Everything posted by Quin
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2023-24 NFL Season Thread
Tbh, Peacock might be the streaming service that my wife and I use most consistently + it being the cheapest actually makes it not that bad a service. It's user interface has made HUGE leaps since it first launched. Funnily enough, with password sharing being dropped (and thus my parents no longer using my account), Netflix might be the service that we ax due to its price hike once we get through our backlog.
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Cease To Padres per Passan
Yamamoto hasn't had an MLB season like Dylan Cease and just got the richest deal for a pitcher in major league history. Shohei just had his second TJ and is way less durable and got $700M. I think the deal is worth it for his sheer star power. You like to knock Cease hard for 2023, where he was 18th in fWAR ahead of Corbin Burnes. He was 0.2 behind Nola, who just got $175M and is 3 years older. This is of course with the s%*# defense behind him. This video is kind of the perfect encapsulation of how the team failed him. Cease is gonna cost a team a lot in terms of prospects. Probably not as much as most people here are dreaming, but it's not going to be Clint Frazier and Miguel Andujar.
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Cease To Padres per Passan
If the Dodgers decide to go for Cease after Shohei, Yamamoto and Glasnow, I cannot wait to hear the rest of baseball attempt to cry foul.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto got $325 million 12 years from Dodgers (+posting fee)
I think the difference here is that Friedman has been planning for this offseason, letting All-Stars to superstars walk from their team — Machado, Seager, Turner, Scherzer, Darvish, Bellinger, Joc — while building a sustainable farm. They still somehow won 100 games in their down year. Obviously the big knock is that postseason pitching has bee We mourn the infield that never was (in Chicago) of Tatis/Machado. If Friedman spent like Preller (with seemingly no foresight), he could have had Machado-Seager-Turner, but probably doesn't have the purse ready to go this offseason, when the Dodgers are still projected third in payroll and the Padres have to slash.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto got $325 million 12 years from Dodgers (+posting fee)
Sorry, let me respond with an argument you understand.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto got $325 million 12 years from Dodgers (+posting fee)
The Dodgers experienced 2023 Lance Lynn and committed more than $1.2 billion (and prospects) to three players. The White Sox did that and decided to rebuild.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto got $325 million 12 years from Dodgers (+posting fee)
Work will be fun tomorrow after endless banter between Red Sox and Yankees fans posturing that they were each OBVIOUSLY getting Yamamoto.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto got $325 million 12 years from Dodgers (+posting fee)
The Dodgers org learned what the rest of baseball should have: Hire Rays FO personnel, give them cash.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto got $325 million 12 years from Dodgers (+posting fee)
All 30 teams had a chance to win. The Dodgers won. It's not an asterisk like the Trash Can Astros. They're also consistently providing their fans with exciting baseball every season and going to the playoffs for a decade.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto got $325 million 12 years from Dodgers (+posting fee)
They both have championships in the past four years.
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The International Signing Thread
Suspiciously posting a photo of Luis ?
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto got $325 million 12 years from Dodgers (+posting fee)
I'm guessing Getz has a "buy now" price set for Getz, much like the Rays did with Glasnow.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto got $325 million 12 years from Dodgers (+posting fee)
Blame the teams that aren't in on him for waiting. The Orioles and Reds aren't gonna sign him, so why wait to make moves? Because they aren't actually all-in on winning their divisions.
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Next Merkin article: SNL Billie Eilish/Jake Peavy #44 Sox jersey
I mean, it's the offseason and of all jerseys, a Peavy jersey is super radom to see from a Gen Z superstar from LA. It does help reinforce the argument that deviating from the current jerseys/hats would be branding suicide.
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Official NBA 22-23
Cannot imagine how validated Billy Donovan must feel.
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White Sox sign Chuckie Robinson to minor league contract
yeah of all the things to get worked up about, this ain't it until pedro falls in love with him.
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Benetti to Tigers
I think this would actually get me to believe that Jerry is trying to murder fan engagement in an effort to move the team.
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Cease To Padres per Passan
Opens up MLB Top 100 Ctrl + F "Pirates" I will accept nothing less than savage Termarr Johnson, LHP Anthony Solometo and idk, Jackson Wolf + Estuar Suero
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Orioles agree on new lease...
John Angelos has already come out and said he doesn't think he can afford to extend their current core. Angelos is just like JR. I'm mocking that paragraph for sounding like White Sox fluff the past few years.
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Orioles agree on new lease...
John Angelos is ensuring that bright future remains bright by spending money!
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Cease To Padres per Passan
Cease, and to an extent Eloy, are cheap for right now. Preller can't afford another losing season after all the wild spending and lofty expectations. Clint Frazier and Miguel Andujar sounds reasonable for Cease.
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Glasnow traded to Dodgers
Already Getz, slow walking this is a good move.
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Cease To Padres per Passan
We're gonna keep pitching O's, Dodgers, and Braves packages, maybe with a dash of Reds, Red Sox or Padres, and it'll be the Mets or something.
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Tigers Signing Flaherty
Reinsdorf / Getz in 2025, when they're supposed to be in contention since any other GM would have taken too long: "We have to cut payroll even more, because revenue was down and fans didn't show up."
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Tigers Signing Flaherty
When two teams suck, I'll take the one that has an enjoyable broadcaster and is expressing a willingness to improve over whatever Jerry is doing.