Everything posted by mqr
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
High end prospects don't care and roster chaff have no power.
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
At this point it's more about the real estate and broadcasting opportunities that come along with owning a team than the actual sporting side of it.
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
Yeah, if we were talking about vendors and event staff I'd be singing a different tune. The only thing that has me in the players corner at all is athletics and entertainment are pretty much the only way to claw yourself out of abject poverty.
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
This is where I'm at. I'm going to side with labor on principle, but this is a fight that is so inconsequential to labor issues that actually, y'know, matter and affect people that are legitimately disadvantaged so it's more of a just figure it out thing for me.
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Fangraphs features Luis Robert
I was about to say I think his bat might be better until I realized I totally forgot Andruw Jones hit 400 home runs
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
Like half the owners are completely uninterested in baseball and are more concerned about the real estate venture their teams represent. What I’m getting at is Manfred is bad for baseball because the people who hired him don’t give a shit about it.
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
There seems to be a pretty popular opinion that Rob manfred is terrible at his job. his job is to be a lightning rod for the owners. He’s incredibly good at it.
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The MLB lockout is lifted!
Strikes and Lockouts are both different kinds of work stoppages though. Double edit: there seem to be competeing definitions. So idk whatever
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An ember for your Winter fire: remember when we learned we have the best crowd in MLB?
I went to the only home NCAA Tournament game in it's history, at one of the livelier buildings in the sport where the home team won on a buzzer beater. That crowd paled in comparison to Game 3.
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ALDS Game 2 - Chicago @ Houston - 1:07pm CDT
Engel, Leury or Vaughn against Pressley in the 9th
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ALDS Game 2 - Chicago @ Houston - 1:07pm CDT
Correa and Altuve are going to give an aneurysm
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ALDS Game 2 - Chicago @ Houston - 1:07pm CDT
Meh, Id rather use Sheets in a better spot than 1 out nobody on in the 6th
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ALDS Game 2 - Chicago @ Houston - 1:07pm CDT
Theres one out
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ALDS Game 2 - Chicago @ Houston - 1:07pm CDT
mentioned this before but I think he was trying to say he wants to be able to grow Yoan Moncada's but my immediate reaction was 'oh no'
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ALDS Game 2 - Chicago @ Houston - 1:07pm CDT
It was a half baked shitty hot take. No one was offended
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ALDS Game 2 - Chicago @ Houston - 1:07pm CDT
I think what he was trying to say was give me a field where I could grow Moncada's but the execution was uhhhhhhhh not good
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ALDS Game 2 - Chicago @ Houston - 1:07pm CDT
I'm sending him out there with a 1 batter leash
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ALDS Game 2 - Chicago @ Houston - 1:07pm CDT
The guy has missed 50 games in 5 years. This he's soft thing is such meathead bullshit
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ALDS Game 2 - Chicago @ Houston - 1:07pm CDT
Bob Costas, you probably don't know his work
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ALDS Game 2 - Chicago @ Houston - 1:07pm CDT
I did not know this curve was such a hammer
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ALDS Game 1- White Sox/Astros, 3:07 GAME THREAD
There was an Athletic article the other day one "Why your team might win and why they might lose" and the Sox might lose because they won the division in June and have been on cruise control. I like those odds
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ALDS Game 1- White Sox/Astros, 3:07 GAME THREAD
The Sox are always late movers on this stuff
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ALDS Game 1- White Sox/Astros, 3:07 GAME THREAD
Rosters out, no Dallas
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ALDS Game 1- White Sox/Astros, 3:07 GAME THREAD
Just watched Desastre Personal. Sox in 3
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SOX ALDS ROSTER
Mendicks odds of getting in the game are probably about the same as anyone left off and in any case it would be bad news for the Sox