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  1. mul21
    I'd be pretty upset if I was the rest of baseball at this point. How much harm was actually done to the Astros by the hacking? I feel like getting the draft picks is a significant advantage for them in comparison to the damage actually done. The punishment to the Cardinals seems about right and I have a feeling it would have included their first rounder this year as well if they hadn't already forfeited it.
  2. mul21
    This was the one that got me. I consider Cheney to be the worst/most evil person to ever have a significant influence on our govenrment before these clowns got in there and Bannon makes him look like a saint. It's horsefeathering scary. And it's scarier how many people don't seem to realize how bad this is.
  3. mul21
    Well, they do have like 14 other starting pitcher options and about half are injury risks, so it's not a huge surprise
  4. mul21
    At this point, I don't have much of a problem with any ballot that uses all 10 votes. Yeah, there are some dumb homer votes in those, but at least the guys doing that are mostly giving those who are deserving a legitimate shot at getting in.
  5. mul21
    small field, short distances between bases, not a lot of room to maneuver and a whole lot of bang bang infield plays may play a part. That's exactly the reason I was going to mention. Everything is so much closer than baseball that the likelihood of getting hit in general is higher and then factor in the head mass/neck muscles and you have your answer.
  6. mul21
    That's how it works on airline apps when I've flown with my daughter. I'd imagine it'll be a similar process here.
  7. mul21
    So only the winner of each group gets through to the knockout round? Seems like having 12 groups of 4 with the top 2 getting through and a bye for the 8 teams with the most points would make sense. I'm not a fan of this really though.
  8. mul21
    I feel like 1st base was probably the default every team needs a guy position and he probably got screwed by that pretty frequently. Fake edit: I just went and looked. Galarraga, Grace, McGriff, Jefferies, and even Eddie Murray took spots early in his career and then you had Casey and Helton show up long with McGwire being in the NL mid career and Pujols and DLee late. It seems like there's not nearly as many really good hitters at first as there used to be.
  9. mul21
    Bagwell Bonds Clemens Vlad Edgar Kent Raines Manny Sheff Sammy I'd add Mussina, Schilling, Walker, and Pudge with additional votes. BBWAA is so stupid.
  10. mul21
    Yep, I'm done with John Groce. This team plays too dumb and not nearly hard enough, especially on defense, for him to keep his job. Some pretty pathetic performances already this season, today included.
  11. mul21
    I find the big brother/little brother relationship between Chicago and St. Louis even more humorous having lived here as long as I have because St. Louis claims the same kind of relationship to Kansas City and makes fun of them for their inferiority complex on a very regular basis and absolutely no one sees the irony in doing that.
  12. mul21
    This sucks just a little bit more now. I got a signed and framed Dex photo for Christmas that my dad bought before he signed with the Cards.
  13. mul21
    As was mentioned already, it's not so much the cumulative use, it's the combination of lots of use over a 4 day span combined with the fact that he's a guy who's not accustomed to throwing that many pitches/innings and probably wasn't equipped to make the necessary adjustments on the fly. I thought him pitching in game 6 was a terrible decision as it was happening and see no reason to change that stance. While the Cubs still won, they made it infinitely more difficult on themselves by not going to someone else with a 4 run lead in game 6 and saving Chapman's bullets for game 7, when they really actually needed them.
  14. mul21
    Are you trying to tell me that you think KB, Russell, and Schwarber are going to get 12, 6, and 6 million respectively in arbitration their first year? No way that happens.
  15. mul21
    Thought this was interesting on Dunn: [tweet] [/tweet]
  16. mul21
    The park was a dumpster fire when it opened but they've done a good job of making upgrades as they went. On top of that, they did pay for the park themselves, so they should get some credit for not trying to pillage the taxpayers for a profit. I go fairly regularly for the same reasons and I do have to agree that a very large portion of the fan base are mouth breathing idiots, but that's true of almost all teams. Theirs are just really vocal about how awesome they think they are.
  17. mul21
    Yep, I'm totally stealing this idea.
  18. mul21
    I questioned when Luhnow left for the Astros if he wasn't the real brains behind the operation. It seems their eye for talent has diminished significantly since he left, with really only the high draft picks and Diaz to show as products of their system. They haven't had one of those middle round guys explode to have a major impact in quite a while, and they're not even getting many of those guys to fill supporting roles cheaply as they had in the past.
  19. mul21
    I have to think this was far more complicated than a 1:1 deal if it's become this much in doubt.
  20. mul21
    Yeah, especially since that's a clearly defined process elsewhere in the CBA, it seems like wording it in that manner would cause the least uproar.
  21. mul21
    Yeah, this is probably not going to end well for him. [tweet] [/tweet]
  22. mul21
    What is this threshold? Same as the previous first round/second round threshold? Luxury tax threshold. Last year only 4 teams(Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers) were above the threshold, it looks likely that the Tigers will fall below and possibly the Red Sox and Yankees too, while no teams look likely to jump over it. Isn't this talking about draft pick compensation/loss for FA signings? The threshold he's referencing is the dollar value of the FA contract.
  23. mul21
    Steak 'n Shake is in this weird food purgatory for me. Not fast enough to be fast food and not good enough to be a sit down place, so I never go there.
  24. mul21
    Those are all at least 11 years.
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