Riverbrian

I have talked about Giraffe's being great pets... if you have really high ceilings in your house. I think a little Andrew Luck conversation is OK.

I have no problem if Cave out plays Rosario.

Let me take a look

The TD crowd had released him a long time ago.

CAVE!!!

And here is me as the resident Psychologist.

Mike, Frequently, it seems, it is the job of the game thread to motivate the team via depression.

SANO!!!

Thome doesn't "steal" second. He slowly sneaks it into his breast pocket.

Jim Thome... He "Rumbles" for second.

Bad play by play... Everyone knows that Miggy "plows" for second.

A walk to K at random.

I think you could do it. However, I'd worry about the the guy working the Leinenkugel cart in the concourse getting crushed.

Considering how fast I was in my 20's... I wonder how I would rank as a base runner at my age 24 speed for example. I'm sure I wouldn't be able to steal bases unless the pitcher was sleeping. But I also think I would have been fast enough to score from first base on doubles in the gap. I was thinking maybe in the 30 to 40 percentile. But then it occurs to me... I'd never be on base.

I often thought rims that constrict would be a great home field advantage in basketball. How about hydraulic outfield walls that slide backwards when the road team hits?

You are on topic... There isn't much off topic in a game thread. I just want to point out that if you spend your time talking about Buxton getting hurt before he gets hurt... You'll have nothing left to say once he gets hurt.

Defensive stats are half-baked. As long as defensive stats are included in WAR... War is probably three quarters-baked. Grossman on top of any stat will tell you that. He's standing in the right spot often enough and that's all it takes. Grossman could be last next year because he wasn't standing in the right spot often enough.

He typically gets hurt in hundreds of other ways before he gets hurt hitting a wall.

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I get asked that a lot.

If it's a traditional gauntlet... You'll need the scissors to defend yourself.

All 10 of those rejected ideas should be un-rejected immediately

KEPLER!!!

It's hard to say what the prices were. If the prices were indeed too high... then OK. They have been somewhat aggressive since they walked in the door so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Back in June when we had a huge lead and we were all looking at the trade deadline for playoff enhancement. The majority of our TD posters were focused on the bullpen and that is understandable. We did need bullpen arms there was no question about it. However, I believed then and I believe now that a quality starter was a much bigger priority. Back when we were rolling... Our starters were taking care of the majority of the innings and our offense was driving up huge run differentials. These two things really masked the bullpen situation that eventually came to a conclusion in June with the release of 4 of them. I believed then... based on how the team was getting the job done. If we lost a starter or two to injury or if a starter or two develop a case of the struggles (See Perez... See Berrios). It would reveal a hole in both the rotation and the pen because the pen would have to pick up the slack. There are times when I hate being right all the time. Since I'm not seeing Smeltzer or Dobnak making any starts and it is late August and I'm seeing Thorpe being held silent unless the game is not in doubt. I fully believe it is the plan of the front office to hold and simply fight through these issues with Berrios and Perez. This is incredibly risky. It might work out fine... but this is incredibly risky in my opinion. If the health in the rotation holds (History suggests it won't)... this means that the starting rotation will absorb a lot of innings. If the health doesn't hold... they will have to turn to someone that they don't have near enough MLB data on... basically bet red and hope the roulette wheel turns up red. If the health does hold... they will be running low on gas... Right about the time we really really need them... In the playoffs. Being primarily healthy in the rotation is not lucky. It really isn't. That said... we can still do this thing. I'll be watching faithfully.