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MLB 2016 Regular Season |OT2| - ASMR Edition ...with Ketchup

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_woLf

Member
Between Jr's number retirement, He Who Shall Not Be Named retiring from the Yanks, and Ichiro hitting 3k, this weekend has been an annoying reminder of the days when the Mariners were even remotely relevant
 
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jbug617

Banned
Heyman got the story how the Arod situation went down.
http://www.todaysknuckleball.com/in...man/heyman-alex-rodriguezs-exit-yankees-went/
So Steinbrenner took it upon himself to send A-Rod a firm message, but in a nice way. The message, in effect, was “You are done,” at least as a integral part of the Yankees’ everyday playing team. But Steinbrenner said it much more gently than that.

Steinbrenner told Rodriguez in their tete-a-tete on Wednesday night that the at-bats would be fewer and farther between. He also told him he wasn’t there to hurt him, that he’d get all of the $27 million or so due him. Oh and by the way, he had a nice offer to remain a part of the team in a non-playing role.

“We’re not going to hurt you,” Steinbrenner, in effect, told him. “There just aren’t going to be many opportunities for you.”

It was an offer A-Rod probably couldn’t refuse. He could either hang around a team quite obviously in transition, hoping to get an at-bat or two a week (he didn’t even start Thursday against Bartolo Colon, whom he has absolutely killed in the past; he has a 1.792 OPS against him), or he could retire with a nice sendoff and have a job waiting for him as an adviser/instructor/ambassador with the organization he loved.

It apparently wasn’t such an easy call. It seems Rodriguez could have chosen to keep traveling with the team, and finishing out the season in uniform, if not often on the field. Rodriguez took three days to think about it, and it appears he even had a few more talks with Steinbrenner to clarify things, and maybe even ultimately to tailor the plan to his liking. But Steinbrenner quietly and without incident got his way; there’s no question about that.
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Grover Cleveland

Member
Eric Stephen
‏@truebluela
Vin Scully, on Adrian Gonzalez going to 3B on that ground ball: "Let's face it, if Puig did that you'd have a whole page of commentary."

Vin keeping it real

Also Price totally about to have his blow-up inning. Like clockwork this year

Loco4Coco said:
So baseball got replaced by pre-season football on ESPN?
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Yep.

NBC passed the Hall of Fame game to ESPN because of the Olympics

Then the HoF game ended up getting cancelled so...
 
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Caja 117

Member
Congrats on Ichiros 3,000 hits, Defenetly one, if not the best hitter in baseball history., incredible how he got 3,000 hits in such a small amount of time... has anyone reach 3000 in such short time?
 
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Windu

never heard about the cat, apparently
Caja 117 said:
Congrats on Ichiros 3,000 hits, Defenetly one, if not the best hitter in baseball history., incredible how he got 3,000 hits in such a small amount of time... has anyone reach 3000 in such short time?
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Rose

Edit:. Actually looks like gwynn was the fastest to 3000 hits, if going by ABs.
 
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GK86

Homeland Security Fail
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Pretty cool.
 
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