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  1. CubinNY
    So they beat up on starters and can’t score in relievers. Could it be a scouting and/or game prep thing? I assume that most teams have a similar pattern.
  2. CubinNY
    I love the videos by why does it look like it was shot from a 35mm camera from 1975?
  3. CubinNY
    They have to DFA Simmons after this game.
  4. CubinNY
    Greatest walk up of all time.
  5. CubinNY
    Norris comes in and lights the can on fire.
  6. CubinNY
    Hendricks is getting destroyed while they interview Fergie.
  7. CubinNY
    Tubby with a big fly
  8. CubinNY
    I really like Glanville in the booth.
  9. CubinNY
    Morel RBI single.
  10. CubinNY
    What an awful inning. Pathetic.
  11. CubinNY
    It's Armed Forces Day this weekend or some crap. MLB finally wised up at some point and realized Memorial Day isn't about troop-humping camo horsefeathers, but they couldn't just quit doing it so they found some other day they could use as an excuse to do it. I might have to get one for the duck blind.
  12. CubinNY
    What's up with the camo hats?
  13. CubinNY
    At Arkansas, you have Jerry Jones, the Walton (Wal-Mart) and the Tyson families as big time boosters to the school and to the athletic department. Everything on the campus has one of those names on it. Again, just because YOU don't know their names does not mean we do not have billionaires in our alumni/booster base. Five San Antonians make Forbes 400 list Quick Google search and I know for a fact that two of these five are Aggies. And I'm not trying to measure any dicks. Just laughing at those who don't think A&M has plenty of money at our disposal. That wasn't the issue. OMC made a ridiculous statement and it's ridiculous. There are many other programs, dozens even or more that *could* spend unlimited sums of money buying players. There are other programs with more money and access to more available money.
  14. CubinNY
    To put a bow on it, it will be very interesting to see what happens to big-time college sports in the next few years. It's about time these kids get paid, but at some point, regulation will have to happen. I think getting the payment system out in the open will be a good thing. I don't necessarily think it will be a good thing for parity. I can see the move to superconferences and perhaps leagues being the most logical outcome.
  15. CubinNY
    I listened to most of the game last night. It sounded like the Arizona pitcher was really mixing speeds well. I loved the 11 pitch walk by Morel. Rivas is going through a rough patch right now. The Cubs in general are not good.
  16. CubinNY
    When OSU wanted to close the horseshoe when I was there they raised the money from boosters in like two hours.
  17. CubinNY
    Ohio State, Michigan, USC, UCLA, I would imagine have people who could put any SEC school to shame. Probabily many others too. Again, this really isn’t complicated: BOOSTERS are different than Alumni. You’re absolutely tripping if you think UCLA gets more money from athletic boosters than Texas A&M. I’d bet my life that Texas and TAMU are probably 1 and 2 from booster donations. You have any idea how many rednecks are billionaires or have hundreds of millions of dollars in Texas due to oil money? I don’t doubt Michigan and Ohio State can hang with the Texas schools as far as booster contributions, but you can chunk UCLA and “many others” out of this conversation. It’s almost certainly USC, Texas, TAMU, Michigan, and OSU in some order Phill Knight (Nike) is probably worth more and has spent more on Oregon that all Texas AM boosters put together. T Boon Pickens at OK State as well.
  18. CubinNY
    I highly doubt that. What makes you so highly skeptical? If they don’t have the richest they are right up there with whichever school does. Texas and USC are the only other two who come immediately to mind. And remember, I said richest boosters, not richest alumni. There are plenty of Ivy League schools that have richer alumni bases, but we’re talking about people who donate millions to the athletics departments of their schools. Ohio State, Michigan, USC, UCLA, I would imagine have people who could put any SEC school to shame. Probabily many others too.
  19. CubinNY
    The only reason Alabama didn't do it is that they couldn't do it by Alabama law. This February Alabama and Auburn got together with the legislature and repealed the law. I don't know if there is a level of money in Alabama to support an arms race of millions of dollars with the likes of USC and other schools that want to do it. Saban is lamenting that his time is neigh. Imagine if the Ivy League Schools wanted to compete. Harvard and Yale are sitting on a pile of money the size of the GDP of a midsize country and Stanford isn't far behind.
  20. CubinNY
    In Cubs farms past, prospect pitchers never got pulled from the rotation unless due to injury. I kinda like the developmental concept that if something isn't right, that you try to remediate ASAP. Palencia walked 14 guys in his first 16 innings; maybe getting him away from games and trying to ID and remediate why he's missing so badly so often was exactly what he needed? Jensen's awful, 14BB/16IP, and his habitually bad HR-factory is even worse? Try to remediate ASAP, try to fix him. At least try, I'm good with at least trying. Probably Jensen just doesn't have it in him to consistently throw strikes, much less do so with command. And probably Palencia had a fluke walk-free game, but he probably won't be able to locate with consistency over a larger sample size, I get that. But I like trying to develop and remediate right away. From a totally different perspective related to behavior therapy, research shows the best error correction is immediate, direct, quick, and ends with the learner making the correct response. Sometimes that means teaching in isolation. If the Cubs are doing that with pitchers (and I hope hitters, e.g., Davis is at the Arizona complex), they may be on to something.
  21. CubinNY
    Sounds like Davis might not get any MLB at-bats until September
  22. CubinNY
    Do you mind translating what you wrote about Palencia?
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    Blah
  24. CubinNY
    Why does Simmons squat when he takes a pitch?
  25. CubinNY
    My feed inexplicably switched
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