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  1. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    It's not "okay" it just doesn't warrant any sympathy in this context. Meaningless and insincere threats and forms of harassment through social media are unfortunately part of our world. They don't mean anything and they should just be ignored. Scheifele drawing attention to them, intentional or not, only serves to deflect attention away from what HE did wrong. No amount of pundits saying it is bad to harass people on social media is actually going to prevent the trolls from actually harassing people on social media. You see offenders and transgressors play this card all the time these days. Boo f***ing hoo. Honestly, if my kid turned into a wildly successful professional athlete making millions of dollars you could all PM me a death threat every morning for breakfast.
  2. Laika
    I don't even know what this post is supposed to mean. Go literally get killed by a swarm of blackflies.
  3. Laika
    Why even roster Yar Bro if you are going to bench him against a team with a 96 wRC+ though... I guess you just assumed that the Yankees were a top tier offensive team without looking.
  4. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    This sympathy card is way too easy for people to play. A small number of *******s are harassing his family members, it is what it is, just ignore/block them. There are no sincere threats to their safety because of your dirty hockey hit. If you feel that bad for your family then send them some of your money to make them feel better.
  5. Laika
    Just hilarious and also sad how all of the 100 IQ middle of the curve fans on here were absolutely right. Yes, the team was insanely stupid for letting him return to play so quickly and letting him try to play through these injuries. Just insanely stupid. Can't even say "in hindsight" because, again, all of the plebs here saw it as it unfolded.
  6. Laika
    He's going to miss the season for precautionary reasons
  7. Laika
    Yeah, huge difference. The massivo contractos all tend to be players with real defensive value - good outfielders or shortstops. Stanton wasn't a DH when he signed his extension, remember. We haven't had a 1B/DH break $250M. I believe Pujols was 10/240 and Miggy was 8/248. Votto 10/225. Fielder 9/214. If you are on the Toronto management side of things those are the precedents you are pulling out in negotiations. There really isn't a precedent for anybody giving a s*** about 1B defense when it comes to these big deals.
  8. Laika
    not much, especially when the player, you know, hasn't won a a gold glove
  9. Laika
    They'll DFA McGuire again and/or trade him if they can't sneak him through. They might give Kirk an extra long conditioning stint in AAA first though.
  10. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    This is the more complete text: "A minor or major penalty shall be imposed on a player who skates, jumps into or charges an opponent in any manner. Charging shall mean the actions of a player who, as a result of distance traveled, shall violently check an opponent in any manner. A “charge” may be the result of a check into the boards, into the goal frame or in open ice." I would probably reword it to something like this: Charging shall mean: - leaving your feet and jumping into a player at the point of contact - travelling an unnecessary distance to apply a violent hit to a player - gathering an excessive and unnecessary amount of speed in order to violently hit a player - in all instances a key consideration is whether or not the player making the hit's primary motivation is to make a violent hit. If the hitting player makes a valid play on the puck while making a hit, or only applies enough force in the hit to separate the defender from the puck, then it it is less likely to be charging.
  11. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    "Charging shall mean the actions of a player who, as a result of distance traveled, shall violently check an opponent in any manner. A “charge” may be the result of a check into the boards, into the goal frame or in open ice." The "don't stop skating thing" is not true. It's basically 2 (or 5) minutes for hitting too hard. You're not allowed to skate end to end and pick up as much speed as possible to destroy someone. It's one of the worst rules in hockey as far as it is written and enforced. Anyway, Scheifele definitely was guilty of it here. And you could argue that the principal point of contact was in fact Evans' f***ing face:
  12. Laika
    He would have to clear waivers. He is out of options. They actually designated him for assignment back in April and he did NOT get claimed.
  13. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    I noticed this too. If he made a play on the puck he might have prevented the goal. Idiot.
  14. Laika
    That's why the professional hitter Jack Panik is hitting 6th. Rowdy Tellez strikes out there
  15. Laika
    Baseball team win
  16. Laika
    God Reese is being a total jack off
  17. Laika
    Ruh oh?
  18. Laika
    We tied six of the innings and won one of them. You can't do much better than that
  19. Laika
    That's regression to mediocrity, not a breakout. He has mediocre projections and I don't think people should really care where he hits in the order right now. 9th would be fine with me if that helps him get his f***ing watermelon head out of his giant ass.
  20. Laika
    Interesting way to classify Semien. I mean, Semien is better than Bo Bichette right now, at least according to past performance, 2021 performance, and projection for the rest of 2021. Semien is flourishing at the top of the order and Bo is treading water and starting to get too hacky. Personally I'd move Bo down, but you can't really go wrong ordering these guys in any way. It's not like 2nd to 5th is even a big demotion by the Book.
  21. Laika
    Well Tellez sucks.
  22. Laika
    The nice thing about Charlie Montoyo is that he is a dweeb so he has a lot in common with nerds. They will speak the same language. Betas helping Betas.
  23. Laika
    It's clearly We know from how Shapiro talks about his organizations that he is not a micro-manager. He gives people beneath him the discretion to do their jobs and develop on their own. The only real question at this point is is the organization doing ANYTHING to try to help Charlie Montoyo develop into a better tactical manager? A few years ago the Rays took a f***ing huge nerd from their front office, Jonathan Poindexter or something like that, and literally put him on the bench in uniform, calling him a "process and analytics coach". Again, the Rays are ten years ahead of everyone else. Toronto needs to but a front office spy in uniform. Take some 25 year old nerd from Waterloo math who can barely throw a baseball and put him on the bench so he can tug on Charlie Montoyo's delicate little strings.
  24. Laika
    It's as bad and inexcusable as Will Craig's error. Charlie's answer on video made me burst out laughing. ] "we won 2 of 3 and then 2 of 3. you can't do any better than that" lol how about 3 of 3, Chuck
  25. Laika
    Because #5 is the only one where the manager put a player in the position to fail. Players fail all the time. It's part of the game. The manager's job during games is just to use his players in a way that minimizes the amount of failures (and maximizes the amount of successes) on the aggregate. What Montoyo did last game is the exact opposite; it almost seemed like he wanted to embarrass Chatwood. Even if you ignore the context and Chatwood's struggles, he is a reliever who has only thrown 2 innings one time all season. Mostly a one inning guy. Max pitches in any outing before last game was 25 pitches. Any manager with even a 70 IQ would at least have someone getting warm when the 7th begins.
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