The Official 2025 MLB Season Thread

[tremonthustler1]

that lockout will last years. The goal is crush the way salaries are going to where guys are getting paid like hockey players.

 

[The War Report]

Baseball might not recover then.

 

[VegetasHairline]

 

[Trips]

As good as Ohtani is, I really cannot give a shyt.

He's a great player but these Dodgers are boring and have zero personality.
There's no reason for anyone to watch this team or fall in love with this team or really even hate this team.

They may very well win their 3rd World Series in six years but how are they a dynasty when there's nothing interesting or exciting about them? There's no story to tell here.

When you had the Core 4 Yankees, that was a team to watch.
The 90s Braves with their starting rotation was a juggernaut and you had narratives around that -- even if they didn't win multiple titles.
Even the self-proclaimed Idiot Red Sox were interesting.

If you're a Dodgers fan you're thrilled.
But I don't care. And it's not jealousy or spiteful thing. Teams I'm not a fan of in other sports have been very interesting and attention-grabbing. The Golden State Warriors, the LOB Seahawks...whatever. I'm just saying.

I don't think these Ohtani Dodgers will leave any mark 10 years from now.

I mean you can not like it but they have some all timers in that line up that are clearly going to Cooperstown. If there is one real knock to the team construction it is that we have a case where most of their home grown talent are just bullpen arms. Outside of what Kershaw/Will Smith and Andy Pages the rest of the home grown guys are all just bullpen relievers?

 

[Remote]

I mean you can not like it but they have some all timers in that line up that are clearly going to Cooperstown. If there is one real knock to the team construction it is that we have a case where most of their home grown talent are just bullpen arms. Outside of what Kershaw/Will Smith and Andy Pages the rest of the home grown guys are all just bullpen relievers?

It doesn’t matter that this team has hall of fame talent.

The late 2010s San Francisco Giants had hall of fame talent. 15 years later I don’t care about those championship teams either.

These Dodgers are boring.

Frankly you all know I’m right.

 

[Frump]

that lockout will last years. The goal is crush the way salaries are going to where guys are getting paid like hockey players.

Players will NEVER agree to a salary cap

Owners will fold imo. We may have a strike for a half a year but I don’t see them having the guts to holdout a whole year or multiple years in the end

 

[Derek Lee]

I hate the Dodgers but the salary cap is complete horseshyt. fukk these cheap ass owners

 

[Remote]

I hate the Dodgers but the salary cap is complete horseshyt. fukk these cheap ass owners

I’m not in favor of a cap necessarily but this trend of deferring money needs to be addressed.

I don’t think you should be able to pay a guy $12 and defer 500 million until fukkin 2099.

 

[Regular_P]

I've already sonned you bozos enough on the need for a salary cap. Give me a floor with the cap and we're good. No reason we shouldn't be thinking the Brewers are gonna load up this winter by signing Schwarber, Cease and Kyle Tucker but we know they aren't going after any of them because they don't have to spend a dime.

 

[god shamgod]

Murphy, who wondered whether his club was “zapped” by a hard-fought series against the rival Cubs that required a decisive fifth game to finally snap a postseason-series losing streak that had hung around the Brewers’ collective neck since 2018.

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“You have to have been part of it to understand how it really zapped a lot out of us emotionally,” Murphy said. “And then to have to come back and play right away — and we lose a one-run game, it took us off it a little bit. Then the pitching performances by the Dodgers basically put the hammer down.”

I told y’all beating the cubs was their World Series . Got smoked and were flabbergasted when the shyt they did all season didn’t work

 

[god shamgod]

You told us they were beating the Dodgers tho.

You said something about a Braves revenge tour

I also said brewers OR dodgers winning the nl.

 

[FaTaL]

This is when you find out if an organization is bullsh!tying or not

 

[VegetasHairline]

You said something about a Braves revenge tour

I also said brewers OR dodgers winning the nl.

The brewers will win in 6 , idk if they’ll win the World Series but they’re going.dodgers will not beat these cats , y’all don’t watch them

The Braves are irrelevant to this conversation.
There is no OR here.
You said the Dodgers ain't beating the Brewers.

 

[god shamgod]

The dodgers clock more dough from their tv deal than any team in mlb (300+ mil annually)

They have dough to spend that others don’t.mad mlb Owners do be cheap but dodgers have dough that not even the Yankees have to spend

 

[Spidey Man]

The strike almost killed the game. A long lockout will definitely kill the game. I get that some of the owners want to make an example of the players, but there's no point in burning down the house just to kill a bunch of squirrels that are hiding in the attic.