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Jose Oquendo posted:Huh. I didn’t realize Apple TV+ has their own broadcast team for these baseball games. I assumed they were just going to essentially rebroadcast MLB Network’s (or RSN) feed similar to what Amazon does with Thursday Night Football. The Apple telecasts are produced in conjunction with MLB Network, and they said they'll announce the broadcast teams on a week-by-week basis, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that more MLB Network personalities will appear.
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FlamingLiberal posted:https://twitter.com/stephenjnesbitt/status/1513202098355195908?s=20&t=KW3kiMwXi3dAyEmK2HUw-Q Fixed. I really want to know what happened to make the Executive Committee unanimously reject the CBA and then have the clubs vote 26-4 in favor.
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Apr 11, 2022 03:47
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R.D. Mangles posted:What a bomb, this dude rules. Did they put Pat Hughes on PBP duty or something? (Won't lie, I hate Boog and want him to go away forever, if just for his stupid-rear end nickname.)
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Apr 11, 2022 03:56
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R.D. Mangles posted:Boog calls the Sunday night game for ESPN radio, so they always have someone else in there. Sometimes it's Pat, last year they also had Beth Mowens on the call. Just put Pat on PBP on both TV and radio until he dies in the booth.
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Apr 11, 2022 08:28
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bees x1000 posted:Rockies are 9h away, Dbacks are 10, both blacked out. Vegas is 6.5h away so it'll be cool to miss out on a third team if/when a franchise ends up there. I've mentioned this, but in Dubuque, Iowa, the Cubs, White Sox, Brewers, Twins, Royals and Cardinals all consider Dubuque a local market, so their games are blacked out on MLB.tv. So unless I'm dying to watch some Orioles games, there's no reason for me to get an MLB.tv sub.
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Apr 15, 2022 19:49
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Sydin posted:He also completely blew himself out in 2015 pitching almost 250 innings between the regular and post seasons, prior to that his largest workload in a season had been 150ish IP. He showed up in 2016 missing 2-3 ticks on his FB that he never got back Beyond that, he lost pretty much all movement on his sinker. Once that happened and it was flat, he started getting torched.
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Apr 19, 2022 02:05
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Niwrad posted:
Fixed. I'm pretty sure that at age 31, we know who Leiter, Jr., is.
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Apr 22, 2022 00:25
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FlamingLiberal posted:As if the Orioles didn’t have enough issues already 110 losses seems pretty plausible for them.
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Apr 23, 2022 17:56
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bawfuls posted:
We'll, Sergio Mitre raped and murdered his girlfriend's daughter, and Charlie Haeger murdered his girlfriend before shooting himself...
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Apr 29, 2022 23:32
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Poque posted:remembering that this year's Field of Dreams game is Reds/Cubs and cackling The tickets are going to be obscene. The Field of Dreams is only about 20 minutes away from Dubuque, in Dyersville, and Dubuque is generally a Cubs city. Right now, bleacher seats are going for $3,000 apiece. The secondary market is going to heat the gently caress up in July (last year, secondhand tickets were going for north of $5K about a week before the game).
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May 5, 2022 21:27
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Current ticket prices for the Field of Dreams game:quote:2022 FIELD OF DREAMS GAME TICKETS PRICING.
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May 5, 2022 22:02
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GoatSeeGuy posted:I wonder how long it'll last once the novelty wears off. Dyersville isn't exactly easy to get to being 40-50 miles from the Dubuque or Cedar Rapids Airports and as Field of Dreams correctly notes- Iowa City is really boring if you're not a student. Dyersville is 20-25 minutes outside of Dubuque, and Dubuque has a ton of great things to see and do, between the parks, the casinos, the live music scene, the restaurants and the museums.
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May 6, 2022 01:20
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Shine posted:I'm glad they're banning the bigass shifts. I get that they're effective in min-maxing defense, but they look loving stupid, and watching a hard line drive settle into the mitt of the You know that big-rear end shifts were a thing when Ted Williams played, too, right? Didn't seem to bother him too much. Much like the pitch clock, banning the shift is a solution desperately in search of a problem.
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May 16, 2022 04:26
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Niwrad posted:It might be sample size but I could have sworn Frank Thomas had something similar during parts of his career. He had an absurd fielding / DH split, yes. So did Konerko in his later years.
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Sydin posted:lol 2021, so this would have happened while he was a Cub. Our FO really knows how to find players of the most upstanding character. Between shitheads like Davies and Russell, and then really sad cases like Ben Zobrist's wife cheating on him with their pastor ... Cubs players have a rough track record when it comes to romance.
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Kilometers Davis posted:RIP. I wasn’t familiar with him but that’s an all time quote. Good stuff. I’ll definitely dig into more of his writing so thanks for posting that. Angell wrote an absolutely phenomenal biography of David Cone titled A Pitcher's Story. I highly recommend it.
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May 20, 2022 23:23
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FlamingLiberal posted:TLR also probably doesn't get fired because he's personal friends with Jerry Reinsdorf That's the whole reason he has his job. Hahn and Williams didn't want him, but Reinsdorf stepped in and personally hired La Russa. As long as Reinsdorf draws breath, La Russa has a job for as long as he wants it.
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Jun 7, 2022 23:27
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I have been to every stadium except Target Field in Minneapolis and the new place in Atlanta. Despite having grown up in Chicago, Camden is far and away my favorite. PNC and Miller Park are tied for second. I really enjoyed T-Mobile in Seattle, too.
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Jun 9, 2022 01:23
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Niwrad posted:I still want to know what went down with Len Kasper. He was so good and things were so weird that first year of Marquee. It was pretty well spelled-out in the Tribune. Kasper wanted to call games for a contender and was grossed out by the Rickettses doing their cost-saving bullshit.
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Jun 11, 2022 23:36
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Popete posted:Pretty funny to go to the White Sox and they immediately hire TLR though. Not just go to the White Sox, but go to radio. That's pretty widely seen as taking a demotion.
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At least Hoyer admitted Heyward is a possibility for DFA when Bote and Suzuki are ready to be activated.
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Intruder posted:Man, is Gammons losing it? In his Athletic column he makes the claim that Appel would have gone first overall in 2012 but wanted to graduate from Stanford (he entered the draft and went eighth). Then when discussing the possiblity of a Luis Castillo trade he said "This is Cincinatti where they aren't used to losing" He's never been the same since his stroke.
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Jun 15, 2022 23:11
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Sir Dingleby Dapper posted:Yeah it's a hosed up situation regarding the A's. Isn't a new stadium in the works? They're trying to extort a stadium from Oakland / the county. If they don't fork out the cash, the A's will be in Vegas by like 2025.
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Sydin posted:Good for him I guess? If it makes him more comfortable to go by his middle name then cool. Not like he's unique in that regard, Javy's first name is actually Ednel but he gone by his middle name Javier for ages now. Yeah, absolutely, good for him. Remember, Stanton came up as Mike Stanton (his middle name is Cruz-Michael) before deciding he wanted to be known as Giancarlo in like 2012.
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seiferguy posted:I went to a Brewers game today and holy hell getting into that ballpark makes me realize even more how much a menace to society cars are. 30 minutes just to park. Christ. I was at the game yesterday and holy ow. We parked in the Yount 6 lot, and it felt like 1.5 miles from our parking spot to the entrance of the stadium ... and I have two bad legs and a broken back. I was hurting so, so bad when we got home last night and even worse today.
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Poque posted:Miller Park is a sin Actually, Miller Park is in the upper echelon of MLB parks, easily top 10 and maybe top 5 for me (and I say that as a lifelong Cubs fan). I just love how there are almost zero bad seats, the tickets are affordable, the food is excellent (and not terribly overpriced by stadium standards) and it has a really pleasing aesthetic. The parking just loving sucks.
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Intruder posted:Babe Ruth for cash This is pretty conclusively it, but there are some others that come to mind: - Derek Lowe and Jason Varitek to Boston; Seattle got Heathcliff Slocumb - Randy Johnson to Houston for Halama and Freddy Garcia - McGwire to St. Louis while Oakland got essentially nothing - Didn't the Orioles trade Curt Schilling for loving Glen Davis? Edit: Oh, Pedro Martinez going to Boston was really, really, really bad, too.
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davecrazy posted:lol Cubs What happened?
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tadashi posted:They might as well bring Jim Hendry back if they're going to force the front office to scrape together rosters, again. I was wondering what ol' Jim was up to after the Cubs sacked him and apparently he's been in the Yankees front office for a decade?
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Jul 21, 2022 22:13
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R.D. Mangles posted:I love the beefy lad kyle schwarber and I will forever be mad that thy didn't even trade him for some non-prospect. He was useless at the plate in his last season with Chicago, and at the time they let him go, the universal DH wasn't a thing. Given his defensive liabilities--translation: he sucked, both at catcher and in left field--that's a decision I can't really fault the Cubs on.
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R.D. Mangles posted:that is very interesting I will see you in Temecula very interesting how you refused to engage with my post I will see you in, I dunno, Bridgeport
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Schwarber isn't a gold glover in left this year, but he's been good enough Largely because he shed about 30 pounds (which he's gradually putting back on).
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Johnny Bravo posted:"I got the shot but I wish I didn't" is such a weird way to put it. Andrew Wiggins literally said this a few days ago.
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Crazy Ted posted:Imagine his career numbers if he didn't have to wait until he was nearly 30 to get his chance to become an everyday player. The PEDs helped him, I'm pretty sure, and they would also explain why he's hitting a wall because his body is just slowing down.
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I love how mcmagic thinks the Commissioner's Trophy (or, wait, a piece of metal, per Manfred) is, like, the Yankees' divine right of kings or some poo poo. Even though, 20 years ago, the Yankees' payroll was like $125 million. Today, it's $250-something million. So even the 2002 payroll, with inflation, would come out to $205 million. So it's not the same as it was 20 years ago. Jesus Christ, shut up, mcmagic.
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ihatepants posted:Their revenue listed that year was also "only" 223M, so they reinvested ~60% of revenue into payroll. Also, mcmagic was just off by a year since in 2003 the team payroll was $180.3M (with a ~76% reinvestment of the $238M "official" revenue), which today would be over $290M with inflation. Was 2003 the year they took on the Alex Rodriguez contract, or am I a year off?
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Patrick Spens posted:And it's not like they can wait until they know they are playing the Jays. You need to be vaxxed 14 days before entry, so if the Jays and the Yankees meet in the ALDS, Benentendi needs to get his shot in late September. Before that if he wants to go with the team to Toronto in late September (they have a three-game set there the last week of the month).
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Niwrad posted:I think he is out of options next year so he can't really be on the Iowa shuttle. I think he has an additional option year because there was no minor-league baseball in 2020 due to the pandemic.
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Palate, pallet and pallette are different words with different meanings.
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