Dick_Pole

Did Jerry Howarth stop uttering Indians because of what some Native person requested of him a few years ago? So there's at least one person. The problem is not the team name and using offensive/outdated language. The problem is that these people get treated like little children by the government and their leaders and then the teenagers would rather off themselves then face a life where you have similar freedom as you would in a communist dictatorship. At least that's the case in Canada.

Gotta be something more appropriate. The Cleveland Poverties or the Cleveland Shitholes.

I have a much better one in mind for San Fran.

1946 logo looks like some well-timed Nazi propaganda....ah the good old days if mid-20th Century America #MAGA

I don't see why anyone should be booing or upset about this. This is a pretty offensive logo...I mean, I don't personally give a s*** about it but other people do and it seems like a pretty easy change to appease people with a legitimate grievance. There have been much more obscene gestures of political correctness than this in our society. Is there anyone who actually cares about that stupid logo? 1. Cleveland gets to re-brand = more merch sales. 2. Cleveland's old crap goes on sale = more poor people in Cleveland get to wear licensed MLB gear. 3. Some of the team's old stuff will be considered vintage/in limited supply = it goes up in value for the people who hold it. 4. MLB gets to look slightly less outdated and offensive to that Millennial crowd it is so desperately trying to reach. Really it's a win-win scenario at all angles. With how badly MLB's tradition has been molested over the years (inter-league play, wild cards, pitchers don't complete games anymore, too many damn advanced stats taking over the game, the all-star game means something, then it doesn't, numerous, numerous jerseys and cap logos), does anyone actually think this will matter at all to tradition?

Wow can one prospect thread go more than five posts without it degenerating into a cesspool of you nerds' keeper pool inside jokes?

Brewers exercise their unilateral option to move back to the AL, kicking the Astros back to the NL. My sense of 1993 nostalgia back before the wild card and interleague play is partially restored.

Twins WC1 winners this year. 90-72 record. 15-4 against the Royals, 15-4 against the Tigers, 12-7 against the White Sox, 48-57 against everyone else. Book it. We need the Athletics to move to the east coast so the Jays get bounced to the Central like the Tigers did.

1. But all of those players did make the HOF, so they weren't snubbed. A few *******s voting a certain way doesn't make it systemic. 2. A lot of those events are from many years ago. 3. The most recent example, Raines, could be explained by other events. Him playing the bulk of his career in Montreal. The position he played being disadvantaged by voters. Lofton and Edmonds were both similar but slightly inferior players who were immediately jettisoned from the vote but both have superior WAR to McGriff who is hanging around. So there were other factors at play that make the situation not so clear and not related to race. I guess you could make a case for power numbers being favoured over speed and defense, which would disadvantage a greater proportion of black athletes versus white, but then you'd have to show that's specifically racist as opposed to baseball analysts just beginning to understand how players contribute to winning games. 4. I think you are cherry picking a few examples, exacerbated by your anecdote about hating Chipper Jones. Mussina is obviously a very big snub so far. We have to look at all possible factors why. Are voters punishing him because of the perceived disrespect to World Series winning manager Cito Gaston at the ASG 25 years ago? Is that considered playing the game the wrong way? If Mussina was black would you be using him as an example?

Please name the black and latino candidates not tied to steroids who were snubbed from election by this year's ballot due to supposed untenable behaviour.

...said the man after sifting through 3 pages of bemusement over Mussina, Walker and Rolen being snubbed so far. Unless, of course, this board is also racist and we're not talking enough about McGriff.

As much as I dislike Brady, I have to say this too. Philly sports fans are on a whole other plane when it comes to being stupid. Boston fans are terrible too, but they have had so much winning recently that one more title isn't going to be that bad when the pain has already been numbed.

I'm so excited that the XFL is coming back! As a degenerate gambler who makes his money tailing guys who dominate college football, this will be a gold mine. Hopefully this league becomes popular as the no-kneel league (McMahon is friends with Trump for the three people who don't know this)

Barf. Just plain barf at this socialist democratic drivel especially the last sentence. More than half of the legitimate snubs on this ballot are good old white boys. This is not a race thing.

You people obviously don't understand the purpose of a pity vote. Does Johnny Damon deserve election to the HOF? Probably not. Does he deserve to be completely shut out like Brad Lidge and Carlos Zambrano? No. Voting for these marginal guys is just a recognition that they are one step above the absolute bottom tier that made the minimum ballot requirements. You stat heads have absolutely no feeling for the unspoken rules of the game. Oh no the dumb writers voted in a way that you didn't like. Well then, get off your f***ing lazy asses, get a journalism degree, work your way up the ladder in the sports department of a major media outlet and earn a vote in the BBWAA like these shitheads all did 40 years ago. If you're competent at your jobs and have some hiring or decision making power, you've probably made the "wrong" choice a million times just because of a gut feel or you like the person the decision is benefiting. Same thing here.

Wade Davis sucked all kinds of balls as a starter before being converted to a reliever. If you can get these Tillman and Hutchison types on non-guaranteed contracts, you do it.

It's new age nerd speak for good coaching. There is no metric in the world that could have predicted Smoak's breakout at this point in his career status quo. A combination of using metrics to direct good coaching and player development along with maybe a player personality assessment that shows willingness to apply and absorb new knowledge is what led them down the righteous path with Smoak. They have had an off-season to work with Morales. If we're lucky, we'll see a similar kind of step up. Nothing I just said shouldn't be apparent to the fans who post here. I just like sounding smart sometimes.

This situation is quite unfortunate. I think there is a general belief among all of us Blue Jays fans that Halladay as a pitcher was a perfect mesh of talent, athleticism, perseverance (2001) and intelligence. The facts surrounding this tragedy is putting a serious damper on the latter.

This guy gets it. In addition to what Dinger has been saying, it's very stupid to look at any one deal in a vacuum. Coming out of the 2016 season, the Jays had piss poor depth at offensive positions 1B, DH and RF and two star players at FA with a lot of pressure to sign them since the 2015 offseason. A weaker front office with an open check book and we could be looking at maybe $300 million or more of commitments between EE and JB. Instead the FO filled those holes adequately for about 15-20% of that cost in JB, Pearce, Smoak and Morales and NONE of the commitment beyond 2019. This is why I cannot give people stock tips anymore. I give them 10 picks, they make money on 8 and will bitch and moan endlessly on the 2 bad ones.

I'm just waiting for someone who knows how to do search and sorts on fangraphs to point out that statistically the Jays BP was middle of the ground or better last year. And it will probably be reasonable this year unless one assumes that all three of Leone, Barnes and Tepera perform significantly below last year.

I like being clueless about WTF is going on, then to only realize that you nerds are continuing a decade long or longer e-war and will probably be doing this until you're both in retirement homes. P.S. I know about the $100 bill name effigy. That was sweet I hope this dude does it again with gold coins or physical bitcoins.

Why does everything I post have to be a troll game? Can't I just be having an honest opinion?

Lots of HBP. Good OBP then.

"Kendrys Morales is a one tool player who can't run or field and is completely redundant on this team. His contract makes it very hard for him to be traded without the Blue Jays eating most of it. But even so, the team should consider it because Steve Pearce is a superior ballplayer and could make better use of the roster spot. The FO totally dropped the ball giving him a multi-year contract and should be catapulted into the sun for it." I just love reading this lamentation repeatedly in every single f***ing thread. So much so that I created this one where hopefully everyone can pour their hearts out over how bad Kendrys Morales is here and get it out of their system. What you glass is half empty motherf***ers seem to forget is that this is a good thing that Kendrys Morales is redundant. When Morales and Pearce were both signed the 1B/DH depth on this team consisted of: 1. Pre-2017 Justin Smoak 2. Rowdy Tellez 3. I dunno, probably Goins or something. Morales is only so useless because Smoak was so good last year. If Smoak had another .650 OPS backup first baseman season in 2017, everyone would be clamoring to DFA him and his mere $4M commitment and nobody would be complaining about Morales or Pearce because they would slot into the DH and 1B roles perfectly. So in reality we should be privileged and happy that Morales is so useless on this team. Not crying about it....over and over again. Because the alternative is actually much worse. In this reality we have Morales who is a negative asset taking up a roster spot and Smoak who, if he builds on 2017, is a useful player and potentially an asset to trade at the deadline if 2018 doesn't go well for this team. In the even shittier universe, Morales is not taking up a roster spot and not an immediate sell even if you have to eat the contract, and the Jays do not have a useful asset as potential trade bait at the deadline.

In these three moves by replacing Goins, Barney, Bautista: 1. Spent less money 2. Got better players 3. Did not get older 4. Got players with long and/or complex foreign names that drunk Buck will hilariously mispronounce Bonus: If there is anybody lamenting the chicken scratch that the Jays gave up, the money saved plus Granderson could probably net a very decent prospect similar to the Liriano/Hernandez trade last season, assuming the Jays are out of it. This is a win all around, except for Marcus Stroman's morale.