Harold's Leg Lift

There's some smoke there.

With a selfish me first attitude like that you wouldn't have to worry about being an average MLB baseball player. You're a bad makeup guy.

I've heard it's much worse than what is being reported. There's a lot of pettiness and both sides are dug in. I'm afraid the season won't start on time as it seems both sides are willing to lose a battle to win the war.

I've watched a lot of really bad Bears football but this is a new low.

It's funny no one brings up the fact Vaughn was a 0.3 WAR player in 127 games. If he wore different laundry it would be evidence that he sucks but he wears White Sox laundry so it gets explained away. The truth is he's a limited player. He's a right handed hitting 1B. He's a bad outfielder and just because he didn't end up like a flounder in a net doesn't make him good. He's slow, he gets bad jumps, takes poor routes and his arm is well below avg. He's a bat only player. Now it's a really good bat but there are other players with really good bats who also provide positional value so proposing they trade Vaughn isn't some crazy off the wall suggestion and it's not like people didn't say this situation could occur when he was drafted.

There was :42 seconds left. Rodgers was getting the ball back regardless.

I was being sarcastic.

Huh. The Dodgers.

PG is on Ritter. That surprises me.

Sit back relax and strap it down. This is gonna take a while.

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This is my favorite story and one of the few I can share. As you know teams have complexes down there so the area scout will set up showcases where the buscones can bring their best players to be seen and if it's a really good showcase teams will fly down some higher ups (cross checkers, special assistants , directors). So there was a good showcase happening and this team sent down a bunch of guys to watch. After the showcase was over one of the more respected buscones came up to them and said he has more players that he couldn't bring to this event (no one was going to ask why) and if they wanted to see them he was having a showcase for them the next day. He said it would be worth their time but the facitity was a little hard to get to so he would provide transportation and protection. They agreed so the next day they met him at the complex and he was a man of his word. He provided transportation and protection. He brought horses and dudes with machine guns. Could you imagine. You think you're flying down there to watch some baseball at the teams complex and the next thing you know you're riding a god damn horse in one of the most dangerous places on the planet with a bunch of dudes carrying machine guns. No thank you.

Crazy and weird are understatements. That's why I don't pay attention to it. I've heard some unbelievable stories of shit that happens down there as I'm sure you have too. I can't believe what those guys do. Mad props to them. I sure as hell couldn't do it.

I agree. The physical traits are obvious but it takes more than that to be an elite level QB and the arm action and slower release is concerning.

I didn't see a timing issue on the throw to Kmet. Mac Jones puts that ball on his numbers. Fields just plan missed him.

I don't think he's accurate enough to be a super bowl caliber QB. He's badly missing throws and that's not something that can be "coached up." He may have a couple years where he puts up numbers while his legs are still under him but when it comes down to him having to make throws with games on the line I think his inaccuracy will hold him back.

Teams don't tank for draft picks. That's the grand illusion. They tank so they can have a low major league payroll and make a bunch of money. It's an easy built-in excuse and if it happens to work out all the better but the only reason to do it is to make more money.

It takes away the excuse that a team is losing now and pocketing a shit ton of money in the process so they can be good at *insert a date that never comes*.

It wouldn't come close to doing that. What it would do is force those teams to actually spend some of the giant pile of money they make instead of simply lining the owners pockets and then crying poor to anyone who will listen.

That's the system I've been talking about. It would be great. Imagine teams playing competitive baseball in september and not this triple a crap they've been pushing on us for the last decade plus.

I wouldn't have him there but I understand the argument because he does have big league tools. But at 24 years old you would certainly like to see those tools translate to a better more consistent approach and feel to hit. He's going to be a big leaguer but how much of an impact he makes is still very much in doubt because at his age the bat should be far more advanced.

He does not work for the White Sox.

I have a pro scout buddy who has a great Luis Robert story. The first time he saw Robert was in high A and he gave him one of the highest grades he's ever put on a player. A couple days later he got a call from one of the nerds in the geek squad. He gave him a 70 power grade and the kid told him he has to change it. He asked why he has to do that and the kid said because Robert only has 6 home runs so he can't give him a 70 power grade. My buddy told him it's a future power grade. The kid had no idea what that meant so he explained to him what a pro scout does and how they give present and future grades. After he was finished the kid was quiet and then said so you're going to change it, right. The exasperation in his voice was hysterical. He said no we're going to keep the grade as it is and again the kid said that he only has 6 home runs. He just didn't get it. I asked if he ever brought it up later and he said he hasn't because the little dumbass is now the director of minor league development. Unbelievable.