Dick_Pole

What the hell kind of post is this? You add Ohtani and Soto and the three best hitters of pretty much any team and you could say the exact same. This is like jinx extraordinaire.

I wonder if Ohtani is racist? Toronto has to have one of the lowest ratios of....umm, "urban" people in the downtown core of all the MLB cities. Though we have a ton of homeless and drug addicts of all types hanging around so that might offset. Not sure if Ohtani will ever make his way to Allen Gardens though.

I get what you mean, but I'm in the kitchen for maybe 10 minutes between stripping the carcass and making sure the rice to water to salt ratio is okay. The stove does all the work. If people can't spare 10 minutes to do that, it's on them. As for boring, if people are in poverty, boring SHOULD be the goal. Because excitement or volatility in life events for them revolves around not eating or not heating their place for that day.

The big win for fast food is that (for now) it's still socially acceptable to not tip. Thereby saving 15% compared to restaurants. They make sure there is a labyrinth in their debit-credit terminals to avoid paying a tip though.

After the first quarter of the season, the NBA is proving to the Raptors tank cohort that it never would have worked. There are too many absurdly awful teams in this league. Raptors are picking in the 10-12th spot (barring lottery luck) whether they win 30 or 40 games. Might as well try for the playoff spot and see what happens. The bottom four are pretty much locked in the east. So the Raptors just need to hop over one of Indiana or Brooklyn to get into the play-in.

I live in the suburbs so my quests are a bit easier in this...but my advice is try to find restaurant places that are real holes in the wall that are in plazas or industrial areas in the middle of nowhere. Their rent is still pretty cheap and it's reflected in their prices. I can find good Thai and Middle Eastern options that can be had for $15 and it's a ton of food. Enough to split into two meals. A lot of restaurant inflation in the GTA is due to rent imo, not food costs.

Don't even need to do that. I just bought a full BBQ chicken, jumbo size 1.2kg, at Walmart for $12.99 yesterday. Cook some rice with that and open a can of beans and I'm done. Good for two dinners plus some meat left over for sandwiches on day 3. Total cost all-in including the sides probably around $20 for three meals. People talk inflation this and shrinkflation that but those full roast chickens in Walmart and other places have been pretty much the same price and same size for the last 5 years. Maybe up a buck or so but that's not going to break the bank. A lot of inflation and affordability crisis is due to people being lazy suckers. Plenty of cheap options out there for food that isn't total dogshit.

Max is the new Grant.

Looked up pictures of the mom, confirmed not an idiot.

Reading that article, the whole time I'm thinking "k, what's up with Halladay then?" Cooperstown picks Expos for Dawson, clearly against his wishes...but caves to Halladay's wife?

Cashman is stupid and getting exposed. The team is old and overpaid with likely some big egos tied to that in the clubhouse. Plus a tight free agent and trade market where there will be a lot of demand relative to supply. The Yankees can't just buy their way out of this. They need to completely flush their system but they won't do that until they put up a 90-100 loss season and really see the writing on the wall. If Cole and Judge don't put up superstar numbers next year like they have up until now, that team is in for a world of hurt. I'll put my money where my mouth is in March and clean up on bearish Yankee bets like I did this past year. Cashman operates like an inexperienced fantasy owner. "Trade for Soto". My gosh, who in the league hasn't thought of that!?! When was the last time the Yankees made an insightful and impactful pickup? I talk s*** about Atkins but at least we all can make a list of his smart moves along with his duds. Cashman just signs whoever the baseball media says the Yankees should target then calls it a day.

Yes please Yankees. Empty out your farm for Soto to lock in a 78 win season

I keep pushing it because it's the accurate one. The tell is Arizona's insistence on Gurriel being included in the trade. He's of such inconsequential value that they are either trolling Atkins or are stupid if they say they would walk away from the deal without him. Either way, the correct move is to wait. Sign Kiermaier and come back next month to see if their tone has changed, given that Toronto's perceived need for outfield defense has decreased after that signing. If not, then you change the narrative. Have Moreno take reps at 3B. With the intent that you want to take a look at him as a possible Chapman replacement. Then say to the Diamondbacks "Yeah, call us again next year about Varsho, we are good with Kiermaier but might be interested in 2024. Meanwhile we want to give a year to evaluate Moreno". See if they flinch.

The big problem I have with this narrative (not with you saying it, just the narrative in general)...is of f***ing course the rest of the league is going to push this opinion because they can smell from a mile away Atkins' sweaty desperation. It was up to him to go into March with all three planned to be on the roster (and no obvious glaring holes like in the OF) and let some team sweat it out and overpay. All three have glaring weaknesses just as all three have the ability to be top 15 catchers in this league (of note, even top 15 catchers have weaknesses because that's the nature of the position). Let Arizona roster some third string shitbag until Carroll gets thrown into the conversation. That's what a good GM would have done.

A 21 yo dating or "dating" a 15 year old isn't my cup of tea...but it isn't that same as Jared the Subway guy or the priests or something like that. We all have grandparents or great grandparents or someone in our ancestry where the man/boy was 19-21 and the woman/girl was 14-16 when they got married or started having kids. Still happens a lot today in non-Western society. To expect humanity to change over 100 or so years to the point where young athletes have to be indefinitely suspended. I dunno, doesn't sit right with me. I know some dads of teenage daughters will rage at the thought but that's just my opinion.

Goldschmidt and Arenado plus cash for Tiedemann. That would make me wince hard but I can see this FO doing it if they decided to go all the f*** in for 2024.

10-15 is right. Average to slightly above average. Had Guerrero actually panned out though they could have potentially hit top 8. The problem with this regime is a complete lack of ability to develop top talent. Bo Bichette is like, the 5th best player if he's on the Braves. Top one here. That's a problem. No matter how improved this team is with depth compared to a decade ago (Biggio, Espinal >>> Goins and John McDonald, Jansen and Kirk >>>> Arecibia and Thole etc.)

I miss the days where the only 2AM weekend posts were from Spanky, piss drunk and hilarious to everyone except the mods who had to clean it up. These new 2AM posts aren't so fun anymore. Also, we can't really give that much credit to saying no to Bautista. It probably would have happened until he opened he big yap about demanding $30 million a year. Then the narrative here was pretty much 100% hell no and even in casual fan spaces it was mixed at best. Bautista talked himself out of a Rogers boost.

Alright, this narrative of "the Blue Jays made the playoffs and then just got unlucky over a few games" has to stop. Why? Because they way they lost in the playoffs is the exact same way they lost in the regular season. With Atlanta or Baltimore you could say they got unlucky by facing hot teams or whatever. But the Jays in the last two years lost to two middling teams that immediately got trounced the next round. In 2022 they blew an 8-1 lead, indicative of the ridiculous struggles the team had all year of closing out games they should have won. In 2023, they were toyed with, absolutely chumped on offense. Particularly struggling with non-clutch hitting and stupid baserunning. What was the last game? Zero runs on 10 hits or something stupid like that? And that was the problem all year. If the Jays had lost 10-8 because Berrios or Gausman had blown up or something, THAT'S when you could chalk it up to bad luck.

Well, Cardinals are done for the off-season. See, that's the type of proactive s*** I expect from the Jays. Fill all your needs by November 21. Well done.

I post just infrequently enough to never remember who I have a beef with on here, except for the occasional swipe at Jim. I find it to be a good spot with this forum. Frankly a lot of you morph into one profile in my mind, especially all the guys with "jays" in their name.

bWAR > fWAR under all circumstances because Baseball Reference is slightly less spammy than Fangraphs and I refuse to give my computer AIDS just to win an online nerd argument.

I don't find Nola to be that good, but that's because seemingly every time I bet the Phillies or under total runs when he was pitching, that ******** would blow up. So I'm a bit biased.

lol poor guy is going to have a 10 ERA next year. Career done.

Imagine the level of narcissism Fisher must have to write that letter. Dude, just do what you need to do and shut the f*** up about it. Pure cringe from the first word. I'd respect him more if he just told the truth, he wants to make more money and ended the letter with an ASCII code middle finger.