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Post by philsbosoxfan on Nov 19, 2019 7:00:40 GMT -5
It's not just theoretical.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Nov 19, 2019 7:14:05 GMT -5
Sorry about the thread hijack but not all heroes wear baseball unies and not all great stories involve baseball.
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Post by iakovos11 on Nov 19, 2019 7:31:18 GMT -5
Sorry about the thread hijack but not all heroes wear baseball unies and not all great stories involve baseball. Nice. Celtics beat the Suns last night. That was past my bedtime.
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Post by James Dunne on Nov 19, 2019 8:31:39 GMT -5
Imagine how mad we'd be if the Astros beat the Red Sox in 2018. The worst thing about this whole situation is that for the first time in recorded history the complaints of Yankee fans are valid.
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Post by incandenza on Nov 19, 2019 8:34:14 GMT -5
Sorry about the thread hijack but not all heroes wear baseball unies and not all great stories involve baseball. This is very heartwarming, and a nice antidote to all the indecency and bigotry that dominates the news these days. I'm sure you'd agree that, by contrast, those who would mock the disabled are the very worst kinds of people.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Nov 19, 2019 14:09:17 GMT -5
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Post by jimed14 on Nov 19, 2019 15:14:59 GMT -5
Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume that Manfred won't do a damn thing to the Astros. He just doesn't care about this stuff unless it was the Red Sox. And it's already making me furious. If I were the Red Sox, I'd only use pitchers that can speak a new imaginary language that they come up with when playing in Houston until the end of time because the Astros are clearly always going to cheat.
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Post by jimed14 on Nov 19, 2019 15:19:45 GMT -5
Imagine how mad we'd be if the Astros beat the Red Sox in 2018. The worst thing about this whole situation is that for the first time in recorded history the complaints of Yankee fans are valid. Yeah, well they were probably drinking the blood of babies, so I don't feel sorry for them.
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Post by dd on Nov 19, 2019 17:53:26 GMT -5
Imagine how mad we'd be if the Astros beat the Red Sox in 2018. The worst thing about this whole situation is that for the first time in recorded history the complaints of Yankee fans are valid. Nope. Just can't go there. Yankee fans are always invalid!
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Post by dd on Nov 19, 2019 18:02:21 GMT -5
Sorry about the thread hijack but not all heroes wear baseball unies and not all great stories involve baseball. Thank you for sharing this, Phil.
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Post by foreverred9 on Nov 19, 2019 20:35:05 GMT -5
Imagine how mad we'd be if the Astros beat the Red Sox in 2018. You'd hope Cora would have had us prepared... Sweeping them in Houston in the ALCS just feels that much better now.
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Post by patford on Nov 19, 2019 20:49:49 GMT -5
The worst thing about this whole situation is that for the first time in recorded history the complaints of Yankee fans are valid. Nope. Just can't go there. Yankee fans are always invalid! The Yankees don't need to cheat. They have their own MLB mandated strike zones. One for the pitchers and another for the hitters.
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Post by jimed14 on Nov 19, 2019 22:03:58 GMT -5
Imagine how mad we'd be if the Astros beat the Red Sox in 2018. You'd hope Cora would have had us prepared... Sweeping them in Houston in the ALCS just feels that much better now. I'm pretty sure they used multiple signs for the entire series.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Nov 20, 2019 1:54:58 GMT -5
Hypothetically this is about expansion, not a current team.
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Post by gerry on Nov 20, 2019 1:58:27 GMT -5
Hypothetically this is about expansion, not a current team. Do you think the devil rays inside that giant fish tank will feel at home next to Disney?
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Nov 20, 2019 2:22:01 GMT -5
Hypothetically this is about expansion, not a current team. Do you think the devil rays inside that giant fish tank will feel at home next to Disney? According to the comments it's about a third Florida team, not the Rays. Makes no sense to me since neither of the other two draw many fans even in good years. We'll see in the presser.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Nov 20, 2019 8:05:29 GMT -5
According to the comments it's about a third Florida team Literally, and I mean literally, the last thing anyone ever wanted. There's gotta be some mistake here.
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Post by mobaz on Nov 20, 2019 10:39:14 GMT -5
They'd be better off combining the two florida teams and then do expansion elsewhere. Like, really.
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Post by incandenza on Nov 20, 2019 11:10:45 GMT -5
By the way, why don't the Marlins draw more fans? I've always been baffled by that. Miami is the 7th-largest metro area in the country. It also has, of course, the largest Cuban population, and large populations of Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and folks from other baseball-loving countries. Also a lot of transplanted Northeasterners. Seems like baseball ought to do great there.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Nov 20, 2019 12:09:50 GMT -5
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Post by incandenza on Nov 20, 2019 12:57:05 GMT -5
Connotes both being lost in gauzy illusion and being asleep. Seems apt.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Nov 20, 2019 13:03:18 GMT -5
Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume that Manfred won't do a damn thing to the Astros. He just doesn't care about this stuff unless it was the Red Sox. And it's already making me furious. If I were the Red Sox, I'd only use pitchers that can speak a new imaginary language that they come up with when playing in Houston until the end of time because the Astros are clearly always going to cheat. There is zero reason to think this. They've straight up banned executives from other organizations from the game.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Nov 20, 2019 13:48:40 GMT -5
Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume that Manfred won't do a damn thing to the Astros. He just doesn't care about this stuff unless it was the Red Sox. And it's already making me furious. If I were the Red Sox, I'd only use pitchers that can speak a new imaginary language that they come up with when playing in Houston until the end of time because the Astros are clearly always going to cheat. There is zero reason to think this. They've straight up banned executives from other organizations from the game. Baseball is taking a lot of heat (rightfully) for their mishandling of the ball and their inability to give us any honest answers about it. They're also getting a lot of criticism (again rightfully) for their enabling of non-competitive franchises and the resulting weak free agent market. On top of all that, the Astros just had one of their executives majorly embarrass the whole sport during the damn World Series. All of which is to say MLB is maybe looking for a way to re-assert itself as a good steward of the game, and making an example out of the Astros seems like the most obvious way for them to do that right now.
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Post by jimed14 on Nov 20, 2019 16:47:15 GMT -5
By the way, why don't the Marlins draw more fans? I've always been baffled by that. Miami is the 7th-largest metro area in the country. It also has, of course, the largest Cuban population, and large populations of Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and folks from other baseball-loving countries. Also a lot of transplanted Northeasterners. Seems like baseball ought to do great there. I'm going to guess it's just like every other transient city. Everyone is a fan of other teams and never gets into the local team. Same thing would happen in Raleigh if they tried to expand here. I've lived here in RTP for 23 years and could not give a crap about the Carolina Panthers or Hurricanes. Every Hurricanes home game is made up of about 50% fans of the visiting team and that's with the arena 1/2 full. It's not like when my parents moved to New Hampshire in 1973 (when I was 2 years old) and the only baseball on tv was the Red Sox so that's what we watched and that's who we became fans of. Now when you move, you can continue being a fan of any team you want forever without missing anything other than attendance in person. You can watch all the games on tv, read every local article you want on the internet and talk about your favorite team with other fans on message boards. That prevents a lot of people from becoming fans of local teams. I'd have to guess that more than 2/3rds of the local population has moved here and was not born here. I wouldn't be surprised if Miami (and most of Florida) is the same.
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Post by jimed14 on Nov 20, 2019 16:52:09 GMT -5
There is zero reason to think this. They've straight up banned executives from other organizations from the game. Baseball is taking a lot of heat (rightfully) for their mishandling of the ball and their inability to give us any honest answers about it. They're also getting a lot of criticism (again rightfully) for their enabling of non-competitive franchises and the resulting weak free agent market. On top of all that, the Astros just had one of their executives majorly embarrass the whole sport during the damn World Series. All of which is to say MLB is maybe looking for a way to re-assert itself as a good steward of the game, and making an example out of the Astros seems like the most obvious way for them to do that right now. Manfred is a complete garbage commissioner. I have zero faith in him to do anything right because he has done very little right so far. He could have done something about this 2 years ago and didn't.
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