Red Sox/MLB 2023 Spring Training Begins- Forbes says Boston Red Sox are worth $4.5 billion

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DKH

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this has pretty much finished me off. It's just not worth it anymore. Can't keep putting all this emotion into something I have zero control over. It's clear, the Mets and Vikings just aren't meant to have nice things, high hopes or championships.
Try being a Red Sox and Patriots fan - picked for last in both divisions as of now
 
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this has pretty much finished me off. It's just not worth it anymore. Can't keep putting all this emotion into something I have zero control over. It's clear, the Mets and Vikings just aren't meant to have nice things, high hopes or championships.
@LouJersey - I have always been fond of the Mets ( excluding 1986 )

I really hope it is not as bad as it looked last night.
 
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EverettMike

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Legit drives me nuts that hockey can't figure this stuff out.

Am I missing something? Didn't the NHL let its players attend multiple Olympics during this century to much acclaim? That was a million times better than the WBC.

I agree with the NHL not to do so, though, when games are held in time zones that make viewership far too small to justify shutting down the league for three weeks.
 

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Am I missing something? Didn't the NHL let its players attend multiple Olympics during this century to much acclaim? That was a million times better than the WBC.

I agree with the NHL not to do so, though, when games are held in time zones that make viewership far too small to justify shutting down the league for three weeks.
It's not figured out. We haven't had a best-vs-best hockey tournament since 2016, and we probably won't have one until 2025, at the earliest. We've missed an entire generation of top level international play.

If you don't want to do best-vs-best at the Olympics because you're worried about television, then that's understandable. But if you go down that road, then I think you need to have the World Cup every four years without fail.
 
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Diaz' injury is exactly why I am not a fan of these international tournaments. If I was a Mets fan I'd be livid that my closer suffered an apparently serious knee injury while playing in a tournament instead of for the team. It's bad enough when something like this happens during spring training but at least then it happens while getting ready for the team's upcoming season. What is the purpose of this tournament???
 
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It's not figured out. We haven't had a best-vs-best hockey tournament since 2016, and we probably won't have one until 2025, at the earliest. We've missed an entire generation of top level international play.

If you don't want to do best-vs-best at the Olympics because you're worried about television, then that's understandable. But if you go down that road, then I think you need to have the World Cup every four years without fail.

Fair enough.
 
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Chevalier du Clavier

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Diaz' injury is exactly why I am not a fan of these international tournaments. If I was a Mets fan I'd be livid that my closer suffered an apparently serious knee injury while playing in a tournament instead of for the team. It's bad enough when something like this happens during spring training but at least then it happens while getting ready for the team's upcoming season. What is the purpose of this tournament???
Grow the game so baseball team owners can make more money.
 

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Diaz' injury is exactly why I am not a fan of these international tournaments. If I was a Mets fan I'd be livid that my closer suffered an apparently serious knee injury while playing in a tournament instead of for the team. It's bad enough when something like this happens during spring training but at least then it happens while getting ready for the team's upcoming season. What is the purpose of this tournament???

Seems to me the players really like it. I mean, the Diaz injury happened as a result of a celebration over a huge win. The players clearly care. Mike Trout has gotten to play the most meaningful baseball of his career.
 

Chevalier du Clavier

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Seems to me the players really like it. I mean, the Diaz injury happened as a result of a celebration over a huge win. The players clearly care. Mike Trout has gotten to play the most meaningful baseball of his career.
The crowds in Asia and the Caribbean have been electric. We don't typically hear a roar like this until the playoffs. Of course, the U.S. TV audience hasn't compared with Asia since the Carter administration.
 
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McGarnagle

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I've watched the video and still have no idea what happened.

It wasn't even some exaggerated celebration, they were just kind of lightly hopping. It wasn't on the edge of the mound, he didn't appear to step on a teammate's foot or anything that would've put his leg on uneven turf, so unless there was a gigantic divot in the field in Miami right where he was landing (which I doubt), his ACL must've already been on the absolute brink to where the slightest thing would pop it and thus it was bound to happen eventually. If hopping about 5 inches off the ground is going to blow out your knee, then you can't blame the WBC for it.

The biggest loser in this is Timmy Trumpet.
 

CDJ

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Brutal injury. I was in shock when I saw it. It wasn’t even an over the top celebration.

Bad for the game, sucks we won’t hear Narco this year
 

McGarnagle

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After all the money Steve Cohen threw at his team this year, I'm completely expecting bizarre injuries to take them out one-by-one over the course of the year in a Willy Wonka-esque fashion and oompa-loompas coming out onto the field to sing

Oompa Loompa Loompa Dee Duff
Verlander tore his rotator cuff
What do you get when you sign an old man?
70 wins was not. the. plan.
 
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