All-Purpose MLB Thread! (2019-2021)
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If the Giants can work an extension this trade will have HEAVY Hunter Pence energy.
I’ve run the gamut of emotions from content (with nothing) to pissed (Bart and LaMonte) to thrilled (9 & 30) in the last hour.
The Giants also brought back Tony Watson. He’s having a bad season but was reliable the last three years. Nothing on the price yet.
I’ve run the gamut of emotions from content (with nothing) to pissed (Bart and LaMonte) to thrilled (9 & 30) in the last hour.
The Giants also brought back Tony Watson. He’s having a bad season but was reliable the last three years. Nothing on the price yet.
Barry Bonds didn't invent a new way to cheat, the whole culture of MLB and really sports in general at that time revolved around steroids. MLB turning on its best players and making them skapegoats wasn't evidence of a corrupt system trying to clean itself up it was the corrupt system protecting itself by sacrificing the lowest people on the totem pole... the athletes. Just like how the US Olympic organization had no problems with runners taking steroids to win gold medals for decades until people starting getting caught and then they acted like they had no knowledge of any of it and wouldn't you know it those selfish athletes all hoodwinked us. Total BS.
Here's the difference to me. Bonds was one of hundreds of players who took steroids in the 90s /2000s and he was pretty late to the party, he just was a better hitter than the rest. Houston was the first to install spy cameras all over the field and tell their hitters which pitch was coming. And they were well on their way to infecting the rest of MLB with their sign stealing strategy. Alex Cora brought it to Boston and they won a WS. Carlos Beltran would have brought it to the Mets. AJ Hinch would have brought it to the Tigers. In less than a decade half the league would be doing it if there were no consequences. And none of these people actually got punished. They still have their records and money and trophies. So if the fans want to chant cheaters at proven cheaters, what of it? I'll let it go if they ever actually apologize for it. And no I don't think Barry Bonds is even remotely in the same conversation.
Here's the difference to me. Bonds was one of hundreds of players who took steroids in the 90s /2000s and he was pretty late to the party, he just was a better hitter than the rest. Houston was the first to install spy cameras all over the field and tell their hitters which pitch was coming. And they were well on their way to infecting the rest of MLB with their sign stealing strategy. Alex Cora brought it to Boston and they won a WS. Carlos Beltran would have brought it to the Mets. AJ Hinch would have brought it to the Tigers. In less than a decade half the league would be doing it if there were no consequences. And none of these people actually got punished. They still have their records and money and trophies. So if the fans want to chant cheaters at proven cheaters, what of it? I'll let it go if they ever actually apologize for it. And no I don't think Barry Bonds is even remotely in the same conversation.
I liked Bonds and the whole thing makes me sad but I also think performance enhancers were always around and will always be around and it’s a matter of science outperforming the tests. I’d prefer it all just be open and go down in medical journals rather than secret labs. So much of what we actually know about these drugs is vaulted away.
Khris Davis is back with the A's on a minor league contract! The lack of productive lefty hitters in the organization is becoming a real problem (all hopes are on you 19 yr old Tyler Soderstrom) but having KD waiting in the wings now for a likely September call-up is encouraging from a morale point of view. Also the new guys are all raking and Starling Castro has been swiping bases like a prime Rickey Henderson so its good vibes all around. According to my calendar it is now the month of August so it's time for the A's to do their usual late season surge and win 70% of their games for the next 6 weeks. Right guys?
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