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I think all he’s doing is asking for a trade in public. He obviously feels they’ve ceded their opportunity to get a good return and now he’s making it clear he’ll need to be moved regardless of whether they feel the return is significant. Without knowing behind the scenes stuff it’s difficult to know how legitimate his grievances are. 

If he wanted to be "respected", he should have secured a no-trade clause in his quarter-billion dollar contract.  The only one who's being disrespectful is Arenado for badmouthing the organization. The Rockies have done nothing wrong.

He wants to win and instead of improving the team they’ve been reportedly been listening to trade rumors for him only a year after he agreed to stay with them long term.  I get why he feels disrespected.

By presenting it you are the advocate. It was a bad stance to take, saddling the franchise with another huge contract for a position that does not have a need. Sorry but it was a fools exercise. 

Wait so they want someone to take on the money AND give frontline prospects?
Id like to get paid for for doing nothing but thats not happening either. 

You’d be hard pressed to find a GM who would take quantity over quality for a top asset. One five win player is worth a lot more than a handful of players, regardless of whether they combine for more wins. 7-8 wins for 6 guys is basically what you get in the bargain bin for peanuts every offseason. 

So you won't overpay. Got it.

wow, this is the new proposed uniform design fro the 2020 astros. it'll look amazing in orange instead of gray. 

There is no misfortune involved. The Astros deserve everything they're getting thrown at them. 

Bauer has tweeted about the buzzers since Jomboy’s tweet. He said he has heard this from a few players this happened too. MLB hasn’t done much investigation when players accused the Astros or Sox of cheating until it came out in the media. Only once the Athletic reported it did they do much serious investigation.
 
MLB’s investigators have no subpoena power and can force nobody to testify. This makes investigations very difficult. Furthermore if a player lies there is no real consequences unless MLB can fully prove it and levy a suspension that they can make hold up under MLBPA defense of the player. 
 
Now the issue of government involvement in this is murky at best. When they got involved over PEDs that made at least some sense since those were a controlled substance regulated by the government. So in some sense, the players were breaking federal law and the league wasn’t stopping it. In that situation government oversight could at least argued as being about people breaking the law and not being punished. In this situation no law is being broken, federal or state.
 
I don’t see what pretext the government could use to question the league about this. Even the exemption the league has doesn’t make sense as a pretext. I’d welcome the use of subpoena powers and making people testify under oath to get to the bottom of it (as if congress ever gets to the bottom of anything) but using those powers here seems to have no legal basis. It would be like a local city council investigating cheating at the private chess tournament in town. Not cool that people cheated but why are they investigating it.

After this week and then seeing some of what Altuve and Bregman said today I honestly think I hate Houston more than I do the Red Sox, whom I’ve hated for a long time. I used to hate Papelbon and disliked Pierzynski, but that all pales in comparison to what I’m feeling today. Here are some links to fuel your fire. 
 
right, it’s called consequences not adversity. 
 
Whaat?! louder than the trash cans?
Feel free to add more of this trash to the thread. We can may be have some good bulletin board material here. 

After this week and then seeing some of what Altuve and Bregman said today I honestly think I hate Houston more than I do the Red Sox, whom I’ve hated for a long time. I used to hate Papelbon and disliked Pierzynski, but that all pales in comparison to what I’m feeling today. Here are some links to fuel your fire. 
 
right, it’s called consequences not adversity. 
 
Whaat?! louder than the trash cans?
Feel free to add more of this trash to the thread. We can may be have some good bulletin board material here. 

Bauer has tweeted about the buzzers since Jomboy’s tweet. He said he has heard this from a few players this happened too. MLB hasn’t done much investigation when players accused the Astros or Sox of cheating until it came out in the media. Only once the Athletic reported it did they do much serious investigation.
 
MLB’s investigators have no subpoena power and can force nobody to testify. This makes investigations very difficult. Furthermore if a player lies there is no real consequences unless MLB can fully prove it and levy a suspension that they can make hold up under MLBPA defense of the player. 
 
Now the issue of government involvement in this is murky at best. When they got involved over PEDs that made at least some sense since those were a controlled substance regulated by the government. So in some sense, the players were breaking federal law and the league wasn’t stopping it. In that situation government oversight could at least argued as being about people breaking the law and not being punished. In this situation no law is being broken, federal or state.
 
I don’t see what pretext the government could use to question the league about this. Even the exemption the league has doesn’t make sense as a pretext. I’d welcome the use of subpoena powers and making people testify under oath to get to the bottom of it (as if congress ever gets to the bottom of anything) but using those powers here seems to have no legal basis. It would be like a local city council investigating cheating at the private chess tournament in town. Not cool that people cheated but why are they investigating it.

Altuve is shy and doesn’t want his team tearing off his jersey at ALCS. Let’s take a look at the last two seasons... 🧐🙄
 
Edited: typos 

Altuve is shy and doesn’t want his team tearing off his jersey at ALCS. Let’s take a look at the last two seasons... 🧐🙄
 
Edited: typos 

This but of humor is spot on and after a the week baseball has been having this is certainly worth the watch. As a side note it may clue you in to the things you’ve missed about the dumpster fire going on right now. 
 
Enjoy

This but of humor is spot on and after a the week baseball has been having this is certainly worth the watch. As a side note it may clue you in to the things you’ve missed about the dumpster fire going on right now. 
 
Enjoy

Altuve is shy and doesn’t want his team tearing off his jersey at ALCS. Let’s take a look at the last two seasons... 🧐🙄
 
Edited: typos 

Posted that in its own thread last night with a short written run down of about half of it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

For those who aren’t aware of all the events of this video here’s A summary of about 60% of them. 
 
 

For those who aren’t aware of all the events of this video here’s A summary of about 60% of them.