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Clem Fandango

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How are the Pirates 2 games over .500 with a -50 run differential? Win small, lose big I guess but wow.

 

Josh Bell is doing what he can, dammit:

 

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I didn't realize how insanely good he's been this year until a few days ago.

Regular Show ACL Cubs

Regular Show

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How are the Pirates 2 games over .500 with a -50 run differential? Win small, lose big I guess but wow.

 

Josh Bell is doing what he can, dammit:

 

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I didn't realize how insanely good he's been this year until a few days ago.

 

It's a shame they'll probably have to trade him in a couple years just like Gerrit Cole lol.

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Sammy Sofa

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Josh Bell is doing what he can, dammit:

 

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I didn't realize how insanely good he's been this year until a few days ago.

 

It's a shame they'll probably have to trade him in a couple years just like Gerrit Cole lol.

 

That "just like" could apply to, like, at least a dozen good to awesome players in this century.

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soccer10k

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The Twins are on pace for 324 dongs

 

The record is 267 which the Yankees set last year.

 

Even crazier is the Orioles are on pace to allow 347 home runs. The record is 258 by the 2016 Reds. At their current pace, the Orioles will beat it in Game 121.

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Regular Show

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“I see a path – a path out of Tampa,” said Bill Sutton, one of Tampa’s foremost sports-business authorities and the director of the Sports and Entertainment Management MBA program at the University of South Florida. "I don’t see a path in Tampa. Unless something changes, they’re not going to stay in Tampa.”
You’ll see six straight years in which the Rays had the lowest attendance in baseball, from 2012-17 – a period in which they had a winning record, by the way. That’s not just perplexing. It’s historic.

 

In a study of this issue earlier this season, the Tampa Bay Times reported that the Rays are the fourth team since World War II to finish last in the sport in average attendance in at least five seasons in a row. Now think of what became of the other three — the 1998-2004 Montreal Expos, the 1955-59 Washington Senators and the 1946-51 St. Louis Browns.

 

Notice what those three teams have in common, besides the fact that they were so bad at baseball, they combined for a record 549 games under .500 in that time? They no longer play in those cities. That’s what. There’s a word for that. It isn’t “coincidence.”

Just get it done with and relocate the franchise somewhere better.

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17 Seconds

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It’s such a horsefeathers stadium that’s a pain in the ass to get to. Blow it all up and try again.
everything is a pain in the ass to get to in Florida

 

i went to opening day in miami last year. we got to the stadium 2 hours before first pitch, but still ended up missing happ's leadoff home run because it look literally 2+ hours to park. if there's any kind of significant crowd, things just stop working there.

 

if the lightning can thrive in florida, i see no reason why the rays can't with a well placed stadium

Sammy Sofa GOAT

Sammy Sofa

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It’s such a horsefeathers stadium that’s a pain in the ass to get to. Blow it all up and try again.

 

And it leads to nonsense like this:

 

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We Got The Whole 9 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

We Got The Whole 9

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This really happened? "Glenallen Hill crashes into glass table while having a nightmare about a spider..."

 

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As amazing as that is, it was either Smoltz or Glavine who missed time because they ironed a shirt while they were wearing it. Just absurd. There is a long list of stupid injuries to baseball players. Like incomprehensible horsefeathers.

 

Edit: googled for verification and Smoltz denies it. But he's an idiot so I'm not sure I'm buying his tale.

JudasIscariotTheBird Myrtle Beach Pelicans

JudasIscariotTheBird

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This really happened? "Glenallen Hill crashes into glass table while having a nightmare about a spider..."

 

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You see a lot of things on cocaine.

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