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What a long, strange trip it's been....
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Not only is the robo-ump more accurate than a human, in general, it's also more consistent. Everyone can live with it not being perfect; we just want it better, and this it provides.
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Alfalfa missed the part where the history can, and should, be told without bestowing individual honors that consideration for such were forfeited by the choices certain individuals made.
By all means tell every detail of Rose's career: "and that's why he's not a member of the HOF".
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Big picture, sure. But there's a baseball reason he should never join the baseball HOF, so we don't have to get into balancing the moral/criminal failings of him against his baseball career.
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Must have hit reply on the wrong post. Sorry for the confusion. I'm talking about Ballesteros, of course. His conditioning is simply unacceptable, regardless of how well he pounds MiLB pitching.
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If he wants to play MLB, he needs to drop a good 30 lbs. and get serious about being a professional athlete. The days of John Kruk are over. And the #Cubs aren't doing him any favors allowing him to carry this weight at this age, and especially if he's going to try to catch.
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Pete Rose flushed his path to the Baseball HOF down the toilet by choosing to take a team's manager's position and then betting on its baseball games (or not betting if he thought his team was going to lose) extensively.
He chose to violate the one rule posted in every clubhouse. Fuck him.
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What changed? Why now?
This has nothing to do with acting in the best interests of Baseball, and everything to do with the worst commissioner of any professional sports league, a person who clearly detests the game he's responsible for, kissing Donny Two Dolls' ring.
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For the Nazi chodes who can't swing a Douche Canoe.
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Which is why the #Cubs will finish just out of the playoffs yet again. And even if they squeak in, they're facing the Phillies and the Mets, not the dregs of MLB. They just lost two series to these teams, largely because the Hoyer pen, as always, is a dumpster fire.
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Stop wasting resources on kidnapping legal residents and flying them to foreign gulags, and spend it on tracking down these idiots and fully prosecuting them.
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Put your big boy pants on and face the best. Welcome to the Bigs, kid. Don't go hiding behind a starter. Step up.
#Cubs
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He plays hockey, so what else could he be?
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College sports already have enough problems without the most incompetent and corrupt person in the country sticking his faux golden diaper into them.
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SAS: the turf-toe of sports media.
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If there's any cohort that's raw-dogging it, it's Catholic clergy.
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Which is why he shouldn't be starting. But, the #Cubs are gonna Cub, so here they are yet again trying to survive using RPs as starters.
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His WHIP is just a shade below 2 (1.923), and he walks more hitters than he Ks. What to do with him is eat yet another bad Hoyer pitching deal and release him, before he kills more than just the budget.
#Cubs
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And by "role change", you mean, "given his unconditional release".
The contract is a sunk cost. The #Cubs have the best shot at the playoffs in years with this team. Don't fiu by not moving on from this mistake.
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Would anyone know who she was if she hadn't attached herself to Belichick? She'd be doing people's nails and relentlessly posting online trying to become yet another 'influencer'. Bill's getting what every 73-yo guy only dreams about; he doesn't give af.
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The NFL is making a huuugggeeeee branding mistake, attaching itself to this senile grifter and madman, and doing so for an event that will occur when our country is much farther down the path of corruption and authoritarianism than the shit show of the first 100 days we've been forced to endure.
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Can't wait for his commentary on Mother's Day.
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His jump in power has pushed his bWAR into Trout territory. A couple more months of showing this is his next step up rather than just a nice burst, and the #Cubs may finally have a stud CF. Imagine him paired with Tucker long-term.
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Now's the opportunity for a #Cubs pitcher - or two - who thinks he's not getting the attention he deserves to step forward and change minds. In the meantime, the bats will need to stay hot.
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Good write-up. With Steele out for the season, and now Shota out until maybe even the break, the playoffs rest squarely on the bats. Days like this will happen, and when it does, credit and appreciate the pitching that does it, because #Cubs fans won't be seeing much of it.
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Just another reason MLB needs to use fully automated calls. The goal is improved consistency, not perfection. And this chart shows that Skenes is getting some rep calls the ump isn't seeing clearly and not also giving Rea.
#Cubs
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But everything's a "dog show" now. The only thing that matters is capturing attention, by any means necessary.
She can't sing, so The Voice is out. And no one watches Survivor or Big Brother anymore. This is her path to getting the only thing that matters today - attention.
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Because that's exactly what was happening. Attacking the editing doesn't change the reaction, and doesn't address the original questions limitation expectation. It's just the typical deflection response used now when reality is shown and it's not flattering.
It was an interview, not a PR event.
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Crazy in the head, crazy in bed. And a 73-year old man who gave most of his waking hours to producing winning football teams is now getting his coals raked in a manner all his contemporaries can only (barely) dream about. So, he's good with it.
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As opposed to "unselectively" edited? Because all interviews, on every show regardless of how much or little is designed to just be propaganda, are edited.
The question is simply, was it a fair presentation of him? Not, did it flatter him. And the answer is pretty clearly, it was.
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He's putting up Trout-level bWAR. Imagine a full season of this.
#Cubs
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Marked safe from having fentanyl turn up in my food because cosplay Bondi joined the dress-up gang and pretended to be a scientist, along with all the food inspectors doing their rigorous work to keep us safe.
Oh, wait....
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Promise?
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Making him the solution for Hoyer's continued inability to solve 3B didn't help. He needs to dominate AAA pitching, and then come up and live with the higher pitch speeds as his reads and timing adjusts to them. Anticipating what he had never seen & adjusting for what he thought it would be failed.
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The outstanding question is, what propelled him over the railing? Was he somehow ejected from his seat, or did he intentionally rise up out of his seat and leap over the railing?
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He didn't simply "fall". He was either ejected from his seat, or he lept from it and over the railing himself. Would it be possible for the NYT to hire editors who understand that words have meanings? And reporters who work a story to find out what actually happened?
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Why? So we can prove that stupid isn't just for nepo-baby white males?
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Isn't Deion going to demand to be hired as a coach? After all, only he can get the most out of his son. He's not going anywhere.
Which is probably what CLE wants, so they can sell drama, because they've given up on selling football.
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Unless the #Cubs had a platoon for Busch that was absolutely mashing, he needs to get PAs against lefties. So Turner's dead weight is actually a good thing.
And the line-up isn't where the achilles heel is.
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Before last night, Merryweather had only 1 bad outing (against TX) in 11 appearances. The #Cubs have worse issues w/ the pen than him.
They desperately need a real 3B, and the run production isn't going to last. Taillon deserved better, and they can't afford to lose efforts like that.
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60 Minutes may continue to air, but it can't be trusted to be anything more than corporate-approved propaganda.
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If the all-in-on-1-year-of-Tucker #Cubs are going to do more than just nibble at making the playoffs, they're going to have to acquire a legitimate MLB third-baseman.
Another fine start from a thin rotation wasted.
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What? And miss another opportunity for the #Cubs bullpen to completely lose the strike zone?
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Morning Joke is where integrity and self-respect go to die.