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If people thought the last CBA negotiations were bad, just you wait. This is gonna be a catalyst for a lockout like the one in 1994-1995. Not gonna be pretty.
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If people thought the last CBA negotiations were bad, just you wait. This is gonna be a catalyst for a lockout like the one in 1994-1995. Not gonna be pretty.
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My rangers just won their first world series in 70 years
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Come enjoy Chicago Cubs baseball for the experience of being almost a big player! Just big enough to be in the running for every big name but only actually have a shot at Rhys Hospkins! And you get the same experience on the field too, just good enough to be competitive but not good enough to be a disappointment when they lose in the wild card.
We're gonna be competing with the Brewers for the division after stealing their coach so that'll be fun at least.
Vegas Aviators (formerly 51s), being a minor league for Oakland Athletics, have been decent. It's also worth noting that Athletics are planning to relocate to Vegas in a couple years
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Can't wait for doyerspics to once again realize they still will never be able to buy a world series
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Can't stop, won't stop (unless it gets above 32°F)
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At least it’s for a year. The era of teams being named after their parent clubs is ending in the next few years. The Rome Braves became the Rome Emperors for next year as an example.
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I am not shocked that Ohtani went for the Dodgers given that they’re cross town rivals to the Angels. But I can’t help but think to not feel bad for Angels fans. The dodgers are an “import” team of sorts, they came from Brooklyn in 1958. I always as the Angels as the real LA team, but that’s just me.
Ohtani as a Yankee would’ve been kino though
Ohtani as a Yankee would’ve been kino though
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That's a great logo. Give their PR and media teams a raise.
I'm not shocked either, but it was pretty well known Ohtani didn't want to leave the west coast, so that limited his options if he really used that as a final decision factor. As far as the Dodgers being an import team, they've been in LA for longer than they were in Brooklyn. Plus, I think most fans who were in Brooklyn transitioned to Yankee fans. It certainly wasn't the best franchise relocation, but no franchise relocations are ever smooth and without problems. I agree with you though, the Angels will always be the OG team for Los Angeles.
It's like the name LA Angels never happened, except it has been since 1961 and still is, albeit residing in Anaheim. Only the Dodgers (Angels' rival team) have been a staple of LA since the late 19th century.
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Dodgers were originally a NYC-based team, one of three actually (the other two being the Yankees, and the New York Giants, the latter moving to San Francisco in 1958, alongside the Brooklyn dodgers).
The Angels were part of the expansion-era of the MLB, which began in 1961 roughly
And it was founded by legendary actor and musician for then-dissovled movie company Republic Pictures, Gene Autry. It was then relocated to Anaheim in 1966 right by Disneyland, which was funny considering the team would be purchased by Disney 31 years later in 1997 in an effort to keep up with sports entertainment (because this was when they purchased ABC and ESPN around the same time) with Mike Scioscia under lead management.
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Until 2002 when The Lehman Bros. ended up investing the team, and Disney's sports company (then known as Anaheim Sports) had dissolved in 2005 by selling the real-life Mighty Ducks team (as well as Disney on Ice, where the latter team were training) to Broadcom co-founder and billionaire Henry Samueli and his wife
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12 years 300m. Is this good for the fucking game, Manfredd?
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The Jays are hella-pozzed (although I can't imagine the Mariners being anything but as well).
All of the Toronto online fan communities are woke.
The team and Canadian national media ran relief pitcher Anthony Bass out of town last summer for the crime of being Christian and the most vanilla of troon skepticism tweets (in fairness, he was also pitching like dogshit).
The Jays proudly announced during 2022 that their entire roster was jabbed. They worked with the MLB to out the rest of the unjabbed players on visiting teams having to cross into Canada to play the Jays by having visiting clubs announce before every series which players were remaining home. Moralfagging Jays fans would scour the list before every series to decide which players to hate. Whit Merrifield was browbeaten into getting jabbed when he was traded to the Jays at the '22 deadline so that he could report. Free agents like Robbie Ray that were heroes and memes just months before suddenly were back to being MAGA chuds when it became clear that forced jabs played into their decisions to sign elsewhere.
The season before in 2021 when the team was playing in Dunedin and Buffalo, there were widespread rumours that PBP/colour guy Buck Martinez was unjabbed because he was doing games from his home in Port Richey, Florida and the team's owner and parent media company seemed to be making decisions specifically to keep their broadcast crew stateside. The whole year, the fanbase complained what a dumb and dogshit broadcaster Martinez was who should just retire and die.
Then the following offseason, Buck announced that he was taking time off for prostate cancer treatment, but would be returning to work in Canada after his recovery (admitting by proxy that he got jabbed as part of his treatment).
Suddenly the same moron boosters memoryholed all the awful things they had called Martinez all year long, wishing him well and telling him how stunning & brave he was.
When Martinez eventually returned to the booth mid-season after his recovery, these same Reddit lowlifes were all stepping over each other what a monumentous occasion it was to have Buck back.
I wonder why this new trend is happening.
With MLB essentially buying the entire minor league infrastructure during COVID by hostile takeover, you would think it would make MORE sense to brand minor clubs with the big club branding. Especially since minor league affiliates shopping around and changing affiliations every 4 years is essentially dead with the death of independent ownership or competition.
The main purpose of minor league club rebranding (other than kowtowing to Current Thing reeeeing) would presumably to push merch sales. But since it's now just one big MLB monopoly instead of the old mishmash of local independent owners with zany marketing and promotional schemes, it all seems backwards.