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  1. abuck1220
    you win our contest to see who can pay attention the longest to their embarrassing big 12 football team despite their actually good basketball team's season having started.
  2. abuck1220
    Says the guy name-dropping the Avett Brothers, who are apparently a real thing, and pretending like he hates them. I don't know if I like them, I have to check pitchfork first brb
  3. abuck1220
    and starlin castro preferred the sound of rocks being thrown down an empty well looped with profound silence
  4. abuck1220
    would it change your mind if you found out cole hamels liked pearl jam
  5. abuck1220
    what's the minimum number of ironic mustaches a band must have before you respect them
  6. abuck1220
    the fact that you know the name of a 25 year old b-side only shows how important of a band they are.
  7. abuck1220
    true, an artist's music sounds much better once he's blown his head off
  8. abuck1220
    I mean, no, my wife and I didn't go out for organic okra before going to see the avett brothers play artisanal banjos at a mustache festival in williamsburg but we had a good time.
  9. abuck1220
    that's not even a thing you doofus
  10. abuck1220
    this is the lester/pearl jam thread. go start a thread about how framing a pitch properly is the equivalent of hitting 7 home runs if you and the rest of the hipsters want to talk about chvrches or whatever.
  11. abuck1220
    fine i'll just tell you...it was awesome.
  12. abuck1220
    i saw them play it in order live in moline. i'll tell you how awesome it was if you give me lester's FIL's number.
  13. abuck1220
    realize i'm jinxing iowa st here, but wow do gissell and Woodbury suck. and gissell ALWAYS has the ball at the end. without fail.
  14. abuck1220
    boy i think ethically he would be prohibited from doing that and i don't think you should encourage him.
  15. abuck1220
    and how
  16. abuck1220
    heyward didn't also get into a car accident fyi
  17. abuck1220
    yeah, all this talk about how much the cubs FO cares about pitch framing led me to searching for any comments they have made about it, and I couldn't find any.
  18. abuck1220
    oh well if you think it's silly then nevermind.
  19. abuck1220
    http://www.statcorner.com/CatcherReport.php yeah if you buy all that,sure. or if you just buy that montero is really, really good at it and castillo is really, really bad you can believe those two things and still not think its worth __ runs/wins/$.
  20. abuck1220
    http://www.statcorner.com/CatcherReport.php yeah if you buy all that,sure.
  21. abuck1220
    that's crazy money for martin, but they better just push all that $ into the pile they have waiting for lester.
  22. abuck1220
    he and niang are going to allow each other to score 40 points.
  23. abuck1220
    to actually say this, you have to be: a) a complete skeptic of the effect pitch framing can have b) totally unaware at the discrepancy which exists between the two players statcorner: 2014 2013 2012 total Martin +11 +17 +24 52 Castillo -24 -17 -5 -46 Baseball Prospectus: 2014 2013 2012 total Martin +19 +15 +23 57 Castillo -10 -16 -3 -29source: http://www.statcorner.com/CatcherReport.php http://www.baseballprospectus.com/sortable/index.php?cid=1667331 so, i'm really curious to hear which it is...because it's not unfathomable (to me) to believe that an event on which they have influence about 7,000-10,000 times could really add up to a significant effect, especially when scouting sources universally agree they're at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of ability it's simply impossible for me to hand-wave a factor that could alone likely amount to a 2-3 win difference and it's impossible for me to just accept that pitch framing alone amounts to a 2-3 win difference.
  24. abuck1220
    yes, that's obviously my concern. he was pretty blah from ages 26-29, and the concern is he'll be even blah-er from ages 32-36. which isn't some crazy leap to make.
  25. abuck1220
    who cares. that doesn't mean you have to give russell martin $75 mil.
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