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I think what he is trying to do is to get fans to pressure the State to up their offer for stadium renovations.

Aside from an apparent ally in the Governor's mansion.

He probably thinks he deserves to be interviewed by a more prestigious paper.

And the O's are under no obligation to pay him for those years. I don't think they were disingenuous at all. I think everyone that would bother to read the article understands how free agency works.

It's actually pretty amazing. Best story in MLB this year and all he has to do is stay away. This is what the third big distraction this season?

I used to like Shysterball but I haven't read any of his stuff in years.

Tampa extends young players.

Maybe we can start a Gofundme to pay for Gunnar's extension? We can raise 300M right?

Why hasn't the PR specialist the O's hired told John to stop giving interviews?

Somehow I don't think the hardest thing to do in sports is to be a small market MLB team. I don't think it's even close. High School teams with a lack of funding and infrastructure have it harder. College Football teams that have to schedule road games against Michigan to pay for the program have it harder. Independent minor league teams have it harder. MLB still has a ton of revenue sharing.

I think you learn more through facing adversity. That being said he does look redundant.

If he's injured he needs to get healthy. Fighting through chronic back pain isn't productive. Not as if he's been playing well recently. Just don't see the point of taking a shot at Cowser there.

I read 112.1 MPH.

I didn't think the joke would work as "miss the bag".

I'm not sure what Cowser has to do with anything?

I don't get why they aren't quicker on putting guys on the IL. It seems like when you try and let them play through it the performance suffers and most of the time they eventually end up on the IL anyway.

Even I'm shocked at this one. Why even bother with high A if you are going to do this?

Sure, wasn't suggesting otherwise.

I think with Gunnar's speed and where he hit the ball it would have been plenty blatant.

I don't recall seeing a MLB player ever dog it for a cycle. I don't think it would go over.

Should be easy to find out. BB Reference shouldn't be updated but MLB.com should be. 484 on MLB.com 462 on Baseball reference.

I imagine the backlash a player would get for dogging it just to get a cycle would be pretty severe.

I told him to overslide the bag.

Grayson.