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Offline Machiavelli

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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #400 on: October 25, 2016, 07:52:53 pm »
@EasyAce

I accidentally screwed up your post. I was trying to reply to it and I accidentally hit modify instead. I'm so sorry.

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to make me a moderator after all.  **nononono*
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #401 on: October 25, 2016, 08:18:45 pm »
Quote from: Machiavelli on October 25, 2016, 07:52:53 pm
@EasyAce

I accidentally screwed up your post. I was trying to reply to it and I accidentally hit modify instead. I'm so sorry.

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to make me a moderator after all.  **nononono*

It took him hours to compose that!  22222frying pan
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #402 on: October 25, 2016, 08:28:04 pm »
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #403 on: October 25, 2016, 08:34:53 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on October 25, 2016, 08:18:45 pm
It took him hours to compose that!  22222frying pan

I know.  8888crybaby
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #404 on: October 25, 2016, 11:00:14 pm »
Quote from: Machiavelli on October 25, 2016, 07:52:53 pm
@EasyAce

I accidentally screwed up your post. I was trying to reply to it and I accidentally hit modify instead. I'm so sorry.

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to make me a moderator after all.  **nononono*

You are forgiven. Say three Hail Maddons. ;)
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #405 on: October 26, 2016, 01:17:10 am »
Quote from: EasyAce on October 25, 2016, 11:00:14 pm
You are forgiven. Say three Hail Maddons. ;)

@EasyAce

Thank you. You're very kind.  ^-^
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MLB: Yankee Stadium Introduces a New Way of Alienating Fans
« Reply #406 on: October 30, 2016, 02:01:13 am »
MLB: Yankee Stadium Introduces a New Way of Alienating Fans

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October 29, 2016

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You’ve heard of the $13 beers, the top-down strategy of keeping the 99% out of premium seats, and other types of alienation in play when you see the New York Yankees at home. Sadly, the disciples of Steinbrenner were just getting warmed up with those twists on the modern baseball experience. On Opening Day 2016, we noticed one of the most offensive new quirks we’ve seen in a ballpark: mini-suites covered in dark glass that block the view of fans headed through the concourse from concessions stands to their seats.

Though in place for a few seasons now, it was our first experience with the latest form of elitist excess at the Stadium — something sure to make HBO’s John Oliver and his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cringe. We came across the obstructions walking to right-field box seats when, to our left, we noticed glass enclosures tinted dark blue standing between us and the field. The little party areas, which measure about 15 ft. by 10 ft., replace what were previously open-air spaces between the concessions stands and field-level seating. That open concourse the architects envisioned is officially closed.
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #407 on: December 11, 2016, 12:58:15 pm »
After the Washington Nationals failed to land Andrew McCutchen from the Pirates, they trade away THREE 'high' pitching prospects...

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/12/white-sox-trade-adam-eaton-nationals.html

...for White Sox' Adam Eaton. (I like this trade very much, despite Giolito and Lopez both being Top 10 RH prospects....no team can afford a rotation full of "Scherzer-money" contracts).

Eaton has a high "wins over" value, and figure moving Harper to CF will keep him happy and out of pinstripes...and putting Eaton in RF.

The NATS just traded Danny Espinosa to the Angels, which means Trey Turner is the SS of the future.

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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #408 on: December 11, 2016, 02:21:36 pm »
No one in Pittsburgh wants to lose Cutch. Even Ben Roethlisberger of the Steelers lobbied for the Pirates not to trade him. Unfortunately, the Pirates under the current ownership have made a lot of bad trades in the past few years, getting rid of good players and not getting much in return. For the moment, no trade of McCutchen is in the offing. I'm wondering what they're going to do about the Korean infielder, Jung Ho Kang, who's had legal (DUI) problems in his home country and is accused of sexual assault in Chicago.  **nononono*
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #409 on: December 11, 2016, 02:45:31 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on December 11, 2016, 02:21:36 pm

No one in Pittsburgh wants to lose Cutch. Even Ben Roethlisberger of the Steelers lobbied for the Pirates not to trade him. Unfortunately, the Pirates under the current ownership have made a lot of bad trades in the past few years, getting rid of good players and not getting much in return. For the moment, no trade of McCutchen is in the offing. I'm wondering what they're going to do about the Korean infielder, Jung Ho Kang, who's had legal (DUI) problems in his home country and is accused of sexual assault in Chicago.  **nononono*


I'm thinking....that their thinking was ..."We're sick and tired of being bridesmaids".  You shake up the organization by trading an ageing veteran on, what should be, the downside of his career.

Hadn't heard about Kang's issue(s).  'Nice' guy......   :pondering:
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #410 on: December 11, 2016, 02:54:39 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on December 11, 2016, 02:45:31 pm
  'Nice' guy......   :pondering:

Did he finish last?
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #411 on: December 11, 2016, 03:30:34 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on December 11, 2016, 02:54:39 pm
Did he finish last?
He ended up with a wrecked car, that's for sure.
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... According to police, Kang didn’t stop after driving a rented BMW into a guardrail at around 2:48am while returning to his hotel in southern Seoul. The crash damaged the guardrail, and the vehicle, and the debris hit a car parked nearby, whose driver reported the matter to police.

A 29-year-old man who was in Kang’s vehicle initially claimed he was behind the wheel. But police questioned Kang after the vehicle’s security camera showed him driving it.

Police said Kang’s blood alcohol level at the time of the crash would have been 0.084 percent, beyond the country’s 0.05 percent legal limit. ...
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #412 on: December 12, 2016, 01:13:58 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on December 11, 2016, 02:54:39 pm
Did he finish last?

The Leo Durocher school of how to win friends and influence people.
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #413 on: December 12, 2016, 09:43:47 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on December 12, 2016, 01:13:58 pm
The Leo Durocher school of how to win friends and influence people.

I love it when people "get" it!   :beer:
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #414 on: December 12, 2016, 09:52:37 pm »
Kenley Jansen signed an $80 million, five year deal with the Dodgers, his incumbent club.
Took less money to stay with the Dodgers. Strange stat: Jansen had 47 saves in 2016 and
no Dodger reliever not named Jansen had even one regular-season save. (In the
postseason, of course, one Dodger not named Jansen had a save---some guy named
Kershaw . . . )
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #415 on: January 19, 2017, 08:55:52 pm »
Hurry up, spring.  I'm dying for some baseball ...

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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #416 on: January 22, 2017, 07:25:27 pm »
Quote from: Polly Ticks on January 19, 2017, 08:55:52 pm
Hurry up, spring.  I'm dying for some baseball ...

Yep....

And congrats to my team"s newest addition (and greatest slugger) to the Baseball HOF...... Jeff Bagwell.

The "original" Killer B's now have a corner of their own.
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Re: Baseball 2016---Season On!
« Reply #417 on: January 23, 2017, 01:54:50 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on January 22, 2017, 07:25:27 pm
Yep....

And congrats to my team"s newest addition (and greatest slugger) to the Baseball HOF...... Jeff Bagwell.

The "original" Killer B's now have a corner of their own.

Absolutely!

Have you seen the Bagwell and Biggio statues outside of minute maid park?

They're pretty cool
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