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does youtube tv have espn? (even if youtubetv had marquee you wouldn't be able to watch outside of the cubs viewing area - but you can on MLB.tv - for games that aren't already being nationally televised, that is) -
Jose was my favorite Cub at the time, but even back then it was obviously an awesome trade. Jose Hernandez was your favorite Cubs player on a team that had Sammy Sosa, Mark Prior, Kerry Wood, good CPatt, Big Z, etc? I mean, your favorite could be whoever but that's weird as hell lol
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Summer Camp Exhibitions Game Thread
David replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
rizzo's healthy what a pissrod -
They haven't managed to reach me. Are you even selling my data FB? Wtf? I saw em on Twitter yesterday, fwiw
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i'm not sure if they made adjustments along the way but as the game went on, i was more and more glad the crowd noise was there after initially thinking it sounded bad. caught myself feeling like it was a real game when i looked away and was hearing it in the background. it would be really off putting and bizarre to hear silence and "hearing the real sounds of the game" or w/e probably isn't nearly as fun as it sounds and definitely isn't practical. that said, i think they could do a better job implementing it.
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I am. The crowd noise is very pointless, it's basically constant white noise that turns up a little when something happens. that's kind of the point, no? i will say it's not particularly convincing sounding crowd noise most of the time but the whole point of adding it is white noise
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yep feels horsefeathering great to hear len & jd
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tonight's intrasquad game will be broadcast on marquee
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MLB Imposes 60 Game Season, Spring Training 2.0 Starts in 7 Days
David replied to Cubswin11's topic in General Baseball Talk
depends what you think of posey at this point i guess and whether last year means he's done crazy thing about kopech is he hasn't pitched in a real game since what, september 2018? that will be one long layoff. wonder what kind of impact that has on a guy's development (i'm sure he'll be fine). -
almost no hit the red sox too. i think he had a few of those that year.
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In case people are still sweating this after Kenney expressed confidence a few weeks back that it would be done.
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i knew they were right around each other, but i couldn't remember who was first.
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I remember sensing the tide turning in late 2014. First, IIRC, it was Alcantara (lol) and Hendricks getting called up around the same time. Then Javy which was super exciting until he started striking out in 80% of his PAs. Then Soler came up and did crazy awesome things. Rizzo had turned it around after a really crappy 2013 and Starlin was showing signs of life. Oh, and Arrieta was pitching like a Cy Young contender while nobody was looking. It was this weird sort of fun payoff to actually paying attention to the team while they sucked ass to sort of see the tidal wave of awesome just starting to form at the end of that year (even though, as tends to happen, some of the guys who were doing well at that point ended up being not so great and other guys ended up being awesome).
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MLB Imposes 60 Game Season, Spring Training 2.0 Starts in 7 Days
David replied to Cubswin11's topic in General Baseball Talk
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. that's not a reason though. the reason is so that you have to pay for RSN carriage. attendance makes no sense as a reason to block MLB streaming. the games are still available to (most - not all, though, which is one of the dumbest things about this) of these people on TV in some form. -
MLB Imposes 60 Game Season, Spring Training 2.0 Starts in 7 Days
David replied to Cubswin11's topic in General Baseball Talk
i think he's getting mixed up thinking of local blackouts when the teams dont hit an attendance threshold, like used to happen in the NFL. -
MLB Imposes 60 Game Season, Spring Training 2.0 Starts in 7 Days
David replied to Cubswin11's topic in General Baseball Talk
If a player dies from COVID? Nah, if that happens it’s dunzo. What if the player's case is traced to something outside of his job? It'll still cement the possibility as real (and perceived to be more likely than it is, perhaps) and lead to pulling back. We've made long standing/permanent changes to society in reaction to plenty of unlikely events that just hadn't occurred yet before. I think seeing a player die would make players far more fearful of getting it, too, even if they can prove he didn't get it from "work." -
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"Typical Cuban-Americans, I guess"
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I agree, it’s funny that people think the Cleveland Indians or Atlanta Braves team names offend anything approaching a majority of Native Americans. Why should it be ok for it to offend any significant number of people? What good reason is there for those being the team mascots other than, "That's the way it's always been?" What's the argument against changing the names so that even a minority of people aren't offended? Who does it hurt to change a stupid team mascot?
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Chatwood is gonna be good and should've had a spot before the Quintana injury.
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it's happening
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i thought wade already disclosed all this a few years ago after he signed with the bulls, no?
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My guess is he's opting out. He's a diabetic, apparently.
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MLB Imposes 60 Game Season, Spring Training 2.0 Starts in 7 Days
David replied to Cubswin11's topic in General Baseball Talk
also i am pretty sure the rooftops are technically owned by hickory street capital, not the actual cubs -
MLB Imposes 60 Game Season, Spring Training 2.0 Starts in 7 Days
David replied to Cubswin11's topic in General Baseball Talk
I could be off in my thinking but I'd imagine they'd be running at a loss or just barely a profit to run them at such a low capacity. May be more profitable to run the season off as a total loss due to some sort of super rich people write off or insurance claim. i have a hard time believing that (as far as the rooftops go)
