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  1. jad
    You didn't watch? Well damn I guess you showed THEM!
  2. jad
    Of course. You can have a great series on the high school level. But you won't see Mookie, or Shohei, or Yamamota. Btw, I aagree entirely about the stress of watching--I knew by the third inning there was NO WAY I wanted to go through that. I went to sleep. LAD was no worse off by virtue of me sleeping through it, but I was MUCH better off.
  3. jad
    It's easy to operate at a 'loss' when the value of your team is increasing at astonishing rates every year.
  4. jad
    I kinda think Kike would have had it; seemed he had a bead on it. Can you imagine the feeling if the collision had knocked the ball loose?
  5. jad
    You mean by showcasing the best players and winning the most games , by selling out a 50,000+ stadium, and selling more gear than any other team? By bringing in the best international players along with their millions of fans? and generating more revenue than any other team? And providing two of the greatest performances in baseball history by players in a World Series? You need to put down whatever you're smoking and buy season tix to the Marlins.
  6. jad
    Alas, I will take that bet at whatever odds you want.
  7. jad
    Exactly. How do small market teams like those in NY, Phily, Boston, Chicago, Miami, and Houston manage to compete at all?
  8. jad
    Well, except for the game-saving hit in game 6. There's that.
  9. jad
    Amazing series! I thoiught Ohtani was teh best pitcher I'd seen until I saw Yamamoto= Love teh Dodgers, since I lived so long in LA, and saw real close what happens when you move from a cheap-aass owner who cares only about profits (McCourt--when I got to LA, the common phtrase was "it's ONLY the Dodgers') to a group that cares about winning and its fans. (Also, of course, because I like to see great RS players play, and this is often a good place to find them!)
  10. jad
    Where? I couldn't find it and I spent a reasonable amount of time lookjing for it!
  11. jad
    Wbere's the WSeries thread? It's not possible that RS fans are brooding over trades and salaries and xWAR while missing some of the greatest baseball ever played by some of the greatest players who ever played, is it?
  12. jad
    I see the typical RS faan is out in force today: bad-mouth guys who left. Because really, who wants to watch an MVP at work, or, say, a guy who hits over 100 RBI, or put up with a manager like Francona? Such a fan is like a 10-year-old obsessed with trading away all the stuff he's gotten bored with.
  13. jad
    Under McCourt, the Dodgers were MISERABLE and if you bothered to go (not many people did), you would see fans leaving and arriving at the same time (around the 5th inning). It was a crappy product. Then they spent money and got players like Betts (remember him?) and Ohtani, and now the place is packed, and they're selling gear all over the world. You prefer the Rays business model?
  14. jad
    To me, it's that "Yale-speak", which has always irritated the crap out of me.
  15. jad
    Breslian Logic always makes my head spin. But since there is rarely a connection between Breslow's words (whatever they mean, if anything) and his thoughts (to the extent that they are at all coherent), it's probably not worthwhile to critique either.
  16. jad
    What's the problem? Breslow just said he'll sign both Bregman and Bellinger for what he saved from Devers, which is FANTASTIC, since both apparently have agreed to deep discounts and will be signing at about 15mil/year! Eaat your hearts out, haters!
  17. jad
    Didn't Mike return a salary from a Japanese team because he had played so badly for them? RIP
  18. jad
    Yet we also saw during the playoffs that we need more hitting. 6 runs won't win many three-game series, no matter who is on the mound.
  19. jad
    Agree totally. But what likely wasnt right (remember his opening two dozen ABs?) was likely because the organization he came up with started jerking him around as early as spring training, then when he was raking again, they got rid of him, bad-mouthing him the entire time and disseminating rumors (with no evidence) that he was a 'bad team-mate'.
  20. jad
    How about a left-handed power bat who, in an off year, hits 35 HR and 115 RBIs?
  21. jad
    Yeah, too bad the RS didn't have, say, a left-handed power hitter w/ 115 RBIs and 35 HR and a proven track record against the Yankees. I mean, where do you even find guys like that?
  22. jad
    You mean, like one of the teams winning two games in a row? Yeah, I think that's possible.
  23. jad
    Stop repeating the management line. One of those supposed deadwoods had a crappy year and still hit 35 hr and 105 RBI
  24. jad
    Why not 100%? Just use ROBO umps all the time, since ROBO umps under the challenge system are unerringly correct by definition. Adding challenge drama is unnecessary, time-consuming, and irritating as hell.
  25. jad
    Except I do not agree this is better than nothing. This just adds a layer of 'administration'; sort of like saying 'we need more doctors and nurses; let's hire an insurance company.'
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