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day 1 backer, scramble golf all star. Raise it.

[Danny Rockett @SonRanto]

It’s not millionaires versus billionaires in the baseball lockout. It’s the athletes who worked their entire lives to excel at baseball at the highest level for a short window of an MLB career, versus the rich nepo baby owners who don’t do anything.

[🦒 @HackSays]

@WRBolen The only reason they’re watching is because they want to be upset about it. It’s so fucking stupid. 🤣

[Trevor May @IamTrevorMay]

A lockout is not a strike, this situation is not the MLBPA's fault.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first teaser for ‘THE ELDER SCROLLS VI’ in over 8 years has been released.

[🦒 @HackSays]

Smoltz can’t allow one minute of ambient noise to exist on this broadcast, can he? My god.

[🦒 @HackSays]

@MISTERJ6480 Huge for Christian girl autumn @dcarterruff @DCheverere

[🦒 @HackSays]

@MinSub4 As a pirates fan, I have no idea how our fanbase has acquired this insane case of Stockholm syndrome for the owners. A salary cap won’t make Nutting spend money, it just hurts the players and makes the owners more money.

[🦒 @HackSays]

I can't begin to understand the brain damage you have to have to think that a salary cap will be good for the game of baseball, or its fans.

[Jeff Bates @jeffbatesx]

Dear Salary Cap Cultists

But wait there’s more!

The owners OWN players for six years in baseball! That is SIX YEARS that players get no say in what they make or where they play!

Six years!!

Stop with the but it’s not fair BS! If anything isn’t fair it’s the fact that players are drafted and owned for SIX FREAKING YEARS!!!

Here is @IamTrevorMay saying it much better than I can! Enjoy

[Rafa Nieves @mlb_agent]

They don’t control them for 6 years.

After drafting them, they control them for up to 14 YEARS!!!

It takes 5 years to be rule 5 elegible, and get on the 40-man roster. After that, the club can option you down to the minors for 3 years. After that, they control you for 6 years.

This is the only profession in this country where you don’t get to pick where you wanna work, and then that employer controls you with no saying for up to 14 years.

So, after those 14 years are over, they want to cap their earnings.

GTFO.

[🦒 @HackSays]

Two of the most data-driven teams in the league are in this World Series. This has to be a bit.

[Cameron Maybin @CameronMaybin]

BASEBALL MIGHT BE GETTING THE WORLD SERIES IT NEEDS MOST!

At a time when analytics have practically taken over the game and a potential lockout is looming, the Rays and Brewers might be reminding baseball of something we’ve forgotten.

HOW TO ACTUALLY PLAY WINNING BASEBALL!

Pitching. Defense. Speed. Contact. Smart baserunning. Timely power. EXECUTION!

Forget chasing superstars just because they’re superstars. GO FIND SUPERSTARS WHO KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE GAME!

Two organizations proving that sometimes the best way forward is BACK TO BASICS!

Maybe this World Series is bigger than a championship. Maybe it’s a reminder of what baseball has been missing.

And for once, I genuinely have NO IDEA who I’m picking!

Rays fans, Brewers fans… SELL ME ON YOUR SQUAD!

Convince me why YOUR team wins it all.

BEST ARGUMENT GETS MY PICK!

[🦒 @HackSays]

@Dunkintern Idk how Jim posted that screenshot and thought it supported his argument.

[🦒 @HackSays]

Based.

[ClutchPoints @ClutchPoints]

Reporter: "Is it hard not to try to be Deshaun [Watson] when you're out there?"

Browns QB Jacoby Brissett: "Oh, it is very easy for me not to be Deshaun. Trust me."

[🦒 @HackSays]

Stop looking at the analytics!

*lists a bunch of players who were great according to analytics*

[Cameron Maybin @CameronMaybin]

At some point, baseball has to get back to valuing ballplayers and not just numbers on a screen. Give me the Freddie Freemans, the Buster Poseys, Hunter Pences, Pablo Sandovals, Michael Youngs, Ian Kinslers of the world. Guys who just flat out know how to play the game. Everyone wants to talk launch angle and exit velo, but what happened to valuing a quality at bat?” The 9-pitch battle that might end in an out, but forces a pitcher to show everything he’s got.

The guy who hits behind the runner, takes what’s given, or just refuses to give a pitcher an easy inning. Those at-bats might not look sexy in the box score, but they show up in the 7th, 8th, and 9th. Some of these dudes could absolutely leave the yard too. That’s the point. They weren’t one-dimensional. Somewhere along the way, we confused measurable tools with knowing how to win baseball games.

I’m not against analytics or hitting the ball hard, but there is an art to winning that you can’t fully measure. We need more guys who know how to play baseball, not just hitters, not just athletes, ballplayers. And I promise you, those dudes never go out of style

[🦒 @HackSays]

@dcarterruff This kind of confidence in the bag switch is a sign of good things to come. 🫡

[🦒 @HackSays]

@DCheverere Looks like the dorks are upset with this 100% accurate tweet.

[🦒 @HackSays]

@CrReaM I don’t understand how these people survive the day if they’re so upset about this kind of shit in a video game.

[🦒 @HackSays]

@baseballisdead_ Speakerphone in public should get @jayhaykid a landslide victory

[🦒 @HackSays]

@Girlsurgeon

[🦒 @HackSays]

@PenguinsJesus If the team was going to extend him, they should have done it at the beginning of the offseason before the market went up. That being said, losing his talent sucks but I’m not bugged at all for not having a guy who’s going to fake an injury over an extension. Fuck that.