MLB 2021 season: Corn-Driven Humidity

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  1. Timby

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    They tacked on a plan to re-develop the area around the stadium in like a six-block radius or something like that, somewhat similar to what the Rickettses did with Wrigleyville. It's an obvious ploy to make the deal unpalatable to the City and to Alameda County so they have more ammunition to leave and ammunition to use in court if they break their lease at the Coliseum (which runs through 2024 or 2025, as I recall) and get sued.
     
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  2. Ar-Pharazon

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    Did the Ricketts' plan include that kinda thing, or did they just react to Tunney's BS and start buying the rooftop buildings later?

    I know the triangle building and Z were probably built in.
     
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    The Giants want the A's totally out of the area, and apparently MLB does too.

    I've always found it strange that the bay area isn't shared territory like New York, LA and Chicago are.
     
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  4. Timby

    Timby o yea just like that Administrator

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    The Rickettses formed a shell corporation and started buying the rooftop buildings like six months after the purchase of the team closed, and then some area reporters started digging and were able to connect the dots between the rooftops and the Ricketts family.

    Turning all of Wrigleyville into their own personal palace came a bit later.
     
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  5. Ar-Pharazon

    Ar-Pharazon Admiral Premium Member

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    Albert Pujols to..................the Dodgers????
     
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    Yeah, I just saw that.

    :shrug:
     
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  7. Ar-Pharazon

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    If he has leadership skills, that might be it. A soda machine could play a better 1B, otherwise PH and DH at AL parks is about it.
     
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    From what I've seen, the Dodgers as a whole this year have a slash line of .217/.312/.352 against LHP while Pujols has an .878 OPS against them. So he still has a little bit to offer.
     
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  9. Worf factor9

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    Stranger things have happened, but yeah it don't make any immediate sense.
     
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    As a Cardinals fan, I kind of hoped he'd come home, even as much of a longshot as that was. Oh, well. Another reason to root against the Dodgers.
     
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  11. Ar-Pharazon

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    His line vs LHP the last several years has been atrocious tho. The Cubs announcers mentioned it.


    As a Cardinals hater, I figured he'd go back there, at least to retire as a Card. By far his best years were there...usually torturing my Cubs.
     
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    Must have been a beach-front home clause in his no trade contract.
     
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    And my Reds. :shrug:
     
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    Yankees & Mets play each other in a couple of months.

    Hope we finally get that Cole/deGrom matchup... :techman:
     
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  15. Timby

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    I'm glad the Cardinals didn't have space for him. Even though he's been gone from the NL Central for a decade, seeing a Cubs pitcher facing down that batting stance will always strike fear into my heart, because it was usually followed by a pitch being hit all the way out onto Waveland or Sheffield.

    In other news, Corey Seager has a broken right hand.

    "Corey Seager is finally healthy" didn't even last two full months of the regular season.
     
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    Sheffield & Waveland are a little harder to get to nowadays, but if anyone could do it.......
     
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    ... it would be Glenallen Hill. :lol:

    I haven't been to Wrigley since ... 2009, I think, so I've only seen all the improvements on television. I guess an ex-girlfriend and I drove past the stadium once last year (because she lived in Berwyn), but that was a "blink and you'll miss it" thing.
     
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    Glenallen got that rooftop shot, but Pujols would be more consistent at getting to the street. With the bleachers expanded out over the sidewalks, it just has to be hit further to make the street. It's happened a few times, but ball-hawking is a dying pastime there.
     
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  19. Timby

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    Yeah, I have PTSD of Pujols drilling meatballs from jobbers like Ryan Dempster or Shawn Estes and especially LaTroy Hawkins--Pujols fucking owned Hawkins--and them getting out of the park in about two seconds flat. Hence why if I see that batting stance at Wrigley again, no matter how old and broken he is, I'll be reaching for my tranquilizers.
     
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  20. Ar-Pharazon

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    Well I doubt we see the Dodgers again this year, unless we make the playoffs.........:rofl:
     
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