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  1. Laika
    Happy faces and cool faces mean the same thing.
  2. Laika
    Gotta say, Tampa's lineup looks worse than Toronto's.
  3. Laika
    Look at our diverse team. Koreans, Dominicans, a bunch of little white dweebs, and Randal Grichuk the resident white nationalist. #Proud
  4. Laika
    The 2014 draft was bad. The first round had like, 5 clear hits. 1 Brady Aiken* 2 Tyler Kolek 3 Carlos Rodón 4 Kyle Schwarber 5 Nick Gordon 6 Alex Jackson 7 Aaron Nola 8 Kyle Freeland 9 Jeff Hoffman 10 Michael Conforto 11 Max Pentecost 12 Kodi Medeiros 13 Trea Turner 14 Tyler Beede 15 Sean Newcomb 16 Touki Toussaint 17 Brandon Finnegan 18 Erick Fedde 19 Nick Howard 20 Casey Gillaspie 21 Bradley Zimmer 22 Grant Holmes 23 Derek Hill 24 Cole Tucker 25 Matt Chapman 26 Michael Chavis 27 Luke Weaver
  5. Laika
    And give up on ROwdy!>?
  6. Laika
    Mostly because A. Rod has turned into a cliched broadcasting pumpkin and his lack of talent is shining through under his J-Lo brand cover up. He's no Tony Romo.
  7. Laika
    No, this wouldn't be the case. I think the Canada Lands Company is the registered owner of the "Stadium Lands". See the map: https://en.clc.ca/sites/default/files/TorontoStadiumLands_Overlay.jpg Note that CLC also owns other lands around this parcel. Rogers would own a long-term lease with CLC. Rogers can't sell the land because they don't own it. In theory they could sell the lease... There might be a restrictive covenant registered on title that says the land is only ever to be used as a sports and entertainment stadium. This would have been registered when it was transferred from the prior owner to the CLC.
  8. Laika
    Mooooooooooooooooooooooods!
  9. Laika
    Andres Gimenez is not a legal add - we changed the prospect debut rules with the move to Fantrax and all the other league changes: I've dropped him to waivers now though so he is claimable.
  10. Laika
    The playoffs will be easy to make
  11. Laika
    It does get too much s***. Some renovations like removing some seating and properly directing all seating towards home plate would go a long way.
  12. Laika
    If there is a revolving door of Covid ILs all year long, maybe not.
  13. Laika
    You know it won't be implemented well. Rob Manfred and Bud Selig announce every draft pick themselves. The opponent selection show will just be Rob Manfred in his basement pulling pictures out of envelopes. "With the first selection in the 2020 American League Playoff Opponent Draft the New York Yankees select... The Minnesota Twins *no applause or reaction*... The Houston Astros have the next selection and they are now on the clock *insert 47 commercials*" Also, the selection show is blacked out in 88% of Canada and you need to be a US resident of Florida to catch it on MLB Network.
  14. Laika
    Tom Hatch breaking camp with the team, wow.
  15. Laika
    Again, we see it implied in a report that MLB is being largely passive in this. I can't understand that incompetence. "Major League Baseball would certainly welcome it" --- are you kidding me, Manfred? You should be leading the problem solving charge.
  16. Laika
    Probably has to be a state with a republican governor at this point. With a country and a state both saying no, there is a pretty strong precedent that other states will be hesitant to deviate from.
  17. Laika
    I wonder if this was a silly training injury
  18. Laika
    Very ironic that the Toronto Blue Jays, the team from the cleanest city of all MLB teams as far as Covid is concerned (if not the cleanest city then one of, and certainly the cleanest country) are the ones being put out by this. Really at this point this is an MLB problem and MLB needs to solve it. I'm hopeful they are involved - maybe they are leading the efforts - but the sense we are getting is that the Toronto organization is primarily trying to problem solve this. Why is Mark Shapiro talking about plans A, B, C, D, E, and F and we are hearing diddly s*** from the commissioner? What is MLB's plan B? Just let Toronto land wherever Shapiro can get them to land?
  19. Laika
    Completely agree. Most teams don't ever get a realistic opportunity to lock in a true superstar like Mookie - that's a right acquired in the trade that is not captured by any normal surplus value calculation. The Red Sox look like a second rate organization now and their brand is tarnished. Bellinger and Betts is a potentially legendary tandem.
  20. Laika
    You can be a diversity hire and be qualified. It's broadcasting, not sprocket science - there are hundreds of people who can call a baseball game so it is fair for a company to choose among qualified candidates based on their perception of audience preference. Her employers probably fairly think that there is some portion of their audience that reacts positively to having a woman in the booth. Lots of women and progressive men watch baseball. Women are infiltrating the game at every level, whether you like it or not buddy. She has also played at the highest comparable level of comparable sport that a woman can play at.
  21. Laika
    She's not any worse than half the broadcasters in the league. I have always thought she was a solid broadcaster and pretty professional in the role. Broadcasters frequently get picked for reasons outside of their talent or merit - see the majority of broadcasters who are ex-players. Being said, I think she is good enough at the job to have the job. Sure, she is a diversity hire. I'd go so far as to say that calling Jessica Mendoza a bad broadcaster and stating that she was hired because of her gender is blatantly sexist.
  22. Laika
    What is that supposed to mean?
  23. Laika
    I was surprised to see him dropped. Then I didn't want to to use my waiver priority on him so I was surprised to see him pass through
  24. Laika
    Lux has 28 days of service time. I guess the goal would be to keep him down for a couple of weeks so that at the end of 2020 he still is just shy of 1.000 Ruthless
  25. Laika
    I don't really disagree.
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