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2025 MLB

Discussion in 'Sports Board' started by Misanthropic, Mar 10, 2025.

  1. Misanthropic

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    IMG_1678.jpeg We’re a month into Spring Training and it’s time to get this thread rolling. I’ll refrain from starting off with the train wreck that is unfolding in the Yankees camp and instead lead off with something far more important.

    The company New Era designs hats for Major League Baseball, and comes out with new designs every year for teams to sell as novelties. This year the hats involved team names with the first letter of the team overlaid. All parties involved approved this cap for the Texas Rangers.They had to know.
     
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    I can't think of a better way to start the season!

    I'm off to see if I can still buy that hat.
     
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    We’re almost 20 games in the season and everyone in the league is mediocre except the NL west. Oh— the White Sox suck.

    I’m seeing the Jays play “Oakland” and Cleveland next month. The newly renovated Skydome is the tits.
     
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    I’ve been watching a ton of baseball so far this year. I’m taking advantage of my Prime membership and watching a bunch of west coast games, in addition to the local teams.
     
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    Tyler Soderstrom of the Athletics leads the Major League in home runs at the moment with 8. He also happens to be a graduate of my old High School and is the only reason I am watching any baseball anymorre. From all accounts of people who know him and his family, he is a very straight up guy.
     
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    I assumed it was partly due to Sutter Health park being a minor league park and therefore smaller than an MLB park but it's almost identical to the Coliseum
     
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    To be fair, the Braves, Marlins, Nationals, and Rockies all currently have worse run differentials than the White Sox do (and the Rockies are MUCH worse in that regard), and a few other teams are basically tied with them there. The White Sox are still bad, but that's at least...something.
     
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    Agreed. Last year was like a planetary alignment of loserness for them. For any team, ever. Anything is an improvement from 2024 for them..

    I always felt sorry for them as a franchise. They are overshadowed by a much better (as a product) and more beloved Chicago MLB franchise, and the World Series win was the biggest “who gives a shit” ever, despite being their first in 80 years.
     
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    Anyone else think the right fielder should have been making that throw? That ball went deep in outfield foul territory. Where the hell was RF playing that FB beat him to that ball? If I'm Coach, that's who I'm screaming at... RF, the lazy fucker that didn't sprint to back up a throw.
     
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    Nostalgia par excellence. That’s how most of us hit our first competitive home run as kids.
     
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    Good for the A’s right now.

    Away from a loyal fanbase, years of abuse from a shitty cheapskate owner, playing in a minor league stadium where the city and its residents have ZERO reason to put any stock in you because you’re going to Vegas….. and still playing Above .500 Ball for the time being. That can’t be easy.
     
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    Obviously all my A's friends are excited but they can't leave soon enough IMO. Yankees were in town this weekend and traffic fucking SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED.
    And since the minor league team is still playing there, there is twice the number of games so twice the number of fucked off traffic days.
     
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    I have not been paying attention, but the Rivercats cannot be drawing any large crowds I would think. I also think by the time the Athletics come back from this road trip, they will be 4-5 games under 500 and whatever goodwill left after the fucking John Fisher has already put on the fans will be gone.
     
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    Are there not other AAA stadiums/places for them to play in the southwest? Buffalo has one for the Bisons that probably sets the gold standard for the minor leagues, it’s fabulous and for a core-of-downtown location the traffic isn’t too bad.
     
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    Portland, Sacramento, Reno, Fresno, Salt Lake and Las Vegas all have triple A stadiums the Athletics could have played in. Only Sacramento came with a TV contract paying North of $70 million a year. With John Fisher, money is everything.
     
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    I will say though, the Rivercats do have a pretty nice stadium. Just not MLB level.