Dick_Pole

We need more Yankees pickers to come in with their premature Astros picks for tomorrow to build up good karma for the Twins. Keep em coming, guys!

I hope the Dodgers win tonight so I won't be burdened with such a tough decision.

This is very true too. Though I think our likelihood of success would increase, even just a little bit, if the Yankees were throwing someone out there with just 12 innings of information to go on for the year.

Washington Nationals Dick Pole logic: All teams on the brink of elimination will do what it takes to extend their season. Only Washington has Strasburg.

You'd think that someone with a horseshoe shoved so far up his ass that it's a septum piercing would accept it with more grace and humility but we all know that's not the way Boxcar rolls. My Buck Martinez logic was right. Wainwright was excellent and that game was a total toss up. Braves bettors were soiling themselves for 8 innings and Cardinals bettors are raging now.

Ouch dude. You do realize that someone can have, say, a $100,000 bankroll and be VERY good at what they do making $50,000 a year (whether that's sports betting or stock trading) and still apparently be spinning their wheels for 20 years because that $50,000 goes to funding living expenses. Not everybody has to be like tercet laying down $14,000 challenges on some obscure player's wRC+ at the first sign of a disagreement to make a comfortable living being a bum.

At this point I'll take the Dodgers losing if the Braves lose too. If I'm going down, I want to take a bunch of loudmouths who think betting against Wainwright is today's easier pick with me.

Scherzer's for game four and Strasburg likely game five so I assume Corbin is a candidate to work out of the pen tonight and the rest of the games. Unless they switch it up and put Strasburg in the pen but I doubt he'd be a candidate to work tonight.

1/22 = 4.5%. That sounds pretty improbable to me. I mean, he's got a way better shot than what your PPC guys are polling so maybe you're just in denial over the definition of improbable is.

He means rolling with a winning streak that would end with him winning the pool if he wasn't kicked out for the late pick. Everyone else understood that. Even Jim.

Well, this ain't Vegas, this is a survival pool. No one is paying out an extra 50% to take Nats with Sanchez instead of Scherzer here.

This forum gives absolutely no credit for veteran presence. I would not lay my money against Wainwright in the playoffs at home against a rookie even if he is a hundred million years old now.

Changing pick from Nationals to Dodgers. Scherzer is out, Sanchez is in. I didn't even have to alert this because in the spreadsheet I see Dodgers under my name. Jays4life knows me better than I know myself.

Tomorrow will really seperate the men from the boys. No obvious choices. Going with the best pitcher tomorrow and hope he performs 10/6 - Washington Nationals* *Subject to change if they decide to rest Scherzer.

It's so cute how desperate Senators fans are: f***ing offspring of rich people have nothing better to do than troll fans of s***** teams.

Keep it. It's too early to pick strategically. Go with your gut/heart/mind not what other people are doing.

For the Jays to have any shot at contention next year, they need to be the beacon of health and luck. If Guerrero, Biggio and Bichette aren't playing a combined 450+ games next year due to injury or suckage, the team isn't going anywhere. And in that case who cares who the backup MIF is. The Jays have enough depth everywhere, they need top end talent.

Drury was meant to be a seat warmer until the young guys came up and displaced him no matter what. He filled his purpose, inadequately. If you guys don't take offense to Atkins' questionable roster management to date, you should have no issue seeing this guy jettisoned even if he rakes elsewhere. There is no reason to be spending anything above min salary next year for a backup MIF when every penny of available salary room needs to be prioritized for pitching. If the problem is that he's the real life Mr. Magoo risking his baseball career because of it, he's an idiot at age 27 keeping that a secret. Let someone else deal with that s***.

He's out, but you should still track his picks just so he can be steamed if he would have won it if he got his pick in time.

10/5 - New York Yankees. Tanaka suxxxxx but Cole is a choke, choke, choker.

Other than key22's post about signing every pitcher of note, who hasn't been a realist out of group one? I have seen no one saying the Jays are 100% getting Cole and yet I repeatedly see others posting about how the Jays aren't getting Cole. We don't need to be reminded that the Jays have a 97% chance of not getting a certain player just like EVERY team has a 97% of not getting any one player.

Trump is also a misunderstood soul. CNN is always out to get him.

Yes Jim, you are always ahead of the curve. Thanks for reminding us of that. What's that thing that Trump always does? Oh yeah, demand credit for every little thing he does or says correctly.

I responded in a non-insulting manner without personal attacks that I disagreed with your and Terminator's assumption that the right or better time to add more aggressively is after the 2020 season. It's you two guys who started getting all antsy about it. Maybe you need to take an EQ course.

I think the BJMB crowd can be lumped in two categories: 1. The optimists. Those who have faith and a reasonable expectation that the FO can identify the problem areas and come up with solutions to fill those problem areas given the relatively good situation they are in (tons of payroll space, premium positions already filled with young, cheap and productive players, a reasonably strong farm system, a hands-off owner that has allowed for a top-tier payroll in the recent past and a large baseball market). This includes free agency and trades. 2. The pessimists aka the Krylian crowd. The ones who think that members of management will be so meek, "risk averse" and incompetent at their jobs that there is no chance they will sign any desperately needed pitching so that the team wastes another year of half of the offense earning minimum wage. Oh and Toronto is clearly worse than Kansas City, Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore and Pittsburgh combined. Baseball players would rather hang themselves than dare cross the border and play in front of the third largest city in North America. They might be paid in pesos and might even be forced to learn French. That's much worse than having to worry about their kids being shot at school basically at any time.