Howard Roark
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My mind is still blown at having found out that JJ's BABIP against is "only" .350 this season............ that extra .050 must be exclusively multi-run dingers. Hah.
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I strongly disagree. Guess we'll have to wait to find out.
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Maybe so. Still, if next year's trade deadline he's hitting .240 with an OBP north of .280 and he's on track for 20+ dingers I'm confident we'll get a decent B prospect for him for one of the other 29 GM's.
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Maybe so, it's not like either of us know for sure. Just saying, it's not like we're asking him to become a faster runner, or have more power in his arm, or anything else that is outside his realm of control and is purely physical based on genetics. He has control over his strategies for blocking balls behind the plate, and either he's too stupid to remember his lessons, or isn't trying hard enough to learn. I'm still confident that he has decent value, there's always GM's who are looking for power from behind the plate, and don't give a f*** if he puts up a .250 OBP in the 9-hole.
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"Talent" as in reaction-time? Because that's the only real physical component to blocking balls behind the plate. It's like goaltending in hockey, you don't actually WAIT to see where the puck is ending up when it's shot, because obviously by the time you see exactly where it's going, it'd be too late to react to it. You see the puck off the stick and make a split-second decision on where you think it's going to be, then you "assume the position" and hope it hits you. Same concept for blocking balls in the dirt, you have no idea which way it will bounce, but you can learn the best, statistically speaking, positions to assume for certain trajectories/spins, and this improves your success rate.
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I was going to post "let me guess, you have a young daughter/s?". I feel for you brother, I really do. Kids nowadays start watching hardcore pornography from the age of 7. I'd never have a kid in this cesspool of a society. Good luck. All you can do is try to make sure that their opinions of themselves are more important to them than their peer-group's opinions of them.
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Absolutely no reason why you can't learn how to play better defence. It's not a God-given DNA/talent issue, it's an issue of strategy and making sure that the statistically correct reactions to certain pitch trajectories become ingrained and are relegated to instinct and muscle memory.
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Age of consent in Ontario is still 14, I think. edit: just looked it up, actually 16 now, with lots of loopholes and caveats to account for relative age between partners.
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Apparently, homeless and sleeping on the streets last I heard. True story. =\
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His hysterical overreaction is obviously the product of a guilty conscience. He's got like 4 adolescent girls chained up in his basement. Book it.
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Dear god............. So obvious, yet it eluded us.
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Just checked FG, has his 2013 BABIP around .350, wow...........seemed much worse than that going by the eye test.
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Blind guess without looking, based on how bad he's been this year.............. .420?
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Always wondered how that became a cliché in the first place..........in what possible context does somebody sucking something up equate to staying calm and collected? Such a weird phrase to convey something that seemingly could have no possible linkage. I mean, did a high school kid spill his orange juice on the floor after soccer practice, start crying his eyes out, and was yelled at by his coach to quit his whining and just suck it off the floor instead? =\
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=\ What the f*** is the BABIP against him this year, .750?! I mean, outlier season is outlier season and all, but holy s***.........
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Hah, Pat's pissed. Hear his tone of voice when discussing the errors vis a vis Baltimore? Buck still managing to not let it show, but you can hear Pat's exasperation........
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Well I was wrong. Thought JJ was going to have one of his "good" starts going 6 giving up 5. Hah. At least we'll wear out the BP tonight, sets us up to lose 3 of 4 or even maybe get swept, helps us tank at least.
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-rofl- @ JJ and Melky
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I knew he'd give up 3 or 4 runs once he allowed 1. So predictable. Now he'll settle in, go 6 allowing 5 ER.
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-lol- Too easy.
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If history is any guide for JJ's 2013 1 run will quickly turn into 3 or 4 here.
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Rogers comments on the state of the Jays
Howard Roark replied to Dick_Pole's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Change that to a larger, wrap-around maple leaf and you're in business. We also need maple leafs on the pant legs, perhaps running up the sides instead of stripes? People need to know that Toronto is in Canada, and that Canada exists. Canada exists damnit, give us more attention America! Canada! We're a thing!!!!!111!! -
You completely misunderstood my Facebook reference. And it would be tough to search for you on Facebook because I never signed up for that joke. And I'm actually lucky he didn't show up, risking an assault charge over the likes of him would probably have been the most foolish thing I've ever done.
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-shedding tears laced with butthurt-