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  1. John_Havok
    Well, 1 sentence was right, but then followed by verbal diarrhea, but finished on a slight upswing. Progress is being made
  2. John_Havok
    You should. No team has 9 starting building block position players, 5 building block starters and a bunch of building block relievers.
  3. John_Havok
    More routine ground balls and lazy flies is not the recipe for more excitement
  4. John_Havok
    Strikeouts are boring and besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. It's more democratic.
  5. John_Havok
    Meh, Waiver draft is pretty unimportant in the grand scheme of things. It's just not a priority for me to care about at this point in my life.
  6. John_Havok
    Why are you and Todd the only posters that don't understand that you don't need to hit enter to start a new line in one long rambling incoherent sentence?
  7. John_Havok
    Weight watchers new spokesman Vlad Guerrero Jr
  8. John_Havok
    In no way, shape or form was Borucki the ace of anything.
  9. John_Havok
    Better yet, a stairmaster, keto nutritional plan, and chain up the ice cream machine
  10. John_Havok
    Reward success, not the absence of failure
  11. John_Havok
    I think it's more the announcers that I hate. Yes, it's ok when a guy can move up on an out, but let's not pretend the hitter is going up there with that in mind, because he shouldn't be. Nobody willingly hits a fly ball out as his primary goal. If it ends up being a fly ball out that someone moves up on or scores from, that's a positive for the team, but it's not something that should be an encouraged strategy. For example, think a runner on second with 0 outs. You have a run expectancy of 1.068 based on RE24 calcs. Congratulating a guy making an out to move the runner to third cuts the run expectancy to .865 So you aren't really cheering a positive outcome, just an outcome that's less negative than it could have been if he made an out without the runner moving up, in which case the run expectancy would be .644.
  12. John_Havok
    Do we think the game will ever evolve past the whole congratulating players for making outs but a runner moved up a base crap?
  13. John_Havok
    Oops
  14. John_Havok
    What the f*** is this abomination of speech?
  15. John_Havok
    Originally, three separate drafts were held each year. The June draft, which was by far the largest, involved new high school graduates, as well as college seniors who had just finished their seasons. It started in 1965, and continues to this day. A second draft was held in January for high school and college players who graduated in the winter. Finally, there was a draft in August for players who participated in amateur summer leagues. The August draft was eliminated after only two years, while the January draft lasted until 1986.
  16. John_Havok
    Difference being Stroman is nowhere near that level of greatness. Stroman is like the Oilers early 80s version of Kenny Linseman
  17. John_Havok
    There are many ways to say what he said without sounding like an egocentric douchecanoe. "As long as everyone knows how I feel, that's all I care about." Nevermind that alot of stuff that he said could be interpreted as insulting towards his current teammates. Just as long as everyone knows how Marcus Stroman feels, that's all that matters.
  18. John_Havok
    I'm glad that Vlad won't be on the team opening day so this decision is so easy.
  19. John_Havok
    Don't kid yourself, owners know damn well they are squeezing hundreds of millions in surplus value from players in their 1st 6 years when you look at the league as a whole. And since they also all now know that long term big dollar contracts are almost never worth surplus value, they choose to use that knowledge to pay free agents less than they used to, while simultaneously enjoying massive surplus value from the guys in their first 6 years. It's one of the unintended realities of analytics with the way the CBA was drawn up long ago. Now the owners are getting the cake and eating it too while the players enjoy table scraps comparitively to what the owners are raking in.
  20. John_Havok
    I took some tequila shots that were taller than Stroman.
  21. John_Havok
    Purists can go f*** themselves. Watch how "pure" the NL managers would be if the DH was optional for a month but not mandatory. They'd have the DH in their lineup faster than tercet tucks his dick and runs when faced with logic and common sense.
  22. John_Havok
    I'm gonna say..... 37
  23. John_Havok
    I Need This Jersey
  24. John_Havok
    Gimme Oakland any day of the week, though that Reds hat looks amazing to me for a reason I can't even understand
  25. John_Havok
    It's kind of weird, because MLB has the blueprint for sports streaming (MLBAM) that some other leagues and networks use as their streaming backbone. There's a lot of reasons why MLB is falling by the wayside though. And one thing you mentioned is highly relevant; the game hasn't changed.
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