Sammy Sofa

I am genuinely stunned that Almora got that run in.

The bench. Maybe.

Alright, we stick with soccer10k since they won tonight; when they lose next, it swings back to TMan92 because otherwise that's skipping way too many people.

Miraculous. Without him they'd be in deep horsefeathers.

Yay/booooooooooo.

World Series hangovers are real tough, I guess.

Haven't heard from TMan92 or Andy about today's game thread...Liam Neeson is up if they don't show within the next hour or so. If HE doesn't show, it's all jersey's.

Outside pf the obvious reasons to not bring him back, I have no idea why anyone would want to bring back a 33-year old with a .261 .306 .457 .763 who can't play defense.

TMan92 is up, but he hasn't responded to any PMs, and he's missed his spot at least once before. Andy, it'll fall to you if he doesn't show within a few hours of game time.

I'd still love to get Machado, but only if he's gonna play 3B.

Sure; it's just a disappointing when they put almost all of their eggs in that Super Offense basket, and then end up with this really....lopsided, inconsistent Super Offense. It's genuinely horsefeathering weird.

Well I didn’t say he was worthless just wasn’t a budding superstar we once thought he was on the way to. If he’s an .820s OPS guy that’s fine but not exceptionally productive for a corner OF right? Could be wrong there He’s tied for 7th best OPS of qualified LFs this year with Benintendi at .828 and 10 more points would put him top 5. I know we want more but a low-mid .800 ops is plenty productive in LF this year. Sure, but a productive Just a Dude is still Just a Dude, and the hope was that he was going to be more than that. Plus is overall value this year is helped by likely unreliable defensive value. It's unfortunate that he had both such a catastrophic injury and such a down 2017, because it basically left the Cubs in the position to either sell way low or ride out and see what they had, and as such maybe not do things like go all out for a player Yelich.

Because this type of abuse by men is ingrained deep, deep, deep down in...well, everything. It's like racism in that it's just such an inherent part of the power dynamics of our relationships that it leads to wondering things like this. Add in the factors of the abuser being someone famous and rich? Woof. The amount of fear and self-loathing and trauma that comes with abuse (and in the response to it being exposed/reported) is why sexual assault and spousal abuse are so dramatically under-reported. It takes a LOT to finally find what it takes to speak out against someone who has dominated them via fear and violence (and, again, the likely scorn, insults, anger and humiliation that comes along with being the person to speak out), so, yeah...it's really never a surprise when a guy doesn't get why a woman wouldn't go right to the police. The police and legal system have largely just tolerated, ignored or even fostered this power imbalance basically forever. Couple it with the abuser being a famous person that scores of people want to love and be a fan of? Forget about it. Abuser can be man or woman. My mother abused my sister and me for years. People never gave a horsefeathers. I remember hiding in closet as a 7 year old boy. Getting strap down and beaten. Abuse is not a man thing. It is a monster thing. So get this men bull horsefeathers out of your post. Abuser come in any sex. Abuse marks you forever and you can become a monster or to timid to do anything. But your post is a lot of [expletive]. Oh and Russell needs to be gone. Dude get your help but F him too. Abuse is not a male or female thing. Me and my sister can attest to that but my father almost went to jail because of people who think like you. He saved me and failed with my sister. She never truly recovered. Abuse is a person and not a sex. Nobody's saying women can't abuse people; this incident is specifically about a man abusing a woman, and this type of abuse is overwhelmingly done to women by men. I'm sorry you had to suffer what you went through.

He's something that seems like a weird tangent, but really ties into what we're talking about in these last couple of posts: https://uproxx.com/hitfix/brie-larson-captain-marvel-smile-more/ Dudes expecting or telling women, often ones they don't even know, some variation of, "you should smile!" It's indicative of how random dudes think they have the ability or the obligation to try and control women, even if it's just someone they're passing on the street or in the hall. Women are just something that are there FOR them. It's not a stretch at all to see many, MANY things in Russell's life and his behaviors that show this is him. Dude probably cares more about his stupid ass Pokemon cards.

Yeah, my interest in what they do the rest of this season pretty much nosedived into the ground.

Eh. Karma.

Because this type of abuse by men is ingrained deep, deep, deep down in...well, everything. It's like racism in that it's just such an inherent part of the power dynamics of our relationships that it leads to wondering things like this. Add in the factors of the abuser being someone famous and rich? Woof. The amount of fear and self-loathing and trauma that comes with abuse (and in the response to it being exposed/reported) is why sexual assault and spousal abuse are so dramatically under-reported. It takes a LOT to finally find what it takes to speak out against someone who has dominated them via fear and violence (and, again, the likely scorn, insults, anger and humiliation that comes along with being the person to speak out), so, yeah...it's really never a surprise when a guy doesn't get why a woman wouldn't go right to the police. The police and legal system have largely just tolerated, ignored or even fostered this power imbalance basically forever. Couple it with the abuser being a famous person that scores of people want to love and be a fan of? Forget about it.

I really think some people need to stop talking about all of these guys like they're "just" these barely above monosyllabic neanderthals, and we don't have to hope or expect that they can figure out how to not say or do dumb horsefeathers. They're adults with brains.

i need like 5 more wins before i feel that way Trust me, it has zero to do with how confident I am in them winning the division.

Kinda suddenly went to really not feeling so bad seeing the Cubs getting their ass kicked. Weird.

The only way it flies for me is if he is indeed taking a shot at how shitty and farcical these investigations tend to be, and even then it's, like, "dude; read a horsefeathering room."

And your self-perceived ability to judge anyone based on isolated posts on a message board combined with your fragile sensitivity says much more about you. anybody can judge a moron that uses terms like sjw and calls disappointment outrage. Dude's now going off about "fragile sensitivity," too; stunned he didn't go for "snowflake." Remember: it's the guy furious that people are being too hard on Rizzo who are the overly sensitive and outraged ones.

Not even remotely close to what I said. Takes some mental gymnastics to come remotely close to that conclusion. But what ever justifies your outrage at Rizzo... Keep flogging them buzzwords, baby. Nobody is "outraged" with Rizzo; just annoyed and disappointed that he doesn't at least know better than to go with some variation of "no comment" right now. Dude stuck his foot in his mouth and got called out for it. The rich and famous tinyfaced pro athlete is going to be FINE, relax.