Bote McBoteface

sooo...we'll be inactive since we have none? To be fair, he allowed for the possibility that there could be a singular "good player." I had Contreras in my head and then put the S in parenthesis once I realized that I couldnt think of any others. :lol: Somebody might give up something of value for Hendricks, if he can string together a couple promising starts.

We’re gonna start trading away our good player(s) in like 5 weeks dude

I want either Schwarber or Soler, preferably Schwarber. The man was born to play in a league that bans the shift and has a DH.

How so? I’m sick of every left handed hitter being a 3 True Outcomes hitter because they can’t beat the shift. People keep saying “well they should just adjust then” but i mean I think if they could they would have. Maybe when an entire generation of hitters has been developed to go the other way we can see some meaningful adjustment but even still, try going the other way on a 100mph inside fastball. Most sports have some rules about how offenses and defenses are aligned. Not sure the up roar about it. I’d be ok with a shift that requires the defense to be on the IF dirt. It’s just so unnatural to have an infielder camped out in short right field and unfairly neutralizes LHH who already have a disadvantage as most of their batted balls go toward the side of the field they are running towards This is pretty much exactly where I stand on the shift. I didn’t WANT to want to ban the shift. But I’m so sick of left handed hitters being handcuffed by it. Everybody loves to say that they should just go the other way, but there are fielders there, too, also standing exactly where theyre most likely to hit it. And theyre being pitched inside. These are the very best left handed baseball players in the world, if it was that simple for them to just change their approach to beat the shift, they would have done that in 2010 and the shift would be obsolete now. You have to do it carefully. You can’t ban bunt defenses, you cant ban “infield in” or “no doubles outfield”. Just restrict infielders to be positioned within the infield dirt or closer, meaning you can have infielders in front of the dirt but not behind it, with two on one side of 2nd base and two on the other. You might have to be a little more restrictive/creative than that, forcing the defense to be a couple feet away diagonally from 2nd base (restricting a fielder from positioning directly behind 2nd base) but it should be relatively simple to implement and regulate and its mostly how the game was played prior to ~2009

Am I correct in assuming that I’m in a deep minority on this board when I say that I really hope banning the shift happens? If we get a pitch clock, universal DH, banned or limited defensive shift, keep the 3 batter minimum for a reliever and do away with the 7 inning DHs and the extra inning runner on 2nd….thats really, really perfect imo. Then we can keep screaming “robot umps”/“fix the replay system” and maybe one day we’ll get that too.

Wait, mlb is proposing that only the top 4 draft picks are assigned using a lottery? So if you finish in the bottom 4 you still have a 25% chance of getting the top pick? Will it be like NBA where your record impacts your odds of getting the top pick? Is it me or does tanking still seem like a viable strategy with only the top 4 in a lottery?

I like reading facebook comments from people that can't articulate a coherent or original thought so they make false equivalencies in the hopes of sounding provocative. It's like telling me you sister and mother is the same person without stating it. :lol:

I like reading facebook comments from the people opposed to universal DH. Its like, tell me that you voted for Trump twice without mentioning politics.

Just like playing real football!

The payroll was extremely small and they had a desperate need for starting pitching. What is the confusion? I guess I was expecting scott feldmans and Ian Stewarts, I dunno. People who were clearly signed to be dealt at the deadline. I guess its possible that we plan to flip him this deadline or next. Its just a higher quality of FA than I thought we’d be considering

I don’t really get this signing……we still suck don’t we?

Old news oop

Yeah Im at this game and that was striking. Tbh i would have gone dark green to match the ivy behind the wall, but at least that icky lime green is gone

Glad I held off on buying the “Jake Arrietta Great Again” hat that I loved so much

FWIW Hoerner turns into the best second baseman in baseball if you sim your MLB The Show franchise to 2026.

Yeah, Maddux was on the cusp of greatness and we had to witness it with another team. Odds are good that these three all gave us their best years (maybe not Bryant, but probably). I feel very comfortable predicting Bryant isn't winning any more MVP awards. I only doubt that he can remain healthy enough for that. The talent is still there for a run at an MVP.

I did it but I suck. That gets deleted in a month, so if its gonna get use you might want to upload it elsewhere.

I am extremely impressed by the Angels’ ability to completely suck.

I hate it

Yeah I don’t really get making 2B/3rd bigger. I guess making 2B bigger, in theory, makes it a little safer on double play balls with the slide (also may be the beginning of making any sort of contact/take out slide illegal)? Making first base bigger makes a ton of sense to me. Idk why they just don’t have basically the double base there like in softball or little league (plays like the Lee-Furcal collision wouldn't or shouldn't happen as an example). The most dangerous thing to me is fixing the base so it’s not some weird rubber/plastic that has no give when sprinting and having to plant a metal spike that also gets slippery when wet/humid/damp. I was coming to post the double base thing. My tiny hometown highschool softball team installed those in like 2002 because its obviously a good idea, and since the first day I saw them I've wondered why they aren't used in every baseball/softbal league. I dunno, I'da done that a long time ago.

The Cubs suck a lot more now than they did when I woke up, and they sucked when I woke up. The Cubs are gonna lose me here. At least make good baseball trades as you sell off.

I’ll be displeased with a Schwarber NT unless its followed up by signing him for cheaper. Or maybe I should just accept that he’s gonna suck here and then explode once the Mariners or whoever pick him up.

Its amazing how he was with Boston forever and us for a blink of an eye, and they were both about 9 years.

Is it me or does it look extremely dark in that stadium?

I remember the Cubs loaded the bases with 0 out against the Braves in the 03 NLDS, and my first thought was “oh no, we never do anything with the bases loaded and no out.” My opinion of the Cub’s abilities with the bases loaded has never changed in the 17 seasons between. Although Im sure they were pretty good there in 08 and 16. I’m pretty sure Kerry Wood cleared the bases with a 2 out double, though.