John_Havok

Good point.

You're taking this way too serious. And comparing a 19 year old's 1st time injury status to a chronically injured SS in his 30's whose limbs are barely attached at this point is not apples to apples.

Stroman is far too in love with breaking balls. Get back to basics you moron

What a terrible sequence to Jose... they watch him not have any good swings at fastballs, then serve up a breaking ball for him. Just a bad pitch call.

I'm not knocking Golden State at all. Golden State has done everything right, got lucky along the way as well (you have to get lucky to some degree), but the more important thing they've done right is change the way the game is played and made the game itself more exciting. PLaying up-tempo, layup/3's early in the clock with unselfish ball movement and making the league change to combat what they do is the real triumph. Having multiple HOF players on your team is the real issue. No league should want nearly all of their marquee talent in 2 or 3 cities. Yeah, it happens from time to time when teams take advantage of rules, get lucky in drafting, when players take massive discounts to play for a certain team when they could easily get more elsewhere - can't really control what players decide.... but nearly everytime this happens, it exposes a flaw in the system that needs to be corrected. You see similar things in MLB with the luxury tax, when they eliminated type A/B compensation picks, when they added competitive balance picks to smaller revenue teams... those were necessary changes to keep teams on the same-ish level playing field with the richest teams. If those rules were not in place, there'd probably be 3 or more less teams in MLB within the next few years and that cannot happen in any league. Contraction can be a killer. The NBA is different from the other sports in this regard because they only have what... 14 roster spaces. 7 or 8 of which actually matter? When you get 2-3 HOF talents in those 7 or 8 spots with multiple all stars around them... it's game over for everyone else. Point is, when 27+ teams fans know they have no chance, apathy sets in and that can be the beginning of the end. The NBA is flooded with cash right now which will support the current landscape, but I can guarantee the commissioners office is looking at ways to try and tweak the system.

Or hitting too many rails

MLB is hard to have dynasties given the massive diffrence in how 1 player can affect a team vs the NBA. Same with the NHL, though of the last 10 cups 8 of them have been won by 3 teams total. Different games. It's just hard to be excited to watch the NBA when you know how it's gonna turn out. Msy as well watch the Globetrotters and Nationals these days

Wish he was a baller....

Never said he was?

Not a bad comparison. Osuna was 17 in rookie ball, and threw pretty well in Bluefield before getting moved up to Vancouver after only 24 innings (7 games, 4 starts), 24 K and 6 BB. Pardinho is poised to surpass those numbers after 13 innings with 19 K, and only 2 BB and 5 hits

It's almost tempting to consider him a prospect

Nah, you never get a top 10 prospect CF for Happ. I was typing in sarcasm font. Now, if they took Happ AND Osuna.... maybe they'd consider Robles.... maybe.

Haha, was looking at his 77 game score. My bad. Might get 1 more inning then EDIT: And nope. Pulled after 5.

Robles or GTFO..... But I'd settle for Carter Kieboom. Can't have too many SS prospects.

77 pitches, 46 strikes, 2 GO, 3 FO. They'll probably yank him for a pitch count, but that's a damn impressive line

Latest Vlad update Toronto Blue Jays phenom third base prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr. continues to rehab from a strained patellar tendon in his left knee, but he has progressed to the point that he'll be taking live batting practice on Friday. It will be his first time doing so since hitting the disabled list in early June. While this is clearly excellent news, we can't say for sure where Guerrero Jr. stands until he can run without discomfort. Even with batting practice on Friday, he's probably at least a few days away from attempting that. Those in dynasty leagues continue to await Guerrero Jr.'s arrival, who is slashing an absurd .407/.457/.667 with 11 home runs, 18 doubles, and 55 RBI across 53 games for the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats this season.

That's the key thing. No other team sport has a game where 1 guy can take a s*** team to playoff team, or a playoff team to a champ like the NBA. That being the case, the NBA should definitely look into ways to change their roster rules to try and spread out the star players more. Otherwise this will just keep going on, 1 dynasty team after another with all but 3 or 4 teams having even the slightest chance of a championship. It's bad for the league.

Could you imagine if the Nats were to fall out of the race entirely in the next few weeks, what kind of circus would erupt if there were rumours of Harper being on the trade block?

And Pillar isn'teven that fast a runner. He's slightly above league average at 27.9 fps this season. MLB average is 27. Teoscar is actually the fastest on the team at 28.5

He's fast enough it needed a perfect throw to beat him. Needed no hop and right on line .... ah well.

K, so who is left on the bench now? Martin?

Great, you may have missed the part where I just tuned in to see Teoscar double and had no idea where anyone was playing and who was available.

Well. ...a tie is better than game over. Get em in the 10th