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  1. Vanimal46
    A sense of accomplishment for a second. Then instant regret when all of the batter starts settling in your stomach.
  2. Vanimal46
    I get his point... So that would take the number to 7. Meanwhile the Cubs have Schwarber, Contreras, Baez, Bryant, Russell... There are a plenty of teams that have good to very good MLB players under 25 as well. I don't think his point that the outlook would be better if we moved the goalposts is a good one.
  3. Vanimal46
    If we moved the goal posts to top players under 25, they'll still get crushed by the Cubs, Yankees, Astros, Blue Jays, Braves, etc. This is the team breakdown of the Baseball America Top 100 prospect list.... I'm sure each team probably has a guy or 2 under 25 they could add to the list too. 8 - Braves 7 - Yankees 6 - Brewers 5 - White Sox, Padres, Blue Jays, Rays, Astros, Rockies, Pirates 4 - Dodgers, Cubs, Cardinals, Phillies, Athletics 3 - Red Sox, Mets, Reds, Indians 2 - Twins, Nationals, Mariners 1 - Giants, Diamondbacks, Marlins, Tigers, Orioles, Rangers
  4. Vanimal46
    Are the team's local TV contracts also tied into the revenue generated from MLB.tv, MLB Advanced Media, whatever other streaming networks are out there for the other sports? If the rights start going down in value, we know the owner's aren't going to take that loss for long. Salaries in all sports would decline for sure.
  5. Vanimal46
    He's so far past his prospect rankings that it shouldn't make any difference... If he doesn't have the velocity anymore, doesn't matter if he's 25, 30, or 38. He'll get crushed. We realize that the rotation is not going to be the same at the end of the year as it is today... The question is why defer to the same rotation of veterans when they were historically bad last season? May was trending in the right direction as a starter until he got Pelfrey'd. In regards to Berrios, many, many rookie pitchers last year got crushed. I'm not going to think less of him as a result. He should be on the MLB team for a lion's share of time this year.
  6. Vanimal46
    It's a breakfast type of day today! As Chi teased, today is National Pancake Day! If you want the key to my heart, start the morning by making blueberry pancakes! Today is also National Cereal Day! I started my morning with a bowl of Honey Nut Chex this morning... What about you? On this day in history, a lot of blood was shed... So we'll keep it positive! A good thing that happened was in 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell patented the first telephone! Which deserves a follow up question - who did he call first to make sure it worked?
  7. Vanimal46
    There needs to be a term for these moments. We as fans are getting "Pelfed"?
  8. Vanimal46
    Yeah, Google is definitely big enough to take on a $1+ Billion acquisition.
  9. Vanimal46
    I have no idea either. I've got to imagine ESPN is paying Gruden pretty dang well to stay in the broadcast booth and not go back to coaching. Can't think of the names of other NFL analysts they have... Feels like they have a rotation of 30 former NFL players.
  10. Vanimal46
    Yeah, sadly that will probably be the case. There are plenty of "former jocks" who can barely speak full sentences, but they'll probably keep them because they think being a former player adds credibility to their hawt taeks.
  11. Vanimal46
    Mind.boggling.
  12. Vanimal46
    No wonder why May had a bad year.... He didn't have time to focus! /sarcasm
  13. Vanimal46
    Give that man a roster spot, stat!
  14. Vanimal46
    Well, there's that.
  15. Vanimal46
    oh my..... good?
  16. Vanimal46
    I'm having flashbacks to last season when it was "set" that Glen Perkins would be the closer.
  17. Vanimal46
    Paul Molitor on April 10th, 2017 after giving Hughes an automatic spot in the rotation.... http://community.runnersworld.com/fileSendAction/fcType/0/fcOid/51539148896419342/filePointer/51539148896419363/fodoid/51539148896419356/imageType/LARGE/inlineImage/true/ad-huge-mistake.jpg
  18. Vanimal46
    Now on the mound for the Cardinals, our old buddy Jordan Schafer.
  19. Vanimal46
    Cardinals are up 1-0 in the top of the 4th. Gibson appears to be pitching well, and is still out there. Twins: 1. Byron Buxton ® CF 2. Joe Mauer (L) 1B 3. Miguel Sano ® 3B 4. Max Kepler (L) RF 5. ByungHo Park ® DH 6. Jason Castro (L) C 7. Jorge Polanco (S) SS 8. Drew Stubbs ® LF 9. Eduardo Escobar (S) 2B Cardinals: 1. Kolten Wong (L) 2B 2. Aledmys Diaz ® SS 3. Randal Grichuk ® LF 4. Stephen Piscotty ® RF 5. Jedd Gyorko ® 3B 6. Tommy Pham ® CF 7. Chad Huffman ® 1B 8. Patrick Wisdom ® DH 9. Eric Fryer ® C
  20. Vanimal46
    Who else would buy them? Especially if average joe's like us can see their business model is broken with no easy solutions to fix it.
  21. Vanimal46
    Chad Greenway is going to retire. 11 years with the Vikes. Good luck to him in retirement!
  22. Vanimal46
    No doubt... Before the explosion of dedicated blogs to sports teams, MLB Network, social media, etc. I used to watch SportsCenter from beginning to end hoping to catch highlights from the Twins game. Now we can simply google Twins game highlights and a compressed YouTube video is a click away. I truly don't know how they can fix it for the future. More and more people are catching on that discussing an athlete's tweet and what it means is worthless. The thing they have going for them is broadcasting live sports. Maybe they need to go back to their roots and broadcast random sports events throughout the day instead of HAWT TAEK DEBATES.
  23. Vanimal46
    I found this article that says cable subscribers pay on average $20-25 a month for sports alone. Compared to 2001, when a cable subscriber paid on average $2.85 a month for sports. Another problem for ESPN is subscribers have to take the entire bundle, including ESPN2, ESPN U, SEC Network, ESPN 8 The Ocho, instead of just paying for the one they truly want, ESPN. Frankly, I don't care too much about ESPN as I don't watch that channel unless the Vikings happen to play on MNF. I do find it fascinating that the landscape is changing, and ESPN is no longer the first and only option for sports sports sports.
  24. Vanimal46
    In this on going story, ESPN is now planning major lay-offs with their on-air talent. From the linked article: "The most immediate causes of the layoffs are clear. Over the last several years rights fees have skyrocketed, with ESPN now paying over $3.3 billion annually just to broadcast the NFL and NBA. Simultaneously, ESPN’s subscriber count and viewership—the fabled dual revenue stream that has made it the most envied television company in the country—have tumbled. While the loss of 12 million subscribers over five years is mostly due to generalized cord cutting, and not subscribers specifically dropping ESPN, it doesn’t really matter: It still amounts to losing almost a billion dollars annually. The status quo is unsustainable, and with rights fees already locked in for several years, salaries are one of the biggest areas available to cut expenses."
  25. Vanimal46
    Faedo sounds like a fine player, but again, I want the highest upside possible when it comes to pitching. I still have Greene firmly as #1 on the board.
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