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Madrigal also broke his wrist this year. If Madrigal was hitting .500 I'd certainly be excited, but it's not surprising production starts to dip for college players in august coming off of CWS, especially one being challenged more than any other to this point.

I'm just gonna go Delmonico

Gotta say...I just have no interest in this guy anymore.

Yep.

I imagine that's all other people's money. I do want to know how much Sean Spicer is getting paid though.

I think I"ve only seen video of Burdi. So him.

I finally listened to slow burn. That was really good! (Oak Park grad too). I found my knowledge about timeline and major events to be completely off, and I think they rightfully avoided too much WaPo introspection since that story is well known, but i'm not sure I full understand how if WaPo reporting didn't exist, if the government investigation itself would have ended with same result regardless.

I gotta say. I think the retalitation stuff is dangerous and, imo, stupid. Imagine applying it to a game you are familiar with and play and how out of bounds stupid it would be. "Oh he did well against me I will now throw a hard ball at his back! Showed him" Pitchers do not have that good of aim, so the whole "just aim for the butt" thing is not realistic, it can slip and have terrible consequences Again it's pretty dumb I also don't think it's that big of a deal and something that would make me not root for a player. Dunning did it, luckily at lower level, and still just gets "bulldog" thrown around instead of "idiot". The pirates did find that after pitchers throw inside, they are more likely to get a grounder. I'm unconvinced this is due to intimidation and not changing of eye levels or something like that.

Come on. Carlton Fisk would be a top catcher in today's game with just as aggressive a personality except the definition of what aggressive can mean would have narrowed. He's probably be similar to Yadi, but coincidentally I find Yadi's "I know the game" b.s. to be ridiculous.

I'm not particularly convinced by this article, but it is an update of sorts: https://www.mlb.com/news/white-sox-prospect-zack-collins-improving/c-290586256?tid=151437456 I found this part especially annoying (to be clear, I generally like Merk's work fine) "Any doubts of Collins sticking at catcher have been erased. Just ask pitchers Dylan Cease, Jimmy Lambert, Dane Dunning and Bernardo Flores, all of whom have done high-level work with him." He proceeds then not to quote or back up that claim at all, as if I actually should just go and ask them ?

So kind of an article without a place, didn't want to make it it's own thread, but highly highly recommend this piece on unmoderated online forums. Will probably resonate with quite a few: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/magazine/twitters-misguided-quest-to-become-a-forum-for-everything.html

The sheer magnitude of this abuse is just astounding. Considering the appalling nature of the abuse, we really need to understand how we can deter people from accepting the institutional cover ups. This has been easiest to occur in a closed institution such as the catholic church, but has popped up in lots of different institutions. It always ends up that so many more knew about it. I've thought a lot about this douthat column, and about some of the rumors about teachers that ended up being true. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/opinion/sunday/cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-metoo-archbishop.html

Yeah at the very least it seems every UK/european country had their own reckoning in the last 15 years. Was being managed at a global level. The catholic church at the very least needs to open up to allow a 3rd party create a definitive account of all of the abuse, but it would almost certainly touch every part of their heirarchy. I'm not sure US is even best positioned to force that, France or certainly Italy could apply more pressure.

I don't understand this logic. His contract protects his guaranteed money unless he gets the suspension lengths you mention, which means unless he gets the 4 game vontez burfect suspension, the team cannot take away guarantees from on field suspensions. Think about the whole helmet stuff, this protects against the uncertainty of if suspensions go hog wild. And no, if I had millions on the line in a league that is predicated on weeding out poor performing or outspoken athletes, I would not take the handshake guarantee that my employer would not take away guarantees for on the field conduct even as they maintain they must keep legal option to do so. If they would never use it, then they shouldn't feel bad about taking it out of the contract.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/08/14/bears-roquan-smith-reached-a-compromise-on-issue-of-voided-guarantees/ Seems like some reasonable wins here for players.

Nice. He just didn't want to go to bourbannais, can't blame him.

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?cid=&lid=&org=145&sc=&sid=milb&t=affiliate&ymd=20180813 I'll add mlb later.

Do Austin Beck now

An onslaught from the DSL team, 16 hits and 10 runs. Sidney Pimentel is 2-5 with a homer, and hitting .308.

The spring training hats logo is really good, I think they should extend that out more first.

I do kinda feel like jersey innovation is a part of the history and I don't like when that moves on to just be "nostalgia" instead of keeping up with trying to innovate there. But obviously, with reinsdorf he's erred toward some of the more classic looks.

While I like Luis Robert, I think if this rebuild fails one of the big misses will be not committing to a huge latam class before the rules switched. In money terms, we spent a large amount that class, but it was not a 30 person class with 8 guys in the top 30.

I'll say I"ve seen progress in certain things that are still not tangible to production, but I have basically zero confidence in their pro scouting for free agency, and am pretty worried they will royally screw up again committing 8 million here, 10 mill there to garbage players that once again prevent us from truly tipping the scales.

My pee is much more potent than coyote pee to keep away rabbits, though it kills the plants. Trade-off?!

The issue was it started spreading so rapidly, I don't think the pee would cause that. It's hard to tell with the recent dry spell, but it seems like growth has stopped. The fungicide worked in that way but not sure I'll see recovery. Though, we are doing work on our house now and the back yard will be torn to shreds, so I probably didn't need to buy as many products as I did.