Andy
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Fairly lame that the Marquee broadcast isn't on MLB.TV today. I guess they limit bandwidth in spring training.
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They've done that for a couple years now. I hope they branch out beyond just stuff that happened last year at some point. It's pretty funny watching Astros highlights.
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I'm sure they will but I'd be surprised if they did much with it in game, that seems like they'd use it more for behind the scenes stuff
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I'm sure that isn't a bad omen at all
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Spring Training 2020 (aka Mark Gonzales blurry photo szn)
Andy replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Now that it's not costing the Cubs $10M per year anymore I can just be mildly amused by this dude's complete inability to live life without being injured. -
Why not? More is better. I am heavily in favor of a 19 week (17 game) season with 2 byes, 1 neutral site, and 8 home/away games. Anyone who plays on Thursday has a bye the previous week. Don’t really care strongly either way about 14 playoff teams. But I guess keeping the playoff hopes of more teams alive for longer makes the season more interesting for more fan bases. Because the players are quite literally getting their brains beaten in enough. Perhaps the best player in my favorite team's history just retired before age 30 because of it. I like football, but there's enough football. I'm tired of games being added for no good reason.
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I can't believe any NFL fan really wants 17 games and 14 playoff teams. I certainly don't. But the owners are going to railroad the players into allowing it anyway.
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David Ortiz played the 'snitches' card with Fiers, too, so horsefeathers him.
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yeah they haven't had sports on the superstation for a long time. That ended after the 2014 season (there's probably some dramatic irony in that they yanked games off national right before they got good for 4 straight years).
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The buzzers are completely real and no one on Earth can convince me otherwise.
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It's weird, my understanding is that Cards fans are generally worried about the offense, but for me I look at that rotation behind Flaherty and that's where I see cause for concern. It's sort of like the Cubs' bullpen where the sheer number of options probably means that it will turn out fine, but looking at the individual names I don't see anyone besides Mikolas who I would say is more likely to be good than bad. If your baseball team had just been able to crap out competent rotations pretty much regardless of talent level for a couple of decades straight, you probably would stop worrying about that at some point.
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Only in the context of the country being a neverending waking nightmare these days, sure. Admittedly, I forgot about the thing where he basically cyber-stalked someone on Twitter, that was shitty and bad. Baseball could use more candidness like his when it comes to on-field stuff, though (and it seems like the Astros have opened that up, at least).
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I read that whole article a couple of hours ago and my God Trevor Bauer is a national horsefeathering treasure. No posturing, just a half hour of hard, pointed logic of why the Houston Astros are disgraces.
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Obligatory 'horsefeathers him he's a racist' stuff aside, if Hader couldn't beat the Brewers in an arbitration case when the way they've used him the last couple of years makes self-evident how valuable he is, then something needs re-examination.
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My favorite thing (other than the obvious WS stuff) to watch from that run is the comeback in SF. I LOVE the comeback against SF. Javy, Zo, and Willy were so swaggy. Joe Maddon managed circles around Bruce Bochy that night, pinch-hitting Coghlan in the 9th knowing SF would bring in a lefty and he could counter with Contreras. Probably his best work as the Cubs skipper.
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It's just a perfect game. The only tension live was the nagging feeling that of course something is going to go wrong, but there is never any real danger. Kyle Hendricks at his most Kyle Hendricks, a couple of dongs, Kershaw's soul being taken, and a clinching at home. You know, I can't speak for anyone else, but after the early Javy error was erased, I can't say I ever had any real nagging doubts. Once the offense woke up in Game 4 I was pretty damn sure we were winning that series the rest of the way.
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Looks like the skeptics nailed this one [tweet] [/tweet]
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Yes, the 28-player limit was announced at the same time as all this other crap IIRC.
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Spring Training 2020 (aka Mark Gonzales blurry photo szn)
Andy replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Rizzo is unequivocally right to be pissed off, but it's pretty clear that from the moment the CBT became a thing that the owners DID mean it to be a salary cap. -
This is how it works out when LaVine is your best player. The Bulls might be a bit better if they had better complementary pieces, but the league is too good for LaVine-as-best-player to result in much of anything. Mind you, I still really like the guy. Plays his ass off every night.
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Why is it that teams and players try to knock out extensions around this time? D'backs and Ahmed, and I think there was another one recently. Cubs and Bote happened around this time last year. It would've made the offseason a lot better if they got this Baez extension done sooner... Bote happened a few days into the season, which compounded the weirdness of it.
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Extremely, six anonymous '17 Astros talked for this one and it made it sound like several players were a little leery of this scheme and Beltran basically ignored them and eventually everyone else followed like sheep because he's a 'respected veteran' or whatever. I’m judging this based solely on your summary, but it sounds like players trying to cover their own asses by throwing Beltran under the bus. Yeah, that thought occurred to me too
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Extremely, six anonymous '17 Astros talked for this one and it made it sound like several players were a little leery of this scheme and Beltran basically ignored them and eventually everyone else followed like sheep because he's a 'respected veteran' or whatever.
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He's not much of a defender these days but a pretty good bench bat and platoon guy against righties. I like this.
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Literally everything about this is horsefeathering dumb. If MLB wants to reduce tanking, institute a draft lottery and/or get rid of amateur spending caps, and get rid of the dumb-ass competitive balance tax. This is nothing more than a cheap sideshow to distract fans from the horse horsefeathers way this sport is being run by its power brokers. I'm so damn sick of Manfred and his arcade video game nonsense.
