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Curt Flood was a cuck ass b****.

Man, fuck Steve Stone. Talk about taking a ten foot view from 30 years ago.

If you don't want to pump money into the organization and lose a very small amount of money every year fuck the hell off. Every MLB team is worth over a billion dollars, cash out and let someone else give it a shot.

I'd just like to put it out there that owning a team is not the same as running a standard business. It should not be a money making venture, there's 123 teams in the 4 major US leagues, there's more than enough billionaires out there willing to burn a small portion of their fortune for a shot at winning a championship, professional teams should absolutely operate at a loss or break even. You don't buy a fucking team to make money, it's a frivolity for the ultra rich, an extremely high profile yacht.

This is extremely telling

Yep, went to Dye first but his WAR numbers are dragged down by defense and specifically the '07 season. An amazing free agent signing but a different era and he really couldn't move in RF.

Esteban Loaiza produced 7.2 bWAR in 2003 for 500k. Only 0.9 bWAR in '04 for $4M but that turned into Jose Contreras so pretty damn good overall.

Not entirely useless but very much mediocre, he wasn't good.

There used to be but I skimmed the 2017 CBA and I can't find any such clause.

Yeah, no shit. Grassroots organization and uprising are great but at a certain point you're just repeating the same shit to the same people who already agree with you and those people get tired of hearing the same message. This isn't a political campaign where you can knock on doors and gain voters, you can't oust Reinsdorf, Hahn and Williams by posting, that shit is locked in. NO ONE IS LISTENING TO YOU. Complacency is obviously bad but this is a fucking message board, not a polling place.

You're shit posting on a message board in 2019. Just keep that in mind.

Nah, man. That's been done and it just bleeds into every thread bar none. Come up with an original fucking thought.

Cool, so you're done? Pivoting to hard fatalist isn't an out either. Maybe just think it out for a bit and come back with an original thought. Posting for the sake of posting is largely bad.

Please, just drop it. They misread the market, the entire organization sucks ass, things are terrible and the rebuild is faltering bordering on failing. Reading the same inane shit over and over is just nails on a chalkboard, you're not making a difference or bringing a new take, you're just stuck in a time loop. Congrats, you're angry, the other morons like myself that frequent this board already know the talking points, you're just screaming into the void. You're gaining absolutely nothing from this shit.

You fucked up the contract language: there is no option attached, it's a straight 5 year deal. I'll also ignore the minutia and big picture shit you're clearly missing here and just say wage theft and the neutering of unions is cool as shit. Full disclosure: I do own a Robert Nutting shirsey, only half ironically due to the name, I mostly admire his restraint.

nah

Look, this may not sit well with some but I tell it like it is, given that these players are making ungodly amounts of money (we're talking millions here, folks) to play a CHILDREN'S GAME fines aren't gonna mean jackshit to these soft-palmed millennial sissies. Fining Daniel Palka a few grand for turning the wrong way on a fly ball isn't gonna make a dent in his fortnight emote spending account, the ONLY way to get through to this generation of players is a simple, time honored, glorious technique: SPANKINGS. James McCann poorly frames a pitch? Ricky slaps that ass red. Giolito fails to repeat his delivery on back to back pitches? Ricky's bent knee is waiting for him at his locker and it's not for a show of deference, it's for a dang SPANKING. Yolmer dumps a cooler of perfectly potable water over his head like some kind of psychopath (I'm positive he hasn't even read the water bill)? Buddy, you better believe that's a SPANKING.

Decent chance this poll ends up meaning nothing and I just do this instead, I already started fucking around with a Manny banner after he signed with the Padres so I'm 1/3 of the way there.

Your votes have been rescinded (ie: changed to Rodon), thank you for your honesty. You've also been banned, next time follow the fucking rules.

You know, it'd make my life a whole hell of a lot easier if you jerks would stop voting for Eloy (who has not played a major league inning and was super shitty in spring training, so likely bad) and voted for Rodon instead.

Write-ins are not allowed, your insolence has led to your votes being discounted, no more fucking around.

I did not know this, thank you. I have rectified this issue.

ONLY Pick 3, if you pick more than 3 I'll know and be very angry

Pretty sure you've posted more in the past hour than I have in the past 2 years combined, not all of us are as perpetually bored as you seem to be.

The standard reaction to all Caulfield posts.