In reply to The Porkchop Express He played in Japan in 2016 and defected to the US in 2017. Played a few years in the minors and then 21 games with St Louis in 2017. He was traded to the Rangers and invited to Spring Training as a non-roster invite. He's been the same since he joined the Rangers full time in 2021.

It's not like he floundered around minor and Major League Baseball for years before he broke out.

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He played in Japan in 2016 and defected to the US in 2017. Played a few years in the minors and then 21 games with St Louis in 2017. He was traded to the Rangers and invited to Spring Training as a non-roster invite. He's been the same since he joined the Rangers full time in 2021.

It's not like he floundered around minor and Major League Baseball for years before he broke out.

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So he's a traitor. You're supporting a traitor. The nerve of you guys. Really disappointed in you.

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How about an asterisk instead?

*2017 World Series Champions

In reply to DeProfundis You belittle the strength of competition in a World Series run that included *checks notes* your own team?… isn't that logic self-defeating? If we were so unimpressive you could have just won a single home game and trounced the lowly Diamondbacks yourselves, no?

In reply to Silent For Too Long Translation:

"My player is perfect and innocent, but yours is guilty as hell."

I've stated many times that if you have a player from DR it is 50/50 on whether they use PEDs. Ring worm is prevalent, I suppose. I've also said I can't blame them. Their choice is to quit school at 12... 13... get accepted into one of the Baseball camps and attempt to get a $30K signing bonus. If they succeed, they'll make more money in that signing than they otherwise make in their life. If they don't, the end up illiterate and spend the rest of their life begging for food outside the camps. Dave Valle has a charity that helps some of those kids.

Cuban, Vz, other LATAM players have similar struggles. Martin Perez signed a contract covering his Serf and Arb years in order to get signing money to pull his family out of Vz. Jon Daniels used his political leverage to move and influence getting them out.

There is a better than zero chance that Adolis juices in some fashion. He is Cuban. IF you think Adolis juices... then you have to accept the idea that your Cuban players do as well.

Yordan (27-6'5"/237), Jose Abreu (37-6'3"/250), and then consider Arozerena (Tampa). During the Rangers/Rays game they said Arozerena and Adolis had been roommates at one point.

Ronel Blanco (30) was a nobody P who wasn't even a decent RP. Is he now going to be a ToTR SP?

It is terrible that MLB has an "Exemption" policy and leaves EVERY player in question.

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You belittle the strength of competition in a World Series run that included *checks notes* your own team?… isn't that logic self-defeating? If we were so unimpressive you could have just won a single home game and trounced the lowly Diamondbacks yourselves, no?

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It's a terrible post. The rays win 100 games on a yearly basis, the orioles farm is nasty and everyone knows they're a big up and coming team, and the diamondbacks eliminated the dodgers and Phillies. The Astros have been to the last 7 ALCS and have been to 4 World Series recently.

Anyone who says the rangers didn't earn their ring is an idiot.

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You belittle the strength of competition in a World Series run that included *checks notes* your own team?… isn't that logic self-defeating? If we were so unimpressive you could have just won a single home game and trounced the lowly Diamondbacks yourselves, no?

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It's a terrible post. The rays win 100 games on a yearly basis, the orioles farm is nasty and everyone knows they're a big up and coming team, and the diamondbacks eliminated the dodgers and Phillies. The Astros have been to the last 7 ALCS and have been to 4 World Series recently.

Anyone who says the rangers didn't earn their ring is an idiot.

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The Houston fans in this thread are just throwing **** against the wall and seeing what sticks. Gotta cope with their terrible start somehow.

In reply to DeProfundis My friend was curiously quiet every time the discussion of infidelity came up. Was it a surprise when he and his wife divorced and we found out they had both cheated on each other?

Nah. The one thing I tried to not repeat in front of his 2nd wife was "Once a cheater always a cheater."

Of course you'd think the crime you committed... the one that MLB specifically said, "You can't do that" and you are like, "Ah... it's ok."

Literally watching game feed and signalling pitches in real time... It's like cheating on your wife and then equating it to giving a double-take as a girl passes by.

That's why so many Astros fans are a joke.

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Catch a pitcher tipping? No problem
Stealing signs? No problem
Use a video recorder system to do it? Worst thing ever

Give me a break.

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I can only explain the rules to you - I can't understand them for you.

Can we all agree this home plate ump is total dog*****?

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I didn't flag it. I was making fun of FC's flagging of pictures of pretty ladies on the Astros' thread last year because he's terrified of boobs.

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I didn't flag it. I was making fun of FC's flagging of pictures of pretty ladies on the Astros' thread last year because he's terrified of boobs.

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Kudos to you, didn't know most Rangers fans could read.

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You tried. Next time, stick to obsessing over Joey Gallo.

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If the Rangers have believed in Joey Gallo the way I do, you'd have 6 world series titles by now.

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Not really. But the principal characters in the Oscar Wilde writing that inspired your username most certainly were.

Aren't we glad that in 2024 a guy can't go to prison just because he's banging another dude? Seems like that would be important for some of these "username checks out" moments