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On 1/11/2024 at 3:30 PM, wildbillhiccup said:
I went back and read his post. There was literally nothing in it but opinion and conjecture. I really hope that it takes more than that for you to consider something to be "well reasoned".
An opinion can be well reasoned and persuasive. I thought it was. That's my opinion. We good?
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On 1/7/2024 at 10:48 AM, ScGO's said:
This entire X thread is nothing but opinion, presumption, assumption, bias, and pathos. It essentially criticizes anyone who considered the facts of the Bauer cases and is trying to bully them into joining the mob
I'm sorry he was innocent because that's the way the law works when you don't have evidence? I don't know about the other lawsuits against him, but (my opinion based on perpetual observation) they didn't call it "Me Too" for no reason; when an opportunity for quick $ arises, it will be exploited; many people are weak to temptation (the crucial theme to takeaway from all of this?)
I'm not in support of Bauer or against him; I am just aware that what I know about Trevor Bauer is probably a fraction of a fraction of who he is and what he believes. He has a lot of interesting character traits that appear admirable: he's very determined, confident, informative, proactive, passionate, etc. He also has appeared arrogant, licentious, pernicious, reactionary, and passionate (unbridled) ; but this is all subjective and accompanied by the Presenter's bias.
I have felt sorry for Trevor Bauer at times. I feel like he was targeted, mistreated, and judged; I also felt he wasn't equipped with the adequate character traits to handle the situation and he could have made better choices leading up to this affair. I don't know who he is really, but it was obvious pretty early on that it wasn't going to be easy to figure that out with the media drooling over the story everyday with $ signs in their eyes.
On a side note, as a former teacher and a current father, one trend I think that has arisen with young men & women that is alarming are their poor understanding of sex within the context of love, building a family, finding happiness through a marriage. The casual nature of sex in the swipe right/left culture is going to have psychological affects on young people and the relationships they have as they become adults. I'm not sure what really went on in Bauer's bedroom with another consenting adult, but I'm just shocked with how many young people are participating and pursuing similar sexual exploits to what was described in Bauer's cases, exaggerated or not. So again, I think the law shows that he didn't break it, but the bigger picture is that we got a lot of more people running around with loose morals and strange kinks then previously thought? Each their own, no laws broken, but if you keep bad company and make poor choices you're probably going to find trouble eventually.
That being said, if Vetted, 1 year 6 mil, LFG!
Thank you for that well reasoned and time consuming rebuttal.
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Listening to CBS sports radio, it appears Trevor Bauer has been on Fox news, and will be on Doug gottlieb show as well soon telling his story. Based on Doug's analysis, it sounds like Trevor is completely innocent of everything except maybe public opinion of his personal preferences in a sexual life. He's already expressed he's learned a lesson from that haha maybe he has. But he wants to be back in baseball and we need somebody like him, is this a match?
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On 12/19/2023 at 12:24 PM, Moose Milligan said:
I'm here for alleged sketchiness, world moving, big bank money, assassinations and other sinister things if we can get someone who can throw 200 innings for a 3.00 ERA.
Me too but not above $27m per.
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1 hour ago, Sports Guy said:
…as an injured player.
FOMO
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On 12/10/2023 at 10:00 AM, RZNJ said:
On March 30, 1966, famed Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale ended their double holdout by signing new contracts for $130,000 and $105,000, respectively. Their holdout during Spring Training lasted 32 days.
The two future Hall of Famers demanded a combined $1 million over three years. They fell short of that but ultimately signed for more than what the Dodgers had initially offered to the hurlers.
Although revered for their contributions on the field, Koufax and Drysdale were the subject of plenty of public criticism and frustration from fans. The situation is widely considered the first time players banded together and is credited for altering the economics of baseball.
Nice info thanks. On this board I think I am a huge minority... I think more like an owner than a player I suppose. For me, there is no player worth more than $30mil a year and that would be a very select few. I don't care how much money the owners make. This league needs a salary cap / floor badly. Do you think having a small handful of cities able to collect all the best players is part of a reason why MLB is more of a regional sport and not national? Is the NFL model better for business generally and assists in it's national following? Or these models have nothing to do with it?
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10 hours ago, OriolesMagic83 said:
It all moved so fast, the O's never had a chance to sign anyone!
At the current $$$ I'm fine with moving forward with our own.. I would like to see ownership put money into the FO / Scouting departments so we can keep what we have going..
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Money is ruining this sport. I can only hope the Dodgers miss the playoffs.
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22 hours ago, Frobby said:
As I’m reading about the Yankees getting Soto, the Blue Jays chasing Ohtani, the Red Sox possibly being in the running for Yamamoto, it occurs to me…
I kind of enjoy rooting for the underdog. The team that tries to get it done without spending a ton of money grabbing other team’s players, the team that competes by just being smarter than other teams about how they acquire and develop talent.
This isn’t a new feeling. I remember so well when free agency started, and how we lost Reggie Jackson, Bobby Grich and Wayne Garland in the very first winter of wholesale free agency. Everyone assumed that the Orioles were doomed, but the next 7 years were arguably the most satisfying in Orioles’ history, bringing two pennants and a World Series title. Those 1977-1983 teams weren’t as good as the 1969-71 Orioles, but the fact that they were able to succeed despite the obstacles created by free agency made those seasons really special to me.
So don’t get me wrong, I don’t like seeing the Orioles hamstrung, and the long periods of losing have been very painful. But when the O’s are having success, I really enjoy the fact that they’re doing it as an underdog.
Describes me 100%
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1 minute ago, Malike said:
They are going to see LHP again. I don't mind Mateo in the game.
I was thinking he should have pinch run and stole 2nd in the 7th...
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Now Mateo is in? Thought he should have pinch run in the 7th.
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On 10/1/2023 at 4:18 AM, Winter said:
If any combination of Irvin, Flaherty, Fuji, Baumann with the locks of Gibson, Webb, Wells, Hall, Coulombe, Cano, Perez are all in the bullpen im not sure we need 13 pitchers.
Is 3 long men really needed(Gibson/Irvin/Flaherty) with days off? Hall/Wells can go more than 1. No doubt Kremer would be the one who could turn it up out of the BP opposed to Gibson BUT if Kremer can give you a start of 5 good innings as a 4th starter thats hard to pass on. -- Hyde wants to play matchups like crazy of late so i do think they'll take 13. O's love close games, old extra inning rules could be a factor in need for more length.
Any chance we have two starting pitchers in the same game? Since we seem to only make it to five sometimes six innings perhaps you have Kremer start, and Gibson finish. Or something like that.
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16 minutes ago, MCO'sFan said:
Nor does it invalidate anything either. The postseason is a crapshoot and anything can happen and I don't think momentum carries over from one series to the next. See the O's in 2014.
Yes.. I agree.. my comment wasn't appropriate.
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15 minutes ago, Frobby said:
We don’t require validation.
32-20 vs. AL East
22-10 vs. AL Central
21-11 vs. AL West
26-20 in interleague play.
101-61 overall
Our record speaks for itself and no validation is required. Our postseason will be judged on how the Orioles play, not how Tampa or Toronto played.
All good points... I retract my comment.. but I would have preferred Tampa and Toronto won and we beat them both to get to the WS. That would have been the icing on the cake for me.. albeit a different cake.
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5 hours ago, waroriole said:
So in your view a 3 game series overshadows 162?
Them both bowing out so easily certainly doesn't validate anything we accomplished.
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1 hour ago, RZNJ said:
I am glad that both Tampa and Toronto are out. IF we lose there it would have really bothered me to lose to a team, especially Toronto, that we beat out in our own division. In some way it would have taken a little something away from the division championship. Seeing them both go out in the first round adds something to the bye and that we earned it. If our pitchers pitch they’ll handle the Texas hitters but it’s a tough lineup if our guys are off. My main concern, besides pitching, is O’Hearn who was a big part of the offense but started looking badly towards the end.
Interesting.. I see it the opposite. Toronto and Tampa going out with a whimper diminishes our division title in my view. The best case would have been Tampa and Toronta to win, We beat Tampa again, Toronto beats Minnesota, we beat Toronto again. That would have provided the most value to winning the division,
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30 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:
I thought caring about how your division/league/conference does is purely a college thing.
Does anyone think any less of the AL East because of this?
It lessons are achievement, if only superficially.
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1 hour ago, Malike said:
I don't agree with the Scrooge thing either, but I've never been a fan of the Yankee way of buying championships, it rarely works, so we have that going for us I guess, which is nice.
Couldn't agree more. I am not on board with the owner bashing of those who won't just throw money at the problem. I'd support a salary cap. That way the teams with the best organizations would get rewarded.
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I don't know what all the Rays hatred is about... I would have preferred they won the WS if it isn't going to be us. I certainly prefer a team that is built through their systems as opposed to buying a title. So hopefully that will be us.
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3 hours ago, Emory Eagle said:
Texas, except if Texas beats the Rays... well I guess in that case they'll be playing well enough that I might want to change my answer to the Rays!
I think I am with you here... I want to play the team that loses.
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9 hours ago, Frobby said:
Up 550,000. I’d hardly call that awful. You can’t lose 100+ games three times in four years and have a pandemic in the other and expect to recoup all your attendance from the last time you were a playoff team in two years.
Maybe you can't expect it, and I completely agree with your sentiment, but not surpassing 2 million in a year the team matched the greatest top 3? in all of Orioles history is awful to me.
Certainly nothing to be proud of:
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4 minutes ago, Going Underground said:
Season attendance is 1,936,798.
That's awful. Wow
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3 hours ago, Sports Guy said:
As the last out was in progress all I could think of were all the pundits critical of the FO not doing more during the offseason. These guys just get paid to run their mouths, they don't know how to run a baseball organization.
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3 minutes ago, Fan4Life said:
Was watching some YouTube WS compilations from 69-71. I was taken by surprise as to how much sloppy fielding there was for the O's and their opponents. Several balls to the outfield were muffed when trying to glove the ball, or take it out of the glove. Happened more times in each WS condensed games I watched then I have seen it happen the entire 2023 season. And really can't ever remember it happening more often in my lifetime.
I was also surprised at the conversations between Managers and their pitchers when making a visit. Nothing like has to be going on today.... when the reliever entered he give the ball, tell them the game situation, man on 2nd and 2 outs for example, and leave. I have to think today there is much more discussion about strategy... obviously didn't just start recently..
Orioles close to acquiring Corbin Burnes (Update: Acquired for Joey Ortiz and DL Hall)
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All that for one year of possible excellence? A little high for my tastes,