Hairyducked Idiot
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Strawman. No one said "can't enjoy." The argument is "enjoy slightly less."
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That'd be the pace, yes.
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Agreed, except I'd narrow it down even further. No pitchers.
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I know I'm in the vast minority, but I have to agree with Kyle on this. I wouldn't say that football has been "ruined", but instant replay has definitely changed how I view the game. Instead of being excited after a spectacular touchdown catch, now my first thought is whether or not it will be overturned. I don't want the same thing to happen in baseball, where a diving catch can't be celebrated because we have to wait for an answer to come down from the replay booth. I don't believe you aren't excited after a TD catch. Replay or not. If the umps do their jobs right, replays won't be necessary. Do you believe that we're less excited than we would be without the possibility of replay?
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I'm not even sure I'd do that. What Castro is doing and has done is absurdly rare. Yeah I wouldn't do it either. Castro had much better numbers than Machado in AA. As for Bundy, he's only thrown a handful of professional innings, and the track record for high school pitchers that throw as hard as he does isn't great. Yeah, I'm not doing that either. Unless one of the prospects is Trout or Harper, there's not many prospects packages that would even make me flinch on Castro.
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can we talk about Darwin Barney?
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
.755 OPS, .155 ISO -
You know it.
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I know Banedon is the only one that agrees with me, but I think it is faster to dive head first, since you immediately gain 6'. You just broke physics. Jerk.
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That remains my all-time favorite NSBB argument. The guy hand-timed his friends in college. What more proof do you need?
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It didn't hurt anything in the long run either. It's not the money's fault that Hendry was awful at drafting/developing from the minors.
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His schtick is giving up home runs to Carlos Quentin. I'm definitely tired of it.
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Thanks. So ... ? Are you telling me that you think it's a lock that Rizzo is going to be better than LaRoche overall, and better than LaRoche at his best? If so, good. That'd be awesome. I just find it hard to think that anything with any prospect is a lock ... particularly when the argument is for a player to become an elite player at his position. I'm saying it's an odd comp.
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He's given up 4 runs today. That's all I need.
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In his age 22 season, Rizzo is OPSing 1.148 at AAA In his age 22 season, LaRoche OPSed .918 at A+ and .773 at AA.
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Darwin Barney, spark plug.
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Point conceded.
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We shouldn't have any sort of replay because the rare bad call isn't worse than the cheapening of virtually every cool sports moment involving a close play.
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This is the one that popped to mind immediately for me: One of the coolest baseball moments of the past 10 years. And when the ump raised his arms, that was it. Ninety seconds of replays, or even the possibility of such replays, before we found out the true result would have cheapened it.
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Defensive alignment and the shift
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Tracer Bullet's topic in General Baseball Talk
That's awesome. This trend is long overdue and really changing the way baseball is played. -
Sports excitement shouldn't come from a referee on a microphone. I can live with the effect of the bad calls on the W-L column. It's not ideal, but acceptable.
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My argument isn't about wasting time. It's about taking excitement away from the plays the plays themselves. In football, how often do you see something exciting but borderline happen, and then you feel like you can't fully celebrate until the XP is kicked or the next play is snapped, meaning there won't be a challenge? With replay, every remotely borderline play loses a little bit of luster, because you don't know the consequences for certain until either the replay is done or the window for replay has passed. That bothers me more than the bad calls, which replay will significantly reduce but not eliminate.
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Instead of 5 minutes of a manager kicking dirt on the ump, throwing his hat, and chucking a base across the field? Yes. You don't think there's a difference between: "Something cool just happened, now let's waste five minutes on some stupid manager arguing tradition." vs. "Maybe something cool just happened, or maybe it didn't, but let's wait five minutes to find out." Maybe the latter doesn't bother you as much as it bothers me, but you can't say there's no difference.
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Walks are up, power is way up, line drive percentage is up, K's are down over last year. He's got a .719 OPS, compared to a league-average for 2b of .700. And that's with a completely normal, maybe even a tiny bit unlucky, BABIP. The eye test, scouting reports and advanced statistics all say he's one of the best defensive 2b in the league, bordering on elite defense there. He's on pace for a 3 fWAR season.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-29-12
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
For the season, .787 OPS. -
Nothing wrong with a high-floor, lowish ceiling pick at No. 6. Of the 25 No. 6 overall picks from 1980 to 2004, only six have produced at least 5 bWAR in the majors. It's not like this is a sure-fire star sort of pick anyway. Though Bonds was one of them...