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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Apr 20, 2020 18:09:55 GMT -5
May 1st will be an interesting date
MLB will be able to cut pay and lay off managers and coaches across baseball
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 19:22:50 GMT -5
It appears that A-Rod and JLo are interested in purchasing the Mets.
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Post by sfvega on Apr 20, 2020 19:25:21 GMT -5
It appears that A-Rod and JLo are interested in purchasing the Mets. He's done so much for his reputation now, crazy that he would put himself in a position to get skewered by the NY bubble again. Good luck getting the Mets to contend.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 22:30:28 GMT -5
A-Rod has done a lot to repair his reputation the last few years. I'd be intrigued by him owning the team. He apparently grew up a Mets fan. At this rate getting bad owners away from sports is a good thing, and can't get much worse than the Wilpon's. I'm not sure if a A-Rod/Jeter feud from the owners box is going to intrigue anyone, but same division if it happens. Why not?
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Post by Rolent Tex on Apr 21, 2020 17:45:39 GMT -5
The idea going around now is that a MLB season would be done in three states...Arizona, Florida and Texas. All of the stadiums that would be used are indoors or have retractable roofs so no worry about rainouts.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2020 15:22:32 GMT -5
*headdesk*
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Apr 22, 2020 15:26:25 GMT -5
Manfred got it wrong, again
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 22, 2020 16:47:21 GMT -5
After the slap on the wrist the Astros got, Boston wasn't going to get anything worse than them.
That's the key to this, look at the punishment the Astros got. No team's gonna get a worse punishment than them for less.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Apr 22, 2020 17:07:30 GMT -5
After the slap on the wrist the Astros got, Boston wasn't going to get anything worse than them. That's the key to this, look at the punishment the Astros got. No team's gonna get a worse punishment than them for less. Well, yes and no However, you can make an argument Cora suspension should probably been worse since he took the cheating ways from his time in Houston and brought it to Boston Tho that's Manfred f***ing up in general since I think Cora and the others should have gotten two years
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Post by BRV on Apr 22, 2020 17:17:35 GMT -5
After the slap on the wrist the Astros got, Boston wasn't going to get anything worse than them. That's the key to this, look at the punishment the Astros got. No team's gonna get a worse punishment than them for less. Because what Boston was accused of, and was ultimately was found guilty of, wasn't a fraction of what Houston was doing. "Unlike the Houston Astros' 2017 conduct, in which players communicated to the batter from the dugout area in real time the precise type of pitch about to be thrown, Watkins' conduct, by its very nature, was far more limited in scope and impact. "The information was only relevant when the Red Sox had a runner on second base (which was 19.7% of plate appearances league-wide in 2018), and Watkins communicated sign sequences in a manner that indicated that he had decoded them from the in-game feed in only a small percentage of those occurrences." "Communication of these violations was episodic and isolated to Watkins and a limited number of Red Sox players only." What J.T. Watkins and the Red Sox were doing was wrong, but a one-year suspension and docking a second-round pick is an appropriate punishment for the crime at hand here. This isn't in the same galaxy as what the Astros were conducting.
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Post by sfvega on Apr 24, 2020 20:50:10 GMT -5
I forgot that Texas are moving to Globe Life Field opening this year. I looked at the pics and man, is that one of the uglier, colder set-ups in the league inside and out. They went from one of the nicer stadiums in baseball IMO to a bottom 5 or 10 one.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 26, 2020 3:01:24 GMT -5
I forgot that Texas are moving to Globe Life Field opening this year. I looked at the pics and man, is that one of the uglier, colder set-ups in the league inside and out. They went from one of the nicer stadiums in baseball IMO to a bottom 5 or 10 one. Globe Life is already better just on the fact that it has a roof. The old one had no roof. Why would you build an open air baseball stadium in freaking Texas?
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Post by sfvega on Apr 26, 2020 3:27:53 GMT -5
I forgot that Texas are moving to Globe Life Field opening this year. I looked at the pics and man, is that one of the uglier, colder set-ups in the league inside and out. They went from one of the nicer stadiums in baseball IMO to a bottom 5 or 10 one. Globe Life is already better just on the fact that it has a roof. The old one had no roof. Why would you build an open air baseball stadium in freaking Texas? Well, the ball just flew out of there in August for any ol reason. But in the juiced ball era, that matters less.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2020 12:24:23 GMT -5
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Post by BRV on Apr 27, 2020 14:20:30 GMT -5
I forgot that Texas are moving to Globe Life Field opening this year. I looked at the pics and man, is that one of the uglier, colder set-ups in the league inside and out. They went from one of the nicer stadiums in baseball IMO to a bottom 5 or 10 one. I agree with you, I never understood why the Rangers felt the need to move out of The Ballpark in Arlington (or whatever corporate sponsor most recently had the naming rights). It was only 25 years old and it was still one of the most beautiful ballparks in baseball, an absolute gem of the early-90s revolution of retro-classic ballparks right alongside Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Coors Field, and Jacobs Field. The new wave of ballparks seem so sterile and generic to me. If you take away the logos and naming rights, I don't think there's a single thing that differentiates Citizens Bank Park, Nationals Park, Citi Field, Target Field, or Truist Park. Marlins Park may have been a neon green atrocity with that ridiculous sculpture in left-centerfield, but at least it tried something to be different. This new era of ballparks just seems so homogenized, like we're one or two steps away from returning to the era of charmless, characterless ashtray stadiums of the 1970s.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2020 11:45:39 GMT -5
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Apr 28, 2020 13:53:39 GMT -5
Wow, wish him nothing but the best Know they said during SP that he left for a private matter and then it was revealed to be treatment but didn't think it was this
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2020 23:10:22 GMT -5
Apparently the MLB draft this year in June is either going to be 5 or 10 rounds.
Manfred has been trying to cut down on the amount of minor league teams and draft slots for a while. With Covid causing so much lost revenue, looks like he will finally get his wish. Not sure making it harder to make the minor leagues, much less the major leagues, is going to help attract more athletes to play baseball, but Manfred works for the owners, and this will definitely cut costs.
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Post by sfvega on Apr 28, 2020 23:16:33 GMT -5
Apparently the MLB draft this year in June is either going to be 5 or 10 rounds. Manfred has been trying to cut down on the amount of minor league teams and draft slots for a while. With Covid causing so much lost revenue, looks like he will finally get his wish. Not sure making it harder to make the minor leagues, much less the major leagues, is going to help attract more athletes to play baseball, but Manfred works for the owners, and this will definitely cut costs. It'll be interesting to see how this affects the minor league system. Does it become a more streamlined and competitive league that produces better tested talent, or does having less teams and leagues mean that not as many guys can find their footing and confidence at a certain level and grow organically?
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Post by Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley on Apr 29, 2020 10:47:54 GMT -5
I forgot that Texas are moving to Globe Life Field opening this year. I looked at the pics and man, is that one of the uglier, colder set-ups in the league inside and out. They went from one of the nicer stadiums in baseball IMO to a bottom 5 or 10 one. I agree with you, I never understood why the Rangers felt the need to move out of The Ballpark in Arlington (or whatever corporate sponsor most recently had the naming rights). It was only 25 years old and it was still one of the most beautiful ballparks in baseball, an absolute gem of the early-90s revolution of retro-classic ballparks right alongside Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Coors Field, and Jacobs Field. The new wave of ballparks seem so sterile and generic to me. If you take away the logos and naming rights, I don't think there's a single thing that differentiates Citizens Bank Park, Nationals Park, Citi Field, Target Field, or Truist Park. Marlins Park may have been a neon green atrocity with that ridiculous sculpture in left-centerfield, but at least it tried something to be different. This new era of ballparks just seems so homogenized, like we're one or two steps away from returning to the era of charmless, characterless ashtray stadiums of the 1970s. I think its as simple as "buyer's remorse" from not putting a dome on TBiA.
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