Sammy Sofa
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the coach that assures quality, obv It means you do something right you get to see this wonderful sight: http://media.nj.com/mets_main/photo/blancojpg-ed06e5ea9daba33a_medium.jpg You do something wrong you get this: http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k188/toddhundleysucks/BlancoDurmiendo.jpg
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[expletive] YES.
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They are a great karaoke band. -
Ryne Ween is a Creationist.
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Your face is unbearable.
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Nope.
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NOW this thread is unbearable.
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I honestly had no idea that this station existed. A third sports station in town seems like it should have been an obviously terrible idea.
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He still has to be at the ballpark though, and he has kids. Part of the equation may be which schedule allows him to see his kids more often (which is debatable). Or Schilling could simply be blowing smoke out of his ass as usual. According to Maddon, he's pretty lax on when players report to the park. Uh-oh, you just set off the Kaplan-Signal.
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Week 12: Bears (4-6) vs. LSB (2-8) Noon FOX/780
Sammy Sofa replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
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PTR already wrangled a bucket of fish heads; now he has to get home to feed Baez in the attic.
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Like David said, the demand should pick up as the team improves; the service that the Cubs provide themselves for selling tickets works pretty well. If it's still sluggish in terms of demand next year I recommend donating many of the tickets to charity so you can at least recoup a bit of the cost via taxes.
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sneaky hasn't said that he's already a bust, but has implied there is little hope he won't be one. MOTHER OF GOD. http://hardtickettohomevideo.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/full-metal-jacket-soap-beating.gif?w=318 ok Hey, you ratted him out.
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sneaky hasn't said that he's already a bust, but has implied there is little hope he won't be one. MOTHER OF GOD. http://hardtickettohomevideo.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/full-metal-jacket-soap-beating.gif?w=318
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What is it for LF? Crawford would have been 11th out of the qualifiers, just behind Choo at .340.
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I thought the same reading it (and have thought that when others have brought it up)...but on the other hand, Rizzo did make mechanical adjustments that helped him get better against MLB pitching and maybe that does make me feel a little better about Javy, now that I think about it. Rizzo didn't struggle with contact in the minors but he obviously struck out a ton in a short stretch in SD. My concern is that Rizzo's adjustments were made based off of the good approach he already had. It seems like Baez would have to do a lot more than simply changing his mechanics (not that that can't happen). I would just prefer comparisons to players with a similar approach/career numbers.
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That's the kind of lazy oversimplification that makes the article so bad. Snyder could have spent a bit of extra time actually comparing Baez to good, similar hitters who struggled along the lines that he has. Just throwing out the net for "any good hitters that struggled at all at the start of their career" is just self-fulfilling space-filler. He's not doing anything but making the very obvious point (that seemingly still needs to be made) that he's really [expletive] young and in the big leagues already and that doing that is really rare and really good. The examples brought up aren't supposed to be some sort of eye opening statistical comps. They're just there to add perspective. Nobody is saying this was some greatly insightful piece to make you feel good about Javy. It's just a throwaway blog entry. Doesn't mean the point it makes isn't correct or doesn't need to be made. Who here besides Kyle (kind of) has been saying that Baez is already a bust? Why did this "needs" to be told to us? People not minding if the Cubs sell relatively high on him because they fear he could ultimately be a bust is not the same thing. That was a lousy throwaway blog entry. Literally you simply posting "Javier Baez is not a bust" would have been more effective.
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Just to bring it close to home, that Rizzo struggled mightily in his first cup of coffee doesn't make me feel better about Baez outside of the basic similarities in that they were very young players who initially stunk.
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That's the kind of lazy oversimplification that makes the article so bad. Snyder could have spent a bit of extra time actually comparing Baez to good, similar hitters who struggled along the lines that he has. Just throwing out the net for "any good hitters that struggled at all at the start of their career" is just self-fulfilling space-filler.
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No, beyond the fact that the incredibly obvious point that it makes needs to be made, it's really not. It's so bad. "Here's a bunch of different names with wildly different sample sizes, approaches, flaws and minor league careers, very few of which are similar to Baez! CALM DOWN!" Saying that Baez isn't a bust yet is just common sense; that piece just went about "proving it" in a really hamfisted, poorly done way.
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You posted that for us to mock, right? It's terrible.
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Crawford yuck, he's never really been a great OBP guy think it was .329 last year and I doubt his speed is as much of a factor as it used to be. That contract is terrible to boot. The MLB OBP average was .314 last year. Crawford's was .339. He's averaged a .332 OBP over his career.
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Eh. Sore is one thing. ALL sore? Nobody wants that. Btw- it's still a bit weird to see anything other than imb! Mojo changing his name is no big deal because he never stops talking long enough for anyone to notice any difference. http://i669.photobucket.com/albums/vv55/paruwi6172/spamCrazy/aaa1_colin_farrel.gif
