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Castro and Flowers would be a decent complementary tandem given their platoon splits

Abreu would seem to have a good toolset for long hitting streaks. If we assume his May was an anomaly, he's fairly adept at making contact. He also does not take very many walks and swings at a lot of pitches. He has shown a proficiency for being pretty successful on balls he puts in play. He bats highly in the order. Not prohibitively slow, though he would be better served to be able to get some infield hits.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 2, 2014 -> 09:41 AM) Espn saying he's out season. Maybe I'm downplaying this but that seems premature. That allows for the heroic early comeback narrative

Is Paul George really in need of everyone's prayers? He got a bad injury, apparently some people get squeamish to look at it, but he's going to be okay. He's not dead. It's dubious to say his career is really threatened by this. He'll be back and pretty much the same guy.

ZachOsterman @ZachOsterman · 2h Didn't see the Paul George injury. But Derrick Rose crying in the ensuing huddle is a pretty bad sign.

GAS

QUOTE (Baron @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 10:54 PM) Marcus isnt lighting it up in AAA right now. But really there is no point watching this anymore. He's had some flukey BABIP stuff going on down there. He had ~1.000 OPS in the last month and good looking BB/K ratios. He's ready.

As a former non-big league sinker baller, I've seen this movie before. It involves lots and lots of choppers until the game is over

Another f***ing chopper costs us

Right now we're witnessing 100% unadulterated luck. Let's just hope the Twinks don't start doing things that don't require luck - like hit a homer

Damn with these close plays

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 10:42 PM) It actually looks like the big issue is going to be where that hoop is in relation to the court. Someone's getting fired. Yeah, that's an interesting factor. My girlfriend: "I know what happened. Derrick looked at him."

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 10:37 PM) unlike you i can seperate process from outcome. If I got to the slots tonight and hit a million it doesn't make playing the slots a good idea tmr. The process is as a manager you don't take your one remaining bench player that can play defense and sub him for the DH in a 1-run game

Never pinch run Dayan!!!!!!

I hope international basketball isn't nuked because some assholes in the NBA don't want their guys to take the tiny risk of injury to play it.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 10:15 PM) 4.54 in AAA with a .302 batting average against isn't doing "well", in my opinion. They had to try and make him a LOOGY, as righties were destroying him. Come on now. The guy was leading the IL in strikeouts when he was called up and had 2.1 BB/9. He was pitching really well. QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 10:27 PM) Why is Viciedo pinch-running when Leury Garcia is available? What the heck is going on? Just randomly pushing buttons on a computer in the dugout? Can't sub your one defensive sub for the DH when the run doesn't even matter

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 1, 2014 -> 10:07 PM) This bullpen is absolutely awful. Surkamp isn't even close to throwing a strike with his offspeed pitch. He belongs in the Paulino group for absolutely ridiculous expectations on here coming into the season. He's a starter. He was doing well as a starter. We decided to make him a reliever. It was dumb and we're paying for it

Chris learning the hard way that 98mph down the middle doesn't work

Saladino is a good defensive player. He's very much competent at SS and probably well above average at 2B. He's also not slow. Is he a base stealing specialist? No. But don't assume a player is useless as a pinch runner just because he doesn't have 80 speed.

Is this the one I'm already in?

I have a feeling that golf is going to become an actual country club sport like polo where there just aren't many people playing it and it becomes more clearly a sport for rich people. I wonder if any high schools are cutting it - I know mine always made the kids pay all the expenses so they'd never cut it so long as there is a course nearby

Israel is indubitably committing war crimes. What an awful situation over there, all perpetuated by US policy.

Eminor3d, when you say SS is the position our system is most likely to be able to replace...are you intentionally leaving out 2B? Because it's 2B

Dayan getting a much-needed day off. He needs to clear his head and perhaps take one last shot at nuking his swing and/or approach at the plate and trying something new. Maybe Sierra continues pushing for more playing time as well.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 10, 2014 -> 09:29 AM) This will sound stupid but does anyone else have an exercise they have trouble with mastering the form? For the life of me I can not nail deadlifts. I've worked in the fitness industry for a while and I research this stuff all the time so I know how they're supposed to be done but for whatever reason I always round my back. So I just won't do them anymore if a trainer isn't with me. It's annoying as hell. On a positive note, hit my personal best on squats this week. Overhead squats. I think I just lack the shoulder flexibility