Vinestal

Given the paucity of catchers in our system, that's not a big surprise. Actually we seem to have some good ones-

Very versatile defender Guess I coulda typed out double... *sigh* Was almost a HR hit high on the wall

Soler 2B

Almora HR

Jacob Hannemann hits his 1st D-Cubs HR to straight away center

I think the announcers might have noticed that

well maybe that means he can play in game 2

Radio guys weren't aware of that though they did say he complained about the strike 2 call

Soler has been pulled no explaination after a swinging K to end the inning

Bryant BB

Baez HR

HR Soler

I wondered if anyone else thought those sucked. I hate hate hate hate audio adds.

I see Kyle being sarcastic and goony suggesting that someone with thin skin will have a hard time pretty much anywhere on the internet (but being a bit more blunt and condescending about it). I hope you can take a step back and see that while that certainly isn't ideal behavior, bluntly calling people out for being rude is very similar behavior to the original rudeness. It is just a different trigger for acting in a similar way. As you rightly suggest, there are more subtle and preferable ways to offer alternatives. A lot of posters here routinely get away with treating other people like total crap and when someone calls them out for it everyone else piles on,it's exactly the reason you have so few posters here. Just my opinion. I'll go back to just reading again and quit trying to swim up river. Enjoy the grand jackassery as it's always been.

Nice little article on Schwarber : http://atmilb.com/1kmBrLi

Good job guys, excellent really... I knew they'd show themselves fairly quickly here, it's like chumming the water for the sharks. Back to lurking quick!

Or we could try to correct those uninformed opinions. Let's not pretend that we don't enjoy when a meatball comes on here spouting ignorance and we all jump in to get our licks in. This exactly. As someone who has been reading these boards for years as an outsider, I can tell you there are obviously a bunch of smart posters here. But among those posters, there's a fairly sharp divide between the ones who use their knowledge to correct meatball-ish opinions and who actually do challenge you to think more critically about statistical analysis...and those who are just chomping at the bit to obliterate you with a scarcastic response and a snarky gif. I think everyone drifts into that territory from time to time (and maybe rightly so sometimes) but some people live there and it can be quite offputting to infrequent/non-posters. Just the two cents of someone kind of on the outside looking in. Exactly, they created the environment and have been living in it for so long they can't even recognize when they are being A-holes. *shrug* it is what it is. plenty here worth reading on a daily basis. that's what keeps me here. **wtf did the "!'s" come from Can you tell when you are being a whiny baby? ^^ Exhibit A

Or we could try to correct those uninformed opinions. Let's not pretend that we don't enjoy when a meatball comes on here spouting ignorance and we all jump in to get our licks in. This exactly. As someone who has been reading these boards for years as an outsider, I can tell you there are obviously a bunch of smart posters here. But among those posters, there's a fairly sharp divide between the ones who use their knowledge to correct meatball-ish opinions and who actually do challenge you to think more critically about statistical analysis...and those who are just chomping at the bit to obliterate you with a scarcastic response and a snarky gif. I think everyone drifts into that territory from time to time (and maybe rightly so sometimes) but some people live there and it can be quite offputting to infrequent/non-posters. Just the two cents of someone kind of on the outside looking in. Exactly, they created the environment and have been living in it for so long they can't even recognize when they are being A-holes. *shrug* it is what it is. plenty here worth reading on a daily basis. that's what keeps me here. **wtf did the "!'s" come from

See, and you drove him off with your bitter rage lol (don't remember much about davearm but the name sounds familiar).

Well it can be a bit of a hive mind here because you guys scare off any other opinions so the only ones left are your own. Just because they are the only ones voiced here doesn't mean they are the only "worthwhile" ones. I thought about making that point, and groupthink is a concern, but there have been some pretty good debates in the past from our smarter posters who have differing opinions on a particular topic. Sure there are a lot of bad arguments to get to that one good one, but the good ones are worth the bad ones I think. Your probably right and I think most people here have learned to ignore Kyle, it's part of the NSBB initiation process. ** not that Kyle can't be nice every now and then or have an informed opinion from time to time

Well it can be a bit of a hive mind here because you guys scare off any other opinions so the only ones left are your own. Just because they are the only ones voiced here doesn't mean they are the only "worthwhile" ones.

I would think that being less wrong would be a better solution. Everybody starts somewhere. I was pretty meatballish still around the time I started posting. Good arguments with smart posters finally brought me around. I think part of the problem for lurkers now is that there's this expectation that they have to already understand all the SABR stuff before they can start posting. And that's just silly. It's a moving target. As the game changes so do all the old SABR rules. It wasn't that long ago that being SABR-savvy meant loving guys like Adam Dunn, which certainly isn't the case anymore. Fielding and baserunning are emphasized more now. With the lower run environment, the sacrifice bunts we used to hate are strategically viable in a much larger number of scenarios. Looking forward, I think we're going to start to see more focus on things like power hitting, positional flexibility, and bullpen usage. I don't know what my point is. Lurkers should post more often though. There is a certain set of people here that hammer people with ideas that differ from their own, for years it made it pretty difficult for anyone new or anyone outside that circle of people to post here. For a long segment of time I didn't post at all both because the product on use field wasn't worth paying attention to and because people here were just plain mean. It may have changed somewhat since then, but I understand why it can't be a difficult environment for new folks.

Reminds me of when Doug Dascenzo pitched back in the day and made constant referenced to after that for years. Would show up to pitchers meetings in spring training, fun times... Fun times... ** 4 ip over 5 different games in 2 years 0.00 era even struck out a couple batters, never a win though

Hopefully Soler plays in at least one of those games.

Well Moyer was old for years and years and years and he was still pretty decent for most of those years. Some people can do it lol