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Why is baseball the best sport on the planet? Discuss. (5 Viewers)
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So the Tigers sign Alex Cobb for $15M. Cobb opts for season ending surgery and will likely never throw a pitch for the Tigers...
...then they tell Tarik Skubal (the first pitcher to win consecutive AL Cy Young Awards in a quarter century) that $19M is fair in arbitration.
WTF?!
...then they tell Tarik Skubal (the first pitcher to win consecutive AL Cy Young Awards in a quarter century) that $19M is fair in arbitration.
WTF?!
Did I mention my brother is close to getting a job with the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown?
Is this legitimate or is there a punchline coming? I imagine there are lots of jobs at the hall of fame even grounds crew for Doubleday field
Correction. He's not waiting an an offer anymore. They offered him today.
Free tickets?
He didn't know (because of course I asked). But a tier 2 membership includes self +3 entries daily. Adult rate is $30/day, so it makes sense to get a membership so I can take the family out this summer.
Less than 30 days til the best baseball on the planet (College Baseball) starts......
Kick it off in Arlington - https://www.collegebaseballseries.com/arlington-w1
WPS!
Kick it off in Arlington - https://www.collegebaseballseries.com/arlington-w1
WPS!
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For my birthday, my wife bought tickets for the world baseball classic in March 2026 - USA vs Brazil. Should be a fun time even if Brazil isn't much of a Contender this time around. -=- DrStrange
I watched this live on TV and I was going nuts. RIP, Dave Niehaus. Among the best to ever do it.
SixSpeedFury
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The Dodgers have given up over $2.25 Billion in contracts over the last 3 off seasons. Insane.
Shohei Ohtani: 10 years, $700,000,000
Mookie Betts: 12 years, $365,000,000
Yoshinobu Yamamoto: 12 years, $325,000,000
Kyle Tucker: 4 years, $240,000,000
Blake Snell: 5 years, $182,000,000
Freddie Freeman: 6 years, $162,000,000
Will Smith: 10 years, $140,000,000
Tyler Glasnow: 5 years, $136,562,500
2027 lockout 100% happening now.
Closing out the MLB stadiums in 2026 with an August 8 game in Seattle with the Tampa Bay Rays in town. I'm not counting the current A's stadium in Sacramento; I saw the A's at the Coliseum.
That is, or course, until this place opens in Las Vegas in 2028.
That is, or course, until this place opens in Las Vegas in 2028.
How long are you in town? Maybe I should host a game while you are around? I’m 40min south of Seattle.
Flying in Saturday, flying out Sunday. Plus, I'll have at least 4 friends with me (only one of which plays poker).
bergs
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Got my spring training (Cactus League) schedule set (8 games, following the Brewers) and a Midwest trip with the wife to visit American Family Fields in MIL & Rate Field in Chicago. Also will have some D-Backs tix (largely MIL & NYY). Can’t wait.
I'm really looking forward to this addition this year:
https://www.mlb.com/news/abs-challenge-system-mlb-2026
https://www.mlb.com/news/abs-challenge-system-mlb-2026
I'm going to my first spring training games this year. Saturday, 2/21 I'll be in Sarasota for the Pirates/O's game, then Sunday 2/22 in Lakeland for the O's/Tigers game. Golfing on 2/17-2/20 in Orlando. Normally, we golf super bowl weekend, but we moved it back this year to catch a few games. I am so stoked !!
bergs
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ESPN apparently bought mlb.tv this year and they’ve sorta fucked it all to hell and back.
You have to sign up for ESPN (it’s in almost every cable package) and then buy MLB.TV through ESPN for $149, but it includes a 1 month trial of ESPN unlimited at a stupid price of $29.99.
ESPN unlimited isn’t required to stream games via MLB.tv on ESPN, but the activation process is ridiculously stupid (I’m still trying to figure out to activate this thing) and you have to cancel ESPN unlimited before the end of the first month and then hope mlb.tv still works.
This was a lot easier when it was just the mlb app. Fucking ESPN.
You have to sign up for ESPN (it’s in almost every cable package) and then buy MLB.TV through ESPN for $149, but it includes a 1 month trial of ESPN unlimited at a stupid price of $29.99.
ESPN unlimited isn’t required to stream games via MLB.tv on ESPN, but the activation process is ridiculously stupid (I’m still trying to figure out to activate this thing) and you have to cancel ESPN unlimited before the end of the first month and then hope mlb.tv still works.
This was a lot easier when it was just the mlb app. Fucking ESPN.
bergs
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Actually if anyone has figured out how to sign up, please share the process here.
ESPN doesn’t even care about this. They just want ESPN unlimited subscribers. Otherwise they wouldn’t bundle it punitively like this and they would make the mlb.tv subscription process very intuitive.
ESPN doesn’t even care about this. They just want ESPN unlimited subscribers. Otherwise they wouldn’t bundle it punitively like this and they would make the mlb.tv subscription process very intuitive.
bergs
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Dug into this some more.
If you’re an exiting subscriber of mlb.tv from previous seasons, you’ll renew automatically and can just watch via the MLB app again. Easy peasy.
If you want to sign up new, well, good luck. I gave up trying to help a friend with that.
If you’re an exiting subscriber of mlb.tv from previous seasons, you’ll renew automatically and can just watch via the MLB app again. Easy peasy.
If you want to sign up new, well, good luck. I gave up trying to help a friend with that.
ESPN has been doing a lot of stupid shit lately....
https://www.reuters.com/sports/espn...aseball-with-wnba-nwsl-games--flm-2026-02-20/
https://www.reuters.com/sports/espn...aseball-with-wnba-nwsl-games--flm-2026-02-20/
You've got me worried here in the 11th hour.
I had MLB through DISH last year for $149. Regular season out of market games, blackouts apply and that was the extent of the offering. DISH dropped Root Sports within a couple months of my signing on with them & I live in a mountainous area with no over the air coverage so Mariners games have been blacked out for me for years.
I broke away from DISH earlier this year and signed up for MLB.TV through the App that shows up on my TV home screen. Annual subscription is $64.79 via Google Play, less than half the cost I was paying and I will supposedly be getting more programming. In addition to regular season out of market games I'll see the spring training games and be able to watch blacked-out games 90 minutes after those games conclude
There are also archived games and baseball related shows via the app. The process was as simple as opening the app on the TV and clicking the subscribe button.
I'll let you know whether I'm watching spring training roughly 2 hours and 40 minutes from now.
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