2019 MLB Regular Season running thread

Said nobody ever, but count on the pile-jumper to miss the point because he hasn't found an excuse to take a shot at me in a while.

Edit: Of course, the pile-jumper took a little dump on the thread and ran. It's funny how a discussion of the issues MLB has with built-in bullshit tend to leave so many here dumbstruck.

Baseball currently has a system that encourages teams to lie about the progress of prospects and there is no accountability at all regardless of how blatant the lie may be.

MLB also had an issue of failing to protect PED test results that it was bound to keep private by the CBA. The MLBPA dropped the ball for years on this one, either because it is willing to put the rules aside to punish PED users or for fear of being perceived as defending cheating.

But why engage in an intelligent discussion of such matters when take another lame shot at the same straw man you've been hacking away at for years?

 

Bregman agrees to 6-year, $100 million extension with Houston.

 

The Jewish lobby strikes again!

 

Interesting decision by Bregman to let Houston buy out his arbitration years. He'll be 30 when this contract ends and past the point where teams will be willing to shell out a massive deal. Hey, he knows better than me what is best for him, but I think he's probably leaving a bunch of money on the table with this deal.

 

It just surprises me that such a great player isn't much of a draw.

 

Teams do receive a share of the gate for road games. Not game-changing money, but I'd rather be the Yankees playing in front of 2.8 million on the road than the Padres playing before 1 million, for example.

 

I don't think it's that bad of a deal. He's making a little more than 600K for this season and averages 20 mil for the next five years, not six. There's no way he was going to make 60 million across his three arbitration years -- Mookie Betts just got 20 million in his second year after 10.5 million.

He's made about 7.5 million through this year, counting his draft bonus. I'm not gonna blame a guy for taking 100 million deal. Plus being in Texas means taking home more thanks to the tax situation.

 

Proving he also doesn't know baseball

 

Today is opening day for Major League Baseball. Can You Feel the excitement??

 

Mariners already won the first game of the season. Feels weird to hear a game go final at 6:15am Pacific

 

Please God let there be audio of this somewhere..........

 

I think Bruschi shit himself when he said Derrick Johnson.