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Post by freddysthefuture2003 on Feb 1, 2023 11:40:52 GMT -5
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Post by cdj on Feb 1, 2023 12:39:43 GMT -5
Well bullet dodged there I’d say
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Post by ematz1423 on Feb 3, 2023 12:23:45 GMT -5
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Post by julyanmorley on Feb 3, 2023 12:38:52 GMT -5
Not great that he makes it sound like Cora has a drinking problem. Don't really see anything else worth getting upset about. We already know Cora went over the line trying to get an edge to win.
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Post by bellhorndingers21 on Feb 3, 2023 12:51:40 GMT -5
Not great that he makes it sound like Cora has a drinking problem. Don't really see anything else worth getting upset about. We already know Cora went over the line trying to get an edge to win. What a crock. Wade Boggs becomes a cult legend for his exploits and Drelich gets to throw these little jabs. This book only reinforces what cowards (or liars) Hinch and the Astros front office were. Unless Drelich has anything we didn't already know in 2020 I'd rather discuss the finer points of the Betts trade for the infinite time.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Feb 3, 2023 13:26:59 GMT -5
Here's one more outstanding piece from Jay Jaffe about one of the vastly underrated players from the great Oakland teams of the early 70s, Sal Bando. That team was loaded with players who knew what they were doing and how to do it and Bando was the leader. The bizarre social take on the Athletic players and others of that period can be summed up in this quote from the article: The devaluation of the Hall of Fame had been underway for quite a while, of course. Analytics has finally started to change all that but it's too late for Bando and for others on that team who have been almost completely ignored. How about a catcher with a career 140 wRC+?? No its not Mike Piazza. Let that blow your mind.
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Post by cdj on Feb 3, 2023 13:31:22 GMT -5
I’m picking up what Vada Pinson was putting down
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Post by manfred on Feb 3, 2023 13:43:26 GMT -5
Not great that he makes it sound like Cora has a drinking problem. Don't really see anything else worth getting upset about. We already know Cora went over the line trying to get an edge to win. “Trying to get an edge” is pretty generous. Guys who spend extra time in the weight room are trying to get an edge. The thing with cheaters is they want the edge without the *bother* of trying. I was against rehiring Cora, and I think it was a lame move. Guys from the Black Sox are banned decades after they died, and Astros personnel who cheated in a WS got a light rap on the knuckles.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Feb 3, 2023 14:30:01 GMT -5
Not great that he makes it sound like Cora has a drinking problem. Didn't get this sense at all, personally.
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Post by cdj on Feb 3, 2023 15:27:11 GMT -5
Not great that he makes it sound like Cora has a drinking problem. Don't really see anything else worth getting upset about. We already know Cora went over the line trying to get an edge to win. “Trying to get an edge” is pretty generous. Guys who spend extra time in the weight room are trying to get an edge. The thing with cheaters is they want the edge without the *bother* of trying. I was against rehiring Cora, and I think it was a lame move. Guys from the Black Sox are banned decades after they died, and Astros personnel who cheated in a WS got a light rap on the knuckles. Both are integrity of the game issues but there’s a big difference between trying to win a game by cheating (something that has been done countless times throughout baseball history one way or another) and intentionally losing
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Post by manfred on Feb 3, 2023 15:29:27 GMT -5
“Trying to get an edge” is pretty generous. Guys who spend extra time in the weight room are trying to get an edge. The thing with cheaters is they want the edge without the *bother* of trying. I was against rehiring Cora, and I think it was a lame move. Guys from the Black Sox are banned decades after they died, and Astros personnel who cheated in a WS got a light rap on the knuckles. Both are integrity of the game issues but there’s a big difference between trying to win a game by cheating (something that has been done countless times throughout baseball history one way or another) and intentionally losing They are the two most corrupt WS ever.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Feb 3, 2023 15:55:34 GMT -5
Both are integrity of the game issues but there’s a big difference between trying to win a game by cheating (something that has been done countless times throughout baseball history one way or another) and intentionally losing They are the two most corrupt WS ever. that we know of
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Post by cdj on Feb 6, 2023 18:23:17 GMT -5
Mets claim Coonrod and DFA Lee
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Post by iakovos11 on Feb 6, 2023 19:14:40 GMT -5
Wait, I thought he was the one we should have traded for? Maybe not
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Post by kingofthetrill on Feb 6, 2023 23:30:23 GMT -5
They are the two most corrupt WS ever. that we know ofI had a book, I cannot possibly remember the name, but it was about weird baseball facts and stories backed up by player interviews and one story was about the 1948 World Series where the Indians allegedly stole signs with a person in a balcony of a building past the OF and binoculars and they would use the scoreboard to indicate the pitch. The semi colon separating the score would have 1 dot for fastball and 2 dots for off speed. I could be mixing up or combining stories but the point is that if the over/under on cheated World Series is 1.5 then I'm putting my house on the over.
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Feb 7, 2023 0:00:24 GMT -5
Wait, I thought he was the one we should have traded for? Maybe not 89 wRC+ and now domestic violence allegations. That's a bullet dodged...
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Post by jimoh on Feb 7, 2023 8:32:23 GMT -5
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Post by Guidas on Feb 7, 2023 14:41:28 GMT -5
us.yahoo.com/sports/mets-steve-cohen-fires-back-at-mlb-team-owners-who-are-mad-at-his-spending-they-need-to-look-more-at-themselves-205830879.htmlSteve Cohen: "I've heard what everyone else has heard: That they're not happy with me," Cohen said. "I hear things from people who are maybe more neutral — that they're taking a lot of heat from their fans. I kind of look at that like, you're looking at the wrong person. They're putting it on me. Maybe they need to look more at themselves."Completely agree. They are all billionaires, if not groups of billionaires. If they don't want to spend or only pretend to put "a competitive product on the field" while they use their clubs and fan support as cash registers, then sell or shut up.
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Post by cdj on Feb 7, 2023 16:05:40 GMT -5
Owners crying about the Mets should be forced to sell their respective teams
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Post by iakovos11 on Feb 7, 2023 18:30:32 GMT -5
MLB just needs a salary cap. What they're doing now is just plain stupid. NFL, NBA, NHL all have salary caps.
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Post by redsox3in10 on Feb 7, 2023 18:39:39 GMT -5
MLB just needs a salary cap. What they're doing now is just plain stupid. NFL, NBA, NHL all have salary caps. A cap and a floor.
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Post by freddysthefuture2003 on Feb 7, 2023 18:44:14 GMT -5
MLB just needs a salary cap. What they're doing now is just plain stupid. NFL, NBA, NHL all have salary caps. Do you want a strike season? Because that's how you get a strike season
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Post by iakovos11 on Feb 7, 2023 20:22:06 GMT -5
MLB just needs a salary cap. What they're doing now is just plain stupid. NFL, NBA, NHL all have salary caps. Do you want a strike season? Because that's how you get a strike season If that's what it takes.
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Feb 7, 2023 23:32:31 GMT -5
If they could only have one, I'd take the salary floor. That'd weed out the stingy owners.
And make teams who finish in the bottom ten of the league for 3 years in a row ineligible for revenue sharing
While yer at it, make those teams ineligible for a top ten draft pick.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Feb 8, 2023 12:23:02 GMT -5
You don't do just one. You do one to get the other.
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