@Ror07274259@eidaborutofans I think most Naruto fans feel the same way they are only watching for the Old Gen and can care less about the New Gen of characters
@SpevV2@KureiKureimoa Is he really a pedophile because he likes lolis or are you calling him a pedophile because it cool to do so when he never been charged
Taking off my Yankees hat for a minute to assess the Mets situation.
The Pete Alonso situation captures everything about why David Stearns is not the secret genius we were told he was, and why he is, simply, a terrible GM.
You don’t let a Forever Guy, the franchise leader in HR, walk to another team. At least not without a good reason. And the reasons Stearns gave for not even making an offer to Pete simply don’t hold up. They reveal that he might just be an idiot.
1. “His defense is sub-par.” Sure, but then you signed Bo Bichette to play a position he never played, and he was already a terrible defender at the position he did play. And then you signed a roleplayer to play 1B who hadn’t even played 1B before. So even if you prioritized defense, you had no plan to make that happen.
2. “He won’t age well.” Pete never gets hurt, plays 162 games, and has been the most consistent right handed power hitter in baseball since coming into the league. He’s a lock for 35-45 HR every year with an .800 to .850 OPS. There’s a reason he’s the franchise leader in HR. Homegrown guys like that come along once in a generation.
3. “We didn’t want to hamstring ourselves with a long term contract, especially because we already did that with Lindor and Soto.” Understandable, but the Orioles only signed him through his Age 35 season. That’s a bargain in this day and age. Aaron Judge, Ohtani, Mookie, Vlad Jr., Soto, Trout, Harper, and Machado are all locked up through Age 39 and beyond. If you’re scared of signing an elite 1B to a 5 year deal through Age 35, you shouldn’t be a major league GM.
Simply put, all of Stearns’ reasons were complete BS.
Now I can think of some reasons to keep Pete:
1. Chicks dig the Forever Guy - Win or lose, some fans will always buy tickets to see an elite homegrown player they grew up with. Investing in someone like that is a good business decision. Insurance in case you don’t win. There’s something special about seeing a no-name prospect become a superstar over the course of his rookie year. Fans, especially kids, have been on this journey with Pete since he broke Aaron Judge’s rookie home run record in 2019. Obviously winning matters most. But take this from a Yankees fan. When we were mediocre and in between playoff windows in 2013-2014, we still paid to go see Jeter and Mariano.
2. The Quest for 500 - Pete is on a borderline HOF track. Every HR he would have hit at Citi Field would have been a new record. Unless he gets hurt—and so far he never gets hurt—he had a really good chance to get to 500. Why take that away from fans?
3. The Mets have never had a Forever Guy. Seaver. Straw. Doc. DeGrom. None of those guys stayed with the Mets. Pete not only had a chance to be a face of the franchise, but THE face of the franchise, for decades to come.
Look, I’m not emotionally invested in the Mets. I don’t hate them, even if I don’t root for them. And as a baseball fan, I think every team deserves a homegrown hero, win or lose. I count dozens of Mets fans amongst my family and friends. It’s painful to see what Pete on the Orioles has done to them.
There is certainly an argument to be made for being ruthless, doing whatever it takes to win. But David Stearns didn’t do that either. Instead of being a secret genius, it seems he had no plan at all. Now that they’re a dumpster fire, it doesn’t surprise me that Pete Alonso is the outlet through which fans are venting their frustration.
@Squeakychiona Ever since that Sykkuno debacle people has been Questioning Mujin videos as legitimate the warning signs was there with how he handled the Sinder drama but that whole thing with Sykkuno and him crashing out on powdur made people look at him different and he in Deme chat a lot
@copperton2@akaFoxVT Yeah I will agree to some part where chibi is definitely fishing this and that all due part because deme has been dragging this for the most part and he is doing the same that apology was awful and her fans are not making it better
@KiteWaltzRyder He going to keep fishing this the dude always been a dick but what deme did was even worse and the apology was not good or even genuine it more like she apologized to her fans than to chibi
@dermy_wermy She had gone after smaller content creators and I recall she went after Rosiebell for view botting and there was no proof only for deme accidentally exposing herself of view botting
@copperton2@akaFoxVT Tbh all she had to do was not engaged with him simple ignore his comment instead she threw that cheating comment knowing that he almost killed himself and then people found out she herself been in past dramas with other content creators and the situation with her bf
@TheNinjaKuma Bro what deme was the one who literally went to far just because chibi pointed out what everyone else felt it was hypocritical and virtue signaling she did not take it well
@SinWithSloth This looks like something she would say towards a small content creator which she has had gone after in the past the problem is Chibi is not a small content creator
@RealEvanDoThin1 Also it is funny this simp called her one of the sweetest people when she had double if not tripled down on this situation and calling the dude a POS multiple times also this is the same who had gotten in drama in the past for her own doing including going after Rosiebell
@TheDonOfEvery Sweetest.... We did not just saw her trying to have a gotcha moment by clowning the dude for getting cheated on and wasn't it not long ago she was just shitting on sykkuno gf for choosing to stay with him and don't she has a tendency to go after small content creators
@Scrubings She has been seen as a mean girl hell past dramas with her harassing small content creator even going after Rosiebell was not great of her to do especially in this situation she condemned cheating
@CLOUDWYYY@Geraardo1_ For calling her a hypocrite and virtue signaling like everyone else thought she was doing this was criticism she went way too far the dude is an asshole but she made herself look worse