Carolina Speed
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Lockout Ends! An agreement reached by MLB's club owners and its players union after months of negotiations will allow for a full season, with opening day scheduled for April 7.
The homogenizing of the MLB leagues all but sealed my disinterest in MLB as the AL game is rather boring and quite robotic aside from helping aging fielders save their legs the game is closer to resembling beer league softball games.I hate some of the rules they came up with - adding DH to the NL and making a more balanced schedule to promote interleague play - getting rid of division games. Manfred and the owners are really screwing up the game.
I look forward to the season - there is nothing like early spring baseball.
The homogenizing of the MLB leagues all but sealed my disinterest in MLB as the AL game is rather boring and quite robotic aside from helping aging fielders save their legs the game is closer to resembling beer league softball games.
Also I don't see the NL going back from this unless there is fan backlash as once something is changed it seems to be set in stone.
By all accounts I'm hearing he's healthy. He should be. He's had plenty of rest over the last two seasons.How’s Trout doing? Hopefully he can back on track towards being one of the greatest players ever and not a “what could have been” story.
I don't think he's a honkey. I know one thing if my son came out that dark, I have to question my wife about sleeping around with someone a lot darker than me. Thankfully, my sons and daughters all came out with blonde hair and blue eyes like me.Question for you baseball fans. Riley Green, Tigers prospect, honkey or not? I think the girl in the picture is his sister, I think she’s the best looking prospect in the family though.
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I don't think he's a honkey. I know one thing if my son came out that dark, I have to question my wife about sleeping around with someone a lot darker than me. Thankfully, my sons and daughters all came out with blonde hair and blue eyes like me.
BTW, Royals Bobby Witt Jr. tearing up mlb pre season. Hitting .500 and a couple of HR's. However, they've had him at third base instead of his natural SS position.
Ohh man. Flint you burst my bubble. I thought all white people had blonde hair and blue eyes. Now what am I going to do?In think his mother is Hispanic, but Spanish Hispanic, his features are European although he is fairly “swarthy”. You don’t have to have blonde hair and blue eyes and pale skin to be white.
There are many famous people of Southern European ancestry who you would think are partially Arab or Sub Saharan ancestry(they may be of ancient origins). Ricard Montalban was of full Spaniard ancestry but because he was from Mexico you would think he had some Amerindian or distant African ancestry but both of his parents were immigrants from Spain who settled in Mexico.In think his mother is Hispanic, but Spanish Hispanic, his features are European although he is fairly “swarthy”. You don’t have to have blonde hair and blue eyes and pale skin to be white.
Ohh man. Flint you burst my bubble. I thought all white people had blonde hair and blue eyes. Now what am I going to do?
Seriously, I looked up some other images of him and to me in some of those photos he could easily pass as black. His father looks as white as me, but you're correct his mother could be hispanic, but some of those other images of him he really looks black. So my point was that if there's no doubt as in what I am, Blonde and blue and even if my wife is a little darker, I would question if my son came out as black as he looks, IN SOME PHOTOS.
I’m just kidding around.
Mr. Carolina Speed, I do not mean any disrespect.
I was just hoping for some White bros. on my hometown team which always leans “south of the border”
Another note on Riley Green, his dad is a hitting instructor, how about that for good fortune!
The Philadelphia Phillies look like a team to watch this year. The Phillies added LF Nick Castellanos and RF/DH Kyle Schwarber. They have an all-White outfield including Mickey Moniak/Matt Vierling in CF and Harper in RF. Matt Bohm 3B and Rhys Hoskins 1B on the corners. And, All-star catcher JT Realmuto. Zach Wheeler and Aaron Nola should be their top two starters.
Thanks Leonardfan.Good stuff @icsept
I didn't realize opening day was today, I thought it was tomorrow. The lockout made me lose interest in doing any sort of preview. Let's try to get a list going!
Also @Carolina Speed was the first person here to mention Bobby Witt Jr last year. Tip of the cap to you sir! Let's hope he wins OROY. It's pure caste BS that he is being moved to 3B though.
Afraid he’d walk in a few years, once he wanted to get paid, and they figured they get something in return??? They also have highly regarded Josh Lowe (White) stepping into that spot.Can anyone tell me how the Tigers were able to acquire Austin Meadows from Tampa for a back up infielder? The guy has put up a couple of very solid seasons and is young and under contract for a few more years. Why would Tampa give away such young talent?