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  1. seanimal
    i nominate ssr for a column titled "what you could do with your money if you had any"
  2. seanimal
    lingerer
  3. seanimal
    had a friend w/genesis and one time when i complained about ecco he put in toejam and earl SMH
  4. seanimal
    one of my friends did this in little league; he was so surprised he hit a home run, he didn't realize he still had the bat in his hand until he rounded first
  5. seanimal
    what happens next is you bring him back to honor his amazing contributions as one of the greatest cubs ever, you timid, pasty meatball
  6. seanimal
    http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Everything-Hurts-and-Im-Dying-Parks-and-Recreation.gif
  7. seanimal
    they'll never let go of their qualifiers, ever "he's having the best season since barry bonds, but health/lack of effort will always be a concern"
  8. seanimal
    this makes him the opposite of chuck knoblauch
  9. seanimal
    russell's new nickname
  10. seanimal
    no chance manny knows bill mueller's name he didn't know that though, he would just get pissed when kevin wouldn't respond to him
  11. seanimal
    apparently not, as they are attributing a lot of young pitchers' arm troubles to throwing cutters in high school It's kind of like throwing a faster version of a slider. Can put similar stress on an arm as a slider. Not as much torque, but the fingers are connected to ligaments and finger position can actually be dangerous as well. It's like no sunscreen on a cloudy day, you think it's safe to do. only if your grip is too tight, which will compromise the soundness of your arm rotation (elbow issues) and increase the likelihood of tendinitis. the common conceptual mistake is that a pitching grip imparts spin through force or pressure. rather, it's the friction imparted at the contact points that drag the ball as it is launched from the hand
  12. seanimal
    heh, exactly
  13. seanimal
    apparently not, as they are attributing a lot of young pitchers' arm troubles to throwing cutters in high school It's kind of like throwing a faster version of a slider. Can put similar stress on an arm as a slider. i don't think it's at all like a slider, which a) is gripped with the middle finger on the circumference and b) the wrist is supinated whereas a cut fastball is thrown with the index finger on the circumference and no wrist action. a slider is as different from a cut fastball as it is a screwball
  14. seanimal
    i didn't even know this was a thing. it makes no sense. mechanically it's a fastball
  15. seanimal
    also, let's not forget that the astros have every right to change their mind. that's totally legit. it's the disingenuity and unprofessionalism that i take issue with
  16. seanimal
    no, and that's not what i'm suggesting. what i'm suggesting is that any reasonable attempt to validate a serious, impactful medical finding would involve seeking a second opinion. seek a second opinion, and at least there is plausible deniability. a third and it's clear the intent was on getting it right. one team physician making a risk diagnosis that just happens to be awfully convenient towards the immediate goals of the franchise? how is this not suspect behavior? we don't know that yet as the ncaa hasn't ruled on his eligibility, afaik. that being said, that's just pure devil's advocate to refuse to acknowledge that the specific mention of calls to his "advisor" (as opposed to his family) were anything other than a smear which is only a reminder that of all the exploitation that exists among the professional sports, no one, and i mean NO ONE, exploits harder than the ncaa. there may be nothing in all of sports that needs more comeuppance than the ncaa. [expletive] them hard
  17. seanimal
    like i said, while the comp balance pick incited the rant, it isn't the support or justification for it. the subsidy is so strong that teams on the lower end can turn profits while having abysmally low gates and minimal investment into the product. profits aren't scraps. scraps are scraps
  18. seanimal
    did the astros seek a second opinion prior to acting? if not, then this talk of being legitimately concerned that their pick was damaged goods is nonsense. and even if they had legitimate concerns regarding his ucl to the point of it being a deal breaker, none of that excuses them salting the earth for this kid. their actions following the disclosure of the adjusted offer, raising the bonus in the final hour, saying they reached out to his "representative", are pieces that are hard to reconcile in the "did what they were supposed to do" narrative
  19. seanimal
    The way the system is set-up, the big market teams are making the most money by far thanks to their local TV deals. The comp draft pick is a relatively minor bone to throw to the poors so they will keep playing along with a system rigged heavily to profit the biggest organizations. i'm struggling to understand how the example of getting local broadcast money equates to a "system rigged" in some sense, it's a debate between the haves and the have-more's and #whocares, but if i'm a spender, i'm not particularly inclined to let the non-spenders benefit disproportionately, which i think they are. and not necessarily because of the "competitive balance pick", though that did set off my rant
  20. seanimal
    because one is a thing and the other is not edit: i don't necessarily think of it as "dirty", so much as i think it's a flimsy pretext. draft a daywalker and lowball him based on the deleterious effects of the sun for all i care, but let's not pretend that's 1:1 with "had to reattach arm 24 months ago"
  21. seanimal
    but they just got out of the pool
  22. seanimal
    http://ramblingrooby.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ham.jpg
  23. seanimal
    1st things 1st jerry, if you're from chicago, you don't [expletive] call it 'chi-town'
  24. seanimal
    it's kind of crazy to me that things seem so harmonious amongst the ownership in baseball. if i'm anything other than the bottom 10-15 markets, i'm would be violently against the rigging of the system towards them. those guys were already living the dream thanks to revenue sharing, publicly-funded stadiums, etc. now they get to essentially horde the lion's share of young, cheap talent in an age when players are being locked into team-friendly contracts into or sometimes through their prime?
  25. seanimal
    this is america, buddy
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