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Morning drive has very little music and mostly Morning Zoo shows. It's not a long enough commute to bother plugging in the phone for the drive from my garage to the outside of my garage is long enough to warrant plugging in my phone to listen to something other than terrestrial radio, you silly nonsense of a man

my daughter is just over 2 years old and i'm excited by the prospect of her getting the opportunity to try different team sports and make the most of those experiences but i am struggling a little bit with the last bit there about stories like this bringing parent behavior to light, because i feel like anyone who played youth sports competitively in my generation saw this all the time. so while it seems to have grown worse over time, it's nothing new. we don't need awareness so much as competitive organizations that enforce a zero tolerance policy towards these behaviors while working diligently to educate parents and push them to shift the culture. and i don't mean that in a hand-wave "it's just that simple" kind of way; i realize that this alone won't change much, but i don't see it happening without this either of course, when we engineer sulley's coup, a dad yelling at a sporting event will be swiftly punished with a tazer to the nuts. and while i would not seek nor accept the role of cultural minister, or really any of the lesser ministerial positions, i would spend some political capital to see that this is done. for the health and vitality of the people

plus they're a great launching pad for fireworks and/or good for bb gun target practice

i dunno, that guy seams like a sleaze so it doesn't appear there's any value in trying to understand his motivations but the thought that maybe someone would expense those things did occur to me

i'm exactly two spots ahead of you

nobody's perfect

u go girl! http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb263/slimkid_buckeye/animations/snap-snap.gif

Trade for Norris would need a taker for Montero to clear enough salary for Heyward. lol no

hard to be wrong if you're never specific in the first place

There's a donate link at the top of the page. at first i was like, "what page?" then i remembered it was on t he board index, which i never go to. anyway, request honored. board index 4 lyfe

mmmm malort

i think your joke displeases him

Is this an attempt at a funny? Or do you not know they signed Greinke and have Patrick Corbin? lmao

cerebrally, i'm pretty good with this trade. emotionally... it's complicated. he just had that "kid at heart" thing going on that made him endearing and even when he was not good, there was always a strong instinct to pull for him and hope for the best. that probably won't ever go away i was trying to think of my favorite moment of his from this past season. there's some good ones, but i keep coming back to one that perfectly represents his insuppressible goofiness with his penchant for the dramatic; that game against pittsburg in april when he got something in his eye, froze the pitcher, made some hilarious facial gestures, stepped back in the box, and won the game with a walk-off hit. that [expletive] was so hilarious and awesome and i just don't think any player before or after could dose out that combination of emotions so naturally and effortlessly

Oh, what is this fresh nonsense. Non-GMO crow is now being served at Sammy's table. Told ya. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MeApIX-K4uk/USUasY9wjeI/AAAAAAAAKw0/O2pTv0HYnQg/s1600/kevin-hart-tare.gif

i don't know what it says about me that i thought this was funny but whatever life's too short

no, you're thinking of when hippo vaughn literally choked on chicken dinner

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i suppose it's possible that an arbitrator could chose to rule against the cubs, in which case they would be subject to whatever penalties are outlined for such a thing in the CBA

nevermind that if they did tell him that twice in the last 6 months, and then traded him anyway, they would lose any credibility whatsoever amongst players. whatever that's worth, anyway

i thought that was posted before but didn't say anything because in this case, a re-post is totally forgivable if not desireable

what are the chances that cueto doesn't wind up in one of those two places at this point? seems like the desperation is probably going to set in if it hasn't already

given the success rate for big money long-term contracts, especially to aging pitchers, the player doesn't have to be irrational at all for this to work out well for the initial team. just because you get such great age 30-32 seasons from a guy that someone's willing to beat the last four years of the deal in place doesn't mean that you still aren't better off letting him go. that said, i do think these opt-outs do favor the players, just only very slightly. i'd much rather give a player one of those instead of additional money if that's what it takes to get the contract signed. A player opting out for a larger contract may not be as bad as the converse of a player being hurt/ineffective and staying the duration of the deal, but that doesn't make it a positive. Losing a player for nothing who was under contract for less than he can get on the open market is definitionally a negative outcome. If your risk tolerance is such that you don't want to pay the player, then you can get *something* in trade if teams are willing to pay more than the remainder of the contract in free agency. EDIT: Just to make sure I'm clear, I'm with you on the second paragraph. I don't overly care if the Cubs give an opt out, especially if it's to a 30 year old SP like Shark or Price. So if giving Samardzija an opt out after 2 years makes it possible to get him for something like 4+team option at 70 instead of a straight 5/90, sign me up. But at the same time, I recognize that opt out has no positive outcomes for the team itself. when evaluated in a vacuum, true. but this isn't a vacuum, and we can't assume that the potential for 20 mil in payroll flexibility is "nothing" to a team 3 years down the line or whatever. the only way to see this as a net negative outcome in every circumstance is to, again, heavily discount the enormous risk of a 7 year contract to a free-agent pitcher. because yes, a player opt out most definitely can have positive outcomes for the team. just because it may not in a potential year 4 in some scenarios, doesn't imply that it cannot be a net positive in years 5-7. or even in year 4, for that matter

what? hendricks on steroids sounds amazing

when santa checks his list twice, he's going to see that i've made a revision