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I mean, most of my searches are "x player nude"? Wait, wat

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 17, 2013 -> 03:51 PM) Not exactly. A guy with a .900 OPS might have a .330 OBP but a .570 SLG. Or he might be .400/.500. There's a big difference between those two hitters. I have to deal with OPS because that's all most websites can show me. So it's just a slight glance for me. If I'm more interested in the player, I go on FanGraphs. Definitely. Most of my web searches are "x player fangraphs"

wRC+ varies year by year. For instance, Dunn's wRC+ would look worse in the steroid era because the league in general was hitting so much more. 3% isn't a lot, but it's also not nothing. We're talking a few runs - which may not sound like much but ultimately could add up to a game of value.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 17, 2013 -> 11:36 AM) I trust bucket, but you always take that info for what it's worth. Ramirez could still easily be traded. Anybody on the Sox can be traded at this point. They are shopping everybody. Things can always change in a hot hurry.

The thing to look at with Holmberg is that over 200 innings into AA, he has seen his K/9 rates drop precipitously from at or above 9 at most levels to 6.3 or so in AA. 6.3 K/9 isn't horrible in MLB, but it certainly puts a ceiling on him and if he loses even more strikeouts on his way to the show, he'll have a hard time succeeding. I'm not sure how great of a get he is, especially when we already have lefties with high 80s-low 90s fastballs and modest K rates in our rotation.

Chris might as well play for the Toledo Mudhens. Not on a coast, nobody cares!

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 11:18 PM) This is what I envision for opening night, aside from any injuries.... Bickell-Toews-Kane Sharp-Pirri-Hossa Saad-Zeus-Shaw Bollig-Kruger-Morrin Keith-Seabrook Hjalmarsson-Leddy Oduya-Rozsival Crawford Khabibulin Ben Smith or a Jimmy Hayes may crack the roster as well. As always with this team, the second line center position is where questions need to be answered. If Pirri can keep up, things will look pretty solid..... It would be very impressive if Pirri can get on the second line right off the bat. I hope he can cut it, that would be a big boost and another victory for Blackhawks player development.

Mo is an all-time great, why make up s*** to give to him? Is this farewell tour and an eventual trip to the HOF not enough?

Eaton, Holmberg, and Owings for Peavy? Done. Want some De Aza too? Fine, take him.

Thanks for all the info bucket. I'm sure you're putting yourself/a relationship at risk by sharing and we all appreciate it.

8th inning reliever gets it, eh? Sounds like bulls***.

This is a bad performance

Fan votes comprise 20 percent of the overall voting. Can they really give it to Mo?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 09:05 PM) If this score stays the same, they'll give it to Rivera Sheeeeeeit

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 08:48 PM) If there's no clear cut offensive pick, maybe Sale gets the MVP. Can't argue with 6 up 6 down. I've been thinking the same thing. I doubt they do it.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 08:25 PM) Wat pith?

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 05:35 PM) Carcillo to the Kings. Adios. This is third place I've seen it reported and nobody says who we got back. I think that tells you all you need to know about what we thought of Carcillo.

I'd assume that most of us that watched him in relief have seen him hit 101. With that said, who cares if he does it again?

I can't help but think of all the times that I went outside of my parents' house to talk on the phone so as to get privacy. I would always walk around aimlessly because I'm a fidgety person. I wonder how suspicious I looked.

I've always found there to be an interesting balance when thinking about "proper" race relations. While it would be out of line to deal with black friends or whomever else in a particular way because they are black, there is an extent to which it is inappropriate to act colorblind. There are parts of the human experience in the world today that are fundamentally different for (for instance) black people and I can't just treat my black friends like they are seeing and experiencing the world the same way I am. I remember when I was younger, saying the word "black" around a teammate and then I started acting embarrassed like I had just dropped an n-bomb. He just goes, "you know, it's no secret that I'm black. I have mirrors at my house. We don't have to pretend." This is when I first realized that I was being a pretty useless "non-racist" as I was trying to do my best "non-racist" impression around my black friends and, in effect, treating them with kid gloves because they were black. That doesn't mean I should instead pretend that I know what it's like to be black, but I also can't pretend that being black isn't an important part of someone's identity, for better or for worse. This is a fairly recent tension in critical theory, a sort of sub-specialty of mine in academia. There was a huge movement to try to abolish all labels, so to speak. All very well-intended, of course, but some prominent black and feminist scholars noticed something--all the people behind this movement were old white guys (a result of the old segregated hiring schemes in tandem with tenure). Black and feminist scholars, in particular, were thinking "hey, it's easy to renounce all sense of identity when you haven't had other people defining it for you for your entire existence." So, we have this tension between a desire for colorblindness when we simply don't live in a colorblind world. And the core assumption behind colorblindness seems to be that this just lets other people be assimilated in the club of white males rather than an acceptance of cultural variety and history.

A couple seasons ago, Koji Uehara turned into Chris Davis. Do it, Rick!

If I'm buying, I'd much rather have Peavy than Garza. Both for this season and when you factor in the contracts. Two different tiers of pitcher IMO.

The new thing I keep seeing, especially in light of this verdict, is this insistence that the only remaining racists are black people.

Yeah I'm not sure what they're doing. We could have kept Castro an extra day, it seems to me, in case of an extra inning marathon.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 08:10 AM) Yes, probably 30 GMs getting drunk together. "Hey man, I love you but, you know, your team f***ing sucks" *bar fight*