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The beauty of this is that this applies to either Castro. Hell it may even apply to Fidel for all I know...

Yes.

"Siri, score me a run."

Wow I’m loving the pace already. Gonna be great with the the pitch clock. I think they nailed this one.

To me like just about any other position it comes down to how you view him compared to what you could get later on in the draft. If they feel Bijan is head and shoulders better than any RB they could get in day 2 or 3 then I have no problem taking him at 6 even with the shorter shelf life of RBs. If you get 4-5 elite impactful years out of him where he helps take the offense to another level would anybody really care if he flames out after that and look back at the pick as being a waste?

All I said was that without the vaccine we both might be dead. That is unequivocally true. Notice the word "might". We are both in our 70's. And I still don't get the strange reference to a "Democrat poll", but don't spend any more time on it.

That's after the fact though. A sensible projection assumes that crazy stuff isn't going to happen and that players will perform somewhat in line with their past performance. In doing that, you are more likely to be correct than by making a wild ass prediction based on emotion. A wild prediction can be fun, but it's not an argument. If someone can explain why he or she thinks the Tigers will only win 58 games, it might might be a valid argument.

I like the Jones signing because of reliability (something that Chark couldn't offer) and leadership especially for someone like Jamo who could really use a mentor. I do think he's a bit of a downgrade on Chark in terms of what he brings to the field at this point in his career mainly because Chark had more of an ability to separate and stretch the field but the hope is that Jamo becomes that big play threat. Either way, this is solid depth and a great guy for the locker room.

Some polls. 🙄

Why do they need tomorrow off. They're playing in a dome !

Getting the vaccine and the boosters does make it less likely that you'll feel sick and less likely that you'll spread the virus.

Castro can't draw a walk. You can't play on Harris' team if you can't draw a walk unless your Javy Baez and he's stuck with you. Also, he is terrible infielder and doesn't hit well enough to be an outfielder. Most years he doesn't hit enough to be anything.

I said in another thread that we’ll be north of 75 wins, and I’m gonna stick with that.

DCCC should collect a bunch of these screenshots, right here, and feature them on ads next year. They could probably do fifty different executions, easy.

That’s the kind of catch that confirms for you that we’re going to lose.

Well you must have hated the last four years.......

Fast Eddie looking pretty decent so far

The home plate umpire hasn't been too great either.

Heh, is the clock going to make it more difficult for radio stations to pause 10 seconds for ID?

Or they really want to draft Carter and are leaking false info.

Completely agree. A guy on my bowling team said last week he thinks Tampa has the best covered stadium in baseball. I smiled, nodded, and bowled my frame.

I feel like the negotiations with Jackson went: "I want $240 million fully guaranteed." "We can't give out a fully guaranteed contract." "Fine, make it $300 million with $240 million guaranteed."

If the Lions are committed to Goff, he is at his best when he has a strong running game to play action pass off of.

2019 is underrated as one of the most god-awful teams in baseball history.

I would question it for similar reasons, but at the same time if the Marshall Faulk comparisons are what Holmes sees in Bijan, I wouldn’t fault him for just making the pick and flipping Swift for a late 2nd day or early 3rd day pick.

Loved to listen to his stories, national treasure.

I teach math. If you think understanding percentages and paying careful attention to the base (50% of people who are unvaccinated and get Covid get hospitalized vs. 50% of people hospitalized with Covid are unvaccinated) is in most American's wheelhouse you are mistaken. I wouldn't have been able to answer without a guess given those categories. I would have clearly thought below 10% but I would not have known without research how much below 10% it was.

It's a 45% difference....could be that Zadina matured early...that's part of why it's so hard to project the future with 18 year-olds. Every draft has its busts. I agree that Zadina has disappointed and seems to be a bust, but I tend to think his issues may be as much mental as anything else. Quinn Hughes or Evan Bouchard were guys that were talked about pre draft for the Wings. Had Zadina not fallen past the Habs, maybe we would have picked on e of them. Bouchard would be nice right now since he's bigger and a RHD..but Hughes is PPG guy who would def boost the PP

I did. I said injuries will hit and be bad. I included Greene as one of those. I said the bullpen will be really bad. There’s very little track record of success there and maybe last years success in a similar situation was the anomaly. I said Maton, Vierling, and Meadows will all be failed projects. Schoop and Haase will disappoint. Baez and Tork won’t have significant lift to improve the team. I also think they get off to a very slow start and that makes it tough to build confidence right Maybe (and hopefully) none of this happens and they play closer to 75 or maybe even 80 than they do 60. Who knows but that’s how I’m looking at things now and that was the rationale on my mind when I predicted they only 56.

he was drafted on the back of one international tournament when he played very well. he hasnt played at the level since, not in international, not in the ahl, and definitely not in the nhl. hindsight is 20/20 but he was obviously overdrafted and just isnt that good. he doesnt seem particularly big, he isnt that physical, and - most of all - he shoots the puck either wide or right at the goalie. he's just not that good and at this point, i dont think he ever will be. his contract isnt bad so you can keep him around and hope he gets healthy and lucky, but the odds of him sticking in the league in two years (or even next year) really arent that high. he's a 4th liner on the wings now and they have almost no really good scoring forwards. what happens if they trade for one and kasper/mazur show promise? zadina is out of here.

Not surprised. Logically it doesn’t make sense to you. We see illogical events happen all the time in the world and many smart people still can’t accept the possibility that something that shouldn’t happen does either through circumstance, luck, anomaly, or maybe something that can’t be explained.

Doing the Mud Hens’ opener with fingers crossed. 3 rounds of precipitation are expected, and hopefully the projected window between the first and second holds true.

There was an article in the Atlantic about a 6 year old boy that died from an accident. Anti Vaxxers found out he "had the jab" and made this family's life a living hell that would would have made the Alex Jones Sandy Hook deniers proud. These nutjobs are a danger to society. They've threatened my wife at work. Yes I take it personally. They can all go fuck themselves.

We survivors of 2003 have nothing but hope for this 2023 roster. It could be worse.

It wasn’t a shock because they didn’t know any better. It was because it was the first time it was ever acknowledged by anyone in the business. Answers were always playfully evasive. This was the steroid trial.

Really they are gonna be 10 games worse than last year where the entire team was hurt and so dramatically underperformed their career norms? That seems unlikely

Anybody having to deal with the Southfield Freeway on a regular basis will understand the desire to move. Especially if they're commuting from Birmingham, Rochester etc...

Must win!

I blame gerrymandering for the current congress as much as anything else. If we had several multi member districts (or even ranked choice voting) things may be different. Right now the outcome is baked in before the votes.

I jus saw an article that the Dodgers are giving a former player a $0 contract just so he keeps his health insurance. Bipolar and Schiziphrenia. Last played in 2018 and in 2020 was found living on the street.

what are the chances they kill something that protects consumers? Im saying well over 97% chance.