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  1. TheLeviathan
    I disagree. I think a great deal of his value right now is tied up in the amount of team control he has. Next year he is a rental. This year he is not.
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    Meanwhile people think Harper is a cheater and an awful person for having a kick-ass HR Derby. The hell baseball fans?
  3. TheLeviathan
    Because the alternative is way worse.
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    May the baseball gods bless Mark Canha for the rest of his career. Good for you.
  5. TheLeviathan
    If I were to bet in Vegas today, I would bet the results of the hoped "Blue Wave" will be somewhere between underwhelming and catastrophic. Trump is an X factor of course, but as you said, Republican voters love him and you can count on them 100% to be there to vote on any ballot being handed to them.
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    Perhaps, but republicans run pedophiles and still get turnout. I'm not sure candidate quality is the issue either. As Smerf said, the right wing base is just so much more reliable.
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    I'd have a lot easier time blaming the electoral college for Dem woes if the Presidency was a consistent problem for them. They've done just fine claiming that office 16 out of the last 26 years. The complaints about that are seriously overblown. (And often in error) It also doesn't explain how they get their ass handed to them from school board to governor. The problem is, and has been for quite a while, turnout. Dems need to spend more time pushing people to register and vote through the obstruction the Republicans intentionally create for them.
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    I think it's fair to point out that while Dozier likes to have great second halves.....so do the Cleveland Indians.
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    All true, but Playstation owns the video game console market. And in terms of games that give a good representation of their sport....it holds up very well. But it isn't even close to Madden or NBA2K. Every sports fan has those, MLB The Show is more like the NHL product. That, in and of itself, ought to tell you something.
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    I'm trying not to be too hopeful, but Fox is pretty harsh on it right now even. If that's any barometer.
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    My point was about a certain demographics being less interested in paying for baseball. The vast majority of your money coming from 50 and 60 year olds is only sustainable if the next generation will maintain it. I don't believe it will.
  13. TheLeviathan
    The Show is an outstanding sports game. In terms of quality, it is ridiculously good. Perhaps the low sales are, again, an indicator of a deeper problem.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Citing current revenues misses the point.
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    This seems relevant to this thread.
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    Is this finally the straw that breaks the camel's back?
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    Pretty much this. Sears was still profiting for quite a while during their decline, ignoring it for so long made it impossible to recover once the crisis became undeniable. I hope Parker's survey is right that most baseball fans are fine with major changes, but it's not the changes that are going to make or break the game of baseball. People aren't going to games because their team is tanking, it's because they have less interest in baseball. And, more accurately, less interest in paying for baseball. It's the fact that the majority of the money rolling into the league has a shelf life of about another 20-30 years. Who fills that gap in 20-30 years? It won't be this baseball fan, baseball has largely stopped getting money out of my pocket and the numbers say that's pretty common in the 20-45 age bracket.
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    Parker, do you think a Twitter poll of your followers is a good representation? I lean no on that.
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    Sure, I'll take any living human for Lance Lynn at this point.
  20. TheLeviathan
    I'm not sure that solves your .750 vs. .850 point though. Two weeks might add some clarity, but streaky hitters are hard to bank on. I doubt the Twins get any more information about Dozier in two weeks. What they will get information on, is whether this team should remain a seller. A 9 game road trip will (hopefully) make it clear. On Dozier, I think everyone knows where things are: Shop the streaky hitter and sell teams on the idea that he is about to be a lineup-carrying force and try to get a good rental price. If you can't....then you're left with QO vs. extension as you grind out the last two months of the season. Nothing about the next two weeks changes that IMO.
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    IMO, baseball has done a good job on the technology end of things (in terms of accessibility) relative to other sports, but less so on social media. I'm not sure how you fix the fact that baseball is highly regional, highly cable/TV driven, and most of the dollars are being poured in by aging white guys. I know I've been vocal about it, but those three factors are going to be really hard to overcome unless baseball starts taking the issue seriously. And not just the people in MLB, the fans of baseball need to accept that change is necessary for their sport or it'll die a slow death.
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    The Rays got mad that Dozier celebrated forcing a balk? Lame. Dozier celebrated a balk huh? Irony is rich there, but the hypocrisy is the least surprising part of the whole display of nonsense.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Brewers, dodgers, D-backs, and Phillies could all probably be in the mix. Basically any team not the winner in the Machado sweepstakes.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Buxton's fragility continues to concern me. Maybe even more than his soft contact/hitting issues.
  25. TheLeviathan
    A guy worth investing playing time in.
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