Bull

No, he has been a very insightful poster in the past. One of the first and really educated a lot of us here. Account is clearly hacked.

This has been my unpopular opinion for awhile now, but I don’t see any major signings until Heyward is off the books. Look forward to another year of throwing things at the wall and seeing if they stick.

https://www.nj.com/sports/2022/07/mets-face-trade-deadline-bidding-war-for-cubs-willson-contreras-with-al-contender.html?outputType=amp Are we still afraid of Astros pitchers?

paul kilgus was the first cub as a kid who i thought "this guy sucks." Doug Dascenzo, and Harry horsefeathering loved that dude. “Ya know, Steve, if you spelled Da-sinzo backwards it would be, Oz-nik-zode”

the earth is flat actually so you can't really circle back to anything Its a disc, so you can still circle back to it technically. Sphere back?

This post did not age well.

Heywards contract comes off after 2023. That’s the timeline for prospects as well. As in many will be given a chance to prove themselves in 2023 looking towards “seeing what we have in x” for 2024. Expect big spending once jHeys contract is off the books and they are confident what the holes are going forward.

I think this holds true for most people, but some people certainly know they're evil and what they're doing is evil. Putin knows he's an horsefeathers, the "bad guy" and he simply doesn't care. Same thing with Trump. Nah, these dudes are narcissists. They know that they’re doing wrong, but in their mind, it’s for the greater good and one day they’ll get the praise they deserve. Bauer’s just a creep, along the lines of Armie Hammer, who thinks that since there’s no law against sexual deviance, so long as it’s consensual-ish, he must be in the right. It’s the Nietzchean ubermench. It’s the inevitable modernist/rationalist resolution of the relativist morality we experienced in the late 20th century. If right and wrong is in the eye of the beholder then I am good to impose my will in society. It’s the clash of modernist and postmodern ideas desperately seeking resolution.

Pirates announcers are always awful. Today not so bad. Mostly silence.

Willy special

Leave poor Derwood alone!

Or if you’re embarrassed by it… I mean it will be obvious the first time he plays (or doesn’t play) in a city with a mandate.

Yeah, the owners didn't get to the power side of the arrangement just through the last CBA, they got there through several of them. The players took a step back in the right direction this time and they'll just have to keep it up in 2026. They should bargain for scraping the CBT and go for revenue-sharing and a salary cap/floor. To me, it's the fairest way to divide the spoils. It also seems to work in other sports pretty well. Players would never agree to anything involving a hard cap. They want the dodgers and Yankees to be able to go crazy every other year.

Yeah, I feel like if anything there's a slightly favorable view toward some sort of shift limitations, but as someone who's on your side of hating it I might just be mentally cataloging all the positive views as a defense mechanism. I don't like the shift but to me, the hitters themselves could make it a less frequent occurrence by sacrificing a little off the power numbers and bunt down the 3rd base line, or if they can simply adjust their swing and slap the ball through the infield against the shift. I'd rather have it taken care of on its own rather than establishing rules. I'm probably way out there on this one, but that's my thought on it anyway. It's not like I'm going to flip out if they do a rule change. I feel the same, but a little stronger. The shift works only because hitters pull everything for power. If you can take a few bases away from them as payment by shifting, do it.

That would be difficult if he wasn’t tipping the cutter so bad. Whatever you think you are seeing, I'm not. The only way he could tip one of those two pitches enough for me to get a jump on it is if he yelled what the pitch would be before his wind up. I don't see anything that gives it away Sorry, I didn’t think the reference was obscure.

have you ever tried to hit a slider before? If it was the only pitch you saw maybe you can say that, but if its sandwiched between two Darvish fastballs I guarantee that you would swing at it, only to watch it fall away from you as you wildly try to correct in the follow-through That would be difficult if he wasn’t tipping the cutter so bad.

What if you actually did pay for past performance? I was talking to family about the wisdom of trading Baez Bryant Rizzo et. al. I pushed that it is not smart to pay for past performance and that Bryant is likely to make us drool for the the first 3-5 years of his next contract but he will be an albatross for the last 3-5 years if it. The conclusion, just because it’s smart doesn’t mean that it’s not stupid that this is the best way. Baseball needs lifelong team players and needs to change their system so that it’s good business to keep players around. What if revenue sharing wasn’t shared with small market teams? What if it was put in a trust/endowment and was used for two thing: 1) to pay players for past performance. Literally. You hit certain benchmarks and get bonuses from this pool. 2) to help teams keep their own players. Adds 5% to your bid when bidding on your own players in free agency or extending them, 10% if they made their debut with you, 15% if you drafted them and they made their debut with you. This gives small market teams a competitive edge in resigning their own players. Obviously there are more nuances to be considered and these percentages may be way off. Players still have choice but teams can better develop their brand. If the game is “regional” then this should increase fan buy in. Who hates this more, players or owners?

Am I the only one who is getting no videos as I'm re-reading?

Nah. They are going to live in the metaverse

Why can't he retire before the playoffs? While he's at it can he take Angel Hernandez with him? Don’t forget CB

The betting market isn’t even offering him at 250:1 to win, so I don’t think he’s a realistic candidate. Max Scherzer is -260 Forgot about Scherzer, he’s a shoo-in. I don’t think Wainright wins but he would be “a” front runner I’d imagine, along with Max, Walker and Julio. Dodger rotation as usual is pretty filthy. Regardless, your point stands. He's old and dumb and it's stupid that he isn't broken.

Nah. On a losing team, he's decided to save those bullets.

#SalvageablePieces

Just set Cubs rookie hr record. The lack of interest in this team is palpable.

The point is, he has only learned two lessons in the last eight years.