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Yeah that's crazy. And then there's Curry who was the face of the franchise as they went from also-ran to the best ever and makes $40MM/yr or whatever but that's a fraction of the profits he brought to that team. And the NBA is probably the best of the major sports in how the players are treated financially. MLB used to be good but it's getting weird now but that was only ever for the big leaguers anyway, minor league players live in squalor

What I'm saying is they're all underpaid vs the revenue of the league but specifically all the best players are underpaid vs market value for their talents and they should hold out, but most players don't because it makes the fans mad. How much money wuold someone like Thielen even lose by holding out and missing a preseason game? $80k or something? Aaron Donald does this every year now because the teams don't even enforce the fines unless they hate or don't want the guy to stick around

The thing is most good players probably *should* holdout but they care about their image with the fans too much

This has actually been a good, entertaining game. But what do you expect from a contest between these bitter rivals but a test of wills that brings out a fire and a new level of performance in the combatants

Classic rivalry series Rockies vs Cardinals. In the good old days there'd be high stakes for a series like this, perhaps someone would have to wear a sig that said like "I'm not shy, I just don't want to hear your bull crap"

Wow then the Astros traded for domestic abuser Roberto Osuna today right after I said that. That sucks. The least offensive AL playoff team might be the chief wahoos, them or whoever comes out of the AL west for the wild card game and then loses to the Yankees. The coolest NL team might end up being the Dodgers or Phillies or some messed up shit too

It was in reference to the eyes of his Japanese opponent. It's not easy to do, but you can find a way to make a racist gesture

Hey remember when Yuli Gurriel made a racist gesture in the world series last year and we were all like man this sucks, now that guy is a consideration in our rooting interests

Not much at all really but probably not never. I used gay derogatorally all the time though

Everyone just delete your Twitter account before you do something amazing and get canceled for having said "I hope this gay dude doesn't ask me out" in 2008

Chewster posted...

Yay nostalgia I guess? I don't get why they'd do this now, instead of the beginning of the year, or last year... made me wonder if David Dahl had a setback, but it looks like he got activated for Triple-A yesterday. Weird.

If he makes the major league club it's going to be pretty weird seeing Holliday and CarGo on the same team. Not just because they were once traded for each other but also because any Rockies fans who still have old Holliday jerseys will have the wrong number now

Still not as weird as the guys in St. Louis who had the wrong Holliday jersey because they bought them during his half season in 09 before he re-signed and changed his number

Update: the Rockies have signed Holliday to a minor league deal.

Apparently the Rockies are considering signing Holliday to a minor league deal

The Cardinals are seemingly about to go full fire sale which means Carpenter is probably going to get traded but you never can tell what this team is actually going to do so I still wouldn't be fully shocked if they tried to add to the bullpen or something instead

MNTwins1991 posted...

CaptainHammer posted...

I'm skipping the soda for Mission Impossible tonight because I can't afford to miss a minute. It's not hard to not pee during a movie if you don't want to

I think I saw one Mission Impossible movie in my life and have never really given the series a second thought. Saw this one was supposed to be really good though.

Here's the canonical opinion for each one:

MI1 - solid fun movie, but showing its age in many ways
MI2 - pretty bad
MI3 - now we're talking
MI: Ghost Protocol - ok NOW we're talking holy shit
MI: Rogue Nation - I thought they would never top Ghost Protocol but somehow they did. Should they even make another?
MI: Fallout - well those crazy sons of bitches did it again

MNTwins1991 posted...

You dodged a bullet. I probably wouldn't have replied to the 6 facts about myself thing.

It seems a little crazy in retrospect but I thought she was being funny so I thought it would be funny to actually do it

I was texting this girl from bumble today (day 3 of our correspondence) and she asked me to share like 6 facts about myself and one of them was basically my politics and her response to that was that we'd all fix all the problems in America if everyone stopped caring about each other's politics and she proudly said she didn't care about mine. This was a red flag for me because I was already thinking there was a decent chance she voted for Trump just demographically (Catholic, lives in Affton MO), and because I want you to care at least a little bit, so I pressed her on it assuming soon we would never text again anyway. And she said she truly thinks that positive attitudes for all people will save the world. I just didn't reply because all I could think to reply was basically a lecture on privilege and how positive attitudes are a privilege so I just let it sit there. Then five hours later she said she could never be with someone who can't even tolerate another opinion after she was so respectful of mine. I don't even know what to think about this. I guess it sucks that I didn't reply and as I said I anticipated this being our last day talking. I feel a little bad though I also think it's a little funny. I mean come on. Positive attitudes will save the world

The Cardinals are playing fantasy baseball with their bullpen. They've released Holland, DFA'd Lyons, traded Tuivailala, DL'd Cecil, called up Dakota Hudson and Tyler Webb, and recalled Poncedeleon. All today. The only one of those moves I can't really endorse is trading Tuivailala. He's actually decent and we don't have many decent guys. If this means they're selling for real I'm cool with it but I'm reluctant to beileve that's what they're doing.

OhhhJa posted...

Went and saw princess mononoke the other night and that was awesome. Going to the theater is a little pricey but it's worth it to see good movies on the big screen I think

I would love to catch that on the big screen. I was amazed at how good Akira looked on the big screen and Princess Mononoke is a better looking movie imo

I'm skipping the soda for Mission Impossible tonight because I can't afford to miss a minute. It's not hard to not pee during a movie if you don't want to

Today's poll is classic GFAQs. Too scared to go to a damn movie theater

Man I want those donuts real bad but I understand getting sick of them when they're in such huge quantities. I used to get donuts for breakfast fairly regularly and sometimes I would look at them in the display and feel like I'd rather die than get another one (then a week later it's donut mania again)

I'm not a pie guy at all either. #1 is always ice cream of course but I also love cookies and brownies as well as cake. Then there are donuts which are somehow considered a breakfast food instead of a dessert and are of course perhaps the greatest sugary baked good

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

I too love grocery store cakes. Ice cream cakes don't do it for me since I think cakes are worse when cold.

I'm appalled at this cake take.

Just looking at his FG page and oddly enough it seems clear to me that he's probably in the 99th percentile or something for best relievers of all time

edit: I tried to link the FIP- rankings all time for RP with over 300 IP because he's top 30 but the link was huge and I don't feel like bitlying this shit

Probably. But either way they need to add because they need to make the playoffs with this team, this year and the reason why they're not going to is because they're still not any good.

The Mariners are only 1.5 up on the A's now. This is so pathetic and I'm not even proud of myself for predicting it. The only reason anyone believed in the Mariners was because there was no clear contender for their spot in that wild card game, so the minute that a team emerged it became hilariously obvious that they were going to fuck this up again. They need to like trade for DeGrom at this point.

MNTwins1991 posted...

well you guys... I bought No Man's Sky. remember that game?

My friend has been playing and really likes it, after all the updates they've done. There was another huge update recently and it's on sale again. He's been saying it's actually good now and convinced me to buy it

I was thinking about doing this

You know those people you know who are just like regular ass people but they have a million followers on instagram or twitter so they get 700 likes on their selfies? Do you think they even bother looking to see who liked their posts, or more to the point do you think they obsess about who specifically liked their posts?

The no hitter.....is over

So this dude on the Cardinals Daniel Poncedeleon almost died on the mound like 15 months ago and just threw 7 innings without allowing a hit in his debut. Got pulled at 116 pitches unfortunately. Now the Cardinals will probably throw a combined no hitter to ruin my first Time seeing a Cardinals no hitter

MNTwins1991 posted...

CaptainHammer posted...

I got moved to a new department at work a couple months ago and have basically been faking it the whole time. Me and this girl were gonna take over when the guy left and he had been working with another guy who got demoted when we got these jobs. So Friday was the guy's last day and I was a little worried but kind of blase about it. This morning though the girl told me she's quitting too and probably will be gone before next week. Her boyfriend broke up with her so she's moving back home. Now I'm in charge and we're getting the fail guy back up here to help me. This is by a wide margin the worst thing that has ever happened to me*

*at work
**non-money related

https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1021428517005754369

Thanks. Needed this today. I also need to eat at Cane's tonight #selfcare #ieattherelikeeveryweekevenifimhavingagoodweek

I got moved to a new department at work a couple months ago and have basically been faking it the whole time. Me and this girl were gonna take over when the guy left and he had been working with another guy who got demoted when we got these jobs. So Friday was the guy's last day and I was a little worried but kind of blase about it. This morning though the girl told me she's quitting too and probably will be gone before next week. Her boyfriend broke up with her so she's moving back home. Now I'm in charge and we're getting the fail guy back up here to help me. This is by a wide margin the worst thing that has ever happened to me*

*at work
**non-money related

He might need to suit up if they're gonna make a comeback in the central

Also did you all see that Josh Hader got a standing O in Milwaukee? I'm not even saying he should be in any more trouble than he is necessarily...it's a very strange situation. However a standing O is obviously completely insane and makes me want to root against the Brewers toppling the Cubs but I can't do that because I can't root for the Cubs

It is a good bobblehead though

TC means Twin Cities right? More to the point why did Jorge Polanco get the shout out

The Cardinals are gonna get swept in a doubleheader but Carpenter homered in both games extending his home run streak to 6 games which I believe is the Cardinals record

You know we were saying girls on tinder always are looking for the Jim to their Pam? I just got looking for the mermaid man to my barnacle boy. What the fuck.....

Also Incredibles 2 is insanely good

Because they have brain worms

Chewster posted...

Cards score 18 runs. Psh, not impressed. 19 > 18

Source for this claim?

I hope he's not hurt because that's pretty annoying. He already set the record for total bases as a Cardinal. Well tied it anyway I guess because Mark Whiten hit 4 homers here. First ever Cardinal with 5 XBH too.

He homered again.

Carpenter actually just doubled twice in the fourth inning. He's 4-for-4 with two homers and two doubles as we enter the bottom of the fourth

Matt Carpenter was hitting .140/.286/.272 on May 15th. He's now hitting .270/.378/.561. Those are wRC+'s of 59 and 151 respectively. Baseball is so easy if you put your mind to it.

I'm not interested in learning to build so I'll never get good at it but I think it's definitely a good game. I also won't ever play it regularly but every once in a while I bet I'll pick it up. Getting into a good fight or sniping someone or something can be pretty thrilling

I had a dream that I won at Fortnite. I spiked the controller and then when I woke up I thought "I can't believe I really won a match, wow." Then I remembered that I haven't played in over a week. Happy friday everyone, let's have a great day and a great weekend

I'm not on LinkedIn but I have gotten some hilarious offers on indeed and shit. Kevin we see your weird resume but there's something about you. We want you to run this project for us in Omaha and we can pay you $120k.

Let em try and hoop with the sports topic boys, we'll see how good they really are

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

He had a meeting with Drake.

This is so important