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Ruined? No. Could the kid have benefited from more time in AAA? I would say absolutely.

In 2000 he came in second to Jason Giambi I believe.

Guys you know the answer to this. It was 2016 in May, Jimmy Rollins was the starting SS, the Team that Rick Hahn had convinced himself was a competitive roster got out to a 10 games over .500 record then realized that Rollins was a terrible starting SS and, as their record was collapsing, they made desperation moves. The 3 desperation moves made that May/June were: 1. Calling up Anderson to take over SS after 2 months in AAA 2. Calling up Carson Fulmer to save the bullpen when he had an ERA of 5 in AA 3. Trading some no-name minor leaguer and Erik Johnson for James Shields. Same pulse of events involved them acquiring Miguel Gonzalez and waiving Danks and Latos. Those weren't as bad of moves, but still same basic concept. They turned over 20% of the big league roster in a month to try to stop that collapse. All 3 of those were terrible moves, in all honesty Anderson probably was the least bad of them as he had a decent start to his career, but he still has had some struggles since. All of them did long term damage to the franchise in order to save Ricky's 2016 juggernaut. These are the kinds of mistakes a GM makes when he convinces himself he has a competitive team and he does not.

That's totally clear from the first trailer, he is wearing an ankle bracelet because he helped out Captain America and asks the Wasp if she'd have joined in. The question is whether it'll happen at the same time as the thing we all just saw.

Apparently new Ant Man & The Wasp trailer tomorrow.

There was enforcement for multiple floppers stressed in 2013, and it hasn't been discussed as much since.

Raising the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation has been a Democratic goal for years. I for one actually think that $15 right now is too high for much of the country, - there's research based on the $15 rate in Seattle that suggests to me that it's right on the edge of where you can push it in that city without actually causing a measureable drop in total employment, and that's a major city with a high cost of living. Remote areas with lower costs of living would see more substantial hits from a $15 minimum wage switched to rapidly. But on top of that, $10.10 in 2014 dollars would already be $10.65 right now, and for rural areas/national minimum wage that's not a bad number if you keep the inflation adjustment.

I would very much not judge Anderson based on what happens in the draft. Especially when you're drafting in the #4 slot you don't pick that on need in MLB. If I had Carlos Correa and the top guy on my list is a college shortstop named Alex Bregmann, I'm still taking him because he's the top guy on my list. If I have to move him because the SS position is full, it's easier to move a guy from SS in the minors than to find a SS. Move him to 3b, trade him, move him to CF, move him somewhere else, who cares.

It's currently 2.2:1. If he's going to be an above average, most of the time DH who backs up 3b or 1b occasionally, my goal out of that position is something like an .850 OPS as that would be above AL average production out of that position. Since he strikes out a lot that would bounce up and down every year, some years he might be .825 some years he might be at .900, but I think that's a reasonable goal. Give me that and I'm happy with him as a DH for the next several years.

The F***? Did you see Cleveland's record last year? And the year before that where the were in the 10th inning of game 7 of the World Series?

This is absolutely ridiculous.

If you're within a few hundred miles of Chicago you can access the audio through standard AM radio.

The only way to get radio broadcast online is to buy the "Gameday Audio" package which is $14.99 for the whole season I believe. It runs through the same Gameday app. By rights agreements, no stations are allowed to broadcast the game audio over the internet through any other streaming format. The only way to legally stream audio of a game is gameday audio.

JFC go learn what the Google is before you make your next claim.

It's a double header in a 5 game series and they're already losing. If you give up a run or two but save the few decent parts of your bullpen for a game when you are tied or winning isn't that smart strategy?

I was prepared to be unhappy with that movie or disappointed with it and I was not. I think that comes in as my 3rd favorite Marvel film.

Go check out Eric Thames against Cincinnati last season in April.

I still remember during the Occupy protests how excited he was when Chicago stock brokers went out on the porch to drink expensive champagne and laugh at the crowd below.

This is the Democrat thread, we don't need your party's official slogan.

Link So I think you owe the Democratic Party an apology.

These guys would not be a real rotation in august if they were not given playing time to struggle. They would come up in August and do what Giolito and Fulmer are doing on their bad days right now, and they'd probably screw up even more because the manager is telling them "We've got to compete and you can't screw up at all!". So yeah, you're stuck with Gonzalez and Shields all year on your competitive roster. Congrats. Good luck.

Next year's 2nd and a 4th this year, to the Patriots

I didn't believe this when I looked at it. 4th all time in receptions. Not just amongst TE, amongst everyone. I was expecting him to be like 4th amongst TE. I know different eras, but that's the top of this entire era.

Which is why I posted that here. It's almost as if Kanye West has some affinity for tweeting in support of sexual predators. See the connection?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Hinch