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  1. Mike Sixel
    Dogs would be much more likely to post positive thoughts in game threads, just sayin....
  2. Mike Sixel
    Jack: So who should pick up Hanley Ramirez for league minimum after he’s released? The Rays could use another right-handed 1B/DH type who isn’t Rob Refsnyder to spell Miller against lefties. Do you think Ramirez has anything left? 9:09 Jeff Sullivan: I don’t know what the point of Ramirez would be for anyone anymore 9:10 Jeff Sullivan: He doesn’t field, he doesn’t run, and he’s no longer much of a hitter. I know that he can still generate some impressive peak exit velocities, but in terms of value, this isn’t a desirable or unusual skillset
  3. Mike Sixel
    Agreed.... But I tend to ignore September results that are different than other months. Now, he was very good earlier than that....I even say in that quote he can be good, but he's not right now, and that they need him to be. It seems like we are agreeing?
  4. Mike Sixel
    Parts + Gleyber 9:59 Byron Buxton solved his soft contact problems: just strike out! Jeff Sullivan 9:59 For everything that's ever been written about Buxton, his year-to-year strikeout rates have spanned from 29% to 36% 10:00 Which is to say, they've spanned from high to very high Maybe -- just maybe -- Byron Buxton isn't going to be a good major-league hitter
  5. Mike Sixel
    They should know by then who they aren't protecting in the off season. I doubt it is an issue.
  6. Mike Sixel
    That's not how the real world works unless you believe we also know what we have in Buxton now....since his minor league numbers would indicate he'd hit by now.... It's not like FO and managers are always right, either.
  7. Mike Sixel
    He's not good. It's really hard to shake impressions of the past.... But he's not hitting, and he can't field.
  8. Mike Sixel
    People are judging Garver's defense in less than a year of playing at this level..... Plus what they've heard about his defense in the minors. I suggest patience, mostly because he's their best bet for catching for a few years. He should be playing more, now.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Joe 12:39 Your Kepler vs. lefties prediction looks good so far, but do you think his numbers vs righties will improve? Keith Law 12:39 Yes.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Besides age and defense and baserunning?
  11. Mike Sixel
    So many excuses for his age.... Plenty of young players are up and producing. Can he be good? Sure. But he's not even close right now, and he's part of why this team isn't good. Kind of hard to be a great team with your hope for the franchise hitting like this.
  12. Mike Sixel
    He has nearly 1000 MLB at bats. How are reactions knee jerk at this point?
  13. Mike Sixel
    Someone should ask the MoY..... Because it makes no sense
  14. Mike Sixel
    Hall of Fame? Has any such player started this way? I doubt it.
  15. Mike Sixel
    My kids did. Kids still should. Almost no children are abducted or whatever. There is no reason not to let your kids play outside in most places in the country. Overall violence is down....
  16. Mike Sixel
    Of course, Sano can play defense, which Carter can't, at all. Sano is also much younger. Could he go that way? Sure. Will he? I don't think so.
  17. Mike Sixel
    I have tried to convince my 22 and almost 21 year old sons to write handwritten thank you notes for interviews and the like. You'd think I suggested jumping off a bridge or something.....
  18. Mike Sixel
    https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/phil-hughes-and-the-sobering-history-of-thoracic-outlet-injuries/
  19. Mike Sixel
    Part of this confirms what many of us said about Hughes on the roster. https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/phil-hughes-and-the-sobering-history-of-thoracic-outlet-injuries/
  20. Mike Sixel
    The reason governments find sports is to distract us from real events. That's been true since ancient Greece, according to the Greeks themselves. That's different than just being entertainment. Imo
  21. Mike Sixel
    The NFL is considering a 15 yard penalty for kneeling during the national anthem. We are so weak, emotionally, as a nation, that we will potentially penalize sports' teams for having opinions out of game...... Proving, imo, that sports is really all about distracting the people, as has been said for thousands of years....
  22. Mike Sixel
    I just don't think we see Gordon w/o a Sano set back, or a trade of one of their current players....not until next year is my guess. I wish he was up when Sano went down, but didn't happen. Not with Polanco coming back in a month or two or whatever the timing is. Wade, imo, should have come up when Buxton was out, or even Cave. I don't really think of Granite as a "prospect", but he can play D and run, and he should be on someone's roster as a 4th/5th OF, imo. Between those three, they are set at 4th/5th OF for some time, I think. The handedness doesn't matter a ton to me, but I understand why others would disagree. I think Gonsalves is up at some point this year, when something happens to 2-3 SPs during the year. IF they are worried about Romero's innings, it might make sense to have Stephen come up, and to rest Romero for a few starts. Maybe, not sure. That might be Slegers' role, or Mejia (is he a prospect still, I think you are all forgetting him if he is)? I don't see anyone else that is likely to do much, though I'm sure I'm forgetting a RP, this year....
  23. Mike Sixel
    If a parent buys alcohol for a minor, and something bad happens, they are accountable. I think, but am not sure.....but if a parent has guns that aren't locked up, they might need to be accountable for what happens if they are taken by their children. I think. I'm not sure. Probably not. It's a tough call, really. On the one hand, the biggest hand, it's not the parent's that do this, and people (mostly) are not accountable for what others do......but on the smaller hand, sometimes they are. Hate speech for example, that is acted on, is a crime. (edit: I had more here, but my stupid computer moved teh cursor up here and I lost it. Hate this computer so much. So very much.) My issue with holding the parent accountable is that we just don't know, in most cases, and I'd rather a few guilty people go free, than any innocent people go to jail. So, ya, unless there is evidence the parent enabled them, or used hate speech, or something....I can't hold them accountable. And,yes, guns are the issue here. Other nations have the same underlying issues, but they don't have ease of access to guns.
  24. Mike Sixel
    As hard as I've been on the team this year.....one game under is pretty good considering they are without Sano, Polanco, ESan, and how Morrison and Buxton were/are hitting. I'm still not convinced they have any chance in a playoff series vs the big three.....but then I didn't think that before the season either. A mini winning streak past this....and they are on the pace most of us expected.
  25. Mike Sixel
    Trout already has the 16th most WAR among CF in history....and he's 27. That, apparently, is the average WAR for CF in the HoF.....and hes not even eligible yet. Wow.
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