MLB 2021 season: Corn-Driven Humidity

[Aragorn]

Apparently there's a Cleveland Guardians men's roller derby team, and they own ClevelandGuardians.com, and ClevelandGuardians on Instagram and Facebook. So this could be fun.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nh...uld-cash-in-on-indians-name-change/ar-AAMB05T

 

[Kronos]

Another case of 'hey why didn't someone google that?'

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Shoulda gone with Spiders...

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

And in game 2 of the rest of the Cubs mediocre lives, Rafael Ortega clubs three home runs and accounts for all 5 runs and the Cubs still lose.

 

[BillJ]

Apparently there's a Cleveland Guardians men's roller derby team, and they own ClevelandGuardians.com, and ClevelandGuardians on Instagram and Facebook. So this could be fun.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nh...uld-cash-in-on-indians-name-change/ar-AAMB05T

Either the Indians will write a check to make it go away, or they’ll go with something like “ClevelandGuardiansMLB” on websites and social media.

 

[Timby]

Shoulda gone with Spiders...

There's actually an active trademark on file for "Cleveland Spiders," it looks like the team didn't have that option.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

There's actually an active trademark on file for "Cleveland Spiders," it looks like the team didn't have that option.

Is there a team actually using the name? Or just some squatter sitting on it, like the Washington s?

Oh well. They probably wouldn't use it anyway, nobody wants to remember that 20-134 season.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

To be fair, they used the name Spiders for 12 years .... 122 years ago, and probably didn't consider ™ing it at that time or ever since.

 

[Spider]

I have not authorized the use of my name for sporting organizations.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I have not authorized the use of my name for sporting organizations.

You only hold the trademark for the Drunk Spiders!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I have a question...

I was in Chicago last week, and of course there were huge crowds for the Cubs games I saw. But also for the White Sox.

I can understand why it'd be that way now, since the Sox are division leaders. But the last time I was in the city - in 2018 - the games I saw at U.S. New Field Guaranteed Cellular Rate of Comiskey were very sparsely attended. There were more visiting fans than Sox fans there!

At first I thought this was just because of the lousy weather at that time (it rained pretty much that whole week), but I heard some people talking at the games I was just at, and they said it's always like this - that Sox fans only show up when the team's doing well. Is this really true?

 

[Timby]

but I heard some people talking at the games I was just at, and they said it's always like this - that Sox fans only show up when the team's doing well. Is this really true?

Very much so; it's the opposite of Wrigley Field, which will be packed to the gills even when the Cubs are on-pace to lose 95 games.

White Sox fandom is not entirely dissimilar to that of the Baltimore Orioles, in that most people don't give two shits about the team unless they're in a playoff hunt.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Plus, Sox fans are probably still bitter about how their stadium is not only ass-ugly (although not quite AS ugly as when it was first built), but also how you have to climb like six ramps just to get into the place, and the upper deck is so high and steep, you need bottled oxygen.

At Wrigley, OTOH, I actually liked the upper deck better than the field level. It was so hot last week that for some of the Cubs games I saw (when I had seats on the lower level), I almost suffocated, because it was so crowded and there was absolutely no breeze.

And as an added bonus, Wrigley has Home Run Inn pizza.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

@Timby you should love this one

CHICAGO -- Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer says his "greatest source of frustration" was the team's inability to sign any of their stars to long-term contracts before trading them last Friday.

Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant and Javier Baez were the talk of the baseball world last week as all three were moved within a span of 24 hours before MLB's trade deadline. After years of conversations with the trio -- attempting to sign them to long-term contracts -- Hoyer finally gave up and moved on.

"That will probably be my greatest source of frustration from this era," Hoyer said on ESPN 1000 radio in Chicago Monday morning. "I put my head on the pillow every night knowing we put our best foot forward. The extensions we offered these guys will hold up exceptionally well...against the open market. I don't know why guys didn't want to sign. I don't know why guys didn't want to even counteroffer, often times."

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

"This day in baseball". August 3rd, 1987. The emery board incident.

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[Timby]

@Timby you should love this one

I found the full clip, and Jesus, I'm beginning to think Jed Hoyer isn't very good at his job. "Hmm, how do I assuage my fanbase after trading away all of their favorite star players ... ? I know, I'll whine on the radio like a baby about how they were all greedy and didn't *really* want to be Cubs, which is why I wasn't able to extend any of them for below market--I mean, 'competitive' prices!"

He also said he put the team in a position to win this season ... while forgetting to mention that he traded their best pitcher for some scratch tickets and leaving the team with a dogshit rotation.

I, for one, absolutely believe that the team that has refused to sign a single major free agent since 2018, has whined constantly about the luxury tax, and salary dumped their best pitcher in a year the team was ostensibly claiming to compete was also making competitive extension offers to their core players, who refused these incredibly generous contracts out of misguided greed and spite.

Oh, and Anthony Rizzo wasn't too happy about what Hoyer said, either:

“Why? It just sounds like a bad breakup when someone says they’re fine but they’re really not fine. When it comes to the guys on our team and what we did [lists accomplishments], and good people, those things cost money. So it comes down to a business. You want your cake and you want to eat it, too. That’s just how it seemed. I think it can all speak for itself that there’s a common denominator is that no one signed …. We just had such great memories there, that, to come out on air and say that doesn’t really make sense, but it is what it is.”

Good luck getting Rizzo to listen to an offer this winter, Hoyer. You idiot.

Theo absolutely knew which way the wind was blowing and bailed at precisely the right time.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I found the full clip, and Jesus, I'm beginning to think Jed Hoyer isn't very good at his job. "Hmm, how do I assuage my fanbase after trading away all of their favorite star players ... ? I know, I'll whine on the radio like a baby about how they were all greedy and didn't *really* want to be Cubs, which is why I wasn't able to extend any of them for below market--I mean, 'competitive' prices!"

He also said he put the team in a position to win this season ... while forgetting to mention that he traded their best pitcher for some scratch tickets and leaving the team with a dogshit rotation.

I, for one, absolutely believe that the team that has refused to sign a single major free agent since 2018, has whined constantly about the luxury tax, and salary dumped their best pitcher in a year the team was ostensibly claiming to compete was also making competitive extension offers to their core players, who refused these incredibly generous contracts out of misguided greed and spite.

Oh, and Anthony Rizzo wasn't too happy about what Hoyer said, either:



Good luck getting Rizzo to listen to an offer this winter, Hoyer. You idiot.

Theo absolutely knew which way the wind was blowing and bailed at precisely the right time.

Yeah, I saw the Rizzo response a little while ago.

They're still babbling about it being a "retool" instead of a rebuild

 

[1001001]

They're still babbling about it being a "retool" instead of a rebuild

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Somebody want to explain to me why the Yankees, after Luis Gil's absolutely dominant start...immediately send him back down to Scranton?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Somebody want to explain to me why the Yankees, after Luis Gil's absolutely dominant start...immediately send him back down to Scranton?

Service time shenanigans?