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  1. Beans
    I'm all for streamlining the minor leagues.
  2. Beans
    Man, I recommend watching 'The Corner.' It's a six-part miniseries, made by David Simon and Ed Burns a couple years before they made 'The Wire.' The portrayal of addicts is very good, because it's largely based on a nonfiction book David Simon wrote following Ed Burns around for a year investigating homicides on the streets of Baltimore. Here's a good scene:
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    No offence, but you sound like an ******* making these differentiations. And this fixation on teenagers makes you sound bitter. Not every junkie was wasted in high school. (Con respeto.) The point everyone is trying to make is that it's more complicated than you're making it out to be.
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    That 17-year old could just as easily have his or her own form of PTSD, and if it goes back far enough in childhood it’s called C-PTSD (the C standing for complex).
  5. Beans
    I'm sure we all have good drug stories, but drugs killed Roy Halladay, so for now maybe hold off on sharing.
  6. Beans
    I liked his curveball, very slurvy. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/stromancurve.gif I did not like his histrionics, though.
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    lol, obviously you've never done drugs before. Tone deaf. Like Max said, blaming (some) addicts for their addiction is unhelpful. 1) Cocaine was once prescribed by doctors. 20 Meth was once prescribed by doctors. 3) Like prescribed opiate painkillers and street heroin are related, prescribed adderall and street meth are related. If you're going to blame 'the system' for one, then blame it for all of them. You keep mentioning coke and meth together, but they are not exactly apples to apples either. In the end, what happened to Roy Halladay is tragic. Let's just leave it at that and not make it a good drugs versus bad drugs thing.
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    Someone needs to update last year's NOTY bracket, then...
  9. Beans
    As BlueRocky said, college players, especially pitchers, have never been better. And with the rise of technology in college baseball programs, there's more to base the scouting reports on. And "major league teams do pay for access to college TrackMan data, and many of them weight it heavily in their draft models." But there's no such thing as a pitching prospect. First, you have the injury risk. Second, the change in usage patterns (last year only 15 pitchers threw 200 innings or more; 13 the year before) has drastically reduced the value of a SP. With your top draft picks, you're hoping to get a 'franchise cornerstone,' someone who's going to be the star of your team, and starting pitchers just don't fill that role anymore. The jobs of Starter and Reliever are blending together at this point. The fact that only 3 HS pitchers were selected in the first round last year—the fewest since 2008—is a real trend going forward. Add on the very inevitable TJS and it's easily Veen/Mitchell over Lacy/Hancock for me.
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    lol, was that a shot at yourself?
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    John Olerud was a Seriously Underrated Baseball Player:
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    lol, first I stick up for Boxy in the Off-Topic board and now everybody is sticking up for Boxy on the Jays board, too. Spanky is all ease and friendliness. Who else uses emojis like this and emoticons like this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯... definitely seems the least dick-ish poster to me.
  15. Beans
    I'll never understand the appeal of watching people play video games
  16. Beans
    Wisconsin has joined the Ivy League in not allowing senior spring athletes to return to school next year for their final year of eligibility. More schools will likely follow. Sad. https://www.si.com/college/2020/04/09/wisconsin-not-allow-spring-student-athletes-return
  17. Beans
    I think it's very likely that it was leaked prematurely, especially since they had other plans on which they were also deliberating.
  18. Beans
    ... lol, my favourite thread so far this year.
  19. Beans
    Now I'm reading reports that MLB is also deliberating on another plan with the following dates: Spring Training restarts June 15, season begins without fans July 1, fans return Aug. 1.
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    Man, I really miss baseball... With today being the first day I'm actually taking this social distancing stuff seriously, it reminds me just how much I love everything about this sport—from the history to the stats to the minor leagues to the logos to the offseason to the way the game itself is so slow and precise—exactly the thing I need to temper myself. And it's not here. And I really miss it.
  22. Beans
    That's the thing. There'd have to be so many more tests for coronavirus than exist right now. You'd have to test every player, every coach, every trainer. Plus they'd have to have medical personnel on site, as all sporting events do, and there aren't enough medical personnel to spare right now, and if there isn't a flattening of the curve there won't be any medical personnel to spare for many, many months.
  23. Beans
    Some players are open to taking the field with masks on, if it means they can play ball. https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/masks-field-diamondbacks-ahmed-ready-games-can-played/
  24. Beans
    Jim Edmonds: “If you don’t feel good, go to the doctor or go to the emergency room if you can’t breathe. That’s what happened to me.” ... “They didn’t want to test me, and I forced them to take me into the emergency room, and, lo and behold, pneumonia and the virus. So, don’t take it lightly, take care of yourselves. There’s no medicine, there’s no nothing, but rest, and that’s all I’ve been doing.”
  25. Beans
    Random bit of trivia: The 2015 World Series was the first to feature two expansion teams—the Royals and the Mets. ... I miss baseball.
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