2023 MLB (non-Tigers) catch all thread

[smr-nj]

5 hours ago, ben9753 said:

Soto (not Gregory, the good one) traded to the Yanks.

The Evil Empire is back, baby. 😂 ( well, they’re trying, anyway)

 

[casimir]

2 hours ago, smr-nj said:

The Evil Empire is back, baby. 😂 ( well, they’re trying, anyway)

 

Can we get a mod to clean up some of the drivel in this place, please?  Thanks.

[smr-nj]

Yamamoto ….. next! 😂

[romad1]

I'm reading about the David Rubinstein plan to purchase the Orioles. 

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Rubenstein, 74, is the co-founder and co-chairman of the Carlyle Group, a private equity company.

So, he's going to pump and dump the franchise? 

[casimir]

44 minutes ago, romad1 said:

I'm reading about the David Rubinstein plan to purchase the Orioles. 

So, he's going to pump and dump the franchise? 

Private equity ownership is working well for the Pistons.

[romad1]

Just now, casimir said:

Private equity ownership is working well for the Pistons.

Or Dominos, Toys R Us,  etc. 

 

[casimir]

1 minute ago, romad1 said:

Or Dominos, Toys R Us,  etc. 

 

Unfortunately they aren't on the Pistons' schedule anytime soon.

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

Private equity ownership is working well for the Pistons.

Pistons were threatening for a minute to become a playoff team, but Gores fixed that.

 

[oblong]

Pistons have won 12 games in the last 12 months.

5 games in the last 10 months. If they lose tonight, that number goes down to 4 games in 10 months, as they won a game on Feb 9, 2023.

 

[Toddwert]

24 minutes ago, oblong said:

Pistons have won 12 games in the last 12 months.

5 games in the last 10 months. If they lose tonight, that number goes down to 4 games in 10 months, as they won a game on Feb 9, 2023.

 

scary thing is everyone thought they were heading in the right direction a year and half ago

[romad1]

Found this while surfing for Michigan content.  Relevant to the discussion about the Orioles being sold off for scrap to make way for a Lane Bryant franchise at Camden Yards. 

 

[Tiger337]

It looks like Ohtani is a Blue Jay

 

 

[casimir]

29 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

It looks like Ohtani is a Blue Jay

 

 

I was listening to MLB radio on Sirius this morning, and they were talking up a privet jet that was leaving Anaheim/Los Angeles and heading to Toronto today.  I guess there's a means to track such things?

[Tiger337]

2 minutes ago, casimir said:

I was listening to MLB radio on Sirius this morning, and they were talking up a privet jet that was leaving Anaheim/Los Angeles and heading to Toronto today.  I guess there's a means to track such things?

yes, and they are tracking you right now.  

[casimir]

1 minute ago, Tiger337 said:

yes, and they are tracking you right now.  

Meh...... nothing to see here.

[casimir]

So now with Ohtani coming off of the board, does we start to see the transactions picking up steam?

[RandyMarsh]

Haha suck it Yankees!

Hopefully for his and the Blue Jays sake he passes all their medical tests though if they haven't done so already. 

[Toddwert]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

I was listening to MLB radio on Sirius this morning, and they were talking up a privet jet that was leaving Anaheim/Los Angeles and heading to Toronto today.  I guess there's a means to track such things?

flightaware.com

 

[lordstanley]

I  vaguely  recall Detroit sports fans doing that some years ago for some reason. Was it a Harbaugh flight when he was rumoured to be joining Michigan? Or something else that instead didn’t pan out?

[casimir]

3 hours ago, lordstanley said:

I  vaguely  recall Detroit sports fans doing that some years ago for some reason. Was it a Harbaugh flight when he was rumoured to be joining Michigan? Or something else that instead didn’t pan out?

I think it was when Maybin was signing.

[mtutiger]

5 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

yes, and they are tracking you right now.  

The jet never had Ohtani on it.

JP "Pope" Morosi really covered himself in glory today lol

[Tenacious D]

How much would the Jays have to pay, considering the exchange rate?  

[lordstanley]

4 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

How much would the Jays have to pay, considering the exchange rate?  

All I know Rogers who owns the team would jack up my cable rate to an even more exorbitant level than it is now. 

Edited December 9, 2023 by lordstanley

[casimir]

12 hours ago, mtutiger said:

The jet never had Ohtani on it.

JP "Pope" Morosi really covered himself in glory today lol

Is that true?  Well, it made for fun speculation at the end of a pretty boring winter meeting.

I was listening to CJ Notkowski and Ryan Spilborghs on the way home from work yesterday, and one of them made a comment about who gets on a plane to go from Los Angeles to Toronto just for a birthday party (some reference to a sushi restaurant being booked out by Yusei Kikuchi.  And I'm thinking to myself, well, give me that job and those paychecks, and that decision becomes a lot easier to make in the affirmative.

[Edman85]

Morosi appears to have done some shark jumping in recent years, it pains me to say.