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  1. TheLeviathan
    I don't think you know who Drew Butera was or what he hit like.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Clearly Lewis was holding this team back.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Yes, but that's why this contract made sense. Byron Buxton was never going to be a 7 year/300M guy despite all the posts around here about it because he simply can't stay healthy enough to warrant that. But his impact and health does warrant the deal he got. What people have to accept is that getting 100 games out of Buxton is likely MORE than we can reasonably expect. He just went through his 22-27 year old seasons averaging far fewer games than that. It is who he is: a transcendent talent, with a ton of heart, but with part-time availability.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Wrigley is a dump. Take in the history...sure, but the actual ballpark is utterly unremarkable. And since that's the case...it's hard to ignore all the absolutely awful components of it. Sightlines along first and third are atrocious. The wind off the lake there can make even a warm summer day uncomfortable. Venders are few and far between. The bathrooms are gas station level. The food isn't much better. And there isn't really much "traditional" in the experience either. I'd much, much rather hit a game on the south side.
  5. TheLeviathan
    The playoffs are everything wrong with a tiny sample size. Unless you want to tell me the key to World Series runs is picking up two guys in trades who are about to be DFA'd and then have them hit like Babe Ruth for two months is a plan. Or maybe the 2020 Dodgers? You know, the team that was about to be imploded if it failed for the tenth year in a row with their eleventy trillion dollar payroll. Making judgments on much of anything based on the playoffs is foolishness.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Managers are irrelevant. Baldelli seems fine at his meaningless job. That said....the bullpen has been elite under this coaching staff (note the usual complainers not eating crow yet)...but I am worried we are burning them out early and could pay for it in August. Not Rocco's fault per se....but a concern.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Since that was what was said....yes. Of course he burned through our best arms early to preserve a tie game. As he should.
  8. TheLeviathan
    So wait....people are complaining that we used our best bullpen arms first and kept the other team from scoring as long as possible?
  9. TheLeviathan
    You're asking me to preemptively dismiss baseball victories that haven't even happened yet. I want off this ride Mr. Serling.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I don't know how you expect anyone to make a rational argument when your point somehow includes three weeks of games that haven't even been played yet.
  11. TheLeviathan
    This response doesn't feel like you put a lot of time into digesting the problem. Your entire argument is that the first 30 games can be dismissed because the schedule was easy. Yet the next three weeks are even easier! That's the reality of 2022 in the AL as we sit today. I'd argue if the first 30 are at all atypical it may actually have been atypically difficult relative to the rest of the year. You seem really resistant to actually examining if your "easy" declaration has any validity.
  12. TheLeviathan
    No one is forcing anyone to draw conclusions. I'm not. As for the rest: They are literally about to play an entire month of games against ridiculously putrid competition...by your own acknowledgment!!!!....and STILL the last 30 are the easy part? Please...digest that for a second and perhaps understand my frustration with the problems in your argument.
  13. TheLeviathan
    But winning a bunch of games only happens by winning against bad teams a lot. If playoff success is what ultimately matters (totally fine)...it might be worth remembering those are a vicious small sample too and our historically brutal recent past might have us all a bit extra skeptical
  14. TheLeviathan
    The point is highlighting the absurdity of declaring a team predicted to be a runaway division winner with 100 wins as easy victories based on a few weeks of bad play. You know, like if I declared the Orioles a good team that we split with because they've won series against the Yankees and Angels this season. Cherry picking small samples is bullet-proof!
  15. TheLeviathan
    Going with your gut is fine, I get that. People citing the schedule have very clearly not looked at the context of that claim, that's what I'm pointing out. Frankly, the sample is too small to draw much of any conclusions. I only feel confident in mine: they've done pretty damn well through 20% of the season all things considered.
  16. TheLeviathan
    It's too early for me to draw that conclusion. This team is young and has had superstars hurt. I'm not ready to draw conclusions...I'm taking issue with the assertions being made and the reasoning for it. If you didn't want to put so much emphasis on the schedule you...shouldn't have put so much emphasis...on the schedule?
  17. TheLeviathan
    The Twins are a bad team because they don't have all sorts of injured players including their two superstars. Since we have less injuries than them, we're actually worse than them so we beat a team better than us! Logic! Stacking the deck of an argument makes it so easy!
  18. TheLeviathan
    If the measure for every AL team is their schedule than the conclusion has to be that virtually no one in the AL or NL is for real. The Yankees, Dodgers, Twins, Brewers, Rays, Cardinals, Padres, and several others are also "not for real". The Mets, Angels, Astros, and Giants have had "meh" schedules. So not for real too? The Blue Jays and....(checks to be certain)...the Arizona Diamondbacks are the teams who are for real this year. Or....maybe in a small sample like that using the schedule as such a major part of the argument is a flawed methodology.
  19. TheLeviathan
    The Twins were playing like garbage going into the ChiSox series as well. The White Sox ARE a good team, playing the "how were they playing when we played them" game because an unwinnable condition for anyone that complicates everything.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Please correct me if I'm wrong because I don't get to watch a lot of full games.....but it sure seems to me that they are running more than last year? Or is that just because "more" than "never" is a pretty low bar?
  21. TheLeviathan
    They beat Tampa 2 out of 3 and helped bury the ChiSox. They didn't fare well against the Dodgers but there were a lot of weird circumstances there too. Basically, they can only play who they play. This is what the AL is....a couple challenges and mostly cupcakes. This team is winning while missing Correa, Buxton, Arraez, Sano, Bundy, Gray, Ober, Kiriloff, Alcala etc. I don't know if they're for real, but it's real that they have done one helluva job 20% of the way in with the circumstances.
  22. TheLeviathan
    This article deserves serious promotion. Well done.
  23. TheLeviathan
    What a rocket by Wallner, my god. Dude looked safe, but wow.
  24. TheLeviathan
    I'm old enough to remember when "Austin Martin" was spelled "Royce Lewis" in this cut and paste article...
  25. TheLeviathan
    Picard Season 2 is not just the worst Star Trek season ever, it might be the worst ten episodes of anything I have ever watched. How do you screw up the Borg and Q with a nonsensical, plodding story?
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