I’m a Yankees fan, I would love them to make the World Series every year. You are Dodgers fan you would but I think we should not be the ones arguing whether teams can swallow up an all star team should be allowed to do so.
Then you will always get the Galatico shit shows of Madrid where they have all the names but aren’t a team.
I went through the McCourt era of a $75m payroll and the Trashtros cheating the Dodgers out of a title pre this spending era. So I’ll soak in a hopefully good part of the cycle.
$$$ spent over the last two seasons.
A lot of it makes sense. Hate to say it, but on balance, you probably have to give credit to the Padres more than anybody else.
Kinda surprised to see the Tigers high as that, would’ve guessed they’d be right towards the bottom, but I suppose they’ve had an alright couple of years to show for it.
Where the fuck were the A’s spending that money? Opossum extermination?
Naturally the LolMets are the funniest part.
#FSGOut!
Only thing they care about is their frickin’ soccah team, kid.
Anyone watching spring training?
What’s the feeling on the ball/strike challenge?
What’s that when it’s at home…
They have hawk-eye on the pitches. Only the pitcher, catcher or batter can challenge an ump’s ball/strike call. Each team has two challenges per game (including extra innings). Successful challenges retained.
Apparently each challenge adds about 17 seconds to a game. So there’s not much to say about it, really. Dunno why I asked. Probably had a few.
Aaron Boone won’t be thrown out of games so much nowadays.
That can only be considered a loss for the game. I love watching any coach lose their shit with an ump, but Boone is far and away the best at it in the league.
I doubt Boone will disappoint to be fair.
Yeah that’s cooked then. Wasn’t particularly sure how I’d feel considering America at the moment but I don’t need to bother now.
There’s always the Blue Jays, or the Ōshū Dodgers.
Lucky LFC isn’t owned by Yanks or anything.
Ah but Werner is a Democrat I can live with that.
Toronto that’s not a bad shout.
Baseball starts early morning in Japan. And then rests for a week.
I like the Tokyo series, but I’d feel a little miffed if I were a Cubs fan. Those two games counted as Cubs home games, as well.
So Red Sox fans love to complain about FSG and being cheapskates. They love to complain about anything really (and I say this as Red Sox fan who lives in a Red Sox “area”).
Anyway, Red Sox have spent a bunch of money this off-season and have built a good looking team with All-Stars and All-Star calibre players right through the lineup.
They still have promoted from within though and named Kristian Campbell to their opening day roster. He’s a 22 year old who had an insanely high hit ratio in minor leagues, he went from A+ to MLB starter in one season (for anyone who doesn’t know that’s like going from League Two to Premier League). He only actually got to AA about halfway through the year, I saw his debut with Portland Sea Dogs, and then went straight through to AAA side Worcester.
So he’s a bonafide feel good story. In his first game he strikes out twice before getting his first hit that leads to Abreu blasting a 3 run homerun to win the game. This apparently wasn’t good enough for the talking heads of Boston radio who the next day ripped Campbell for looking “scared” and said he doesn’t look ready for MLB.
In the two games since then Campbell has registered a further four hits including his first homerun. The official MLB account fired some shots at those radio presenters immediately…
