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But it voided the following two years at $20.5mil and $17.2m. That's a decent amount of money to leave on the table (plus the $15.5mil this next year). However, Eddy is right but I thought it was a player option. Cheap ass team anticipating a lockout. Worse ownership than the south side, let's be honest.

I don't think Imanaga exercises his opt out option if he plans to take the QO. The other two guys, I'm surprised they were even offered it. $22mil is a lot for them. And it scares other teams away. DET will pay Gleyber $22mil but not extend Skubal? Interesting.

Boo fuckin hoo. Maybe the nobody middle reliever should have better control. Giménez didn’t do anything wrong. It also didn’t matter did it. I’d stick my arm out too if I’m a defense first, poor bad middle infielder. Why do you guys care

This can be challenged. ready for Les contes d’hoffman

I dunno, don’t recall, but I’d try to get on base in game 7 of the World Series too. The actual HBP was fine. That guy, along with Ohtani, had no command. Play to win.

The reliever with no command hit him. Nothing to clear the benches about IMO but he didn’t throw his hands out.

His stuff was awful from the get go. The 3 run shot, out after 2.1 was inevitable. Feels to me like an ezwin for the blue jays tonight. Can’t rule out the Dodgers bats I guess but Scherzer looks real good thus far.

Ohtani has a generous strike zone tonight…

Scherzer is getting the win. Would be very fitting for him.

Still thinking Colson inevitably moves to 1b

thank god it's finally over

I don't think you can even call this a pitching clinic, everyone on both of these teams just forgot how to hit.

this is like double the amount of pitches Klein has ever thrown. He's gassed.

Yamamoto is a dog. Love that guy.

alex call walk-off would be very funny though.

great performance from Lauer. Kiké is preparing for the L.

they brought out a tray of fruit, what they really need is a tray of amphetamines

I want to go to bed but I've already come this far...

the announcer definitely thought it was. this guy is so ready to go back to his hotel.

what a fucking game. if this goes 16ish, do we start seeing starters?

swing at some more balls, lukes.

dumbest send I've ever seen. Vlad was up...

Man-handled two teams that are supposed to be better than us. Good depth, Vuc is doing his thing, Matas (was bad this game) but looks to be blossoming into a proper number one option. Trey Jones has been fantastic. Giddey has been alright. Julian Phillips is starting to look like an NBA player. It seems like a well-built team finally but still not a title contender. If Coby can play like he did in the second half of last season, Matas takes a leap, Vuc gives 20ish/11ish efficiently, Giddey performs to expectations and the bench continues to show out, I think we actually have a top 5 in the EC squad this year.

Sure, but baseball is not like football or basketball in this regard. In the latter two sports, the better team usually wins and this is reflected in the win percentages. The White Sox's "worst team of all time" has a winning percentage similar to 4 or 5 NBA teams every year. There are multiple NBA teams every year that would win 130+ games if they played 162 games a season. MLB playoffs are a crapshoot, bad teams can beat good teams in a 5 or even 7 game series, hence teams can 'sneak' into the World Series. I mean, our Sox swept the 92 win Guardians in 2024, that doesn't make them a good team. Financial parity is objectively good for any league. Take it out of the owners' hands. NBA and NFL players and owners make money hand over fist too with a salary cap. They also have a salary floor. Leveling out spending is simply good for the quality of the product. If the NFL was like MLB, teams like Buffalo, Kansas City, Green Bay (especially) would not be any good at all because they'd have no money to spend relative to the J-E-T-E Jets, Giants, Chargers, etc. In the NBA, Oklahoma City and Indiana are not playing each other in the NBA Finals under the MLB financial system.

I was living in the Bay a couple years ago when this ordeal was going on, the city council voted to invest like $1bil in an A's stadium/'village' at Howard Terminal and give them the land for free. Prime waterfront location that everyone was in agreement about...besides Fisher and the Union Pacific railroad company. The environmental remediation was too expensive or something. UP's concerns were more reasonable that the adjacent tracks might pose a threat to pedestrians. The Coliseum is out of the way and outdated. Oakland is the little brother to the Giants in the way the Sox are to the Cubs, but people probably would've showed out to Jack London Square from all across the East Bay (easy commuter rail and BART access and even San Francisco. It's a cool place. A ballpark there would've been perfect.