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I haven't seen anyone say that the Rays aren't successful. All people are saying is that their methods to achieve success suck ass, drive people away from baseball and make the Rays boring as f*** to watch and follow. Then, their ******** starts to infect other teams. Also, lol @ your characterization of Brosseau. They are keeping him as a stupid platoon player to keep his arb value down. If they actually cared about maintaining his high performance, I don't think they'd have let Choi look like a dipshit as a switch hitter, or maybe they'd have called up Nate Lowe sooner while Tsutsogo and Choi both hit below the Mendoza line. All the Rays care about is keeping things cheap. They are the same as any soulless corporation that has to answer to shareholders, except somehow even worse because I'd take Rogers in a heartbeat over their ownership group.

What's the difference between their baseball innovation and money saving innovation? Seems like they are one and the same to me. If I was a baseball player, I'd probably rather dip my nuts in boiling tar than play for the the Rays, who will inevitably try to screw me out of money.

Why in the asscock are the Titans and Broncos playing at 10:30?

How about Bengie Molina? Willians Astudillo? Curtis Thigpen? Got anymore comps of despair?

It's awesome. I still have a half chub from yesterday

What a charitable depiction of the people who disagree with you.

It wasn't a bad trade. It would be a bad trade if we missed out on value. Happ kinda sucks, and our return was nothing. Oh well, we weren't getting anything better. This was a meh trade. Just like Diaz for Thornton was a meh trade. Basically zero impact either way.

Yeah, his 30mph screamer over a drawn in infield bought him some more time, I think, but El Capitan is coming.

I can't believe Jansen is still owned.

Well, Cowboys really got f***ed by that Jalen Ramsey flop on that offensive PI, but they should have kicked that f***ing field goal instead of turning it over on downs after running the ball on third down for some reason. Both teams looked pretty decent, and it was an entertaining game. The real star was the Rams' new digs. Holy f***, that has to be the most spectacular sports venue I've ever seen.

Would you in his shoes? He's a current starting SS who would be filling in for an up and coming star. I suppose I'd have moved Bichette to 3B and keep Simmons at SS but it probably wasn't a chance he wanted to take.

That being said, he really does remind me of Bonifacio and I hate it.

I take xFIP with a grain of salt. If he's limiting batters to an average exit velo of 84.4, that's going to reduce the home run rate. Whether that's sustainable or not I guess is the question, but I kinda feel like xFIP is gonna go the way of the dinosaur with all the statcast info. The evolution of DIPS has been very interesting. First, there was the widely accepted theory that pitchers had no control over their BABIP. Pretty sure this is now a thing of the past; some pitchers are able to suppress BABIP to a degree, and what's interesting about that is that it's, in some cases, made ERA a better measuring stick for some pitchers. Guy that immediately comes to mind is Darren O'Day. Then now the working theory with xFIP is that, in theory, every pitcher should have the same number of fly balls being converted to home runs, but I think this is also going by the way side as we have access to more information. Some guys appear to have a legitimate skill when it comes to limiting hard contact. I'd really like to have seen the statcast numbers for a guy like Mariano Rivera, who had one of the nastiest cut fastballs of all time and was surely excellent at inducing weak contact because he was consistently able to keep the ball off the barrel of the bat. All this to say, Dolis has some command issues that I think might iron out in time. If not, I don't really think he's going to regress to his xFIP as the stats so far and watching him pitch, indicate that he's good at inducing soft contact. If I'm not wrong, these numbers should stabilize fairly quickly as they are per at bat based data points. If you all remember, JFaS (autocorrect tried to change that to Judas, accurate) invented TIPS, which got him some widespread acclaim as one of the first DIPS metrics to incorporate per pitch events which resulted in a far superior ERA estimator for relievers, who typically had much fewer innings pitched per year and FIP and xFIP tended to do a poor job of capturing their performance. All this to say, Dolis might actually be really good. He turns your average hitter into Danny Jansen, which is a good thing for the Jays since Danny Jansen f***ing sucks *******s. I might be really dumb for writing this

Wtf are the Cowboys doing?

I hate listening to Cris Collinsworth call games where Aaron Donald is playing. It's like listening to Pat Tabler call a game that includes Taijuan Walker.

NFL coach handsomeness rankings: 1. Sean McVay 2. Kliff Kingsbury 32. Andy Reid

Dude, one time he was stealing second and got clocked at an average speed. Forget all the other times.

Lmao except he's not rofl lmao

Yeah I mean, there is the small issue that Soto is 100% better at hitting and not replacement level, and that Soto can actually run so ground balls arent as detrimental But yeah, aside from that, same player

Well I guess we can slam the brakes on any hope of the Bucs not sucking big massive dongs Tom Brady is nothing without Bellichick

I think Buck's constant overrating of Dave Stieb is more annoying. I mean, I don't really see the argument for Stieb over even Halladay.

What was Carlos hoping to get out of that challenge? I don't understand. To get Frazier out when he already was?

Am I wrong or did Buck go out of his way to not acknowledge Barry Bonds' existence?

Argument has been completely dismantled, good work

Just because someone watches reality TV doesn't mean they want to be part of the show