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The New York Yankees? The team that has been in the playoffs 25 times in the past 30 years? Including 5 championships and 8 WS appearances? Yea, they are definitely doing it wrong. LOL

I've often been curious about (and have never found a good answer) if the length of MLB player careers has increased over time. Like on average, did the guys from the 20s and 30s have shorter careers due to over-usage vs. the current players? Even trying to find the average length of today's players is difficult as there are varying answers depending on where you look and how they manipulate the data.

I agree with this. He probably could've been a decent player had he went directly into baseball out of HS. Continuing on at 31 probably wouldn't have worked out. I feel like baseball (as with most sports) is a lot of muscle memory and he just didn't have the time and reps built up for that.

Have you not been a Sox fan long? Remember when they hired Robin Ventura? They had to convince him to become a manager. Then when La Russa was hired there wasn't even any actual searching involved. JR just hired his guy.

I know that sentence is supposed to be "the worst season in baseball history to base the anger on" but I just have to say it's funnier as written. 🤣

He doesn't have 10 years. His lease with the city for the current stadium is up after 2029. JR himself may not be around in 10 years.

That's the literally the opposite of how any successful business runs. Or at least should be run. I fight against that sometimes in my own job where someone wants some change to some piece of software make their life easier but doesn't think about or talk to other people in other departments that also use it. It can create chaos.

This quote is kind of disturbing, referring to how the 10 (really? that's it?) people that were/are working in analytics are now "allowed" to talk to people in other departments. Does this mean they weren't allowed to before? Were they just locked in a room in a basement somewhere? Is that why this organization is so far behind?

I remember watching that play live and having multiple thoughts go through my head in like 2.5 seconds. OhmygodthatisgoingtobeahitandtheyaregoingtotiethegamenoJenksdon'ttouchitohmygoduribehasitmakeagoodthrowYEEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!

In fact, wasn't Ozzie's call to the bullpen for the "wide and tall guy" in game 1?

Rooney's final call of the WS was literally "A ground ball, past Jenks, up the middle of the infield."

I haven't been to a game in a few years but the last one I went to had an attendance of over 30,000. All those people I saw walking to the green line stop after the game must've been figments of my imagination...

If anyone would have their finger on the pulse of how Chicagoans feel about public transportation it would definitely be the guy living in Lawrence, Kansas.

Well sure, that happens when you take a picture from the perspective of the home plate ump. The view will be different from the seats 100 feet higher...

I just believe that everyone on the internet is lying. Which means I think Greg is lying. Which must mean that there's NOT a lot of lying on Twitter. Which goes against my original belief that everyone is lying. Now I'm confused... 😵