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i'm not trying to defend rizzo. he's probably a [expletive] (didn't he say something kind of weak when chapman came?). i'm just saying that quote didn't seem inherently bad to me. maybe it's because i expect athletes to say bad stuff when something like this happens, so that just seemed more palatable in a relative sense.
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Eh, I kinda get it from a player perspective. He can only really say so much here. It's above his paygrade, so to speak. That should have been his answer, not criticizing the people doing the investigation. Came very close to 'I have no idea why this hasn't been wrapped up already'. maybe i'm naive for giving him the benefit of the doubt, but i thought his response could have easily just meant "if these allegations are true, then they really fucked up by not dealing with it the first time"
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i don't know what rizzo's feelings are, but i don't see anything wrong with that quote Besides offering an opinion and then admitting that he has no idea what he's talking about? what opinion did he offer? that it's something that should have been investigated and dealt with a long time ago?
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Do better, Rizzo. i don't know what rizzo's feelings are, but i don't see anything wrong with that quote
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Opinions deserve scorn if they're [expletive] opinions. A white supremacist holds the opinion of racial superiority, and he should absolutely be vilified for such a thing. Holding horsefeathers opinions absolutely makes someone a horsefeathers person. Yes, they’re both scummy. But can we at least agree that there’s a big difference between the white supremacist whose white supremacy is limited to point of view and the one who actually acts upon it? [tweet] [/tweet]
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of course r mack is defending murphy
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you're putting too much emphasis on 4 september starts to put hamels all the way down to 4th imo 4 September, and ~20 non-September, no? hamels' total 2018 xfip is 2nd best on the cubs
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you're putting too much emphasis on 4 september starts to put hamels all the way down to 4th imo
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Hendricks Hamels Q Lester
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i hope he doesn't need a bone morrow transplant
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it's going to be considered one of the weakest MVPs in a while, so who even cares
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17 Seconds replied to Sammy Sofa's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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Dafuq is that? Edited because I didn't see there was half a page of blowback already vented. how the eff are you guys thinking my comment was serious
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Only damning if you consider it true. Which it isn't. what
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9 to nothing. it's simple math.
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i love baez but this is pretty damning [tweet] [/tweet]
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He didn't miss significant time in either 2015 or 2016, it's not like he's never been able to stay healthy for a whole season. There's no reason to expect he's going to miss 6 weeks every season for the next few years unless you think he's just chronically broken now at age 24. it's about nagging injuries affecting his performance as much as it's about missing games.
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moving the goalposts I didn't move any goalposts. I've been saying all along that Russell should be one of the names considered when making a trade and multiple posters insisted that he was too valuable defensively to trade and that he was still too young and talented. you said people jumped all over you for suggesting to trade russell, and you still haven't shown evidence of this. lots of people were open to trading russell last offseason. like I said, if people got on your case, it must have been for other reasons.
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i wanna see the receipts edit: i found it. you wanted to trade russell for iglesias, with your reasoning being that he was more expendable with baez on the team, and it would open up 2b for happ. people gave you a hard time because they didn't like russell for iglesias, and your logic for wanting to move him was flawed. people were open to trading russell. I don't think that was the only discussion that I was involved with concerning trading ML assets, but I sure wish we would have made that trade. moving the goalposts
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if posters jumped on you for suggesting these trades, it must have been for your suggested returns Actually I don't think there were any suggested returns. It was a discussion about trading off our ML roster because the ml are pretty bare and posters were suggesting Happ and/or Almora and I posted that Russell and Schwarber ould be included because their "names" might get us a better return and we could have in house replacements. i wanna see the receipts edit: i found it. you wanted to trade russell for iglesias, with your reasoning being that he was more expendable with baez on the team, and it would open up 2b for happ. people gave you a hard time because they didn't like russell for iglesias, and your logic for wanting to move him was flawed. people were open to trading russell.
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joe is incapable of using a basic lineup structure with your best hitters up top with the on base guys in front of the power guys. like, you'd think he'd at least do it every once in a while.
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I was stupid and didn't want them to trade him last offseason because I figured 2017 was just an off year and he'd after more value after he rebounded. This time next year, he'll be Chris Giminez on offense and will have also developed gout or syphilis or something and will suck on defense. You weren't the only one. Posters jumped all over me when I suggested that he should be traded while he still had a decent reputation. My other suggestion was that we should have traded Schwarber when he was the second coming of Babe Ruth. Now that he's a platoon LF/DH, his value has dropped too. if posters jumped on you for suggesting these trades, it must have been for your suggested returns
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i really hope lester doesn't talk a lot after he retires, because he's such a legendary cub
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that would mean he's been unhealthy for 2 years in a row, which wouldn't fill me with confidence either
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i've noticed that old people flippin love almora