Arch-MaesterPhilip Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 On 11/19/2019 at 6:15 PM, Myshkin said: Apparently early on in the 2019 season MLB monitors at Minute Made Park were explicitly told by the league to listen for banging sounds coming from the Astro dugout. So yeah, it seems like the league has known about this shit for a while, but wanted to keep it all quiet. That makes so much sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingintheNorth4 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Let's go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 Yanks finally cut bait on Jacoby Ellsbury, will eat the remaining $26mm on his contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argonath Diver Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 So they're going to punish those pesky cheatin', women-hatin' Astros by completely demolishing the franchise and draft their players to other teams, right? Great! Cards get dibs on Bregman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 That's quite the deal for Grandal, especially in this market. Good for him. Surprised the Yanks cut Ellsbury loose. Most of the prospects they added to the 40 were necessities, but definitely not Brooks Kriske. Guess maybe whatever insurance company they were collecting on was finally like "alright if you do this another year we're gonna sue you." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Bean Corbray Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 if taking away draft picks and trying to fine a billionaire is the best Rob Manfred can come up with then he might as well install a new center field spy camera in Houston with his own two damn hands. That is nothing against winning a world series. A pittance of a price that all 30 teams should happily pay to win and 30 fanbases should now demand their teams pay. Go look at the NFL to see how worthless and toothless that is as a punishment, and the message it sends to both perpetrator and victim. Better to just declare it legal and let everyone do it openly/overtly, than to give the Astros a non-punishing punishment and claiming the problem is solved when countless observers can plainly see that it is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted November 22, 2019 Author Share Posted November 22, 2019 I think losing draft picks and international bonus pool money (hopefully several years’ worth of both) will hit the Astros pretty hard. But I also don’t think those will be the only penalties handed out. If I had to guess right now I’d say Jeff Luhnow and quite a few others are gonna get hit with a lifetime ban. It’s possible that Jim Crane will get hit with one too. Hinch and maybe Cora are looking at lengthy suspensions. Crippling the Astros’ ability to acquire young cheap talent for a few years will serve as punishment, but it’s the bans and suspensions that will serve as a deterrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Bean Corbray Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 lifetime bans are a good start, yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted November 22, 2019 Author Share Posted November 22, 2019 On 11/21/2019 at 11:59 AM, Myshkin said: Yanks finally cut bait on Jacoby Ellsbury, will eat the remaining $26mm on his contract. Update: Yanks don’t intend to eat the remaining $26mm on Ellsbury’s contract. They intend to void his contract on the basis that he had unauthorized medical treatments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 4 minutes ago, Myshkin said: They intend to void his contract on the basis that he had unauthorized medical treatments. Ah, things make sense now. Also, read here that Ellsbury's deal was not insured for 2020. Didn't know that, but of course they were gonna dump him then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 On 11/21/2019 at 7:49 PM, Frances Bean Corbray said: That is nothing against winning a world series. A pittance of a price that all 30 teams should happily pay to win and 30 fanbases should now demand their teams pay. For me it is about winning and a team deserves rewarding for making the extra effort to steal signs. Fuck the crybabies who did less to win and wanna cry now. I do not view sign stealing as wrong. It should be incumbent on the other team to be strategic enough to relay signs that can't be stolen, not penalize a team that uses their ability to read your signs. I never viewed what the Pats did as wrong either, rather my view is a team should be obligated to use any and all means to be the victor, the lesser team that hasn't made the effort to win deserves no mercy. Losers don't like it, come up with a better strategy for relaying your signals from now on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 2 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said: For me it is about winning and a team deserves rewarding for making the extra effort to steal signs. Fuck the crybabies who did less to win and wanna cry now. I do not view sign stealing as wrong. It should be incumbent on the other team to be strategic enough to relay signs that can't be stolen, not penalize a team that uses their ability to read your signs. I never viewed what the Pats did as wrong either, rather my view is a team should be obligated to use any and all means to be the victor, the lesser team that hasn't made the effort to win deserves no mercy. Losers don't like it, come up with a better strategy for relaying your signals from now on. Yup, roids, corked bats, doctored balls, cameras in the visitors clubhouse, hacking into other teams’ databases; all this should totally be legal. It’s called winning, dummies. Conversely, a game is only a game if it follows a certain set of predetermined rules, and if one does not follow said rules, one cannot be said to have actually won the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch-MaesterPhilip Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 According to the Post the Yankees going to meet with Cole today and Strasburg tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted December 4, 2019 Author Share Posted December 4, 2019 Zack Wheeler to Phils for 5yrs/$118mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch-MaesterPhilip Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Word on the street is that Steve Cohen will be increasing his stake in the Mets to 80%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted December 8, 2019 Author Share Posted December 8, 2019 Yanks reportedly open bidding on Gerrit Cole with a 7yr/$245mm offer. Yikes, that’s one hell of an offer. And that’s the opening bid. I have a hard time seeing the Dodgers topping that, though I could see the Angels getting desperate and tacking an extra year or two on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch-MaesterPhilip Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 17 minutes ago, Myshkin said: Yanks reportedly open bidding on Gerrit Cole with a 7yr/$245mm offer. Yikes, that’s one hell of an offer. And that’s the opening bid. I have a hard time seeing the Dodgers topping that, though I could see the Angels getting desperate and tacking an extra year or two on. If the Angels top that and go that far I won't even be mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 I'm sure they'll be a hefty insurance policy underwritten on that contract . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Smart of Hal to get it out there he was offering 7/35 AAV. Hard to give him shit if the Angels outbid that. Agree with Myshkin, I don't see the Dodgers matching that, let alone topping it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted December 8, 2019 Author Share Posted December 8, 2019 1 hour ago, DMC said: Smart of Hal to get it out there he was offering 7/35 AAV. Hard to give him shit if the Angels outbid that. Agree with Myshkin, I don't see the Dodgers matching that, let alone topping it. I can see the Dodgers going the same route as they did with Harper last year, with a shorter contract and a higher AAV. Something along the lines of 5yrs/$200mm. But I don’t imagine Cole would take that offer over 7yrs/$245mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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