KingKat

There was some crowing with Delmon Young as well. IIRC, Young is the guy Bautista tried to throw out at first. Young is garbage both on and off the field anyways. Pass.

He's no Slade Heatchcott.

Word is Dipoto went to Moreno and told him it had to be him or Mike Scioscia and it's going to be Scioscia not him. http://www.thescore.com/news/788844

Sorry about that. I just sorted by pitcher's starting tomorrow and he was the only name.

Yeah but I'm not so sure that you can't make the argument that Pompey should have been given the same rope as Betts even though he's clearly not as good.

Welcome to the forum! This is a great source of information and analysis. It's also a place for bickering and foolishness but you're sure to find the answers to questions you might have here regardless.

http://www.thescore.com/news/788316 The reasons for Ridnour getting dealt so frequently are a matter of salary cap minutiae, but here's a quick explanation: Ridnour's $2.75-million contract is non-guaranteed until July 11, which serves to make him an attractive trade chip, enough so that it's quite likely he gets traded again. A non-guaranteed deal can essentially serve as a salary cap exception. Because salaries have to closely match in trades - the exact proximity of incoming and outgoing salary changes depending on the cap situation of the teams involved - a non-guaranteed deal allows teams to artificially inflate the amount of outbound salary in a trade, allowing them to take on more incoming salary. To illustrate for the Raptors: Say they wanted to sign-and-trade forLaMarcus Aldridge, allowing Aldridge to get a slightly larger four-year max from the Portland Trail Blazers instead of the four-year max Toronto can offer. The Raptors could clear the requisite cap space and take Aldridge into their cap room, but they'd have to renounce the rights to several of their free agents to do so. If they can send Portland enough salary, they can take Aldridge on and keep the rights to at least some of their free agents, while also helping Portland recoup something in the deal. Having Ridnour's $2.75-million deal on hand gives the Raptors a means of sending out more salary, and Portland can turn around and waive Ridnour at no cost to themselves. These same machinations would be true for any deal Toronto - or Ridnour's next team - wanted to make. When free agency begins on Wednesday, teams can't make moves until July 9, so Ridnour's window of trade utility exists for July 9 and 10 only. It remains possible the Raptors keep Ridnour - head coach Dwane Casey and new assistant Rex Kalamian are said to be fans - but he'll almost certainly be waived ahead of July 11 if he's not included in a trade of some sort.

The D League announcement seems like a good thing.

Um... What the hell?

The Allen Craig guarantee.

Wow!

In addition to the option, we also have to keep him on the 40. Not having enough 40 man roster space has already cost the team Matt West, Preston Guilmet and Ronald Torreyes.

And cruise ships turn tap water into drinking water. There are lots of ways to make water clean but it's producting the energy required that's the kicker. In the case of the cruise ships, they are just recouping energy from the engines. Maybe we could this on a small scale? Like every car would have to purify a certain amount of water for every litre of fuel (or electricity) it consumes. Probably not a practical idea in the slightest but fun to consider.

Ice water is a very North American thing (as far as I know) but most places would at least bring you room temperature water (which I don't mind). I had a teacher who drank hot water because she weened herself off of coffee but I always thought that was weird.

Sort of true... It does taste better but not because of the filtering. Leaving an unfiltered pot of water in the fridge accomplishes the same thing taste wise.

Shark has a lot FYSMC to him. Good fit.

So Raptors emphasize defense. Pretty solid draft philosophy but Casey won't know what to do with these guys.

I don't really understand the NBA but why wouldn't you until the end of the draft to do that?

Not a real place.

Texans don't talk like that. That's more Georgia.

Merge threads?

No. He said it would be a good Mexican to Mexican comp. You could find better comparisons if you're not working along ethnic lines but you really don't need to find the best comparison to make the larger point.

The point wasn't the comparison. The point was that you can't judge the whole by the part. This little run by Estrada doesn't mean that much when evaluating his value. Chacin of all people had a similar run at one point.

Good thing it's garbage night!

I think he was just saying that to illustrate a point about reading too much into small samples. Neither is as good as they've looked in their best samples though Estrada is clearly the better of the two. He's has had nearly twice the career Chacin has.