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that's just a smart allocation of a limited resource

No. The rules are clear here and I've posted multiple times this year about the reason for the extra bench spots on CBS. The penalty that was enforced is less than what the rules call for actually. I'm sorry but I'm also not getting into this again.

i didn't know your roster has been illegal for weeks. i found out, posted on cbs what i did and why. you're allowed 16 active players, 3 bench players, and 3 DL spots. The sticky thread that says Rules lays this out. We've posted here and at cbs multiple times that the cbs limits aren't correct. we adjust them up so that you can move starters to your bench to avoid going over 7 starts (look at my roster today, actually, i have extra guys on the bench and only 5 pitchers active so i won't exceed 7 starts with the 2 guys i have going tomorrow; but i'm not exceeding the total of 19 non-DL MLB players on my roster). you had somewhere between 4 and 5 bench players all last week or almost all last week. you've had 5-6 bench players this week. the penalty for an illegal roster is generally losing your best start or best hitter each day your roster is illegal, which is why you lost last week and why i took away your 2 best starts this week.

I didn't even know this was a thing you could do. People really pay close attention to their likes and who liked their posts? http://i.giphy.com/xT0BKIEo6kn0neyQw0.gif ok, i get this one. i don't understand the other 3 gif responses. we need a gif translator feature for those of us that aren't hip or don't ever watch tv or movies. and someone should change nuts' avatar to that horsefeathers's very punchable face.

what drives me more crazy is the arbitrary nature of the notifications on the likes. i have no idea why certain ones notify me and most don't. Agreed. I just occasionally go into my profile and look at all the "like actions" to make sure I know. Cuz I have to know!!! I didn't even know this was a thing you could do. People really pay close attention to their likes and who liked their posts?

and it's week 5

wait till they're in the system and pick them up.

This is Derwood's Built To Spill cover band.

Field %? Lol. You must be a lame-o 1b. Just shut up and scoop. SS, 2b bitch nice. you be the king of the IF. just get out of my way.

Yes for the next 10 days or whatever

Rizzo hitting homers on his bended knee.

It would be interesting to see an actual study of playing depth for OF.

Field %? Lol. You must be a lame-o 1b. Just shut up and scoop.

Who said that? Murton's Revenge I did? Where?

I actually found that not to be true. I'll admit that this is all anecdotal and playing CF in Iowa HS ain't exactly the NLC. But other than balls directly behind me, I found going back easier. I think it's that on a ball hit deep, it's a dead sprint until you get there. You either get there or the ball hits the fence. On shallow hits, there's a point at which you need to decide if you're going for it or pulling up and that hesitation felt like it cost me some range. And on almost every short ball, except gappers, you have to play conservative as a ball getting by you is a disaster. I don't know how to possibly measure that and I'll admit I could be totally wrong. But that was definitely my experience in about 100 games in high school OF. did you ever slide into first base I didn't. But I did lead my team in steals 2 years in a row, so my credibility is solid.

You are being ridiculous. He wasn't smoking up in the green room. Somebody attacked him. Lol. Yes someone attacked him with a picture of himself. He's not the first guy to have this happen to him. I know why omc is all worked up but why does anyone else give a horsefeathers? He wore the mask like an idiot. He let someone take his pic. And he's still going to make millions of dollars. If Ole miss hadn't paid him to go there, he would have gone somewhere else and may have avoided all this. So we can add Hugh Freeze and omc to the list of people responsible for his actions.

of course it's wrong. but take some responsibility. Jack and Smith lost even more due to injuries, not smoking weed. I don't have a lot of sympathy for a guy who has that picture taken of himself. He'll still do just fine.

Wow. He only lost somewhere around 10 million dollars because of someone's outright maliciousness and it happened in front of the whole country. No big deal. He lost millions b/c he smoked weed with a gas mask on. Or are you suggesting the photo is shopped?

oh and that article linked in there "does playing shallow work" is ridiculous. what a terrible way to measure which players play shallower. what if those guys have to go back more often b/c their pitchers give up more deep flies? or guys come in b/c the pitchers get more bloopers or more liners? bill james should be embarrassed to have his name on that.

Yeah, I'll trade the singles all day in order to take away some extra-base hits over his head. It seems really counterproductive to play that shallow in order to stop some balls from falling in front of you. It also seems like playing shallow would shrink his range down artificially, because balls hit deep or going to tend to hang in the air longer. So the extra balls he could get to by playing shallow aren't going to hang in the air as long. Which means, he has less time to cover ground. And that means his probable catch zone radius is going to be smaller. I wonder if we have any data to back this notion up. Statcast is going to be a great tool to help with defensive positioning. You can plot how often a ball is hit to every spot on the field and how long the ball hangs in the air, and then come up with the optimal spot to stick a guy, based on a catch probability zone. It's also much, much easier to get to balls in front of you than balls over your head, playing dudes shallow seems to make little sense to me, but I await more learned gentlemen with more evidence to show how wrong I am. I actually found that not to be true. I'll admit that this is all anecdotal and playing CF in Iowa HS ain't exactly the NLC. But other than balls directly behind me, I found going back easier. I think it's that on a ball hit deep, it's a dead sprint until you get there. You either get there or the ball hits the fence. On shallow hits, there's a point at which you need to decide if you're going for it or pulling up and that hesitation felt like it cost me some range. And on almost every short ball, except gappers, you have to play conservative as a ball getting by you is a disaster. I don't know how to possibly measure that and I'll admit I could be totally wrong. But that was definitely my experience in about 100 games in high school OF.

they were effectively byes. the team wasn't being managed actively. 5 starts in 2 weeks. and against tim, his best starter was on the bench so Lester's 30 got replaced by a -12 start. it doesn't make sense to make his team competitive now when you, tim, and al got the benefit of playing a mismanaged team.

no bc it fucks everything up. I don't like the idea of having a team be a bye for some and competitive for others. and it just doesn't work to allow one person to have control of multiple teams.

Probably. He's got fewer than 600 ABs above high A. He's probably not ready. Sorry but that's [expletive] stupid, we have how many other guys that were called up with the same number of ABs? Willson is ready, and this move is stupid as [expletive]. I hate having catchers that can't hit. I don't know why, but the passion with which you hold your incorrect beliefs makes them feel more wrong.

we've modified that strategy. hbc is now going to lose every week.

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