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  1. Laika
    Yeah it's perfect. There are so many players where fans forever say "if he could just fix that one thing..." Ray is the guy that fixed that one thing entirely without giving anything up.
  2. Laika
    At this rate he's going to get 5 or 6 years I think. He's relatively young as far as high level free agent starters go
  3. Laika
    So Robbie Ray is a legit Ace now eh?
  4. Laika
    Yeah, not into it
  5. Laika
    Hmmmm
  6. Laika
    Hmmmm
  7. Laika
    I do believe it's shorter. Gregorius had TJS October 2018 and was activated from the DL June 2019. Best case scenario would be Biggio still missing a little bit of 2022. If he had TJS this month.
  8. Laika
    Yeah it's not great. Some of the young SP/RP depth like Hatch, Kay, Thornton have been complete zeros and that doesn't help.
  9. Laika
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popov_v._Hayashi
  10. Laika
    https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/ballpark/information/guest-code-of-conduct Foul Balls, Homerun Balls & Bats During the game, fans must stay in their seats except when travelling to concessions, restrooms, or for emergencies and fan services support. All guests are asked to stay alert throughout the game for foul balls or bats that might leave the playing area. Guests are permitted to keep any foul and home run balls that are hit into the seats, but are asked to be cautious and courteous to others when collecting a ball. Bats entering the stands must be returned if requested by the Blue Jays or visiting team. Guests are prohibited from throwing balls back onto the field. Violators are subject to ejection and possible arrest. Any guest that interferes with a ball in play or the game in any way is subject to ejection from the ballpark and/or criminal prosecution.
  11. Laika
    Part of me still thinks it's a bit of a jerk play. Just the act of holding an object of such personal importance to someone else away from them as part of a cold act of negotiation. I'm sure there is a portion of rich players who would refuse to pay significant money for it as a matter of principle.
  12. Laika
    So the jerk play is to get a lawyer and tell the player's reps you want like $50k for it or else you'll just keep it.
  13. Laika
    You think that much? hmmmm.
  14. Laika
    Spanky, take the L.
  15. Laika
    I've thought about this before. I would definitely give it to the player if they were offering me anything worthwhile, like a bat or jersey signed by the player. Harder decision if you have a truly historic ball though. Like an all time record homer.
  16. Laika
    yes
  17. Laika
    The Yankees gave Chapman a mega contract. It's not comparable to Toronto trying to bring back Ray or Semien after dealing them. Nobody should want Toronto to have to pay Robbie Ray the absolute highest amount of money to sign him. You'd like to think that after his career turnaround there will be other factors that are at least a bit important to him. The Yankees had to rebuild. The situations aren't comparable other than playoff proximity. They traded a 39 year old DH and two relievers that deadline. The Yankees also had a negative run differential that year - deadline decisions are as much about projected performance as they are about current standings.
  18. Laika
    No, because pitching injuries are predictable and expected. No team should ever think "well let's just hope our 5 decent SP stay healthy for the last 60 games" especially when options 6 and 7 are s***
  19. Laika
    Bad math because Stripling is hurt anyway so it's Berrios over like, f***ing Anthony Kay? And in theory Berrios is also a pen upgrade because you stick a healthy Stripling there. SP who can really compete are a but 2022 need though.
  20. Laika
    This isn't OOTP Baseball. Good luck signing Semien and Ray if you trade them away while only a few games back of a playoff spot. The Mariners for absolutely crucified by their fans for that Toro trade. I like the trade for them but it's because the Mariners suck and their reasonable playoff chances are pretty abysmal.
  21. Laika
    Why should the Blue Jays, who have money, act like the Rays, who are poor and will always be poor? Toronto can just buy guys like Ryu and Springer on the open market. They don't need to hoard prospects and collect years of control forever and ever.
  22. Laika
    Definitely not true about 2022. It would not be reasonable to expect Martin and SWR to outperform Berrios.
  23. Laika
    I could not disagree with this more. Toronto was in the mix with like 50% playoff odds and they were one of the best looking teams of that mix. They have choked hard in the last couple of weeks but that does not mean the process was bad. They should be buying every time in that type of situation. Honestly, this organization has made the playoffs 8 times since 1977. Five of those were 29+ years ago and one of those was a fake playoff entry (2020). So two legitimate playoff teams since 1994. And people get mad when they buy at the deadline? Loser mentality.
  24. Laika
    I pretend I do not see this. Instead I will go to 1:30 and watch that play.
  25. Laika
    Some of this is solved already in the NFT world. At least for some projects. For example, some of the projects only allow a specific address to mint a small number of NFTs. So a billionaire can't scoop them all up unless they wait for other people to mint the entire run and then buy them on the secondary marketplace from private individuals. It's an even playing field at the time of minting - that's kind of why retail crypto enthusiasts are having so much fun in NFT land right now. So no rich guy boxing out really occurs at the initial point of sale. It can occur when the rich people identify an entire project as potentially a good investment and they decide to scoop up a huge amount of the supply from the secondary market. But you probably see that happen in the physical card world. I know people who run card stores order like, truck loads of magic cards when they come out. Honestly some of what you say about the physical collecting sounds like a barrier to entry to me. The parts about physically driving around, etc..
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