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  1. Dick_Pole
    I admit that I was one of those. But at the time they were relinquishing their MIF depth to the point where Urena is on the MLB roster and there was still lots of time to fill out the holes on the pitching side through FA. Now that we are in April, I admit, Thornton + Urena looks a lot more tenable than Diaz + whatever s*** pitcher is next after SRF.
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    At least BTS was using a logical thought process and responding to people in conversation. Your thought process was that a 30 year old average player still under team control with absolutely no leverage was demanding a trade. I mean, I suppose it's within the realm of possibility that he raised a stink and was a clubhouse cancer for it, but Pillar would have to be one hell of a clueless douche to act like that. Which would only derail what career he has left by the time he hits free agency.
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    Holy f***, see BTS comments about how Pillar wasn't blocking Alford. The argument was not moving Pillar to make room for Alford, it was moving one of the other 3 or 4 guys that are easily replaceable and won't be missed to make room for Alford if you REALLY wanted to see him. The four-eyes and the Jew are making good on the stereotypes that their kind are conniving geniuses. They purposely leave Alford off the 25-man BUT bring him to Toronto to build up some hype on this meh prospect so that when Pillar is salary dumped it's seen as a good PR move by the casual fans with an IQ of less than 90. Doing that to Hernandez wouldn't have built that level of hype.
  4. Dick_Pole
    Over-under on Pillar's WAR for the Giants: 2.2 Jays miss WC2 by two games to make the move extra sweet and the Twins who win the spot end up taking the World Series due to massive underachievement by all the teams they face in the playoffs. Book it. But you know, tank for the pick is always the path to winning!
  5. Dick_Pole
    Who here actually hates Pillar other than the one obvious moron? He was a useful player that the Jays drafted very late and spent almost nothing on. His tenure here was about as efficient as one could hope when developing a major league roster.
  6. Dick_Pole
    Jim was writing letters to the FO, spamming their Twitter feed and standing outside the Rogers Centre with a megaphone demanding that Pillar be traded immediately. Management came to the conclusion that the cost and annoyance of dealing with this for an extra few months wasn't worth the potential extra return.
  7. Dick_Pole
    The biggest positive I see of this trade will be that Jim will finally shut the f*** up after a couple more days of this.
  8. Dick_Pole

    NHL Thread

    Dick_Pole replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    I'm not sure what brought this comment on specifically this year. The seeds are pretty much in order give or take a point and no 6th place team would be sniffing the playoffs in another division. Boston and Toronto is a far better rivalry than, say, Boston and Pittsburgh. It's a reasonably effective format. MLB is the one that is completely tardf***ed, where the Twins and the Rays basically have the same chance to make the playoffs purely because of the massive difference in strength of schedule. NFL too but that is a symptom of only playing 16 games.
  9. Dick_Pole
    I'd expect that the dinosaurs here would have mentioned some also-rans for the mid-90's teams. Not only were they bad, but also a real letdown and reality check for a kid who grew up only knowing winning baseball. Darren Hall (only because he was saddled to be the Ward/Henke replacement and the first of many failed closers) Pretty much any other bullpen pitcher during this era Danny Darwin Carlos Garcia Eric Hanson
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    NBA Thread

    Dick_Pole replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    Good for him. After years with Toronto, we knew what we were getting here with JV. If Memphis developed a system where he can flourish, consider that a win for both teams. It's no different than when Lowry the malcontent came here.
  11. Dick_Pole
    Step up your game. Never give up a run again. Best. Pitching. Staff. Ever. The 1907 Cubs have nothing on this.
  12. Dick_Pole
    Agreed. 70 wins is better than 69 wins. 71 wins is better than 70 wins etc. Though I think you're mixing up Krylian's Eeyore-like pessimism with Jim's active cheering for failure because of his loser mentality that a team needs to tank for a high draft pick rather than drafting and developing players competently. Baseball needs draft lottery and some other kind of incentive for non-playoff teams to win per Boras so guys like Jim STFU. Actively cheering for your team to suck is the most f***ing annoying thing ever.
  13. Dick_Pole
    Why can't they move the A's to Brooklyn or something and stuff the Jays in the Central so the team's patchwork pitching staff can look this good for half the schedule? I'm not looking forward to Fenway.
  14. Dick_Pole
    The Jays can barely fill out the roster with competent MLB pitchers right now. So what's the point of not dedicating a spot to him. Right now the decision point is keeping him or dumping him back to the Royals and saving some options on AAAA pitchers or having one extra spot to juggle Norris or Buchholz type of pitchers. Those guys aren't worth sacrificing this long shot prospect.
  15. Dick_Pole
    100% chance it was. As soon as I saw the word sick.
  16. Dick_Pole
    Also yes, for nothing more than hope it gives this guy some extra motivation to give it 138960534064% this year and become a valuable trade piece or the ace of a team that surprises itself into a playoff spot.
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    I think 4.1% is huge. That's 10% out of everyone who didn't vote for Harper. Especially considering that Stroman is a pretty forgettable ball player playing in the city that MLB players are supposedly overlooked. What I'm trying to get at is Stroman should not come up in people's minds as "top" anything, except maybe short pitchers. The fact that a substantial amount of players actually thought of Stroman instead of some random Yankee or Dodger player indicates to me he really does rub people the wrong way, even in opposing clubhouses (possibly his own clubhouse too lol).
  18. Dick_Pole
    Downing it like Jim Lahey on a school night I see.
  19. Dick_Pole
    I guess I have to be the one to point out that if you lined up these four men with Trout and asked people to pick which one of these five is not like the other, most would pick Trout. No FO is going to publicly state it, but I'm sure their secret models have these extraneous factors built into them.
  20. Dick_Pole
    Gotta love Dinger's charts spouting value out of the wazoo every time a contract like this comes up for a star player. MLBPA needs to hire this man as part of their public relations team. The risk of signing any one player to a contract like this is immense, that's why there is always a huge discount compared to $/WAR. Trout could turn into a pumpkin tomorrow and the Angels doomed themselves to a decade of 75 win seasons. This is unlikely, but not impossible. But that's why this is not a steal of a contract but a fair, risk-adjusted contract.
  21. Dick_Pole
    Pujols isn't going anywhere until he gets his 2,000 RBI.
  22. Dick_Pole
    Not in the city where I live. You're still homeless either way. I suppose in Buffalo, where rent can't possibly be more than $200/month, this does make a difference.
  23. Dick_Pole
    The amount of fawning over this move does not equate to the impact of this move. If what Brownie said is right, how is going from $2 an hour to $3 an hour going to provide any sort of benefit to the team or quality of life change for players? Sounds like a PR move over anything and it's working: Whatever happened to you risking it all for chasing a dream? MiLB players are akin to actors. Working for peanuts hoping to make it big. We see that in regular life too. Check out the entry level pay at a law firm vs the cost of getting a law degree. At least players who were good enough to get drafted had their education or "education" paid for, avoiding debt out of school. I don't really have a strong opinion for or against this, just pointing out that this move probably changes nothing and I don't necessarily see why it should change anything.
  24. Dick_Pole

    NBA Thread

    Dick_Pole replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    Raptors swept the Pacific division this year. That's not something you see very often with this team. Good against the West. Now if only they can beat Detroit. I've given up on them catching the Bucks but staying ahead of the Warriors in the standings for home court in the finals is needed. Every little bit to improve this team's chances of winning.
  25. Dick_Pole
    MLB could come up with its own version of Twitter/Instagram/Reddit hybrid. Revenues shared based on amount of page views for each player with the league taking its cut. Could even let fans participate in the profits (or prizes like free tix/merch). Right now the way things are with social media they're giving away revenues to Twitter for free and that asshat platform doesn't deserve it. It probably wouldn't be that much of a revenue driver on its own but it would be a way to try to connect to new/casual/younger fans without tinkering with the game itself.
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