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[Vegas Braves Fan @BeezyGreg]

One of the best concerts of the year.

[Las Vegas Locally 🌴 @LasVegasLocally]

The Killers' Brandon Flowers made a surprise appearance at Allegiant Stadium tonight with Ed Sheeran

[Vegas Braves Fan @BeezyGreg]

@FamilyFeud Happy birthday president Franklin. @3YearLetterman

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@LasVegasLocally @southpointlv

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@VitalVegas @CartNarcs

[Vegas Braves Fan @BeezyGreg]

@KerryBilicki @VitalVegas @LasVegasLocally Likely because sometimes the line backs up and saw an unsafe situation where the line was stopped but the moving walkway kept bringing more and more people.

[Ben Houselog @benlikessport]

James Cook: “Hey Josh we are on the goal line, do you think I could get the ba-
Josh Allen:

[Ben Yoel @Ben_Yoel]

Be careful out there everyone. I had 2 Mets tickets in my car and someone broke in and left 4 more.

[Foul Territory @FoulTerritoryTV]

OH NO. Mixing up the Oakland A's and Atlanta Braves logos?? 💀

@IamTrevorMay @scottbraun @aj_pierzynskiFT

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😂😂😂

[Everything Georgia @GAFollowers]

Group of teens get caught doing graffiti in Atlanta. 🤣

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My god, Travis! Have a night!

[MLB @MLB]

Travis d'Arnaud's THIRD homer of the night: Fresh Out The Slammer!

[Vegas Braves Fan @BeezyGreg]

This was a great read.

[Vital Vegas @VitalVegas]

BREAKING: At least four people have reportedly died of boredom from viewing news coverage of the Tropicana closing. Try this instead. https://t.co/CCiN1ONOtC

[Vital Vegas @VitalVegas]

BREAKING: At least four people have reportedly died of boredom from viewing news coverage of the Tropicana closing. Try this instead. https://t.co/CCiN1ONOtC

[Michael Harris II〽️ @MoneyyyMikeee]

@signnola And then what happened😂

[Jacob Turner @TheJacobTurner]

My translator didn't steal millions of dollars from me.

Yet here is what it is like having every word be spoken for you:

You see in 2019, I played in South Korea for the Kia Tigers.

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Let me set the stage ~ I lived in the South Korean city of Gwangju.

Upon arriving I had only seen the capital city, Seoul, which is essentially downtown Chicago (with Korean signs).

Everyone spoke English...

Gwangju on the other hand is like the Detroit of South Korea. A hard-working industrial town (built on the car business).

No one spoke English...

The team provided a translator for the foreign players.

Ours was great, knowledgeable, and spoke perfect English.

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Yet, the first time you are speaking with someone and he is speaking for you it is weird...

I mean picture this...

You are looking at the person you are talking to, you speak....(pause).....then he speaks in Korean for you.

The person you are talking to nods their head but you have no clue if what you actually said (or meant) is being communicated.

I could have said, "I love your shirt" and he could have said, "he hates your shirt".

Weird right...

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Fast forward to my first start and it is about 20 degrees.

I am supposed to be throwing mid 90's and instead, I am throwing about 90.

The pitching coach makes a mound visit and what I get in translation is "You need to throw harder."

I mean, ok you want me to run faster and jump higher too.

I snap back, "Throw harder...I am working with what I got."

The look on his face made me think....did we just lose something in translation?

Inning ends, I come in the dugout and the pitching coach comes over.

He starts communicating with my translator and my translator says, "I think I misunderstood, what he was saying was he wants you to throw more fastballs."

Here I am thinking the pitching coach is clueless and all he was trying to do was refine the scouting report.

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That year provided me with a few lessons:

1. Communication Matters
2. Foreign Players Have It Far Harder
3. How You Say Something Matters As Much As What You Say

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[Vegas Braves Fan @BeezyGreg]

@zillowgonewild @GAFollowers

[Jacob Turner @TheJacobTurner]

The contract loophole that cost one MLB player $3,300,000 in salary.

The story, details, and cutthroat nature of professional sports:

MLB salaries work like this...

• Less than 3 years of service time players make league minimum (or close to it)

• 3 - 6 years of service time players are eligible for arbitration (one-year deals based on performance)

• 6+ years of service time players reach free agency 

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Arbitration is far and away the most confusing part of this process.

A player earns a salary based on their performance plus the previous performance/salary of comparable players.

The team picks a number and the player picks a number.

If they can't decide on an agreeable term, they go to a hearing and an arbitrator (essentially a judge) decides...ya weird process.

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Effective with the last collective bargaining agreement arbitration salaries are guaranteed IF they agree to terms before a hearing.

J.D. Davis, former SF Giants third basemen, didn't agree to terms.

Instead, he went to a hearing (and won).

The arbitrator awarded him a $6,900,000 salary.

Here is where it gets weird...

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Players' arbitration salaries are not guaranteed if they go to a hearing (even if they win).

The Giants used this loophole and released Davis last week.

Upon releasing him they only owe him 30 days of termination pay or $1,100,000.

Davis has since signed on with the Oakland A's for a $2,500,000 salary.

He agreed to a $6,900,000 salary and now will make nearly half of that ($3,600,000) in 2024.

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To recap, picture this...

Your employer (the team) wants you so bad they are willing to pay you $6,900,000 in salary.

You do nothing wrong but they find a player they deem better months later.

You are out, that player is in and they exploit the fine print in your contract costing you millions of dollars.

Welcome to professional sports!

[Vegas Braves Fan @BeezyGreg]

@scottcoleman55 One of the most underrated parts of this is getting rid of the 6 markets Vegas is blacked out from.

[Dan Orlovsky @danorlovsky7]

Why would Decker walk up to official and not report?

I guess maybe he didn’t but odd to walk there and not no?

[Robert Frey @RobertFrey40]

Here's another way to look at trades by GM's Hire Date.
How many trades did they complete where the net WAR is above 0? While Preller may have an overall net gain per trade, his trades hit at a 40.8% rate.

Meanwhile, Alex Anthopoulos really might be him.
#MLB #analytics

[Brett Forrest @brettforrestTV]

THREAD: You can try to stop people in Las Vegas from watching an F1 race for free, but they will still find a way…

Just ride the escalators over and over again.

1/5

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

@Daint_Savid @elonmusk America