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Trading Noah for Love would be idiotic. No way I'd do that.

26.3% K rate for Bryant

Anderson needs to stay at SS as long as possible. We knew we'd get a big error number from him when we drafted him. He has a ton of talent to be a great SS defender. While there are plenty of examples of guys who made lots of errors in the low minors and never could defend, many of the good ones worked through periods like this when they were young

There is no reliever I would have wanted to pitch to Trout there. I'll roll the dice with Sale at a non-insane pitch count rather than any of our relievers coming in to face the best player in baseball with the bases juiced and nobody out. Per usual, when a pitcher doesn't do his job, the manager looks bad.

I have to say, regardless of her qualifications for the job, I can't say that I love the sound of it that our Presidents over the years would be Bush-Clinton-Bush-someone else to make it seem less creepy-Clinton. Who would win after that, Jeb? George Prescott? Chelsea Clinton?

I'm having the most first-world problem... I'm pretty sure my HTC One is water damaged and bricked. In this case, my dad is happy to use his upgrade to get himself a One M8 and give me his old iPhone 5. ...and good god do I not want to use an iPhone. The daily frustrations will kill me. But I can't turn it down, for now. Bleck

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 12:11 AM) Wait until his knees start to fail at that size. He better hope his genetics hold up There are a few dudes on that team that can help him out with knee pain management

1 - Rodon 2 - Anderson 3 - Hawkins 4 - Davidson 5 - M. Johnson 6 - Danish 7 - Montas 8 - Trayce Thompson 9 - Adams 10 - Michalczewski

LeBron is always dealing with cramps. When you have a legit cramping problem, though, there's nothing you can do about it. Not without a good 15-60 minutes to deal with it. The reason the Spurs went wild from 3 is how much effort the Heat put into denying the ball inside. It opened everything up.

I remember 6-9 months ago, if not more recently, folks thought we might take Reetz at #3.

I'm so glad Hoffman is out of the question. Last thing we need is a righty with good velo, control problems, and no track record of success in a non-elite college conference. Aaron Nola is and was an infinitely better choice. For me, Rodon - Kolek - Nola - Aiken. I'm pretty cool with any of them at this point.

Almost every time fathom makes a post about how bad Davidson is hitting, he hits a home run. Keep it coming!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 5, 2014 -> 12:28 AM) Why wouldn't it be surprising to me (at all) if Aiken doesn't have a huge impact at the major league level? He would be the 4th pitcher on my list at the moment. I'm not super high on Aiken, either.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 10:31 AM) Surely, the presence of Harrelson in the booth has much more of a direct impact (both positively and negatively) on team marketing than anything Farmer and DJ do. They're actually okay together now. Nothing like the guys we've had in the past like John Rooney, Wayne Hagin...or even Dave Wills, now with the Rays. Just okay. And still way better than Chris Singleton on radio. The more interesting survey would be how well Harrelson does with both men and women under age 40...especially teenagers. I have a feeling a lot of the teenagers' parents grew up with Hawk and pass on their love of the Sox through his broadcasting anecdotes, but there's that other side....the kids growing up without an affiliation or without parents who are huge baseball fans. What do those kids think about him...and how is he perceived? I have a feeling those stories from the 50's, 60's and 70's are going to be of little interest to kids of today's generation, that are so addicted to their ipads, computer games and cell phones. My anecdotal experience is that the younger people are more into because he makes the game more fun and interesting. You can actually tell when important things are happening.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 1, 2014 -> 12:31 PM) Not going to work anymore since early May. MLB has followed the procedure from their Android app and changed the At Bat app for iPhone, iPod and iPad to force the use of location services. These can’t be bypassed by any vpn or proxy service. These devices now require the location services to be enabled in order for the app to function. This will give away location regardless of the DNS changes. I've gotten around blackout on a rooted Android tablet. I converted my location spoofing app to a system app and used a VPN from the same location. The trick is that if "allow mock locations" is enabled in developer settings, MLB At Bat will not let you watch. Converting the GPS spoofer to a system app allows you to spoof location without enabling mock locations.

I don't think it is completely unreasonable to take issue with team names like Illini, Indians, etc. It is not as offensive as Redskins. To call yourself Indians and use Chief Wahoo is worse than to call yourself Indians and use a chief or a tomahawk or something. Of all things, though, Redskins is the easiest to say, "that has to go." And yes, Pekin Chinks is pretty ridiculous but I remembered that one. Kinda funny they went with Dragons to replace it, but again, that's not so bad since Dragons are meaningful to and symbolic of the culture of Peking, China

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 4, 2014 -> 08:36 AM) But there wasn't because it's ridiculous, like that analogy. Changing from the Bullets to the Wizards to get away from a violent ideology would've been more suitable. If every school or team changes their Indian mascot names, fine, but why is Washington being singled out? Because "redskin" is a particularly derogatory term that cannot be construed as deferent or respectful

My gut: 1. Rodon 2. Kolek 3. Nola 4. Aiken

Most of us don't know Native Americans, so we don't realize what things do or do not bother them

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 3, 2014 -> 09:46 PM) By far the biggest factor, perhaps the only one, was the Sox having the highest bid The key is knowing that the bid will be worth it.

Sale looked really f***ing bad with that beard. For that reason alone, I'm glad to see it go. I don't want to watch the kid go through puberty on TV

Abreu really makes you feel like you're watching something special in progress. How can someone hit homers on a pace like this? It's crazy to think that it's been done before.

26.6% K% for Kris Bryant could stand to go significantly down. No need to rush him when he has an obvious thing to work on.

Maybe I'm just being a non sequitur, but I just can't get myself excited about Aiken the way I can for Rodon and Kolek. Must be a preference for upside - not to say Aiken has low upside, but he doesn't have the wow physical traits nor the MLB ready repertoire. You see Rodon's talent and success and you know you not only have a guy with a pretty high floor, you also have Chris Sale upside. Kolek has a lower floor, but has arm talent velocity-wise to go with a big body like we haven't really seen, especially for someone his age. Aiken is more of a classic "really talented, pretty refined, could be an ace but more of a sure thing for mid-rotation" guy.

Yeah, that's a big joke. You can have Andrelton Simmons, I'll have Abreu. I'll also have Sale. I'd probably take Quintana over several guys on that list.