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I don't think this is true. At all. The Dodgers have an $100 million per year head start on every other team in the league via their tv deal, the Cubs are far from poor but they don’t have a structural advantage that approaches it. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lets-update-the-estimated-local-tv-revenue-for-mlb-teams/ How many concerts happen at Wrigley a year that they don't have to split the profits with any other team?

I don't think this is true. At all.

You think you can buy Twitter next?

And I wouldn’t be in a club that would accept me as a member. Have to keep the riff-raff out.

When this board started, CT was like 12. CT is still 12, and I refuse to engage with anybody who tells me otherwise. CT is a practicing lawyer now, I think.

I like the swear-word filter. At first, I was aginst it, but I like it now. We can still write it but it is much more fun to try and decipher what word is used.

Traintos looks like he's 12

These Brewers announcers are very generic and not good.

Kevin Alcantara with two hits. He's a keeper

William looks a lot like Willson, same stance same swing

Thanks, I got in late.

Ben Brown gave up 3 runs today, but he's got a really good fastball. He looked great, overall.

I really like Rowdy Tellez from the Brewers. He's a masher.

only if you change it to assbass

TBH, my fear is the opposite. They make a go of it here for a year or so and when it doesn't develop they shut it down due to cost.

That never stopped managers from overdoing it. For my money, Earl Weaver was likely the best manager in modern times. He understood baseball intuitively better than any manager before or since in the modern era. Maybe Francona is a close second.

I don't think the situations are analogous. We have no commodity to sell other than comments about jorts, Simpson memes, and laments about how stupid we all were when we were younger. Perhaps mining years of our miscellaneous post data is all part of a larger plan to create the ultimate AI chatbot? That would be awesome. It would be the dumbest chatbot around. Hell, Mephistoalies and DaBum's posts alone would render the chatbot so offensive as to make it only useful for people who wanted to be entertained by weird non-sequiturs.

There is also the scenario where the stated and actual intentions of the new owner are entirely different. I'm not suggesting that is the case here, and the new owners appear to have a track record of managing similar sites, but I have seen this sort of transaction go down in a way that irreparably damages the site. One particular example that comes to mind for me is the NintendoAge video game forum that I used to frequent for mostly retro video game news, chat, trading, etc. It was a rather popular retro gaming forum that had been around for a long time and it was still thriving at the time its sale was announced. The announcement came along with assurances from the new owner that they would be making some changes but would continue to maintain the website in much the same way as it already existed. After the sale closed, the forums were almost immediately shut down and redirected to a new page with a very bare bones forum that had obviously been thrown together in about 30 minutes. That forum never got updated or moderated and eventually disappeared without any word from the new owner. The community basically dissolved and presumably migrated to various different other websites, but as far as I know nothing came close to replacing the original site. It appears what happened is that the person who bought the website never had any intention of keeping the forums running, but simply wanted access to the game pricing and other data that had been accumulated by the community over a long period of time. I remember reading somewhere that the site's original owner never would have sold the site if he knew the purchaser's true intentions, but that ship had already sailed. Despite that previous experience, I think we have to give Brock and crew the benefit of the doubt and hope that a majority of people here are willing to stick around through the changes. Obviously they are doing this for a reason, and making money is almost certainly part of it, but hopefully that can be done without sacrificing everything that currently exists. I don't think the situations are analogous. We have no commodity to sell other than comments about jorts, Simpson memes, and laments about how stupid we all were when we were younger.

At the very least he can discriminate the problem. The hard part is making good decisions about who to acquire.

Why are you worried about transparency? There was never transparency before. The modes made decisions on a case-by-case basis depending on a lot of factors. Usually, people would get warned a bunch of times and then get temporarily banned (I speak form experience here), some never came back, and some did. If they post rules or whatever, that's cool, but rules never work because there are always exceptions. I'll leave it up to them. I cannot imagine a situation where it would become untenable for most of us. But if it happens, it happens. I'll worry about that when it comes time to worry about that and then I'll bitch on my way out.

It will be cool, just let it progress. If they've done it before with other places and it's worked, it should, in theory, work with NSBB too. The main problem will be people looking to make arguments or pretending to be obtuse about what they are posting ("hey, I'm just asking questions"). For the most part, that will get squashed. I think it will be great to get more people here and have lively discussions from the MAGA crowd until they get banned for saying something racist or homophobic. It will also be great to get more baseball talk going since you know this is a baseball site and all. I think some new people will be here just for that and leave the nonsense to the rest of us. As long as there is good tolerance for nonsense, the "old" guys should be just fine. I'm rooting for the new overlords to Make NSBB Great Again (MNGA).

That is a tough injury to overcome depending on where the strain is, just getting out of bed or putting on shoes can aggravate it, let alone doing baseball stuff.

Is this referencing what I hope it's referencing do you think they're regretting this purchase yet This is becoming an awesome thread. One guy is trying to tell us all how great it's going to be while the rest of us are basically ignoring him and fixated on Kyle's former life and cracking wise about stupid horsefeathers. You can take the Tim out of NSBB, but you can't take the NSBB out of NSBB.

How will Pat get his forty dozen ad reads in with fewer time between pitches? That’s all they’ll time for.

Brisby has a great article about the pitch clock and listening to the “radio” broadcast. It made me think about how much more i enjoyed games listening to them rather than watching them. Of course there must be good broadcasters like Pat Hughes.