OT: Philadelphia Phillies: 2019 Offseason #FireSZN

[YEM]

Four picks, suspensions for the management, and $5 million is a hefty penalty.

I only halfway agree
I think vacating the title-making them take down their banners-is not only a far worse punishment but could be a pretty damn good deterrent going forward also.

Vacating a World Series is just stupid and has no impact.

I totally disagree
I think that would be far more penal than fining a billionaire several times over a handful of millions and stripping a very good team of a handful of lotto tickets in the form of draft picks.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I would even go out and say steroids is worse than what the Astros did.

Is this serious?

 

[DancingPanther]

Is this serious?

How can I be lumped in with this just because of ZimZam and bad puns. Why is it like this, jojo

 

[DancingPanther]

DFA'd Odubel

 

[Starat327]

DFA'd Odubel

The responses in this thread are freaking hilarious. Some of the best GIFs i have seen.

 

[FLYguy3911]

The responses in this thread are freaking hilarious. Some of the best GIFs i have seen.

Do people think?

 

[HammerTime44]

AV has a new favorite Phillie.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

And that POS still gets to collect $20M.

 

[DrinkFightFlyers]

Picking signs is gamesmanship. Using technology to steal signs is explicitly prohibited and is cheating. Your opinion is bad.

Why? I am not saying it is ok or not cheating. I am not saying they should not be punished. I am saying they shouldn't be banned for life.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[DrinkFightFlyers]

Is this serious?

Yes.

 

[Hurricane28]

Cora gets 2 years+? We probably won't know for a couple weeks

 

[Flybynite]

Odubel

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

LOL

 

[Halladay]

LOL

Hinch actually seems like a good human. Luhnow is a clown. I don't know enough about Cora.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Cora gets 2 years+? We probably won't know for a couple weeks

I believe the feeling out there amongst those that would know is that Cora is set to get a bigger suspension than the other two.

 

[Lotusflower]

Damn thats nuts. 2 of the last 3 WS winning managers suspended from baseball.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Probably not a coincidence.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Hinch actually seems like a good human. Luhnow is a clown. I don't know enough about Cora.

They got suspended for a year for cheating. They’re not dead.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

You got the Pats in the NFL that always get caught cheating but in baseball it doesn’t really seem to be one team in particular & their incidents seem to be higher than the other leagues.

Was it like St. Louis (or were they the team that was on the other end?) where they like hacked into another teams scouting report database & emails or something along those lines?

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Probably not a coincidence.

Bauer accuses them of using some concoction other than like your normal pine tar or whatever to increase their spin rate.

 

[Halladay]

They got suspended for a year for cheating. They’re not dead.

Fair point. Had Luhnow actually have a moral conscious I would love for the Phillies to hire him after Klentak is canned in about 10 months.

 

[Halladay]

You got the Pats in the NFL that always get caught cheating but in baseball it doesn’t really seem to be one team in particular & their incidents seem to be higher than the other leagues.

Was it like St. Louis (or were they the team that was on the other end?) where they like hacked into another teams scouting report database & emails or something along those lines?

Yeah, they hacked the Astros and Luhnow's database.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Bauer accuses them of using some concoction other than like your normal pine tar or whatever to increase their spin rate.

Yeah I believe they are teetering along some line. Verlander is going on 37 and is performing in the opposite direction the aging curve suggests. Cole nearly doubling his strikeout rate. It’s why I would have been hesitant to give him that big deal.

I think a lot of these teams that are consistently good and unfinding unheralded players and turning them into plus contributors are probably up to something. The Dodgers and Brewers have been accused. I mean that Twins squad breaking the HR record? Who could have seen that coming?

Unfortunately it seems the Phillies are once again behind the trends lol.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

New thread....

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