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Oh no we suck again

 

Battle in the near future dumb ass cheap owners

MLBPA Hires Jerry Crasnick
January 25th, 2019 at 10:00pm CST • By Jeff Todd
Long-time journalist Jerry Crasnick has an intriguing new gig, with the Major League Baseball Players Association announcing his hiring. He’ll serve as senior advisor for player, agent, and media relations, working alongside just-promoted director of communications Chris Dahl.

It came as a major surprise last year when Crasnick’s tenure with ESPN was brought to a close. He was a fixture in the baseball reporting community and had enjoyed a productive, a 15-year run at the sports media giant. Over the years, Crasnick provided a trove of insightful hot stove journalism; he also reported quite a few items that were cited on this website.

With the move, Crasnick will take up a role at the MLBPA at quite an interesting time for the union and its members. Effectively addressing the suboptimal developments in the sphere of player compensation will obviously require more than new collective bargaining ideas and willpower at the negotiating table. It’ll also mean laying the groundwork for leverage by performing nuanced public relations work.

MLBTR offers a tip of the cap to Jerry for all his outstanding reporting over the years and wishes him well in his new pursuit.

 

All I know is if the Madres sign a Harper and or Machado I will be done as a fan and move on It’s fucking ridiculous that a smaller market team jumps and the bigger market teams are greedy

 

Guys, we'll be fine.

There's always next year when Arenado is a free agent...

Or the next year when Trout is a free agent...

Or the next year when Kris Bryant is a free agent...

Or the next year...

 

It's always been my contention that you only get so many shots at the ring, then it becomes someone else's shot for it. We've been losers extraordinaire at this, in spite of the excuse maker's drone that" we are an elite team, and have been there two years running...and were close for others".
It amounts to this, what we have now, and is not only infuriating, it's flat out sad.
We edged out CO, just barely, and if these other teams vastly improve, I don't know if we get another crack at it.
Remember that the NLW has to suck.
All in all, considering what we have NOT achieved, and the shit show we are witnessing this off season, our run very well be so over, and Darth's much maligned " Fucktard Geniuses" sig may be the only consistent truth about this team, aside from blowing it for over half a decade.

 

Not with this ownership group. Kasten is in peak Braves' form.
Arenado, Trout and Bryant have a better shot at suiting up for the Lakers.
Time for MLB to save the Dodgers, the way they saved the Yankees from Steinbrenner. Hell, that's not even an option.

 

It really makes a lot of sense for the Padres to be in on Machado since they have the payroll flexibility for the foreseeable future and they have a spot for him. Going after Realmuto is where things get weird. They already have an ok catcher and one of the top prospects at the position that is basically ready. Getting Realmuto isn’t like a “we’re contenders now” moment as their pitching is really bad and the prospects they have for it aren’t exactly ready. So they’re going to trade for the remaining two years of Realmuto control when they’re probably not real contenders for 3? I mean... more power to ya, but maybe get some pitching instead.

 

Don’t forget the players strike is coming. In between the next years

 

I'm sure of it
I just wanted to kick them again

 

Yeah, huh? nailed it. I was being ironic...or at least trying to be lol

This front office doesn't operate like that, but we keep tricking ourselves into believing each off-season that we are going to be in the hunt for the marquee free agents. This front office is much more about value, developing talent and making mid-season trades.

 

I'm in the group that's looking at ownership. The front office is what it is without an ownership group that's willing to take the leap on studs in their prime. They decided to spend on Greinke in his prime before this front office was in place..guess you could say Adrian was in his prime as well which was Kasten's baby, but it looks like that was just to revive the rotting corpse that McCourt left

 

Turner coming along and doing what he's done, much appreciated..however, his age likely hurt his market while at the same time making this ownership group smile from ear to ear. Another cheap buy.

We saw slippage at 3B this year..it's going to be so awful to see Arenado, perhaps the most spectacular defensive 3B ever, out there as a FA next offseason and nothing come of it. LA's own Nolan Arenado will be playing for the Yankees or something. Dodgers will just move Seager to 3B and say " tahdaaaah "

 

Lol Gonna hide behind Seager 2 years in a row, at least. Watch.
Pass on the stud free agents this offseason, but pump up Seager's return as a " stud addition ".
Then next year they'll be " in the market to improve at 3B " and just move Seager to 3B and sell fans on that too.
The hat trick..Kersh and Buehler blow their arms out at the end of 2020, and who replaces them as ace of the staff? That's right..Seager.
Rounding the bases and now heading for home..Corey Seager will replace Dave Roberts @ manager in 2022.
And then of course with Seager's big payday looming, he'll be traded for Puig, wherever he is, because they always have to bring guys back and pander to fans.
Somehow, I don't think this shit would be going on if the Dodgers still played in New York.
Of course, don't let any of this despicable shit distract from the likelihood that LAD will have had their asses whipped in the World Series a few more times during this period

 

“A.J. Pollock said he had his eye on the Dodgers all offseason. He wanted to play in LA. Asked if he would be OK platooning, he said he prefers to play every day but would be cool with it. So he said all the right things.“ from Jorge Castillo on Twitter

 

Some Dodgers twitter tidbits.

Dodgers Nation‏@DodgersNation 40m40 minutes ago
“Cody will play some corner outfield, center and first!” - Friedman
Dodgers Nation‏@DodgersNation 38m38 minutes ago
“We’re always doing everything to win a World Series but we don’t want to sacrifice future years.... it’s a fine balance!” - Friedman
Matthew Moreno‏Verified account@MMoreno1015 45m45 minutes ago
“We envision him playing center field,” Andrew Friedman says about A.J. Pollock. #DodgersFF
Dodgers Nation‏@DodgersNation 37m37 minutes ago
For 2nd base...... competition is going to determine who plays between kiké and CT3
Dodgers Nation‏@DodgersNation 36m36 minutes ago
Re: Kenta..... “we expect him to be one of the starting 5” - Friedman
Ken Gurnick‏Verified account@kengurnick 36m36 minutes ago
Friedman said he expects Corey Seager to be “full go” for opening day after elbor and hip operations, but he’s prepared to ease Seager back if necessary with Chris Taylor and Enrique Hernandez able to play shortstop while sharing second base
Daniel Starkand‏@DStarkand 34m34 minutes ago
Andrew Friedman would not make a comment on if signing Pollock takes them out of the Bryce Harper Sweepstakes. #DodgersFF