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Sucks. Kluber is fun to watch.

Meanwhile MLB owners are like "We're so broke! Please don't make us pay you all your money!"

So now it's 6 out of 280? Did he do it on every curve he threw or something?

Stolen from Reddit, which stole from Cubs Memes on Facebook.

Yes. When I signed up for MLB.tv way back in the aughts one of the reasons the gave for blackouts was to encourage fans local to their favorite teams to buy tickets to the game instead of watching it on TV, so they blacked it out which makes no sense in a city that's 5+ hours away from the nearest baseball team that gets blacked out from 4 of them despite not having the option to watch them on their local TV station. As I said, it's not the reason, but it's a reason they gave for the blackouts and it's completely absurd.

Huh? Attendance is the strawman they've used as the reason for the blackouts forever. The whole point is that if you're in the vicinity of a teams location, they black you out to force you to go to a game. That's quite literally the reason it said on their page for years. Whether it says that now I don't know, but that's why I was unable to get Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, or Houston games in Mobile, Alabama. Cable had nothing to do with it because outside of maybe TBS, I literally got none of those local stations, so there was no reason to be blacked out on a service I pay to watch these games. There are cities everywhere that are dead zones that get screwed out of watching teams that aren't realistic to drive and go see, nor do they have the local channels to watch those teams. Their blackout map is absurd. No. That was blackhawks excuse in 1987. It’s always been about protecting cable money. I mean yeah, duh, it's about money with the cable companies, but it also isn't not about attendance because they insist on that being a primary reason for it and have for decades. Even though that's obviously a fallacy because the blackout maps make no horsefeathering sense for that to even work, that's what they put out there as a big reason as some kind of "Golly gee shucks Mister, guess you oughta buy a ticket or something" while they stuff their fat faces with Comcast and Fox's sweaty ballsacks

Huh? Attendance is the strawman they've used as the reason for the blackouts forever. The whole point is that if you're in the vicinity of a teams location, they black you out to force you to go to a game. That's quite literally the reason it said on their page for years. Whether it says that now I don't know, but that's why I was unable to get Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, or Houston games in Mobile, Alabama. Cable had nothing to do with it because outside of maybe TBS, I literally got none of those local stations, so there was no reason to be blacked out on a service I pay to watch these games. There are cities everywhere that are dead zones that get screwed out of watching teams that aren't realistic to drive and go see, nor do they have the local channels to watch those teams. Their blackout map is absurd.

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He's still on the team in my RTTS. He's mediocre, put up like a 4.25 ERA or something, but our offense is otherworldly so he went like 18-2 last season, lol. Also odd, Ian Happ is rated as an 82 OVR but he keeps putting up insane WAR's. He's averaged like 6 WAR or more each year for the last 3 years, but nothing about his overall numbers (offense or defense) or his ratings suggest he's that good and I have no idea why. He's out WAR'ing Yelich who is putting up like .320/.400/1.000 with 40Hr and 100 RBI each season while Happ is putting up .280/.370/.900 with 25HR and 80RBI

This was a ton of fun and if they made one with 1,000 batting stances instead of 10 I'd play it all the way through https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/29174250/mlb-unique-batting-stance-quiz

"Foremost priorities"

I realize Schwarber is a perfectly cromulent LF'er, and yes using the DH will help rest our other guys, but putting your weakest defensive link at DH is best and Schwarber is the weakest defensive link we have. Start him in LF twice a week to rest whomever, for sure, but DH is his destiny regardless of how average he is at LF.

I would love a temporary DH so we can let Schwarber do what he does best while our core is still intact during that time frame then it can go away along with him and anyone else we don't need during what I can only imagine will be another rebuild because the Ricketts are cheap cowards.

We gonna talk about this?

They've had plenty of rest, time to nut up and hit some god damn dingers, man

It's amazing and worth watching all glorious 3 hours and 40 minutes worth

Confessing my ignorance on the business of baseball here, but why do the players oppose a revenue-sharing situation? How does that affect the players? I don't quite get it. I'd understand if teams wanted to negotiate a reduced contract rate for players, but if the players wind up getting paid what their contracts dictate why would they oppose all teams sharing profits? Isn't it meant to allow small-market teams extra money to help compete against larger markets?

People in the waiting list might want to check their spot. I was somewhere in the mid-upper 30K on the waitlist at the end of last season. I'm now 8112. I haven't seen a drop that substantial since they sold the team and blew it all up and sucked for a couple years.

Don't know that I can rank them, but I can pick them based on the era/chronological order 1) Andre Dawson 2) Sammy Sosa 3) Aramis Ramirez 4) Anthony Rizzo/Javy Baez (hard to pick)

I mean if we're going off this past season, and we anticipate some big hitters to carry over and not lose a step then Muncy and Alonso have to be considered top 1B, but if we're going off of longevity and consistent success at the position I think it's Goldschmidt, Freeman, Rizzo, in that order.

This is hilarious If it doesn't embed for you, here's the link https://www.twitch.tv/joeygallo24/clip/NiceAnnoyingSkunkMVGame?filter=clips&range=24hr&sort=time

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Looks like Passan is saying he had it last week. Good for Syndergaard, bad for cosmic Mets irony.

#NotAllPitchers can get TJS at the moment https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28976339/dr-andrews-temporarily-suspends-tommy-john-surgeries-amid-pandemic It would be so Mets if Syndergaard can't get TJS until this is over, pushing his return date back even further

I believe, no joke, he has a radio show called "Swings and Mishes" Leslie Knope: "Swing and a Mish: This Mish talks Big Fish with the King Tuna in Town, Derek Jeter!"