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Post by philsbosoxfan on Sept 24, 2024 22:47:52 GMT -5
Always tough to know who's right and who is wrong when you aren't an insider so, I have no real opinion on their moving. That said, the A's owner stated his case much better than the sportscaster. Maybe the sportscaster might learn a little about writing skill, he's pretty obnoxious. ADD: If I was the A's owner, I'd move too. Oakland is a dump.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Sept 25, 2024 6:43:31 GMT -5
Always tough to know who's right and who is wrong when you aren't an insider so, I have no real opinion on their moving. That said, the A's owner stated his case much better than the sportscaster. Maybe the sportscaster might learn a little about writing skill, he's pretty obnoxious. ADD: If I was the A's owner, I'd move too. Oakland is a dump. They could just sell the team if they're not making money 🤷♀️
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Post by 0ap0 on Sept 25, 2024 8:59:56 GMT -5
ADD: If I was the A's owner, I'd move too. Oakland is a dump. This opinion is (at least) a couple decades out of date.
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Post by James Dunne on Sept 25, 2024 9:06:52 GMT -5
ADD: If I was the A's owner, I'd move too. Oakland is a dump. This opinion is (at least) a couple decades out of date. And a big part of the continued beautification of Oakland would be bulldozing that absolute dump of a stadium. Those plans for a park in Jack London Square looked great, but there are always cities out there looking to get grifted harder than the next guy, and nobody is getting grifted harder by the sports teams these days than Vegas.
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Post by iakovos11 on Sept 25, 2024 9:27:50 GMT -5
Always tough to know who's right and who is wrong when you aren't an insider so, I have no real opinion on their moving. That said, the A's owner stated his case much better than the sportscaster. Maybe the sportscaster might learn a little about writing skill, he's pretty obnoxious. ADD: If I was the A's owner, I'd move too. Oakland is a dump. Agree on not being an insider. But where did the A's owner state his case better? And better writing skills by the sportcaster? He's talking. He's talking passionately as an obvious A's fan and I thought he expressed himself quite well. Accordingly my 2 friends that recently moved from the Bay Area, the sportscaster is 100% right. You can side with the billionaire owner born a billionaire if you want. But the begging for public financing is pathetic (he's not the only one). Cities will generally meet owner half way with infrastructure help where necessary, but build your own fucking stadium, billionaire (see Kraft, Robert). Even Las Vegas apparently hasn't approved anything. Sounds like another entitled born-rich billionaire wanting everyone else to fund their business ventures. Sell. Sell. Sell.
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Post by julyanmorley on Sept 25, 2024 16:42:28 GMT -5
Cubs called up Kevin Alcantara, who you may remember as being the price the Yankees paid to get Anthony Rizzo to put up 0.5 WAR for them in 2021.
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Post by bishop on Sept 25, 2024 20:20:06 GMT -5
This opinion is (at least) a couple decades out of date. And a big part of the continued beautification of Oakland would be bulldozing that absolute dump of a stadium. Those plans for a park in Jack London Square looked great, but there are always cities out there looking to get grifted harder than the next guy, and nobody is getting grifted harder by the sports teams these days than Vegas. Is Vegas being grifted here? They've seemed pretty opposed (maybe because/unless the Mayor's cronies get a bigger cut at other sites), seems more like the state of Nevada was the driver.
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Post by finaliz3d on Sept 25, 2024 20:45:30 GMT -5
Scoreless inning, topped out at 99.3 mph, nasty.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Sept 26, 2024 0:11:30 GMT -5
Public Service Announcement -- no comments please-- putting it here so that people affected will see it.
According to the Social Security website, the date payments are made will change.
If you day of birth is 1-10, 2nd Wednesday of the month If you day of birth is 11-20, 3rd Wednesday of the month If you day of birth is 21-31, 4th Wednesday of the month
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Post by badfishnbc on Sept 26, 2024 8:03:26 GMT -5
The Pirates cut rowdy tellez 4 PAs short of a 200K bonus. Not like he was setting the world on fire but hard to really believe them when they claimed the bonus had nothing to do with it. Bottom-line Bob is the tenth-richest owner in baseball whose teams are consistently in the bottom-third of the league's payroll. It's pretty indefensible behavior at this point.
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Post by James Dunne on Sept 26, 2024 11:24:41 GMT -5
And a big part of the continued beautification of Oakland would be bulldozing that absolute dump of a stadium. Those plans for a park in Jack London Square looked great, but there are always cities out there looking to get grifted harder than the next guy, and nobody is getting grifted harder by the sports teams these days than Vegas. Is Vegas being grifted here? They've seemed pretty opposed (maybe because/unless the Mayor's cronies get a bigger cut at other sites), seems more like the state of Nevada was the driver. Totally fair - I was using Vegas as shorthand, but yes it is Nevada and Clark County who got the grift (and Clark County pulled back some from their initial commitment, too).
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Post by Darwin's Curve on Sept 26, 2024 12:28:05 GMT -5
The Pirates cut rowdy tellez 4 PAs short of a 200K bonus. Not like he was setting the world on fire but hard to really believe them when they claimed the bonus had nothing to do with it. Bottom-line Bob is the tenth-richest owner in baseball whose teams are consistently in the bottom-third of the league's payroll. It's pretty indefensible behavior at this point. Perhaps there's something outrageous here, like the Pirates budget being tied to the Pirates revenue stream and operating costs. But absent that, it's really quite likely Bob is just swimming in a huge pile of liquid cash like Scrooge McDuck while gleefully instructing his minions to specifically screw Rowdy Tellez out of $200K.
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Post by James Dunne on Sept 26, 2024 12:32:38 GMT -5
It really is that second one though.
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Post by julyanmorley on Sept 26, 2024 12:56:39 GMT -5
I gotta be honest I am fine with cutting Tellez there. He was awful and he shouldn't have gotten as many PAs as he did. An org running on all cylinders would've cut him two months ago and given his PT to a semi-interesting guy that's out of options with some years of control left or something like that. If he had an acceptable season then it's a different story.
I hate putting incentives in contracts for situations like this either way
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Sept 26, 2024 13:58:37 GMT -5
In any event, this is a business decision which is the GMs job. We all know that every owner wants to hand out his family money like candy.
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Post by puzzler on Sept 26, 2024 14:06:32 GMT -5
I gotta be honest I am fine with cutting Tellez there. He was awful and he shouldn't have gotten as many PAs as he did. An org running on all cylinders would've cut him two months ago and given his PT to a semi-interesting guy that's out of options with some years of control left or something like that. If he had an acceptable season then it's a different story. I hate putting incentives in contracts for situations like this either way This. Wasn't the $3.2 million enough compensation for the crap season he had? But hey, he deserves $200k just because.
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Post by julyanmorley on Sept 26, 2024 16:32:18 GMT -5
Guy in red is suing the guy who ended up with the ball for stealing it from him. There is soon to be an auction for the ball with the bidding starting at $500,000
Video evidence suggests the kid did not want it bad enough if you ask me
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Post by ematz1423 on Sept 26, 2024 16:36:23 GMT -5
Guy in red is suing the guy who ended up with the ball for stealing it from him. There is soon to be an auction for the ball with the bidding starting at $500,000 Video evidence suggests the kid did not want it bad enough if you ask me Same way I saw it. The guy in the orange jersey puts in barely any effort. Didn't deserve the ball. Don't see how there's any case there.
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Post by incandenza on Sept 26, 2024 16:38:10 GMT -5
Rule of thumb that applies across the board: if you couldn't be bothered to put your phone down you didn't care enough about it.
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Post by julyanmorley on Sept 26, 2024 16:43:16 GMT -5
So does he need to grasp the ball and then complete a football action in order to gain possession or what? The video is not really clear but I can imagine a world where he legally had it first and wins and everyone gets mad. Maybe they can get the Fail Mary refs on as expert witnesses.
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Post by Darwin's Curve on Sept 26, 2024 18:48:39 GMT -5
I gotta be honest I am fine with cutting Tellez there. He was awful and he shouldn't have gotten as many PAs as he did. An org running on all cylinders would've cut him two months ago and given his PT to a semi-interesting guy that's out of options with some years of control left or something like that. If he had an acceptable season then it's a different story. I hate putting incentives in contracts for situations like this either way This. Wasn't the $3.2 million enough compensation for the crap season he had? But hey, he deserves $200k just because. Honestly, I'm not sure I'm more amazed that a Rowdy Tellez fan-club exists or that one of them is posting on this board.
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Post by ematz1423 on Sept 26, 2024 18:55:57 GMT -5
This. Wasn't the $3.2 million enough compensation for the crap season he had? But hey, he deserves $200k just because. Honestly, I'm not sure I'm more amazed that a Rowdy Tellez fan-club exists or that one of them is posting on this board. I'm no rowdy tellez fan boy, I just found the news amusing and posted on the site. I don't care either way but him getting released 4 ABs before reaching a bonus was clearly a cost saving move. The team can claim otherwise and that's their perogative as it's a business.
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Post by Darwin's Curve on Sept 26, 2024 20:00:06 GMT -5
Honestly, I'm not sure I'm more amazed that a Rowdy Tellez fan-club exists or that one of them is posting on this board. I'm no rowdy tellez fan boy, I just found the news amusing and posted on the site. I don't care either way but him getting released 4 ABs before reaching a bonus was clearly a cost saving move. The team can claim otherwise and that's their perogative as it's a business. I didn't mean you, FWIW.
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Post by foreverred9 on Sept 26, 2024 20:59:33 GMT -5
Rule of thumb that applies across the board: if you couldn't be bothered to put your phone down you didn't care enough about it. Agreed, but if you can delay the process long enough so that Ohtani gets to the 55/55 club and makes the 50/50 club baseball worthless, do you get the final laugh?
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Post by taiwansox on Sept 26, 2024 23:01:06 GMT -5
There are worse things than watching the Red Sox this season. Twins just lost at home in 13 innings to the 100 loss Marlins 😬
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