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And he used up all his constructive critiques in the first two innings -
It's no big deal - t shirts are easily replaced on the fly
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Taj Be Dreadful
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Juuuuuuuuust a bit outside
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Maybe he's been against the philosophies of Falvey for a while and after the firesale he's getting all "I'm gonna make you fire me"
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It's too bad the Chisox replaced one of the only City Connect jersey sets that actually looked good. Now they're in Jordan pajamas - which are still better than most
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Not for sure, but hinted at. I'd bet yes
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Happy for Royce
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In his bunk bed under the left field bleachers at Target Field IIRC
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It varies carrier by carrier depending on their agreement with ESPN. I believe Xfinity is a no, Directv is a yes at this time. I'd start by searching "[cable provider] espn direct to consumer" in Google I have Youtube TV, which does not have an agreement yet with ESPN. I tested the app out, and I still watch channels that are part of my package with my authentication. I'm only blacked out of things designated as part of "ESPN unlimited" (I separately have a subscription to ESPN+, so I get that stuff but not from my TV provider). As far as I can tell, ESPN Unlimited is currently just a handful of preseason NFL games and WWE pay-per-view shows. My understanding is that MLB TV would fall under this ESPN Unlimited category, but that hasn't been made official yet
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You must not be old enough to remember 1995. MLB tried that, then got their clocks cleaned in court for negotiating in bad faith (which they were) and the strike ended up resolving nothing
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Bradley is still listed as the Saints scheduled starter for Sunday. Then again, Abel is listed as the scheduled starter Saturday. The next TBD starter for the Twins after Saturday is Tuesday according to ESPN (Ryan Sunday, Ober Monday), while MLB has everything TBD after today. If I had to guess, Bradley is Tuesday in Toronto, which would explain why only Abel was reported as traveling to Chicago
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I can appreciate you trying to be optimistic, but that is not even close to a competitive bullpen. It's basically what the bullpen is now (which is awful) plus a $5M fee agent and the hope a failed starter can reinvent themselves on the fly. And paying market rate for a closer is one of the most unreliable investments a team can make, especially a team on a budget. There's also one outfielder that has any business starting on a competitive team. This is why people are advocating moving the quality starters. Legitimate contention just isn't realistic for the duration of their contracts.
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I don't know if we've seen a single substantive action taken by Joe since the right-sizing that suggests a desire to win. Unless you count open letters as a substantive action. Now, whether Joe is lying about wanting to win, or telling the truth but getting overruled by his uncles, or telling the truth but simply grossly incompetent, I don't know. But I'm done listening to anything he or anyone else in ownership has to say. Show me you want to win or shut up and enjoy pretending to be a grownup playing with grandpa's expensive toy.
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PNC Park Threatens To Move Unless Better Team Is Built
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Until they take one single action that suggests they are not gutting it to the core, I will continue to assume they are gutting it to the core. Because every action they've taken so far points to gutting it to the core. To play devil's advocate with myself, I suppose you could argue that not trading Ryan offers a slim chance that they aren't taking this route (Lopez and Ober were injured at the deadline so there was no action available to be taken in either direction). But I think they held firm on their price for Ryan since it could be argued that the offseason provides a better trade market for starting pitching than the deadline (whereas the trade deadline may be a better time to trade relievers). So I'm not giving them credit for retaining Ryan until he shows up to spring training.
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I don't know why they would be having attendance issues with the BeSt FaNs In BaSeBaLl (they are so smug) I don't know where I heard it, maybe a podcast where Dan Hayes was a guest, but someone said they had info that the Twins season tickets were going to increase 5%. I guess we'll find out by the end of the month
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As a fellow Youtube tv-er, I've been looking into this a lot. From what I've found, it sounds like this is more due to the timing of their agreement with ESPN. It's set to expire in December, so this direct to consumer platform was never considered when they drafted their last agreement. Other providers with more recent agreements with ESPN were able to include the DTC platform in their latest contract. So I don't think there's anything to worry about ... yet. If their agreement renews without it - or worse, doesn't renew at all - then let the asterisks fly.
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One cannot shame that which is shameless For them to feel humiliation, first they’d have to actually care about the team and what the fans think. Second, they’d have to have the capacity to feel human emotion. Doubtful on both counts
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A lot more info has to come out about this (obviously), but you can get access to ESPN’s DTC platform and all of their offerings by authenticating through your TV provider at no extra charge … if your provider has struck a deal with ESPN. (There’s a list somewhere of participating providers - YouTube tv is not currently one). There’s a possibility they also charge extra for MLB tv the way apple does for MLS, but they’ve confirmed that there won’t be an extra charge for big WWE shows on their service, so who knows? In other words, it might cost more or less or the same amount you currently pay. Clear as crystal
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From what I can tell, Abel was up in the bigs for essentially a month across two different stints (one for a single day!). If he were called up now, that would be another, what, 40 days? Down the road, assuming he sticks with the big club permanently, he would be at 2 years + 72ish days at the end of 2027. Would that make him a Super 2 in 2028? I don't know, but I'm guessing no. I know there's those prospect incentive draft picks out there, but my understanding is he'd be ineligible to earn the Twins one of those picks because he didn't make his MLB debut with them. So to answer your question: Technically yes, but probably not in practice? Harder for me to say, a lot can happen between now and then, and someone like him is more likely to be sent down again in the future than someone like Bradley, given option count and MLB experience
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The NFL does have one thing that makes 4-team divisions more palatable, at least in my mind: because of the short season and playing a double round robin within your division, schedules can become extremely imbalanced. You don't even play 6 of the teams in your own conference, while others you play twice. With that kind of imbalance, more weight should be put on winning your division. There wouldn't be imbalance in the schedules anywhere near that degree in baseball. That increases the chances of an unworthy team getting into the playoffs on the technicality of winning an awful division. When the 1994 season got shut down, the leader of the 4-team AL West was 10 games below .500. We don't need teams like that in the playoffs. Give me two 8-team divisions per league
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After some extensive research*, if we assume Bradley is down the rest of this year and up all of next year, then he'll have 2 years and 132 days of service time by my rough count at the end of 2026. The top 22% of players with between 2 and 3 years service time at the end of the season get granted Super 2 status and get an extra year of arbitration. Would 2+132 days put him in the top 22%? I don't know, probably? Long story short: the Twins probably aren't gaining anything by keeping him down. *-research was not extensive
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One word: megabus
