ConstableRabbit

I'm not watching, but my guess is you saw Valbuena, who's going for an X-Ray on his thumb after his slide into 3rd. [expletive].

I'm in a bar with no audio... Was that a shot of Jackson just going into the clubhouse with a trainer? What happened?

Isn't Hahn pretty progressive statistically? Wonder what it's like when he and Hawk pass each other in the hall...

Because when he goes strong Battier flops.

Marco! That would've been sick

Most of the people that I know who went to Baylor are flaming Republicans, so there's that. RGIII's political beliefs were one of the reasons Rob Parker criticized him.

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Winner.

I think we gave up Blevins in that deal too. Harden was such a beast tho.

The ballad of Kameron Loe.

If by "young core" (sorry Kyle...) you mean major league players, I don't see it. One of the reasons why Stanton would be traded is that the Marlins don't really have any other good major leaguers to go with him. You certainly could be right, but Miami's situation strikes me as they would want to build via high quality prospects to go along with Fernandez, Yelich, Marisnick, Heaney, etc. The idea would be to turn Stanton into several young high quality assets. If they're asking for Rizzo or Castro or Shark, they're not going to get more than one and I doubt the Cubs would then also include one of Baez/Soler/Almora. It would be one of those guys plus some good, not great, prospects. But if I were them, I'd want to take a chance at getting two or three great players by going young and taking on the risk that they may not turn out. Risks on players like Baez, Pierce Johnson/Duane Underwood, tradeable assets like Vogelbach or Alcantara, possibly add in Junior Lake or Ben Wells. If two or more of those guys develop as expected, they've improved themselves. If some team is willing to give them two under-25 all-star caliber major leaguers for Stanton, then god bless em. My comment was made in the context of assessing who you'd rather trade for. One can't say that you'd rather have Stanton because your young, cost-controlled guys (Baez, Soler, Johnson et al) are going to be more developed when you might not have all of those guys as a result of the Stanton trade. With Headley, he'll be older, but you will likely have more of the young studs you're hoping will become stars. Pick your poison.

I am not advocating either way here, but you're not going to have as much of that young core if you trade for Stanton. Stanton is going to cost a [expletive] ton more than Headley...

Really sad story. A nurse gave her CPR, but no one figured out she needed the Heimlich Maneuver. Many don't realize that it's almost impossible to make a sound when you're choking. 2 hands over the throat is almost universally the "help! I'm choking!" sign.

This is sarcasm, right? Not at all. how great is it to join in chorus with the greatest singer/songwriter of the 20th century. That song is both creepy and terrible.

Sure, there's going to be an increase to the season ticket plan, but I'll actually be able to ATTEND more games (or sell them to people who can). This is a net positive for me.

When I was a kid they played "Get Down Tonight" after Cubs wins... and we liked it!

Won't matter.

SMOKE SCREEN!

It's up there. I'm trying to decide if that'd be worse than the Bulls beating Miami without Rose and then losing to NY or Indiana with him.

I'm shocked Barkley would side with the prevalent public opinion. Really? I've always found Barkley to speak pretty freely on stuff.

It's a song they sing after winning games, so I'm not sure why people hate it so much. It's a really cheesy song, so I guess it's that. It's just always been there for me; 1984 was the first year I was a fan and it was a semi-big deal then, plus my parents bought me the damn thing and being a little kid I played it until everyone's ears bled. It's burned into my brain whether I like it or not. It also annoys opposing fans, which is an added bonus.

Ya can't spell "Kevin Gregg" without K

Deep breath, guys -- it's Gregg Time!

MOLOLINA

Molina? Really?