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if rodon craps himself on the mound we all must not laugh, ok. Let's be mature about this shituation.

I am glad I read this thread. I watched skull island last night and it was rad and now have plans for a backyard Godzilla v Kong next weekend.

Lavine = good

As much as I would think I wouldn’t, if I was in the draft room I’d definitely yolo it right before the pick

was just talking about the movie where I called it "Gorilla v. Kong" like 4 times before I was corrected.

I think talking about 4th pick like that is too cute by half. You should compare it to everyone drafted after them in first round - because you had your pick at them. Nothing about the 6th pick made it more magical to select Kelenic.

totally agree with this. Absolute horse crap.

The roar after Yermins homer was ?

One of my favorite games I’ve ever seen from Lavine. A true superstar like game where he made plays for his teammates, then when Toronto threatened, came in and hits layup, three pointer to put the nail in the coffin. Theis is freakin great too.

Sure would be nice if they made it jan 2 for consistency. There were some interesting highlights, which is to be expected of Badler who just goes the extra mile on this stuff. I'm going to skip the vera and cespedes stuff which is well-covered for 2 notes that were super fun: "Dario Borrero, OF, Venezuela: In the last year and a half, Borrero hit a growth spurt, going from a skinny 6-foot-2 up to now 6-foot-5, 200 pounds. For such a tall player, Borrero still has a fairly simple, short stroke for his size from the left side that's loose, relaxed and easy. He does a good job of going with where the ball is pitched, showing the bat control to shoot pitches on the outer third to left field or pull pitches on the inner third. His power has started to spike now, with a chance to grow into significantly more thunder once he packs on another 30-40 pounds." 6 foot 5 200 lbs is hilarious Sleeper Watch The White Sox pulled a sleeper out of Panama when they signed outfielder Benyamin Bailey for $35,000 in April 2019. They could have another low-dollar sleeper signing from the country in this class with 18-year-old righthander Carlos Hinestroza. After playing third base up until a few years ago, Hinestroza moved to the mound, where his arm works well with a fastball that's been up to 91 mph and a chance to throw significantly harder once he gains more experience and adds strength to his 6-foot-1 frame. He's still learning how to pitch, with a slider and a changeup also in his repertoire." Also, didn't know that RHP Adrian Gil (or maybe just didn't pay attention to) was repped by Freddy Garcia and Carlos Guillen.

this is why I'm excited to try some of these later ones. Context is I would have been 19 when I saw it but: 1. Was extremely long and PJ had already become a punchline to me for how he could not seem to end LOTR's finale with multiple fadeouts only for epilogue after epilogue. so maybe that's age-stuff. 2. It's mainly about super monsters as either villains or main characters. It's sort of like superman to me, where it every movie is just he gets weakened by kryptonite before recovering by throwing the problem into space. The super monsters are so big that I struggle to find them to be an interesting monster. The films really find the reveal to be big moments, but there can be no real surprise, right? I know King kong is going to be really big. But just a big monster crushing tiny things is only so interesting, so you end up with fight after fight of super monsters doing mortal kombat set pieces. 3. The special effects. I don't like that time period of movie making. Special effects had taken a leap but didn't yet match up to the ambitions of what the filmmakers were trying to do (or maybe later filmmakers had a better idea of what special effects CAN'T do). In Jurassic Park, for example, the terror of being a human mixed up around these incredibly strong and unreasonable animals was constantly felt when in same screen. But the parts of kong where they are running around a trex never felt close to the same to me. The dino stampede scene is a perfect example. Now, I will definitely say king kong is 1000x better at this then Jurassic World, which basically mixed CGI dinosaurs everywhere, as characters basically side stepped around them while they fought and in general never seemed too concerned. So some of this stuff I may revisit but just re-watching some of the trex fight just now I do remember the same thoughts that something about the scale just makes it actually less interesting to me. But then I really liked Pacific Rim, and that obviously had big ass robots fighting big ass monsters for quite a lot of the movie. But maybe part of that is the humans in the robot getting to narrate some of the injuries and create more than just "watch these two big things wrestle".

hell yeah have fun.

I really, really disliked jackson's kong and the the 1998 godzilla for obvious reasons, but I just ignored this latest series and I am going to watch them all because I think I may like them.

I wonder if this is where his instincts vs. ability is going haywire. His arm isn't amazing, maybe he's trying to compensate for how much faster game is than he expected by rushing, and that's what is causing the mistakes.

I think there would be more patience but also much more anger that they went into the season with him starting when there were two cheap starters at 2b available

Well, for comparison that makes him faster than Jay Bruce and Alex Gordon last year, and basically as fast as Shin-soo choo. And not that much slower than Juan Soto. But still very slow.

really interesting BA "ten risers" article today. First Matt Mikulski from fordham re-did his arm action after going undrafted last year, in a way that seems very similar to how Katz has been working with our pitchers. May be a good fit. He's up to 97-98 this year, and is a senior, but likely to get real money. Thatcher hurd, who went from being a HS catcher to focusing just on pitcher this year and is 6'4, 205 lbs with a clean delivery: "Hurd fits the mold of a high school pitcher with advanced athleticism and body control, who is topping out around 94 mph now, but could take big velocity strides in the future. He has the potential for two different swing-and-miss breaking balls and has shown a changeup that gets above-average future projections—loud praise for a prep pitcher" Lastly, this dude: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2021-mlb-draft-stock-watch-10-rising-prospects-in-our-ba-300-update/

this except unironically. Default should be high rbis are unimpressive, but when you have a hitter like abreu whose approach and production with men on base is so consistently high than it's noteworthy. And granted, it probably was why he won the MVP last year over jose ramirez - and I think that's probably good.

I might be exaggerating since I haven't "seen him" play LF but it seems like he's the best defensive left fielder we've ever had?

just looked up his stats - holy crap you aren't kidding. 2019 ?

Let's say there are 400 people per million in texas with covid currently. But that is perfectly distributed within the stadium of 38,000. That's 15 people in the stadium. Now let's say in their section, they have 4 people next to them, and 3 in front within 5 feet. That's 105 people at risk. Now let's assume all 105 people would normally get covid, but since it's outside, they are only 5% likely to contract. That's 5.25 people, and that's assuming 0 vaccinated people, zero mask mitigation, but we can see there was still quite a bit of masks at the game. But we can also see there is quite a bit of masks, and we know about Dallas County, 36% have some protection with first shot. These numbers are just as back of the napkin, and yes, ideally you wait a month. But the amount of handwringing beaches and outdoor events like these get compared to what is driving much of the spread is completely out of whack. Illinois could continue to spike, and we'll have a discussion on the baseball stadiums, when 95% of it will likely be families driving to visit families in michigan and vice versa, attending restaurants, and going to work for 8 hours a day. Yes, it's better for texas to cut capacity at least in half.

It is very on brand for Chicago that they've finally done what we've asked and started season on a west coast road trip, only for the weather back home to be the most incredible april weather...then for them to return and it will be rained out every day ha.

It was an interesting game to really watch yesterday. Still very much feels like they are still working through a lot of chemistry stuff, nice to see a win again with all of that. Main reason I say that is Zach and Vuc's efficiency seems way down now that they've been paired together. Some of the rest of the team has found some groove within the offense last night, but when things falter seems like it goes back out to lavine/vuc for a tough/late shot.

I agree with this! And I'm still hopeful because I have @fathom 's post on Tim Anderson engrained in my brain when he would just write "he's just guessing" after every TA at bat.

I'm still mad and I'll never get over it. Listen, if the west coast wants to be a part of our baseball league they are going to have to play games at 5pm, that's the rules.