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  1. JudasIscariotTheBird
    I'm sure you aren't alone in thinking/hoping this (I'm included in that group), but I'm not getting my hopes up.
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    Where can I find a pair of genie slippers like those?
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    Instead, you have WAY more DH dongs. I'll take that trade any day.
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    The main thing I don’t miss about chess tournaments is getting paired against kids. It’s 50/50 that you’re going to destroy them and feel bad or they’re going to destroy you and you just got walked by a 9 year old. P sure a 13 year old was getting help from his dad’s laptop on his “bathroom break” one time so horsefeathers that kid I was playing an 8 year old years ago, and I'm good enough that I would probably have heard of any 8 year old that could beat me in Denver, but I was wrong. After 15 moves it was looking grim for me. Down a few pawns and in a worse, holed up position. But then he blundered his rook. I felt so bad. He was just sitting there staring at the board and looking glum. Probably went on like that for 20 minutes when I realized I hadn't hit the clock yet. (I wasn't used to playing with a clock.) As soon as I hit the clock he resigned. I wasn't sure if I should feel bad or not, as he was just hoping to win on time, I suppose. Savy for an 8 year old. He's rated around 2300 last I checked (at age 17)
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    Yes, you subscribe to what I like to call The Church of my Last Sentence, which is totally cool. The Cubs are not a business, MLB is not a business. It's a billionaire club that is closed. It's exempt from antitrust and the rules that you think apply don't apply. You're too smart by half. [bbvideo=560,315] [/bbvideo]
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    ...but Amazon bought my nearest local grocery store!
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    We're going to need a bigger Bote.
  9. JudasIscariotTheBird
    Yeah, that whole description of relationships sounds EXACTLY like this autistic friend I have whom I cam across from online poker. He sees and treats all relationships and friendships as cost-benefit transactions.
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    He is really giving Colby Covington a run for his money as most easily hated personality in sports.
  11. JudasIscariotTheBird
    Were the 2009-15 Blackhawks a dynasty? Nope. And it always annoyed me that people tried to claim it. Anytime we have a perfectly good word for describing something, fans have to stretch it because they really want their favorite to qualify. And then the stretch gets stretched. And then the stretched stretch gets stretched. Next thing you know, you get something blithering like the Cubs winning two division titles and having two split wild cards being put up as a possible dynasty. Dynasty was coined to describe things like UCLA basketball under Wooden or the post WWII Yankees. I’m willing to allow for a little bit of a stretch to something like 3 straight titles or 4 in 5 years, but even that is starting to water it down quite a bit. Hawks were totes a dynasty. They won a bunch of stuff and were good over a period of time. So claimith I.
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    Is a guy with a career 3.12 FIP and back to back 1 WAR seasons out of the pen allowed to "breakout?" As a general template I’m looking at David Robertson’s 2011 Oddly specific, but sign me up.
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    Is a guy with a career 3.12 FIP and back to back 1 WAR seasons out of the pen allowed to "breakout?"
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    I think we need to start including error bars and percentiles of likelihood because terms like "likely best case scenario" are totally meaningless without some kind of numerical context.
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    Well, I can answer the why. (Hendricks - Hen = dricks = drix) The rest remains a mystery.
  18. JudasIscariotTheBird
    Without checking the other rosters, I wouldn't be shocked to learn that Monty is the best 6th SP in baseball, based on projections.
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    Apollos? Plural Apollo? That makes no sense what-so-ever. I like it.
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    I need to clarify my like is a hate like
  21. JudasIscariotTheBird
    The comments are awesome:
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    The Onion: Bryce Harper Asks If Phillies Willing To Move To Another City
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    For all the Nakamura fans out there, this is, without a doubt, the most Nakamura thing he has ever done: [bbvideo=560,315] [/bbvideo]
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    I always assumed the main benefit to starting with a reliever was that you can start with a reliever with opposite splits of the "starter" that would come in for the 2nd inning. If you have Rich Hill up in your rotation,the opposition would pack the line up with righties, and the top of the line up is where you put your best hitters, for obvious reasons. But if you bring in a right-handed reliever to start the game, you either get an inning of good match ups, or you cause a bunch of early-game, non-double-switch PH/defensive switches (unless the other team is also starting the game with a reliever) OR at the least, you force the other team into putting their best split-dependant hitters lower in the order. Am I thinking of this wrong? I think the make up of the bullpen plays a lot into how beneficial it can be.
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