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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.

My favorite Bum quote was that he was "mentally ready" to have kids

Wick still sucks.

I'm already tired of the MLB.tv commercial break stuff.

It's a little bit reflexive, but I basically agree. His team has to mostly nail every decision this offseason. They cannot afford any mistakes and they haven't earned any leeway.

Your first task is to find out whoever voted for NSB and ban him/her (but not likely a her).

huh, you found a swear word that doesn't translate to horsefeathers. I probably spelled so freaking badly it didn't know what to do.

Tim can now get that house in Malibu that he's had his eye on with all the money he's going to make on NSB(B). Thanks for keeping this together, Tim. I think this board means a lot more to some of us than we let on. It's my one place to talk to anonymous people that I don't really know, but think I do. I really like this place, [expletive] and all.

Extremely hot take: I really like Mervis’s approach at the plate. Two walks today already, not chasing, looking for his pitches. I think he’s going to the starter before the end of the season.

San Diego has a metro population that is 400k less than Minneapolis and roughly on par with Tampa Bay. This doesn't give small market teams complaining that they can't afford a competitive payroll much credibility. In other news the Padres will owe approximately $122m to 5 players in 2026: 39 year old Yu Darvish, 33 year old Manny Machado, 33 year old Xander Bogaerts, 33 year old Joe Musgrove and 27 year old Fernando Tatis Jr. They are paying Bogaerts until 2033 (age 40), Machado until 2034 (age 41), Tatis until 2034 (age 35) and Darvish until 2028 (age 41). Some fascinating stuff. Yes, the demographics of the cities are a little different, but this lays bare the lie that small market teams cannot afford to spend on talent. They don’t need to have the third highest payroll, but the differences between them and the handful of big market teams should not be so large.

Machado basically got paid for his opt out and signed a huge contract. I hope the Cubs target Matt Chapman next offseason.

Not good for Morel to get beat on fastballs middle-middle, in both ABs. I’m rooting for him, but that’s not going to work.

Sampson giving up taters

Yeah, I think I really like the improved pace of play as a TV viewer, but I'm not sure what it will do to the "day at the ballpark" experience. Especially with kids and running back and forth to the bathroom and concessions, the game could go by really fast.Last year I went to a few minor league games and it was noticeable. The between innings was the most notable thing at the games. The games flew by.

Gonna have to drink fast at the old ball park to get a buzz on this year

Excited to see Davis today!