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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Sad Tree right now: http://assets-s3.usmagazine.com/uploads/assets/photo_galleries/regular_galleries/254-see-celebs-weird-body-art/photos/1251909279_benji_madden_lg.jpg
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    All this. And he has enough respect around the league that he could be a selling point to free agents (albeit likely a small one). And a way to bring a central member of the Tampa braintrust, and a guy who's worked side by side with Andrew Friedman for 9 years, into the organizational process. Great point. Instead of having to guess as to whether a guy can be molded to fit the way the FO thinks you can go out and get the guy that has already embraced much of their approach and thrives under it.
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    I think Renteria is too much of an unknown to really say either way. I'd rather go with the (relatively) sure thing.
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    Kyle sees some primo Kyleing and has to step up his game. Sure, Maddon is only respected like he is because he talks purty and was in the right place at the right time. Hottest of hot takes. Sure you didn't want to throw in that he wears glasses, too?
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    Derwood did. It was the line you deleted of the post you were responding to. Nobody listens to Derwood; it was a stupid point from the get-go. Why is he considered the best? One of the major themes of Moneyball was the idea that the things "everyone knows" to be true aren't always actually true. I'm just wondering how we can conclude that Maddon is worth getting excited about. He's managed very young teams in a very tough division and has done a stellar job at it. All of the right people salute how exceptionally good he is at his job, largely due to how different he is from most other managers in how he approaches the game.
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    Maddon (and the staff he put together) have been given a ton of credit for the success of the Rays in recent years, well beyond the usual platitudes of "oh, he's a manager that gets guys to play hard, blah-blah-blah." He's specifically admired for his ability to shape teams made up significantly of homegrown players. He's widely credited for his proactive embracing of modern baseball analysis.
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    Well, sure, since this was Renteria's first year as a manager and Dusty has, what, 19, 20 years under his belt? Nobody is going to make that comparison because it doesn't make any sense. Why does the comparison makes sense against Maddon, then? That's what I was responding to. Who is directly comparing Renteria and Maddon? Renteria might turn out to be a fine manager, but he's largely unproven and there's really no reason that you need to stick with him after only one year when the guy who is basically considered by everyone to be the best manager in the game by a decent margin becomes available.
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    Well, sure, since this was Renteria's first year as a manager and Dusty has, what, 19, 20 years under his belt? Nobody is going to make that comparison because it doesn't make any sense.
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    I agree that managers usually don't do a whole heck of a lot to make a team win more and usually the best you can hope for is that they don't [expletive] things up. Personally, I think the average manager has more ability to lose you a game than actually winning it, but Maddon is basically the one guy I think otherwise about. There's just too much praise for him and the job he does from the right quarters for it to simply be smoke. It's weird how much the Spanish thing is tracking as a reason to not get him, too. I heard from 3 different people people today, my dad included, wary about hiring Maddon because he doesn't speak Spanish himself. One, I assume the guy speaks/understands some Spanish just by being in pro baseball, period. Two, the Cubs having Latin American players is hardly unique, and it's not like he's coming from a team that's had no Spanish-speaking players during his time there. It's a non-issue, especially when you're talking about a chance to snag a manager this good.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Update on the Mayer staring story: one of the times he was laying there on the floor, staring...while eating tuna from a can.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Holy [expletive], she's back with him. I need to process this. This was him:
  12. Sammy Sofa
    She was pretty damn attractive. The downside is she dated guys like Howie Day.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    i really struggle to conceive of a single worse waste of time I said it was crazy. Plus watching, like, only 25 game NBA games will top how much football and baseball I watched between and this time last year.
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    CHEATING.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    "hey girl, your body is a wonderland" That would have been an upgrade. Apparently he would come back to the dressing room while Day was performing and just lay on the floor and stare at her. Did it like 3-4 times before she told him to get lost.
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    I'm probably going to watch more NBA than any other sport. That's crazy.
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    I also had a roommate who was hit on by a nobody John Mayer in a super creepy way. The twist is that she was dating Howie Day at the time. It's a real shame pile.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Fun fact: one of my old roommates was best friends with the fat bassist from Good Charlotte. He was also really good friends with the bassist from the Bravery. One more and he gets the bassist from a shitty band-hat trick.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Your gif use is top notch sir. http://i.imgur.com/kzsNUTs.gif
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Cubs miss out after bidding $1 million a year and a free sub club card and end up with Joel Maddon instead.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Huh? It was started like an hour and a half ago.
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