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  1. Mike Sixel
    I don't really hate any of the entertainment stuff....but I fail to see how the silent treatment is fun, funny, entertaining.....no idea. Not a fan of the Star Spangled Banner or 7th inning nationalistic songs either, as sports become more and more international, it seems even more silly. I find the music divisive, personally. But again, I don't know if I CARE or not. I mostly don't listen to announcers anymore, since they are generally boring.
  2. Mike Sixel
    This is from a PURE GOLD article on Grantland: why we can’t just smile, wave, and watch Harper have a great season instead of obsessing over how fast he runs on routine outs. We all start out as Daisy, and we all end up straight-faced and stressed. Being Daisy looks like a lot more fun. The most maddening aspect of these episodes is that the sport’s self-appointed policers are so often unworthy of the office. Coming from a fan-taunting crotch-grabber who so often finds fault with his teammates, Papelbon’s critique was hard to take seriously. “I didn’t maybe necessarily do it the right way,” said Papelbon, who admitted that he’d made a mistake but didn’t maybe necessarily sound as remorseful as he might have. He knows he handled this wrong, but he still believes that it had to be handled. I’d counter that Harper is smart enough to know when he can run at less than full speed. According to Baseball Info Solutions’ Range and Positioning System, batted balls similar to Harper’s on the play in question are caught 100 percent of the time. “That number is rounded and is based on a window of several years of similar batted balls,” says BIS’s Scott Spratt. “But for practical purposes, similar balls are pretty much always caught.” A .336/.467/.658 slash line doesn’t buy a player a pass, but it should buy him the benefit of the doubt. Harper has reached the level of performance at which the right way to play is “however Harper does it.” http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-washington-nationals-bryce-harper-jonathan-papelbon-fight-matt-williams/
  3. Mike Sixel
    Proves to me that athletes are not the kind of people I want to hang out with, generally. And when you say "players", what does that mean? And, we know from the last two years, when players have voted him as Over Rated and not good.....that they just don't like him, for no good reason...... Bah, I never should have looked on the interwebs, now I know that most of these guys are people that I could never hang out with.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Agreed, 100%.
  5. Mike Sixel
    I do love it, but if I had the chance, I'd leave it (if that meant going to another planet, not just to be shot into space and die floating in space). that would be so cool (the other planet thing, not dying in space).
  6. Mike Sixel
    I think I'm just going to feel satisfied, and try real hard to ignore the other thoughts in my brain.......It's been an overall good season.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I don't consider you and me to be "us"....so no.
  8. Mike Sixel
    I would marry this post, if I wasn't already married and it was legal....
  9. Mike Sixel
    I'm feeling conflicted. Part of me wants to be happy about the season, and part of me is disappointed they didn't bring up Berrios and acquire one more RP....or even AJ to catch. I don't feel like they really went for it, even though they had a chance to be in the playoffs. I feel like the GM said, "we aren't all that good, I'm not even going mostly in"......IF they don't make it, how will YOU feel?
  10. Mike Sixel
    Probably, sports are funny that way.....
  11. Mike Sixel
    True.....I was only commenting on this, they have clear issues......but in this case, they are serious.
  12. Mike Sixel
    A culture of accountability in action. Not words, but action. good for them.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Have I ever said otherwise, ever?
  14. Mike Sixel
    There are service/control years reasons for Buxton to be down. Ryan has said, and I think shown, he doesn't care about those.....
  15. Mike Sixel
    You think he reached out to a ton of players, or ones he knew? There is a great article on the washingtonpost about how Harper has matured (remember, he is all of 22 right now) the last 2 years. Can anyone point to an episode in the last 2 years where he acted out of line, in terms of the BS integrity / unwritten rule crap?
  16. Mike Sixel
    Given the temps, no ales will be brewed there..... On a serious note, this just reaffirms that there is nothing special about Earth or even us, for me.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Actually, I can think of two instance of pulled hammies this year resulting in lost playing time, doing the fake hustle crap.
  18. Mike Sixel
    classic blame the victim stuff.......he was attacked for no reason. That's on the attacker, not the guy being attacked. 40+ years after blaming the victim was written, and people still do it.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Sorry to sidetrack things with the SS question....... At some point, not developing good players is on the organization. birdwatcher doesn't agree, I am fine with that, we'll never agree on this point, ever. As for the guys we are discussing, it is great that some of them are looking like they could be good. That's exciting.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Got it, thanks. I'll have to get home to check out the youtube stuff.....blocked at work.
  21. Mike Sixel
    It isn't a question of merits......alcohol has no "merits". Baseball has no "merits". It's a question of the cost of removing freedom and the cost of stopping something that might have relatively mild demerits. I encourage you to read several of the articles about Portugal's decriminalization on line.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Ya, I don't think YOU are......but others, I'm not so sure.
  23. Mike Sixel
    I'm not arguing that no pros have trouble with pressure......but it is on a scale, not black and white.
  24. Mike Sixel
    And yes, the most likely explanation for the inconsistency is different staff members doing the rankings, not some gross incompetence by the organization. They've talked about that before on the site.....
  25. Mike Sixel
    When you don't develop any for a long time, is it really just bad luck? Who was the last SS they drafted and developed that went on to a good MLB career as a SS?
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