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SI is reporting it... seems real
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Another crash in the DR. Fuck
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Andy Marte died a few hours earlier in a separate car crash in the Dominican.
Ventura was reportedly drunk. |
one of the #heels of the game. Definitely will be less interesting without him.
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Fucking hell. RIP
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Personally thought he was an asshole but seeing the pic of him dead on the ground on Twitter was surreal
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Ventura was the opposing pitcher in Marte's last MLB game
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I saw that pic. Pretty weird seeing him just laying there. Dead. Sad. Especially if he essentially took his own life by drinking.
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where'd you see the pic?
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honestly just curious like where the eff is this shit just chillin. So morbid.
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Yahoo linked to somebody with a Twitter account that was taking pictures
https://twitter.com/Jacobommoquete/s...93264346042368 |
bah! So fucking sad. Always hard to be reminded of your own mortality. Know a few guys from around here who've died under similar circumstances.
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Yea had a friend from middle school who died similarly when he was 21. Guy was always trouble/ in trouble in school.
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These Dominican kids need to hire someone to drive them around in the off-season.... Like pay one of their scrub friends $500 a night to stay sober and drive them home....Absolutely ridiculous....
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You just get the idea that these athletes in general think they're bullet proof because of what they're physically capable of.
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On the bright side, at least it didn't happen to a Blue Jay!
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Even more brightside. Tigers have a better shot at winning the division now that KC is down an ace
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KC was probably gonna finish 4th
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Going to Fan fest tomorrow. They have clubhouse andvdugout tours..can't wait
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Got to tour the Baltimore stadiums when I was in college. It was awesome. Have fun!
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Adam Jones had a Detroit Lions jersey hanging in his locker
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Adam Jones is a nice guy. Held a free baseball camp here in San Diego at his old high school.
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I got 30 packs of last years baseball cards free. I got a Darren Oday card and Ubaldo. Also got mark Trumbo in a mariners jersey and Wade Miley in a Sox jersey. Also got Yordano Ventura and Jose Fernadez. I got like 10 giveaway t-shirts a media guide and year book a bobble head a Shorebirds cup a MD Flag Os hat and Os winter beanie hat.
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Apparently Hall of Famer Frank Thomas is upset this year's Hall of Fame class has members with allegations of PED use. Said the voters might as well no longer pretend to be against the Roid era or certain people from it if they don't have a problem voting for others with similar allegations.
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Writers don't really have a leg to stand on here. They made their money reporting on the increased popularity of baseball and did very little to investigate allegations. Could have done more to get names and discredit people quicker than they were. They made their money and now they have to vote on the people they put on a PED-estal.
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Frank Thomas laying down a verbal big hurt
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For all we know, Thomas could've been on PEDs. I don't buy into the notion that they wouldn't be good if they didn't take them. Barry Bonds was pretty amazing before he got juiced.
And accusing guys like Bagwell, who had ZERO suspicion until after his career is a bit ridiculous. |
well his known as one of the biggest assholes in the game.
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I missed his interview at Fan fest but Chris Davis revealed he dislocated his left thumb back in April and played the whole season just about with it and still hit 38 HR
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Judgement came down to the Cardinals from the Astros Hacking Scandal.
St. Louis gotta pay Houston $2 million dollars, and give up their top 2 picks (56 & 75) for the upcoming 2017 draft. Former Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa has been put on the permanently ineligible list. He's banned from baseball for the time being. |
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Christ. Seems a bit overkill, but I guess when you're the first you have to set a precedent.
And just because someone has not been linked to PED's from that era, doesn't mean they didn't do them. I'm of the mindset that if a handful of people were taking them, essentially everyone was. |
Pretty sure Frank Thomas took a shitload of drug test to ensure he was never accused of using steroids. Remember White Sox in general doing a lot of extra testing for awhile too for the entire team.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Machado: "When the time comes, I know they will come up and try to get something done...I'd rather get a ring than a long-term contract."</p>— Steve Melewski (@masnSteve) <a href="https://twitter.com/masnSteve/status/825399005391810560">January 28, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Too bad neither are happening in Baltimore. Machado is gonna be free agent # 1A when he hits the market. He'll cost more than Davis, maybe close to or as much as Harper. Highly, highly doubt he stays.
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I need to make some kind of bet with you guys on this but its not going to pay off for 2 years. He's not going anywhere
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I'm taking the Yankees now!
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He sure is. Guys don't stick with their teams like before. There's big money and Machado isn't gonna give a team discount. It's HIGHLY unlikely he stays.
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No
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Acceptance is the first step to recovery
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Then you accept that he's not going anywhere
They might get rid of everybody else but Manny Machado will continue to play for the Orioles well beyond the year 2018. |
Lol what are you gonna say when he leaves
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He's not going anywhere
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Who's playing third for the Yankee's right now? Gonna have to move him to another team.
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Headley. Think his deal is done by the time Machado hits free agency
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No Dale. As Droford outlined, Baltimore will offer and Manny will accept a 3 yr discount before getting into big money just do he can stay in Baltimore and be a good guy.
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Very consistent with a player represented by Scott Boras.
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We all know Scott Boras is all about putting his players' teams first
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lmao fuck I didn't know Boras was his agent. Droford you're an idiot
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C'mon Dale. We all know good guy Scott Boras will work his tail off to make sure Manny and Baltimore strike a deal that will be fair and favorable to both sides, and will even give them a hometown discount.
I mean, look at how he got the owners to outbid themselves on Crushed Davis last year. That deal looks great for Baltimore right now. Imagine where they'd be if they didn't up their offer that no other team was matching? I shudder to think. |
Sanchez has Scott Boras as his agent now. Not overly thrilled about that. But more credit to Sanchez, gotta pay them gimmicks that come in the mail called bills.
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Twins DFA Byung Ho Park.
Signed this guy from South Korea and paid $12.85 million for negotiation rights, and gave him a 4-year $12 million contract. Kei Igawa all over again. |
Orioles should sign him. Must have some sort of power to hit 105 hr in Korea 2014/15
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Mets finally get some relievers! Fernando Salas and Jerry Blevins are both back on 1 year deals, and Blevins' deal contains a 2018 option.
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Korean baseball is a notoriously hitter friendly league. Maybe Park has some pop, but Baltimore already has 2 1b/dh only hitters.
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Rob Manfred's crusade to change baseball rules continues.
His latest pitches (no pun intended): increase the strike zone, and eliminate the 4-pitch intentional walk. |
100p in favor of eliminating the 4-pitch intentional walk
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Agreed. Just let the guy take first. Bigger strike zone sounds like a fun to further suppress run scoring
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Getting rid of useless pitches for intentional walks is a great idea but making the strike zone bigger seems like a really bad idea.
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Which means for like the 6th straight year the morons that think they know so much about baseball will be WRONG. AGAIN. 71 wins in 2012...oops they won 93 74 wins in 2013..oops they won 85 77 wins in 2014...oops they win 96 78 wins in 2015..the closest miss they won 81 72 wins in 2016..oops they won 89 |
Recent signings:
Royals sign Jason Hammel to a 2-year, $16 mil. deal. He's obviously got some big shoes to fill. Yankees sign Chris Carter. 1-year, $3 mil. Mike Napoli returns to the Rangers for his 3rd tour of duty. 1-year, $10 mil. |
Droford calling others wrong for thinking they know so much. Lol.
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Im figuring the Orioles are about the same 89 win team they were last year. Lets see who is closer on the wins..
For crying out loud they're predicting Manny to only hit 25 home runs. Ill eat my damn Orioles hat and post the video of it if he only hits 25 homers. He should have 25 by July. |
Except they're likely playing above their talent level and are absolutely playing above their runs scored v runs against.
Maybe a homer like yourself thinks they're an 89 win team. But when someone who isn't inherently bias looks at their roster objectively, it's hard to see them being a better than average team when they're gonna likely stink on outfield defense and have a paltry pitching staff. |
I'd be hard pressed to say they're better than the Yankees right now.
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MLB considering another idea for making games go faster with this time targeting extra inning games.
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Torre stop fuckin with the game you Yankee piece of shit! Fuck you! What runners are put on? What if they are the best hitters. Why would they just be on base. Fuck you!
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Yeah this is dumb. It's a solution to a problem that's seemingly not to common.
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They should just make extra innings sudden death. If the away team scores first fuck the home team.
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You idiot. Adding base runners only increases the chances of scoring.
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Instead of a 3-3 game ending 4-3 in the 12th, with these new rules the games would end 12-11 in the 17th and take twice as long with all the pitching changes. Theonly way it would work is if it was sudden death, which makes no sense whatsoever.
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Chatter around the net is that Jeff Loria has a "handshake agreement" to sell the Marlins. A New York based real estate developer is the buyer and the price tag, $1.6 billion dollars.
Link to MLB Trade Rumors article. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/0...agreement.html |
No way the Marlins are worth that much money. Would put them inside the Top 10 and close to the Top 5 for valuable franchises if that was true.
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Brand spankin' new stadium can always do the trick. And, sorta gotta blame Giancarlo Stanton. Gotta pay $325 million over the course of his deal.
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They could very well be worth that much. New stadium, tv rights deal, revenue sharing plus whatever revenue they generate on their own, etc.
Loria is a shit bag so thank God he's leaving. Feel bad for the people of Miami. |
Only thought it was odd since Forbes and others have their value at around $675 million. Doesn't mean they can only be sold for that amount but thought it felt a bit strange anyone would want to an extra billion on top for them.
Them actually being worth $1.6 billion would put them around 7th for all of MLB and not around 29th. https://www.statista.com/statistics/...teams-in-2010/ |
If Montreal had a decent stadium that didn't have a questionable roof, there's no doubt in my mind that Marlins would have been gone long ago....
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I'm all for the extra innings rule. I hate when games go past 9. Bleh.
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Orioles got Gabriel Ynoa from the Mets and apparently think he could be a starter. You know ah..
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Illitch nooooo
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RIP :(
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Died the day after pizza day..hmm
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I honestly believe part of it (maybe 15-25%) is that the Jays Merch isn't fucking hideous anymore. Very conservative, effective throwback style.
Your merch has to be appealing to sell IMO. Obviously the rest is the team itself being marketable, but man the Jersies from mid 90s onwards were hideous until the recent throwback incarnation back to the early 90s. |
What Dale said. You don't see a ton of the contemporary Padres stuff here in San Diego. But the 90s blue and orange and especially the brown are huge sellers here.
Which is why it pisses me off that the teams refuses to go to those colors even as the official team colors. |
Ok. Update to the potential Marlins sale. Y'all gonna love this.
Joshua Kushner is the preliminary buyer. He's the son of Charles Kushner, who served time in federal prison for white collar stuff. The younger brother of Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump's husband and the son-in-law of El Presidente himself, Donald Trump. Supposedly, Charles & Jared have no hands in this. Which would make it a bit easier for owners to approve him. |
Dodgers re-sign Chase Utley to a 1-year deal.
The Braves' quest to fill their new stadium with butts & stars continues. They're set to acquire Brandon Phillips from the Reds. Who else is involved in the trade is unknown, but Phillips has agreed to waive his no-trade clause and do some tweaks in his contract for this to happen. |
Apparently the Reds are getting back non prospects and eating all but $1mil of the salary. Great move for Atlanta, while Cincy comes out with virtually nothing for one of their franchise players.
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Why did Atlanta even need a new stadium?
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