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No [expletive] way. I'd vote to fold the NHL before I'd give up even a single month of baseball (even in a season like this), and I'd do it without compunction. But seriously, taste in sports is totally subjective, you can't make a case at all. I wish I liked hockey, I'm a Chicago fan and would like to cheer for a championship team, and I've given it a chance, but I just can't muster up a single [expletive] to give about hockey.

Worrrrrrrd. Spoken like 14 year olds who have never gotten high. Perhaps, but they're still right.

Reading YouTube comments is one of the quickest and surest ways to lose the remainder (or a good portion of) of your faith in humanity.

Jackson pulled a Garza there. Too bad, he had the runner easily.

I always laugh out loud at those MLB Network spots describing Williams as one of their team of great "baseball minds". He's a [expletive] neanderthal.

He just likes to browbeat people to make himself feel superior. He's a [expletive] punk. That said, I value his baseball opinions (most of the time).

What'd Tulo say to him (small screen, hard to read his lips)?

Is what was said about almost every steroid user prior to finding out they were on steroids. Actually it's not. Plenty of users didn't get big and muscular, not every PED user turns into a 'roid monster. For every Bonds or McGwire, there are many more guys who got busted and didn't "look" like they were juiced. It may be comforting to think that PED users are somehow visually identifiable, but the truth is that there's no way to tell without a test (and no doubt Puig has been tested multiple times by now). I agree, and I guess I didn't word my statement correctly. Not every steroid user is a big muscle-bound freak, but for those that ARE huge we typically hear the suggestion that they are just big, athletic guys up until the point that we find out there was something else involved. If Matt Holliday isn't on steroids, it'd be hard to make any presumptions about anyone based upon them looking like a musclebound freak.

Is what was said about almost every steroid user prior to finding out they were on steroids. Actually it's not. Plenty of users didn't get big and muscular, not every PED user turns into a 'roid monster. For every Bonds or McGwire, there are many more guys who got busted and didn't "look" like they were juiced. It may be comforting to think that PED users are somehow visually identifiable, but the truth is that there's no way to tell without a test (and no doubt Puig has been tested multiple times by now).

Yeah, not the best argument to make for Puig not being on roids. FTR, I don't have any reason tho think Puig is using PEDs, but 90% of the NFL probably is. Well, 75% at least. i guess it was more a complaint about the cognitive dissonance by people who gets suspicious of every baseball player who looks strong and plays well, but then cheer wildly when their favorite football team is packed with players who run like the wind yet can bench press a house. There's a sense of sanctimony around baseball that isn't there with other sports, mainly because of the reverence for the records, and mass delusion that previous eras were pristine. People don't give a [expletive] about football records, they just want to see players make ridiculously athletic plays and blow each other up. It's the modern day Colosseum. And yes, the dissonance is annoying.

Do you picture him rising from the mist as well?

Yeah, not the best argument to make for Puig not being on roids. FTR, I don't have any reason tho think Puig is using PEDs, but 90% of the NFL probably is. Well, 75% at least.

Funny, but I hope Rizzo's BABIP normalizes, he continues with his progression and gets his power output to his potential. And the NL adopts the DH and Vogelbach finds a spot on the roster that way.

Somehow I don't think that needing to add a hitter to the lineup would set the team back two years. Either way, it's not going to happen this year. I'd be surprised if it didn't within five years, though. Hopefully it coincides with Vogelbach breaking into the league (provided he does).

No, it's because someone on this board had the temerity to tempt fate and mention how he hadn't been hit yet at Tennessee.

This. It's getting to the point that there is such a yawning chasm between Baez and Lindor offensively that the position issue is becoming less and less relevant. Lindor has a better approach and may make a fine top of the order hitter because of his OBP, but Baez is looking like an middle of the order, impact bat. Even at 3B, I'm thinking Baez is more valuable.

I really think it's just a combination of the experts sticking with their horses and hoping they end up looking prescient as well as the simple fact that there's no way they can do all the homework it takes to keep current on every player. At least during the season, as Kyle mentioned. With some (cough Keith Law cough), I think there is a lot of ego involved. Switching up now would entail conceding their initial assessments were off, which would be unacceptable. They'll ride their horses all the way into oblivion like Slim Pickens on his nuke, if need be. And if it comes to that, they will only have been wrong because something "unforeseeable" happened. At the end of the day, there's 30 systems and 7 or 8 teams per system. I don't care if Parks or Law does this for 15 hours a day, that's not enough time to thoroughly follow each system. The hardcore fans of each team know their system better than these guys do. Plus, there's an element of backlash. I imagine their twitter blows up every time Baez homers, and it's never enough until all the Cubs prospects are ranked at the peak of their reasonable ranges. While this is very true, they do have and almost certainly do take the time to be familiar with the top prospects in the game. For example, does Keith Law track every box score and walk Baez takes like we do? Of course not. Does he know his K:BB ratio is trending in a positive direction and he is blowing his league away in OPS? Almost certainly. There is definitely a "I'm not going to admit I was wrong" component in play with many of these guys. And ftr, I could easily understand why a guy like Lindor could have been ranked ahead of Baez four or five months ago. Not so much now, so much of the uncertainty around Baez is fading, and so much is breaking really right.

I really think it's just a combination of the experts sticking with their horses and hoping they end up looking prescient as well as the simple fact that there's no way they can do all the homework it takes to keep current on every player. At least during the season, as Kyle mentioned. With some (cough Keith Law cough), I think there is a lot of ego involved. Switching up now would entail conceding their initial assessments were off, which would be unacceptable. They'll ride their horses all the way into oblivion like Slim Pickens on his nuke, if need be. And if it comes to that, they will only have been wrong because something "unforeseeable" happened.

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Well, that was stupid.

That depends on how you define "sex". But seriously, that smug [expletive] would find some sort of convoluted rationalization that would allow him to believe he was still somehow right, and had been all along.

castro-rizzo-lake 1-2-3 for the rest of the season is fine with me Absolutely. Castro and Rizzo need to work their [expletive] out, and need all the ABs they can get in which to do so. There's no reason not to do this from here on out.

Yeah, but that they wouldn't have to delay the game for at least 5 solid minutes of love from the crowd is a crime. Totally agree.

I wonder if they'll send him somewhere this fall/winter to work on his mechanical issues. Something...ANYTHING...I want to love again. He's so much fun to watch when he's hitting. The physical gifts are clearly still there, so all is not lost. Yet.