The Swamp

rass wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:41 am I count at least 6 separate articles about the Panthers trade for Darnold on the "front page" and at least one other on the fallout for other teams after the trade, along with 5 distinct photos of Darnold.

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:05 am I've read far less since the redesign.

Sabo wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:05 am Joey Votto is a global icon and a continental treasure.

Dickerson: He started doing improv classes in L.A. because he thought it would be a better way to speak to his teammates in an engaging manner. I thought that was so fascinating.

Dickerson: Joey Votto loves to mop, he loves to mop his house so much to the point where we tried to convince him to make him create an Instagram account called Joey Moppo and it would just be Joey mopping the floor.

Guevara: He’ll send a random video of music and there’s nobody on the screen and I’m like, “What the hell is this?”

Dickerson: He’ll send me random videos of him mopping the house while he’s listening to Kendrick Lamar.

Guevara: And then here he comes across, doing a little dance and mopping. Then he goes off the screen. It’s just that. That’s all I get.

Hyde: Joey was off to a rough start. He lined out and then I ran to first base. … He calls me over and says, “Hyder, I’m this close to being locked in.” I’m like, “Really?” He was hitting under .200 at the time and struggling.

Gomes: He’s a genius, if you will, in the game.

Hyde: Well, he proceeded to get on base nine times in a row after that. It was like homer, double, homer. So he calls me over five at-bats later, probably the next day, and says, “Told you.”

Schumaker: He had a chart of the hot-cold zones of every umpire. I’d never seen that before.

Gennett: He drove a van to spring training.

Arroyo: He was driving a different $200,000 car every week. And then, pow, he goes to the freaking minivan.

Gennett: It was for him and his dog.

Arroyo: I’m like, “Dude, where’s the car at?” He’s like, “What car?” I’m like, “I don’t know, dude, you had a Mercedes last year, you had the Lambo.” He’s like, “No, no, I’ve got the minivan right there. Check this out.” And he’s fucking showing us how the door opens automatically. He’s like, “I charge it during the game so I can get home.”

Coffey: One time in spring training, him and Tuffy Rhodes were together. Tuffy took him under his wing and helped him a lot. Joey got him a thank-you present, and it was white tank-top undershirts. Tuffy was like, “Uhh, I don’t know what to say.”

Arroyo: After the last game I ever played in coming back from Chicago, he breaks out on the bus, with his suit on, karaoke. He puts on James Blunt’s “Goodbye My Lover,” and he sang that shit word for word. The whole thing.

Deck McGuire, pitcher: I didn’t really know the song. Just that he said it’d be a tribute to Bronson.

Arroyo: Everybody was laughing, but also not really understanding that Joey is just giving an homage to me in the weirdest of ways. Did I disappoint you? Or let you down? It was like, “There it is. There is Joey Votto right there.”

Guevara: My birthday is in the middle of spring training and we’re dragging ass just walking in at 7:15 in the morning to the clubhouse and there I have a full bouquet of flowers and a gigantic Easter bunny. I’m like, “What in the fuck? Did my mom send this? Are you kidding me?” Everyone’s looking at me. And Joey had sent me a giant bouquet and a gigantic chocolate Easter bunny for 100 minor-league campers to see. I was like, “You son of a bitch.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:24 am Hearing Axios and The Athletic may merge.

mister d wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 8:31 am I swear to god if they pivot to video/audio ...

tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 8:45 am

mister d wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 8:31 am I swear to god if they pivot to video/audio ...

It's gonna be so infuriating.

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DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 3:41 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu May 27, 2021 2:12 pm Anyone want a 30 day guest pass to the Athletic?

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