Rowand44

They finally made some good merch for DB.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 2, 2015 -> 12:36 PM) If there is more overrated comedy in the last 5 years, I haven't seen it. I hate you.

Um there was a Pitch Perfect 2 trailer, that won everything.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Feb 1, 2015 -> 11:34 PM) Baseball can't come soon enough. I posted some time ago why I can't stand the NFL. Now the media will suck Brady's dick for another 5 years. It's great not to have cable and deal with ESPN's East coast bias. Thanks for chiming in, in the NFL thread?

Do the Pats play the Packers now?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 1, 2015 -> 07:28 PM) That's the closest Sharks will ever get to a championship game. (hockey joke) Ya but our Shark is going to win a championship this year.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 1, 2015 -> 07:26 PM) I don't think I'm being hyperbolic when I say those dancing sharks are the greatest thing to ever happen at the super bowl Completely agree.

My beer apparently has acid in it. #katyperry

Ouch: http://deadsp.in/b8palEJ

Go Seahawks go!

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 11:13 PM) She wants to see me again I feel confident that she gets the Gage Seal of Approval I assume instead of meeting your parents you take your girls to meet Gage when things get serious?

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 10:52 PM) Met a Tinder girl.... Oh boy. And...?

Does anyone believe Bumgarner is a top 10 pitcher in baseball?

So Dunleavy died right?

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 07:25 PM) Because Rock interfered before the official end of the Rumble, restart with last 6 or so guys? I'm grasping at straws. Curtis Axel never got eliminated!

Did HHH say because there was a controversey "in" the Rumble or "at" the Rumble?

Well the hangup is money. Happy I could help.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 02:11 PM) It's easy to disagree with PECOTA Sox projections - the sox beat them almost every year, sometimes by double digits. On average the sox beat the projection by 7 wins per season, putting us at 85, which is great, but just short of the playoffs unless everything hits our way on the luck front. So what does Detroit usually beat their's by? Lets put this into perspective.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 11:35 AM) Hahn had money to play with this year. For him to have money to play with next year = a major playoff run this year or getting rid of Alexei or Samardzija or someone else like that, leaving a hole in their place. He still had a lot more money to play around with than people were projecting. If the Sox are in the playoff race most of the season but just fall short, they'll add to the payroll.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 11:26 AM) The only one I'd count on to be a contributor by 2016 is Rodon, and at the same time I can easily see other holes opening as Alexei, LaRoche age. That leaves me with zero confidence, frankly. After 2016 at least you clear several contracts, but "wait for 2016 when we have 0 money to spend" is the plan, it is a poor one. This team either will win this year or its going to circle 2017 for the next time it has money available. If they're close and the attendance takes a nice little hike which it already has, they'll spend more to get a piece or two to put them over the top.

And once again, the Sox are a team that is set up better for the playoffs than they are for the regular season. So if we can sneak into a Wild Card spot, we'll be extremely dangerous.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 10:44 AM) The Sox have a good, not great, bullpen. I wouldn't be shocked if the Sox have a great bullpen, I also wouldn't be surprised if their pen is completely underwhelming outside of Robertson. If the bullpen is great we easily could have one of the best pitching staffs in baseball so who knows.

Heyman going with Reigns makes sense on paper but I really, really don't think they're going to turn Roman heel so I doubt that happens.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 10:35 AM) BP loves Abreu. So... there goes that argument. He's likely to regress a LITTLE bit. That's just the way baseball works. They're simply not a 90 win team unless everything goes right, like in '05. Garcia, Gillaspie, Sanchez and Flowers are four HUGE issues (like I said, we don't know what we're gonna get from Avi) and the back end of the rotation is bad. Teams don't just improve 17 wins over a previous season. It doesn't happen except on very, very rare occasions. I also think everyone on this board overvalues Shark. I see him as a high 3s ERA guy, definitely our third best starter. I wouldn't completely be shocked with a very low 4s era in the AL in this park. Also, this is based on a lot of the projection systems out there and his past production. There are too many question marks to assume they'll win 90 games, but I'm still really excited about the season because they'll be competitive all year long, and if they can show they're competitive, they're more likely to keep Shark long term. Why would you want to sign Shark long term if you think he's overvalued?

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jan 29, 2015 -> 10:23 AM) There's been a lot of "why didn't we go the the final couple pieces?" and "prospects are just prospects are bust rate Mitchell ahead of Trout blah blah" lately, and I think that both types of complaints are short-sighted; they don't take the RH master plan or the current competitive state of the MLB into perspective. I think they represent obsolete lines of thought that describe the environment ten or so years ago but are not relevant or useful in the climate today. But I haven't been able to communicate my argument very well, partially because I'm not sure I even UNDERSTOOD my argument very well. But with yesterday's release of Keith Law's system rankings, I think it all finally makes sense in a concrete way. Let me ask you this: When was the last time the Sox went into the season billed as a legitimate playoff contender AND had a top-half ranked farm system? THIS is what it's supposed to look like. This is the "sustainable competitiveness" model in its infancy. It doesn't matter if you think Law is too high or too low on the system or Sullivan is too low on the Sox 2015 chances, the point is that they are in the running and somehow still on the upswing, both in terms of the ML roster AND the farm system. This team has flaws, and we should admit it. If the team doesn't meet our expectations, I think it will be due to some combination of our lack of depth being exposed and the fact that we always assume that our superstars will never regress from exceptional performances for some reason. But there's no question that the team is a "contender." And unlike the previous KW-branded regime, it came without the cost of ruining the future. So next time you feel like JR is stingy or that RH values prospects too much, look how far RH has taken this ship in just two years, and look how much brighter things look from ALL angles than they have since October of 2005. It's about balance and patience. It'll probably mean we will always be able to find holes in our team and always wish they would have spent $20m more, but if they can avoid tipping the scales too much in either direction (present or future), we can look forward to going into every season with justified hopes for the playoffs. Rowand44 likes this post.