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cole854

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Don't forget to start hydrating a couple of days before the game. Place is like sitting in a warm bowl of soup it was so humid when I went.

Yeah, but you're 3 bills and 2 gallons of gravy......your humidity tolerance is abnormal.
 

KingLlama

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Nice little baseball trade deadline shaping up, with Soto on the move, and perhaps Ohtani as well. Even my Indians Guardians will likely be shaking their roster up a bit.
 

KingLlama

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Ohtani isn't definitely on the market, but there are rumblings. He has stated his desire to play for a winning franchise, and the Angels are....not that. Plus, Trout now has a back issue.

They may end up keeping him, but he's definitely open to a move instead of re-signing.
 

krazykats

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If the Angels were smart they’d trade Ohtani and Trout to completely rebuild.

In baseball you absolutely can not take a band aid approach as it never works except big market teams that can overspend on bigger better band aids.

I hate watching teams like the Nats, Cubs, Reds, A’s, Giants, Tigers etc get as close to success as they have over the last decade but ultimately coming short and selling off everything to try again at some point next decade.

It’s honestly ruined the sport to a degree.
 
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The Angels gave Mike Trout the biggest contract in the history of pro sports, and now he’s suddenly got a back issue. Not great news.

Gonna be an all time “what if” if that guy never ends up playing for a winner. What a shame.
 
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KingLlama

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I hate watching teams like the Nats, Cubs, Reds, A’s, Giants, Tigers etc get as close to success as they have over the last decade but ultimately coming short and selling off everything to try again at some point next decade.

It’s honestly ruined the sport to a degree.
The Nats won the World Series just three years ago. The Cubs did it six years ago, and the Giants eight years ago.

I think that's closer than "close to success".
 
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UK_Dallas

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^ Let's also not forget the Giants won the WS in 2010, 2012 and 2014.

By my count, 5 of the last 11 WS winners have been close to success.
 
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RogCat1119

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If the Angels were smart they’d trade Ohtani and Trout to completely rebuild.

In baseball you absolutely can not take a band aid approach as it never works except big market teams that can overspend on bigger better band aids.

I hate watching teams like the Nats, Cubs, Reds, A’s, Giants, Tigers etc get as close to success as they have over the last decade but ultimately coming short and selling off everything to try again at some point next decade.

It’s honestly ruined the sport to a degree.
Haven't the Giants (multiples), Nats and Cubs all won WS rings in the last decade?
 

wcc31

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My squad:

Elite ite playmaking PG in Wall.
Two deadeye 3&D championship wings in Lamb and Miller - who don’t need the ball to be effective.
A do-it-all 4man who can also shoot in Washington.
And then perhaps the best player in school history at the 5.

Unselfish. Athletic. Great shooting. Experiences. High-end playmaking. Great D.

 

RogCat1119

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That’s my point, I don’t follow the sport as tight as I did a year or 2 ago, but I’m pretty sure they are all trash and fighting for worst team awards.

min just a few years after. The Giants


I mean, ok, but the marlins bought a WS once too and even they needed more time to disappear back into bottom dwellers.

Cubs/Nats did it almost instantly!
Ummm they bought one in '97 and turned right around and got another one in '03 beating a heavily favored Yankee squad.
 

krazykats

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Ummm they bought one in '97 and turned right around and got another one in '03 beating a heavily favored Yankee squad.
I guess I’m awful at explaining my point. But you just made it for me.

97 they “bought”, then traded everyone away for all the prospects that won it 6 years later, and then traded them all away and we have barely heard from them since!

I guess I think of success as more than a 1 off WS run. It was absolutely great to see the Cubs do what they did, a little early to I might add, in 2016, but it was a cliff dive after so it didn’t feel like “success” to me.

The Giants I was wrong about as they maintained for a stretch.

But I’m done with it as I really don’t care much about it right now.
 
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CastleRubric

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One thing Ive learned about this board (and its predecessors) over the years is that there TRULY are some great ppl that post regularly up-in-here

I haven't met a ton of individuals fm this site but the ones i HAVE met fall into 2 categories :

a) Friendly/Eager/Enthusiastic fellow Cat fans that are AWESOME to attend games with ((etc)) -- hell, I would take on all of Knoxville and half of Gainsville with just 4-5 of these wonderful idiots

b) Genuine new friends that wind up either helping you alongside in life or vice versa - like it was strangely meant to happen -- INCREDIBLY grateful for those unnamed yahoos

I SUSPECT a third category exists - i call them/shem/dem/itstitties:

C) Nymphomaniac Ladies Seeking guitar lessons and elite Dungeons & Dragons DM to host sessions in cheap hotel ....cosplay
encouraged

^^ BUT i am a work in progress and probably shouldn't push my luck there m

Happy Friday my lovely SEC Barbarians - have a feeling were going to be roughing up some delicate deep south sensibilities this football season!!!!
 
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BernieSadori

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So far, so good. Rome is great and a **** hole at the same time.

Hotel is walking distance to the Trevi fountain. Tons of cafes and restaurants line the streets on the walk over. Actually, from the hotel past the Trevi Fountain to the Pantheon then on to the Piazza Navona. Pretty awesome.

The restaurants have marketers in front shoving a menu in your face as you walk by. It's like bars in Vegas with people trying to lure you in.

So far I've been greeted in Spanish and Italian only. They think I'M a Spaniard or a WOP.

Guided tour of the Coleseum is the highlight of the trip thus far. It included an in depth showing of the Roman Forum, which I thought was as cool as the former.

Vatican tour today. While awesome, our guide over explained everything. 4 hours later we were done and I was looking for a drink.

I've been eating everything I haven't been for the last 4 months and have loved every bit of it. Pizza, Pasta, and Cannoli. Washing it down with some red.

Off to Positano in the morning.

More in depth rundown when I get back.
 

CastleRubric

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Tactical tips, life hacks & instantly useful advice #21:

When your tubes of toothpaste and your athletes foot creme STRONGLY RESEMBLE one another ---->>>> DO. NOT place them adjacently in the same pull out drawer


Back to your regularly scheduled Friday rituals, CatFans
 

wcc31

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My parents, sister and BIL drove to Maine and swung by Cooperstown on the way back. Dad just called me all excited, wearing a Reds shirt and said he went up to some officials and said he was here representing Peter Edward Rose. lol

Got to say I’m a little jealous right now. Not a big bucket list guy but Cooperstown is on the list.
 

CastleRubric

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Dads are incredibly important and often overlooked or maligned in recent years

Great hearing that you have a good bond and that he has enthusiasm for something that yall share like that

/no sarcasm or whatever -- thats for real

# i like being a daddy 2 u

wait,...
 
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