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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'll admit that seeing Rivero cut so quickly gives me a lot of pause.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    based on? baseball stuff
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I just noticed PECOTA updated and has us at 85 wins now, 4th in the NL.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I can completely buy Javy going down to start the year and Russell making it up before him, maybe even around the same time as Bryant.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think Bryant absorbed Javy's powers, Highlander style.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Awesome. Not all good news though, Kyle. Addison only has a .955 OPS thru 19 ABs. Can't win em all. Meh. I'm not going to care about Spring Training stats unless they make prime Bonds blush.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Awesome.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    because baseball? Precisely.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    We can't piggy-back them because they are both making the rotation now that Lester is dead.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    There's just no way to know. Teams always say it's nothing, whether he makes his next start or his arm fell off. We'll find out in the next few weeks.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think you're the only one who remembers his 1998 (I almost said 2008... ugh, I'm old.) April the way I do...where he hit like eleventy warning track flies with the wind howling in, turning what would've been a torrid start into an awful one. I'm irrationally convinced that with some BABIP luck, he would have hung around long enough to get "established MLB starter" pixie dust sprinkled on him and he would have hung around for like 15 career WAR.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I remember when Kevin Orie was having a big spring and someone (a coach?) said "It's about time we had a Rookie of the Year."
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    *shrug* Annoying or not, it's accurate. Baseball being the reason for baseball results is usually about sixth on their list of explanations, after morality, chemistry, fate, character and clutchiness. I don't even think you realize you aren't saying anything. :good:
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    *shrug* Annoying or not, it's accurate. Baseball being the reason for baseball results is usually about sixth on their list of explanations, after morality, chemistry, fate, character and clutchiness.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because people, and *especially* the media, are slaves to narrative. We want to impose narrative on everything because we don't like randomness as an explanation. "The Cubs are on an intermediate step in their ascent to greatness" is a narrative too good to resist. It's way preferable to "The Cubs are a baseball team who will play baseball games and maybe win a lot of them but who knows because baseball is weird." it's preferable because your story is dumb My story is more accurate than theirs.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because people, and *especially* the media, are slaves to narrative. We want to impose narrative on everything because we don't like randomness as an explanation. "The Cubs are on an intermediate step in their ascent to greatness" is a narrative too good to resist. It's way preferable to "The Cubs are a baseball team who will play baseball games and maybe win a lot of them but who knows because baseball is weird."
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  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Having been yelled at by Mets' fans for not seeing the value of building a team around pitching, I find it completely comical. I wonder how that Mets board is reacting to this. It's pretty hilarious. They are simultaneously bemoaning their luck and shouting down anyone who says this *might* be a systemic problem of focusing on pitchers. "What do you mean we should have traded some of them for bats? But then we'd have even *less* pitching when one gets hurt?"
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Theo is the worst.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    :(
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    There will be time for others to catch up. He's not on the 40-man and he's not making the team, so I'd expect him to be a relatively early cut.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Having been yelled at by Mets' fans for not seeing the value of building a team around pitching, I find it completely comical.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Mets' Wheeler set for Tommy John. I hope we never, ever draft a pitcher in the first round.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Nope.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes. This is still glorified BP, fun or not.
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