doubleheader. Normally I would be concerned about traumatizing children but I figure they probably had seen it before if they were at boys and girls club on Saturday. That’s my story I got thrown out of Great American Ballpark for yelling "let's go Bucs" too much The cops said it was for my own good since I'd probably be murdered trying to leave after the game ended
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Mar 22, 2021 00:24
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Local news media is excited about the Pirates drafting Kumar Rocker, can't wait for them to waste the best years of his career and trade him for financial considerations. You cannot tank to win in baseball without also being smart with free agents and international signings, and I don't see the Pirates managing either of those.
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Mar 23, 2021 17:47
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Shiroc posted:The Mariners are trying to get me to attend plague games to see the garbage team: Pirates are going to stay at 25% despite the expanded capacity state rules because they never draw more than 25% anyway
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Mar 23, 2021 22:11
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I'm the Highmark ad in Florida
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Mar 23, 2021 23:50
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GalacticAcid posted:seems to be some skepticism he’ll have the endurance for a starter workload but he definitely looks like a valuable pitcher regardless, maybe a backend reliever. exciting They'll gently caress up his conditioning and trade him for a treadmill and $50
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Mar 24, 2021 00:22
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GalacticAcid posted:I don’t see how they could be bad at trading if you’re worried about what they’ll do with this guy they just traded for lol I'll feel good about him once he's closing games in the majors I've been a Pirates fan too long to feel good about prospects.
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Mar 24, 2021 02:29
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bawfuls posted:Your periodic reminder the team valuations are exploding so fast they could all run at a year to year loss and still make money for ownership Turns out that giving massive amounts of money to rich people drives up the value of things rich people like because they have nowhere else to put the money besides stunting on each other.
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Mar 26, 2021 15:59
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Bob Nutting bought the Pirates in 1996 for $92m and now they're worth $1.35b. Looks like a good investment!
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Mar 26, 2021 16:03
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I'm playing an OOTP 21 Pirates franchise and it's impossible to get ahead because the owner takes any revenue increases out at the start of a new year. Way too realistic.
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Mar 26, 2021 16:11
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*grandpa voice* cancel culture!!!
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Mar 26, 2021 17:12
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Popete posted:Kumar Rocker might lose #1 draft pick to his own teammate Jack Leiter lol. Vanderbilt is pretty insane this year. The Pirates will absolutely pick Leiter over Rocker for the exact same reason the Cardinals fan base loves Harrison Bader and hated Dexter Fowler.
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Mar 27, 2021 19:52
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GalacticAcid posted:I don’t understand this one. What would you say are some egregiously racist moments from Ben Cherington’s career or in the Pirates draft history? I’m saying that the Pirates’s fan base is made up of old racists and the front office knows this.
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Mar 28, 2021 17:41
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bawfuls posted:that may be so, when has the current Pirates FO/ownership ever demonstrated they give a poo poo about their fans? They give a poo poo about getting more money and Jack Leiter will sell more jerseys than Kumar Rocker will. The Pirates are nothing if not a clothing line with a lovely baseball team attached.
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Mar 28, 2021 18:06
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GalacticAcid posted:sure the team that has already made Ke'Bryan Hayes the face of the franchise to follow former face of the franchise Andrew McCutchen clearly fears having to market the talents of black players. Yes, the fan base that goes to games in t-shirts that say “speak English” and deliberately mispronounce Spanish player names aren’t racist at all All things being equal the front office will absolutely draft Leiter over Rocker because it’ll play better with the fans.
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They’ll draft Leiter, mark my words and check back in July.
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Ben Cherington, former GM of the Red Sox, a team with a famously not-racist fan base, Like I said, check back in July.
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Gerblederp posted:Move the Pirates to Montreal imo The MLB will never let the Pirates move
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Dejan Bimble posted:How did you guys keep the fact that there's a guy named "Akil Neoman Baddoo" a secret for so long I was listening to the Detroit broadcast of that game because there was no Pirates broadcast available and the head Detroit PbP guy went into a rant about pitchers having to bat in Bradenton. It's cool, the Tigers are going to suck whether pitchers bat or not, just deal.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Worse than the Tribune. Finally, something positive about the Pirates's 2021 season. Excited for the return of the Renteria Cubs.
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