The Swamp

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:50 pm The Oakland Athletics gave Miguel Cabrera (recovering alcoholic) a (relatively) cheap bottle of wine for his retirement gift.

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:02 pm

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:50 pm The Oakland Athletics gave Miguel Cabrera (recovering alcoholic) a (relatively) cheap bottle of wine for his retirement gift.

They're not the first team to gift him with alcohol on his retirement tour.

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:19 pm

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:02 pm

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:50 pm The Oakland Athletics gave Miguel Cabrera (recovering alcoholic) a (relatively) cheap bottle of wine for his retirement gift.

They're not the first team to gift him with alcohol on his retirement tour.

Did a team get him a bottle of Bulleit Whiskey or something? Gifting a recovering alcoholic a bottle is really embarrassing, but so is a billion dollar organization about 40 miles from NAPA Valley 'gifting' a $90 bottle of wine to a surefire, first ballot hall of famer.

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 7:16 pm I’m not saying they aren’t cheap, but this feels even more like forgetting to buy a gift and just finding something.

BeckyHammon’s hoodie wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 10:09 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 7:16 pm I’m not saying they aren’t cheap, but this feels even more like forgetting to buy a gift and just finding something.

Most of the gifts he got were very heartfelt and rarely expensive. The Yankees for example gave him a signed framed NYC subway sign for the Yankee Stadium/Bronx stop. So yeah someone in the As organization apparently realized like 5 hrs before the Tigers got to town that other teams were giving gifts. Very on point for them. Though an equivalent gift would have been some rats on a glue trap from the Coliseum locker room I guess.

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 10:00 pm Cheap and crass is no way to go through life, son.

Oh and this just in: the O's bullpen is a freakin dumpster fire, and they're currently playing (the position players) some of the worst baseball of their season the past few days. Just awful.

Thank heavens the Rays had a player break a knee, be banished for pedophilia and uh...sign a new 30 year lease to play in another fucking dome on the wrong side of the Bay?

bfj wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 12:44 pm

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 10:00 pm Cheap and crass is no way to go through life, son.

Oh and this just in: the O's bullpen is a freakin dumpster fire, and they're currently playing (the position players) some of the worst baseball of their season the past few days. Just awful.

Thank heavens the Rays had a player break a knee, be banished for pedophilia and uh...sign a new 30 year lease to play in another fucking dome on the wrong side of the Bay?

I feel like I’ve been driving a sweet ride since April and it is now starting to break down and run out of gas before I can get to a place to make it all better. The arms are tired. All of them.

bfj wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 12:44 pm

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 10:00 pm Cheap and crass is no way to go through life, son.

Oh and this just in: the O's bullpen is a freakin dumpster fire, and they're currently playing (the position players) some of the worst baseball of their season the past few days. Just awful.

Thank heavens the Rays had a player break a knee, be banished for pedophilia and uh...sign a new 30 year lease to play in another fucking dome on the wrong side of the Bay?

I feel like I’ve been driving a sweet ride since April and it is now starting to break down and run out of gas before I can get to a place to make it all better. The arms are tired. All of them.

rass wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 4:45 pm Headline only since I only paid attention last night via Twitter:

Pirates overcome 9-run deficit for first time since team started in 1882, beat Reds 13-12

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 8:52 pm The way he stays back on this and then the swing path and downward break line up is #verysexual

BeckyHammon’s hoodie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 6:31 pm I wish you could bet on something like “Miguel Cabrera will get a grooved pitch on his final AB”.

(Whether he could still turn on one is another story.)

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 7:53 am

BeckyHammon’s hoodie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 6:31 pm I wish you could bet on something like “Miguel Cabrera will get a grooved pitch on his final AB”.

(Whether he could still turn on one is another story.)

He could. I actually saw him pull a (not-too-)fastball for a home run earlier this year.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 6:54 pm Good to see Angel Hernandez isn’t merely playing out the string and is finishing the year strong.