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  1. David
    yyuuuuppppp....massive upgrade.
  2. David
    yes please [tweet] [/tweet]
  3. David
    not bat flip related but from that same article:
  4. David
    waddle and silvy had him on and he may have been making even less sense [tweet] [/tweet]
  5. David
    I believe the preferred nomenclature is sobriety challenged. I prefer drunks or boozehounds i definitely think of boozehounds as distinct from winos. winos are saaaaaad and have serious problems. boozehounds just really enjoy booze (and may well be on track to become winos, but they aren't there yet). yeah, when i think of a wino, i think of a homeless guy drinking md 20/20 or something
  6. David
    You're 45 or less? Would not have guessed that. Your immediate impulse was to estimate CubinNY's age based upon his post and (presumably) your knowledge of the date of construction of that particular McDonalds? [expletive]. Robot. i read that it's been there since 1980 earlier today and for some reason thought of him as one of the older guys here...maybe 50+ *shrug*
  7. David
    When you're 9 and you grew up in rural Michigan you don't. The memory is indelible. You're 45 or less? Would not have guessed that.
  8. David
    Weren't you just poking fun at reposts in another thread? game thread reposts are by definition not reposts!
  9. David
    Lester got knocked around a bit but Soler just went all OPPO DONG!
  10. David
    this makes two reposts in a little over 12 hours
  11. David
    If you have MLB.tv, you can actually watch this one...otherwise, there should be a web broadcast at the link http://m.mlb.com/tv/e14-469552-2016-03-10/?&media_type=audio&team=chc
  12. David
    they don't want his ankiel/wohlers syndrome infecting our good pitchers
  13. David
    [tweet]https://twitter.com/CarrieMuskat/status/708009364003487744[/tweet]
  14. David
    I thought Tracy Porter played a pro bowl caliber CB last season. The Bears apparently did too. PFF clearly did not.
  15. David
    http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14943065/goose-gossage-rips-jose-bautista-toronto-blue-jays-nerds-ruining-baseball
  16. David
    i'll take them missing the playoffs instead
  17. David
    This Braves blog put together a composite top 100 based on BP, Law, MLB Pipeline, and BA's lists. http://www.talkingchop.com/2016/2/29/11131746/mlb-top-100-prospects-composite
  18. David
    Yeah, it's anecdotal, obviously. Most of the people I talk sports with are really into baseball, are well versed in statistics, and obviously that has a lot to do with it. But knowing the basic formations is pretty superficial knowledge, and as you say, beyond that, it usually devolves into ranting about intangibles, leadership, toughness and "knowing how to win". And maybe some quasi-knowledgeable bitching about rules/penalties. At football viewing parties I've been to, there's typically a small handful of knowledgeable fans, and a much larger contingent who root hard, but who need the few to explain anything not completely obvious to them. i don't know a single person like this in real life...i know a few who are smart enough to easily grasp that sort of thing if i explain it to them, but that's about it. nobody who even knows half as much as the average poster here does.
  19. David
    4 years $28M for trevathan
  20. David
    the madden effect
  21. David
    that's probably got something to do with the steeper learning curve to just have a basic understanding of football that and the fact that a lot of conventional wisdom in football is much newer than the dumb old baseball stuff...there's less traditionalism and nonsense like that too to keep the old ways of thinking strong.
  22. David
    yeah, that's pretty much what i said. :dontknow:
  23. David
    went by there today...looks like they're already putting up the external structure of the western gate
  24. David
    it's also the most easily analyzed because it's so simple, which is kinda why smarter, more analytically minded fans love it, even though that's kind of oxymoronic
  25. David
    I think the lowest common denominator comment is way off. Consider that in a sport like football, where coaching and strategy actually matter, as opposed to baseball, where it's all about getting the best players and having them play. Baseball writers have always pretended it was more of a thinking man's game when it never was. It's just a very simple game and that's what makes it so great. i like baseball more than i like football when all things are equal (i.e. when my teams in them are equally good), and i completely agree with this. football takes so much more thinking and strategy than baseball that it's not even funny. it's not just a bunch of cavemen being violent.
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