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I do not want my team to pay the posting fee for Otani. Is this a hot take?
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 22:53 |
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Kind of since the posting fee has a max value now. Of... what, $25m?
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 22:55 |
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Intruder posted:What can I offer to eat to get Otani to decide to be an Astro Are the rest of the bananas still moldering in the fridge or did you eat them already?
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 22:56 |
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God I need to eat them still Don't worry, I won't rob you guys by eating them off camera (because then I'd probably just lie and throw them away)
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:00 |
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Intruder posted:God I need to eat them still i can no longer make a "no ring" joke
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:01 |
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Intruder posted:God I need to eat them still This is your toxx and others might not agree, but I'd be willing to let you add peanut butter into the mix if it would help things (and to make more of a monstrosity of a dish).
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:07 |
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I'd seriously give you a pass if the ham hollandaise bananas have just been sitting in the fridge for a few days because that sounds vile. You paid the piper on that one. However you still have to make the pie and eat the whole thing and puke everywhere for our amusement
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:07 |
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Carlosologist posted:what's on everyone's offseason wishlist? 1. Sign Cobb or Lynn, either of whom would (hopefully) be a good back of the rotation anchor. 2. Sign at least two of Reed, McGee, Duensing, and Cishek to beef up the pen. 3. Maybe sign Holland or Davis if the price isn't insane, but it's probably going to be. 4. If he'll accept a BUC position resign Avila, otherwise resign Rivera. 5. Don't panic and trade Schwarber for peanuts 6. Don't trade young major league talent for pitching and just give MiMo a loving starting job already, jfc
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I'd allow for Intruder to stick the bananas in the freezer and eat them like popsicles.
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:10 |
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My compassion would leave it open to prepare a new batch because I'm not convinced what's left isn't toxic at this stage, but doing half a promise to the gods is just bad juju.
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:10 |
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One banana eaten I had to pause the video and will continue in a bit Only two left
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:13 |
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RIP
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STAC Goat posted:Of course I'd love to get Otani but as some point putting it on a "wishlist" feels like the kid who owns an XBox and a Playstation asking his parents for a Switch. It would be awesome if I get it, but I'm not "affluenza" enough to ask for it. But this describes every Yankees fan every offseason and trade deadline. I mainly want him because I think he fills a need for the Yankees in terms of front of the rotation-caliber starter and maybe even DH (which became super obvious in the playoffs). Having a DH spot to rotate and rest players is nice during the regular season but you're gonna be starting all your regulars in the playoffs anyway and it was a huge weakness for the Yankees this year (they went 0 for 28 until Headley got the first hit for a Yanks DH in game 3 of the ALCS). Intruder posted:Kind of since the posting fee has a max value now. Of... what, $25m? In the system that just expired, it was $20m that goes directly to the team that is posting him and then the player just gets whatever teams have available in their international pool money and then is forced to sign a minor league contract (because Otani is under 25y/o). This is why people aren't sure if he'll be posted yet. The MLBPA is concerned about the fact that the team that's posting him is getting a much bigger amount than the player, so they haven't agreed to the exception offered by MLB that allows Otani to be posted under this same rule. It's their own fault for agreeing to this system in the first place, though. If Otani were 25, I believe he could just sign with whoever offered him the biggest major league contract and the team that posted him would get 15% of the value of the contract.
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:19 |
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Intruder posted:One banana eaten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxfi7XMS8pw
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:20 |
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Is the pie this weekend?
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:24 |
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iospace posted:Is the pie this weekend? No I'll be out of town all weekend visiting my sister in Miami ihatepants posted:In the system that just expired, it was $20m that goes directly to the team that is posting him and then the player just gets whatever teams have available in their international pool money and then is forced to sign a minor league contract (because Otani is under 25y/o). This is why people aren't sure if he'll be posted yet. The MLBPA is concerned about the fact that the team that's posting him is getting a much bigger amount than the player, so they haven't agreed to the exception offered by MLB that allows Otani to be posted under this same rule. It's their own fault for agreeing to this system in the first place, though. I assumed the objection was that the posting fee is so much, not that the player gets hosed e: My wife is excited I made hollandaise from scratch and wants me to make eggs benedict with it. I on the other hand never want to taste hollandaise again Intruder fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Nov 8, 2017 |
# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:25 |
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Fair enough, consider your deadline extended for the pie. Enjoy Miami!
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:29 |
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Hey now my deadline wasn't until a week from today anyway The deadline for the bananas was today though Speaking of which, the video is uploading
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:29 |
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ihatepants posted:But this describes every Yankees fan every offseason and trade deadline. I mean, yes, he fits a Yankee "need" but if a potential front of the rotation starter who can also hit doesn't fit a role on your team you're either a very good team or a very bad one. I don't think you worry about your postseason DH in the winter. You have 7 months to figure that out once Spring Training starts and you have to make the playoffs over 162 games before you can worry about 1 of 9 bats in the lineup. There could be a dozen different potential DHs from the current Yankee personnel and without any surprises or trades. Again, of course Otani fits and would be a huge boon but I think it would just be silly for the Yanks to see DH as a big money, locked in necessity this winter. In general I'm just not a big coveter of huge free agent signings. Maybe that's some "rich guilt" as a Yankee fan. Maybe its a sense of fairness. Maybe its dread over so many Ellsbury type contracts that have come and gone. Maybe its a love of a more organic team. I don't know. But I'm not sure I've actively wished for a big winter acquisition in my time as a Yankee fan. And more often than not I was always the grinch amongst my fans when the move was made.
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:33 |
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Hello friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqaXz-e1UG4
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:47 |
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Intruder posted:Hello friends
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:50 |
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Intruder posted:Hello friends Did you reheat them?
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:55 |
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I did not
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:57 |
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Just watching that made my stomach turn. Even with the improved texture, there's no way I'd have eaten two day old refrigerated ham bananas hollandaise.
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# ? Nov 8, 2017 23:59 |
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Notice how congealed the hollandaise is at this point
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:00 |
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:00 |
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Intruder you are a crazy man for not only accomplishing this Toxx but following through two days later
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:00 |
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Intruder posted:I did not You glorious bastard. The way the third one jiggles, too...ugh.
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:03 |
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Intruder posted:Notice how congealed the hollandaise is at this point You managed to find the only non-Jello Great American Cookbook recipe and turn it into jello.
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:04 |
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TMZ apparently has video of Halladay's plane going down. Some people were in a boat and saw a plane behaving erratically and of course whipped out their phones because that's the society we live in now. TMZ is saying he was hot dogging it and lost control, but there seems to be some debate that there may have been some sort of mechanical failure. You've been warned. http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/08/roy-halladay-plane-crash-video-witnesses-showboating/
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:04 |
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I am not going to watch that
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:07 |
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I was about to make a joke about how I didn't toxx to watch Intruder eat that and get myself sick... but that no feels wildly inappropriate with faces of death videos popping up.
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:10 |
Intruder posted:I am not going to watch that I hate that kinda stuff and peoples morbid fascination with someone dieing.
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:11 |
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The video doesn't show anything, for what its worth. Shows a plane flying low to the water going away from the camera and after about 3 seconds its a tiny spec in the video and the video doesn't show the plane crashing.
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:12 |
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Carlosologist posted:Intruder you are a crazy man for not only accomplishing this Toxx but following through two days later I needed time to mentally recover from the first three I ate (and then I realized today was the deadline so welp) Also now I'll never have to eat them again The pie will probably be more than two sessions
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:17 |
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Which pretty much matches up with this tweet: https://twitter.com/RoyHalladay/status/925328575372423168 Ugh. And yeah - the video isn't remotely graphic. Just creepy - the actual crash isn't shown. There's a second video taken from the boat as it races towards and arrives at the wreckage though. Still not graphic, but equally disturbing.
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:18 |
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https://twitter.com/alexspeier/status/928396502749405184 He was only 17.
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:19 |
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gently caress, dying of cancer at 17...
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:20 |
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Michael Felger making GBS threads on Halladay
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 00:28 |
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Carlosologist posted:what's on everyone's offseason wishlist? Giants: 1. Get a good RF instead of their bad one 2. Get a good CF instead of their bad one 3. Get a LF instead of... IDK 4. Get a 3B in case Arroyo isn't ready 5. Get a solid Middle Reliever, preferably LH Basically replace all their bad players with good ones
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