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MLB Regular Season 2013 |OT| - Natinals Already Won
- Thread starter Corran Horn
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Only halfway through the second.
Dominican Power
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Calamity in Boston?
Dmncnby2k9
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Alexei Ramirez is solid at SS. My man has unlimited range.
Dominican Power
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Did you see that chain son? WTF
I don't watch baseball that often, and even I know that's kinda crazy.
sf2fanatic
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Dmncnby2k9
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Lol now dat u mention it, that shit is huge.
Alex Anderson
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Bam. Wells needed one of those
Dominican Power
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Jays lol
The who? I just GIS'd for a pic.
I....I feel like we might have just learned something frightening about Frankman...
Mr. Enigma
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J.A. Happ suffered a small skull fracture behind his left ear that doctors said would heal on its own.
Dominican Power
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Phelps is of the Nunez variety. Looks likes a gamer but is a fraud in reality.
Alex Anderson
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Phelps serving one up to the drunk :\
*edit* chugga chugga, woo woo
*edit* chugga chugga, woo woo
I don't understand why Lorenz has a job.
I'm trying to decide if it's actually possible to intelligently spend 200M on a team.
I don't mean to suggest that money is worthless in baseball. Clearly it isn't. But at some point the returns become profoundly diminishing, and it seems to me that a team would be much better off not spending money and keeping their farm system intact than spending just because they're "supposed to" and buying up expensive, aging, injury prone all stars at the expense of their draft picks.
If I had to guess, it feels like being a mid-tier franchise is best right now, if run competently. Not enough money to be fast and loose with your drafting, but enough that you can keep a few stars if some blossom.
I don't mean to suggest that money is worthless in baseball. Clearly it isn't. But at some point the returns become profoundly diminishing, and it seems to me that a team would be much better off not spending money and keeping their farm system intact than spending just because they're "supposed to" and buying up expensive, aging, injury prone all stars at the expense of their draft picks.
If I had to guess, it feels like being a mid-tier franchise is best right now, if run competently. Not enough money to be fast and loose with your drafting, but enough that you can keep a few stars if some blossom.
Dominican Power
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When is that chump LaRoche going to start hitting?
HarryDemeanor
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We're going to be okay! Dodgers will get back into their winning ways sooner or later.F***
What us fans are feeling right now
He's 7 for his last 12 and he's actually getting good hits. I'd like to hope it's a start to something.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Except its not feasible to do this now thanks to restrictions on bonuses for both domestic and international players - the pool in 2013/2013 was under 3 million for instance.
Although theres loopholes that some teams have already jumped through like the Rays intentionally going WAY over the cap on international players in a year and just living with the punishment a year later (they can't sign a single international player for more than 250k).
I'd imagine many more teams are going to follow suit with the spend a truckload money can't sign anybody the following year strategy that the Rays used last year.
On that note teams can actually trade away and trade for international spending money. The Rays pool this year is quite large but they can't actually spend much of it due to the penalties so they will probably be trading it.
Corran Horn
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Its a good feeling to not get swept.
Against the Phillies no less.
Mr. Enigma
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Joe Blanton's going to get beat by the Astros. Haha
Rafa=FedKilla
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Hahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhaahahaahahahahhahahaha Jim Crane get your head out of your ass so this on TV.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
That Angel Hernandez blown call is beyond embarrassing.
Mr. Enigma
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It's Angel fucking Hernandez. How are any of us even disgusted by his shit anymore?
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