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Also only the second player in MLB history to be teammates with his own son...
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Well, prior to 2016, it was not uncommon for opposing fans, primarily Cardinals's fans, to trash talk about the "Century of Losing". Brewers' fans are closer, but don't exactly have a lot of successes to brag about, so their trash talk focuses on the Packers. And be kind to fans of losing teams. It's easy to find a group of people get behind a team like the Yankees, who win every year. But the most dedicated baseball fans in my eyes are the peiople who rally behind teams like the Pirates, who have watched their ownership let MLB stack the odds against them and these fans know they are in for a long season, but get behind their team anyway. Weird story about Cardinals' broadcasts. In the 1980's, on rare occasions, I was able to pick up those games on my radio (like, a radio with an antenna - none of the internet stuff) when I was growing up in Massachusetts. I don't recall the station's call letters, but I would listen for a while until the signal faded, just in shock at how strong it must have been...
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Confidence or not, a good manager cannot let his bench players simply rot on the pine until someone gets hurt. They need occasional action...
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Ah yes, forerunner to baseballs' drug policy that had nothing to do with steroids. Who will ever forget the Pittsburgh Drug Trials and their highlights, such as Tim Raines' confession to sliding into bases head first because he had vials of cocaine in his back pocket, or members of the Pirates' bullpen, primarily the late Rod Scurry, testifying to meeting dealers during games, not to mention the man who should have the entire scandal named after him, Steve Howe, whose career included 1 Rookie of the Year Award and seven lifetime bans for drug violations. Oh, and 4 members of the KC Royals (Willie Wilson, Willie Aikens, Vida Blue and Jerry Martin) once spending the off-season in prison for possession of cocaine. The Good Old Days...
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1. Bud Selig did that. 2. Not to me. Other sports play league-wide schedules, but I still enjoy the Super Bowl and NBA championship series. 3. Didn't that happen before interleague play, too? 4. I hope I do not need to re-state my opinion on this.
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I love them. I just wish everyone had the DH, and the different set of rules makes zero sense to me. I am well beyond thinking "that is part of the beauty of baseball." It isn't. It's now part of the sports remarkably slow method of fixing mistakes and loud self-adulation when they finally get it right...
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The Astros were doing that NL-style before the Cardinals and with much less success with players like Cesar Cedeno, Enos Cabell, Terry Puhl, Jose Cruz, Craig Reynolds, and Jeff Leonard. Terry Puhl gave you the added bonus of probably playing the shallowest center field in the history of the game. Had he a better throwing arm, the 8-3 putout would have been a lot more common...
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In the interest of correct diction, apparently a group of Cardinals is, in fact, not a gaggle. Proper terminology would be a college, a conclave of cardinals, a deck, a radiance, or (yes, this is true) a Vatican....
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Where I grew up, we found the quarries safer and cleaner to swim in. Granted, this was a few decades back...
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I have been to Cards' games at Wrigley. During the game, their fans can be as obnoxious as Hell as their red tide sweeps through the stands. But after the game, if you run into a gaggle of them, they can be some of the most pleasant people you ever hope to meet...
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I did like the NL Astros back when they were all about stolen bases and hideous uniforms. Those late 70's/early 80's Astros with the "orange rainbow" might have been the ugliest uniforms in MLB history, with the possible exception of the White Sox unis featuring white shirts with wide black collars and shorts. And maybe the Padres unis that can be best described as "featuring a color scheme often found in the contents of infant diapers"...
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Having grown up near the banks of the Charles River, I can tell you right now one of the rarest things in it is water....
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OK, I am not in favor of giving arms to a cybernetic version of Angel Hernandez that is able to make horrific decisions at inhuman speeds. Can we instead just equip them with Artificial Intelligence capable of quashing any controversy with clever and scathing insults? Like a robotic Don Rickles? Also, they would need to be mic'd...
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Now? We're talking about MLB here - an organization where the employees once had to sue for the right to switch jobs...
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There are security issues with coolers. For example, patrons can use them to bring in explosive devices, or worse, cans of Stroh’s Light that they didn’t pay $11 apiece for. Are you now trying to take away my God-given right to pay $11 for a cup of liquid that tastes almost, but not quite, completely unlike beer?
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High school is probably the highest level in which pitchers should be allowed to hit. And if some team offered me a job scouting high school games, I’d leap at the opportunity. I’d probably be awful at it, but it would probably be the happiest I’ve ever been at a job. Not that I respect your Chief of Staff for doing it for free, and I question why you knighted him. Clearly the veggie dogs have clouded your thinking...
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Even without interleague games, the DH needs to go. And no, AL pitchers batting in the World Series is NOT a good thing. I'm beginning to think you like veggie dogs, too...
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Well, bear in mind, too, that while the Sox have been impressive, six of our games - and three of our losses - were against a Baltimore team not held in the best regard...
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I can't root for Philly teams in any sport. And I'm in Chicago. Cardinals fans are about as welcome here as Yankee fans in Boston. As an AL guy in Chicago, for me it is Red Sox with the White Sox as a distant second. Then a bulk of about 26 teams. Then the Mets and far, far behind them in last place is that pinstriped team. If the Yankees were playing a team comprised of axe-murdering meth dealers, I would still be thinking "Well, how many axe murders are we really talking about here?"
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If there is a non-Sox team I’d root for, it will be the Angels. But I expect their entire pitching staff to get injured at some point...
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Can you blame them? He completely ignored the DH issue and instead gave them veggie dogs!! The only thing worse than watching a pitcher bat is watching a pitcher bat while eating a veggie dog...
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Maybe one of us needs to run an underground campaign for Commissioner. You know, start on Twitter and then move it to YouTube before taking on TikTok. Get some support from the public folks. This approach would certainly work better if Commissioner was an elected position rather than a sinecure role decided by a bunch of self-appointed tax evading, caviar-slurping Newport residents with Italian sports cars. But it’s all we got..
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You can claim every prospect in the minors will be a bust and you’ll be right about 80- 90% of the time. Especially if you fudge with the definition of a bust. Lee might never make the majors on a regular basis (despite really being just one step away), but that doesn’t make him a “busted prospect.” Now if he gets noticeably worse or fails to improve in 2 to 3 more years, then he will be a busted prospect...
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Whether or not people are excited about this guy isn’t the criteria for “busted prospect.” I mean, if your review of him didn’t say “little speed guy” and discuss levels, it could easily have applied Dalbec edited last season. Sure Dalbec did make it to AAA unlike Lee, but Dalbec also didn’t start his MiLB career at 18. And really, I’m not sure “hasn’t made it above AA” is even a criticism any more. AAA doesn’t appear to be a necessary developmental step in most organizations and really for many teams, it’s a place to bury MiLB free agents and 40 man roster surplus. The AAA leagues themselves are usually loaded with former major leaguers who just can’t find jobs at that level any more and the league average age is usually in the 27 to 28 range, unlike AA and below, which are almost exclusively limited to much younger players...
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If you saw those same (re: current) rankings 10 days ago, what would you have thought? Now maybe I am wrong, but is part of the purpose of those rankings to determine final standings?
