Jake

IIRC, most of those guys had labrum injuries which was a death sentence back then. I believe that was the case for Rauch, Barcelo, Parque, Biddle. Can't recall the rest.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jun 14, 2013 -> 12:40 AM) Striking out at an insanely alarming rate and batting under .200 is likely causing psychological damage though. In the blogger call, he did say it was hard to deal with at first but he had learned to overcome that from the encouragement of his coaches and teammates. Lots of "it's a long season" type of stuff. That encouragement sounds like lip service when you demote him less than 40 games into his season. I think it would have a tangibly negative effect. I don't think the talent difference is big enough for it to really matter. The problems are on his end, not the competition's. It is pretty clear that when it clicks, he has no problem dominating somebody. He just has to make it click more often and it might take some ugly games for a while. If he plays his 80th game and it's like this, go ahead and demote him.

I've enjoyed this season of Mad Men, but only with the understanding that we're really building towards some things. The and it seems like we aren't done with drama on that front. Likewise, .

The competitive difference between low A and high A doesn't make up for the likely psychological damage done by demoting a young guy 30-some games into his first full season of professional baseball.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 13, 2013 -> 10:31 PM) It's not like they've been sloppy, unforced turnovers. The Heat D has been incredible. Heat D plays a big role, but they have been VERY sloppy

Another turnover

SA has had lots of chances to win this, turnovers + Manu + Splitter = giveaway

Go home Ginobli, you're drunk

Coach Pop is going to have nightmares about the turnovers in this game. Holy hell

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 13, 2013 -> 10:19 PM) Did I miss something? Did Tony Parker die? Thereee he is.

Did I miss something? Did Tony Parker die?

It's literally impossible to look at a guy and tell if he has a bad approach or bad pitch recognition. For the opposite example, I'm of the mind that Miguel Cabrera is not "the smartest hitter in baseball," as Hawk says. I think he's just so good that he doesn't need to be smart or have a good approach because he just sees everything perfectly. However, that is only my opinion because you can't tell the difference. Bad pitch recognition will make your approach look bad and vice versa. Lots of reasons to be optimistic with Hawkins and I think a demotion is a horrible idea.

for Christ's sake can we get Parker back in the game?

Come on Bosh, even Tyler Griffey knew better than that

WHAT A FLOP JESUS CHRIST

James felt that a bad call was made. LOL

If Dwyane wants to play post defense, you need to take it to him until he gets in foul trouble.

Tom Scocca ‏@tomscocca 24s Miami's team photo is going to be a composite poster of every single Heat player swatting Tiago Splitter's shot.

Would be nice to see Timmy get some touches

I refuse to believe that Splitter has been cleanly blocked this many times

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 13, 2013 -> 01:40 PM) Yeah but then you lose all logins and cookies. Logins are very important to me.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 13, 2013 -> 04:12 PM) I have like literally everything else, including (but not limited to): Chapstick ™ Ibuprofen Acetaphetamine Eyedrops Saline for nose Saline for eyes Allergy medicine FACE LOTION so why I do not have deodorant is stupid. I find it so incredibly appropriate that you wrote FACE LOTION in all caps. That would be how I would have read it anyway, because it is hilarious that you thought of FACE LOTION but not deodorant

There is reason to believe that this was leaked to publicly shame because they don't have a case. On the other hand, I truly don't mind if they bust them all. Some people think that this is unfair or overblown, but I don't. So long as some people get this opportunity to dope and others don't, it's bulls***. It's not like saying that one guy has a better trainer or workout program or whatever else, this is expecting players to break the law to catch up to the dopers. Not okay with me. I tend to think the legalization and restriction of steroids could help to kill the illegal market, but the anti-steroid PR campaign will make that impossible. You could have doctors supervise use, not unlike someone seeing a plastic surgeon or something for superfluous medical procedures. You can still get testosterone replacement therapy, but those aren't as powerful as illegal steroids and I doubt the MLB allows for that anyway.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 13, 2013 -> 12:39 PM) Not sure how this compares to college so I'll ask...how many innings might a guy coming out of high school be expected to have on his arm come draft time? If he's thrown a decent number of innings already this year, might they start him off in the bullpen at a higher level to give him the experience there? Well, he threw 98 IP in high school. That's not unheard of, but there will be other top HS arms that threw half that much. His season ran long due to postseason, but I'm guessing his arm was very recently abused. Wouldn't be the worst thing to pitch him in the bullpen for a little while, at least. Maybe not the entire short season.

I feel like the episode of South Park where every movie trailer I see looks like people s***ting out their mouths and saying "f*** you!"