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2019 MLB Winter Meetings Grande Thread


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3 hours ago, weams said:

it started in the merchant shops in July of 64 AD and burned for 6 days. It regnited and burned for another 3. Wooden structures were prone to burning in antiquity. Stone structure survived of course. 

Yeah, well, the point is valid. “It was burned in nine days” doesn’t sound quite so poetic.

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1 hour ago, jerios55 said:

Boo.  

Well, think about it he’s going to be splendid for two seasons, while we are terrible. And by the time we are no longer terrible he will have started his decline, so his best years will have been wasted on our worst. And if that’s not positive spin, nothing ever was…

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6 minutes ago, Philip said:

Yeah, well, the point is valid. “It was burned in nine days” doesn’t sound quite so poetic.

Damage could have been mitigated early if they drew a fire break at the fans/merchants. Trying to save it all cost it all. 

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15 minutes ago, Philip said:

Well, think about it he’s going to be splendid for two seasons, while we are terrible. And by the time we are no longer terrible he will have started his decline, so his best years will have been wasted on our worst. And if that’s not positive spin, nothing ever was…

I would bet in 4 years Cole is still pretty good 

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