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  1. USAFChief
    The new bosses liked the pitching?
  2. USAFChief
    I'd say its more underestimating how strongly and deeply many dislike and distrust Hillary Clinton.
  3. USAFChief
    What they are describing is the Torii Hunter effect. Leadership.
  4. USAFChief
    If Michigan and Wisconsin don't flip, Trump will win. This sucks.
  5. USAFChief
    Concur.
  6. USAFChief
    I wonder if one or both were in town to take in today's Vikings game? That'd be a helluva way to start your tenure. Or maybe a fitting one.
  7. USAFChief
    The "targeting" thing is complete horse****.
  8. USAFChief
    JHC the Gophers make it hard to watch, don't they? If it's not Leidner, it's the stupidest coaching decisions ever.
  9. USAFChief
    Huh?
  10. USAFChief
    Having the DH as a rotating position is one way to go. Not necessarily the way to go. Plenty of teams have done just fine with a full time DH. Plenty have done just fine without one. I think the DH was established because in general, pitchers can't hit. It was a way to inject offense into the game (and it's inarguable that it has...the AL has averaged more runs per game than the NL in the DH era) under the theory it would attract more fans. Extending careers was a byproduct of the DH, not the reason for it.
  11. USAFChief
    Congrats, welcome, and get to work!
  12. USAFChief
    Horse****. "White males are X" is different than "black males are Y"? How?
  13. USAFChief
    This is not helpful, Chi. And I'm on your side.
  14. USAFChief
    I agree they've both been good players in the past. But there are only 40 spots on the roster and 25 spots on the big league team. Those spots should go to players management thinks have the best chance to add wins in the future, not the players owed money. Maybe those are the same guys. But maybe not. "We already owe them the money" IS the risk. I think it's been too much of a factor in the past.
  15. USAFChief
    I don't think either are "owed" a spot. They are owed money. Those are not the same things. One thing I hope for from new leadership is greater recognition of that reality.
  16. USAFChief
    Athletes in general have gotten gradually bigger and marginally faster since the 70s. That much is true. But Sano is not "more athletic" than Dave Winfield. Winfield led the Big Ten in rebounding one year. He was a fantastic college pitcher in addition to outfielder. He was drafted by TWO different professional basketball leagues, an NFL team, and of course the Padres in MLB. And for what it's worth, Flip Saunders was VERY athletic. He was a starting Big Ten point guard, ferpetesakes. There were athletes in the 70's, too. Good ones. As they say..you could look it up.
  17. USAFChief
    Well, when a pitch is left up, it obviously didn't have a good downward plane, probably the result of not reaching that balance point, which makes it easy for the hitter to not! miss! it! with an uppercut swing. Resulting in a Bremergasm.
  18. USAFChief
    Tremendous baseball game!
  19. USAFChief
    When he doesn't hit, no amount of corner D makes him a good player. Huh. So what you're saying is...hitting is what matters for a corner outfielder. Where have I heard that before?
  20. USAFChief
    If merely removing power from Heyward takes hiim from "elite" to "bench," maybe he wasn't truly "elite" to begin with. Cameron has an odd way of admitting he was wrong.
  21. USAFChief
    That's one theory.
  22. USAFChief
    4 hours for a 9 inning game. A game in which one pitcher took a no hitter into the middle innings, and there were only 6 runs scored, combined. I love baseball, but even I couldn't sit through that. Something needs to be done. How do you attract, and keep, new fans, when even diehards like myself are tuning out?
  23. USAFChief
    I'm to the point where I really, really find Blyleven hard to listen to. He has not said anything new, or interesting, in years. I can literally predict the quips in advance, partly because that's all he ever says. He hasn't done any actual "analysis" in at least a decade.
  24. USAFChief
    What does any of that have to do with Norge Ruiz?
  25. USAFChief
    When ownership consistently spends what they could be spending, I'll accept payroll as a limitation. Until then, it's an excuse. A lame, tired, unsupported excuse.
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