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  1. Laika
    He's like Colby Rasmus but good
  2. Laika
    go back to 154 games but let everyone do steroids again
  3. Laika
    Vlad has value still, because teams view players in a probabilistic way Vlad may be coming off a 1 WAR season and his mean projection may be down to 2-3 WAR or so, but teams are still going to bake in the possibility that he can find his demonstrated ceiling again. His age also makes it more probable that he could do that than a player approaching or over 30.
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    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    omg just saw the video of the Adam Johnson incident it looks like murder the other guy kicks him in the neck on purpose
  5. Laika
    He's definitely been much more active in the last year or so Getting more indignant and opinionated with age Also probably giving up on ever getting laid again so he is just posting through it 20 hours a day
  6. Laika
    connorp left when we added some rules to the message board and tried to limit political posting he came back like a year later, probably because he missed me and I am one of his best friends
  7. Laika

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    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    They need to make helmets with built in kevlar neck guard sheathing, that tucks under the shoulder pads or even clips to them and ties down. Think this
  8. Laika

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    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Playing pro hockey with your neck and face exposed is insane. The visors they wear in the NHL do basically nothing too.
  9. Laika
    Some of these things he is doing might be valid exercises for mobility or "explosiveness" or whatever but yeah it mostly looks like eyewash from rookie personal trainers who don't understand what they are doing.
  10. Laika
    What a game 1!
  11. Laika
    What a swing. Sewald didn't even miss by much, maybe three inches.
  12. Laika
    The possible ten off days for the team that gets a bye would be problematic
  13. Laika
    This is the way
  14. Laika
    Running and cardio can be bad for weight loss though. It works in the short term but then your metabolism adjusts. Also, cardio causes hunger and cravings! Best thing is traditional strength training and diet adjustments. Gain muscle and it increases your metabolism. Better long term strategy. Although, with Manoah the length of the offseason kind of puts him in a crunch. If he wants to cut a significant amount in 5 months. But it would still be completely reasonable for him to just adjust calories, do basic strength training + pitcher specific movement training, and potentially lose like, 30 pounds or so before spring. I dunno.
  15. Laika
    Yeah I doubt it's an effort thing. For him I would guess that he just thought it was "good" for him as a pitcher to be big. Then that got out of hand.
  16. Laika
    well yeah, he just needs to lose weight so it's like 100% diet for that goal anyway I guess my point is more... the fact that he is just working out with his brother is kind of disappointing. I am very cynical about Alek Manoah. A lot of these exercises look like eyewash. Going to work out with your family member is like, the easiest path possible. Makes me kind of thing he's not serious about any kind of body transformation. I looked at the instagram for their gym and all of the pics/videos are 12 year olds.
  17. Laika
    If you look at college draftees only, you sort of do a) some of the best athletes don't go to college you get these 1B and 2B hitters with big sample sizes of crushing the ball and the offense really slides them up
  18. Laika
    I'm not expressing my personal opinion I'm expressing how I think Shapiro would see it Personally, I'm probably canning Atkins if 2024 looks like 2023 The only way they lose in the WC but he would stick on, for me, would be if the team just LOOKS better and more competitive all year long. Like, if they win 98 games and end up as WC1 and then lose because of dumb playoff luck, whatever. Like the Rays this year.
  19. Laika
    So he's being trained by his brother and his wife. Erik Manoah Jr. and Natalie Orantes. Looks like Erik started this business with Natalie in 2020, while still trying on his MiLB career. Erik is a minor league pitcher who has never been able to throw strikes, so I'm not sure he has any merit as a personal trainer aside from his pitching experience and being an athlete. Natalie is a Registered Dietician, Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist, and Certified Personal Trainer from what I can see. So she has some merits. Maybe, just maybe, they can save him. But he does not appear to be at any kind of advanced or progressive baseball training compound. Like, he's doing instragram exercises at a mom and pop gym.
  20. Laika
    You think so? I think Shapiro would still say that the "total body of work" for Atkins is solid. Shapiro is probably too objective to make a decision based on a small string of 1-3 game "series".
  21. Laika

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    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Yeah that sounds bad enough to warrant this. It's like betting on your own games but worse because of the sneakiness.
  22. Laika
    Nola was jekyl/hyde all year long so you think smart feely Rob Thomson could have taken him out a bit sooner than 82 pitches, in his stinker. Not sure if there were any other objectionable decisions. Maybe not asking Christopher Sanchez for another inning or two.
  23. Laika
    If Atkins is feeling any heat it's just from the media/fans. As far as the org is concerned his job is probably not close to at risk. We can assume Rogers is happy with Shapiro, and we know Shapiro thinks Atkins is solid. And ownership probably does not care at all about the fan/media stuff being negative right now.
  24. Laika

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    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    WTF could he have done to warrant that suspension? It would need to be pretty dark. If all he did was gamble on some other sport then we've jumped the shark. Gambling is legal, these teams/leagues/media entities lean into it in an aggressive way, and this is a 22 year old kid. Just batshit insane. It's like Anheuser-Busch suspending an employee for drinking a Bud. So if we give the Senators the benefit of the doubt, Pinto must have done something bizarre. I'm having trouble thinking of what it could be but some type of degenerate gambling.
  25. Laika
    Bonkers
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