RandyMarsh

I don't use the official app I think. I just started playing last week and the app I use you can play as many games a day as you want. I was on a 51 game win streak before that.

Its not so much about what is fair its about what is best for the game. Most agree that there needs to be more balls in play and short if deadening the ball which it seems the league refuses to do the next option would be to make it easier for balls in play to be hits. Perhaps with more groundball singles or bloop hits that we saw pre shift we would see less of guys feeling the need to swing for the fences. And for those that say just go the opposite way and take the single, again that is easy in theory but extremely difficult in practice cause the pitchers pitch to the shift. They're not giving you pitches that you can take the other way with any sorta ease.

There's illegal defenses in other sportsso I have no problem if they did it in baseball. It can be as simple as you have to have atleast 3 guys on each side of the diamond. "The hit it where they ain't" approach is fine in theory but not easy to do unless you're Ted Williams or Tony Gwynn.

Gonna be a bad day for me then. My word was found. I had the nd after the 1st, then proceeded to guess sound, round, mound, pound and wound for the loss.

I guess we're just not allowed to have good things. A year ago we all thought and hoped Juwan was the second coming but things haven't been so rosy this year to say the least.

https://theathletic.com/3138898/2022/02/21/what-would-happen-if-baseball-killed-the-shift?source=user-shared-article Behind a paywall but interesting article about the shift. A crazy number I'll share from the article is in 2013 there were 6882 shifts over the season, last year there were over 59,000. Just insane how much it has gone up in less than 10 years. Joey Gallo had a good quote in there, to paraphrase it "How am I supposed to get a double or triple when there are 6 guys in the outfield?" He kinda has a point, it's no wonder guys swing for the fences nowadays.

How was Anibal's name supposed to be announced? I've heard it said like you described Scully, Ive heard it said like Hannibal Lecter without the H, Ive heard Uh-knee-ball and probably a couple others but I never got an official pronunciation.

About 15 years ago I was in a Red Robin eating and a freaking TV above me that must not have been anchored right fell right on my head and busted me open. I'm the type of person that hates being the center of attention so when everybody came over freaking out I just downplayed it and acted like nothing happened, they ended up paying for mine and my then girlfriends meals and that was fine with me. A few weeks go by and I'm getting these headaches and dizzy spells, now mind you I'm also epileptic so I see a neurologist regularly. I ask my neurologist about it during my regular visit and he asks did I suffer any head trauma recently and nothing came to mind until my GF who was in the room with me mentioned that TV incident which by then I forgot about it. My Doctor says he is certain I suffered a concussion, I again downplayed it but for about 5 years after that I suffered from post concussion syndrome where I would get these horrible headaches, sensitivity to light, dizzy spells etc. Long story short I regret not making a bigger deal out of it from the start, I fortunately had top of the line insurance so nothing costed me anything but my life did suffer for the better part of 5 years cause of it.

Soto is 5th all time in OPS+ among players at his age only trailing Ted Williams, Mike Trout, Stan Musial and Ty Cobb. All 4 of those guys got even better after that so there's no reason to think Soto won't as well. I think he has a real chance of being the first 500 million dollar player when he hits FA at 26 he is just that special of player and hitter.

India was the 5th pick in the Mize draft and just won ROY, Kelenic 6th and after his rocky call up he appeared to look like a legit bat going forward, Madigral has looked good, Bart is a top 20 prospect in baseball, Grayson Rodriguez is top 5 so even without Mize there's a good chance we would have ended up with a really good player anywhere in the top 10ish range and right now any one of them could end up turning out to be the best in the class which is how it usually is in baseball.

Lunardi has them as one of the last 4 in now. Let's see if they can hold on to it.

Kiley McDaniel of ESPN has us at number 13 in his system rankings. He echoed what many people on here have said, to paraphrase "It'll be interesting to see how Avila and Co. Build the system now that they are competitive at the big league level cause almost anybody can hit on top 5 picks but now we will see if he can hit on picks that are later."

Touche

I can imagine the delight of the Hospital/Doctors when they found out that the star QB worth like 100 million dollars publicly announced to pay for everything. They can overcharge the hell out of everything knowing that he can't reneg on his promise.

Good for them, I know Stafford was getting beat up pretty good on Twitter about walking away from it but I honestly don't think he meant any harm. Being a rich successful athlete you probably learn over the years to avoid any sorta potential drama like that, like it comes natural to them or atleast the smart ones to try to get away from any incidents.

Damn there was some late movement on that first pitch which I presume was a slider and I dont know if it was the camera angle or not fastball appeared to have quite a bit of arm side run to it. Looked like it started in the lh batters box and finished over the plate.. probably in the low to mid 90s as well. Nasty stuff.

Perhaps some are fluff pieces but the more I hear about Johnson the more excited I am to see what the Lions can do with him calling plays. Hopefully through the draft or FA we can bolster our WR corps and if we do the offense will have the weapons and o line to be pretty good.

Also if it was a Lions fan he would've checked on her but he isn't about to trust those bandwagon LA fans.

That's classic, I assumed he wanted to get as far away as possible so if she was hurt she didn't try to blame him and sue him. Kudos to Kelly though for checking on her.

Pistons get the W. Shocked that Tatum missed that, I wouldve bet the house they scored.

Celtics reporter.

Parade size aside its weird how time works, it felt like the Rams were in STL for so much longer than 5 years when they won and I can't believe they have already been back in LA for 6 seasons now.

I hope for their sake the whole route didn't look like this cause if so that is definitely pathetic. Not quite as bad as the Chicago's WNBA team that won last season though.

McShay has us taking Hutch and Howell in his latest mock. I will say if we decide to go QB at 32 Howell is the guy I like the most. I think he offers the best combination of upside and floor. I don't think he's ever going to be the elite top 5 guy but I think if all goes well he could be above average in that 10 to 12 range that can sprinkle in some elite years, kinda like a Matt Ryan.

Nats offered Soto 13/350 and he turned it down. Assuming salaries don't take a drastic change for the worse in the coming years I think that was a wise decision. He hits the open market in 3 years at just 26 years old and I think he should easily clear 10/350 just in those years when he does.