Laika
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Peripherals just haven't been there for him in the minors in the last 2 years. I doubt he's anything more than a middle reliever next year for TB, and as such he's not exactly big league keeper material. I'd rather have him on my farm than a couple of "prospects" that I currently have though.
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I think the muddy point is that AA was blaming some of the failure on injury luck. I don't think he was blaming any of the medical staff. Maybe, but I doubt it. -
I want to go ahead and apologize for what may be perceived as a set of mistakes resulting in this current circumstance but I'd also like to make it clear that while I am willing to apologize I do not necessarily believe that I did anything wrong or caused this set of unfortunate circumstances directly even though you can go ahead and blame me if you want before you blame anybody else except of course for the stupid doctors I mean I do feel bad about the whole thing really im just kind of confused about my own competence and direction and I don't really know what to do or say but talking makes me feel better im hungry lets get shawarma computers r dum
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"I feel guilty" "I take responsibility" "I didn't do anything wrong"
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The author says that in their discussion, AA kept going back to pitching and the doctors, as in AA's two big given reasons for the terrible season are bad pitching and poor health.
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True. In the mold of Chris Farley.
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No, the failure is on the specific pitchers for being sucky. Oh and also the doctors. Duh.
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Top Darrell here. Looks like I win the graphing calc pool. Pony up your TI-84s, fellas...
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This is my favourite part: "I still think the process, actually, was right. The thought process was right." Ok dere bud. Team is screwed with this guy. Failing is one thing. Even failing this hard, it can happen to the best. But failing so hard and then not even accepting responsibility? Not even entertaining the notion of auditing your thought processes that got you here? f*** man. Like, what the hell is this crap from AA? He says that he feels guilty and then he basically denies that they even made any mistakes. He's a natural born politician.
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Meanwhile, it'll be Hurl and I in the PL finals. A team that had no business finishing 1st vs. a team that I can't believe finished 7th.
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Looks like I'm bowing out. The bats went limp. Min vs. FTD in the finals. Min would be the heavy favourite I suppose. Although Kats could still knock him off with a big power game from Zimm.
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You have to start most/all of them. Wins are tied and you're trailing in 2 of the rate stats. Sitting on Ks/ERA would be dumb. Kats also his Cliff going against the Mets, so it's not likely that he'll roll any of the rate stats over to you on his own.
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All a commish can really do is force add/drops. There's no way to edit team statistics or change standings or matchups or anything. We could institute some small punishments I guess, if people ever add an owned player and accrue stats from them. Something like getting moved to the bottom of the inseason waiver order, or losing draft picks. Not sure if it's really necessary though. Maybe it is. Could be a graduated system with worse punishments for subsequent strikes / playoff offenses.
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I don't agree with the narrative induced myopia that everyone comes down with when justifying the Shields trade. Funny that TB is even more of a contending team, and they took the other end of the trade. KC wasn't even a contending team when they made the trade. Getting a solid #2 like Shields helped them become a fringe contender that will probably finish a few games over .500 but fall short of the 2nd wildcard. They should have been building for the long haul. They got impatient and it's going to cost them significant value. Odorizzi will probably be a decent big leaguer at some point too. Wade Davis has been pretty bad. You could throw this deal and the Dickey deal into the same bin, even if KC wins ~13 more games this year. Pretty ugly trades that will forever make me think, "WTF?"
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If that had happened, we would just say that I was in the 3rd place game instead and we'd have to keep track of the final week matchup scores by ourselves. Wouldn't have been a massive deal.
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schwoops thought he was a nobody
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Methinks I'm not making the finals
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Pretty sure I've seen something similar to this already done
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But Colorado and San Fran both won!
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Davidi: Arencibia opens up about turbulent 2013
Laika replied to GD's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
LOL, there's someone that JP shouldn't have pissed off -
Davidi: Arencibia opens up about turbulent 2013
Laika replied to GD's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
"My first couple of years, I drove in a lot of runs, hit .230, (was among the leaders in) catcher production, and still it wasn’t ever going to be good enough." I LOVE LOVE LOVE how he says "hit .230" like it was a good thing. -
No, you f***ing goober. Trout.
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So if the Houston Astros had a 20 WAR player, he wouldn't be in the running for the MVP award? Individual awards shouldn't be dependent on team success. It's not Trout's fault that he plays for a stupid franchise that can't spend money properly.
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Lind is a $5 platoon DH for the Jays next year. If you're filling DH cheaply in free agency, that's basically what you look for anyway. With several bigger needs, might as well just pick up the option. ... can't believe I just said that.
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I think they'll try to start McGowan and it won't work out. I also like Hutch more than that, just not in 2014. Long term I think he'll be very solid.
