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  1. USAFChief
    How much? Come with batteries?
  2. USAFChief
    So if I undertand you correctly, your position is TR assembled such a bad roster that he shouldn't be held responsible for not trying to improve it.
  3. USAFChief
    Well, we don't know what would have happened had TR addressed the bullpen. And in any case, Pseudo, "it wouldn't have been enough" is never a reason to not address a weakness. Never. Not to mention, were every other player OVERperforming, we'd still have a weak bullpen kicking away winnable games. "It's OK he didn't address the dumpster fire, because as it turns out, a tornado hit too" isn't how I want to see the GM do his job.
  4. USAFChief
    Source?
  5. USAFChief
    A hit on an 0--2 pitch to start the 8th. Chief disapproves.
  6. USAFChief
    In play, run(s) please.
  7. USAFChief
    ...
  8. USAFChief
    I literally was going to post "Plouffe goes yard here." Damn, missed my shot.
  9. USAFChief
    Park. Nunez. Nolasco. I'm probably missing some. Not disasters.
  10. USAFChief
    I went to the course late today, hoping to get a quick nine in before the game started. When I got there, the starter told me to hustle over to the first tee, there was a single just about to tee off, and I could join him. He looked perturbed to see me wander up, thinking I'd just slow him down. Well, I can play a little, and I offered to play him a match for 10 bucks a hole. He thought it'd be easy money, and quickly took the bet. Turns out I was a bit too smart for my own good...he could play a bit too. We traded a couple holes, and got to the ninth tee all square. I knocked my tee shot down the middle, not as far as him, but very playable. He put his tee shot into the right rough, with a tall tree right in his way. He really had no choice but to knock it out into the fairway, and play from there. He was just about to do that, when I wandered up and looked down my nose at him. "Playing safe, junior?? Well, I s'pose that's the smart play. Gotta say, though, when I was your age I'd have knocked it right over that tree." He looked at me, pulled out another club, and took aim at the green. Hit a great shot, too, but it hit the top of the tree, and doinked directly right, out of bounds. Match over. I looked at him and said,'"Of course, when I was your age, that tree was three feet tall."
  11. USAFChief
    Once a week or so? OK. Once a game? No.
  12. USAFChief
    The movable object v. the resistable force.
  13. USAFChief
    No.
  14. USAFChief
    I've been pretty unimpressed with Berrios. I thought he threw harder than this.
  15. USAFChief
    Trailed in every game but one this year.
  16. USAFChief
    Last Sunday at church, I was standing in the foyer talking to the pastor. There's a big plaque on the wall with the names of miltary congretation members who have died in one war or the other over the years. As we were standing there talking, a young boy of 6 or 7 walked up and asked the pastor what the plaque was all about. "Well, son, that's a memorial to all the members of the congregation that have died in the service." We all stood there for a minute or two, quietly looking at the list of names. Finally the boy looked up at the pastor and asked quietly, "Which service? The 9 or the 10:30?"
  17. USAFChief
    Geez, I picked a heck of a time to join the game thread. ick.
  18. USAFChief
    Yup. http://www.truthrevolt.org/sites/default/files/styles/content_full_width/public/field/image/articles/melissagilbert.jpeg?itok=W8fFl5Fd http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/155493995-ed-sullivan-during-ed-sullivan-file-photos-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=GkZZ8bf5zL1ZiijUmxa7QRIuxKmdGM3GTH5BTmPOq5ipy11coETMefOYFr7V6zw8U2d9JBrISCmeAtTm0waCZg%3D%3D
  19. USAFChief
    Aaron Hicks had virtually a league average bat last year (97 OPS+) in 390 PAs, with enough defensive ability to play CF, at age 25, and trending up with the bat. That isn't "at least competent?" Is it possible you're letting your opinion of him influence your analysis?
  20. USAFChief
    I hope he ends up with a .870 career MLB OPS. If that's over 15 years, with peaks in the .900s, I agree he's a very good player. I'm not sure that's a superstar, and I don't expect that level of production anyway, but I'd sure be happy to see it. And his A ball OPS is .828. You can chop it up any way you wish, it comes out the same in the end.
  21. USAFChief
    I don't think they expected Murphy to displace Suzuki as the starter.
  22. USAFChief
    Yes.
  23. USAFChief
    HR #2 tonight.
  24. USAFChief
    You screamed on a fake roller coaster?
  25. USAFChief
    You think it is reasonable to lower expectations for Buxton because of his ML at bats thus far. I think maybe it's reasonable to lower expectations some because they were too high for someone: - with an .870 career MiLB OPS, - who reached that level of production only in AAA (his rookie, A and AA OPS's range between .790-.830 - who hasn't displayed a lot of power, and doesn't look like he will develop it any time soon AND - who struggled mightily in his first small taste(s) of the big leagues, including an alarming inability to make contact, or punish pitches that he did make contact with
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