Andy
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I will be very interested to see if there's a deep-dive story written someday on how exactly Jason Heyward's offensive ability went to complete horsefeathering horsefeathers the second he signed with the Cubs -
Hendricks on pace to retire every batter he faces this season
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I can't emphasize enough that there is zero [expletive] percent chance I'm paying $5 to get a game I am already paying for MLBTV to get when MLBTV's whole thing is every out-of-market game.
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Can confirm too, this works. I ran across it in a Reddit post. There are other 'perks' that MLBPAA members are supposed to get, though I haven't gotten them yet - I don't really care if I do, saving the money on MLBTV is perk enough.
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Absolutely not a defense of the Ricketts, but Stroman would be #2 if not for the desire to split him and Hendricks up in the order.
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C - Willson Contreras $75 1B - Matt Olson $200 2B - Ozzie Albies $100 SS - Fernando Tatis Jr. $200 3B - Matt Chapman $75 LF - Kris Bryant $75 CF - George Springer $75 RF - Ronald Acuna Jr. $75 DH - Bo Bichette $75 Total $950
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As someone who supports a mostly reviled sports team with a new and eminently likeable coach, I can assure you that you will find new reasons to hate Duke.
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I'm kind of with you. There's maybe a play or two every few weeks where it might help to have a quick explanation, but almost all replays are pretty simple.
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Announced today that umps will be mic'd up this season to relay instant replay rulings to fans.
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IIRC Ohtani was an absolute train wreck his first spring training, so if I understand the timing correctly Suzuki will be the 2025 NL MVP.
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I'm bracing for him to magically revert to at least something resembling STL performance levels for short stretches and be overall way better than he has been most of the time since he left. I know it's unlikely but this is STL and I never rule anything out
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The Cubs are making two appearances on the Apple TV+ Friday night games in the first half of the season: @ Diamondbacks 5/13 (8:30 pm CT) and @ St. Louis 6/24 (7 pm CT). The first-half games will not require an Apple TV+ subscription so while we have to use the app, we don't have to pay for the service to see either game.
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Guess what 32 idiots who own NFL team did this offseason...
Andy replied to Derwood's topic in Other Sports
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All the gameplay rule changes(shift restrictions, pitch clock, etc) agreed in the CBA negotiations are set to happen next year so there's time to thoughtfully implement them. The exception is the universal DH, which does start this year. And I think MLB has complete discretion to implement or not them next year, they just have to give a 45 days notice. Yes, they have an 11-person committee to discuss rule changes, but 6 are MLB reps while 4 player reps and an umpire are there. So while there will presumably be discussion and input taken from the other 5, MLB can push through what it wants.
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Olsen is considered a top candidate but that hasn't been finalized yet.
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North Carolina has an entire fake class prepared for when they pull this off.
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The worst power conference ever is 10 minutes from having 3 Elite 8 teams. This tournament is weird sometimes
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Guess what 32 idiots who own NFL team did this offseason...
Andy replied to Derwood's topic in Other Sports
I don't have a strong feeling about either proposal - I do sort of like the strategy/choice infused into proposal #2 - but I would say if they make a change it should be for playoffs only. -
Pretty sure that has been the case at least since the pandemic. Might have done a few road broadcasts of their own before 2020 ST shut down, but yeah. I know. Still a bummer. I want to say they did all the ST games home and road before the 2020 shutdown, but I could be wrong on that.
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It would appear every Marquee road spring training broadcast is just picking up the feed from the other team's network. Pretty disappointing.
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I wish I had the link now because I've been citing it a lot lately but I read the average extra inning game was 4 minutes shorter in 2020 than in 2019.
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That anyone expects people to buy that the 3rd straight year of a rule is going to be "temporary" makes me irrationally annoyed. Just say this is the way baseball is now and save me the trouble of being newly pissed about this next year when you inevitably make it permanent.
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I would think that's one of those that hurts like hell for a while but is very unlikely to actually injure you? They say he's day-to-day with a contusion, so you're probably right on this.
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Gigantic Willy Style - The Willson Contreras Thread
Andy replied to Sammy Sofa's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
The QO will be gone if MLB and the players union agree on an international draft by July 22 or something (and early reporting has indicated that seems unlikely), otherwise it will stick around. -
The Ricketts are probably calling to get the details at this minute. Boog was extremely open about wanting to get back on the road the second it was possible to do so, so I'd like to think if he got even a whiff that this might happen with Marquee he'd get the hell out posthaste.
