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Basic Instinct was a movie in the early 90's before the internet. You'd think that the horny 13 year old boys who cream over a upskirt shot of a somewhat famous somewhat attractive reporter would have discovered that you can use the internet for porn now. Find some porn and jerk off. You'll find that your need to create a thread about an undie shot will wane right after that.
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Dalton Pompey sent to minor league camp
Dick_Pole replied to gbill2004's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Neither was I but I know in about a month when Saunders goes down for the season Pompey will be back up starting. -
Edwin not happy with term on Jays offer
Dick_Pole replied to gbill2004's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Best post in this thread. This team was 45-46 at the all-star break and ended up easily winning the AL East. This roster was winning 70% of its games after the Tulowitzki trade and is essentially the same minus Price. Even if you replace Price's starts which were won 90% of the time with a .500 pitcher, that's still a .633 overall winning percentage. And it's not like the Jays were overly lucky either. Tulowitski and Martin were silent with the bat after the break, Travis was gone and Stroman came back for a few starts at the end of the year. Assuming this team has average luck, instead of terrible luck, it is a contender for a 90+ win season. Mix in some good luck with injury-free years from all the big bats and you're looking at a team that can win 100. The chance of either of these guys being trade bait at the deadline due to the Jays being out of it is maybe 1% if that. -
Edwin not happy with term on Jays offer
Dick_Pole replied to gbill2004's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Yup. All the Jays have are good to elite players at every premium defensive position locked up for years - C, 3B, SS, 2B and CF. It's going to be so difficult to find 105 RC+ guys to fill out 1B, DH and the corner outfield spots so that the offense is merely well above average instead of the best in the game should both of these guys leave. -
It's a good thing that baseball teams hire managers instead of having random reactionary fans make all the decisions because that would be a very bad idea. Under no circumstance should Stroman have a short leash even if he got s***** results for his first few games unless there's a noticeable decline in velocity, likely due to injury. And neither Dickey, Happ nor Estrada should be managed with nearly as short of a leash as Sanchez. Those pitchers has demonstrated various degrees of success over multiple years in MLB. You generally know what you're getting with them. We still don't know about Sanchez. Although I admit it will be tempting to see Dickey kicked to the pen if he's as much of a gas can as he was in the first three months of last year pitching after the fourth inning.
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No, I was lying.
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So basically he's doing everything that every pitcher with a shot at an MLB job should be doing. Also, just because he's working on those pitches doesn't mean they will get hitters out or stay in the strike zone. One good spring start doesn't make a career. That being said I hope this skinny f***er is like 18-6 with a 2.50 ERA and finishes second in the Cy Young voting to another one of the Jays' pitchers. It would be nice to be wrong but as a fan I'm not prepared to pencil him in with 33 starts at the #5 spot for 2016. If he's starting the season in the rotation he needs a very short leash.
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You do not know Olerud363 well enough if you think this is him trying too hard. On a scale of 1 to 10 ranking his passionate rants, this scores a 3.
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There was never a level of conversation about those guys outside of the context of the trades they were involved in. This Sanchez s*** just pops up randomly and goes on for pages with no conclusion. If Sanchez gets traded this board WILL go down. No server could handle the amount of traffic that would stimulate. Especially if the trade is for some no-name NL guy 90% of us have never seen play who would totally make sense for this team and from an analytical perspective.
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If someone buys 5 lotto tickets and you call him a fool that just wasted his money and 4 of them turn out to be busts, you're 80% correct. If someone buys 5 lotto tickets and 4 of them are busts, that person is 20% correct and also a millionaire. I don't disagree with you regarding Sanchez, but projecting prospects to bust is not exactly a hard thing to do. If someone picks 5 players to break out and one of them turns out to be a legit star, I think that person has done well with his baseball prediction skills. Hell, some scouts have made careers with worse percentages than that.
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The most yapped about "prospects" in Blue Jays Message Board/MLB Board history, with strong opinions/arguments pro or against their talent levels, IIRC: Snider, Hechavarria, Arencibia, Goins, Sanchez This association does not bode well for Sanchez. The young players in recent memory who didn't illicit a lot of reaction or arguments relative to the players above: Stroman, Pillar, Travis, Osuna This bodes well for the Jays. I'm willing to have Sanchez as the sacrificial lamb whose career is destined to be cursed by the various jinxed posters on here. The more time that is spent arguing over Sanchez, the less time that is spent arguing whether Devon Travis is the next Ian Kinsler based on a few of his monster shots he hit last April.
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I think a good break even point on Sanchez is Jesse Litsch. One good year as a starter and a few mediocre relief years before eating himself out of the league. If he can do better than that he's beaten his mediocre expectations. At least with Sanchez it'll take a few years of putting on 25 pounds a year before he'll be too obese to pitch.
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This is the most probable outcome for any random pitcher remotely considered MLB material. I'm guessing that's the point BTS was trying to make.
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Jays sign Randy Choate to a minors deal
Dick_Pole replied to Spoonovic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
A career spanning 15 seasons. 672 games. 408 total innings pitched. Text book definition of a LOOGY. -
Aren't you like 5 years younger than Gossage? Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Meh. Lifetime Salary: $10,103,330, and those numbers don't include his first 5 years in the league though I'm sure that's marginal. Gossage had the opportunity to put his money into Microsoft stock 'run by nerds' and make more than 100 times his money. Hell, if he didn't like the stock market because it's for nerds, he could have bought luxury property and be sitting on something that's 20 times what he paid for it. Baseball salaries have outpaced inflation, but inflation still exists. No baseball player from the 70's and 80's is starving unless they drank or snorted their life savings away.
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I'm sure right now there's some poor 65 year old pipsqueak who went to Colorado State during Gossage's time whose asscrack and nipples are cringing from hearing the man say "f***ing nerd" again even all these decades later. Uh oh, Mr. Saint Rich Gossage is calling out other people for their perceived bad behaviour!
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Damn right. f***ing nerds ruining baseball and humanity with all their technology and sciency s***. Look at all these nerds on this message board right now calling out a Hall of Fame hero instead of getting outside and playing the game for real. f*** them and their 15 Harvard rotisserie leagues they yap about in the off-topic sub-forum. f*** Ryan Braun too. We don't need "these people" lying through their teeth and throwing people under the bus in the game either.
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Gotta cheer for the Nets as well because Boston holds their pick and we don't want that team getting a top 5. This thread is 730 pages so I'm not sure if this has been brought up before.
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Ok I got it. So the vote is really showing that many people find the manager to be a moron. Still...Sanchez has three hurdles to face: 1. Pitch well enough in the spring to even make the club. 2. Not be part of the front office's "development plan" keeping him in the minors. 3. Not land in the bullpen, where he pitched more effectively and he'll more likely be needed. I'm sticking with my choice.
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I can't believe that 4x the people have selected Sanchez over Hutchison. Someone wants to pick Chavez, ok I can see their point. But come on, Hutchison has at least proven he can start at the MLB level. Even when comparing Sanchez and Hutchison's SP stats last year when Sanchez was perceived to perform "ok" relative to expectations and Hutchison was perceived as a big disappointment, Hutchison still had the better stats pretty much across the board. Floyd should only be in this conversation if he earns it during the spring.
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I get what you're trying to say but I don't think this team has the luxury of depth to stash a guy like Hutchison for a rainy day. Start him in the pen and if someone else sucks or gets injured, stretch him out and give him the starting job back.
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Then put him in the pen. Brett Cecil or Wade Davis his ass. This team does not have the pitching depth to have him in the minors and if they did like you said Sanchez and also Osuna would/should be leading way there before him.
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Blue Jays and Edwin have opened contract negotiation talks
Dick_Pole replied to G-Snarls's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Why do people keep believing this fictional scenario of the Jays being out of it by the deadline? The second wild card in the A.L. is probably going to go to a team with 85-88 wins in a league that's expected to have parity. That means anyone within 5 games of a slightly above .500 team in July is going to be "in it". The A's are probably the only team in the A.L. that won't make that definition and even that is not guaranteed. In the unlikely scenario that the Jays are so far out of it by July, say 10 games under .500 or more, it would be due to the offense caving in and most likely that means Bautista and Encarnacion are on the DL and/or are playing like s*** and are not tradeable assets. -
Lifetime salary: $23,740,332 No need to cry for Maicer! It's Saunders who might have to actually get a job once he's exiled from baseball due to injury.
