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MLB 2014 season thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Steak Snabler, Feb 26, 2014.

  1. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    If you were to tell a Cubs fan in '08 that women would be able to vote, that a black man would be president, that those horseless carriages would be able to go 80 miles an hour regularly, that those flying machines that they read about in the papers would allow people to go around the world and beyond to space and the moon, that they would be able to carry around telephones in their pockets and be able to talk to, and watch people from the other side of the world, that baseball would have 30 teams instead of 16, plus a host of other things, and the Cubs still wouldn't win another World Series for over 100 years, they'd have looked at you like you were crazy.
     
  2. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Nah, they'd be too drunk to even react.
     
  3. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci to replace Tim McCarver alongside Joe Buck in the FOX booth:

    https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/440567210960891904
     
  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    @MLB: Russell Wilson opens eyes, leaves impression on Texas Rangers teammates in #SpringTraining visit: http://atmlb.com/1ksmvK8

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  5. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Ian Kinsler says he hopes the Rangers go 0-162, calls GM Jon Daniels a "sleazeball":

    http://espn.go.com/dallas/mlb/story/_/id/10548784/ian-kinsler-detroit-tigers-hopes-texas-rangers-sleazeball-gm-jon-daniels-go-0-162

    Just like Michael Young before him, Kinsler raised hell when asked to move to another position so that a prospect that could help the team win more games could play. And like Young, the ex-jock talking heads all raved about what a "leader" Kinsler is.

    Sounds like a baby to me.
     
  6. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    Is it possible that the team does a bad job dealing with veterans? If two guys who previously had good reputations both have bad things to say...
     
  7. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Are Reynolds and Verducci leaving the MLB Network, or will they be working for both?

    And, it's nice to see that getting fired for sexual harassment hasn't hurt Reynold's career.
     
  8. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Working for both, apparently.
     
  9. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Good reputations in public, you mean.
     
  10. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    We are all speculating based on what we know. For most of us, that is going to be the public reputation.
     
  11. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    If Kinsler was the "leader" he is purported to be, he would take the high road. Kinsler's going to a team that is a perennial World Series contender. He can't just wish the Rangers best of luck and move on?

    And it's not like the Rangers have been a dumpster fire of an organization, either. They have one of the best minor-league systems in the game and have been a playoff team or contender until the final days for a half-decade now.
     
  12. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    Why does that follow? First, once he's off the team, he's clearly no longer a leader of that team. And isn't it possible that a team can be good at some things but not others? If the same thing happens next year with Beltre, will you say the same thing again?
     
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