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  1. John_Havok
    Reinsdorf is the 2nd longest tenured owner in MLB behind the Steinbreners. Bought the White Sox in 1981 for around 20 million. Most recent valuations have them at about 2 billion. 100-fold return after 40ish years on top of everything he's made off them in between. Solid return
  2. John_Havok
    It's certainly an option as a thought exercise but it's very clearly not happening so it wouldn't really accomplish much. All it would really do is revisionist people more ammo to say the "see. I said we should have got rid of everyone last year and..." blah blah blah. Even talking trades, there's no real sustance any of us could project on what a potential return would like from any team, just a bunch of "Vlad should get an on field star above average regular, plus their top prospect, plus...etc etc.." and then when that didn't happen...just another bitch fest like they somehow had their fingers on the pulse of every GM in baseball and their willingness to gut their team to trade for 1 year of Vlad. So yeah. Sounds good!
  3. John_Havok
    Opening game of NLCS TV ratings were more than double last year's and are the highest of any LCS in 15 years
  4. John_Havok
    being fair, he made some decent points.
  5. John_Havok
    When literally every single team passes on what someone is looking for and they get a 1 year deal, that doesn't really indict the Jays FO specifically as being bad. There are plenty of examples that are clear indicators of the failures of the FO, but that is not one of them.
  6. John_Havok
    Yankees/Dodgers would be the preference for sure by a Longshot. The two league MVPs head-to-head in the playoffs? This series sponsored by Viagra. Come to think of it, when was the last time the two league MVPs faced off in the World Series? It doesn't strike me as a very regular occurence
  7. John_Havok
    2021 he was 34 RV in total on fastballs. Absolutely murdered them all season long. 2022 - 8 2023 - 1 2024 - 9 It wasnt what Vlad did against Fastballs this season, its what he did to nearly everything else. RVs on basically everything that wasn't a fastball were all way up. If pitchers want to beat vlad.. honestly,all they should be doing is throwing inner half fastballs. All he tries to do with them is inside out them to RF. He'll loop some singles and occasional doubles, but he doesnt really hit inner half fastballs for power, especially middle-in and lower-in.
  8. John_Havok
    I think its a factor, but it's just very situational that you see it's true impact. Nobody cares who's hitting behind anyone on April 10th. In playoff series when hitters are facing top starters and pen arms almost exclusively, matters a bit more when a manager has to decide whether to pitch around a guy or not, or go to the pen or not.
  9. John_Havok
    Some men just want to see the world burn...
  10. John_Havok
    Maybe. Eliminate all the perennial bottom feeders payroll wise ...Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Minnesota, Oakland, Milwaukee, Tampa, Miami, KC. That's 9 eliminated right away. 21 left. I'd say Baltimore is usually in that category but I'll give their new ownership the benefit of the doubt and put them in the maybe pile. Theres also a bit of a difference of wanting a player based on talent alone, 30 teams want Vlad for that, but I don't think 20 want his talent for what he will probably make.
  11. John_Havok
    And pretty average offenses. Kinda interesting that in the AL central. The average offense and pitching/d focused teams made it, but the highest run scoring team didn't. Contrast that with the AL East, the 2 teams that made it were two of the top run scoring teams in the game. Tampa and the Jays who were largely pitching and D focused got smacked around. Tampa couldn't score to save their lives though. Jays at least were almost league average on the sticks, just the pitching s*** every bed it could possibly s*** in.
  12. John_Havok
    I cant really think of a team i can pick above the rest in the NL that i would prefer to win over the other.... I feel like The Dodgers winning would be best for MLB as a whole as far as marketing and whatnot, but... if the Padres beat them, or even if the D's win the DS and lose the NLCS to either the Mets or Phillies, i wouldn't be upset. As for the AL.... Gimme the Yankees and Detroit. Chronic low spending clubs like Cleveland and KC are s*** for the game. I know Detroit is low this year, but they have shown in the past they aren't some perennial penny-pinching shithole that just takes money from other teams and puts it in the owners pocket. So... Detroit, NY, Mets and Dodgers. I think that's the best 4 for marketing purposes.
  13. John_Havok
    I think the choke up is just the simplest explanation, he knew he couldn't strikeout. No matter what, no strikeout.
  14. John_Havok
    The biggest missing piece in Cincinatti is payroll.
  15. John_Havok
    I very much doubt a hitter can see the real difference in about an inch of glove height from 60 feet away. Possible I guess if you're really locked in on glove/jersey markers but if he was tipping it this game, chances are hes been tipping it for a lot longer and ... doesn't seem like many guys are getting good wood on it over the long term. I suspect Caleb Joseph is more correct in his assertion that he was just sitting on it and got a good one to hit. plus, Williams' fastball was all over the place in that PA so he could discount that pitch even more.
  16. John_Havok
    This seasons budget was pretty big when ohtani was an option. Just sayin Hell, for all we know he's already had unofficial and hush hush talks with agents of guys like Soto or Bregman and maybe already knows they have no shot at them. That would suck, but...there's also ways to get more flexibility by trading certain guys
  17. John_Havok
    Intentionally putting the tying run in scoring position usually isn't wise. He does strike out his fair share of the time too
  18. John_Havok
    Baltimore gave up, Tampa gave up, Cleveland gave up.... not to mention San Fran, The white sox... i guess something finally clicked in Milwaukee.
  19. John_Havok
    you should see some of these comments though... "fed up with current management" .. that one was my favorite and it's quite popular. Apparently they figure firing the GM and president and all the people who brought in the most young talent they've seen in ... forever... needs an upgrade.
  20. John_Havok
    Upset yes, but acting like children who are entitled to winning playoff games is laughably arrogant. Celebrate the success of being one of the best teams in the league with one of the best cores in place rather than whining like babies.
  21. John_Havok
    This is why you never grade signings in hindsight, just the process that led to them. If the Jays in 2021 had gone deep like they could have, the signing looks a lot better. But it doesnt change the reality that as soon as the ink was dry they knew the last few years were going to be s***. They all knew it was a possibility. It may be happening faster than they thought...or his decline might be steeper, but they knew going in. Same thing every team knows about all the longer term contracts, they all turn to s*** at some point. So, a team really only had 2 choices...sign big name FAs when you can to improve your team on the short term amd live with the fallout, or...never sign big name FAs. There's not very many franchises that have consistently ran deep in the playoffs for long periods of time without signing them though. Low spending teams can still pop up every once in a while, but they never sustain it long term. Even the Rays magic well has been running dry.
  22. John_Havok
    Orioles fans are legit hilarious right now. Melting down because they lost in the playoffs for the second straight year like they're some amazing juggernaut of a team that's incapable of losing because they've finally had a few seasons where they aren't dogshit. How do fans become so entitled so fast?
  23. John_Havok
    You're one of the O's guys? I hadn't noticed tbh
  24. John_Havok
    Ohtani winning the series and MVP....MLB would have an election for the next 5 years
  25. John_Havok
    It's actually nice to see. It's like he learned a bit from being a twat for the past decade. Either that or all that s*** he threw at the wall just hasn't slid off yet.
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