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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1800 on: September 01, 2023, 08:53:41 PM »

All those cities that the White Sox threatened to move to have MLB teams now.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1801 on: September 02, 2023, 01:42:12 PM »

All those cities that the White Sox threatened to move to have MLB teams now.
Let's see if the White Sox threaten to move to Montreal. :P
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1802 on: September 02, 2023, 06:54:40 PM »

The M's are 26-8 since July 24; nice

And the Royals and A's have been bottom-dwelling brothers, below every other team in games above .500, since April 29.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1803 on: September 02, 2023, 08:05:04 PM »

All those cities that the White Sox threatened to move to have MLB teams now.
Let's see if the White Sox threaten to move to Montreal. :P
They can threaten all they want they will never leave Chicago. I don't think it would get approved anyway.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1804 on: September 04, 2023, 11:43:10 AM »

All those cities that the White Sox threatened to move to have MLB teams now.
Let's see if the White Sox threaten to move to Montreal. :P
They can threaten all they want they will never leave Chicago. I don't think it would get approved anyway.

Apparently Jerry wants to go to Nashville, but Nashville doesn't want them  :-D They want to start a new franchise.

What a shitshow of a franchise, would be the worst run baseball team in 2023 if it wasn't for the A's saga though the Royals are just as bad
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1805 on: September 04, 2023, 02:30:40 PM »

All those cities that the White Sox threatened to move to have MLB teams now.
Let's see if the White Sox threaten to move to Montreal. :P
They can threaten all they want they will never leave Chicago. I don't think it would get approved anyway.
You know, we would've said the same thing about the Giants and Dodgers when both teams were in New York (or, for the latter, Brooklyn), and they still bolted for California. It's funny how often we take things for granted, only to lose them in the end.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1806 on: September 04, 2023, 09:31:16 PM »

All those cities that the White Sox threatened to move to have MLB teams now.
Let's see if the White Sox threaten to move to Montreal.
They can threaten all they want they will never leave Chicago. I don't think it would get approved anyway.

Apparently Jerry wants to go to Nashville, but Nashville doesn't want them  :-D They want to start a new franchise.

What a shitshow of a franchise, would be the worst run baseball team in 2023 if it wasn't for the A's saga though the Royals are just as bad
The Mets really aren't ran well either but I eah Jerry is an ass not a fan friendly owner at all.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1807 on: September 05, 2023, 05:07:05 PM »

All those cities that the White Sox threatened to move to have MLB teams now.
Let's see if the White Sox threaten to move to Montreal.
They can threaten all they want they will never leave Chicago. I don't think it would get approved anyway.

Apparently Jerry wants to go to Nashville, but Nashville doesn't want them  :-D They want to start a new franchise.

What a shitshow of a franchise, would be the worst run baseball team in 2023 if it wasn't for the A's saga though the Royals are just as bad
The Mets really aren't ran well either but I eah Jerry is an ass not a fan friendly owner at all.

True. Let us not forget the other team Reinsdorf owns in another sport.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1808 on: September 15, 2023, 10:36:30 PM »

No surprise here, the Braves were the first to clinch, and it's their 26th division title overall, the most ever. (Take that, Yankees and Dodgers!)
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1809 on: September 16, 2023, 07:47:48 AM »

No surprise here, the Braves were the first to clinch, and it's their 26th division title overall, the most ever. (Take that, Yankees and Dodgers!)
I know in the Yankees case they are in a much tougher division historically and the Yankees have won that division 20 times. The Braves only have two titles for all those division titles. Major choke artists in the postseason.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1810 on: September 16, 2023, 03:26:10 PM »

Shame about Shohei Ohtani. The Angels need to send him elsewhere during the offseason.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1811 on: September 17, 2023, 09:40:48 AM »

Shame about Shohei Ohtani. The Angels need to send him elsewhere during the offseason.

He will be a free agent. He can send himself anywhere he wants.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1812 on: September 17, 2023, 11:10:08 AM »

That the Angels have both Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani and have thoroughly mismanaged both is criminal.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1813 on: September 18, 2023, 11:00:35 PM »

Add the Dodgers, Orioles and Rays to the postseason party! I'm happy for Baltimore, which has its first appearance since 2016 (coincidentally the same season that saw the end of the Billy Goat Curse and a 108-year championship drought for a certain favorite team of mine).
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1814 on: September 19, 2023, 06:16:26 AM »

Last week, the Boston Red Sox fired Chaim Bloom, their Chief Baseball Officer. He had done a decent job restocking the farm system, but made other questionable and unpopular moves (trading Mookie Betts). But the straw that broke the camel’s back was the number of fans from opposing teams who showed at Fenway when the Dodgers played the Sox, and when Yankees-Red Sox tickets allegedly sold for pennies on the dollar (relatively speaking). 
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1815 on: September 19, 2023, 11:56:38 PM »

So far, seven teams have been eliminated from postseason contention:

Angels
Athletics
Cardinals
Nationals
Rockies
Royals
White Sox
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1816 on: September 20, 2023, 12:14:45 AM »

I'm happy for Baltimore, which has its first appearance since 2016 (coincidentally the same season that saw the end of the Billy Goat Curse and a 108-year championship drought for a certain favorite team of mine).

It's certainly great for Orioles fans who have watched some dreadfully hideous baseball for most of this century.  The team basically tanked for draft position for several years, and that Kevin Brown fiasco a couple months ago reminded a lot of us that some of the people at the top of the organization are an embarrassment to themselves, the city and Major League Baseball.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1817 on: September 20, 2023, 08:55:08 AM »

It's kind of crazy that the Nationals won the 2019 World Series and they haven't had a season where they have finished over .500 or at .500 since.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1818 on: September 20, 2023, 10:00:35 AM »

It's kind of crazy that the Nationals won the 2019 World Series and they haven't had a season where they have finished over .500 or at .500 since.

Change that to the Royals and 2015 and other than finishing at .500 in 2016, they've been (way) under ever since. 
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1819 on: September 20, 2023, 11:01:36 AM »

That's what can happen when a team goes "all in" for one season.  They deplete their farm system in trades and blow a lot of cash on short contracts for free agents. It leaves them wanting for resources for many seasons after.
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Re: BASE-BALL
« Reply #1820 on: September 20, 2023, 10:13:33 PM »

It's kind of crazy that the Nationals won the 2019 World Series and they haven't had a season where they have finished over .500 or at .500 since.

Change that to the Royals and 2015 and other than finishing at .500 in 2016, they've been (way) under ever since.
Yeah them too but they kind of came out of nowhere and had a three year run then went back to their normal ways again. With the Nationals they had been good for awhile and then fell off the tank after winning.
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