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TMMadman posted:But it's behind a paywall No, I meant NYT. My posting should have already established that I'm a snob. NYT crossword app has a 7-day free trial period, if memory serves.
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Spoeank posted:Hunter you're such a goddamned weirdo I wouldn't doubt it was a wand There is nothing weird or wrong about Hunter Pence cosplaying to go see Fantastic Beasts
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N: Cubs vs Cardinals will open the 2017 Baseball Season V: Owns.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Would make more sense to me to remove the QO and basically assign compensation picks to teams that lose FAs, but these would not be actual assigned 1st round picks. Wasn't this basically the system that existed before the QO, with Elias Sports Bureau's rankings determining the placement of the pick? Edit: Anyway, if the QO really is going away, that would be a pretty big win, although I wonder just how much the players would have to give up to put that thing back in the bottle. Michael Weiner really was a spineless piece of poo poo. Timby fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Nov 15, 2016 |
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Cards have opened a lot of the seasons recently, haven't they? I want to say Cards/Bucs was the first game of 2016, Cubs/Cards was the first of 2015 and if memory serves Cards/Marlins opened 2012 with the first ever game in front of the Dinger Machine.
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Timby posted:Wasn't this basically the system that existed before the QO, with Elias Sports Bureau's rankings determining the placement of the pick? While the picks were determined by some bizarre ranking system, teams still lost draft picks when signing A level free agents that were offered arbitration by their previous team. B level free agents offered arbitration returned compensation to the losing team but didn't cost the signing team anything.
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Pancakes posted:2012 with the first ever game in front of the Dinger Machine. it's that old already? our little dinger machine is growing up so fast...
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They should start setting off the dinger machine for strikeouts too, in honor of jose
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Intruder posted:Jon Hamm's big dumb smug face makes me mad every time I see it Same but Paul Ryan. Finally found a shop that had a few locker room championship tshits in stock (woe, Canada) so I will have to order the rest of the historic win memorabilia online. Just as the Canadian dollar is hitting 10 year lows THANKS TRUMP  But got all jazzed up on baseball so I have booked time in my local batting cage to get ready for spring
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Terry Francona and Dave Roberts win Managers of the Year for their respective leagues. AL voting: http://bbwaa.com/16-al-mgr/ NL voting: http://bbwaa.com/16-nl-mgr/
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should have been the New Orleans Étouffée https://twitter.com/MiLBPromos/status/798673907091812352 http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2016/11/15...adbpr=241544156 will_colorado fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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will_colorado posted:should have been the New Orleans Étouffée https://twitter.com/mccoveychron/status/798677402880573440
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will_colorado posted:should have been the New Orleans Étouffée I am so hyped for the Staten Island Pizza Rats, now that they've dragged the whole thing out so long that nobody remembers what they're even referencing.
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Inspector_666 posted:I am so hyped for the Staten Island Pizza Rats, now that they've dragged the whole thing out so long that nobody remembers what they're even referencing. Did Pizza Rats win? I haven't seen anything more current than September.
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Infidel Castro posted:Did Pizza Rats win? I haven't seen anything more current than September. I'm just assuming, since it was in the lead. Really I figure they'll claim "Heroes" won because, c'mon.
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will_colorado posted:should have been the New Orleans Étouffée As long as they play this often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2XGp5ix8HE
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The Braves got R.A. Dickey and Bartolo Colon, with a combined age of 85.
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will_colorado posted:should have been the New Orleans Étouffée I would have gone for the New Orleans Bad Detectives but I guess a festive dessert beating the poo poo out of you works too.
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Goodpancakes posted:The Braves got R.A. Dickey and Bartolo Colon, with a combined age of 85. That's also their combined fastball velocity
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:That's also their combined fastball velocity Reminder that Bartolo Colon has been an extremely effective pitcher the past few years throwing 89MPH fastballs 90% of the time.
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Astros going cheap again, what a shock I'm sure Morton and his career 4.1 FIP and 1.44 WHIP is just what this team needs to put it over the top e: quote:This Fangraphs article identified Morton in April 2016 as having the best curveball spin rate in baseball. Curveball spin rate was an important factor in picking up Collin McHugh. The article in question: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-phillies-are-curveballing-their-way-into-the-future/ And yes, the same factor that brought in the wildly successful Collin McHugh, perfect Intruder fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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Intruder posted:And yes, the same factor that brought in the wildly successful Collin McHugh, perfect hey, he was good for the four or five games he pitched before people saw through the visage.
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This has to be the worst bunch of free agent SPs like, ever, right? Jason Hammel, Charlie Morton, Ivan Nova, Rich "Blister" Hill and a couple of senior citizens. Jeez
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The Pussy Boss posted:This has to be the worst bunch of free agent SPs like, ever, right? Jason Hammel, Charlie Morton, Ivan Nova, Rich "Blister" Hill and a couple of senior citizens. Jeez Yeah when Rich Hill is the creme of the crop you've sunk pretty low. Not that Hill doesn't pitch like an ace when he's on - he does - but with his age + injury issues he'd be an afterthought in last year's FA class.
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Intruder posted:Astros going cheap again, what a shock This feels like it was yesterday but it was actually forever ago. http://www.sbnation.com/2011/7/29/2303478/roy-halladay-and-charlie-morton-can-you-possibly-tell-them-apart
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Paul Zuvella posted:Reminder that Bartolo Colon has been an extremely effective pitcher the past few years throwing 89MPH fastballs 90% of the time. Remember a couple years ago when Bartolo threw something like 35 strikes in a row? That was weird.
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The Pussy Boss posted:This has to be the worst bunch of free agent SPs like, ever, right? Jason Hammel, Charlie Morton, Ivan Nova, Rich "Blister" Hill and a couple of senior citizens. Jeez Its the worst FA class in general in as long as I can remember. There are really only 6 or 7 bats worth a drat, a handful of relievers and then a bunch of reclamation projects.
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tinstaach posted:Remember a couple years ago when Bartolo threw something like 35 strikes in a row? That was weird. I was at that game. poo poo was wild. The Pussy Boss posted:This has to be the worst bunch of free agent SPs like, ever, right? Jason Hammel, Charlie Morton, Ivan Nova, Rich "Blister" Hill and a couple of senior citizens. Jeez Did CJ Wilson retire? Is he even a reclamation project? I don't know if he was mentioned even 5 times all of last season during broadcasts. I couldn't even tell you what his injury was. Shoulder? Elbow? I don't know if he had surgery or was rehabbing or what he was up to? Never once was in the dugout. Good Dog fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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The Pussy Boss posted:This has to be the worst bunch of free agent SPs like, ever, right? Jason Hammel, Charlie Morton, Ivan Nova, Rich "Blister" Hill and a couple of senior citizens. Jeez The Cardinals cackle madly with their nine potential starters: Wainwright, Martinez, Wacha, Leake, Lynn, Reyes, Gonzales, Weaver, Garcia. What are we bid for the sexy, sexy corpse of Jaime Garcia?
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Pancakes posted:The Cardinals cackle madly with their nine potential starters: 2 or 3 of those guys might be average!
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tadashi posted:This feels like it was yesterday but it was actually forever ago. The one thing I can see for Morton is that he has such a high ground ball rate and the Astros infield is filled with good defenders who shift a lot, way more than any other team IIRC Of course that doesn't always work, last year in the playoffs the Royals were more than happy to hit into the holes in the shift
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Goodpancakes posted:The Braves got R.A. Dickey and Bartolo Colon, with a combined age of 85. Jamie Moyer wasn't available?
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I always liked Charlie Morton for reasons that I will readily admit are completely not grounded in logic, and I will miss having him here in the NL East. Anyway N: Jeurys Familia's wife said the Mets closer was drunk and "going crazy" on the night of his Oct. 31 arrest on a domestic violence charge in Fort Lee, N.J., according to a 911 tape obtained by NJ Advance Media. V: Oooooooooyyyy not again 
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