MLB Thread - 2023
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And now his successor Rob Manfred is banging the drum louder than anyone for getting the A's in Vegas. MLB hates Oakland I guess?
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/sergio-romo-san-francisco-giants-mlb-baseball
I had a love / hate relationship with Sergio and his slider. So filthy when it was on … so crushable as the years went on and some began hanging more and more.
Definitely shed a man-tear reading this and reminiscing.
I had a love / hate relationship with Sergio and his slider. So filthy when it was on … so crushable as the years went on and some began hanging more and more.
Definitely shed a man-tear reading this and reminiscing.
You know, I saw this when it was first posted and found it fairly upsetting, but running across it again, I think it's worse than just upsetting. I'm not an A's fan per se, but I do like to smile at their successes from afar.
So to think that you had a Hall Of Famer, inducted as an Oakland Athletic no less, a passionate lover of baseball, who had put together an ownership group funded by Bill Gates that was willing to go above any other bid to buy his former team...and Bud Selig said, "You know what the Athletics need? Not THAT. They need my college buddy to buy the team and run it into the ground." Unfathomable.
Heartfelt apologies to all A's fans everywhere. Sorry I couldn't have been commissioner at the crucial moment because it would have turned out very different, for the nothing that that's worth.
So to think that you had a Hall Of Famer, inducted as an Oakland Athletic no less, a passionate lover of baseball, who had put together an ownership group funded by Bill Gates that was willing to go above any other bid to buy his former team...and Bud Selig said, "You know what the Athletics need? Not THAT. They need my college buddy to buy the team and run it into the ground." Unfathomable.
Heartfelt apologies to all A's fans everywhere. Sorry I couldn't have been commissioner at the crucial moment because it would have turned out very different, for the nothing that that's worth.
The A's have progressed past the depressingly sad part of their traditional "blow it up because our cheapskate owner refuses to pay anyone" once-every-five-years rebuild process and might finally be back at their plucky fun roster of no-names are surprisingly not awful stage. Sure, I literally know like three of the names on the active roster and the MLB is hellbent on moving the team to Vegas but at least we're a year removed from Billy Beane trading like four MVP candidates for a grab bag of middling prospects and Shea Langeliers.
Good to see the 12 hits today after the shutout. Cobb looked great, looking forward to him getting full stretched out.
Bart just might be donezo. Looks like we signed Gary Sanchez and he has incentives up to $4mil if he makes it up to the big league club. With Sabol's versatility and Perez being a better defensive catcher, not sure if we're actually going to give him a shot.
Bart just might be donezo. Looks like we signed Gary Sanchez and he has incentives up to $4mil if he makes it up to the big league club. With Sabol's versatility and Perez being a better defensive catcher, not sure if we're actually going to give him a shot.