jersey cubs fan

Sammy made a reference I didn't get...must be Simpsons. *googles* Yep. aww, that's the worst post I've ever seen

You talking 'bout Tagiar Baez?

Young Bears

Don't forget 4 infractions that go back to Nutt, the gift that keeps on giving. Always fun punishing players for something that happened when they were eight years old. leave Sandusky out of it

if he needs that, screw him learn to pitch at a decent pace If a guy is at 20, 25, 30+ pitches for an inning I get why he'd need to take a step away off the mound after a pitch or in between batters and re-collect himself for 20-30 seconds, is all I'm saying. well then if you really need that breather take the automatic ball penalty. we're not talking about one 30 second break. There are guys who take ridiculous amounts of time between every pitch. That is bad.

if he needs that, screw him learn to pitch at a decent pace

Sean Marshall for Travis wood

Yeah, they use like 15 catchers in spring training, so Schwarber being among that group is a non-story.

What am I missing here? pitchers and catchers report earlier than position players, yada yada yada, the bisque was good.

Never forget how melodramatic new york sportswriters can be https://twitter.com/FisolaNYDN/status/830168821621223424

WTF is wrong with sudden death? It's more exciting and typically leads to not having games last too long. Too much football is a bad thing, especially for the body. There is no good reason to play a bunch of over time periods until you end one with a team having a lead. It's a playoff game. It's not gonna happen that often. I'm just not a fan of sudden death...especially in a sport like football where possessions work the way they do. I prefer timed periods where they just play the game until the clock expires, like every other non overtime game. (Baseball is different, obviously, because it's completely different than every other major sport in how the "clock" works, so the home team sudden death thing is a very different animal.) Every time I ask this question nobody gives a good answer, and that continues. I just don't like it isn't an answer. Sudden death is good and fine and the way possessions work in football works just fine when OT comes along. You say yourself that it doesn't happen that often. This is another "solution looking for a problem". If you give NFL coaches the ability to play for the tie in shortened OT periods, they will do just that and games will go on forever.

WTF is wrong with sudden death? It's more exciting and typically leads to not having games last too long. Too much football is a bad thing, especially for the body. There is no good reason to play a bunch of over time periods until you end one with a team having a lead.

Is the coin flip that much of a factor now, with the flip winning team needing a TD to end it? What about the concept of a game that ends in a tie just continues as if the end of the 4th was the same as the end of the 1st or 3rd? If you tie it on a last second play, you kick off to the other team to start 5th QTR and its' now first team to score wins. I really hate getting hung up on the "fairness" question in OT because that never takes into account that both teams had the same exact chance to win in regulation. If you lose in OT you put yourself in a position to lose in OT by not winning in regulation.

I get it though, he's expecting to finish at a certain time but then it keeps going and arms are getting sore and that carries over into the next day or even a week.

Makes perfect sense. Makes no sense to me. I have no problem turning off a regular season game that's running late, or catching a couple minutes or couple innings mid-game.

what the what? why is there any interest in completely overhauling the game in extras? Extra innings are not an issue.

Super utility isn't a thing. And zobrist should play a lot of 2nd.

So many people trying to solve non-existent problems. Once a game goes extras it's a treat and fun. Speed up first 9.

he was also cloned to make Pedro Alvarez

Missing Goldman and McPhee, with Freeman being gone for 4 games, Floyd, Kwiatkowski, and Bullard being rookies. Basically, looking at it, Hicks and Freeman are elite players. Goldman and Floyd are potential elite. McPhee and Young are solid. The front seven is fine. If they suffer a rash of injuries, it won't look great. Injuries are gonna happen, and they arent that deep. Also not sure Id call Hicks elite. At times he plays at an elite level, but he hasnt been consistent throughout his career. And then Freeman, who is elite, is over 30. So is our front seven the biggest need? No, but they should look to add some pieces. You also can't just forget the fact that the elite Freeman who is over 30 "missed" 4 games due to a suspension for performance enhancing drugs.

wanting lower taxes and easy access to guns are forgivable redneck political ideas. Being pro-Trump makes you a piece of horsefeathers human being. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic -- you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people -- now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks -- they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. But the other basket -- and I know this because I see friends from all over America here -- I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas -- as well as, you know, New York and California -- but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well. And hopefully, those are the MLB players we love who voted for Trump. yes, I'm sure MLB players fit into that mythical poor people let down by the government so they voted for trump side.

wanting lower taxes and easy access to guns are forgivable redneck political ideas. Being pro-Trump makes you a piece of horsefeathers human being.