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5. Twitter is free and voluntary.
4. Fix the strike zone, fix the game.
3. If you can afford the team, you can afford the players.
2. It's the pitchers, not the hitters.
1. Ball go far, team go far.
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“Aroldis Chapman is touching 75.”
“Yikes, elbow injury?”
“No. So much worse.”
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MLB: “Let the kids play!”
Nick Castellanos *plays*
MLB: “No, not like that...”
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MLB is an $11 billion business with no one bright enough to look at a franchise moving from a large market to a tiny market and say, “Hey, wait a minute.”
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This is the most damage MLB owners have done to the game since 1994. They are actively trying to destroy a season to make, at this point, pennies on the dollar.
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Repeating: The players' current platform is taking them *backwards* relative to 2017-21. They are not even keeping up with revenue growth. The players are *literally* bending over backwards to reach a deal, and the owners won't accept.
This is 100% on the owners.
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The Joey Gallo thing is increasingly stunning. We're just about a third of the way through the season and he's driven in two (2) teammates. He's had 91 baserunners on!
#yankees
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Major League Baseball, all 30 of its teams, and all of their media partners are telling you to bet on baseball
Umpires:
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The Padres play the 27th-largest media market in the United States. Please F off forever with the lie of "market size" and all the Seligian garbage that stems from it. Either you want to win or you don't.
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The Angels have 12 losses in 13 days.
The Yankees have 15 losses in 2022.
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Just a reminder that Zion Williamson should get to pick where he works, like the rest of us do, rather than have his employer picked for him and his salary dictated to him. Sports drafts are indefensible.
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What a story. Max Muncy's parents met in the third inning of this game, fell in love, got married, had a family, and watched their boy grow up and become a
#WorldSeries
hero!
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Rocco Baldelli skipped over five professional pitchers to put in his backup catcher, but yeah, let’s question the integrity of the rookie hitter.
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Win or lose, 65 million people will have voted for the guy who thinks the pandemic is going to magically disappear. We haven’t begun to deal with what we’ve become.
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It kills me that the average person’s takeaway from all this is that A’s fans failed the team. Just an absolute falsehood that will become the accepted history. Baseball in Oakland didn’t die, it was murdered.
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MLB:
2007: made money
2008: made money
2009: made money
2010: made money
2011: made money
2012: made money
2013: made money
2014: made money
2015: made money
2016: made money
2017: made money
2018: made money
2019: made money
2020: threw a massive fit over possibly losing money
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Perry Ellis went for 13 and 11 in a win.
130 years ago today, Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The rest is history 🙌🏀
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Every MLB team can afford to pay market rate for great baseball players. If there is one idea that has to be eradicated, it’s the image of some teams — and their owners — as “have nots.” Stop letting people wealthy enough to buy baseball teams play victims.
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The Las Vegas A’s, under the current plan, have absolutely no path to being anything but a low-revenue team and a revenue-sharing recipient. Nothing adds up.
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To the people whining, can I ask: What would you prefer the
#Dodgers
do with the money? They are putting it into the team, *and* sending $80 million a year to the Pirates, Reds, Guardians, et al.
Baseball’s problem isn’t the Dodgers. It’s the corporate welfare queens.
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It's now been 16 days since MLB owners last made a proposal. The MLBPA made two in that time. The owners, who locked out the players to create "urgency" have made almost as many calls for a mediator since then (1) as they have offers (2).
There aren't two sides to this.
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Team owners are, collectively, people who think the state should pay for their ballpark but not your heart medication. Stop defending them.
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One thing Manfred has helped make clear this week is that baseball doesn’t have a “commissioner.” He is the owners’ representative, and tradition aside, we’d all do a service to fans to refer to him as such.
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This opens the door to a pretty good TV show that's just Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman doing stuff. Doesn't even matter what it's about. Knitting. Putting up drywall. Naps.
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One last time: The owners could accept the players’ platform as is and they would win this negotiation. That’s how little the players are asking for relative to the new revenue on the table. That’s still not good enough for them. They’re lighting baseball on fire for nothing.
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Player joins a good team: "He's just ring-chasing, doesn't want to be the man."
Player joins a bad team: "He just wants the money, doesn't care about winning."
Stop fucking psychoanalyzing people you have never met and only know through media reports and your television.
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Crypto ad leading to crypto site crash is a note-perfect metaphor for the whole thing.
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Friday: Contreras is a catcher
Saturday: Contreras is an OF/DH
Sunday: Contreras is a DH
Monday: Contreras is the closer
Tuesday: Contreras is the
#3
starter
Wednesday: Contreras is the manager
Thursday: Contreras is the mayor
In a turn of events, the
#STLCards
won’t be using Willson Contreras in the outfield. He still won’t catch for the foreseeable future. President of baseball operations John Mozeliak explains this and more.
With
@Ken_Rosenthal
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I feel silly even breaking it down, but...
Trea Turner, career vs. LHP after 1-2: .258/.310/.390
Bennett Sousa, career vs. RHB after 1-2: .167/.286/.167
TLR traded that for...
Max Muncy, career vs. LHP: .251/.365/.492
Sousa, career vs. LHB: .300/.389/.367
Unconscionable.
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Both these things can be true:
— Baseball is a great sport played by incredible athletes who are fun to watch.
— 3:03 for not quite six innings is an untenable slog that chases off more people than it brings in.
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TLR gave the Twins permission to throw at Yermin Mercedes. How do you look your players in the eye after that?
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You would be hard-pressed to find two people in sports media less qualified to answer the question on the screen.
Sports generalists used to have to know baseball, and in the 2010s forward, they simply don't. I wish they wouldn't bother. Stop making people dumber.
Michael Wilbon says MLB exit velocity tracking has "started the ruination of watching sports for me"
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Zack Greinke with five assists, matching Carmelo Anthony’s career high.
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Rob Manfred thought “Major League” was a tragedy about Rachel Phelps being denied her dream.
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The team that hit more homers was 7-0 in the World Series, and 26-6 in the playoffs. Please take your smallball talk for a long walk off a short pier.
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Hey,
@MLB
, if you want to build a marketing campaign around letting the kids play, then you need to start suspending, and I don’t mean for five games, the pitchers who get their fee-fees hurt when the kids do just that.
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If you don't want to pay Francisco Lindor to play for your team, you should be forced to sell your team. Employing someone like Lindor, building around a player like that, giving that to your fans, is pretty much the entire point of the enterprise. This is a travesty.
#indians
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Psst...she won't be locked up, the robot who took your job isn't getting fired, there won't be a wall, and that tax cut isn't for you.
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Tapping out on A's/Vegas stuff. I have done my best, and simply can't explain to everyone, individually, why their regurgitated talking points, blind assertions, and bad math are wrong.
Las Vegas is a small, relatively poor market, and no, the tourists won't carry the team.
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"Bad thing happen in Philadelphia, bad things."
Didn't expect the Phillies bullpen to make the debate stage, but here we are.
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Not counting the A's, there are eight teams not even averaging 20,000 tickets sold a night for home games. But we think 7,000 Tigers fans will go to Las Vegas for each game, then 7,000 Marlins fans, then 7,000 Royals fans...
Come on, man.
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I don’t understand why a successful company like Apple is getting involved with baseball, which as we all know is largely unprofitable and near death. It’s a mystery!
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How come none of these guys do their own research when they pull a hamstring or tear a UCL?
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Baseball has spent 50 years telling fans not about the greatness of its players, but that they're greedy and disloyal and cheaters and drug users. Literally my entire life baseball has trashed the players to win labor and PR battles. Turns out there was a cost.
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I think you’re right again. MLB has a marketing problem. Acuna, Albies, Glasnow, Fried, Snell...all guys that could really be more popular if MLB approached things differently.
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Opposing voter suppression -- which is what the Georgia bill is -- isn't "politics." It's citizenship. Voting is a right and putting up barriers to the exercise of that right is wholly anti-American. There's no "both sides" here. One is right and one is wrong.
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There has never been a month in baseball history with more strikeouts than hits. With eight days left in March/April 2018:
Strikeouts: 5562
Hits: 5174
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The
#Cubs
were in first place a year ago today. They're 56-100.9 since, and it was almost entirely by choice.
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Raiders home attendance rank:
2018, Oakland, 29th
2019, Oakland, 29th
2021, Las Vegas, 26th
2022, Las Vegas 30th
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Raiders and Warriors left for a reason. I appreciate the fans' passion but that city has too lany challenges ahead of it.
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The year is 2074. Rising sea levels have created new coasts. Social strife long ago splintered America into three nations. The nuclear war of 2051 changed humanity forever.
The
#Mets
invite Tim Tebow to spring training.
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Imagine the taeks if the World Series MVP were coming off an in-season 40-game PED suspension.
It won’t be mentioned, and I mean AT ALL, in the football coverage.
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If MLB and the players eventually shut this down, we need to be sure to put the blame where it belongs: On a nation that doesn’t have control of the coronavirus. That’s the problem, not the efforts of the league or its players.
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Congratulations to the Washington Nationals, who have re-created the Miguel Cabrera trade that built the Marlins’ dynasty.
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Jesus, did they think the vaccine was made from porn?
The 10 Kansas City Royals who are not vaccinated and will miss the trip to Toronto are: OF Andrew Benintendi, IF/OF Whit Merrifield, C M.J. Melendez, DH Hunter Dozier, SP Brad Keller, SP Brady Singer, CF Michael A. Taylor, OF Kyle Isbel, RP Dylan Coleman and C Cam Gallagher.
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To Baseball Commissioner Manfred: NEVER EVER THREATEN MIKE TROUT AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER BASEBALL FANS THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
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I know a lot of
#Cubs
fans have issues with the Ricketts family. Hopefully they’ll be happier with new owner Aristides Aquino.
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CB Bucknor called it a strike.
Asteroid whizzes past Earth by distance of only 40,563 miles -- closer than the moon:
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Procrastinating, here's some Luis Arraez facts...
When Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941, he faced 74 pitchers all season. After today, Luis Arraez has already faced twice as many, 148 pitchers, in 79 games.
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The trade for Stanton gives the Yankees so much righty power that the New York Times will be normalizing them soon.
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Been quiet, but we do have some transaction news...
UNITED STATES trades 1.2 million people to
COVID-19 for cash considerations
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It’s not 2002 anymore, folks. Team in small markets — and their incredibly rich owners — get unholy amounts of free money just for existing. They *can* pay market value for superstars. Many of them *choose* not to.
Stop. Carrying. Water. For. Oligarchs.
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Feel bad for Kenny Williams, who was all set to offer 8/190 to Trout in two years.
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It's not even the greatest wild card game involving a team from Missouri.
"The greatest Wild Card game since the Wild Card era started."
@JimBowdenGM
says this Dodgers-Cardinals game was THAT GOOD!
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Jack Flaherty has a 6.29 ERA and hasn’t actually been good since 2019, so I really don’t know why he gets a vote.
#STLCards
catcher Willson Contreras said RHPs Adam Wainwright and Jack Flaherty were a part of the recent discussions regarding his position shift. He didn’t elaborate about what was said during that summit with the front office, coaches, pitchers and himself.
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The thing about the Suggs shot is that it wasn’t some halfcourt chuck. It wasn’t lucky. *Unlikely* maybe, but he dribbled hard to a spot, squared up, didn’t take it too early or too late. It was a basketball play, not a prayer.
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You know what none of these fans are thinking about? The pace of play.
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I don’t know how you could be rich enough to buy a baseball team and not want to spend your money on creating a night like this in Philadelphia. How is some marginal amount of millions better than this?
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MLB: "Seven inning games are legitimate, real baseball."
Bumgarner: *throws no-hitter*
MLB: "No, not like that."
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If MLB really wants to honor Jackie Robinson, rather than using his achievements as a shield, they’ll announce on April 15 they’re not playing the All-Star Game in Atlanta in protest of anti-Black voting laws.
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How far up your own ass do you have to be to care about this while the actual president is turning the tax code into an ATM?
Obama is living his post-presidential life like an elitist one percenter
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I’m going to mention this a lot: This is a lockout. The owners could lift it at any time and continuing negotiating while operating under the terms of the expired CBA. Any delay to spring training or loss of regular-season games is their choice.
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Buck Showalter’s refusal to use Pat Mahomes in overtime is inexplicable.
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As the guy who has spent the week defending the
#stlcards
FO based on their long-term track record…I have to say this Contreras decision is a doozy, and impossible to justify.
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28,000+ on a Tuesday night in Cincinnati. Example N+1 in the argument that if you put a good product on the field, fans will show up. Don't blame the fans. Ever.
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Wonder if someone fell asleep in the ninth, and will wake up now, see Eovaldi and think they slept until 8 pm Saturday night.
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In the future, everyone will sign Carlos Correa for 15 minutes.
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It's late and maybe I'll delete this in the morning, but I'm as down about baseball as I have ever been. 1981, 1994, Donnie's last game, the Jeff Weaver game...nothing ever felt like this. The owners control access to baseball and they *do not care* whether we have a 2022 season.
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Reiterating this point: Locking out the players is a management choice, not something they have to do once the CBA expires.
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The Rockets have missed 33 threes tonight. Larry Bird missed 33 threes in the entire 1980s.
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"Analytics" has become this boogeyman word. It's code for "things I don't like."
When you see "analytics," replace it with "information" and see how the sentence reads to understand just how ridiculous these conversations are.
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Wonder what people would be saying had Yasiel Puig tested positive and started running around the field.
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People go to Las Vegas to do the things they can't or won't do at home. This whole "tourists will come for baseball" idea fundamentally and intentionally misses the point of Las Vegas.
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Think about how big a story it would be if Gerrit Cole or Framber Valdez was starting on two days’ rest after a 123-pitch outing. And those guys get paid for it. I don’t know why Klaw is the only loud voice on this stuff. It’s awful.
Hall threw a 123-pitch complete game on Friday. And he's an actual prospect in this year's draft class. What an incredibly irresponsible choice by the coach.
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Maybe attendance at MLB games is down simply because the experience of attending MLB games in person grows more expensive and less enjoyable over time.
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The full and canonical list of acceptable responses to a player in any sport sitting out 2020:
1. “Cool. Take care of yourself and your family. Can’t wait to have you back in 2021.”
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Dear Baseball Teams: No one cares that you almost signed a player.
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Steve Cohen isn’t the problem, he’s the solution. Expect more from your local billionaire.
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I don't care if this game goes scoreless into the 47th (sun rises, etc....) and the pitchers are down to Rolando Arrojo and one of the actual Guardian statues. This is still better than the automatic runner.
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We’re just not equipped, in any way, to stop someone who will lie this brazenly. We have neither the educated populace nor the independent media to inoculate ourselves against this kind of dishonesty.
Trump, who not a month ago characterized Democratic criticism of the coronavirus response as a "hoax," now claims, "I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."
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Doesn’t Utah Grizzlies vs. Memphis Jazz just make more sense?
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