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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=29454 time=1578513615 user_id=68] =Ceetar post_id=29451 time=1578513461 user_id=102] you're penalized away from Coors after you play there.

you're penalized away from Coors after you play there.

Helton, Ramirez, Sosa, Wagner, Walker, Bonds, Sosa if you were asking me. but of course, some of those would already be in if you were asking for my hall and not the BBWAA's.

Is this gonna be worth it if it's not by Greg?

it'sonly a matter of time before we get a Honda promotion where we've got the New York YanKeys taking the field in custom jerseys. It'll be a promotion for their new keyless system. "These are the only keys you need!" with clips of ballplayers walking up to car doors and just opening them and getting in.

Jeter is in the same ilk as Bonds/Sosa/Clemens *shrug* but there's no such thing as 'first ballot' that's not a thing. you're in or you're out.

=nymr83 post_id=29309 time=1578277825 user_id=54] Bezos ia running a company for profit. Presumably if Cohen just wanted to make more money there are better ways for him to accomplish that - he wants the best toy in the world and its orange and blue and hopefully beneficial to us if he doeant give a shit except for winning.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=29176 time=1578019303 user_id=68] Sure it can. It's baseball. So maybe the Mets were valued on how much money they'd generate when run properly. Also, there's only 30 teams and a team is up for sale once every coupl'a years. So maybe a buyer like Cohen will pay a premium just to get to own the team. This is a once in a lifetime chance to own the Mets. If Cohen's worth what's being reported, he can afford to lose $50M on the Mets every year for the rest of his life if he lives to be a thousand years old. $50M to Cohen is like dinner for four at a nice restaurant for any regular person. Even less, because when you have more than $10 billion, you have money you don't really need. You can't analyze these transactions through the eyes of a regular person. Or even a regular rich person. These are masters of the universe.

big difference between "The Mets lost money last year" and "The Wilpons lost money on the Mets last year" first may technically be true, the second almost certainly isn't.

with a solo bedtime for 3 and 5/6 less troublesome, i might try to sneak out to a week game this year. or hell, 5/6 is old enough to stay awake until a full baseball game completely bores her and falls asleep in the car ride home.

no, i don't give a crap if the image blows out your monitor borders, it was too big to be uploaded here, and Google Photos is still poor at sharing photos for embedding.

i had a picture i wanted to post but this forum couldn't handle it. was too big. wouldn't fit.

kil'n/

Lefty Specialist wrote: If he's healthy, awesome. But the Yanks giving up on him makes you wonder. not really. They're sorta tapped out financially. They basically succeeded without him last year, so why bother? Knowing what we know about the baseball itself and what we DON'T (and what we don't think MLB seems to know either) about the baseball next year is going to be so pivotal. But barring him being just completely shot, he should at least be useful even if he's not. He's one of the lowest contact guys in the league, and actually somehow isn't slow about it. He's near tops in Pace too.

I still haven't seen any convincing argument for why he wouldn't have recovered from his surgery.

=Centerfield post_id=28699 time=1576857374 user_id=65] =Ceetar post_id=28688 time=1576820219 user_id=102] I think plenty of it has to do with Cespedes' earning potential going forward, which is astronomically higher than Ellsbury.

I think plenty of it has to do with Cespedes' earning potential going forward, which is astronomically higher than Ellsbury.

"we ran some numbers and it came up less than he got. good for him" is about as tame as you can get ,yeah.

yeah, i hate that garbage designation nonsense trying to legislate away problems that don't exist. Betances walks too many.

in fact, the 'no more relievers' quote may have been specifically targeted at Dellin. (in the playing hard to get way)

competitive balance tax. riding a horse, if that's what we're inferring I guess, I can't even imagine what else we could be thinking. Does he run with the bulls on his ranch? was he fixing a fence? He was literally at his house. Which is where most accidents happen, but still, like, did the Mets make a guy who owns horses sign a contract that he wouldn't ride a horse on his own private property? Riding a horse isn't an inherently dangerous thing.

a. the Mets literally just stopped paying him. b. sure, and that's mostly unfair. These contracts are almost always, except for the actual salary, in favor of protecting ownership. It's the same way in any industry. If they weaseled a "no horse riding" thing into the contract and Cespedes and his agent didn't feel like fighting it (Let's leave aside that that agent is literally the one that's not paying him now) that doesn't make it fair or alright. Signing your rights away is not cool. Especially for something as tame as horse riding. Sure, maybe he did something super dangerous, but that seems less likely on his own ranch. c. Yes, lots of assumptions, but they're pretty damn safe assumptions.

We have laws on this country you know. Barely, but still. Your employer does not have that right.

He's a human not a slave

people too busy insinuating that Cespedes wasn't trying to get back in 2019 because he's lazy, despite not being paid all year. Ohferrchrissakes! Yoenis is a sweet little angel who could not have possibly breached his contract because Mets can do no wrong ever. And Fred Willpon didnt screw Yoenis out of contract money because Mets owners can do no wrong ever, either. This is a crazy clash of unbelievable events that is likely to alter the space time continuum just like The Doc always sez. Fasten your seatbelts. no, fuck that. This is Cespedes money and he shouldn't have to give it up for a fucking accident. This is literally "you got cancer so we're canceling your insurance" territory. Sure, if they think he was doing stunt jumps in a thunderstorm or playing Misery with a friend, I get it. Hell, if they do HAVE medical evidence that it was more than just what he said, it was probably voluntarily given to them by Cespedes under the guise of them helping him heal and rehab. This is mildly better than voiding a contract for "going to the wrong doctors" but damn, it's a slippery slope to teams voiding your contract for simply getting hurt in any way off the field. Or using the wrong trainer. Or hell, the trainer said take it easy and you did an extra rep and strained your hamstring. oops, voided. Whlie we're at it, his money shouldn't count against the CBT, there shouldn't be a CBT, and the Mets shouldn't care about the CBT.