I know last year was a down year for Rizzo and all (and Schwarber is being helped by, gasp, defense) but Schwarber actually had a higher fWAR in 20 fewer games last year.
like you must think schwarber is really really bad against lefties if you think putting 26 year old AAAA outfielder guy in the lineup over him is a good idea
who the horsefeathers cares about spring? Moreover, whenever has a spring training wiz, such Zagunis, carried that success over to the regular season? that's basically what i said
i'm concurrently both annoyed that schwarber isn't in the lineup and at the same time not giving that many fucks about what the lineup is in a given day if this were like dusty putting like rey ordonez and macias at the top of a lineup, that'd be one thing. otherwise, don't really care. i'm horsefeathering excited.
I watch every game on delay in my ongoing attempt to never, ever watch commercials again. I'd rather watch commercials than be behind and not know what's going on right horsefeathering now. It's why sports TV contracts are so valuable.
I'm with UM on this. 3:05 starts are for the birds (except for Friday home games, damn you, Maddon). Also, in the early 2000s, I could do the DVR thing. It's way too hard to avoid the score nowadays.
Rewarding and paying your own good players for their great performance in years they were being underpaid is a good and cool thing to do on principle and teams should do more of it. Especially when it's their first big payday. Owners need to stop artificially holding down salaries and this type of thing needs to happen more often to more players (even pitchers). It's not gonna kill our quest for a $/WAR trophy.
i get lamenting our shitty owners and boring ass offseason completely. what i don't get is all the pining for/props to even shittier organizations who spend even less (and cry poor much more loudly) and are just happening to do things right now.
i still remember staying up all night on a school night to watch the horsefeathering 2000 cubs play in japan (either i was too excited or i didn't trust myself to wake up at 4 am or whatever) on two straight nights i think the horsefeathering agbayani game ended while i was in homeroom and was listening on the radio