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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    So the World Series is gonna be around Christmas. I hope the Minnesota Twins doesn't make it to the World Series.
    Has to be a shortened season. Which also brings up a ton of financial issues.
    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    Each of the 30 MLB teams have pledged $1 million each to pay out of work stadium employees.

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    Pretty cool, but will that cover them?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Fuck that guy.
    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Each of the 30 MLB teams have pledged $1 million each to pay out of work stadium employees.
    I read it as "game day staff" which would seem to exclude vendors...
    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post
    Fuck that guy.
    Appreciate him!

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    Sale needs TJ surgery!




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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Sale needs TJ surgery!


    The White Sox got Yoan Moncada, Michael Kopech, Luis Alexander Basabe, and Victor Diaz for Sale... looking like a good trade for CWS.
    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post
    The White Sox got Yoan Moncada, Michael Kopech, Luis Alexander Basabe, and Victor Diaz for Sale... looking like a good trade for CWS.

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    Truth is painful my sad angry pitcherless friend. On the bright side, MLB may not play again until he's recovered.
    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post
    Truth is painful my sad angry pitcherless friend. On the bright side, MLB may not play again until he's recovered.


    Sale had his TJ surgery yesterday. Now all we can do is wait and see.

    And now the projected rotation for the Red Sox (assuming we get baseball this year) is:

    1) Not Chris Sale
    2) Not Chris Sale
    3) Not Chris Sale
    4) Not Chris Sale
    5) Not Chris Sale

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    Ex-Astros slugger Evan Gattis says they deserve scorn for sign-stealing: We 'cheated' baseball and fans

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    Nearly three months have passed since Major League Baseball published its report on the Houston Astros' improper use of technology to steal signs during their 2017 World Series-winning season. In the time since, the Astros have by and large avoided taking full responsibility for their acts and what they entailed -- essentially eroding the trust fans can place in the game's results and performances.

    You might think that the spread of the novel coronavirus, and thereby the delay of the 2020 season, would have put an end to Astros players discussing the matter -- let alone offering an actual apology. You would be wrong. That's because recently retired slugger Evan Gattis went on The Athletic's "755 is Real" podcast and offered a lot of thoughts (and f-bombs).

    "Everybody wants to be the best player in the f---ing world, man…and we cheated that, for sure, and we obviously cheated baseball and cheated fans," Gattis said, according to the New York Post. "I'm not asking for sympathy or anything like that. If our punishment is being hated by everybody forever, just like whatever. I don't know what should be done, but something had to f---ing be done. I do agree with that, big-time. I do think it's good for baseball that we're cleaning it up…And I understand that it's not f---ing good enough to say sorry. I get it."

    The Post has a full collection of Gattis quotes to dive into, including him beating back against the narrative that Carlos Beltran "made" young players go along with the scheme, but one other noteworthy comment we'll touch on is him saying he has no problem with Mike Fiers, the Oakland Athletics and former Astros pitcher who publicly blew the whistle on the Astros' wrongdoing last November.

    "He had something to say, so he had to f---ing say it and then we had to get punished," Gattis said. "Because if not, then what? It'd f---ing get even more out of control. I mean, it's a tough subject. Yeah, I think a lot of people feel duped, and I understand that."

    Gattis, 33, played in part of six big-league seasons. He spent 2015-18 with the Astros, with whom he hit .245/.298/.471 (109 OPS+) with 96 home runs. Interestingly, his best season came in 2016, a year before the Astros implemented their sign-stealing scheme.

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    Not Funny Ex-Ranger Josh Hamilton indicted, accused of beating daughter, 14

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    Former Texas Rangers star Josh Hamilton has been indicted on a felony charge of injury to a child after his teenage daughter accused him of beating her.

    A Tarrant County grand jury indicted the 38-year-old Hamilton on Monday. He remains free on $30,000 bond after he turned himself in to authorities on Oct. 30. If convicted, he faces a prison sentence of two to 10 years in prison.

    Hamilton's attorneys say the Texas Rangers Hall of Famer is innocent of the charge. His 14-year-old daughter told her mother, Hamilton’s ex-wife, that her father struck her after he became enraged by a comment from her.

    According to an affidavit by a Keller Police Department detective, Hamilton’s daughter told police that he went on a rampage Sept. 30. She says she made a comment to Hamilton that upset him, so he threw a full water bottle overhand at her, hitting her in the chest, then cursed and shouted at her.

    He pulled away the chair on which she rested her feet and threw it, breaking the chair, she told detectives. It didn’t hit her, but he then grabbed her by the shoulders and lifted her from the chair on which she sat. She fell to the floor, and he lifted her up, threw her over his shoulder and carried her to her bedroom.

    The girl said at this point she was telling Hamilton, “I’m sorry.” Upon reaching her bedroom door, he tossed the teen onto her bed, pressed her face onto the mattress and began hitting her legs with an open hand and closed fist.

    She said that after he finished striking her, he told her, “I hope you go in front of the f---ing judge and tell him what a terrible dad I am so I don’t have to see you anymore and you don’t have to come to my house again.”

    As he left the room, Hamilton's daughter said he told her to gather her things for school. When she replied that she had already put them in the car, he responded, “Well, aren’t you just the perfect child.”

    After Hamilton was the first overall pick out of high school in the 1999 amateur draft by Tampa Bay, his career was nearly destroyed by cocaine and alcohol addiction. He returned to baseball with Cincinnati and made his big league debut in 2007, when he hit 19 homers in 90 games before being traded to the Rangers. He was part of their only two World Series teams (2010 and 2011) and was an All-Star five seasons in a row.

    An awe-inspiring display in the Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium in 2008 was a highlight of his career, when the first-time All-Star led the American League with 130 RBI while hitting .304 with 32 homers in his first full season. He hit four homers in the 2010 AL Championship Series and had a four-homer game at Baltimore in 2012.

    Hamilton left the Rangers in free agency, signing a $125 million, five-year deal with the Los Angeles Angels before the 2013 season. He was recovering from shoulder surgery when the Angels traded him back to Texas in 2015 after his two injury-plagued seasons with Los Angeles. He played 50 games for Texas in 2015 but never again after he underwent surgery at least three times afterward.

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    Ok, he sounds like a dick.

    But what did she say to set him off?


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