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  1. David
    yyyyyyyyyyikkkkessssssssssssssssss
  2. David
    you're real bad at this, plz don't reference me
  3. David
    Eloy dong! [tweet] [/tweet]
  4. David
    I'm not defending what he did, I just find it unfair to label him the way he's been labeled based on what we know. People are making it seem like he nearly killed someone. What he did was wrong and bat [expletive] crazy, no doubt about it. Too much alcohol can make good people do bad things. I just don't know if that makes him a 100% evil person, but I don't know enough. I'll take a self-imposed break from the board, I hope you all will find it in your hearts to give me a second chance. Sorry I cannot dismiss firing a shotgun off to intimidate something you're fighting with as something drunk people just do sometimes. I completely believe in second chances, but I also completely believe that if you do something so dumb and so violent it is a cross you should have to bear for a good while. It doesn't get erased from your record after 8 months because you apologized a couple of times. was it an actual shotgun? that's even crazier than what i pictured.
  5. David
    i mean the yankees still ridiculously have miller and betances, but we're up there It's tough to have a 7-8-9 as good as Strop/Rondon/Chapman, especially if you toss in Edwards's emergence I think it's a fair argument to make. There's a handful of teams with really good pairings that could make an argument, the Orioles, Dodgers, inexplicably the Marlins, etc. yeah, it's pretty damn solid. aside from that ridiculously good top 3, you've got edwards, grimm, and montgomery...and then wood and cahill are basically long relief and oh, yeah, nathan
  6. David
    i mean the yankees still ridiculously have miller and betances, but we're up there
  7. David
    I like that comparison a lot, actually.
  8. David
    Maybe it'll be Tyler Beede.
  9. David
    I'm a big NFL fan, I loved Sammy Sosa for a long time even though I'm pretty sure he did some crappy things, I rooted for Brandon Marshall, etc. I've come to terms, I guess, with the fact that I can compartmentalize my feelings about terrible dudes (and that there are probably a lot more that I don't even know a thing about) in sports. Hell, there are probably guys on this team who I would have huge differences with if I really knew them. This is obviously on the extreme end of that, but I guess I broke bad on this type of thing long ago. It sucks to have to compromise myself and my views this way but ultimately I root for my teams and the players are (slightly) secondary. All else equal, I'd rather win with all good dudes who I like, but for the most part, especially when it comes to high end talent, I just do my best to look past it (and probably suppress any associated guilt).
  10. David
    You might not be wrong, but I don't think it particularly matters. Chapman is not a good guy, this is the worst but not the only data point in that regard. He put his hands around the woman's neck as part of an argument, shot a gun in frustration, and (this might be a previous incident) hurt his hand punching a car window. Anyone not comfortable or happy with him on the team because of it is not unjustified, especially given the culture around domestic violence and extra especially with celebrities/athletes. It doesn't mean that's the one true interpretation, but debating the minutiae of that incident is not a winning argument, because even if you're right the people upset are still not wrong. I'm now remembering some crazy ESPN magazine article or something talking about how insanely strange his day to day life is in the offseason. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about?
  11. David
    arrieta cgso, 5-0.
  12. David
    Hate that guy. Jean Segura also joins the Billy Hamilton Club of Extremely Mediocre HItters who Inexplicably Kill the Cubs Jean Segura is hitting .316/.364/.451 with a .352 wOBA He is nothing at all like those other guys. He sucked in 2014-15, but he seems to have found whatever he lost after 2013.
  13. David
    hahahahahahahahahaha your friend may be a perfectly decent person. But I hope I never have to talk baseball with him (or her). ahahha what the hell?
  14. David
    [tweet] [/tweet]
  15. David
    thought you were going to vet better. wtf?
  16. David
    mckinney is literal garbage so of course id rather have cease than him but jesus christ the wailing and gnashing of teeth over these children in LOW A BALL is really amazing. Especially given that the Montgomery for Vogelbach trade was universally loved. Gleybar and Vogelbach were blocked and brought more value as trade chips than players. A guy who's destroying AAA brings back several years of cost control for an extremely shakey career middle relief loogy. A Low A Ball prospect + garbage brings back a rental of a future Hall of Famer generational talent. I don't see the huge discrepency in cost to baseball value to a World Series Contending team in the two trades to warrant such polar extremes of reaction. Vogelbach is still held in much lower regard because he has no positional value, while Torres (as a SS, at least) is near the top of the defensive spectrum. Then there's age. Then there's the fact that Montgomery has a lot of team control left.
  17. David
    i see the report that the yankees were trying to extend chapman but i'm still not getting why they'd bother investing big money there when they already have an absurd bullpen with miller and betances.
  18. David
    Yeah. With like a billion dollars coming off the books if he was going to sign for 4/60 he'd be a Yankee. He probably still will be but just for more years and perhaps AAV. You said this last night too...wondering why you're so sure he'd rather be a Yankee than a Cub at equal salaries.
  19. David
    Szymborski's ridiculous projections on him going into the year that had be irrationally excited I really thought we won that trade. maybe we did, I don't know, but I was expecting him to not suck giant gaping [expletive] yeah, but the fact that we expected warren to be pretty good was gravy. getting rid of the contract on a terrible player and being able to sign zobrist as a result was the win.
  20. David
    these chapman stats always blow my mind even though i'm entirely used to seeing them [tweet] [/tweet]
  21. David
    knew you were attempting a joke and still think you're a horsefeathering weirdo
  22. David
    I just threw up. whatever that anecdote is has no basis in reality
  23. David
    i mean that's a weird horsefeathering post even if he somehow isn't aware of anything aside from the shooting guns off part.
  24. David
    lol what
  25. David
    holy horsefeathers i am now convinced you are not a real person
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