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hpatton
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 Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training is nigh! Lapidate wrote:
I think one big issue I have with Jays games is that they seem to be looked at as a 'family outing' or somewhere people can go to just hang out for a few hours with their friends instead of, you know, a sporting event.
yeah, it's called "baseball". There's a reason it's known as the Great American Pastime.
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Burning Ham
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training is nigh! Terry Francona Effect:
Indians have spent $117 million in guaranteed contracts on free agents this off-season ($157 million with options). Spent $9.3 million in free-agency in the previous two years combined.
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Lapidate
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway Think Sizemore will get picked up by anyone this year?
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Burning Ham
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway Not until summer. And probably not unless a team is extremely desperate for an offensive option. Just within the last hour, though, some Indians fans are screaming bloody murder that the team had the "audacity" to give Bourn 24. I mean, come on, people!  Indians fans love Grady and we appreciate the way he played balls out, but the poor guy's body has betrayed him (cue the PED speculation; it's unavoidable). He's nowhere near the same player he was and was still ascending to be.
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway I love the news stories saying that the Blue Jays home opener sold out in one hour. Bullshit. The tickets were sold out in 30 seconds, IF there were even any for sale during the general on sale. What a fucking sucker I am. Went through StubHub and bought three tickets in the 200s. That said, my Dad and I go every year, so I wasn't gonna miss the game even though Ticketbastard/StubHub have found a way to legally scalp tickets.
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Burning Ham
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087 ... hare_tweetNumber 1 is completely obvious. Number 2 is a bit of a surprise, but Underwood is awful anyway, so I guess this is punishment. 
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway I get the point, but a single game per team is a ridiculously small sample size.
Also, "penalising" for "obscure" nicknames and then being surprised that small market teams get more marks is just silly. Of course a team with fewer fans is going to have the more obscure nicknames, because no one knows or cares who they are.
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Lapidate
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway Aren't announcers supposed to be biased? If you watch the same game through both broadcasts you will see a lot of difference with how the opposition is described. I've never really thought about it as bias, just 'the job'.
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway Tabby and Martinez aren't too bad with the bias... but yeah, I wouldn't see the big deal if they were. My problem with Buck is that "'Player's name' is one of the best at ____ in baseball!"... apparently every player in the league is one of the best at something in baseball...
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway If anything, Martinez and Tabler are boring. Neither guy gets excited at all.
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway Any broadcast that includes Michael Kay is going to be relentlessly and stupidly biased. O'Neil is pretty good but Kay sucks something awful.
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway . double post.
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway Reanimated wrote: Tabby and Martinez aren't too bad with the bias... but yeah, I wouldn't see the big deal if they were. My problem with Buck is that "'Player's name' is one of the best at ____ in baseball!"... apparently every player in the league is one of the best at something in baseball... and they're all "big and strong" and "play the game the right way".
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway I don't know if this should make a difference to me, but it does. I think TV announcers should be a little more even keel. Radio broadcasts though, i want my play by play and colour guy to be biased.
Joe Bowen for the Leafs used to be quite biased but has settled down over the years. Probably because the Leafs have been shit. I think it's easier to be biased when your team is winning a lot. Otherwise you just sound like an idiot.
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway hpatton wrote: Reanimated wrote: Tabby and Martinez aren't too bad with the bias... but yeah, I wouldn't see the big deal if they were. My problem with Buck is that "'Player's name' is one of the best at ____ in baseball!"... apparently every player in the league is one of the best at something in baseball... and they're all "big and strong" and "play the game the right way". Well they ARE professional athletes.
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway Angry Inch wrote: Any broadcast that includes Michael Kay is going to be relentlessly and stupidly biased. O'Neil is pretty good but Kay sucks something awful. +1 Kay bites the suck sausage really hard.
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway Lapidate wrote: Aren't announcers supposed to be biased? If you watch the same game through both broadcasts you will see a lot of difference with how the opposition is described. I've never really thought about it as bias, just 'the job'. I'm a Dodger hater, but Vin Scully is the greatest baseball announcer I have ever heard.
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway Methshin wrote: hpatton wrote: Reanimated wrote: Tabby and Martinez aren't too bad with the bias... but yeah, I wouldn't see the big deal if they were. My problem with Buck is that "'Player's name' is one of the best at ____ in baseball!"... apparently every player in the league is one of the best at something in baseball... and they're all "big and strong" and "play the game the right way". Well they ARE professional athletes. So are jockeys, technically. 
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Kerrie wrote: but it's one of the most gratifying feelings because they are so damn fast
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway Numen Wraith. wrote: Methshin wrote: hpatton wrote: Reanimated wrote: Tabby and Martinez aren't too bad with the bias... but yeah, I wouldn't see the big deal if they were. My problem with Buck is that "'Player's name' is one of the best at ____ in baseball!"... apparently every player in the league is one of the best at something in baseball... and they're all "big and strong" and "play the game the right way". Well they ARE professional athletes. So are jockeys, technically. Who are big and strong, when compared to much smaller things. It's all a matter of perspective.
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway I want to believe that Yoenis Cespedes is old-fashioned, "country boy" strong, but... http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/eye-o ... ighted-bat
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway World Baseball Classic starts tonight!  (US and Canada don't play until next Friday.) Schedule: http://web.worldbaseballclassic.com/wbc ... d_tickets/
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway Fuck Italy and fuck this country. Beaten by mercy rule in baseball by a European country... how the fuck did that happen? Disgraceful. I'm moving to Japan and becoming a citizen.
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway US wasn't much better. 
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway Burning Ham wrote: US wasn't much better. Italy already has a shoe in thanks to the Canada beating and having already beat Mexico... Pending on how things go today, it might just come down to USA vs Canada tomorrow... what fun that would be. Our last game in Toronto was awesome.
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Re: 2013 Baseball Thread: Spring training underway God damn sore losing Mexicans! They started that bullshit! Always nice to see a bench clearing brawl though. 
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