David

Is he all of a sudden not going to play a [expletive] of games at Petco and Dodger Stadium and AT&T? and this

much of what he'll gain at coors he'll lose on the road because of the coors breaking ball hangover effect

This'll settle everything

i've seen a point being made of this (at least half seriously by some), but, eh, meh? these guys have all been to chicago many times, and many of them are on teams where it's just as, if not more, crappy all the time. it's not like this is their first and/or only time here to suddenly paint their idea of it.

you don't say?

My favorite thing (other than the obvious WS stuff) to watch from that run is the comeback in SF.

I think leaving Chapman in was where my loathing of Maddon was cemented for life. Christ, what an insanely lucky maniac; that article is like a slow motion panic attack. Yep, especially coupled with bringing him in for game 6 in the 7th horsefeathering inning with a 7-2 lead because there were two on with two out AND THEN sending him back out for the 8th inning. Just a slow motion train wreck that Schwarber, Zobrist, etc bailed out. That was what really pissed me off. Chapman had just come off like 40+ pitches and almsot 3 innings in game 5 and he's bringing him into a 5 run game?

Huh Descalso is owed $2.5 million this year and $1 million buyout in 2021. I can't see PTR eating $3.5 million while we're still over the LT. A sunk cost is a sunk cost. This isn't like Jason Heyward or something where you try to hold out and try to extract some value as long as possible because you have so much invested going forward. This is just some bum on the bench. If Kipnis is better and there are other more capable bench dudes ahead of him too, it would be horsefeathering stupid to keep him around because of his salary.

Huh

Deciding to lead off the guy with a career .373 OBP, coming off a season he was over .400, and is 8th in MLB in OBP since 2014 doesn’t seem like a gut feeling. If it is, it’s at least a better feel than running Almora, Kemp, Descalso, etc out there at leadoff. yeah, to me we have a bunch of dudes i'd be fine with (on numbers alone) doing it, and there's definitely no justification for throwing actual terrible hitters there. the only wildcard to me is how the individual player reacts to it. heyward and schwarber might be totally fine there or might have totally been in their own heads about it (i believe both have said as much) - but we know rizzo embraces it.

I think that's a given and I think it's at least a likely source of some minor improvement

just as i was starting to let the spring training clips/pictures wash the disgusting taste of this offseason away from my mouth, they go back to doing dumb bad horsefeathers.

if i bet it i will watch

I thought it was Brett Jackson

You're not a dumb person, so I'm not sure how you can't scroll up and see that I mentioned Kelly and Manziel in response to Omar's statement about Antonio Brown being in the XFL. When the league started adding players people were joking (not just me) that it'd be a league that could feature some fun QB matchups with talented headcases like Manziel or Kelly going against each other. However, at the time the XFL had a "no previous criminal record" policy. I've since learned they've rescinded that policy. And the bet was clearly about him starting in the NFL. Then you said that you made the "jab" about Kelly because I was over hyping an Ole Miss crush "once again". To which I'm now responding by asking you why you have a problem with Kelly being brought up in a proper context (as I always have) and why you think him being brought up in an XFL thread is over hyping him. Perhaps I'm misreading or misinterpreting a statement of yours. you're such a horsefeathering weirdo dude

somebody besides me do it

man i really miss god mode jake

i'm not bringing anything that fancy to our little shindig. some slow cooker meatballs, some pigs in blankets, and a couple of take n bake pizzas

not to mention how marginalized basically every guy who plays a position other than 1B/LF/whatever but doesn't play elite defense would become.

nah that ship has sailed the past couple years imo aside from the injuries and the concern they cause (vs. arenado who has played at least 155 games every year since 2015), arenado fields 3B at an elite level and is just about as good a hitter. kb's defensive numbers have taken a big step back the past couple years from where the were in 2016.

ummmm... well this is one KB trade scenario i'd be more than A-OK with how can this possibly be real? saw someone else say he mentioned as much as $7-8M per year (!!??) on arenado being picked up by the rockies

Why do people keep pretending there is strategy involved here? Because there is? It's a lost battle and I've reconciled myself to that fact. I agree that it is stupid to have different rules in different leagues - which of course would have been just as easily fixed by eliminating the DH. AL managers refer to not having to worry about deciding whether to swap out pitchers when behind in a game all the time; so to say there is no strategy involved is absurd. You can argue about the value to the game about having to make those decisions but to say there is no strategy involved is disingenuous and undermines the integrity of any other point trying to be made. The continuation of the logic at play is then to simply have a fielding line up and a hitting line up - which I have to believe everyone would think would be an abomination. The simple litmus test for MYSELF is that this makes the game easier and to me that is just an indication that it is pandering to the masses. Lets move all outfield fences in 75 feet, start each inning with 1 out and a runner on 1st and second. We can have average scores akin to the NFL and games will last 90 minutes. My 2 cents as I sink down into the cold, welcoming water for the third time. i actually think this question is a least a little interesting despite the fact that it'll never happen and i would probably prefer it not (would be cool to see in maybe an all star game or something tho)

about time