Sounds like Goldy is nearing an extension with the Cards. Was hoping Cards would fall apart and he would be a rental candidate.
St. Louis acquired him looking to extend him... and players (especially those 30+ years of age) have taken notice of the gamble that is free agency now.
watch from 1:20. They had a full demo of a live game using 140 live cameras throughout the stadium. This is just a snippet. The way we watch baseball is going change and I cant wait
You've kept saying this for a decade and I understand your point yet I still don't care. You think the non-dallas teams in the AL West give a crap about us? Or ever will? The teams that care are the teams we've been playing in the playoffs now, just like then, just like it would be no matter which league we were in. Braves. Cardinals. Yankees. RedSox. Indians. The A's? You can google "oakland a's hate astros" and google asks "do you mean oakland a's hat astros"?
You literally just said you miss hating the Cards/Cubs.... clearly, you do care about past 'rivalries' that weren't ever looked at mutually from the other side. On the contrary, its now Astros fans who don't really give a crap about them... and will stick with hating the Rangers, and their fans, regardless of whether they're battling for the division or not. The Mariners have really become the AL doppelgänger of what the Astros were thought of in the NL. A non-historic franchise with no championships, no true rival, and now with the longest playoff drought in all of professional sports.
No, no, oh hell no man. [insert Office Space gif] I just don't care about your continual crusade to tell us this every time something about the teams we used to play in the NL is brought up. Am I still allowed to hate the Mets even though we're just a footnote in their drug-fueled history? And yeah, I do "kinda miss hating" the old NL Central teams, those were fun times. Doesn't change anything in the now.
Just read the article. The way it's phrased, he could be saying that the D-backs were asking for both Bukauskas and Martin, which the Astros turned down. If the Astros countered with Buk and Perez, that seems to fit what was reported earlier. In a lot of ways, the Goldschmidt trade was similar to Cole trade, in that the Cards gave up a number of solid players that didn't really fit into their future. The D-backs and Astros just didn't match up as well unfortunately.
"every team is discussing an extension with ...every good player" Basically, this article says it isn't news that Astros are trying to extend Verlander and Cole despite the existence of the article making it news.
Cardinal fans are pretty bright. We arent high on their hate list but they remember the late 90s. Cubs fans, on the other hand, suck.
I think the news is the speculation that the 'stros are trying to keep both. Speculation has been that it was an either/or proposition.
