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  1. gil4
    It took a couple of tries to get the picture to post right.
  2. gil4
    Hey, we're due.
  3. gil4
    Not caring might be defensible.
  4. gil4
    He has enough already.
  5. gil4
    There is a guy wearing a mask who needs to tune in.
  6. gil4
    Apparently not.
  7. gil4
    Pandas are usually pretty calm. You see that garbage - I'd be right there with him.
  8. gil4
    I hope Rosario was watching Gardner make that throw.
  9. gil4
    If my office had those computers I'd do that on a daily basis until our technology at least moved into the 1990's
  10. gil4
    And there's one that's not so good.
  11. gil4
    Fortunately, it looks like it will be over soon. Unless (God forbid) they decide to use it the rest of the year because each additional HR is a new record. (I hope I didn't give them any ideas.)
  12. gil4
    When you're not coming close to your spots, you're going to get squeezed.
  13. gil4
    Top of the third should be early enough (if Berrios can survive the bottom of the second.)
  14. gil4
    It sounds like another item to add to the list of reasons to replace Gimenez.
  15. gil4
    I hated Favre a bit less, and I was certainly happy to accommodate his vendetta against his former team. (No, not the Jets.) I know plenty of #4 jerseys sold, but I certainly never owned one. One thing about Favre is the hate as 100% football hate, not personal.
  16. gil4
    Ask Tim Tebow how much drama teams tolerate from back-up QBs.
  17. gil4
    If you choose to offend a significant portion of your employer's customers while you are at work, don't be shocked if you are no longer employed and if similar employers with similar customers decide not to hire you. He does't HAVE to stand for the national anthem - he's free to go start his own league.
  18. gil4
    I'm not sure he has been "conspiratorially blackballed" when there are reports he still wants starter money, which isn't going to happen. I'm also not sure he cares whether or not the shootings he protests are justifiable or not. There was also the bridge he burned with the Ravens- yes, it was his girlfriend's tweet, not his, but if someone close to you is saying stuff like that you either renounce it or you own it. He owns it. (It's not like it was a crazy uncle he sees every three years - it was his girlfriend.) I'm also not sure if he was ever seriously considered in Miami when Tannehill got hurt, but that Fidel Castro shirt wasn't going to play well there. My opinion has softened a bit, partly because he has indicated that he will stand for the national anthem this year if he plays. I'm not sure he fits the Vikings' scheme (although I'm no expert,and maybe that's not an issue. His skill set if different from that of Bradford and Keenum - part of that is the fact he has two functioning knees, which neither of them can claim.
  19. gil4
    You need to ask that about DaveW's Dozier trade thread. If he didn't get an Emmy for that one, he was robbed.
  20. gil4
    I had that book at one time - it didn't make the cut on one of my moves. Les Straker was the #3 starter, and in 154 innings his ERA+ was 106, which is above average. His W-L was only 8-10, and his SO/9 was an unsustainable 4.4, but I find it hard to believe he was the problem when you compare him to the disasters that attempted to fill the 4th and 5th starter slots. Any analysis based on W% of starters is flawed, and that was in the early days of baseball analytics. Straker was right in the middle of two groups of extremes, and if you lump him in with either group you will have a Sesame Street "one of these things is not like the other" situation. "Throwing away all wins by 1-2 pitchers for championship teams", combining the stats of the rest of the starters, and then determining "the difference maker [for the '87 Twins] then became the lack of a #3" just isn't fair to Straker. I bet if you combined the top three starters for championship teams, the Twins would still be in the normal range for championship teams, but doubt very many championship teams gave 2/5 of their starts to a group of 4 guys who all were well below replacement level. (They combined for -2.9 WAR. Straker's WAR was 2.2)
  21. gil4
    Nice try, but I still don't like Phil Cuzzi.
  22. gil4
    Not really. Adrenaline + cliches = boring. I'd rather just keep yelling.
  23. gil4
    Fine with me, but I can't make it. (OK, if I start driving now I could, but...)
  24. gil4
    I vote we go back to winning 16-0 tomorrow night. The lead-up to these walk-offs is too stressful.
  25. gil4
    The 4 and 5 were in line with other championship teams? Just looking at their stats I have a hard time believing it, unless you say #3 is empty and call Straker a #4. Even then, what they really put out there for 3 and 4 was amazingly putrid: Smithson - 20 GS, 109 IP, 5.94 ERA, 1.505 WHIP, 78 ERA+, -0.4 bWAR; Niekro - 18 GS, 96.1 IP, 6.26 ERA, 1.661 WHIP, 74 ERA+, -1.0 WAR Carlton - 7 GS; 6.70 ERA, 69 ERA+, 1.791 WHIP, -0.5 WAR Portugal - 7 GS, 7.77 ERA, 60 ERA+, 1.864 WHIP, -1.0 WAR That was interesting stuff about Reardon. I remember being underwhelmed by our big acquisition during the regular season, but he was pretty darned good in the post-season (despite blowing saves in the first two games against Detroit.)
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