MLB 2025 - June

[supremebve]

11 minutes ago, Tabe said:

I get it. He signed a contract to play a specific position and then they tried to move him twice. Had he known that, maybe he signs that contract elsewhere. I think all of us would be upset with our employer - regardless of salary - if we took a job somewhere based on a promised position and then they tried to move us twice in a span of a few months. 

Not only that, being told you aren't good enough to do the job they hired you for, only to ask you to do a job you'd do even worse.  All of this is happening while you are the best performing player on the team.  

[RIPPA]

Well the Lakers are being sold so we are all about to get a vague idea of what the Yankees would fetch

[Gonzo]

1 hour ago, RIPPA said:

Well the Lakers are being sold so we are all about to get a vague idea of what the Yankees would fetch

The rumored number for the Lakers looks to be about $10 billion.

[odessasteps]

Real Madrid is the highest futbol club on the Deloitte money league list  and only club over a billion Euros. Not sure if that includes the stadium, the TV channel et al. 

Edit: thats just revenue. 

Edited June 18, 2025 by odessasteps

[Tabe]

1 hour ago, Gonzo said:

The rumored number for the Lakers looks to be about $10 billion.

Forbes puts the Yankees at $8.2B. All in, with the stadium and so on, I gotta think they are legit at least $20B.

[Kevin Wilson]

I've been watching baseball for 30+ years, I've never seen a balk called because the catcher used his mask to gather a ball after a wild pitch/passed ball. And he didn't need to, just absent mindedly did it. Coach didn't argue.

 

[Gonzo]

7 minutes ago, Tabe said:

Forbes puts the Yankees at $8.2B. All in, with the stadium and so on, I gotta think they are legit at least $20B.

I'm guessing the Cowboys would be right around that range, too.

[Pete]

[Cobra Commander]

around baseball: Orioles scored 8 runs in an inning to go up 8-0, and lost 12-8 to the Rays

meanwhile the Nats lost another game to the Rockies in the days after Davey Martinez defended the quality of the team's coaching

[RIPPA]

7 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:

meanwhile the Nats lost another game to the Rockies in the days after Davey Martinez defended the quality of the team's coaching

That's okay - Mike Rizzo said that since Davey won the WS in 2019, you can't fire him now

Oh and that for the 5th straight year... they are in year 2 of their 5 year rebuild

[NikoBaltimore]

8 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:

around baseball: Orioles scored 8 runs in an inning to go up 8-0, and lost 12-8 to the Rays

meanwhile the Nats lost another game to the Rockies in the days after Davey Martinez defended the quality of the team's coaching

O's are trying but it's a really frustrating season.  This certainly doesn't help matters.

[RIPPA]

Nats avoid a 4 game sweep via the Rockies because Colorado is stupid and kept pitching to James Wood

[RIPPA]

Seattle’s Cal Raleigh hit two HRs today to give him 29 on the season

It breaks Johnny Bench’s record for most HRs by a catcher before the All Star break

[RIPPA]

BIDDING WAR~!

 

[RIPPA]

 

[BobbyWhioux]

if "highest bidder" actually mattered when it comes to ownership of MLB teams, Joe Lacob would already own the Still Oakland A's.

Ownership is a country club.  But good luck to them. I'm always down for more chaos and more egg on Manfred's face however it gets there.

[RIPPA]

Where Jazz goes… chaos soon follows

 

[Dolfan in NYC]

I don't think there's any more Jazz Chisolm sentence than "Lost his cleat and then got injured." 

 

Anyway... this is interesting:

 

 

[Cobra Commander]

Verne Gagne missed the boat by not getting into baseball agenting

[Kuetsar]

Nobody put a gun to his head to sign it. . . 

[Travis Sheldon]

I think the big point in the case will be his age.

[Cobra Commander]

yeah, I don't think "his dad was a major leaguer, clearly he's more able to understand this contract" will work here

[odessasteps]

PCA, that’s not how you want to keep your name in the headlines. 

[NikoBaltimore]

I'm not a heckler but even I can think of multiple ways to heckle/mock somebody where no harm is done.  But mocking one's deceased mother?  Come the fuck on.  https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45580103/diamondbacks-ketel-marte-tears-game-white-sox-fan-references-deceased-mother

Edited June 25, 2025 by NikoBaltimore

[Dolfan in NYC]

3 hours ago, NikoBaltimore said:

I'm not a heckler but even I can think of multiple ways to heckle/mock somebody where no harm is done.  But mocking one's deceased mother?  Come the fuck on.  https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45580103/diamondbacks-ketel-marte-tears-game-white-sox-fan-references-deceased-mother

Note, this 22 year old chucklefuck has now been banned from all MLB parks indefinitely.  

I'm sure alcohol and/or other intoxicants were involved, but fuck him man. Personally, I'd want the guy's suspension to be lifted only by Marte himself.