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  1. biggentleben
    I just get the Homer Simpson donut face every time she's on screen.
  2. biggentleben
    I loved the show. Binged it while writing yesterday. Tremendously well done.
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    Solid line play, but last year's linebackers are sorely missing, and I'm definitely worried about the pass defense due to that. I think the corners will be better in the end, but the D-line has been much better vs. the run than the pass, but there's youth there that could improve along the way to provide some heat and protect the corners. On offense, having the size at reciever that he does will allow Leidner to be accurate. I will say that he threw the best ball I've seen in a long time in the Colorado State game, but they simply didn't need his arm offensively because their line was carving up CSU's d-line so badly.
  4. biggentleben
    I remember the Eric Davis one. There was a similar one with Darryl Strawberry that I did have, but I honestly couldn't tell you what it was. I did have a bash brothers one with Canseco and McGwire. I remember there was one with Dwight Gooden and his arm was a flame thrower. The 1991 Score baseball card set had a bunch of great cards for this sort of machismo photography. Ricky Henderson's was the one I had to have dozens of.
  5. biggentleben
    I do see where WAR is cited in MVP arguments by those who know that WAR is not a finished metric, but it's the best we have right now. That is always how I utilize WAR, and frequently I will cite whether I'm using WARP, bWAR, or fWAR. It's actually something my editor and I made a point of bringing up with other writers on our site. I've had some great conversations with writers who are on both sides of sabermetrics (write scouting reports and you seem to get far ends on both arguments!), and I think in all seriousness, most of those who are very into finding advanced metrics use what is there, hoping a better one is out there that will give a better, more accurate, more full evaluation of a player, while the other side assumes that just using the one that currently exists as believing that is the end-all, be-all statistic. I think it's a bad perception issue, frankly.
  6. biggentleben
    The point being that being goofy on social media being akin to driving offenses in my personal vehicle. However there are lines that you cross on social media that will definitely lead to firing, just like in most cases personal driving stuff won't get you fired, but doing that same action while representing the company would..
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    The club does lose the signing pool money, though, if they don't sign that pick. The highest bonus paid in the slotting system has been Kris Bryant's $6.8M, and last year that would have been roughly $300K more than the full #3 slot in the draft. Philadelphia had a $9M+ bonus slot, so even if they tied Bryant's record number, they'd have had $2.2M left for future picks.
  8. biggentleben
    That surprises me based on what I've seen of the system, but I'll look forward to seeing your list!
  9. biggentleben
    Doesn't work. If you were drunk while driving a company car or while on the clock for work, then you'd be fired. In your social media accounts, you indicate your employer, and therefore, your employer is being represented by the behavior you exhibit on social media. If I curse on social media, I don't lose my job or face any retribution, but if I get a speeding ticket in a company car, it's strike one in a three-strike policy in the agency I work in.
  10. biggentleben
    Where a guy is picked in the draft does not determine his value as a player, otherwise Mike Piazza would never have made the HOF. Kiriloff is polished, plays excellent defense, and showed more at similar levels as Gordon. Jay struggled bad after his promotion, and it was some stuff catching up to him that upper minors guys were bound to find. Gonsalves is the other #1 candidate that I'm going to have the biggest argument against Kiriloff, especially after seeing him handle upper minors hitters so well.
  11. biggentleben
    Absolutely I look at them, but there are also methods behind numbers. Moncada was being pushed into his power at AA, so he was making swing adjustments on the fly. In his second year of pro ball, making big swing adjustments, strikeouts are expected.
  12. biggentleben
    Holy cow, talk about reading numbers and not players....
  13. biggentleben
    I'm doing a top 10 for every system that will come out in October/November, and I've seriously debated Kiriloff at #1 for the Twins. He's definitely the top position guy for me for the Twins, over Gordon, but those two could end up my only two position players in the top 10. Of course, based on pure tools and talent, Akil Badoo would be a top 10 guy as well, but he's still very raw.
  14. biggentleben
    Or don't develop anything but pitchers...outside of Harper, who was a generational talent, and Zimmerman/Rendon, who weren't in their system long enough to get ruined, to a lesser degree, the Nationals haven't exactly had a good record. Ramos came from the Twins, Trea Turner came from the Padres, and obviously guys like Werth, Revere, and Murphy came from elsewhere.
  15. biggentleben
    I did put up a review on Pitch today, but it's not exactly in depth analysis on the acting or meter of the piece or anything like that... https://calltothepen.com/2016/09/24/mlb-fox-pair-pitch/
  16. biggentleben
    When Rocker made those statements, however, he was considered an elite reliever. It was after that event that his career went down hill.
  17. biggentleben
    This year's draft is so much better to be early than last year's. This year there will be a lot of guys who are viable top 10 type of guys, whereas last year you had about 50 guys who normally would grade out as 15-40 type of guys, so good deals were still had on players in the 2nd and 3rd rounds in talent. High school talent is definitely the predominant in this class, but it seems that the top end of the class is more populated with college players. The top college arm comes from the same staff that sent a handful of guys to pro ball via the draft last year, the University of Florida. I've seen Schwarz fall down as far as 20th in fall class rankings already. For what it's worth, even with the questions about his glove at catcher, Zach Collins was pretty consistently a top 10 guy all fall last year and kept that up.
  18. biggentleben
    Plenty of the typical baseball cliches, but in general, I think there's a lot of promise. It's not going to take on the Wire or Breaking Bad, but I do love the tie ins with MLB due to the partnership with Fox, which leads to very realistic scenery of the real PetCo Stadium clubhouse and the field for the game action.
  19. biggentleben
    Did anyone else watch Pitch? I'm writing up a review on it for CTTP.
  20. biggentleben
    Scary thing is...that's who Seattle got this offseason in exchange for Mark Trumbo, you know, the guy leading the major leagues in home runs? Yeah...
  21. biggentleben
    The crazy thing I've been experiencing in the last year or so with my MLB.tv is going through to other teams' primary guys. Scully is gone after this year. After Jon Miller of the Giants retires someday, I'm really not sure who's even at 60% of Scully. When I was growing up, I loved to have the game of the week where they'd have the home team's broadcaster announce an inning of the game, and you'd get to hear voices like Mel Allen, Ernie Harwell, Jack Buck, Harry Caray, Harry Kalas, etc. Twins fans were blessed with Carneal for years as well. I know Ueker's highly regarded, but he's just not in the same modality as those guys. Marty Brennaman is a personal favorite of mine still, but he's in a different style for sure.
  22. biggentleben
    Nice work by the Twins to make the #1 pick a challenge again! Exciting, especially knowing the Braves face the Tigers in the final weekend while the Twins play the White Sox. Could be a situation where the Tigers are playing for their postseason lives, but the Twins/ChiSox series will only be about pride...
  23. biggentleben
    As much as he was led by ownership into trading the farm for "win now" and then to tear apart that team to rebuild, once again by ownership, I honestly wonder how much Preller is taking the brunt for an ownership that really directed this behavior. Regardless, I always thought he was an odd fit for a GM chair. He's a brilliant scouting mind, especially on the international market, and I could absolutely see him quickly getting a job the second he's let go due to that, but I don't know that he truly was behind these acts based on a lot of what I know of him and the people I know in the business who know him and have worked with/for him.
  24. biggentleben
    PBS has presented some incredible programs around the anniversary in the last week if anyone has been watching. I especially enjoyed "In My Son's Name".
  25. biggentleben
    My professor walked into my first class at the U of M late and explained that someone had hit one of the trade centers with a plane. I was walking between that class and my internship at the sports marketing offices of the U when the second plane hit. I walked into Williams, and they locked the door behind me. I remember being locked into that building the entire day as the U of M was considered a viable target due to the size of the campus and the location in the middle of a metro area. The entire campus was locked down that day. Classes were all dismissed, and they didn't resume for multiple days. I had the honor of singing the national anthem at the first sporting event at the U of M after 9/11, a soccer game held on Friday night before the Gophers hosted Purdue in football the next day, where Ben Uttecht and Preston Gruening sang the anthem in uniform rather than the traditional marching band rendition. I also was able to sing at the first sporting event on campus the next week at a volleyball game, and I remember having a veteran of multiple foreign wars coming up to me afterward in tears thanking me for what I had just done. His explanation - that I sang the song straight and to the point, not trying to "perform" it, but to simply provide the song as a moment to honor the country.
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