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  1. Dick_Pole
    Oh yes they have, especially when they started voting CPC/Ford here in the GTA. Something about them being selfish and not caring about immigrants/refugees coming to Canada after they did now that they're settled. Luckily the virus and the racist outbursts by hillbillies probably bought them another 2 years of victimhood.
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    NBA Thread

    Dick_Pole replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    The Bucks' moves feel like what the Raptors did acquiring Leonard. Milwaukee isn't exactly the most desirable location for NBA players. So the Bucks go all in this year. If it works, it works. Then year after next either they manage to keep the players or do a major reset but at least in that reset there will be a ton of cap space to work with. I think it's about as good of a position the team can be in.
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    Holy f*** before this nonsense gets out of control I'd like to chime in that I completely understood the spirit of conner's post and that multi-year deals *tend* to mean 3+ years while one and two-year deals are generally mentioned as such. And I would guess that most of the non-autistic contributors here understood the spirit of what he is saying too. Language doesn't have to be literal at all times.
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    Wow checking that list there's a good chance no first-timer even makes the 5% cutoff. Reasonably good chance no one gets voted in this year. But now that the pandemic has turned everyone into as much of a miserable social shut in as the average BBWAA member, they might actually stop acting like moral gremlins and use judgement of talent as their measuring stick for hall worthiness.
  5. Dick_Pole
    It's the hair at fault.
  6. Dick_Pole
    I don't feel he's a significant upgrade over what the Jays could throw out there already. If it's a one year deal and otherwise the cash goes to Rogers' shareholders, then hey might as well if nothing else comes the team's way.
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    NBA Thread

    Dick_Pole replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    Brooklyn lol. While the Raptors actually try to put together a functional team, most of the rest of the GMs play fantasy ball hoarding random stars. The ball will suffer trauma being battled over by Irving and Harden. If he goes there, whatever the hell the overhyped season win total ends up being, I'd bet the under. So actually I kinda hope the Nets do pick him up. The Suns move was pretty good though.
  8. Dick_Pole
    Don't get too excited, male feminists. Cheap-ass Marlins just wanted to pay 70 cents on the dollar for equal work. Wait, she's non-white? So more like 56 cents on the dollar.
  9. Dick_Pole
    I have no issue with the composition of race in baseball versus other sports but to suggest these differences are genetic (particularly some of the arguments put forward here) is absolutely asinine. It's all cultural and money-based. NBA players come from poor places - inner city U.S. and Eastern Europe - because it requires minimal equipment and is seen as one path to getting out of economic hardship. Hockey players tend to be from better off families because hockey is expensive. Baseball is somewhere in between the two. Football is kind of the sport for everyone but the clear lines between position and race have more to do with college football (often racial) practices going back decades that has only recently started to break down. Nothing to do with genetics in race. Alex Ovechkin would have a much better shot at becoming a cornerback in the NFL if he trained for it than the average American-born black man.
  10. Dick_Pole
    I would feel that the Jays felt that Ray has about the same probability of outcomes as Kluber or Archer for 2021. And if they got Ray money, that just means that teams aren't paying extra for a name. Look at projections or 2020 stats or durability. Not a major difference between the three guys.
  11. Dick_Pole
    Jays don't move this fast on this deal without having complete confidence that they can work with the guy to bring him back to old form. People compare this to Happ/Estrada or Morales, which is fine. But this isn't a typical offseason. Things are widely expected to move slow. They aren't jumping the gun or misreading the market like with Morales, a consolation prize. They are making a move on someone they want to keep around.
  12. Dick_Pole
    I rushed to this forum to see the reaction to the good news for Charlie. Now I really hope he wins!
  13. Dick_Pole
    I'm optimistic in that this team is willing and able to spend both in terms of payroll room and FO win curve analysis. I'm pessimistic in that we don't know where the Jays will be playing, which could significantly impact Rogers' desire to spend in 2021 (what's the point of making a FA splash to win without corresponding uptick in season ticket sales) and players' desire to play with the team.
  14. Dick_Pole
    Agreed. All things considered Beeston is probably the most important exec to the Jays franchise, I guess tied with Gillick. Was he perfect? No. But he's certainly far from the worst exec this city has seen in terms of professional sports. It was just a good time for him to go, as he was ancient both in terms of actual age and baseball age. Now he can go run for POTUS or something. As far as setting the team back a few years, meh 2015 and 2016 was worth it I think.
  15. Dick_Pole
    Should have made MLB a publicly traded entity. The stock would be at an all-time high right now and they could have sold some stock in the public markets to finance the losses. Winning!!! But yeah I don't see how the players are going to win in this situation if teams are desperate enough to lay off employees making $50,000 a year or whatever. Absolutely terrible optics if the players get paid this offseason. Best to sign one year deals and try again after the new CBA deal.
  16. Dick_Pole
    This is stupid, but I guess it's Manfred's sad attempt to try and limit the Rays gaming the system. The league should just come out and say any new idea the Rays try is automatically banned. Force the team to be 62-100 every year until they can move or disband it.
  17. Dick_Pole
    I meant expansion meaning having to overcome being a bad team in general for a few years, but that specifically. The league didn't want another Shaq incident for a new team so they put in that extra handicap. A far cry from the desperation of today's NHL to make teams work in new markets. Have them hit the finals in their first year.
  18. Dick_Pole
    IIRC it had much more to do with corporate funding than the actual fanbase. Plus let's be fair. The Vancouver Grizzlies was one of the worst performing franchises ever, even with the expansion handicap. Who would want to cheer for that after the novelty wore off? Under those circumstances I'd say the fan base was pretty good. Even I figured out they were dumb as a dumb teenager myself when they let the Raptors have BJ Armstrong as trade bait to ensure they wouldn't draft Big Country.
  19. Dick_Pole
    That's actually good. A sign they are willing to give up the whole "Canada's team" bit and let some expansion come back up north. Not that I would expect the Jays to be one of the top 10 roadblocks to seeing something like that happen.
  20. Dick_Pole
    I fail to see how this would be the end of the Jays. One of the stronger franchise and ownership pairing. Rogers has absolutely zero interest in moving this team to a U.S. city permanently.
  21. Dick_Pole
    Good. Let those hippies out west get their own MLB team instead of vicariously living through ours.
  22. Dick_Pole
    I have too much recency bias on the Jays good luck of dumpster diving for the pen to want any kind of serious dollars spent there. Spend on the starting rotation, put Roark in the pen and hope he becomes the next Wade Davis. We'll see if I'm pulling my hair out by next August if the team leads the league in blown saves.
  23. Dick_Pole
    Guessing that might be sarcasm, but would even one remotely important decision maker from the FO be in Canada right now?
  24. Dick_Pole
    He's trying to add value in some way. Glad to see I wouldn't have been the only one to point out the bourder comment.
  25. Dick_Pole
    Let's go Astros: 1. I'm guessing this would be the first time a team under .500 during the regular season makes the World Series. That would make this season even more hilarious. 2. It would be great to see all the "anti-cheater" types go nuts over their success. 3. The Rays are a terrible franchise and don't deserve any kind of success or reward for their s***** brand of baseball and need to be stopped here.
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