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"2020 MLB Season Post: It's not a marathon...it's a sprint!!"
Fri Jul-24-20 01:07 AM by CyrenYoung

          

...and, heeeeere we go!

Yanks @ Nats Gerrit Cole/Max Scherzer starting (no Soto, no problem?)

Giants @ Dodgers Johnny Cueto/Clayton Kershaw (seems like only yesterday, Cueto kicked Jason LaRue in the head, up against the backstop in Cincy...forcing him to retire due to concussion-related syptoms)

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Subject Author Message Date ID
union approves expanded playoffs for this season...16 teams
Jul 23rd 2020
1
Kersh out, tonight...replaced by Dustin May
Jul 23rd 2020
2
Max's swing and miss stuff is nasty...
Jul 23rd 2020
3
Giancarlo having a night
Jul 23rd 2020
4
I'm really not feeling the piped in noise
Jul 23rd 2020
5
piped in noise is fine. the cardboard cutouts in the stands are absurd.
Jul 23rd 2020
7
yeah, I'm pretty ok with the noise...
Jul 23rd 2020
8
The combo is some Rupert Pupkin “King of Comedy” shit
Jul 23rd 2020
9
the crowd noise is really just ambient background sound
Jul 26th 2020
23
      It helps that they sourced it from the video game
Aug 02nd 2020
85
I think it’s fun in kind of a goofy way.
Jul 24th 2020
11
      They're fine when people don't take them seriously
Jul 25th 2020
20
           yeah the Tom Hanks hot dog vendor cutout was actually pretty cool
Jul 26th 2020
24
           Adam Duvall HR hit the cutout of Jeff McNeil's dog in right field stands
Jul 26th 2020
27
                That will clearly be the high water mark of this illustrious season
Jul 27th 2020
38
it's not bothering me much at all
Jul 25th 2020
16
Let's play two!
Jul 23rd 2020
6
No disrespect, but Fauci had one of the worst first pitches I’ve ever ...
Jul 24th 2020
10
Lol...he made 50 Cent look like Greg Maddux...
Jul 24th 2020
15
the only way I'd be fine with these awful fan cutouts
Jul 24th 2020
12
didn't think I'd ever see cespedes out there again
Jul 24th 2020
13
!!!!!!!
Jul 24th 2020
14
how do y'all feel abt the new extra inning rule?
Jul 25th 2020
17
Fine with it this year, don’t do it when we have a normal season
Jul 25th 2020
18
Don't like it. Figure they're going to try to make it permanent
Jul 25th 2020
19
wack
Jul 25th 2020
21
Mike Clevinger is not a fan
Jul 26th 2020
29
dumb...rather see them call the game a tie after 10 innings (or whatver
Jul 28th 2020
43
how nice of the Mets, giving me a full 24hrs of false hope
Jul 25th 2020
22
RE: how nice of the Mets, giving me a full 24hrs of false hope
Jul 26th 2020
25
so glad he was able to maintain his sense of humor about the whole thing
Jul 26th 2020
26
SMH, break out that Bugs Bunny sawing Florida off GIF
Jul 26th 2020
28
1/3 of the marlins roster has covid.
Jul 27th 2020
30
Yikes! Marlins home opener, tonight...
Jul 27th 2020
31
hope the Braves bats stay even halfway close to that live
Jul 27th 2020
32
Kenta Maeda is the pitcher the Twins kept trying to create
Jul 27th 2020
33
took 1 weekend for this to rip through a team
Jul 27th 2020
34
football didnt even try.
Jul 27th 2020
35
with no bubble, what's the strategy?
Jul 27th 2020
36
There is none
Jul 27th 2020
39
US of A
Jul 27th 2020
40
reports that Yankees-Phillies tonight has been postponed
Jul 27th 2020
37
man...I would be sitting out just off this bullshit
Jul 27th 2020
41
      You think this is bad, just wait for college football and the NFL
Jul 27th 2020
42
17 positive tests for the Marlins now....the idiocy
Jul 28th 2020
44
#18, just confirmed
Jul 29th 2020
46
'baseball culture' is gonna get the season shut down
Jul 29th 2020
45
marlins season officially suspended.
Jul 29th 2020
47
a Phillies' coach and clubhouse attended have tested positive...
Jul 30th 2020
48
how does baseball commish work? voted in for a certain number of yrs?
Jul 30th 2020
49
      voted on by the team owners
Jul 30th 2020
50
1. They "encourage" players not to leave their hotel when traveling.
Jul 30th 2020
51
I still can't get over how they let the Marlins play
Jul 30th 2020
56
hotels they're staying at hosting crowded weddings w/o social distancing
Jul 30th 2020
58
      Have to feel for that poor staff.
Jul 31st 2020
69
      I wrongly assumed a team would be renting out the entire hotel
Jul 31st 2020
70
           I'm just imaging Giancarlo Stanton on an elevator
Jul 31st 2020
71
new 7 inning doubleheader format. theyre just making it up as they go.
Jul 30th 2020
52
shit is morphing into a joke, bro
Jul 30th 2020
53
fam theyre gonna have ghost runners on base soon.
Jul 30th 2020
54
      LOL...after if the game is tied after the 5th...
Jul 30th 2020
55
CALVINBALL!
Jul 30th 2020
57
They should just go full analytics and install the quick pitch system lo...
Aug 02nd 2020
86
breaking: Tonight's Cardinals/Brewers game postponed...
Jul 31st 2020
59
"multiple positive tests on the Cardinals".....just call it, Manfred
Jul 31st 2020
60
remember all that haggling over 60 games, 59 games, 61 games
Jul 31st 2020
61
YES!! Manfred and Tony Clark on ZOOM...
Jul 31st 2020
64
are baseball players/staffers dumber than others?
Jul 31st 2020
62
      yes.
Jul 31st 2020
63
      There is no type of human dumber than the white baseball player
Jul 31st 2020
67
      lolol
Aug 01st 2020
76
      baseball players are the dumbest of any sport. easily.
Jul 31st 2020
68
      sure, but they shouldn't even be in the position to make dumb choices
Jul 31st 2020
72
           somebody is gonna die in the nfl.
Jul 31st 2020
74
I'll never be able to get over the fact that MLB had the bubble idea...
Jul 31st 2020
65
lmao multiple options and said 'no thank you'. how embarrassing.
Jul 31st 2020
66
theyre already on the verge of pulling the plug smh.
Jul 31st 2020
73
Silver is just dunking all over Manfred
Jul 31st 2020
75
as a mets fan I aint mad at that
Aug 01st 2020
78
      Yeah I’m generally anti-COVID but in this case...
Aug 01st 2020
79
4 more positives in Cards organization....
Aug 01st 2020
77
eduardo rodriguez has heart issue due to covid.
Aug 02nd 2020
80
      b, b, b, b, but, they young and healthy!!!!!
Aug 02nd 2020
82
cespedes missing in atl-
Aug 02nd 2020
81
dude burned out...
Aug 02nd 2020
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      he's just an odd dude
Aug 02nd 2020
84
      apparently he was complaining abt pt-
Aug 02nd 2020
87
Cards-Tigers suspended b/c of 13 positives in Cards org
Aug 03rd 2020
88
Easy. One inning games.
Aug 03rd 2020
89
      this would be egregious anti-Mets racism
Aug 03rd 2020
90
Whole league exists in the Stone Age
Aug 03rd 2020
91
this post is hilarious because right now they are actually trying
Aug 03rd 2020
92
22 runs scored against kimbrel in 22 innings as a cub.
Aug 06th 2020
93
I mean, I'm not taking any performance during this "season"
Aug 06th 2020
94
Fuck, now I can't even enjoy that A's being the hottest team in baseball
Aug 07th 2020
95
“get that son of a bitch off the field”
Aug 07th 2020
96
breh was corrected, acknowledged the reason...
Aug 07th 2020
97
Problem solved: the Twins are better anyhow
Aug 07th 2020
98
If you think I'm still not bitter about 2002, you're sorely mistaken
Aug 07th 2020
100
      That's why I keep coming back
Aug 07th 2020
101
how long before hes on tucker carlson complaining about cancel culture?
Aug 07th 2020
99
Cleveland sends SP Zach Plesac home for violating curfew.
Aug 09th 2020
102
SP Mike Clevinger went out with him too.
Aug 10th 2020
106
honestly, the Astros should just do whatever they want
Aug 09th 2020
103
Fuck Alex Cintron
Aug 10th 2020
104
suspended 20 games....
Aug 11th 2020
108
all you can do is beat them
Aug 10th 2020
105
mlb looking at bubble for postseason.
Aug 11th 2020
107
buxton!
Aug 13th 2020
109
MLB to Trevor Bauer: don't wear those "FREE JOE KELLY" cleats...
Aug 19th 2020
110
MLB just sucks so hard
Aug 19th 2020
111
      I just don't know how you can do it worse than Manfred is, right now
Aug 19th 2020
112
           yall are surprised like Bud Selig wasnt terrible at his job too
Aug 20th 2020
114
                not surprised, at all...
Aug 20th 2020
115
                     Bud Selig took over in 92
Aug 20th 2020
116
                          Bro...what are you arguing here?
Aug 20th 2020
117
It's Matt Harvey night!
Aug 19th 2020
113
Watch out now! Rays have taken control of the AL East
Aug 20th 2020
118

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1. "union approves expanded playoffs for this season...16 teams"
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2. "Kersh out, tonight...replaced by Dustin May"
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3. "Max's swing and miss stuff is nasty..."
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but he's either missing bats, or wild, so far.

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4. "Giancarlo having a night"
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5. "I'm really not feeling the piped in noise"
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First of all, it doesn't "sound" good. Like, it could be easily confused as feedback. The AEW manages to do it better.

Second, I just don't like the idea of it. "Crowd" noise isn't essential for an event.

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7. "piped in noise is fine. the cardboard cutouts in the stands are absurd."
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8. "yeah, I'm pretty ok with the noise..."
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I mean, it's not like the majority of games have a Game 7 World Series atmosphere. The cutouts are weird. They were saying during the Nationals game that each home team gets to choose if they want cutouts, or if they want those seats behind home plate, left open. Nationals went open.

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9. "The combo is some Rupert Pupkin “King of Comedy” shit"
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The artificially of it bothers me. Like, why do I need noise to enjoy a game.

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23. "the crowd noise is really just ambient background sound"
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but I'm so used to it while watching baseball games it would just be weird to hear an empty stadium. In the Yankees - Nationals game Smoltz was commenting on how good a job they are doing with keeping it in the flow of the game, Michael Taylor hit a homer in Washington and they ramped up the crowd noise as the ball was flying over the fence + cheering when he was rounding the bases and they didn't miss a beat, i didn't even notice until he said it cuz it sounded so normal.

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85. "It helps that they sourced it from the video game"
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Since each stadium features ambient noise recorded from games played at that park, each space sounds subtly different.


Funnily enough, it sounds more natural in real life than it does in the game since there's an actual engineer at the helm instead of an algorithm.


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11. "I think it’s fun in kind of a goofy way. "
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Looks weird, sure, but it gets the fans involved when they can’t go to the park, and I’ve surprisingly gotten used to it while watching the KBO. I think the noise is more for the players than the fans, so I’m fine with that too. Fox is about to add a digital crowd though and for me that’s a step too far.

  

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20. "They're fine when people don't take them seriously"
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A's put up one with Tom Hanks selling hot dogs (which he legit did way back in the day). Players requesting cut outs of their dogs near them is kinda funny too.

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24. "yeah the Tom Hanks hot dog vendor cutout was actually pretty cool"
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the giant teddy bears are kinda cute too. it just looked kinda ludicrous at first sight, but I've actually pretty much gotten used to the whole thing now.

if they're gonna do it they should do more fun goofy stuff like have a Marlins Man cutout at every game one night, have Thumbs Down Guy at the Yankees-Mets and Yankees/Rays games, etc.

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27. "Adam Duvall HR hit the cutout of Jeff McNeil's dog in right field stands"
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https://twitter.com/Braves/status/1287122652985950214

ok what the hell, I'm on board with it now.

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38. "That will clearly be the high water mark of this illustrious season"
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16. "it's not bothering me much at all"
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baseball is always kind of like background noise to me anyway...rarely am I glued to the couch focusing on it. I just have it on while I'm doing other stuff.

baseball isn't nearly as reliant on fan noise as football...where I think the piped in noise will be far more noticeable to me as I do focus on the game to a much greater extent.

  

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6. "Let's play two!"
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10. "No disrespect, but Fauci had one of the worst first pitches I’ve ever ..."
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He was SO confident too. Most bad first pitches you can see the person second-guessing themselves. Not him, he really thought he was nailing it.

Oh well, god bless him.

  

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15. "Lol...he made 50 Cent look like Greg Maddux..."
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he is almost 80, so there’s that.

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12. "the only way I'd be fine with these awful fan cutouts"
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is if it was the same person over and over again, a la Being John Malkovich. Heck, let's make them all printouts of John Malkovich, really ramp up the absurdity to 12

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13. "didn't think I'd ever see cespedes out there again"
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so that's cool

he could stand to drop a few pounds though.

  

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14. "!!!!!!!"
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17. "how do y'all feel abt the new extra inning rule?"
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(last out from previous inning starts on 2nd)

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18. "Fine with it this year, don’t do it when we have a normal season"
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My only concern was if it would affect pitchers’ stats the way college football OT affects defensive stats, but it seems from last night with the A’s grand slam that the initial runner counted as an RBI for the batter, but not an Earned Run for the pitcher. Someone correct me if I got that wrong, but if that’s the case it’s A-OK with me.

  

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19. "Don't like it. Figure they're going to try to make it permanent"
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Which I'd hate.

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21. "wack"
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29. "Mike Clevinger is not a fan"
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https://twitter.com/Mike_Anthony13/status/1287183692083990530

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43. "dumb...rather see them call the game a tie after 10 innings (or whatver"
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they wanna cap it at)

Too easy to get a run in from 2nd with no outs.

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

  

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22. "how nice of the Mets, giving me a full 24hrs of false hope"
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we still got it, baby

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25. "RE: how nice of the Mets, giving me a full 24hrs of false hope"
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https://metsmerizedonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/charlie-brown-football-lucy.jpg

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26. "so glad he was able to maintain his sense of humor about the whole thing"
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28. "SMH, break out that Bugs Bunny sawing Florida off GIF"
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http://twitter.com/craigmish/status/1287427358710992896?s=21

  

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30. "1/3 of the marlins roster has covid."
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31. "Yikes! Marlins home opener, tonight..."
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cancelled. At least 14 players and coaches, tested positive.

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32. "hope the Braves bats stay even halfway close to that live"
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Had honestly forgot how upset I was when Donaldson didn't resign but...it's gonna be okay

  

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33. "Kenta Maeda is the pitcher the Twins kept trying to create"
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The Falv-ine regime has been hugely fun, but it's kind of funny that Falvey in particular was sold as the spin-whisperer for pitchers, the sort of guy who'd combine Terry Ryan's knack for finding diamonds in the rough with a re-prioritized Twins scouting machine to give Minnesota an endless run of Kluber-esque finds.

That hasn't really happened, but the blunt solution of just hitting the ball over the wall nearly twice a game is a perfectly fine substitute.

Watching Maeda carve up the White Sox yesterday kind of showed the ideal of what the team spent 2008-2015 trying to cultivate and therefore probably why that was such a bad idea: he seems like a pretty idiosyncratic talent, rare not just in size (not to get carried away - he's a not a STAR but there aren't a lot of pitchers better than him) but in shape.

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34. "took 1 weekend for this to rip through a team"
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If this won’t work, neither will football.

  

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35. "football didnt even try."
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nba got the bubble. mlb got some natural social distancing already embedded in the game with some additional new mitigation protocols.

nfl basically just sent an email chain letter around like 'yall ready to show up for work?'.

if they really do try to start the nfl season...the magnitude of their outbreaks is gonna be embarrassing. a few weeks into it and its just gonna be utter chaos and confusion with a bunch of schefty scoops of players/coaches/staff/owners shitting on each other for the incompetence.

  

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36. "with no bubble, what's the strategy? "
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cross your fingers and hope?

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39. "There is none"
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<---
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40. "US of A"
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>cross your fingers and hope?

ignore and it will "disappear"

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37. "reports that Yankees-Phillies tonight has been postponed"
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yikes...the Marlins played even though they knew at least four people were positive...the fuck?

  

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41. "man...I would be sitting out just off this bullshit"
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>yikes...the Marlins played even though they knew at least
>four people were positive...the fuck?

clearly MLB does not give a flying fuck about any precautions; they're just trying to churn through a shortened season at any cost. I'm not going out there while MLB just guesses what safety measures they should take next.

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42. "You think this is bad, just wait for college football and the NFL "
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Even more players, coaches and personnel means football is about to be a disaster.

  

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44. "17 positive tests for the Marlins now....the idiocy"
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46. "#18, just confirmed"
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45. "'baseball culture' is gonna get the season shut down"
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Dodgers and Astros just had to go toe to toe last night eh?

Mask or not don't stand don't stand so close to me (c) Gangsta Boo

  

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47. "marlins season officially suspended."
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https://mobile.twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1288181655874818050

lets open up the schools!

  

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48. "a Phillies' coach and clubhouse attended have tested positive..."
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no Phillies' players, at this point. Saturday doublheader and Sunday game, with the Blue Jays, postponed.

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49. "how does baseball commish work? voted in for a certain number of yrs?"
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This is gonna fall on MLB/Manfred

  

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50. "voted on by the team owners"
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51. "1. They "encourage" players not to leave their hotel when traveling."
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2. Players are tested EVERY OTHER DAY WITH A TURNAROUND TIME OF 36 HOURS.

3. Nowhere does the 113-page protocol that governs the 2020 season explicitly address how the league would handle a coronavirus outbreak.

4. Players/teams can have their salaries withheld if they are unable to play due to contracting the virus.

All of the above is just insane. The MLB literally does not give a shit. And unfortunately that mirrors the Conservative mentality that is ever-present at the top of the league. This is horrible.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29561640/mlb-requiring-teams-add-coronavirus-protocol-compliance-officers

  

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56. "I still can't get over how they let the Marlins play"
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three confirmed cases in a workplace of 29 people is a fucking outbreak happening in real-time. especially with the aforementioned 1.5 day turnaround on tests.

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58. "hotels they're staying at hosting crowded weddings w/o social distancing"
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per Marly Rivera:

https://www.espn.com/espn/now?nowId=21-41096315-4

I've spoken to several MLB managers in both Leagues, and one thing they're really concerned about has been team hotels being full of people. Two managers told me about weddings being celebrated at the team hotel, which were really crowded and no social distancing was practiced.

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69. "Have to feel for that poor staff."
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That sounds like pure hell on earth.

"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.

  

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70. "I wrongly assumed a team would be renting out the entire hotel"
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seems like that would be possible at the moment.

not sure how the league expects players/staff to stay safe when they have them in close quarters (elevators, lobbies, etc) with the general population. the stupidity and lack of foresight is maddening. i'm really at a loss for words.

  

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71. "I'm just imaging Giancarlo Stanton on an elevator"
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with 3 young kids in swimsuits, heading down to the pool. I swear I thought these teams were like buying out the hotel, for their stay.

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52. "new 7 inning doubleheader format. theyre just making it up as they go."
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https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1288987551638970368
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1288988393192460290
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1288990503497867267
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Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have agreed to stage seven-inning doubleheaders starting Aug. 1, sources familiar with the situation tell ESPN.

With a number of doubleheaders expected to take place on account of rescheduled games due to current and potential coronavirus outbreaks as well as weather-related postponements, shortening games to seven innings was a compromise that came together quickly.

The extra-innings runner-on-second rule still will apply in doubleheader games, meaning teams in the eighth inning will automatically start with a runner on second base, sources tell ESPN.

  

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53. "shit is morphing into a joke, bro"
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54. "fam theyre gonna have ghost runners on base soon."
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55. "LOL...after if the game is tied after the 5th..."
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each batter comes to the plate with a full count.

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57. "CALVINBALL!"
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___________________

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86. "They should just go full analytics and install the quick pitch system lo..."
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Let an algorithm determine the most likely scenario for each at bat and start it from there. Some guys start 0-2, some 3-1, etc.


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59. "breaking: Tonight's Cardinals/Brewers game postponed..."
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due to a positive test...per Buster.
Yep...the end is near. Only so many 7 inning double headers you can play.

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60. ""multiple positive tests on the Cardinals".....just call it, Manfred"
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61. "remember all that haggling over 60 games, 59 games, 61 games"
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64. "YES!! Manfred and Tony Clark on ZOOM..."
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playing duck season, rabbit season, duck season, rabbit season, rabbit season!!

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62. "are baseball players/staffers dumber than others?"
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I don't understand how they can have the information to say 'isolate, distance, etc'

I'm not even trying to simplify this but I kinda am. And if it was one of those crowded hotel sitches, then that's fucked up, but if it was like 'we went to a bar'.....I don't really have sympathy at this point

  

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63. "yes. "
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WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

  

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67. "There is no type of human dumber than the white baseball player"
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Like, even white football players and professional wrestlers aren't quite as stupid.

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76. "lolol"
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68. "baseball players are the dumbest of any sport. easily."
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<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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72. "sure, but they shouldn't even be in the position to make dumb choices"
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with all the travel they're doing and with no real infrastructure to control hundreds of players, the virus was gonna get in and spread. NFL is gonna be even worse if they actually start.

  

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74. "somebody is gonna die in the nfl."
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65. "I'll never be able to get over the fact that MLB had the bubble idea..."
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back in April...APRIL!! They were talking of doing it all in Arizona and instead...

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66. "lmao multiple options and said 'no thank you'. how embarrassing."
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73. "theyre already on the verge of pulling the plug smh."
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https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1289306225331654656

if the sport doesnt do a better job?

they do realize that they have to *make* the sport do a better job right? like completely overhaul parts of your approach and implement stricter measures for *everyone* to abide by. you cant just make changes to your schedule and pray for the best lol.

  

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75. "Silver is just dunking all over Manfred"
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Dude is having a rough calendar year. The Astros shit, calling the World Series trophy a piece of metal and now this COVIDey restart/shutdown on his watch.

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78. "as a mets fan I aint mad at that"
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79. "Yeah I’m generally anti-COVID but in this case..."
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For the record, my teams:
MLB: Mets / Soccer: PSG
NCAA BB: Arizona / NCAA FB: Michigan
NBA: Spurs / NFL: Jets

  

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77. "4 more positives in Cards organization...."
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Lorenzo Cain tells the Brewers, “I’m out ✌🏾“. Feels like, at any moment, Buster Olney will announce the season is cancelled.

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80. "eduardo rodriguez has heart issue due to covid."
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https://twitter.com/Stephania_ESPN/status/1289667044858662913

people talk about covid like a zero sum game. you either live or you die. or maybe that theres even some long term damage in the more severe cases.

but a recent study shows 78% of people who got the virus had some degree of heart damage. 60% with ongoing inflammation that could last for years or even a lifetime (and disrupts the hearts rhythm or ability to pump blood). the majority of them were mild cases that werent hospitalized and many were even asymptomatic.
https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1287789724376035329

imagine what those numbers look like when you consider all of the people who just get it and keep on moving. with no idea that this thing could be a ticking time bomb doing damage to their body that might not be blatantly noticeable until 10-20 yrs down the line.

  

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82. "b, b, b, b, but, they young and healthy!!!!!"
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81. "cespedes missing in atl-"
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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29584055/mets-unable-get-contact-yoenis-cespedes

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83. "dude burned out..."
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then opted out:

https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1290022370984378368

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84. "he's just an odd dude"
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too bad cause i loved watching him play

  

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87. "apparently he was complaining abt pt-"
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https://nypost.com/2020/08/02/yoenis-cespedes-confronted-mets-about-playing-time-before-opting-out/

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88. "Cards-Tigers suspended b/c of 13 positives in Cards org"
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*13 over the past week. Six players, seven staff.

How....did they pad the end of the schedule for all these extra games/series? Like HOW is this being handled so poorly. Other teams are at like 9/10 games played and the Marlins are at like 3.

  

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89. "Easy. One inning games."
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>How....did they pad the end of the schedule for all these
>extra games/series? Like HOW is this being handled so poorly.
>Other teams are at like 9/10 games played and the Marlins are
>at like 3.

Each side starts with the bases loaded.

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90. "this would be egregious anti-Mets racism"
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>Each side starts with the bases loaded.

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91. "Whole league exists in the Stone Age "
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No digital content available to fans

No marketing their stars

No national brands other than Yankees, Red Sox, and Dodgers

Greedy moron players

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this “season” could be a death knell for these guys, the fitting end that’s been a long time coming. It’s like they want to be irrelevant on purpose.

What average kid sees all of this and thinks MLB is cool? When you can watch Lebron dunks and UFC knockouts and Mahomes touchdowns on Instagram with a few finger taps? That’s what would concern me the most if I cared about the sport enough...their league-wide culture of stubbornness stands to render future generations of ball players extinct.

  

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92. "this post is hilarious because right now they are actually trying"
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like this is them actually trying to change with the times and its still so terribly bad. They added players weekend the last couple of years. But obviously this year they are losing that. This season they relaxed the rule on cleats. They started the let them play campaign. So they are taking steps in the right direction. But its all too little too late. These are baby steps they should have taken years ago. I mean they had a chance to be the first sport on the air with NO COMPETITION, and they blew it with labor talks. But they need to stop with the baby steps and start taking some HUGE leaps. Because baseball cant afford to be an old mans game any longer. They need to now before soccer and hockey pass them.

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93. "22 runs scored against kimbrel in 22 innings as a cub."
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yikes.

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94. "I mean, I'm not taking any performance during this "season""
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as valuable, but considering the summer of 2018 to now...

good thing the Nationals didn't tie themselves to his past performance contract demands.

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95. "Fuck, now I can't even enjoy that A's being the hottest team in baseball"
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I'm kind of at a loss here regarding how the fuck someone does a Nazi salute twice, especially after Hendricks corrects him the first time.

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96. "“get that son of a bitch off the field”"
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97. "breh was corrected, acknowledged the reason..."
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for the correction, then doubled down on it. Like... really leaned into it.

https://twitter.com/TommySledge/status/1291526542812680192?s=19

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98. "Problem solved: the Twins are better anyhow"
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Best team in the AL, with or without fascist coaches.

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100. "If you think I'm still not bitter about 2002, you're sorely mistaken"
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The 2006 sweep didn't even help.

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101. "That's why I keep coming back"
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>The 2006 sweep didn't even help.

Well, if you want to score some points on lippy Twins fans - this is a pretty good way to do it. The 2006 Twins team was the best of that 00's run of playoff appearances, and that series was such an absolute clusterfuck. No Liriano. Brad Radke pitching with a literal broken shoulder. Torii Hunter overplaying a liner (by Mark Kotsay, I think?) into an inside-the-park homer. Just rough all the way through.

So that's the tip. That series stung hard as a Twins fan. Wield it with honor and spite.

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99. "how long before hes on tucker carlson complaining about cancel culture?"
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102. "Cleveland sends SP Zach Plesac home for violating curfew."
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he went out to party with his friends in Chicago after his start on Saturday.

baseball guys are gonna baseball guy.

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106. "SP Mike Clevinger went out with him too."
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half your starting rotation just doing dumb shit

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103. "honestly, the Astros should just do whatever they want"
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no surprise their bench coaches are starting fights with players and they are throwing at people already.

we know they aren't going to get in any real trouble for it; embrace the heel role and keep making a mockery of the MLB.

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104. "Fuck Alex Cintron"
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If nothing else, the coaches are supposed to be "the adults in the room" when it comes to player fights and actively working to help cooler heads prevail. Instead, he's goading Lauriano and talking shit about his mother, then hides behind the rest of the roster when Lauriano charges at him.

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108. "suspended 20 games...."
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19 of those should be for fucking up Scott Rolen's shoulder. #neverforget

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105. "all you can do is beat them"
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the league does owe the Astros their safety so i can see why they are coming down superhard on anyone that takes it into their own hands.

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107. "mlb looking at bubble for postseason."
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https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1293167730582073344

might as well give it a try!

  

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109. "buxton!"
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n/m

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110. "MLB to Trevor Bauer: don't wear those "FREE JOE KELLY" cleats..."
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we promised Houston we would take care of them and we WILL punish you.

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111. "MLB just sucks so hard"
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threatening to suspend Bauer more games for cleats than the entire Astros roster. they are the kings of the losing news cycle.

literally all MLB news that reaches the general public is just them shoving their thumbs up their asses repeatedly. it'd be like the NBA banning Bron from the chalk toss back in the day, or NFL coaches holding a joint press conference on how Mahomes' no look throws go against the unwritten memoir of Bart Starr.

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112. "I just don't know how you can do it worse than Manfred is, right now"
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114. "yall are surprised like Bud Selig wasnt terrible at his job too"
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i mean he let the steroid era happen then ran the players over with the bus while he drove to the Hall of Fame.

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115. "not surprised, at all..."
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Bud had his fuckups and we talked about them. Bud was also the commissioner for 20+ years...a lot of that time, baseball was beloved. Baseball is fighting off death, now. Manfred has barely been commissioner for 5 years and seems to be compressing maximum bullshit into a small timeframe.

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116. "Bud Selig took over in 92"
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the baseball strike happened in 94 which damn near killed the game. Then he had the steroid era. The rest of his time at the top was running into players with his bus. He was a complete shit show.

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117. "Bro...what are you arguing here? "
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Honestly. You're not getting any disagreement from me on how much Selig fucked up. That has nothing to do with Manfred and what's going on right now.

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113. "It's Matt Harvey night!"
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118. "Watch out now! Rays have taken control of the AL East"
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Not quite halfway thru the short season.

They looked mad shaky when the season started. But we took 3 of 4 in the first series against the Yankees and just finished a 3 game sweep. That clinches the season series against NY. And we swept the Red Sox just before that. I think we've won 10 of our last 11.

  

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