@bigleagues @MLBPA @Brent_Rooker25 I don't know that the answer is but it bothers me when statements like this pretend there is not a problem at all.
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Collin Chlarson
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@MLBPA @Brent_Rooker25 I keep seeing these very vague pushbacks on the salary cap, but literally nothing of substance being offered by MLBPA or its player reps.
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@webdevMason @AviWoolf Going to go great when I tell my wife she can go have a girl’s night under one condition.
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I read this article twice to try to understand how non-monogamy could possibly be a childcare hack, and afaict the answer is "if you let your husband have sex with other people, he'll have to let you have sex with other people, which means he'll agree to watch the kids sometimes"
Leah Libresco Sargeant@LeahLibresco
Begging people to remember you can have *friends* "For these moms, non-monogamy seems to offer more than just a way to reclaim their libido. Could it also be the secret to raising kids without completely resenting one’s husband?" thecut.com/article/non-mo…
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@MatthewRen17474 @AlTheBoss03 Why? Baseball is not like football. One player doesn’t matter that much.
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@AlTheBoss03 Yet he never won anything and was injured for most of the second half of his career. That always needs to be included in any retrospective of Griffey.
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Name an MLB prospect who lived up to every bit of the hype. No shortcuts. No excuses. Just greatness.
I’ll start: Ken Griffey Jr..
The Kid didn’t just meet expectations—he blew past them. 630 HRs, effortless swing, and a first-ballot Hall of Fame career.
Your turn .
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@chrisdeville First two are all-timers. Everything else makes me wish he never moved back to SC. Too much watered down country.
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It's easy to reduce Band Of Horses to "The Funeral" or write them off as weak-sauce blog-rock from a time when indie was swerving toward the masses. But revisiting their debut 20 years later, I was stunned by how many great songs they strung together. 🐎
stereogum.com/2492223/everyt…
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@LenardW84381897 @thats_bb_suzyn The fact that you all want Cal Raleigh, or any other player on Team US, to be held to the same standards and expectations as Aaron Judge, is funny.
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Notice how you don’t see Yankees Twitter ripping Cal Raleigh for not even making the lineup by the end of the WBC.
Because we support all of Team USA.
Its so sad how so many of you couldn’t enjoy Aaron Judge for two weeks.
SleeperMLB@SleeperMLB
Cal Raleigh in the #WorldBaseballClassic : 0.00 Batting Average 0/9 AB 5 Strikeouts 1 Denied Handshake
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How many rings do Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Bonds, Tony Gwynn, and Mike Trout have?
Dan Clark@DanClarkSports
𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧: Aaron Judge will never be considered a genuine great of the game because he: (a) has never won (let alone led a team to) anything of significance. (b) continually chokes in clutch moments, in big games - both offensively and defensively. He's a regular season hero.
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@townmoron @jtLOL Imitating Trump like he has been just looks weak.
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Hiring retarded millennials to run his social media is actually going to be the thing that keeps Newsom out of the White House.
It’s unfortunate, because hundreds of other things are more disqualifying, but it’s also true.
Governor Newsom Press Office@GovPressOffice
How is Florida a real place? How is Texas a real place? See, we can do it too…
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@ja3k_ Probably because our whole economy depends on it.
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@dynastydude2 @metaplexmovies I like the Shield but the nu-metal is a good one. Kind of accurate.
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@metaplexmovies Seems to go against the grain but I thought it was pretty outdated and ridiculous. Some good stuff in there and certainly not bad for the time, but it’s basically like if The Wire was made inside a nu-metal music video (derogatory).
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I’m running out of great shows. How good is THE SHIELD?
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@Christian_NYYST @WellspringGP But this wasn’t game 7 of the World Series, and both teams want those guys able to pitch game 7 of the World Series
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The Padres told Team USA that Mason Miller could only pitch in a save situation.
The Yankees told Team USA that David Bednar was unavailable.
The Cubs told Venezuela that Daniel Palencia could only pitch in a save situation.
There were other pitchers Venezuela didn’t have at their disposal because their MLB teams said they were unavailable.
As much fun and as exciting as the WBC was this is exactly why it’ll always be a flawed tournament.
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@MarinerMuse They’ll never recover from laying off Corey Brock.
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It’s pretty crazy that we’re about to enter a season where the Mariners are projected to be as good as any American League team, and the heavily MLB focused The Athletic is still choosing not to cover them with any regularity.
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@NamethatYank He’s not a hitter so I think he is free of blame.
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The only guy that is free of blame from this entire USA team in the WBC tournament is Paul Skenes. Am I wrong?
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@C2Cbsbl @ChrisCoop_ Yep, that is why playoff series are more than one game.
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@ChrisCoop_ Why are we pretending that baseball in general isn’t just a crapshoot lmao? Crazy shit happens every week
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But what about the WBC was indicative of it not being a crapshoot? Eduardo Rodriguez and his 5.02 ERA throwing 4.1 IP of no run baseball against one of the greatest lineups you can possibly assemble is legitimately exactly representative of that😂
What's funny is if this super team was a hypothetical Cashman roster, 50% of the fanbase would call for Cash to get fired and say the roster construction was faulty because they can't hit when it mattered.
I don't understand why people hate hearing how faulty and silly baseball is in small sample sizes. The WBC was 7 games. Sometimes teams' playoff schedules only see 3-5 days. If you diced up the 162 game season into 7 game windows, you'd find maybe the entire player base of MLB at the top of OPS rankings in at least one of those windows.
Chris@Chris_NYY28
The worst part of the World Baseball Classic is Team USA's complete inability to score runs is feeding into the "its a crapshoot" theory. The worst.
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@HalToHell Yeah, last year the Pirates went 4-2 against the Dodgers. I kind discount anything people say about baseball that don't first acknowledge it is a high variance sport.
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Certain people will look at this and say the lineup with first ballot Hall of Famers simply isn’t good enough instead of admitting that baseball, in small samples, is incredibly random
AT@YankeeWRLD
There is no excuse for a lineup as talented as Team USA’s to be this horrible. Ridiculous
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@TAT1SSZN What are you talking about? Cal has been mocked on here for two weeks. One of the most hated players in MLB now.
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He's right btw the AL MVP runner up had zero hits this whole tournament and he's gonna get off completely free
Micah Parsons@MicahhParsons11
Media will always put out whatever narrative that fits ! saw Judge go crazy all wbc! Every athlete has its night!
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Maybe it’s just me but I think you should want a player who hits “125 mph” 10 times out of 10 over a player who strikes out once every 30 ABs.
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@Aspire2Humility @SouthernKeeks His principles are that Jews are bad and controlling everything.
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@SouthernKeeks Don't get me wrong. Your last line in the post is legit. And I don't hold any special feelings one way or the other for Miller.
But.
Saying "it's refreshing to see someone in the admin have *some* principle beyond blind allegiance" seems to essentially endorse your last line.
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It's amazing to see TDS in action like this.
Tim praises Joe Kent not because Kent is a good guy (because he's not), but because he opposes Trump now.
If your only guiding principle is PRO or ANTI Trump, you're an actual stupid person.
Tim Miller@Timodc
Have talked a lot of shit about Joe Kent over the years (deserved) and can't speak to all of his motivations here but I gotta say its pretty refreshing to see that someone in the administration has a red line on something.
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