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So, we have to remember that when you break it down, the hall of fame is really nothing more than a glorified museum that sniffs it’s own farts way too hard. Them just leaving the steroid guys/Pete Rose/etc out completely is in essence them practicing a bit of revisionist history, and therefore shouldn’t really be taken seriously by anyone anyway. They could absolutely include these guys in some way, shape, or form, while also doing the work to explain some of the context of that particular era or issue. But the thing is, that would take a little bit of work on their parts, and it would severely diminish the time they have to be old cranky codgers whining about the “sanctity” of a child’s game where you hit a cow skin ball with a wooden stick. Bonds and Rose are the hit kings in Major League Baseball, and that’s not going to change because a bunch of liver spotted octogenarians have covered their eyes and ears and have refused to process it. They could so easily clear up a lot of this controversy by actually putting in the effort to curate the era in which all of this happened. No no, they don’t want to face it. They would rather let all of this bull:censored: drag on for decades out of spite. I almost think they keep the controversy up just to keep themselves in the spotlight. Just grasping at any straw they can to keep what little relevance they have left.

Yes, it was. In 1997. Two years after the Coliseum in Oakland was. For basically the same reason, but in reverse. Both stadiums are almost 60 years old, so a lot of the structural/foundational issues are going to be similar.

One of the problems is that Southern California politics (specifically, Orange County politics) are just as much of a snake pit as Bay Area politics. Something is going to eventually have to give with Angels Stadium, as it’s the same age as the Oakland Coliseum. When that time comes, then what? Do they think it’s going to be any easier to find the land and bilk the tax payers for a new park? And you can talk about how So Cal potentially has more of a pool of big money to pull from when the time comes (I find that claim to be dubious at best), but… Why? Like, for what reason would anyone want to fund a project with the Angels at the main tenant? Who does that work for other than whoever owns the Angels? I’m just starting to see a future where both parts of the state give off the shocked pikachu meme look as both of their AL teams set up shop somewhere dumb because they couldn’t extort more taxpayer money from here.

Whatever frustration I may have with Mike Trout and his career (because I think baseball fans generally should feel this way) isn’t really directed at him, but at the goddamn useless ass Angels. For how bad some teams have been forever, really nobody has been more inept in the last half century than they have. Like, they’re an absolutely USELESS franchise, and outside of one miracle run, have basically nothing to show for their time in the bigs Actually, I think the Angels winning in 02 was one of the worst things that’s happened since the turn of the century. Not only did they beat my team (which is mostly irrelevant, but so damn annoying), but it seemed to wipe away so many years of ineptitude from everyone’s minds. Like, this team was so dog worthless that Disney bought them on a short sale and made a movie about how they could only win with the help of God’s direct servants. Then they back into that title, sell to a moron, and he gets to do the same inept dance everyone else did with this team yet had like a two decade buffer because of that stupid trophy. I’ve NEVER seen an organization coast on the accomplishments of one single fluke run quite the way they have. It probably saved that stupid franchise from being where the A’s are right now. That’s so frustrating. The Angels and A’s are in a surprisingly similar situation when it comes to being the secondary AL team with a decomposing stadium. Maybe I’m being hopelessly optimistic, but I feel like had the A’s picked up a win somewhere along the lines instead of the Angels, that may have forced the hand of some of this Bay Area money when it came to funding a stadium. Instead the Angels get that buffer instead of the A’s and don’t do with it.

That’s been there for quite awhile now. They lose the button there so there’s less of an issue with the jersey script. A lot of authentics have a hidden velcro strip there to keep that spot closed.

Get a bucket and a mop, that’s a wet ass Yankee

Well, the Kim Mulkey “hit piece” came out today and it revealed… Basically nothing new. All it showed was that Mulkey is a vaguely homophobic :censored: who tends to freak WAY out about things that really aren’t that big of a deal because she’s a psychotic control freak. What a revelation about the woman who filed a lawsuit and went nuts at even the mention of someone writing an article about her. All it really does is make her look like even more of a nutbag, and also makes me wonder what the hell she’s actually hiding if she’s this paranoid about it.

Yeah I agree with you on the first point. That’s how I feel about Patrick Mahomes. I keep telling myself to not have the same kind of dislike for him that I had for Brady, and just enjoy his talent. But damn is it hard. I just flat out don’t like the dude and there isn’t a great reason why. I just do. Ooh, couldn’t disagree with you more about Goldy. I felt kind of off put by the guy, because he was a D Back and always killed the Giants. But then I got D Backs season tickets in 2013 and he was legit the ONLY bright light on that sorry ass team. God, he was just SO good, and getting to see him play up close for close to 90+ games turned him into one of my top 5 favorite players ever.

This immediately made me think of the original Wonder Years.

Im not so sure about these. I’m never really a fan of a cap where the bill is the darker part of the uniform, especially at home. That and the cream color just looks out of place to me. It’s going to take some getting used to, in the very least. It’s more subtle and smarter this time around, but it still ultimately feels like the D Backs are trying to split the difference between the mid 2000s set and their original look. They should probably just do what they used to/what the Buccaneers do with their throwbacks. Go with the more fitting theme, and only bust out the colorful throwbacks somewhat sparingly. I know there are uniform “rules” (blah blah) in place now, but if I was the king of sports uniforms, I would say the D Backs can wear their throwbacks once every ten games, and whatever game that landed on would determine what uniform they would wear. For example, the D Backs used to wear the sleeveless cream pinstripe purple set on Sundays at home. If the tenth game fell there, that’s what they would wear. If it fell on a Wednesday road game, they would wear the regular road throwbacks. And so on and so forth.

Well, part of where it got started has to do with a large part of my dad’s family being U of Tennessee alum. That was the first sports team I was ever introduced to, and even though I’m more tepid on it today, I’ll always have a love for the Vols. The Bucs looked a lot like them as a kid and I thought that was so cool. It’s just something that always stuck with me even though my reasoning was all backwards lol. I still do have the softest of soft spots for the Niners. My mom was a SF Giants and Niners fan her entire life, my dad used to have season tickets all the way back when they were in Kezar and took me to a TON of games (including the final game at Candlestick), and my wife and her entire family are huge Niners fans who also have season tickets. I too am hoping they one day can do it, because even if it won’t be mine to celebrate, I’ll be happy seeing them happy.

Pre that era. Early Dungy era, end of the creamsicles. 94-97 is when I really fell in love. Them spanking the Niners in their first game in pewter sealed it for me. I’ve talked about it before recently, but I’m 36 and my :censored:ty football team has two Super Bowl wins, while all of my friends who have made fun of me my whole sports life haven’t seen the Niners win any.

I think that’s where the Lebron comparison comes in. One thing that was so special about Lebron was him being proactive when it came to his place in the league. Not only did the league recognize how much he had to offer, but so did he, and he was willing to offer that. Mike Trout, for better or worse, has always just been along for the ride. I don’t necessarily blame him for that, as that’s just more a part of the culture of baseball than it is basketball. But it’s definitely a huge missed opportunity for a sport that really can’t afford any of those right now.

I have a ton of nostalgia for that particular uniform because that’s around when I said to myself “yeah this team is depressing, I’m gonna go be a Buccaneers fan instead”.

Both. The NL West is murders row plus the sorry ass Rockies. As for Trout, he’s kind of the perfect symbolic representation for the league right now. He’s one of the biggest stars the game has ever seen, but he’s buried under a mountain of mediocrity. Like, we always give Lebron a ton of :censored: for the Miami move, but it was solving a similar issue. It was taking the face of the league and making sure he got the exposure that came along with that. It was a recognition by everyone that hey, we have a once in a lifetime guy here, and we have to do all we can to not waste that. Baseball never got that message. It’s one of the biggest reasons why I hate that MLB teams have nearly a decade of control over these guys (and can manipulate service time to make it even longer). It’s probably good some for development, but the downside is that’s how you get these Mike Trout like situations.

Love it.

As long as the Bucs can shoot off real cannon balls from their ship, I’m good with it.

No you didn’t.

Every year we get sports uniform changes, and every year people are surprised at how little has leaked. Truth be told, leaks are sort of uncommon. Especially today. Teams take a lot of precautions (including termination threats) to prevent these leaks, and most of the time they’re well aware of the weak spots that cause them (mostly, logistics on shipping stuff out prior to reveal so that it’ll be in stores when the buzz is still high). I used to HATE having to wait to see these. Now? It’s actually kind of fun. It’s like, oh, I’ll have something else to look forward to in April!

I’m thinking white helmet with some stupid mountain pattern in the paint, orange jerseys with white sleeves. Mountain pattern and Colorado C behind the horse. All orange pants with a 52whatever down one of the legs. White and grey socks. Maybe with a mountain pattern. It’s gonna suck and look terrible, but this won’t be far off I bet. Oh, also, numbers with either the mountain pattern or Colorado C sublimated like the Seahawks.

You also share a birthday with a certain historical figure from Austria.

Quite a complicated legacy left behind there.

I mean, I think it already is. Easter is synonymous with spring, and so is the start of baseball. I don’t think the link to Easter itself would work because of the religious aspect of it (which I understand Christmas too, but that’s been mostly drowned by capitalism). I grew up about as Catholic as you can get and even I think that’s a bit weird. I think it would be a surprisingly tough sell.

Lions and (I think) Broncos were mentioned as long ago as last off season. Texans has been in the works for even longer I think. Jets seemed to come out of nowhere. I’ve heard Seattle and Tennessee, but those claims seemed dubious at best. Titans I think even denied it.

They do! And now they almost have too many starters, so they can shift Jordan Hicks back to the pen if need be. I give Farhan a lot of :censored: sometimes, but this was a very good off season for the Giants.