George Hayduke

Maddon: "That's [expletive] bull [expletive]....that's fucked up!"

Well [expletive].

Lol, Castillo thought he had some wheels...

Got him on the change again, but a much better at bat this time around.

Loving this.

Only out of market.

[expletive] seriously? we are going to get posts like this in september even arent we Forgive me for not giving two [expletive] about anything in the "Cubs TV Deal" thread. To be fair, this has been covered several times in several threads.

Watching the games on my laptop, which I would connect to my tv with an HDMI cable. Each time I would try to connect on my phone, I couldn't connect to MLB TV, as when I click on the stream I wanted, it would take me to some app that said I had to pay money for the services. So I assumed that my subscription didn't include streaming on my phone. When I went to the At Bat app, it didn't mention that it was tied in with MLB TV anywhere, so I gave up trying to get it on my phone. Ahh, yeah...if you had the At Bat app before you got MLB.TV, you have to link the two or something like that. I can't really remember, but basically you get a free At Bat membership with the MLB.TV and you have to turn off your original subscription. I know that was vague and probably not helpful, but I do remember something a couple years ago when I had At Bat and was paying the $3/mo to stream audio, then got MLB.TV with the free At Bat premium, but was still getting charged the $3 until I fixed it or linked them by doing something. So the point is...go do something or another and it will be fine.

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Ugh, please be OK.

Nice play by Castro!

1-for-4 in playoff appearances would make things a lot better than 0-for-4. http://replygif.net/i/1273.gif

Keep it in the strip club thread guys. And no mega thread, each club gets its own thread.

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They could award him the missing service time, effectively making him a free-agent a year earlier. And the flip side is, there's very little downside to waiting two more days and then being able to say, "well if we were holding him down only for service time reasons, why wouldn't we have brought him up two days ago?" But what's the magic number? If the CBA says Day X, and you think bringing him up on Day X risks a crazy arbitration ruling, how long do you have to wait? Is Day X+1 enough time? "If this were only service time related, we would have brought him up yesterday!" If crazy arbitrator isn't buying that on Day X, he's not buying it on Day X+1 either. So is it 2 days? A week? A month? How long do you have to wait before you're certain that bringing him up isn't going to cost you a year of control? It seems like the kind of thing you'd want some clarity on. It's so important, I'd expect the owners and MLBPA might actually want a mutually acceptable time. In fact, they might include it in the CBA! Novel idea. I hope they do that. There's probably a law of diminishing returns on each successive day. Day 1 after is the most valuable in strengthening his case. Waiting until Day 2 strengthens the case more but not as much as Day 1, Day 3 less so than Day 2, and so on. There's no magic number but I think a couple or three days would probably do the trick. Just enough for plausible deniability. I'm sure Theo will combine it with other circumstances as well ("we had injuries, wanted him to start on the road where there's less pressure, he had a really good night in Iowa last night", etc etc).

They could award him the missing service time, effectively making him a free-agent a year earlier. And the flip side is, there's very little downside to waiting two more days and then being able to say, "well if we were holding him down only for service time reasons, why wouldn't we have brought him up two days ago?"

They would very probably lose, but nothing is a guarantee. Given that the best evidence the MLBPA would have in its favor is how soon after the 12th service day he is actually called up, he may hedge his bets and wait a couple extra days. Or not. Like I said, you could be right, but I wouldn't be at all shocked if it's not Friday.

They could file a grievance that he was held down solely for service time reasons.

Maybe, but it seems like he's taken a lot of effort to create a bunch of justifications for not bringing him up yet. Seems like at this point he would hold off an extra two or three games just to make his position as unreproachable as possible to the MLBPA.

No, because any AL team is going to want the strongest non-position bat possible at DH. His OPS last year was .685. The only reason that plays in MLB at all is because he's a catcher (a traditionally difficult defensive position to get good offense from).

Must. Have. This. Guy.

Would a Ross sac bunt be dumb here?

He was light years behind on that swing...

Screw BABIP, just give us walks and dongs.