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Pretty likely at this point. He could always finish the season strong and land back in the Top 10, but his stock is down to mid first round now.

Kevin Smith is killing it. Another 2B so far today. Strikeouts are down too.

Your son is a Jew?

Pearson was apparently scratched because of a back issue yesterday. He was definitely scheduled to start second.

LOL @ not having a VPN in 2018.

Meatball? It was a perfectly scripted four seamer right at the top of the zone. Moncada wasn't even close to it. A hitter missing a "meatball" results in a fouled ball, not a guy whiffing by inches.

Did you get Matsui?

Before the 80's Computer Science was a ******** field that led to nothing, hence why males had no interest in it. You think that females have a natural interest in sitting in front of a screen looking at code until their eyes bleed, and this all changed when those meanie males told them they couldn't do it anymore?

Exactly. It is literally known as the "Scandinavian Paradox", because the more they try to push women into engineering and STEM, the more they end up with female nurses and other female-dominant jobs. The only way you can force someone to do something that they have no biological interest in doing is if you place them in a position wherein their livelihood depends on it; hence why as you mentioned you see females in the least free and most oppressed societies on the planet flocking to STEM. These dumbasses think that if you force girls to play with cars that they will grow to become mechanics. No, idiots: boys naturally play with cars because a large part of male biology revolves around a need to understand how things work, which later develops into an interest in becoming a mechanic. Girls don't want to be f***ing mechanics. The ones that do, are statistical outliers, and I'd bet if you tested them you would find that they ALL possess far greater levels of testosterone than is normal for a female to possess. They've proven this s*** all the way down to chimps (give female and male chimps a choice of toys, the male will choose to play with a truck, the female will start nurturing a doll), yet somehow in 2018 we're living in this delusion wherein its supposedly all a toss-up, because god forbid we come to the unfair conclusion that males and females aren't equal, and their interests vary significantly. You have professors losing their jobs because they dare to bring up the legitimate and factual conclusion that male intelligence falls on the ends of the bell-curve, whereas females are distributed along the median. What this means on a global sense is that the majority of the smartest AND dumbest people on the planet are always going to be males. The ratio is something like 8 to 1 males to females when it comes to genius-level intellect.

No, you are 100% wrong. Any psychologist worth anything knows that there are clear gender-differences in behaviour which ultimately play a giant role in occupational interest, hence why despite massive environmental intervention in Western nations to "push females into STEM", the number of females who are willing to do that type of systemic-based work barely fluctuates. No society proves this more than the Scandinavian nations who are ahead of everyone else in "workplace equality" (and have been for decades) and yet somehow possess the greatest ratio of female to male nurses, and male to female engineers on the planet (its like 20 to 1 or 25 to 1 for each). You see, in these first-world nations where there is little poverty, when you give people the option to do anything they want (ie: you downplay environmental factors), you naturally empower biological factors which drive females to jobs that revolve around compassion, caring, nurturing, etc....ie: nursing, teaching, pediatrics, etc. You see far greater female participation in STEM fields in developing nations like India, Southeast Asia, China, etc. which practice far stronger forms of "patriarchy", why? Because there is a giant environmental factor which pushes females to those higher paying fields in those countries: the economic need to provide for your family which may be a bunch of farmers or other poor rural peasants. Girls in these nations aren't "taught" to be IT professionals or engineers, you are talking about societies wherein females are still expected to do nothing but take care of the family, yet alas the economic factor of the environment they belong to gives them a reason to strive for those jobs. That doesn't exist in Canada, or Sweden, or Norway, etc, etc, (or at least it exists at a far less significant rate). We have entered a dark-age in academia wherein biology supposedly no longer exists, all driven by this ******** notion of post-modernist egalitarianism. The idea that everyone, regardless of gender, is some sort of "blank slate" is absurd and utter ********. They have found behavioural differences in infants that are barely weeks old. They've also found significant links between testosterone and behaviour. They know that children with higher levels of testosterone will develop communication and social sense at a slower pace. The reason why males dominate STEM is because the male brain is wired towards interest in those tasks; just like females dominate nursing, primary education, psychiatry, PSW work, etc, etc. Anyone with a working brain should understand why the sex that is tasked with birthing and raising children would have a natural biological preference towards working with kids, for instance.

He works out, so he'll be good forever, just like Bautista.

There isn't a female on the planet who possesses the athleticism required to play a passable middle infield. You know how fast you have to react to actually make plays on balls coming back at you at 100+ mph off the bat? Also, the generalization on few pitchers who were passable with well below average velocity is among the most factually dishonest positions you can make. Guys like Moyer possessed well above average movement or other qualities which made them work. There are thousands of male pitchers who throw in the low to mid 80's who will never, ever pitch in the MLB...why? Because they aren't f***ing Jamie Moyer, and Jamie Moyer is an outlier of the greatest sense. That is like saying that just because Muggsy Bogues played in the NBA at 5'3" that what, this proves that females with their stunted height can also clearly play in the NBA?

I don't want to live on this gay Earth anymore.

Not really, the difference between the NWL (Vancouver) and the MWL (Lansing) is minimal at best. Sending him to Dunedin also means he's not being thrown into the likely s*** weather in Lansing.

Blacks certainly have a sparkling record of complying with police.....

We wuz kangz n sheit.

You again haven't proven at all that these decisions are Shapiro's work in any way shape or form. The Cleveland example is simple: once his job requirements moved to more important s*** than dictating draft strategy (which is minuscule in the grand scheme of running a baseball franchise from a business, sales, ticketing, marketing, TV, etc. sense), suddenly the Cleveland drafts became much more open towards risk. So clearly whatever HIS preferences WERE, they no longer became the driving force of the team's overall draft plan. His role here is the same as it was in those years in Cleveland wherein he obviously let Antonelli and whoever else decide WTF they wanted to do with the draft. I'm suggesting that he's clearly letting his employees come up with a draft "strategy" themselves, why the hell would he care about enforcing whatever prejudice he has when its on others to find and sign talent? Shapiro also didn't do dick-all in Latin America for the most part either, has he enforced his Stalin-esque dictatorship in that realm as well? Of course not, as this team is still a major player in Latin America just like they were under AA. So clearly someone NOT named Shapiro made that call, or more precisely he's letting actual baseball operations people make those decisions. The draft would fall under the same umbrella.

Again, you ASSUME that all of these things somehow have Shapiro's little finger prints all over them. Most of this s*** is handled by the guys that he's hired to oversee these things, because the team President doesn't have time to make the call on everything from a $100 million dollar stadium renovation to determining who the AA pitching coach is LOL. Just because he's more involved than Beeston, doesn't mean that he's not delegating significant power to his subordinates. Your premise doesn't even line up with reality. The reason why so many of Shapiro's "guys" get GM or President gigs elsewhere is because he obviously empowers them to make baseball decisions which is how they get on the radar for promotions elsewhere. No one is going to hire a guy who's just Shapiro's mouthpiece to run their franchise, that is asinine. Hiring Sanders is proof that Shapiro is influencing the draft? How? Would you not assume that the hiring of Steve Sanders had a hell of a lot to do with Ben Cherington, who knew Sanders from his time in Boston? You know, Ben Cherington, the guy who was the GM of a major franchise himself and who obviously possesses the experience and aptitude to suggest a Director of Amateur scouting? Steve Sanders wasn't even the "favourite" to land that job, it was actually some other guy that IIRC DID have some "Cleveland connection" of some sort until Sanders randomly came out of nowhere and was hired. The whole thing is absurd; its been almost a decade since Shapiro handled a draft and you still think he's somehow forcing his vision on a bunch of highly regarded baseball-lifers who are employed to actually make those decisions themselves? Tony LaCava did WAY more scouting work than AA, and he's still here seemingly doing the same job.

AA was the GM, Shapiro is the President. These are not comparable roles. Are you implying that Beeston was telling AA who to draft? Or are you implying that Ross Atkins just sits around at his desk all day starring at a blank wall, because according to what I read from the majority of you on a daily basis, he supposedly has no say in any baseball decision EVER. Like I said, Shapiro became President in Cleveland in 2010, and in 2011 they drafted Lindor, and in 2013 they drafted Frazier. Those were the two highest picks they had with Shapiro as President and they were used to select HS hitters. In Shapiro's last draft as a member of the Indians they took Brady Aiken: not a college player, and not even remotely safe as he was coming off an elbow injury.

Why would that have been a Shapiro thing? More importantly, two years with a new regime isn't enough to determine any trend. The system was hollowed out when the change was made, with almost no one in the upper minors. Surely that would play a role in the push to draft more college kids who would fill the upper minors. I'm not arguing that there hasn't been an obvious change, I just don't see why every little minor baseball decision (ie: who we draft 12th overall) has to be attributed to Shapiro. He isn't involved there much, I can almost assure you. If you want to find patterns, look at what Steve Sanders or even Ben Cherington prefers. Steve Sanders doesn't have much history to look off (he supposedly values analytical drafting a lot), but his preference is much more significant than Mark Shapiro who won't see a single one of these kids in person except the off chance he runs into them at the airport or something.

You need a Valium, bruh? Its too bad Casey Mize didn't go against South Alabama; would have loved to have seen "Swaggy T" get his ******* stretched.

You realize that if he continues to hit at this pace that it is highly improbable that he's available when we are up to pick, right? Also, who gives a s*** what Shapiro's "type of guy" is. I didn't realize that he was scouting college kids in between juggling the potential sale of the team by Rogers or whatever other hundred million+ dollar matters he has on his plate. Cleveland's draft strategy changed dramatically the last few years while Shapiro was President, so clearly his preference to "his type of guys" doesn't matter a whole lot as you'd expect once his priorities become much larger than worrying about who the team drafted. Was Clint Frazier, with his plus physical tools and low floor (due to his high whiff rate and overly aggressive approach) a Shapiro "type"?

Its a very different culture. Most Japanese are content working ridiculous hours for s*** pay; because its their duty to do so. Their athletes fall in line in the sense that they behave in a similar manner, its a collectivist mindset vs. individualist. I remember reading a few years ago that the highest paid players in the Japanese league were all old former stars who were well out of their prime. I'm not sure if thats still a case, but if so, its a direct reflection of Japan's culture towards respecting elders: you make your money when you are old and have been deemed to have earned it, not when you are young and actually deserving of it based off of your play. Here people get pissed if a guy like Pujols is getting paid out to ass in his late 30's while sucking, over there its expected.

Just LOL at this moron. If you're not actively looking for a conservative girl, I've got bad news for you boyo.

12:47 John Dillinger: Is Orelvis Martinez the top July 2 free agent or just one of the top guys? Where do you currently rank him? 12:47 Kiley McDaniel: He’s one of the 5 hitters that stood out to me most at the MLB event. Luckily after day one when I showed my list to a couple scouts, they said I had it lined up pretty well, since I hadn’t done a ton of prep work before getting down there 12:49 Kiley McDaniel: Those hitters: Diego Cartaya, C, VZ Noelvi Marte, SS, DR Marco Luciano, SS, DR Orelvis Martinez, SS, DR there’s a bunch of candidates for the 5th spot, but I’ll go with the guy that ran a 6.37 in the 60: Alexeis Azuaje, SS, DR