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Anyway this is your reminder that the Cleveland Guardians, nee Indians, will be coming up on 75 years without a World Series win this season. Excited to see if they break the drought this year.
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I thank the now Guardians for their years of ineptitude that brought us the greatest baseball comedy of all time.
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Monathin posted:Anyway this is your reminder that the Cleveland Guardians, nee Indians, will be coming up on 75 years without a World Series win this season. Excited to see if they break the drought this year. they had 3 wins in 2016
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Wacha signed with the Padres. They've got a pretty drat good starting 5 now.
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Popete posted:they had 3 wins in 2016 Just one shy, and I comfort myself with the knowledge that Aroldis Chapman is currently wasting away on the Yankees as their one (1) functional reliever.
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Monathin posted:Just one shy, and I comfort myself with the knowledge that Aroldis Chapman is currently wasting away on the Yankees as their one (1) functional reliever. He's on the Royals now isn't he?
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Mustached Demon posted:He's on the Royals now isn't he? Did he get traded in the offseason? I must have missed it if so. Regardless, lmao
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He was also like the worst reliever in an otherwise solid pen last year to the point where the relationship ended because he threw a temper tantrum when they kept him off the playoff roster. That's like when I skip a few years following a sport and then take part in a fantasy draft. "Ryan Braun is still good, right? Prince Fielder?"
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https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1625587259893510144 Wow! These are freaking huge. Or very small, it's impossible to tell. https://twitter.com/MRTeevs/status/1625590274532724738 Oooh okay zoux fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Feb 14, 2023 |
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Monathin posted:Did he get traded in the offseason? I must have missed it if so. He was poo poo last year and then refused to show up for a team workout so the Yankees cut him from their postseason roster. He then sat around in FA until the Royals decided to take a cheap flyer on him.
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Yeah he was terrible and lost the closer role early last season but actually more in 2021. Then he kept getting hurt or just sucking and fell out of the Yankee bullpen rotation entirely. Then the Yankees left him off the first round playoff roster so he walked out on them and refused to take part in practices to possibly join in the second round. So then the Yankees cut bait and he became a free agent and no one touched him until the Royals decided to take a flyer. He won't finish the season in KC because either he'll pitch well enough to get traded at the deadline or he'll keep sucking and get cut.
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the A's traded AJ puk to the Marlins for JJ Bleday. this is it, this is the year. we're going to lose 110 games.
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tadashi posted:Sometimes I read comments Lol
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1625587259893510144 https://twitter.com/JesseNFriedman/status/1625588434831306752 It doesn't look like a huge change?
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That's a terrible angle. Pretty big increase in base area.
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Red posted:https://twitter.com/JesseNFriedman/status/1625588434831306752 Boomers will probably whine about it but it's good for player safety so that's cool
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They're 44% bigger, from 15" to 18" square.
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Mustached Demon posted:That's a terrible angle. Pretty big increase in base area. Yeah I edited in a better shot in my post making fun of Bob. It's 3 inches to a side Popete posted:They're 44% bigger, from 15" to 18" square. 44% more and the same great price? It's practically a ...steal.
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Yeah, that's a noticable increase Still wonder how much of an actual effect it will have
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New base is a goddamn pizza box.
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Wish we coulda seen Ricky Henderson on the paths with those sacks
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Timby posted:New base is a goddamn pizza box. don't give manfred ideas
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zoux posted:Both Rangers and Astros games are blacked out not only in every city in Texas, but every state bordering Texas. Well if those people from El Paso would like to see the Astros they should get in their cars and drive 10 hours. Los Angeles is only an eleven hour drive, why not black Dodgers games out? Hell, but for the restrictions, think of all the El Pasoans who might consume D-Backs games in their home and deprive ownership of gate and concession revenue when they could simply drive six hours and a half hours to the park? Football blackouts were(are?) about driving fan attendance... at least ostensibly. Baseball blackouts are entirely about the carriage fees paid by nonfans who subscribe to the cable and satellite networks that include the RSN showing the games and have literally nothing to do with incentivizing live attendance. The easy way to remember this is that football would(will?) let anyone watch once the game is sold out while baseball will black out even in the event of sellouts.
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Popete posted:They're 44% bigger, from 15" to 18" square. Is this where I say a large pizza usually gives you more pizza than 2 medium pizzas?
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Paracaidas posted:To continue to reiterate the point from last thread: Thank you for the elucidation. I'm assuming there are a lot of contractual obligations to unwind to "fix" the problem, do you have any thoughts on what needs to happen such that I can pay MLB $9.99-19.99 a month to watch non-nationally televised games played by my team of choice?
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The NFL doesn't black out games that aren't sold-out anymore.
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Timby posted:New base is a goddamn pizza box.
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zoux posted:Thank you for the elucidation. I'm assuming there are a lot of contractual obligations to unwind to "fix" the problem, do you have any thoughts on what needs to happen such that I can pay MLB $9.99-19.99 a month to watch non-nationally televised games played by my team of choice? They need the local RSN's to not pay them enough money to include those blackouts in the contract, basically. It's kind of interesting because it's probably not even a matter of "let the commercials through so the RSN can still get the ad revenue," because (my emphasis below) Paracaidas posted:Baseball blackouts are entirely about the carriage fees paid by nonfans who subscribe to the cable and satellite networks that include the RSN showing the games and have literally nothing to do with incentivizing live attendance. RSNs (and channels like ESPN) oftentimes have the biggest carriage fees in the cable network soup that your provider is giving access to and also they won't accept being in anything but the base package, so they're getting money from every single subscriber even though probably less than a quarter of them are regularly watching those channels. e: here's a variety article from 2020 with a chart of the highest ones. ESPN is more than triple the second highest fee ($7.64/mo vs $2.20 for TNT) even though they're only watched by 21% of subscribers. IcePhoenix fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Feb 14, 2023 |
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zoux posted:Thank you for the elucidation. I'm assuming there are a lot of contractual obligations to unwind to "fix" the problem, do you have any thoughts on what needs to happen such that I can pay MLB $9.99-19.99 a month to watch non-nationally televised games played by my team of choice? All the teams negotiate their own broadcast rights with RSNs, so it will likely take a while to untangle the existing bullshit. Regarding the larger bases, its dumb as hell that they keep implying that the bases being a few inches closer together will increase steals in some statistically significant way. It should reduce collisions, particularly at first base, which is a good thing. However, I would expect any substantial increase in stealing success rate would come from it being easier to evade a tag with the much larger base.
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Bandire posted:All the team negotiate their own broadcast rights with RSNs, so it will likely take a while to untangle the existing bullshit. I'm looking forward to the first article complaining that we're getting fewer infield hits because the first baseman is three inches closer to the fielders
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Beisbol. It is almost back.
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https://twitter.com/jesserogersespn/status/1625593192992342017 Oh good, more balks.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/jesserogersespn/status/1625593192992342017 Will Kenley Jensen start getting balks now
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I don't know if analytics are this advanced yet, but I would be curious how many outs at first were within 3 inches of the bag and how many safe calls had the ball within 3 inches of the glove. My uneducated guess it the enlarged bases will favor the defense on close plays by a small amount, but nothing that will be noticeable on a single game basis. Visually, it will be hard to discern an extra 44 square inches when watching the game from hundreds of feet away, unless you just watched a bunch of old highlights right before.
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FlamingLiberal posted:At least one guy gets it this is a cool attitude but uh no way he had "a few more years left", his last season he was a below replacement level OF
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Julio Cruz posted:this is a cool attitude but uh no way he had "a few more years left", his last season he was a below replacement level OF based on the two previous years I bet he had at least two years left of one year guaranteed contracts with teams hoping he could find the magic and maybe trade him
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/jesserogersespn/status/1625593192992342017 With Joe West retired? I don't think so.
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John Jaso caught Felix Hernandez's perfect game and will always be a Mariners legend for doing so.
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