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I always imagine buck having a little flask in his pants he pulls out from time to time... And that makes me laugh.

Don't you want your announcer to be a homer? I guess where it gets out of hand is when say on a replay review they are obviously siding with the home team even though it's obviously should go the other way... But I don't find Buck does that much.

People have to realize, 98% of people watching the game are casual fans, they want to here guys like Buck... They don't want to here about xFip, or UZR or wOBA or any other advanced stat. Buck provides decent commentary.... I even loved tracking Buck blunders, that was entertaining for me. I love when he almost goes nuts for a fly ball ball to the track... or "get up ball!!!" Buck is pretty good. All of them are pretty good really. My one complaint is about the fan radio guys. You listen to the round table on PTS's and you can really tell there are 4 or 5 guys who are very much first HOCKEY guys and very much second everything else. You can really tell. John Shannon should go for a break every time he hears the word baseball. Brunt is very good, belongs and seems very much to know his limitations. That station needs a guy like Drew Fairservice (I listen to his baseball pod) to take over the baseball planning for the station. Basic concepts like service time are lost on these guys sometime.

Man. It's so much easier to stomach guys like him and Goins when they defend like the do.

Kevin Pillar is our starting CF. Obviously he's not a league best CF, but he's probably close to average. But the whole time he was in the minors no one had him on a top ten prospect list.

The line didn't look too bad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzlwoJoump8

Is that the worst trade analysis in the history of baseball? Or I guess maybe the most incorrect? It's funny because he lays the ground work for the article saying how he has not been a fan of the pirate recent moves, before going into how he really likes this one.... which of course turned out to be maybe one of the worst trade of all time (only in hindsight of course).

Because it's the same thing everyone on here would be saying if he was our president right now.

But can't the goal posts shift? For the record I think Trout should get MVP if it was held today. And in general the player with the best war should also be the MVP... that's how it generally should work out. But I'm just arguing that it shouldn't have to. Should a teams performance having anything to do with deciding MVP? Most on here would say no and loudly make fun of any old baseball writer that does take it into consideration. But I'm not so sure it should not mean at least something. If a bunch of a players WAR value comes from extra base hits he racks up in meaningless 5-1, 8-2 games, is it really value? If over the course of a year, 8 times Trout homers or triples in the 7th or 8th down 5 or 6 runs, while Donaldson singles or sac flies 8 times with walk-off wins. Of course Donaldson's contribution was more in those cases, but that would never show up in any WAR calculations. Of course my hypothetical never happened, but it is possible. Then there other things. What if Trout was a club house cancer (he's not)? Sure club house cancers have won championships, but have they not also hurt teams as well? I would think so? Anyway, that's all.

Jays should promote AA to president and retain the GM title. Hire back that guy that was assistant GM that left for Apple to come back as assistant GM.

True.

I'd give Donalson some time at DH. That guys needs rest.

I was being a bit sarcastic. My point is, if a pitcher displays solid stuff and there are no restrictions on his pitches, it can be positive for his development. Even a guy like Matt Boyd, coming up and getting absolutely shelled, was good for his development.... Terrible for the team though.

Every 18/19 yr old with half an arm would be rolled through the Mexican League if I had my way.

Yes. Because it supports a point I've wondered about often.... This whole idea that prospects will fall apart when challenged or fail.

SBJ. Not sure if you answered this anywhere, but how did you become a ball fan living in Scotland?

What did Osuna master before pitching in the Mexican league (AAA equivalent)? Did it hurt him? Connor Greene might get destroyed in AA. If he does he'll get a better sense of what he needs to work on to get advanced hitters out. Also, shortcuts he may have used to get lower level hitters out may get exposed in AA. If it does great.

No it's not. You're confusing MVP award with highest WAR award. It's not the highest WAR award.

Why is he prematurely promoted? Why do you give a f*** who he's pitching to?

Yeah. That's horrible. Cut him.

Not necessarily. Most Valuable player is different then best performing player. If the Angels miss the playoffs Trouts performance didn't really change the situation for the team. Donaldsons most certainly has.

So what you are saying is nothing?

Oh I know. Tell it to the nut job that called the Jays talk.

Man. Everyone has to listen to tonights Jays talk. Pure gold. Some guy called up and went nuts at Wilners love of Gibbys pen use. Freaked out because Gibby used Loup. Thought Cito was a god that was the ultimate pen manager.... apparently he wasn't around for the Brian Tallet years.