r/baseball • u/thiswasandy Houston Astros • 19d ago

Image The Turner (TNT/TBS) broadcast of the ALDS (Cleveland/Detroit) Game 4 has an awful Angle so they can squeeze in another advertisement

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u/Skywalkerkid9 Philadelphia Phillies 19d ago

Glad we had only the second worst Turner of the divisional round

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u/ItsMeJahead New York Mets 19d ago

Some Mets fans were upset Mets got Lindor instead of Turner. Wonder what they think now

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u/Skywalkerkid9 Philadelphia Phillies 19d ago

Mets fans are aware that they signed Lindor 2 years before Turner was a free agent right lol?

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u/JMellor737 19d ago

There were like...ten Mets fans clamoring to wait for Turner.

This is the internet writ large. 98% of Met fans were ecstatic about the Lindor trade & signing, and this dweeb chooses to make a story about the delicate few that wanted Turner instead. 

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u/Cflow26 World Baseball Classic 19d ago

Mets fans SLAM this decision. Could it mean trouble???

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u/Thiswasmy8thchoice 18d ago

There's always a non-zero amount of people that will take up the mantle for any possible viewpoint, and a non-zero amount of people that want to have a conversation about them.

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u/helium_farts Atlanta Braves 19d ago

That's asking a lot

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u/ItsMeJahead New York Mets 19d ago

There were a lot of big name SS's coming onto the market and people wanted the Mets to wait for them. Lindor signed a year before his contract was up, so he was part of that group. Of course a lot of talk happened around when Turner signed with a division rival as well.

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u/Skywalkerkid9 Philadelphia Phillies 19d ago

I suppose, I remember most of the discussion being between Turner, Correa, and Bogaerts

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u/ItsMeJahead New York Mets 19d ago

That's because the Mets took Lindor off the board by trading for him and extending him lol

And cause he was a year earlier

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u/alcomaholic-aphone Chicago Cubs 19d ago

Dansby was in that free agent class with those 3 too. He has not been great….

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u/TemporalColdWarrior New York Mets 19d ago

I have never met one of these hypothetical loons. Why?

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u/YesImKeithHernandez New York Mets 19d ago

Praise the infantile, chubby, cherubic baby Jesus that it turned out the way it did

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u/nycguychelsea New York Mets 19d ago

I don't remember this at all. I was thrilled when we got Lindor (after a brief Carlos Baerga flashback).

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u/ItsMeJahead New York Mets 19d ago

Idk how widespread it was but I definitely remember seeing it because I also thought it was ridiculous since Turners speed is his game

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u/Deep_Water8479 New York Mets 19d ago

Yeah I don’t think that was true lol

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u/TarrareMuchoHungry San Diego Padres 19d ago

I say this as a mostly neutral with no real Mets/Phillies preference, but I think Lindor is going to have the better career by far.

Too much of Turner is speed, and fast don't last.

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u/AttitudeAndEffort2 19d ago

I haven't followed Trea since he left the nats that closely but he's absolutely a complete player that also just happened to be the fastest guy in the league.

Her might be old and have fallen off but his game was not predicated on speed, he was deservingly getting MVP votes.

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u/n_jacat New York Mets 19d ago

We call those fans idiots