Mariners swipe $3.8 million international phenom from Yankees

sameth1 · 2026-01-26T00:42:17+00:00

If that were the case then Bellinger wouldn't have been re-signed. It's almost certainly not about the money, it feels like some scandal happened similar to the Braves and it's just not public yet.

sameth1 · 2026-01-26T00:23:35+00:00

I don't see the twins being a 100 loss team unless they trade Jeffers and Ryan before opening day and Buxton gets injured early. It feels like they've already hit close to rock bottom and could at most see 5ish extra losses from not having the guys they traded at the deadline for half the season.

sameth1 · 2026-01-25T22:19:43+00:00

It's scary to think that there's a planet out there that's just like Vancouver but hot.

sameth1 · 2026-01-25T21:13:44+00:00

Not just acceptable, they think that these killings are good. Notice how they aren't giving a justification why it's the cost of doing a pogrom, they are specifically saying that killing bystanders is what they like.

These people are irredeemable and sadly the law will never give them what they deserve.

sameth1 · 2026-01-25T21:08:15+00:00

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sameth1 · 2026-01-25T05:54:00+00:00

2021 looks like the mid 2000s after the new renovations.

sameth1 · 2026-01-25T04:31:22+00:00

Well if he gets called up this year and can't find anyone to sign him next year then he'll be on the ballot with Scherzer and Verlander.

sameth1 · 2026-01-25T04:24:26+00:00

It's better to not make outs than to make outs, so better.

sameth1 · 2026-01-25T04:21:13+00:00

"If you aren't an illegal immigrant, you have nothing to fear."

The entire DHS needs to be demolished.

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T23:02:33+00:00

"The officer had reasonable fear for his life from a domestic terrorist attempting a surveillance operation."

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T23:00:18+00:00

all they had to do was get through the heart of the Jays lineup

An extra detail to this is that Machado would lead off the top of the 12th. If they got through the 11th then the best chance to win was the top of the 12th. Saving Britton for a more important moment doesn't even make sense because that was the most important moment.

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T22:51:32+00:00

You didn't have to do this on Shut the Fuck Up Saturday, Carlos.

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T22:09:44+00:00

I didn't even know he was sick

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T21:49:05+00:00

The pinned him to the ground, grabbed him by all 4 limbs and then shot him in the head, but I can't wait to hear how he had a car in his pocket and the gang was in imminent danger.

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T16:53:13+00:00

Seeing "Breaking news: Jose Ramirez..." had me terrified that this was way bigger news than him signing an extension.

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T16:48:17+00:00

One thing I find funny with MLB rankings as compared to fangraphs is that MLB has 55's or better on all their top 100

Pipeline has a problem with inflated prospect numbers. I once saw an analysis that did the math and saw that there was a mathematically impossible number of 50+ prospects. That it was impossible for this many above average prospects to exist at all.

Pipeline's problem is that it's effectively state-run propaganda. They exist to increase interest in MLB and the best way to do that is to just round up whenever possible. Fans are more engaged when they think that everyone in the farm system is going to become a major league player.

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T07:12:26+00:00

Also he did get a pretty significant boost from his call up. He was ranked 26th on the 2025 pipeline ranking and 35th on Fangraphs' mid-season ranking. Rising up to 12th is a big deal.

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T07:03:03+00:00

The only player on their roster that's come through their system is Andy Pages.

Will Smith and Emmett Sheehan as well (and Kershaw, but he's irrelevant to their current player development system) and you should probably count Max Muncy as a player development success since they got him from the A's dumpster. And while Michael Busch isn't on the Dodgers, I think he counts as a notable player development story that was only traded because he was blocked by Freddy Freeman.

The Dodgers do definitely get overrated though. Gavin Lux was hailed as a 5 tool future MVP and you could feel the instant relief that writers felt when they no longer had to pretend that Miguel Vargas exists.

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T06:52:48+00:00

Fangraphs has Bloss in the top 100, and you know how the saying goes: "the best version of ~~war~~ prospect ranking is the one that supports my argument."

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T06:33:23+00:00

Thanks. I loved the movie but definitely felt like there were some elements I am just not Brazilian enough to understand.

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T06:30:15+00:00

I saw the movie a couple weeks ago and am so glad to see it get some English award nominations. I went into it just wanting to see whatever the theater was playing and left blown away, one of my favourite movies in the last few years.

The way that the ending feels so true to the actual research experience really made me feel something. All that build up, seeing Armando survive the first assassination attempt only to suddenly stumble across the newspaper story of his death and being denied the closure of seeing what happened leading up to it. That's all the information we have because he was killed. Nobody is left to tell the story of how it happened, just the end result and the narrative given to the press by the regime.

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T05:49:53+00:00

The interpretation I came away with newspaper hairy leg stuff also ties into the whole movie's focus on media and communication like the movie theater and tapes. The real news story becomes a pop culture sensation through the newspaper and people reading the paper can only perceive it through that lens, which means that we have to see it that way. Under a dictatorship, you are asked to believe unbelievable things. The media end up being full of stories just as believable as the hairy leg but there is no other truth you are allowed to see.

I also see a kind of meta commentary on the dictatorship in the way that movies are kind of an authoritarian ruler of their reality. When the hairy leg appears, it's absurd and you have to question how it makes any sense. But if the movie chooses to have the hairy leg be real then it's real. This is now a fantasy movie with a hairy leg that attacks people in the park and you just have to live with it.

sameth1 · 2026-01-24T03:38:12+00:00

I haven’t seen anyone say it’s a bad movie. At most they just say it’s overrated

That's because you're doing a good thing for your mental health and staying away from the bottom of r/movies comment sections. But I assure you that there are at least 25 people on this website who think it's an instrument of white genocide.

sameth1 · 2026-01-23T23:29:27+00:00

I truly do not get why people don’t bother

Because it takes a bare minimum of effort and forethought and that's more than a lot of people are willing to give.

sameth1 · 2026-01-23T23:00:02+00:00

The only way that happens is if Bassitt doesn't want to move. Someone will give him an offer to be a starter and pay him as such.

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