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  1. wsnydes
    With the lockout abyss in full swing, let's talk ice cream! What's your favorite ice cream topping? Pick all that apply!
  2. wsnydes

    Now I want ice cream...

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    2. wsnydes

      wsnydes

      And now I want a Grasshopper...

    3. Squirrel

      Squirrel

      Make the grasshopper with ice cream ... it's a little thicker and nice and chilled; and drizzle a wee bit of chocolate on the inside of the glass before you pour the grasshopper in it

    4. wsnydes

      wsnydes

      That's way I prefer it, actually.  I'm not much of a shot guy.  Though, making a Brain Hemorrhage is pretty fun.

      I'm not at home at the moment, so I can't do any of these things right now!

  3. wsnydes
    Naturally!
  4. wsnydes
    Fair enough, but I'm picturing a stick of butter on a heaping bowl of ice cream!? Ick. Or was it ish? Yuck.
  5. wsnydes
    I'm not one that likes the analytics as much as many do. I'm not necessarily against them, but they don't really bring enjoyment to the game for me on the whole. That doesn't mean that they don't have a place though. I think @Sconniehas a good point. There's no one there to teach that, especially on a national basis, the way Madden did. Part of that is because of the newness of it. A reputable person that everyone knows doesn't really exist. Madden was a well known and respected commodity. I don't think that the baseball analytics world has that person. Another potential issue is that Madden would describe and explain what people could easily see. I'm not sure that can easily be done with analytics. At least to the same scale anyway. And despite my view on analytics, I do feel the game would benefit from such a person. There's clearly a thirst for such a thing.
  6. wsnydes
    Not to hijack my own thread, but I can't see Julia Child putting butter on ice cream.
  7. wsnydes
    Maybe that's what tomorrow is for! The only thing they could agree on is that they needed more time for a setback.
  8. wsnydes
    Jeff Passan is reporting that there was enough progress at today's 2 hour meeting that they're going to meet again tomorrow. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33140500/mlb-players-association-plan-meet-again-tuesday-sides-make-progress-sources-say This hardly means much, but I'll take progress at this point. Update...
  9. wsnydes
    If the option is black hole or Polanco at SS, I chose option C and roll with Martin/Lewis/Palacios and see what happens. That said, I don't think Lewis will be ready. Martin might be pushed, but I think I'm okay with that. And Palacios is entirely a wild card. I'm kinda in the mindset that I really need a minor leaguer to just jump up and take the position. That likely requires a spring training though.
  10. wsnydes
    I don't think it's a coincidence that Polanco took off with the bat after settling into 2B. Don't mess with success. I also want nothing to do with the defensive alignment of Polanco and Arraez up the middle. Infield defense may not as be as valuable these days, but it's not irrelevant.
  11. wsnydes
    I think part of the issue here is that with the disaster that was 2021, even small dips in production are amplified as people try to explain why it was a disaster. I think that's happening here to a degree.
  12. wsnydes
    I've always enjoyed the exclusivity of the MLB playoffs. That said, I've also always hated how they're set up. I would like to see them condense the series' to make them more like the regular season. Ideally, that would also keep the WS early enough in October to avoid really foul weather in northern cities.
  13. wsnydes
    Kirby, Torii, Mauer. Hoping Buxton stays healthy enough to join that list.
  14. wsnydes
    I despise the opener concept, but I don't think this team is in a position pitching-wise to ignore a potential strategy or jettison pitchers that could potentially help. They should hold on to any and all potential options for any tangible strategy to get through the season. As @Sconniehas posted several times in other threads, they don't appear to have enough pitching options to get through the season without using guys AAAA options.
  15. wsnydes
    I'll never understand why sports, especially MLB, make it more difficult to consume their product. It's asinine and very short sighted. I think the NHL does a pretty good job of getting their product out there, BSN issues notwithstanding. I wish MLB would emulate them more.
  16. wsnydes
    The wider range of possibilities is intriguing to me. Couple that with the need for them to be on the higher end of that range for this team to really blossom, and you've got a recipe that could be very exciting... ...or you could end up with something that is oversalted like my dinner...
  17. wsnydes
    Thanks for the excellent read, @mikelink45! I'm younger than you, but the things I enjoy (music, cocktails, sports among them) skew older than me. I think I was born at least 20 years later than I should have been! My wife's grandpa played collegiate ball and town ball for a really long time, and he would sit around with his buddies and talk baseball. Especially if the Twins were on at the time. I could sit there for hours and listen to them. Such a treat! I have my own nostalgia of the era that I grew up watching, the 80s and 90s and have my own baseball heros but it's never as interesting as listening to the stories of the older generations.
  18. wsnydes
    I'm always going to lean towards Kirby for the simple fact that he hooked me on baseball. I'm also not old enough to realistically remember Carew. With Kirby, it's always going to be a "what if" conversation. Perhaps not fair, but it is reality. Carew's numbers are pretty crazy. I mean, having a batting title trophy named after you is a pretty sweet gig if you can get it!
  19. wsnydes
    Yup, I could see that happening. He's too important to the franchise yet. It just has to be understood by the fan base that he hasn't played in 2 years.
  20. wsnydes
    This is an interesting point. They clearly have a better sense of where he's actually at than us, but I would hope that they'd put him where his ability puts him. It doesn't do them any good one way or another to overwhelm him. They need him to succeed for a variety of reasons, whether they keep him or deal him.
  21. wsnydes
    The economics of the game are very much part of this negotiation and that's solely on the owners whether they're talking about it or not. They don't want anything to change. You're going to have a very hard time convincing me that that doesn't hurt the game. To say that they have no part in hurting the game is either disingenuous or flat out naive. The players have very little, if any, control on that aspect of the game. I've said my piece. I have little interest in continuing this discussion at this point.
  22. wsnydes
    As far as I'm concerned, this is semantics. Changes or not, the status quo is bad for the game, which ultimately appears to be your point about the players. You're trying to have it both ways. The players are hurting the game with what they want, but the owners wanting things to stay the same isn't bad for the game. The fact that the game is trending downwards yet the owners want nothing to change is clearly going to continue to hurt the game, just as it has been. So yes, the demands by both sides are hurting the game.
  23. wsnydes
    They essentially want the status quo. Hard to imagine that being good for the game given its trajectory. And let's not forget this is a lockout, not a strike. Also hardly good for the game. This has been hashed out all over this site. Probably doesn't need to be done here too.
  24. wsnydes
    No, see, I added that as an option in the poll! You're doing this wrong!
  25. wsnydes
    Well played, Squirrel.
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