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That’s a great deal for the Padres outside some catastrophic injury.

I have been unable to figure this out. How did the Padres go from the have nots to the haves? For my entire life they operated in a similar fashion to a small market team, which I think is fairly accurate. They never drew particularly well and weren’t overly popular.

When I research their ownership group, they are wealthy of course, but don’t appear overly wealthy by franchise ownership standards.

What am I missing? How did the Padres go from being the poor team to spending like they have over the last few seasons?

Were they always profitable and the owners simply greedy? Did they get some huge cable deal being the only professional sports team left in San Diego?

It’s just strange to me. The only times I’ve seen small market teams all of a sudden start spending is if they get an extraordinarily wealthy owner or a new ballpark. They are still playing in Petco and I’m struggling to see why this team that always had $40 million payrolls to being one of the over $200 million teams?

I’m watching them spend all this money during Covid when they could never retain talent before, let alone go out and buy players and wondering what I’m missing? Are they washing money for the Tijuana cartel?

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That’s a great deal for the Padres outside some catastrophic injury.

I have been unable to figure this out. How did the Padres go from the have nots to the haves? For my entire life they operated in a similar fashion to a small market team, which I think is fairly accurate. They never drew particularly well and weren’t overly popular.

When I research their ownership group, they are wealthy of course, but don’t appear overly wealthy by franchise ownership standards.

What am I missing? How did the Padres go from being the poor team to spending like they have over the last few seasons?

Were they always profitable and the owners simply greedy? Did they get some huge cable deal being the only professional sports team left in San Diego?

It’s just strange to me. The only times I’ve seen small market teams all of a sudden start spending is if they get an extraordinarily wealthy owner or a new ballpark. They are still playing in Petco and I’m struggling to see why this team that always had $40 million payrolls to being one of the over $200 million teams?

I’m watching them spend all this money during Covid when they could never retain talent before, let alone go out and buy players and wondering what I’m missing? Are they washing money for the Tijuana cartel?

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I think it was a mix of being generally cheap/greedy, and trying to shortcut ways to a championship. AKA copy the Marlins strategy. They forgot though that apparently only Miami is lucky enough to make that bullshit work, and they made it work twice.

2015 was the last time the Friars went all-in, when they thought they could win the division. They went out and acquired Matt Kemp, James Shields, Justin Upton, and Craig Kimbrel, among others. It didn't work, they finished below .500, and then immediately sold off most of those guys after the year.

Bringing the story full-circle, the return for trading Shields to the White Sox included.....Tatis Jr!

It will be interesting if anyone in San Diego will give any fucks about their team. I think the rest of the country will care more than SoCal.

If anyone can light that fuse it will be Tatis. Can’t wait

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It will be interesting if anyone in San Diego will give any fucks about their team. I think the rest of the country will care more than SoCal.

If anyone can light that fuse it will be Tatis. Can’t wait

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well, the Padres are the only pro franchise in the major sports (no football, baseketball, hockey) and SDSU is the only top college football program in town...little competition in spectator sports market...the deal should have a market

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That’s a great deal for the Padres outside some catastrophic injury.

I have been unable to figure this out. How did the Padres go from the have nots to the haves? For my entire life they operated in a similar fashion to a small market team, which I think is fairly accurate. They never drew particularly well and weren’t overly popular.

When I research their ownership group, they are wealthy of course, but don’t appear overly wealthy by franchise ownership standards.

What am I missing? How did the Padres go from being the poor team to spending like they have over the last few seasons?

Were they always profitable and the owners simply greedy? Did they get some huge cable deal being the only professional sports team left in San Diego?

It’s just strange to me. The only times I’ve seen small market teams all of a sudden start spending is if they get an extraordinarily wealthy owner or a new ballpark. They are still playing in Petco and I’m struggling to see why this team that always had $40 million payrolls to being one of the over $200 million teams?

I’m watching them spend all this money during Covid when they could never retain talent before, let alone go out and buy players and wondering what I’m missing? Are they washing money for the Tijuana cartel?

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I don't completely understand this either.

It doesn't help that a lot of people in the area are Dodgers fans, which is why sometimes Dodgers road games in San Diego sound like home games.

I took a tour of Petco in 2010. It was a much better deal than the tour I took of Fenway. I think the Fenway tour cost $14 in 2007, and was your standard stadium tour. You also got nothing at the end. The Petco tour was $9, and you got taken all over the stadium, including the clubhouse. We even ran into Chase Headley, who had just turned a corner and was startled to see a big group of people in his face!

At the end of the tour, they gave everyone a free Padres cap -- one which would cost far more than $9 if bought separately! Wow!

During the tour, we happened to walk by a Padres season tickets sales pitch to a group of people there for that purpose. The guy doing the pitch stopped our group and said, "Oh, if anyone in the tour wants to come to the dinner we're having tonight, let me know, and all of you will be welcome!" The college version of me would have jumped at that, but at age 38 I wasn't going to jack a free dinner from the Padres. Maybe from the Giants, but not the Padres.

Regarding Tatis, there are three real risks to it:

1) The obvious injury situation. However, they will definitely have an insurance policy on this, so the risk isn't as big as it appears to be.

2) The risk of him falling into the toilet, BJ Upton style. As gut already mentioned, Tatis is more talented than BJ Upton. However, it should also be noted that Tatis' dad fell off pretty badly after a great season at age 24. While Junior is better than Daddy, it's still something to note. There's also the realistic chance that an injury changes the trajectory of his career, even if he's only out a year or so.

3) The free agent price steeply declining over the next decade. It doesn't seem like it now, given that Bauer is getting $40m to pitch this year, but there has been a general push away from monster free agent contracts, and this will be hastened by the expiration of those horrible cable TV deals around the country, as time passes. It's also unknown what COVID will do to baseball long term. For example, stadiums may have to operate at less capacity for many years to come. It's very possible that we will see a regression in baseball salaries, making Tatis eventually stand out as an outlier in pay.

Also, Tatis is only 2 seasons in, so he could have been had cheaply for the next 4 seasons. That also has to be figured into the "deal" he got.


I do wonder if we're going to start seeing more of the following in baseball contracts:

1) Bauer-type deals -- more money per year, shorter duration.

2) Tatis-type deals -- locking up superstars under team control early, for contracts which extend all or most of their career.

3) The end of lucrative 3-4 year contracts for mid-level players, to where they are forced to take less money and/or less time.


In general, I feel that middling players are overpaid right now, and superstars are actually worth the big money -- but only while they're young enough to be superstars. I think that the analytics nerds are realizing this, as well.

Strangely I heard the former Marlins GM David Samson, who is a colorful and arrogant guy, but also kind of blunt talk about this after this thread yesterday.

The owner is rather new according to him. He said he’s trying to avoid what he had to deal with and other teams have to deal with with stars. He got asked for 3 years about what are you going to do with Stanton? Any GM of a struggling team will get bombarded with this for years. He was against the move as he stressed the fact he has only played 143 games, and whatever he projects at, you can’t know.

He said there is a concerted push to make Tatis Jr the face of baseball as he’s a guy who is willing to sign autographs and do the fan stuff. Baseball doesn’t have any marketable guys.

In general, he didn’t like the move. Said this isn’t the NBA where having $600 million wrapped up in Machado and Tatis Jr guarantees anything. You need to also be able to surround them with talent. He’s a blowhard and was Loria’s lapdog down there in Miami, but always an entertaining listen. It was the local hour of the Lebatard podcast.

The Indians have did this buy the arb years thing and give guys a little more earlier move since the 90s. Those John Hart teams that we had. He may have started that movement? It’s generally almost always worked for us, and it’s the only reason why we have Jose Ramirez right now until 2024. Lindor had a better agent and declined when approached years ago.

The thing is, Cleveland has always gotten a better deal out of it, and have been generally right with their choices on who to pay, and we paid Jose $6.25 million last year, and have him at $9 million this year, and $12 and $14 the following two. Clearly that’s insane value.

When you average in 4 years of arb for Tatis Jr, you are probably averaging this contract upwards of $30 million. That strikes me as likely cheap and a great deal barring a change in the entire landscape of MLB, as he looks as sure thing as anyone can get, but you never know.

As an Indians fan, it’s painful to lose guys as our scouts, farm system, and player development has done so well the past 15 years that many have walked. I’d prefer to keep them, but not at the cost of losing the team. As long as this owner is in charge, I will never be comfortable that they wouldn’t move if they fucked up for $300 million. I wish Gilbert would have bought them as he’s top 20 in the world rich at this point.

John Fisher owns the Oakland A's, bought originally for $150m and now valued at $1.1b. He also is one of the grifter owners who pumps nothing back into his asset. Covid has made this even worse, as now it appears the A's (as a stand-alone business) are cash-poor!

Deferred payments aren't exactly new in MLB, but it usually only shows up with monster deals, and tends to benefit both the player and team. "Hey Bryce Harper, you don't really need $28m a year right? We'll give you 24 and pay out the rest until you're 50 years old like a retirement account!" Then of course there was the strange Bobby Bonilla situation, where he still gets a million a year between 2011- 2035 from a buyout in 2001.

Oakland this offseason is making all free agent offers 1 year offers with deferred payments! They offered their FA SS Semien 1/12.5, with it deferred for x amount of years. He probably wiped his ass with the offer while signing with Toronto for 1/18. They pivoted off that and used that money to sign closer Trevor Rosenthal for 1 year $11m. Except they will pay him 3m this year, 3m in 2022, and 5m in 2023! Thats just sad.

Fisher's overall personal net worth is 2.9b by the way.

EDIT: apparently the Nats did the same thing with Brad Hand. Not really surprising, as speaking of my hypothetical Bryce Harper example, when they tried to keep him they were offering A LOT of the money in deferrals.

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What this ownership group is doing to my beloved Red Sox is a travesty. You are the Boston Red Sox with a history of supposed history of racism and you trade away the best young black player of the last 20 years in the name of reseting the luxury tax..... when you getting $1 a month from every house in New a England via your NESN deal. Now to follow up you start by trading away Benitendi for a ham sandwich. Your rotation is garbage.

Seriously fuck this team. If I still owned my season tickets I’d give them up.

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Which Dodger World Series Championship do you think is Druff’s favorite ?

Fun read for us seamheads

Fernando Tatis Jr. Owes Investment Fund Estimated $27.2M After Padres Contract
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...adres-contract

College baseball has already started. Can’t wait

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Fun read for us seamheads

Fernando Tatis Jr. Owes Investment Fund Estimated $27.2M After Padres Contract
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...adres-contract

College baseball has already started. Can’t wait

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Yeah I had read another couple articles about that. Interesting business model. I see a lot of mouth-breathers on the net trashing them as a payday loan type scam, but thats not true. The company also likes to blow its own horn about how much they help the kids, but that is also not true, as theyre not just giving money to everybody. Joe Blow the 35th round draft pick relief pitcher who can't throw 90 aint getting a sniff of money from them. For those that do get offered a deal, it is a pretty decent hedge.

I am more interested in why Tatis specifically took the money. His dad made $25m in his career contract wise. Jr also got $700k himself when he signed as an international free agent at age 16, ("Brown Privilege" as whiteys who are subjected to the draft in America call it). I guess 700k doesnt go as far as it used to.

Tatis himself is right when he says basically that what he owes back is still a drop in the bucket overall. But for a kid who presumably smashed through 700k in just two years, I am starting to think he might need every million he makes. Kid has future Adrian Peterson vibes going right now.

Children of rich parents make bad decisions too. Maybe more so as consequences are foreign in their world.

Regardless, Tatis is going to smash endorsements in a way Betts and Trout can’t or won’t. He might become his generation’s Payton Manning for all I know. It appears everyone including the MLB want this to be so. So yeah, $27m is just an ante into the game.

As an aside .... I lived through the Manning vs Brady “who is better argument” for a decade. I was Brady yet I think Manning is funny and effective. Masterful. My kids watch him and cannot fathom why I’m laughing. Tatis is their boy.

Then again, every 10 year old had a Michael Vick jersey too and that was Adrian Peterson-esque.

NHL’s Evander Kane is the broke athlete you want to dive into. YouTube has a good piece or two. Over a decade of earnings and over $70m vaporized as he is in bankruptcy owing casinos and who knows what all.

What fascinates me is that

a.) no one had a whiff of what was going on
b.) watching him play today at an elite level as if everything is groovy. I mean he likes to fight on ice and that’s a nice release but impressive nevertheless.

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As an aside .... I lived through the Manning vs Brady “who is better argument” for a decade. I was Brady yet I think Manning is funny and effective. Masterful. My kids watch him and cannot fathom why I’m laughing. Tatis is their boy.

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Peyton got some great coaching off the field as well. His schtick is perfect. Self-deprecating doofus. I love Peyton's places, especially the one with Letterman.

Also his SNL episode is top 10 all-time. This skit I seriously consider to be close to GOAT status:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEEYbXVCoT0

Self deprecating doesn’t play to the kids.

Right? On the field it’s bat flips and show boating. I kinda gravitate that way tbh. I like hitting batters and confrontation. That’s been missing for too long.

Off the field I don’t like the gold teeth and the me me me hip hop stuff. I clearly understand I’m not the audience. I’m okay with that. I see the Tatis beverage ad and I get it but it’s a pass for me.

Peyton dodged the whole misogyny scandal successfully. Miraculous actually.

Fatty Guerrero JR has lost 42lbs for upcoming season.

As he’s said before, he was embarrassed by the shape he came into camp the last couple years and says he has a lot to prove.



LFG

Weird story about a minor league team "ghosted" by the Giants.

In December, MLB restructured the way minor league teams are affiliated with Major League teams. This caused some teams to be dropped. However, the Giants did this in a particularly callous way, failing to notify any of the teams which were dropped.

To this day, the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, a single-A affiliate of the Giants, has not been contacted by the Giants regarding being dropped. They found out in a tweet on December 9, like everyone else:

https://twitter.com/SFGiants/status/1336747950958026752


Here's an interesting article about the situation, where the 23-year-old CEO of the team (!!) is wondering what to do next:

https://www.sfgate.com/giants/articl...s-15990389.php

Lovable nut job Bauer. Dodgers developing some character after years of under achievement

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Dodgers RHP prospect Ryan Pepiot is just plain filthy too.

They are getting really interesting.

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What this ownership group is doing to my beloved Red Sox is a travesty. You are the Boston Red Sox with a history of supposed history of racism and you trade away the best young black player of the last 20 years in the name of reseting the luxury tax..... when you getting $1 a month from every house in New a England via your NESN deal. Now to follow up you start by trading away Benitendi for a ham sandwich. Your rotation is garbage.

Seriously fuck this team. If I still owned my season tickets I’d give them up.

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Which Dodger World Series Championship do you think is Druff’s favorite ?

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A lot of people pick the 88 team, but for me it was 81. All the players I grew up watching finally won a title and they beat the Yankees to boot.

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Which Dodger World Series Championship do you think is Druff’s favorite ?

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A lot of people pick the 88 team, but for me it was 81. All the players I grew up watching finally won a title and they beat the Yankees to boot.

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Transistor radio in Phoenix as a kid listening to Vin Scully every night. The scriptures teach us ‘81 is correct. No asterisk.

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Lovable nut job Bauer. Dodgers developing some character after years of under achievement

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They are getting really interesting.

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Kershaw can’t even get out a guy talking on the phone:

https://www.kansascity.com/sports/sp...sWJJ9BWosQhbSA

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At least they know it's not going to really happen, might as well sim it in the spring.

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lol that's funny.


fucking dodgers. so pathetic that they're so afraid to falling behind the padres they had to go out and get bauer when they didn't even need him.

now their young pitchers get fucked. can't even comprehend mays not being in the SR. even with bauer the pads might be able to take the division.

could easily see a nym vs la/sd wildcard game. and that game goes either way.

carassco just has to pitch like he's capable of and he could easily be close to bauer.

the mets not getting bauer really hurts. they go from a legit ws team to one that could easily be in a 1 game wildcard

Dodgers pitchers are always getting injured, so they probably did need Bauer.

Kershaw, Price, Buehler all have had injury issues in the last few years.

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Dodgers pitchers are always getting injured, so they probably did need Bauer.

Kershaw, Price, Buehler all have had injury issues in the last few years.

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yeah,..sure they did. like i need 2lb's of gold because it's better than 1lb

Dodgers sat for most of the 2010s making no major moves, while fielding a good team every year, which would fall short in the playoffs. Now, to be fair, they should have won 2017 against the cheating Astros, but the ownership was notoriously frugal given how good the team was and how large the market is.

For that reason, I can't feel bad that the Dodgers are finally spending.

It should also be noted that, aside from Betts, the rest of the Dodgers stars have either been homegrown or picked up from the scrap heap.

To show you how meaningless spring stats can be, here's a story from 10 years ago.

In 2011, Jake Fox hit 10 HR in 27 spring games, and overall had one of the best offensive springs ever. What, you don't remember Jake Fox? That's because he barely played in the Majors, and he flamed out after this monster spring.

But he'll always have the spring of 2011 to remember.

https://www.mlb.com/news/the-best-spring-training-ever

Lebron just bought into the group which owns the Red Sox, among other teams.

Despite his high NBA salary, he makes more off the court via endorsements and investments. He's definitely trying to become more of a Magic Johnson (minus the AIDS) than a Michael Jordan or Charles Barkley.

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2021/3...ague-all-stars


Kinda sad how a team made up of just dodgers-padres is about equal vs an all-star team of the rest of the NL.

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https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2021/3...ague-all-stars


Kinda sad how a team made up of just dodgers-padres is about equal vs an all-star team of the rest of the NL.

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The NL West is funny in that they have the two best teams in the NL, and then 3 crap teams. The entire NL Central is mediocre, except the Pirates who are terrible. Then you have the east which is actually a 4-team race (all but the Marlins), where the Mets have the definite edge at the moment.

BTW, on the Dodgers' side, the starting pitching doesn't look as bulletproof as you'd think -- at least not in the spring. Buehler had a horrendous outing where he gave up 9 runs, Bauer hasn't looked impressive (and remember, he was mediocre every year except 2018 and 2020, where he was great), and Kershaw has lost speed off his fastball again. On the plus side, Gonsolin has looked tremendous so far (he needs to get a starting job).

I know it's just the spring though. Kershaw has always sucked in the spring, and Buehler's struggles were really limited to one terrible outing. Bauer says he's just experimenting when it doesn't count.

Justin Turner has been killing the ball in the spring at age 36, so hopefully he can delay father time a bit more. Seager looks primed for a very big year again.

Once I get vaccinated, I will try to go to a Dodgers/Padres game... maybe even in San Diego.

the dodgers are good enough to win 120 games.

imagine being so flush with SP that mays, ryu, gonsolin, price, etc aren't guaranteed a start every 4 days

also,..lux may be ready to bust out and become a superstar

wtg mets. carrasco won't be back until prolly june. it was good run.

MLB is making a big push on ball compliance. Have actual ball compliance officers at games this year and going to monitor spin rates. Early in year in cold climates when pine tar helps feel, and noted ball doctoring teams like Astros, makes me wonder about totals early before lines adjust. Might be a spot. Might be a spot for walk props also in cold weather games

Seems like Lindor won't sign the 325/10 deal. It's already an overpay, so in reality it means he just doesn't wanna play for us. If a few more million would keep him, I say do it - but looks impossible now.

Next year he will be fighting against Seager, Story and Correa as the top SS and probably won't get as much - especially if he puts up his 2020 numbers in 2021.

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Seems like Lindor won't sign the 325/10 deal. It's already an overpay, so in reality it means he just doesn't wanna play for us. If a few more million would keep him, I say do it - but looks impossible now.

Next year he will be fighting against Seager, Story and Correa as the top SS and probably won't get as much - especially if he puts up his 2020 numbers in 2021.

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10/341 appears done deal.

Fucking baseball.

Indians payroll $39 million.


Opening day boys.

Indians at Detroit. 70 degrees two days ago. Today in Detroit, high of 34. O/U on hits 9 by both teams if I was making line. Straight from Arizona and Florida into 34 degrees for two shitty teams.

These contracts are getting crazy.

https://nypost.com/2021/04/01/steve-...dor-get-a-way/

He had a down year last year, hitting only .258 with 8 HR, and career OPS is .834. How does that get you 10 years, $341m at age 27, even as a shortstop?

It's the third biggest contract, behind Trout and Betts, both of whom are special players. Lindor is good, but he's not even close to the same class as Betts or Trout.

Steve Cohen said he wants to spend "like the Dodgers", but he hasn't been watching closely. The Dodgers passed on every possible large free agent they could have signed, up until Betts. They kicked the tires with others, but they ended up only committing to Betts. Bauer's contract was very high per year, but the total value wasn't all that high. They're basically overpaying for what they presume will be his best few years, and then can be rid of him if he declines.

Look at the best players on the Dodgers over the last several years, aside from Betts -- Bellinger, Buehler, Seager, Muncy, Turner, Kershaw... these were all home grown players or ones they picked from the scrap heap. The Dodgers didn't spend themselves to victory.

Mets should be strong this year, but boy are they potentially fucking themselves for the future.

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These contracts are getting crazy.

https://nypost.com/2021/04/01/steve-...dor-get-a-way/

He had a down year last year, hitting only .258 with 8 HR, and career OPS is .834. How does that get you 10 years, $341m at age 27, even as a shortstop?

It's the third biggest contract, behind Trout and Betts, both of whom are special players. Lindor is good, but he's not even close to the same class as Betts or Trout.

Steve Cohen said he wants to spend "like the Dodgers", but he hasn't been watching closely. The Dodgers passed on every possible large free agent they could have signed, up until Betts. They kicked the tires with others, but they ended up only committing to Betts. Bauer's contract was very high per year, but the total value wasn't all that high. They're basically overpaying for what they presume will be his best few years, and then can be rid of him if he declines.

Look at the best players on the Dodgers over the last several years, aside from Betts -- Bellinger, Buehler, Seager, Muncy, Turner, Kershaw... these were all home grown players or ones they picked from the scrap heap. The Dodgers didn't spend themselves to victory.

Mets should be strong this year, but boy are they potentially fucking themselves for the future.

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He has spent more money on a painting. Who cares? Better in Lindor's pocket. Let's go Mets!

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Seems like Lindor won't sign the 325/10 deal. It's already an overpay, so in reality it means he just doesn't wanna play for us. If a few more million would keep him, I say do it - but looks impossible now.

Next year he will be fighting against Seager, Story and Correa as the top SS and probably won't get as much - especially if he puts up his 2020 numbers in 2021.

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10/341 appears done deal.

Fucking baseball.

Indians payroll $39 million.


Opening day boys.

Indians at Detroit. 70 degrees two days ago. Today in Detroit, high of 34. O/U on hits 9 by both teams if I was making line. Straight from Arizona and Florida into 34 degrees for two shitty teams.

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Just remember that Comerica is the only major league park where the diamond faces south.

The wind will be howling out to dead center.

OVER 7 -120 @ Circa for me in Detroit today.

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Lebron just bought into the group which owns the Red Sox, among other teams.

Despite his high NBA salary, he makes more off the court via endorsements and investments. He's definitely trying to become more of a Magic Johnson (minus the AIDS) than a Michael Jordan or Charles Barkley.

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I think you’re completely underselling Michael Jordan’s off the court impact here. He made less than 100 million in career NBA earnings yet is a billionaire that owns a NBA team. Obviously a big part of that came from Nike but he also had huge endorsement deals with McDonald’s, Gatorade, Coca-Cola, Wheaties, Hanes etc. He also invested in car dealerships and restaurants etc. He even starred in Space Jam during his playing career. You know who else just starred in a Space Jam remake? Lebron James.

I’m shocked a Jordon and Lebron aren’t worth more than they are.

When Kylie Jenner has a larger net worth than Lebron, it would seem some mistakes were made in not taking a piece of multiple small companies and hoping one would pop, as that’s made many astronomically wealthy quickly.

It’s possible the endorsements they do have might prohibit them doing that. I’d guess in the future, people might eschew conventional endorsements for taking 30% of multiple upstarts and pimping them non stop on social media

Mets-Nats postponed due to positive tests in Washington camp. Opening Day baby...

Bizarre first Dodgers game.

Dodgers had 10 baserunners in first 3 innings, scored only 1 run.

The oddest play -- one I've never seen before -- was where Bellinger hit a home run, it looked to baserunner Turner like it was caught, so Turner ran back to first, and passed Bellinger. This nullified the HR, made Bellinger out (and it was called a single), but Turner was allowed to come around to score because the ball was in the stands!

Dodgers down 2-1 in the 4th.


Also, the KC/Tex game I bet on (I had Texas +140), looked like a lock when the Rangers were up 5-0 in the first with 2 runners on. By the end of the first it was 5-5. Then Texas had it back to 6-5 with the bases loaded in the 2nd, but couldn't score more.