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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: GopherRock on March 28, 2025, 09:09:34 AM
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https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1575341759529308160
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https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1575341759529308160
Although they were beating the Angels so badly on Opening Day, that the Angels put a position player on the mound
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I was gonna say...
How'd the twinkies do yesterday?
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They got eliminated from playoff contention as well. If you're looking for a team to talk trash about, this Twins team isn't it.
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Tigers' Cy Young winner had a bad outing, they went 0-15 with RISP, and still only lost by 1 to LAD. Not worried about the pitching, but getting more length out of the lineup, with arguably our 2nd best offensive player on the IL is promising to more consistency
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I didn't think you had enough to overturn the home run for the dodgers, but then you also don't have enough to overturn that,
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I didn't think you had enough to overturn the home run for the dodgers, but then you also don't have enough to overturn that,
Never mind, I forgot you were dealing with the Dodgers. I was trying to be rational, MLB is trying to make money
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Dodgers wine and cheese crowd booing everything on cue. LA baseball fans are doing their best to not let Boston and Philly corner the market on awful fanbases
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That's one of those that if it was game two of an NFL season, the terrible call would be analyzed all week, instead it's just another bad call in a 162 game season that will be forgotten
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Dodgers have like a 49% chance at going 162-0. :57:
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Was watching highlights yesterday, and noticing the Rays playing home games outdoors, I realized I'd forgotten that two MLB franchises will play their home games in a semi-pro ballpark (A's) and a spring training stadium (Rays).
George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa will host the Rays. Capacity seating = 11,026
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Sutter Health Park in Sacramento, home of the Triple-A River Cats, will host the A's. Capacity seating = 14,014
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Both stadiums are nicer than where the Rays and A's originally played. And both franchises weren't well attended, so the lower seating capacities play into the lower demand.
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Sellout? What's that?!?
The Rays had 4 days to Ray-ify that ballpark. It's across the street from the Bucs stadium and a strip club (although everything in Tampa is across from a strip club).
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Sellout? What's that?!?
The Rays had 4 days to Ray-ify that ballpark. It's across the street from the Bucs stadium and a strip club (although everything in Tampa is across from a strip club).
I was going to say, at no point in Tampa are you more than a block away from a Hooters, outback steakhouse, or a strip club. Hitting all 3 is a Tampa bar crawl
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I'm in
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New torpedo bats drew attention when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers that traveled a combined 3,695 feet on Saturday.
Using a strikingly different model in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a little like a bowling pin, Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger, Austin Wells, Anthony Volpe and Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered in New York’s 20-9 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Yankees hit four more homers in a 12-3 win Sunday and their 15 homers through the first three games matched the 2006 Detroit Tigers for the most in major league history.
“That’s just trying to be the best we can be,” manager Aaron Boone said Sunday. “That’s one of the things that’s gotten pointed out. I say to you guys all the time, we’re trying to win on the margins and that shows up in so many different ways.”
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NY Yankees scored 20 in their 2nd game of the season. NY Giants didn't score 20 til their 3rd game, and not at home until November
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Dodgers were down 5-0, likely to take their first L. Nah. 6-5 win. Maybe a 49.1% chance of going 162-0. haha
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After an 8-0 start, the Dodgers' chances of going 162-0 are gone.
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The entire AL West has a negative run differential.
White Sox are already dead last in the AL at 2-6 despite only a -4 run differential, which is tied with the 6-2 Rangers, who lead the AL West
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After an 8-0 start, the Dodgers' chances of going 162-0 are gone.
And now in a 3 way tie in the loss column in the division
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Albert Pujols might have dethroned Tiki Barber as most disappointing transition to analyst
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Ah nothing like waking up to a hot cup of black coffee and a dusting of snow on the ground.....for the opening day of baseball in Cleveland. No worries though the mercury is going to shoot up to 32° - good times
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Chicago in a few weeks. Bought White Sox tickets. Can't believe how rock-bottom the prices are. As low as TWO dollars and only FIVE for the lower bowl are like prices from the 1960s! ⚾
5 minutes before first pitch for White Sox Vs Oakland A’s:
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What did you eat?
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We have our "reunion game" Sunday, usually the only game I attend in person. That means most of the Fantasy Camp folks and coaches show up in a "suite" to have lunch (not very good) and banter about some (which is fun) and watch the game. The "suite" is far from being luxury anything, the food is typical dogs and burgers etc. They do have "free beer". It's nice to see the guys but we keep up with each other through the year pretty much.
I think the Bravos started 0-9 but lost their shot at a defeated season by winning a handful.
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What did you eat?
A Bavarian Pretzel w/ hot mustard, and cracker jacks. The box of cracker jacks ($4) was twice the price of the ticket.
The White Sox lost 8-0 to the A's. Their lineup is hopelessly awful; only TWO batters are hitting over .200.
Cool stadium but not much to root for for the 10,000 fans in attendance yesterday. The timing of the afternoon game worked out; once the game ended around 4PM it started raining.
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That doesn't look like 10,000.
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They may have sold 10,000 tickets and had 758 show for the game.
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Tigers-Royals game today took 2:02.
Baseball is my favorite sport, and yet I will still hear no pitch clock rules slander
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Just left As v Brewers are shade over 2hrs. My kids noticed how brisk it was. Now we hit a late dinner. Perfect
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Tigers-Royals game today took 2:02.
Baseball is my favorite sport, and yet I will still hear no pitch clock rules slander
not from me but I do have a gripe
The extra innings rule starting with a man on 2nd should go away
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not from me but I do have a gripe
The extra innings rule starting with a man on 2nd should go away
It's a math thing.
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I don't know the prevailing top strategy for the man on second deal.
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a seeing eye single
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I watched these guys growing up, when baseball was baseball.
Baseball’s Lost Legends: 15 Stars Who Deserved Better (https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/baseball-s-lost-legends-15-stars-who-deserved-better/ss-AA1DyUGT?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=4b7092bc114a415b8a94c218c139b66d&ei=14#image=1)
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Vida Blue and Bobby Bonds are definitely not forgotten here in the Bay Area. I know a lot of those other guys, though not all of them. That Dave Parker throw in the All-Star game was a thing of beauty.
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Folks have this notion that failing short of the HoF is somehow a big negative. I understand "they" want to keep its exclusivity, but for players like Dale Murphy and Andruw Jones, it's a recurring question that has to make them feel bad. I've met both and listened to how they respond to such questions. Do these players "deserve better"? Maybe.
All the players who ever played MLB would not fill an MLB stadium. Just to play MLB is a thing.
I know Steve Avery pretty well. Before his injuries he was one of the best left handed pitchers in the game, but his arm gave out. He's a pretty neat guy, doesn't dwell on what might have been, he pitched in MLB with a lot of success.
There are myriad stories like these, players who had great careers cut short, or just didn't quite make the Hall. Remembering them is what should be done, not criticizing whatever for not getting top recognition.
But we humans have to have our "rankings" to argue about.
Incidentally, Dale Murphy is hilarious.
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such as "who's the best golfer w/o a major?
who's the best 3rd basemen NOT in the hall?
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such as "who's the best golfer w/o a major?
who's the best 3rd basemen NOT in the hall?
Graig Nettles or Darrell Evans
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I'd go with Nettles with that choice
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If not Nettles I'd go Sal Bando or Cey. Buddy Bell but not sure he's enough 3b.
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Cey was a Dodger and a penguin so, no
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A penguin dodging trolleys in Brooklyn would be quite a sight.
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Didn't say I liked Cey at all.
Nettles has some huge home v road splits.
I'm not a big Hall guy anyways.
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I liked Cey more than most Dodgers
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Ron Cey's rookie card is the same as Mike Schmidt's rookie card. One of those rookie trio cards.
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The Cey Hey Kid?
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The Cey Hey Kid?
Not quite.
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not even close
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I spot watched off and on the Braves last night, they are ... interesting, I guess, a bit, started the year 0-7 and are still missing a couple top players.
I do think teams that buy their rosters are going to kill off baseball in smaller markets, in effect, maybe the teams linger but everyone knows they won't be competitive.
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I get your meaning, but that's how baseball has always been. Different franchises sucked for decades at a time. With the near-random outcomes of short series, spending tons of money only gets you a playoff spot. KC was acting like a farm team for NYY for awhile there, through FA.
But yeah, it's getting more extreme, for sure.
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The Braves went into extras with the Pirates and took the lead on a wild pitch with a man on third. The baseball barely missed the batter and his bat.
The Braves like extra inning games apparently.
After last night's walk-off win brought Atlanta their second extra inning win in three days, their season record in extras improved to 4-0. Surprisingly, the Braves' have been the best team in baseball since this rule was implemented. Since the ghost runner rule began to be enforced in 2023, Atlanta has a major league best record of 24-8.
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Padres games last night. 5-1 over the Angels. Bucket Hat giveaway night.
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https://twitter.com/mlb/status/1923506061765382653?s=46&t=e2ReDV-yjo7MPCzlX2TjVA
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https://twitter.com/mlb/status/1923506061765382653?s=46&t=e2ReDV-yjo7MPCzlX2TjVA
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At what point will Cleveland run out of black magic?
It's an annual thing.
Looked at some of the stats. Bottom 5 in the AL in BA, OPS, runs scored, ERA, WHIP, walk rate. Have the 5th worst run differential.
Yet sitting there 4 games over .500.
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Angels game last night. 7-4 win over the Marlins. First time in Angel stadium.
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Minneapolis Millers phenom Willie Mays was in a movie theater in Sioux City, Iowa on this date in 1951 when he received a message to report back to the team hotel. The New York Giants were calling him up to the majors!
The Giants took out a full-page ad in the Minneapolis paper apologizing for taking Mays away 🤣
In 35 games with the Millers, Mays hit .477 with eight home runs, 30 RBI, and 38 runs scored. The Giants went to the World Series, and Mays won National League Rookie of the Year.
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Another game last night. Padres fell down 6-0 in the first inning to the Marlins, before scoring in the next five consecutive innings to take the lead and hold on to win 8-6. Three untimely errors from the Marlins rookie second baseman Ronny Simon allowed Padres baserunners to advance and eventually score. He was pulled in the fifth inning. Packed stadium thanks to Hoodie giveaway night. Unless you're a bobblehead collector, the hoodie is the most anticipated annual giveaway.
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At what point will Cleveland run out of black magic?
Well back in the Day when they were perenial cellar dwellers we called it The JUNE SWOON. And like the Swallows to San Juan Capistrano or the Buzzards to Hinkley,Ohio you could count it.
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someone had that very shirt or a similar one on the Antique Road Show had his name stitched on the inside of the collar too. It was appraised at like 20-30 grand if i remember right
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One of the baseball podcast I listen to does a "Summer Score" The argument is that baseball was never like football. It wasn't supposed to be live and die game to game. It was about having a fun summer. So for every day teams get points, if they are currently in a playoff spot. 1 point from Memorial Day-July 3. 2 points from 4th of July-August. 3 points from August 1-Labor Day
I kind of like the concept for doing what it's supposed to do. It's just saying who had a fun summer. The Tigers had an amazing run last year. The summer was bleh. I found myself often watching other games. It also seems like its from a prior era, when baseball became America's Pastime. You had teams win 95 games and finish 15 games out of the pennant, so was that enjoyable. But I do feel like that's the right lens to view baseball through
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It's been a historic season for the Colorado Rockies, but not in a good way.
The Rockies lost 5-3 to the New York Mets on Sunday, dropping their eighth consecutive game to move to 9-50 on the season. That marks history, as Colorado is now the first team in the modern era to lose 50 games before winning 10.
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The White Sox are thankful.
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At what point will Cleveland run out of black magic?
It's an annual thing.
Looked at some of the stats. Bottom 5 in the AL in BA, OPS, runs scored, ERA, WHIP, walk rate. Have the 5th worst run differential.
Yet sitting there 4 games over .500.
I'd say overall, not until they change divisions. The AL Central is mediocre central. The Tigers have woken up, but still, there's plenty of room for CLE to make the postseason.
Both the AL and NL centrals have been kind of shit. They've lacked peak teams, for sure, so CLE and STL/MIL have by-and-large just annually won it with like 90 wins each year.
Don't get me wrong, the AL West has been and is a dumpster fire without the Astros' peak, but still. You can count on the centrals to be mediocre year after year.
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Royals call up Jac Caglianone.
First Royal 1st round draft pick to be called up within a year since Bo Jackson
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https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1930066924601295178 (https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1930066924601295178)
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Royals call up Jac Caglianone.
First Royal 1st round draft pick to be called up within a year since Bo Jackson
Go Gators!
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The Braves are not very good this season. Film at 11.
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A rare play, in Wednesday’s 5-0 win over the Mets the Braves scored one of their runs on a catcher’s balk
If a catcher uses a piece of equipment (like a mask or glove) that is not properly worn to stop a batted or pitched ball, it's a violation.
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The Braves are not very good this season. Film at 11.
The other side to signing all of your studs to team friendly deals is that it opens you up to sign free agents. Feels like the Braves have just stood pat for like 3 years now
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In 2025, the Atlanta Braves are ranked eighth in Major League Baseball in terms of payroll, with a total of $209,806,783, according to Spotrac.com (https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/atlanta-braves/overview). This is a slight decrease from their sixth-place ranking in 2024 with a payroll of $236,433,901,
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In 2025, the Atlanta Braves are ranked eighth in Major League Baseball in terms of payroll, with a total of $209,806,783, according to Spotrac.com (https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/atlanta-braves/overview). This is a slight decrease from their sixth-place ranking in 2024 with a payroll of $236,433,901,
That's more than a slight decrease. That's more than the value of their top signee. They hit on so many top prospects, and then locked them into team friendly deals. But they didn't retain Max Fried for $14.5 million? Their payroll still would have dropped if they had kept him as their #2. Instead he's the Yankees #1
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Yeah, I wanted to keep Fried a lot. Their main problem his year is scoring runs.
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These days they pull starters after 5-6 innings, so someone might someday match this.
They pulled Sale last night with a 5-0 lead after 8 2/3rds with a guy on first and two out, 116 pitches.
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Maddux was sort of the anti-Nolan Ryan. Ryan struck everyone out and also allowed the most walks of all time.
Maddux was average at striking batters out, but didn't walk people. Neither gave up many HRs.
Maddux:
HR%: 1.7
K%: 16.5
BB%: 4.9
So if you look at it, his teammates got to be in the game and make lots of plays.
HR + K + BB = 23.1%
Balls in play = 76.9%
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Ryan:
HR%: 1.4
K%: 25.3
BB%: 12.4
HR + K + BB = 39.1%
Balls in play = 60.9%
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It must've been pretty boring playing behind Nolan Ryan.
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“Rod Carew Jersey Day” on this date in 1977 is one of the most noteworthy regular season games in Twins history. On a sweltering summer day, the man himself, Rod Carew, went 4-for-5 with a home run, raising his average to .403 to the elation of the only sellout crowd of the season. Carew also knocked in six runs and scored a team record five runs in the 19-12 win over the White Sox. Carew finished the season batting an incredible .388 and was named the American League's Most Valuable Player.
Right fielder Glenn Adams, meanwhile, set a team record with eight runs batted in. He had six RBI after just two innings, on a two-run double and grand slam. He went 4-for-5 altogether, adding an RBI single and sac fly. (Adams drove in Carew three times in the game.)
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https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1940848691319079060
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Mayyyybe we don't need to bet on EVERYTHING.
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Kershaw getting his 3,000th K last night was a whole big thing. I don't recall it being so with Verlander or Scherzer.
Was it?
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I thought the same. But all with one team, which happens to be the second most iconic, i the second largest market. Verlander did it with Houston, and Max was on his 4th team
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Mayyyybe we don't need to bet on EVERYTHING.
I'd be fine with making gambling illegal
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I'd be fine with making gambling illegal
Then how will foolish people squander their money?!?!!?
Oh right, the lottery.
Nevermind.
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lottery is gambling
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lottery is gambling
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Ive wasted money on worse
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boy howdy
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Okay, if the lottery is gambling, then it's the worst possible bet a person can gamble on.
Right up the "I'm not good at math" crowd's alley, I guess.
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you can't win if you don't play
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Astros take out the dodgers by an 18 to 1 score
amazing
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you can't win if you don't play
That's the secret to holding onto your money. Don't play.
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it shouldn't b a secret but................
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War Games knew the answer all along
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July 5th
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These two teams have the same number of wins this season
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Yeah, one of them had a top-12 draft pick for the past 7 years, lol.
The Dodgers have 2 different relievers who make more than Skubal, who's still in arbitration years.
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Yeah, I'm not going to kill LA for both developing well, and then spending money.
LA also has like no healthy starters. Which, when you have god money, you can afford to pay for guys to run into the ground, but one agent earlier this spring said he would never allow one of his clients to sign with LA, unless it was a contract he was good with being his last. LA can do that. But in the short term their pitching is kind of a mess. And also Mookie Betts looks like a shell of his former self.
And then you check the standings, and even on a 5 game losing streak, LA has the best record in the NL, and the 2nd best in the MLB, so you can't really criticize the way they operate, any team would trade places with them in a heartbeat
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Once LA had all the dollars to spend, they ransacked Tampa's front office full of smart people winning with no money and ever since, it's division titles and 2 WS championships.
And idk what the hell is wrong with Betts. Unless it's an injury he's insisting on playing through, the only other thing is the position change. But playing SS can't take THAT much out of you, can it?
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Once LA had all the dollars to spend, they ransacked Tampa's front office full of smart people winning with no money and ever since, it's division titles and 2 WS championships.
And idk what the hell is wrong with Betts. Unless it's an injury he's insisting on playing through, the only other thing is the position change. But playing SS can't take THAT much out of you, can it?
Yeah, I don't blame LA one bit. I kind of hope they inspire more teams. Detroit had the worst development in the majors. Everyone touted how much Dombrowski won every trade in the 2006-14 era. But it wasn't like he was trading mid to low level prospects for studs. He was trading the Tigers best prospects, they just all turned out to suck. Andrew Miller reinvented himself as an elite reliever, and Cameron Maybin became a solid utility outfielder, but that was it. I said that would bite them, and it did. They had nothing in the barrel to rebuild.
In this era you need to be good up and down the board. Having unlimited spending helps, but not like in the steroid era where you can just keep buying dudes who are going to be great until they are 40. Spending mainly allows you to make mistakes. But you can't just build a team in FA anymore, guys don't have enough good years left. Phillies are probably the closest to trying it right now, and they've hit on every single signing. And still never won a WS. On the flip side, Baltimore had the best collection of prospects, arguably ever. Their AAA team a few years ago was rated as the best minor league team in terms of future value, ever. But even though none of those propsects totally flopped, only one was a pitcher, and he's been mid. And they didn't spend a dime around them. So they are what they are
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Once LA had all the dollars to spend, they ransacked Tampa's front office full of smart people…
They are not smart people if they willingly moved from Florida to California.
I kid, I kid! 🤣
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I ask considering I know next to nothing about MLB...
But how much of this is due to not having a hard salary cap like the NFL?
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HB
hole bunch
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I ask considering I know next to nothing about MLB...
But how much of this is due to not having a hard salary cap like the NFL?
Exceeding the cap is very expensive, but there's like a reset button when you don't, so teams above it can sort of take a 1-year break from big spending in FA every 3 years (I think) to avoid the massive penalties. I may be off, but it's something like that.
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F LA
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Athletics Fireballer Mason Miller Unleashes Fastest Pitch of MLB Season
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That 104.1 mph effort, which on first blush reads like a misprint, happened on Thursday night in the Athletics' 5-4 victory over the Atlanta Braves. Sean Murphy was the unfortunate batter in the box at the time of the pitch, which resulted in strike three swinging.
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Nolan Ryan's fastest recorded pitch was 100.9 mph, clocked 10 feet in front of home plate in 1974. However, when adjusted for modern measurement techniques (measuring closer to the pitcher's release), it's estimated that his fastest pitch would be around 108.5 mph.
This video discusses whether Nolan Ryan actually threw 108 mph:
https://youtu.be/90nI3yFMbX0
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I have wondered what they pay per ball. They cost a lot more on line of course. At Fantasy Camp, we start with a bucket of new balls per team, I'd guess 64 per bucket, and use them throughout the week. They break out new ones for the CG. By end of the week they are pretty scuffed up usually, which is nice for pitchers.
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Good news.
Rays owner Stuart Sternberg agrees to sell club for $1.7 billion, per report (https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/rays-owner-stuart-sternberg-agrees-to-sell-club-for-17-billion-per-report/ar-AA1IE3Z7?ocid=BingNewsSerp)
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Second baseman Rod Carew stole home for the seventh time of the season on this date in 1969. He went 3-for-5 with an RBI and three runs scored altogether in the 9-8 Twins win in Game 1 of a doubleheader sweep against the White Sox at Met Stadium.
The single-season record for steals of home is eight by Ty Cobb in 1912. Several sources insist Carew rightfully should have had his eighth steal of home in Seattle on September 26, but the umpire—whose view was possibly obstructed—made the incorrect call. Carew started throwing stuff and got himself ejected. Manager Billy Martin was also displeased.
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Is that real? I can't imagine a worse way to watch a game
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MLB Speedway Classic | Events | Bristol Motor Speedway (https://www.bristolmotorspeedway.com/events/mlb-speedway-classic/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22802041120&gclid=CjwKCAjw1ozEBhAdEiwAn9qbzVktYDHuH1EFSLSebuwNYsxU3QLi1O_UOleOjSEWUK8T7-4l-FKHDhoChm8QAvD_BwE)
The Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds will play at Bristol Motor Speedway on August 2, 2025 in what will be the first Major League Baseball game in Tennessee, ever. History will be made at The Last Great Colosseum.
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