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For some reason beer was the first thing to come to mind. Also I'd like to chime in that I'm the lightest I've been in about 10 years so it isn't quarantine that's the problem.

CLE over 32.5 - $80 MIL over 30.5 - $80 STL over 31.5 - $80 Cubs over 32.5 - $80 BOS under 31.5 - $80 TB under 34 - $50 MIA under 24.5 - $50 Hurl is so cute making the math unnecessarily difficult with 1.91 multiples to ensure house spread integrity when it makes absolutely no difference for bets in this hypothetical contest. 2x would have sufficed.

Now is he worthy of being on the 60-man player pool? Special circumstances but it would be kind of cool to see his pro debut in the MLB. Like Olerud.

I'm fine with jettisoning the politics, but I won't sit idly by at Hurl's lame attempt to neuter Spanky. His creative nickname insults and incoherent drunken rants are harmless. I can't imagine the level of whiny pussbag someone has to be to feel threatened or take offense to him to report him (maybe annoyed). He brings some much needed character to this board. I think he makes a great litmus test for new members. If they can handle unrestrained Spanky, they belong here.

I'm liking this. All my off-topic posts have been erased off my post count but my thanks count remains untouched (I think). So now I look like a competent baseball guy.

The Mets had good finance theory backing up that plan. It's just that Bernie Madoff f***ed it all up. Hurl actually does a competent job in explaining it from the player's perspective that it's not such a great deal for Bonailla as it seems. Though looking at it retrospectively like that, the player could have dumped it all in Bre-X or Nortel instead and have nothing to show for it.

I feel little sympathy for the "racism" issue in baseball. Adrian Beltre, Edwin Encarnacion and David Ortiz are black men who talk with an accent. Plenty of "black" athletes in MLB who just so happen to be categorized as Latino because of where they are born. Just goes to show you how useless these race categorizations can be. Now if we are talking about opportunity, okay so the American black kids go play in the NFL or NBA and the Latino black kids play in the MLB because where they grew up baseball is the incumbent sport and much cheaper to play and organize. What's so wrong with this? If you focus your efforts on the inner cities of the US aren't you just taking opportunities away from the poor Latino boys who don't have the NBA or NFL as an alternative? Also we are talking about a few thousand men out of millions of visible minorities in the United States. Most of whom would be lucky to get one year of a major league sport payoff. Blacks in baseball should be way down the list of racial issues to tackle in the country. This is virtue signalling at its worst.

The difference being the constant border travel. Maybe if the Jays schedule went something like 15 at home, 30 on the road, 15 at home it would help things out.

My best case scenario is that the Jays win the World Series and don't have to trade players for prospects because the future is now as well as the future. But yeah we know Jim. Your best case scenario always involves trading players for prospects fapping fantasies. Pat Gillick did that 100% of the time and that's what made him such a successful GM.

It's a fact, not an insult. With the price of oil being where it is and current economic conditions despite the stock market, the oil sands will struggle. I hope this is considered an economic and not a political post.

Well, if the Jays are considered a streaky and wildly variable team that will either overperform or really suck over a shortened season, expanded playoffs do not help. More chances for the team's inferiority to be exposed. The best case scenario is for all the players to get hot over 2 months, the team massively outperforms then wins the wild card game. Actually the best case scenario is a 4 game set against the Orioles and whoever has the best record in the AL after 4 games goes straight to the World Series.

Mocking conservatives for liking conservative things. That'll really help to get Canadians from other parts of the country to give a s*** about western interests, including your dying oil industry!

Vince McMahon should be the sole decider of who gets into the baseball HOF, like his dumb WWE HOF. After Baines I don't think he could do a worse job than the BBWAA and veterans committee just randomly picking whoever he liked.

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( An unfortunately timed injury to a relief pitcher who may have been traded for prospects otherwise is the worst thing to happen to a team ever. I don't know how anyone can ever get over this and I can totally understand why you're still suffering over this horrific event.

I think MLB has it right here to not have hub cities if Florida and Arizona are off the table. Where else would have the appropriate infrastructure to host multiple teams? The Northeast region maybe but I see that creating more problems than solving. With an imbalanced schedule I don't see the issue anyways. Jays are facing nearly as many opponents over 60 games as the Raptors will be over 8. Chartered travel isn't that much of an issue.

Every team plays almost every day, games are longer and a baseball field is a lot bigger than a basketball court. How would you squeeze in 3 games in a hub park with 6 different teams, coaches, batting practice etc.?

Dude...go join some antifa protest or something to get your commie/anti-capitalist/anti-rich people urges out of your system. No one, NO ONE is on the side of the f***ing owners. When someone rightfully trashes the MLBPA for being stupid that doesn't mean they are simultaneously downing 3 inches of Ed Rogers cock. BOTH sides are wrong, s***** and stupid.

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Mark Cuban and George Bush are two people who come to mind who might have enough sway to get it happening. Cuban on the business end, Bush more on the ambassador/political end. Whatever people want to say about Vince McMahon, it took a load of balls to try to pull off what he did. Twice.

If these dipshits don't get their house in order, forget about it, the MLB might never come back. It would set the precedent for cancelling the season in 2020 and there is no guarantee that the issues regarding health and fans won't still be a problem in 2021. Even if 90% of life otherwise has returned to normal. Then December 1, 2021 hits. Not everyone in charge of the MLB and PA can possibly be this stupid, can they? Notice how I referred to the MLB, not baseball. I'm gearing for a return of the Federal League. Does Vince McMahon like baseball?

My gosh man...Ash did fine to acquire Cone. Yes he was s***** later on but he wasn't SO s***** SO fast that he was responsible for the first half of 1995 that ignited the half-assed tear down.

The problem is the 1995 bullpen was atrocious. From elite to the worst (probably) in a span of two seasons.

People like to use the romanticized records as examples of baseball's most unbreakable record. I had the same issue chatting on another board with someone who said Nolan Ryan's seven no-hitters was the most unbreakable record. Hogwash. Some freak could come along and break either of those in two months. Grant is right, complete games are clearly among the most unbreakable records given how baseball has changed. Career, season. Doesn't matter what era you use. Far better example than DiMaggio's hit streak. But the most unbreakable record that I can think of is Fernando Tatis' two grand slams in an inning. The record could be tied *relatively easily* but will never be broken. Never mind the astronomical odds of coming up in three straight plate appearances with the bases loaded and hitting a home run in all three. But in the entire history of the MLB, there has been just one occurence where at least 22 batters have hit in an inning. You should apologize to the board for even putting forth such a ridiculous notion that DiMaggio's record is the most unbreakable in baseball. It's probably one of the more likely ones to be broken to be honest.

Blake Snell is a f***ing retard. Not necessarily what he said, but how he said it. Rich pampered white boy straight from the hood. American education system at work. I never realized that I had a Canadian accent until today. And having one is a good thing.

This is the longest period of time without expansion in MLB since expansion started. And 32 teams would be a lot nicer to deal with than 30. I just hope they go with four divisions of eight instead of eight divisions of four when it inevitably happens.