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  1. bird
    To the left fielder, who doesn't have to run to catch it. Or to the shortstop stationed where the second baseman should be.
  2. bird
    yesh...hic
  3. bird
    Because their parents insisted on scheduling toilet time.
  4. bird
    I'm really surprised that Scott Schebler is struggling.
  5. bird
    I don't want to talk about Stewart. So, when my daughter was an 18-year-old freshman at BC, she called me after her first day of classes and said some dumb jock (her words) sat down next to her in a class and started hitting on her. She asked him, "How old are you, 26? And what are you doing here?" The guy proceeded to tell her he made it to AA with the Twins before an injury ended his promising baseball career. It was Shinskie. Thanks to Seth, I was able to give her a few facts about his minor league path, and she had a little fun with him the next day reciting some rather unflattering numbers, which I, as a father, was careful to cherry-pick. Shinskie dated one of her roomies for awhile, and while his QB stint at BC was also short-lived, he did in fact graduate. I think they're still FB friends.
  6. bird
    Well I've been a prince and you know I've been a post By a barbed wire fence and a murder of crows ---Amos Lee, El Camino Springsteen. Meh.
  7. bird
    Eating lots and lots of crows is murder.
  8. bird
    Could be, Jerr. But only if it's a really harsh, toneless, almost metallic buzzing sound. Like Springsteen's music. Kidding. Emmylou Harris's cover of Racing in the Street is nice. Texas Grackles in chorus create more of a rattling sound rather than a buzz, and they build things up to where the sound has been described as that of a flushing toilet. No kidding.
  9. bird
    I suppose you're right, Vanimal. The Branch Davidians are a fun group for example. I'll keep an open mind about braised racoon. Do you have a favorite roadside diner to recommend?
  10. bird
    Chargois/Burdi/Melo is a good add to a wish list.
  11. bird
    As far as buzzkills go, Buxton's struggles stand alone. In order of magnitude, a reversal in direction of these are things would turn around my own spirits: Buxton figuring it out at least to an acceptable level at the plate, Berrios holding his own in MLB, Fernando Romero having another promising season, Gonsalves regaining his health, Lewis Thorpe looking like he's back, Gordon keeping it up, and hauls at the trade deadline for two or more vets. I already am a believer in Kepler, Sano, and Polanco. I just don't care about Gibson or Hughes. I take those days off from baseball generally.
  12. bird
    Not that I'm not ALWAYS inspired by game threads, but this talk about Grackles has me quite worked up. And the Grackles in Texas? They aren't the dull Common Grackles of Minnesota. These are called Great-tailed Grackles (look it up). Like all things Texan, they're larger than the other Grackles. Also like other Texans, they're obnoxious, noisy, and unpleasant. True to being Texan, they hang out in large groups late at night on the city streets, often hiding behind the bushes, and like to suddenly cause a huge boisterous ruckus when a visitor happens by. They're tiresome showoffs. The Great-tailed Grackle is actually closely related to the homo sapien Texan, as evidenced by their affection for dead animals and their similar willingness to pick at them on roadsides and in parking lots. And very sadly, these rather self-important and arrogant things are lurking everywhere you go and their numbers are increasing at an alarming rate. Unlike another disgusting relative, the European Starling, these Grackles were Born in the U.S.A. Well, Mexico, really, but they'll never admit it.
  13. bird
    Exactly this for me too. The main piece has to be a frontline starter, a guy who projects as a #2-3, not a guy with a #3 ceiling. The closest thing we have to an acceptable main piece in our system? Berrios might tempt me, if Lewin Diaz, Blankenhorn, or a similar top 150-200 prospect was offered as the second piece, which would be mandatory for me because of the injury risk I'm assuming with the main piece. But I can see why some would move him at the deadline for a Fernando Romero/Rortvedt type package. And I suspect that's the kind of offer they see, if that even.
  14. bird
    I agree, but this is why I think they retain him. We may have too many sellers at the deadline, too much inventory available, to extract this kind of overpay for him. But for me, and I hope for Falvey, there's no great benefit in trading him for some prospect that projects as just another league-average starter. So I think Falvey keeps him, through his option year even.
  15. bird
    Poor Buxton now gets every border line pitch called against him.
  16. bird
    Yes.
  17. bird
    FIFY
  18. bird
    Because "He just dropped the barrel of the bat."
  19. bird
    I like it. The javelin. Thrown by Petru the Impaler.
  20. bird
    Wear your assigned number throughout the race and turn in the money people pledged to you. What cause are you supporting?
  21. bird
    Right. It's called lost seasons due to injury. They're progressing, which is great.
  22. bird
    We have better than a Berrios type right now and for two plus years in Ervin Santana, for a reasonable price. And that's assuming Berrios lives up to his ceiling as a #2-3 starter. Yes, I know he stands a better chance of falling apart than a Berrios type. I'll take my chances that I can construct a roster of pitchers that will give me similar production to Berrios, maybe slightly less, over the next year or so. I don't want to trade my one frontline guy for that type. I want a frontline prospect for my one frontline guy. At the most optimistic, Berrios is viewed as having a small chance of giving you some #2 production. Not a good enough return for me. Close though, with a Rortvedt type thrown in. As you say, none of what we have in the system is clearly projecting to be Santana's equal.
  23. bird
    If I'm the GM, I expect to retain Santana. Why? Mainly because I don't believe someone is going to offer me a future frontline starter of greater promise than any I have in the system today (Berrios, Romero, Gonsalves) and another prospect of substance thrown in (think Blankenblahblah). But I'm sure gonna try, and I'll be blind to where we are in the standings, contrarian as that is, if the overpay is stupendous. I'll take my chances on Berrios as his replacement. I just don't expect anyone these days to offer up a pitching prospect much better than a Berrios type.
  24. bird
    And sampleSizeOfOne won't even admit to doing THAT. Liar.
  25. bird
    Who hasn't?
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