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  1. 17 Seconds
    is there an inning limit?
  2. 17 Seconds
    it doesn't count anymore
  3. 17 Seconds
    People paid good money to come and see him tonight. the stars are truly out tonight
  4. 17 Seconds
    any other 27 year old legends that we can try for?
  5. 17 Seconds
    let me tell you folks, this guy is as impressive off the field as he is on it
  6. 17 Seconds
    the amount of jock sniffing in these things is nauseating
  7. 17 Seconds
    to be fair, zobrist has always looked janky and old
  8. 17 Seconds
    bour looks exactly like buzz mcallister
  9. 17 Seconds
    i'm having a hard time coping with the dodgers being this good. now that i've experienced the 2016 postseason, i'm less jealous of teams like the astros and dodgers dominating the regular season, because i know they still have to win like a million excruciatingly tense games over a month to make it matter
  10. 17 Seconds
    i wonder if they would have penalized stanton for his constant cheating if he had advanced
  11. 17 Seconds
    i seriously thought for a second that it was some random fan that they let dress up
  12. 17 Seconds
    aaron judge looks like rami malek in the middle of a mutation
  13. 17 Seconds
    i can never keep track of whether daniel norris is broken or not
  14. 17 Seconds
    Not when that player is only under contract for a couple more months and can be used to immediately fill a hole in the rotation for the next 6 to 7 years. what?
  15. 17 Seconds
    sometimes it actually is good to keep one of your best players
  16. 17 Seconds
    i don't doubt that they would reeeeeallly like to avoid large contracts for relievers, but i think the pitching situation is in such peril that they almost don't have much of a choice. they went with the all hitter approach to building the team, which is great, but it also meant they'd likely be in this situation at some point. if you only develop hitting then you have to pay for pitching, and paying for real pitching comes with the risk. it would be nice if theo could keep pulling guys like jake and hendricks out of his ass, but you can't count on that. definitely not for 2018, at least. with arrieta and lackey on the way out, we already have a tough task of filling out the 2018 rotation to a point of acceptable confidence, and losing davis just makes it even more difficult.
  17. 17 Seconds
    they play the same position, so carl will still be in carl's spot he traded big assets for short term control of 2 different relievers recently. if he values elite relievers that much, i'd think any unease from a longer term version would be outweighed by the abundance of current payroll flexibility and a desperate need for pitching in the organization. also, i'm sure theo knows that trading a valuable asset for a dominant relief rental each season is not a long-term strategy. We will see. I don't believe this front office believes in giving multi year, big money to a closer. It's why they traded for them instead. And, again, I think they are comfortable putting Carl there and spending less on the guys setting him up. that argument still makes no sense. you have 2 dominant relievers. if you let 1 go, you only have 1 dominant reliever. they're both allowed to pitch in the same game too
  18. 17 Seconds
    Just not sure Theo is interested in big money for a closer. Really think they plan to have CJ in that spot next season. L they play the same position, so carl will still be in carl's spot he traded big assets for short term control of 2 different relievers recently. if he values elite relievers that much, i'd think any unease from a longer term version would be outweighed by the abundance of current payroll flexibility and a desperate need for pitching in the organization. also, i'm sure theo knows that trading a valuable asset for a dominant relief rental each season is not a long-term strategy.
  19. 17 Seconds
    3000 hits is still an extraordinary milestone. I mean, Joey Votto only just hit 1500. yeah but he's on like a 5,700 hit pace with an average walk rate
  20. 17 Seconds
    based on what information we have as fans, i am firmly on team NO TRADE. i think our situation makes signing him this offseason a necessity, and i wouldn't want to potentially reduce the chances of that happening. also, this may be trivial, but i'd worry about another team doing to him what we did to chapman for a month.
  21. 17 Seconds
    every other game thread is destined to end with BDB mashing his doom boner while duke admirably continues believing there is no difference between "the brewers suck" and "the brewers have a good chance of returning to suck at some point"
  22. 17 Seconds
    yep, it showed 6-5 yankees for me also. just another little kick in the balls for no reason
  23. 17 Seconds
    "somehow, kuhl gets out of it"
  24. 17 Seconds
    What did you get for him? Wade Boggs and a side of rice pilaf i thought i was the only person to still reference this does anybody remember that sandberg "chance? not a chance" commercial? i was talking about it with somebody and we couldn't remember or find out what the commercial was for. a hardware store or something?
  25. 17 Seconds
    it's just crazy how many of those hangers that russell swings through
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