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There are always 1.000 ops AAA guys with good K:BB ratios who get to MLB and just can't hack it. No such thing as a sure thing prospect in baseball.
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Does anyone have a link to an internet stream of the radio broadcast? That's a thing, right?
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I know there is debate about if he had consent and stuff like that and I don't want to get into those arguments, but as I understand it there is gopro footage of some of the stuff he did with women he rendered unconscious. I believe no team is going to go out on a limb signing him when there's a risk something like that could get leaked.
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Another reason Ledo Park would be funny is because Ledo Pizza is pretty polarizing. I know it has a lot of haters among my social circle, but fans also. I'm glad I have both gotten to live in Italy for a little while and eat pizza there, and that I ate at the original Ledo. I could always go back to Italy, but no one can ever go to the Ledo Restaurant at Adelphi again, so I think that's the higher honor!
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18 hours ago, rm5678 said:
Ledo's Park at Camden Yards would be right up there with Loan Depot Park, Ring Central Coliseum, & Guaranteed Rate Field as some of the worst names for a ballpark ever.
I absolutely love Ledo Park at Camden Yards. I like the pizza, it's a local chain, and it's absolutely absurd because they'd be more likely to sponsor a little league team
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9 hours ago, dedwretched said:
Thanks for '96 and '97. That's it.
The Macphail/Duquette years with Buck were good while it lasted. I got to go to a playoff win! We swept the Verlander/Scherzer/Price Tigers! That's not nothing. Some teams haven't had that kind of success that recently, and we're already back near the top.
15 hours ago, ChipTait said:Eli Jacobs was the owner when the team moved to Camden Yards. He's the reason for "Oriole Park" at Camden Yards...
Oops. Some article I read the other day credited Angelos and I was too young to remember. I stand corrected!
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On 1/14/2023 at 6:54 PM, Frobby said:
My son’s friend actually finished third on Survivor, and got a “Sia Award” of $50,000. It was not too bad to watch, though I doubt I’ll watch any more of it now that he’s off the show.
Was this Owen? He was a huge Survivor fan from what I hear so it was pretty cool he got to play, even if very little seemed to go his way. This was a fun season... Some entertaining people like Cody and some exciting gameplay like what Jesse did...
I'm a big fan since I think you always get something new with the real people they put into the game and the decisions they make, and the mechanics lend themselves to a lot of thought and strategy ideas, even for viewers following along. I do think they've added a few too many little gimmicks to it, though.
Sia Award is so funny. It's just literally the celebrity Sia giving arbitrary amounts of money away to whoever she feels like, simply because she wants to, but she's been doing it for quite a few years now.
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I always like the tricolor black back/white front with orange bill hat for the Orioles, so even though I prefer the cartoon bird I think this is a good look overall.
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I liked Peter Angelos in some ways. Local Baltimore guy through and through with some interesting pro-labor roots for an owner (I personally admired his refusal to field replacement players and thought it was cool when he brought the Cuban baseball team in to Baltimore). Plus, he was willing to actually spend at times and he was in charge when we got Camden Yards. Problem was, he meddled and the product on the field was always the worse for it as we all know. Then on the other hand you've got John Angelos, who was basically an embarrassment, but who at least let Mike Elias build up the team into one of its most promising positions ever.
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2 hours ago, Warehouse said:
David Rubinstein on CNBC Squawk Box, 9/1/22:
“There’s no doubt that I feel I’m one of the few people in private equity that doesn’t own a sports team. All my friends bought sports teams and I said, ‘Look, your investors are not going to take you seriously by you diverting your attention to these sports teams.’ But I was wrong.”
“It’s very difficult to buy a sports team and lose money. Some people have done it, but it’s very rare. In baseball and basketball, you make your money when you sell the team. In the NFL, you make your money all the time because it’s so profitable.”
“You’re going to see baseball teams, basketball teams and others combine in one company and ultimately, those companies will go public.”
“It’s not the highest profitability thing I hope to be doing in my investment career, but I do think that it’s not something I’m doing to lose money, if I do it.”
Go to minute 34 in this podcast
Don't like the sound of this. Seems less like a Baltimore kid wanting to own the team and see it win than a billionaire who wants the status of owning a team to go with the monetary appreciation sports franchises tend to have. Specifically says he won't be in it to lose money.
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39 minutes ago, Frobby said:
Repeating a point I made when the rumor first came out, Rubenstein is a very charitable guy who has given away hundreds of millions of dollars and has pledged to donate half his fortune to charity. So, I very much doubt he’s buying the Orioles as a cash cow. He will want to win.
At his age, he might want to spend right away...
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7 minutes ago, SilverRocket said:
I would guess it was this graphic in particular that JA didn't like.
He's literally just reading off the team's recent record at the stadium they were currently visiting.
There's petty, and then there's punishment over this is. Baffling? Deluded?
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I appreciate the tradition enough to not outright hate it or care too much, but it is so out of touch with the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland, it's bizarre.
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1 hour ago, eddie83 said:
When there is an odd amount of money being bet on a specific game or outcome the bells go off. You want to tell me that someone in theory could make some side money, ok but why? You are going to risk your income for less money than you are already making? Makes no sense.
To offset losses and clear gambling debt from other bets. For gambling addicts the richer they are the more money they're going to play with. Even the very wealthy can get in trouble.
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Maybe... I don't know though. I see your point but if you don't trust the outcomes of games anymore to be legitimate you might quit watching. People love to righteously boycott things now.
4 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:MLB took those stances because they happened within the sport.
MLB isn’t risking more of that, within the sport, by doing this. This is all for the fans. The players can bet on games if they choose whether or not MLB advertises for it.
It would happen either way.
Players, managers, umpires all live in the same world we do. They are increasingly likely to have been exposed to gambling in their lives which will leak into the game.
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2 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:
Why? It’s not like you weren’t allowed to bet before. There have already been scandals across sports.
That said, the leagues are willing to risk this and they are right for doing so.
Why? It's happened before and it's always been a risk that it would happen again. That's why MLB took such a hard stance against the Black Sox and then Pete Rose. The massive proliferation of gambling is only going to compound the pressures that lead to this sort of thing, making it basically inevitable.
4 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:I know MLB is held to a higher standard than other sports but still....
Tim Donaghy is proof that yes this can and does still happen. Yes, it's actually pretty incredible how well the NBA swept that under the rug, since it likely was more widespread than just Donaghy, but I don't think any league could get away with something like that today with all the social media and general societal distrust.
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Just now, Sports Guy said:
your own personal feelings about it mean far less than growing the game and making it appealing to the younger generation.
This is all well and good until you have a massive scandal that demolishes the integrity of the sport. It's only a matter of time.
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Sports gambling has advanced so rapidly...not that long ago you needed to find a bookie, or there were only certain places you could place a bet, and now not only is it available right at your fingertips over your phone, but there are nonstop ads for gambling everywhere you turn, in the stadium, on TV, online.
Did you all see that little dust up Bradley Beal got into with some fans? They were screaming at him not because the Wizards lost a game but because they lost their bets. Things could get ugly when some gambler is losing their house, their marriage, etc and blaming a player for it.
The casinos and apps must be taking a lot of people's money and ruining a lot of lives if they can afford all these ads and buy off all these state regulations. The MGM casino at National Harbor was the most expensive political campaign in Maryland history, dwarfing the governor's race. It's strange to me how wide gambling has gone with very little pushback.
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Cleveland is completely overloaded with pitching options... they have a decent enough rotation as is, then they've got Tanner Bibee and Gavin Williams knocking on the door and Daniel Espino, who's thought to be better than either of those guys, rehabbing an injury and due back in May.
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4 hours ago, eddie83 said:
They are. That’s another point.
He was talking to Weinman and JLC on 105.7.
So he talks to hosts at the all sports station while the Orioles game was going on still? That’s what I’m trying to figure out. I can’t imagine the Flagship station would be pleased about that.
I was listening on WBAL and I heard the interview. The hosts were joking he had to stay on with them until an O's rally ended.
Edit: I assumed it was the same one, anyway, but now it sounds like there was another one!
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9 hours ago, dystopia said:
232 walks is just absurd, totally bonkers, other-worldly. But perhaps even more insane, is walking 177 times and still hitting 73 homers.
Roids or no roids, that's impressive.
Yeah, I don’t think too highly of the NL home run list because those numbers came from an era with absurd numbers, but there’s no question Bonds is one of the best to ever do it. He was elite every year from 1990 to 2007 and his dominance only ended at age 43 because he got blackballed.
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Forget chasing the wild card this season, but if we want to contend for the playoffs next season or the season after, Jorge Lopez would have been very nice to have.
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I guess time will tell here, but don't immediately see the point of this one.
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3 hours ago, Daddy-O's said:
You do not get nothing, you get two months of a good bat and strong veteran leadership. If Mancini's next two months are nothing why would anyone trade for him.
I think what this winning streak changes for me is I'd no longer move Mancini "just to get something back." Seeing if anything happens in those next two months you're advocating for is worth more to me than some low ranked prospects or whatever, whereas when we were sitting in the cellar that wasn't the case.
Same for Jorge Lopez. If I'm still trading him I want to get something quite nice back, otherwise forget it, because he can do good things for us here.
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Jackson Holliday 2024
in Orioles Talk
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Reminded me a bit of Alex Bregman.
2/38 for Bregman, with Holliday at 1/30 so far. Holliday has struck out more, though. And, after the first 10 games...