MLB 2018

It's not so bad the Sox won. They were far and away the best team this year, probably the best baseball team in years, and Boston already wins everything anyways so it's almost just another day in the sports world. And LA losing means there's still at least one intriguing sports drought out there.
 
FLRacingFan said:
It's not so bad the Sox won. They were far and away the best team this year, probably the best baseball team in years, and Boston already wins everything anyways so it's almost just another day in the sports world. And LA losing means there's still at least one intriguing sports drought out there.
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Boston teams winning everything so ******* always sucks. Makes their fanbase even more insufferable too.
 
I don’t know why people hate on this Boston squad so hard. In terms of the players, they’re almost all likeable. Like the Astros. I like them a lot.

Outside of Kinsler and Nunez, the Sox are a bunch of relaxed players who don’t have attitudes.
 
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Reck said:
I don’t know why people hate on this Boston squad so hard. In terms of the players, they’re almost all likeable. Like the Astros. I like them a lot.

Outside of Kinsler and Nunez, the Sox are a bunch of relaxed players who don’t have attitudes.
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The players aren't bad since all of the annoying assbags retired. The fans though...
 
Reck said:
They can totally have him. Lol @FLRacingFan
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We have a lot to spend this offeason. Something like $80-100M. Starting pitching should probably be the first priority and then the pen after that. Bullpen, we need to keep Robertson. I don't think Kimbrel is in play. Starters, I think we try to keep Happ and go hard at Patrick Corbin. Probably Keuchel and look at bringing back Eovaldi too.

Friendly reminder that Jacoby Ellsbury's worthless ass is still on the books for like $20M a year through 2021.
 
FLRacingFan said:
We have a lot to spend this offeason. Something like $80-100M. Starting pitching should probably be the first priority and then the pen after that. Bullpen, we need to keep Robertson. I don't think Kimbrel is in play. Starters, I think we try to keep Happ and go hard at Patrick Corbin. Probably Keuchel and look at bringing back Eovaldi too.

Friendly reminder that Jacoby Ellsbury's worthless ass is still on the books for like $20M a year through 2021.
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Doubt Eovaldi will be available, I think the Sox will sign him.
 
FLRacingFan said:
We have a lot to spend this offeason. Something like $80-100M. Starting pitching should probably be the first priority and then the pen after that. Bullpen, we need to keep Robertson. I don't think Kimbrel is in play. Starters, I think we try to keep Happ and go hard at Patrick Corbin. Probably Keuchel and look at bringing back Eovaldi too.

Friendly reminder that Jacoby Ellsbury's worthless ass is still on the books for like $20M a year through 2021.
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Leave Eovaldi out of this, you fool!

I had no idea you guys still had the corpse of Jacoby Ellsbury. Did he play at all this year?
 
Any baseball fans looking for something to pass this offseason should watch the Ken Burns series "Baseball" if you havent already. A great history of the game.
Mlb network shows it alot during the offseason.
 
Johnny G said:
Any baseball fans looking for something to pass this offseason should watch the Ken Burns series "Baseball" if you havent already. A great history of the game.
Mlb network shows it alot during the offseason.
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Yep good stuff, I always forget about it, but when I've watched it I've learned some interesting stuff.
 
Reck said:
Leave Eovaldi out of this, you fool!

I had no idea you guys still had the corpse of Jacoby Ellsbury. Did he play at all this year?
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Missed this.

He hasn't played in over a year. Giant waste of money and he's old and washed up. Ugh.
 
Atlanta signs Josh Donaldson to a 1 year, 23 million dollar deal.
 
It appears the long-rumored and fits-and-starts effort to attract an MLB team to Portland is getting serious. After many sites were considered, the private group of many investors has entered into an agreement to purchase one.

Having an MLB team in my home city again would be cool. I've lived in Portland for 12 years. Sports fandom in the PNW is such that it would be well supported. One interesting aspect is that aside from some friendly state bonds, the city of Portland has refused to provide any direct subsidies for this. It is a genuinely private money effort, as all stadium deals should be.

I just wonder where such a team would come from, assuming relocation is more likely than expansion. One of the Florida teams?

https://www.kgw.com/amp/article?sec...um-at-terminal-2-site&contentId=283-618798119

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mauryb...for-ballpark-land-on-river-near-downtown/amp/
 
gnomesayin said:
It appears the long-rumored and fits-and-starts effort to attract an MLB team to Portland is getting serious. After many sites were considered, the private group of many investors has entered into an agreement to purchase one.

Having an MLB team in my home city again would be cool. I've lived in Portland for 12 years. Sports fandom in the PNW is such that it would be well supported. One interesting aspect is that aside from some friendly state bonds, the city of Portland has refused to provide any direct subsidies for this. It is a genuinely private money effort, as all stadium deals should be.

I just wonder where such a team would come from, assuming relocation is more likely than expansion. One of the Florida teams?

https://www.kgw.com/amp/article?sec...um-at-terminal-2-site&contentId=283-618798119

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mauryb...for-ballpark-land-on-river-near-downtown/amp/
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I would think Tampa?
 
Mopardh9 said:
I thought plans for a stadium in Tampa fell through? I didn't know MLB was planning on expansiion again, how many teams?
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The St. Pete proposal from a while back fell though. They have a new proposal (revealed this past summer) in Tampa that looks like it's going to happen.

I think MLB wants to expand to 32 teams eventually. Portland will get a team, and eventually Nashville or Charlotte or Montreal if I had to guess
 
2 Sweet said:
The St. Pete proposal from a while back fell though. They have a new proposal (revealed this past summer) in Tampa that looks like it's going to happen.

I think MLB wants to expand to 32 teams eventually. Portland will get a team, and eventually Nashville or Charlotte or Montreal if I had to guess
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Interesting, I can see Portland and Charlotte.
 
If they didn't just open a stadium a few years ago I'd say move the Marlins to Montreal and rename them the Expos.
 
2 Sweet said:
The St. Pete proposal from a while back fell though. They have a new proposal (revealed this past summer) in Tampa that looks like it's going to happen.
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I spoke too soon. The Rays and Hillsborough County are too far apart on money. So once again, the plans for a new stadium are dead.

Basically, this means the Rays are not long for Tampa Bay. I think some other city will buy out the lease on the Trop (runs thru 2027) and the team will be relocated at some point in the next few years. :(

Sucks for me, but sucks a lot worse for the baseball fans living in St. Pete and the Bay Area. If (when) the team moves, I'll just go back to being an Indians fan like I was before '98.
 
2 Sweet said:
I spoke too soon. The Rays and Hillsborough County are too far apart on money. So once again, the plans for a new stadium are dead.

Basically, this means the Rays are not long for Tampa Bay. I think some other city will buy out the lease on the Trop (runs thru 2027) and the team will be relocated at some point in the next few years. :(

Sucks for me, but sucks a lot worse for the baseball fans living in St. Pete and the Bay Area. If (when) the team moves, I'll just go back to being an Indians fan like I was before '98.
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Tropicana Field is an abomination to baseball. It's as if someone built a baseball stadium and then dropped a giant tent over it. It's ****** disgusting.

I hate domes to start with, but The Trop takes the cake in ugly ass domes.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Tropicana Field is an abomination to baseball. It's as if someone built a baseball stadium and then dropped a giant tent over it. It's ******* disgusting.

I hate domes to start with, but The Trop takes the cake in ugly ass domes.
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Have you been there? The turf looks like it's half flooded. The general atmosphere has the feel of a warehouse or an old basement. That stadium was never fit for baseball. It got them an expansion team, but was never a long term solution. They definitely should've had a new stadium built years ago.
 
2 Sweet said:
Have you been there? The turf looks like it's half flooded. The general atmosphere has the feel of a warehouse or an old basement. That stadium was never fit for baseball. It got them an expansion team, but was never a long term solution. They definitely should've had a new stadium built years ago.
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Never been. Just on TV it'd bad though.

Only major league stadium I've been to is Camden Yards.
 
Good for Hillsborough and the City of Tampa for not getting fleeced...but it kinda sucks. Not terribly unexpected I guess, but the idea of having a real baseball stadium in Tampa was fun to think about for a while. Can't wait to see the Trop bulldozed though, that can't come soon enough. I don't even know how they get the Shrine Game to keep coming back.
 
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