Brock Beauchamp
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I just really dislike Eric Hosmer. Maybe it's irrational. (not personally, just as a player) -
Even though he doesn't profile as a typical first baseman, I'd rather have Donovan Solano for $2m. He has a lot more positional versatility, too, and I think low-power, high-average players will play up a bit in 2023.
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As long as they move on quickly if things go wrong, it won't be a disastrous move but for a team with payroll space and fringe competitor hopes, I feel they should aim higher in acquisitions. I wholly get and support the Mancini and Bellinger signings. They help the team get better and have trade upside should things go awry. Whereas I just don't "get" the Hosmer signing.
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I get this but guys better than Hosmer were available for not much more money. In today's game, it costs mediocre reliever money to sign a stop-gap 1B/DH type, I simply don't see a need to drop down to Eric Hosmer levels, particularly a franchise with the payroll capacity of the Cubs.
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Also, there are some truly weird badges hidden behind doing a string of things in a certain order. My personal favorite is the completely nonsensical badge "Repeal the Third Amendment". I can't recall why I created it but I'm pretty sure inebriation had to be involved in the process somewhere.
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Nope, they're not tethered to anything, just a fun little thing that exists. Points are awarded for content, mostly, but also milestones. You get a couple of points for a post, ten for a blog post, one for receiving a reaction, etc. And then when you hit big milestones like 10,000 posts, you receive a big chunk of points, like 100 or so.
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So as you do various things around the site, you'll receive notifications of various badges you earn. Some of them are pretty fun. A couple of notes: If you see Twins or Brewers mentions anywhere in achievements, please let me know. I tried to scrub all references of other sites but I may have missed something. Second, how do your post counts look now? Is everything accurate? If not, I'll dig into the issue more and try to resolve it.
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Despite your bad experience, welcome to North Side Baseball anyway!
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4/4 Cubs (Wesneski) @ Reds (Cessa) 5:40 PM CT
Brock Beauchamp replied to Bertz's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
This so accurately sums up the Cubs lineup. -
This solution isn't permanent, it's a byproduct of some back-end technical stuff not working properly yet.
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Yeah, I have a pile of dark mode issues to work on. Unfortunately, I'm spending most of this week entertaining children on spring break instead of working but I might be able to whittle away at a few of the issues.
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The Reds are a really bad baseball team.
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Service time is still 15-ish days down to get a seventh year of control. And if the Cubs are playing Super Two shenanigans, which adds another 4-6 weeks to ensure a player doesn’t qualify, they can go straight to hell.
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At least the top of the lineup should be pretty fun to watch this season.
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And is literally anyone surprised by that? I like the risk on Bellinger and Mancini but don’t understand pursuing Hosmer.
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Nice to see Bellinger get on the board.
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You now have access.
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I wanted to split this out into its own thread because it's something worth tracking as the weather warms. Given the constant race for velocity in baseball over the past 15-ish years, I'm interested to see if pitchers wear down a little more quickly this year and possibly lose a tick of velocity due to the much faster pace forced by the pitch clock. I'm skeptical this will happen but it'd be good for the sport if pitchers lost a mph or two over a season.
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Ads are now running
Brock Beauchamp replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in North Side Baseball Issues & Suggestions
I have a ticket open to resolve this. Ads are also temporarily disabled for awhile as they work on some changes I submitted. -
No changes but what you're describing is exactly what another user described to me a week ago, then it went away. There has to be something wrong with the asset delivery that I'm not experiencing and/or seeing. I'll work on it today.
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I'm assuming you expect the Cubs to be out of contention at that point?
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Bad baseball luck for two minutes and the game is blown wide open.
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This is why it's so hard to evaluate individual decisions in baseball. It's a game of 55/45 decisions. And a lot of the time, a manager can make a string of 45% decisions and succeed. Inversely, they could make a bunch of 55% decisions and fail. It's just the nature of the sport and why I don't rail on any single decision too hard.
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The Dansby Swanson Appreciation Thread
Brock Beauchamp replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Oh yeah, Swanson is elite defensively. That's the one thing I never had in doubt. Still though, that throw yesterday was wow. -
GIF away.
