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Originally posted by HK Ag:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by berto:

berto, I feel for you. Houston Oilers left Houston, I have watched a couple of NFL games since but once they made it clear that pro sports is a business that I dont get any revenue from, I was not interested in much at all.

I will tell you that the Astros have pulled me back to the MLB at least. They have had a good run last 6 years in the playoffs.

I know very little about Oakland and the area, but everything I see in the news about the region, and watching an empty A's stadium says things looked dire.

But I certainly get it.

The A’s stadium is a dump but a solution in Oakland was close. The owner has never been interested in the sensible option. He wanted a grandiose monument to himself. He got close enough to smell it but hit cold feet because he’s a trust funder with zero accomplishments to his name. His first job out of business school was at a real estate firm that mostly dealt with his parents company. It went bust. Since then he’s managed the family accounts. He wanted a large mixed used development project with a ballpark thrown in so he could prove to mommy that he could actually do real estate. It was a $12 billion plan. He back out at the last minute over $36 million. He’s a gutless coward. Instead he signed a deal to move to Vegas where he’ll build a smaller park he won’t even own. His goal is build a park, any park, anywhere, and sell.

The attendance issues are 100% on ownership. It’s by design. Raise prices, cut services, gut the team, and blame the fans for not showing up. He doubled the price of parking. He shut down amenities in the stadium. He raised dreading ticket prices. All while failing to bring back free agents or keep the kids in town. The team could have the best infield in baseball. Semien, Olson, Chapman, and Murphy are playing great elsewhere.

The city of Oakland is a mess. Leadership is lacking. The city can’t afford to hand out all the money a billionaire wanted for his team but the city was willing to get a deal done.

I would have kept up my life long love affair with baseball and rooted for players instead of a team but the bonehead commissioner ran his fat mouth. I guess there’s always the Savannah Bananas.

Pretty sure he was joking and it didn't come across well. We've watched every single Braves game this year and a lot of interviews with the players. Strider has a very dry sense of humor, but he's not a jerk or anti-fan in any way that I've ever detected. I think he just struck out with his delivery on this one.

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Originally posted by jaaron11:
Pretty sure he was joking...

I don't think so. It's not even close to funny. He sounds like a spoiled child. He sounds angry. There's no 'funny' within fifty miles of those remarks.

His Asberger's must've been kicking in.

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"Get rid of the fans, it’s too loud. It’s too loud, everybody be quiet. We don’t need the cheering, we know you’re watching. I don’t need the fans.

"You stay outside the stadium. I mean, back it up. Let’s do like a no lower-bowl thing. Upper decks, great. Outfield, phenomenal. We don’t need you around the dugouts. Just try and be quiet."

Funny? Give me a break. "It's too loud." Come on. He's an asshole who ignores the core of his revenue. There wouldn't be any endorsements or sponsorships or advertising without the fans.

"We don’t need you around the dugouts." Jesus. Indefensible.

Spencer Strider's preference for 'no fans' at games is probably just a Larry David impression

From article:
"It was a silly quote from Strider who was almost certainly doing his impression of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld creator Larry David."

and

"Strider admitted that he has trouble with his joke delivery, so maybe that is why people didn’t immediately catch on to the fact this was merely a hat tip to the legendary comedian."

Nope, not buying it.

My interest in baseball peaked when I was a kid. I can still name the players on the 1959 Chicago White Sox. Even lost interest in baseball cards. The players used to cater to the kids back then. It is guys like Spencer that kill sports.

Maybe he should switch to tennis instead.

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Originally posted by berto:
I would have kept up my life long love affair with baseball and rooted for players instead of a team but the bonehead commissioner ran his fat mouth. I guess there’s always the Savannah Bananas.

Common now, there's still a team across the Bay despite having a milquetoast GM and an idiot for a manager

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Originally posted by corsair:
Common now, there's still a team across the Bay despite having a milquetoast GM and an idiot for a manager

Never. They’re rotten to the core. Haas should never have given up the South Bay rights with no strings. I used to go to the ‘Stick in a Dodgers hat and root for the Dodgers.

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Originally posted by cooger:
Seems like he was joking to me.

100%. I can’t believe people actually think he’s serious. Do you really think he doesn’t realize the fans are paying his salary. Come on.

It might be a poor attempt at humor but it seems pretty obvious to me that’s what he was trying to do.

Yeah? Even the author of the FoxNews article I linked took him seriously.

And let me tell you- if that was supposed to be humor, that is the poorest, lamest attempt at it I've seen in a long time.

You can't teach a person to be funny. Either you have the ability or you do not, and those who have it, have it to varying degrees. This guy is not funny, because even though the idiots in this world who don't get jokes are legion, if you can't convey your "humor" to reasonably perceptive, intelligent people, you are not funny. A truly funny person knows how to make that connection. This guy, on the other hand, is the very kind of person for whom the expression 'Don't quit your day job" was created.

Furthermore, if this guy was trying to be funny, he is playing a very dangerous game, because you don't bite the hand that feeds you, and when fans take his "humor" seriously, he's doing just that.

He should stick to baseball and leave the humor to those of us with the ability. He is out of his league. I've said it more than once: if you have to explain your jokes, you are not funny.

And don't fool yourself about this by saying "I can't believe..." because if you don't realize that there really are people so clueless as to say in a serious manner what this guy said, then you are the one who is missing something in all of this.

A famous man once said:
"Many a truth is said in jest".

This is all from a three-year old interview-right?

No

Braves Ace Spencer Strider Ripped for Saying He Wishes Fans Weren’t Allowed at MLB Games

And that's how his "joke" has come across. Pretty funny, huh?

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The 24-year-old has previously stated that he’s “not a fan of the public as a whole” and seemed to back up that notion with his latest comments.

After hearing his anti-fan hot take, MLB fans had plenty to say on social media.

Idiot

Retail sales people often get exasperated with customers,
About twice a year I used to say
Customers!

We shouldn't let'em in here, half the time.

Usually it was around Thanksgiving.

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Originally posted by bendable:
Retail sales people often get exasperated with customers,
About twice a year I used to say
Customers!

We shouldn't let'em in here, half the time.

Usually it was around Thanksgiving.

(NSFW due to f-bomb)

lol... he was asked for a "hot take." In this golden internet age in which we live, a "hot take" is a bold, purposefully provocative, wild opinion or prediction. This was an "interview" by an instagram account dedicated to MLB "fits", as in, the clothes that baseball players wear. It is not serious in any way, shape, or form. Of course, Fox didn't bother linking the video so all you can do is read his words, instead of hearing them where the Larry David cadence is obvious to anyone who has ever seen Curb.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
Looks like he was joking, maybe

That's my read.

Not the best delivery, though - definitely should dump the stand-up routines and stick to tossing horsehide spheres.

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
lol... he was asked for a "hot take."

Yes, 17 year olds all over the country embrace this term, I suppose. As for the adults here, it means nothing.

All you have to do is look around online today and you can see that many, many people- intelligent people- are taking his remarks as being serious.

Hello? Any breakdown in communication rests entirely with this baseball yutz.

You can add "explaining current juvenile lingo" to this trainwreck. Just as with jokes, if you aren't connecting with the silly slang such as "hot take" (good grief ) then, you have failed.

Otherwise, please explain to me the reaction of a substantial percentage of the people who have heard this guy's remarks.

The entire thing is- at best- remarkably clumsy. He should be embarrassed, and he has certainly damaged his reputation to an extent. That's the truth. But, oh, it's not his fault; it's the clueless dolts who don't get the "joke". Yeah

But hey, let's take this opportunity to catch up on the latest of the silly-ass lingo from the only smart people in our society- teenagers and early twenty-somethings.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
lol... he was asked for a "hot take."

Yes, 17 year olds all over the country embrace this term, I suppose. As for the adults here, it means nothing.

My wife and have never heard of "hot take" before, or the concept. I guess we're unsophisticated neanderthals, out of step with society.