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Richard Benedict retweeted
Bobby Cox was ejected 161 times in his career. That’s an entire regular season of just going out there and telling umpires they’re horseshit. You have to respect that.
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‘29 INF Spencer Harthorn (Gig Harbor) delivered some of the best swings of any PNW bats
Barrel after barrel with tighter coil through the zone. Balanced lower half & more direct path
#WCSSG26
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Here’s Vin Scully reciting the Field of Dreams “People Will Come, Ray” speech. Chills.
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Hilarious: The legendary Marshawn Lynch had the whole room SHOCKED after randomly pulling out a bottle of HENNESSY from his pocket while he was in the middle of explaining how he became a photographer.
"My Uncle told me ‘drink some Hennessy and do some sh*t you never done before.’"
😭😭😭
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Which foot do you hit the base with? Most say right. Some say left. But watch: left foot at second, right at third, both on the inside corner. The foot follows the stride. Force a foot and you chop your stride to brake. Hit the inside corner, lean, and push.
Richard Benedict retweeted
Tarik Skubal says he has no sympathy for people complaining about how the Dodgers operate
(via @JesseRogersESPN)
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Mookie Betts traded bc Red Sox were cheap with their extension
Braves chose Olson over Freeman
Angels refused to win around Ohtani
Yankees wouldn’t pay Yamamoto more than Cole
Arte vetoed a Pages trade
Rays didn’t want to pay Glasnow
Cardinals gave up on Edman
A’s DFA’d Max Muncy
& now Tigers refused to pay Tarik Skubal.
These baseball GMs make it too easy.
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This woke me up this am, a text from my uncle. “Everyone is complaining that baseball is broken because the Dodgers got Tarik Skubal.”
Bruce Harper says it best here.
I don’t remember people complaining about a needed salary cap in MLB when the Yankees were winning 4 World Series in five years between 1996-2000.
But the Dodgers start winning World Series, which they had not won for 32 years, a span from 1988-2020, and now everyone wants a salary cap and is complaining. Thats called an East Coast Bias. 💯
It’s not the Dodgers fault, as Bryce says, that they have perfected everything. Their farm system is the best, their tv contract is the best, their players are the best and fit the mold they are looking for. They have one of the best stadiums and their tradition is right up there with the Yankees and Red Sox.
The Tigers made a terrible trade. Zyhir Hope is just another Raul Mondesi/Yasiel Puig player. He wasn’t even in their top 3 rookie outfielders like De Paula, Tibbs and Sirota. And, River Ryan and Brady Smith have already both had Tommy John surgeries in their young careers.
The Dodgers were thought to have at least given up Emmet Sheehan, a ready MLB pitcher AND the prospects. Nope!
Every other team like the Yankees, Braves, Cubs, Brewers, Phillies and Red Sox could have made an offer, a better offer, but they chose not to.
MLB doesn’t need a salary cap what they need is for Major League Baseball to take control of all the teams TV rights and then distribute the money from those deals evenly across baseball, not just a percentage, but evenly. It’s those TV contracts where you see the biggest disparity and that would take care of that disparity immediately.
Don’t blame the Dodgers because they have perfected everything. Blame other teams for running a poor organization.
I waited 32 years for this. I’ll enjoy it.
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“To infinity and beyond!”
Mookie Betts signed a ball after his Toy Story commercial and we’re giving it away ⚾
Repost and reply for a chance to win!
See Toy Story 5 only in theaters June 19
ALT A close-up shot of a baseball signed by Mookie Betts
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Jeff Bezos Responds to Seattle Officials After Leaving For Miami Over Wealth Tax Seattle’s political elite may have just received the most devastating financial reality check in modern city history after Jeff Bezos quietly confirmed that Washington’s aggressive new tax structure played a major role in his decision to flee to Florida, a move that reportedly saved the Amazon founder close to $1 billion while leaving Seattle staring at a collapsing revenue model built around billionaires who can leave faster than lawmakers can pass another tax bill. What makes the situation even more humiliating for city leaders is that Bezos did not scream, threaten, or launch some dramatic billionaire rebellion against Mayor Katie Wilson after she publicly laughed, waved “bye,” and dismissed concerns about wealthy residents leaving the city. Instead, he simply ran the numbers, changed his address to Miami, sold billions in Amazon stock, and calmly pointed out that the tax revenue Washington expected from him no longer exists because he no longer lives there. “Apparently, telling the richest man connected to your city that he’s irrelevant works slightly worse when he takes half your projected tax model with him.” As Starbucks founder Howard Schultz escapes to a $44 million Florida penthouse, Amazon shifts workers out of Seattle, downtown vacancy rates explode, and lawmakers double down on even higher millionaire taxes despite a near 50% drop in capital gains revenue within a single year, critics are now warning that Seattle may have become the most terrifying live experiment in America showing what happens when ideological politics collides headfirst with economic math and the people funding the system quietly walk away.
“Seattle’s $1B mistake revealed 👇”
