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Here we are again. Pitchers and catchers have reported to spring training and position players will be filing in in the coming days.

Mookie is a Dodger.
Gerrit Cole is a Yankee.
Everyone hates the Astros.
The Red Sox still don’t have a manager.

I look forward to this season of Astros players being asked tough questions as they squirm, lots of brawls at their games and them being thrown at repeatedly.

I also eagerly await Rob Manfred’s punishment of the Red Sox for their cheating 2018 season. :arrogant

MLB gang let us all congregate for what is sure to be an interesting season.


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This is gonna be wild this year.

the hatred that the Astros will get around the majors.

The AL Central is the most underrated division.

The Yankees better win the East by at least 20 games
 

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I’m hoping my angels have a better year than last year. Last year was a doozy!
 
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It’s going to be an interesting season this year. I wonder which team will be the ones to pop off on the Astros. Will they face Bauer or Clevinger this season?
 

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I don’t see how - they did nothing over the off season. I can’t believe they pulled out of the Pederson deal.
I’m basically saying let’s hope we don’t have another player die this season. I’m pretty mad they pulled out of the pederson deal.
 
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It’s going to be an interesting season this year. I wonder which team will be the ones to pop off on the Astros. Will they face Bauer or Clevinger this season?
Baur is in Cincinati now. I don't know if they're scheduled for interleague play with the Astros. Clevenger definitely unless the Dodgers get him. I read they may trade for him.
 

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Not a fan of these possible changes to the playoffs.

It's fine the way it is.

 
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Lately, they are always making changes. Manfred is trying too many things. 3 batter minimum, pitch clock, moving back the mound, umpires wearing mics and now this. Give me a break. Trevor Bauer made a great video going off on Manfred.
 
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Beltran got away with murder. :laugh2

Not even a slap on the wrist for him and he was running this sh!t. I hope Cora does a tell all interview about his partner in crime when Manfred drops the hammer.

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The Mets did the right thing. Can you imagine them having to comment on this today in St Lucie if Beltran was managing?
 

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Yeah, I’m happy Beltran isn’t managing my time. So happy this scandal exploded because there’s no doubt in my mind that he would have tried that mess here.

Also I can’t stand Rob Manfred. There are two kinds of people. Those who like baseball and those who don’t. All he does is try to alienate those who like baseball to attract people who are never going to like the sport. Regardless if they shaved off a couple of seconds off of the game, or come out with some playoff gimmick.
 
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Also I can’t stand Rob Manfred. There are two kinds of people. Those who like baseball and those who don’t. All he does is try to alienate those who like baseball to attract people who are never going to like the sport. Regardless if they shaved off a couple of seconds off of the game, or come out with some playoff gimmick.
Sounds like the Democrats. : unamused:
 

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The Astros had all this time to come up with a plan on how they were going to address this. So what did they come up with? They send to players out to give like one line apologies. I mean why even bother? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 

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The Astros had all this time to come up with a plan on how they were going to address this. So what did they come up with? They send to players out to give like one line apologies. I mean why even bother? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

I was listening to MLB network on seriusxm, and they were dragging the Astros, from the owner on down.

Apparently they had a team meeting last night to get their talking points in order. Only one player mentioned the word cheat, and whenever they were asked specifically how what they did affected individual players (like Kershaw) they all said to a man that "this is about us".
 

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I never understood why Beltran wanted to manage. He should be loaded. So it had to be ego.

That said.

SAVE US AROD!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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I never understood why Beltran wanted to manage. He should be loaded. So it had to be ego.

That said.

SAVE US AROD!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh y’all like Alex now? lol

That would be cool if he bought the team though. But I’m selfish. I’m tired of my faves joining other team organizations.
 

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Oh y’all like Alex now? lol

That would be cool if he bought the team though. But I’m selfish. I’m tired of my faves joining other team organizations.


I was a fan of ARod until he went to you know where. I can’t say it’s the ultimate debacle for us considering our best players ended up there too to win championships. But it’s no secret he grew up a Mets fan. Hernandez was his fave. And they of course blew it after the 2000 season when he was a FA. Every Met fan remembers the 24 and 1 excuse. I’m sure they’ll find a way to screw him out of it like they did Cohen.
 

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Now it's a tattoo excuse lol

Astros sound more ridiculous every time they talk about this.

 

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Correa went from well, at least he... to STFU in 24 hours.

And the Stros are really mad that one of their own blew the whistle. If that guy was a position player, they would no doubt throw at him this season. They still may find a way to get into an altercation with the A's and single him out.
 

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Not for nothing but I wish these MLB players had this much vigor Lambasting steroid users as they seem to have for this Astros situation. :rolleyes:
 

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The player for the Cubs that went off on the Astros too, psaid he thinks this is worse than steroids because you still have to hit the ball and you don’t know what is coming.
 

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Not Correa claiming Altuve had a bad tattoo in addition to him being shy AND his wife not wanting him shirtless on TV. Chile ...

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If I hit a walk off home run to advance to the World Series I wouldn’t give a sh!t about people seeing a bad tattoo but that’s just me. I honestly think they used the buzzers but of course they wont admit it :disdain

And I’m glad Belli said what most players have been thinking. Bauer and Clevinger have been snapping for a month but Correa had no smoke for them :arrogant
 
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This sh!t is a mess. #FireManfred is trending on twitter. If anything was felt by people from that bum ass press conference, Correa ruined it. Cody Bellinger is a real one.

Did y’all read the WSJ story that just came out on the Astros and their sh!t? lol

This season is gonna be fun.
 

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This Astros mess is just beginning. They need to shut up and stop talking because they seem to be changing their stories. Altuve's wife allegedly wants her husband to keep his shirt on but people on Twitter saying he has shirtless pics all over his Insta. Make it make sense.

Now Dusty Baker and the Astros players are calling on Manfred to not only punish other teams if they try and bean them at the plate but start punishing players who are saying mean things about them. Dusty actually said he wants Manfred to tell other teams to stop talking about the Astros.

How do you police other players' speech? I'm sure punishing players who speak out against Astros cheating won't cause any backlash at all and things will magically go back to normal lol. If Manfred supports this BS it will make everything worse.
 
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This sh!t is a mess. #FireManfred is trending on twitter. If anything was felt by people from that bum ass press conference, Correa ruined it. Cody Bellinger is a real one.

Did y’all read the WSJ story that just came out on the Astros and their sh!t? lol

This season is gonna be fun.
Is this about the code breaker or something new?? I wish my Yankees had more fire and would go at Houston the way Bellinger and Clevinger did but alas my boys would never say anything in the press.
Hell even Suzuki came from them- Correra got some nerve popping off and telling people to shut up.
Did anyone see Manfred’s press conference? What a joke and he had the nerve to be snarky!! No wonder #firemanfred is trending.
 
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Did anyone see the Nick Markakis interview about the Astros? He went off.



And here's Dusty Baker's response (new manager for the Astros)

 

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