southsider2k5

Farmer and Jackson have the oddest dynamic I have ever heard in a booth. I don't think they really liked each other at first, but they seem to be to the point where they have some fun with how different they both are now.

Abreu still in first place as of the last update.

This just needs to be copy and pasted for the next few years. Quit living in the micro during a rebuild. It is f-ing miserable.

Ugh. If there is one thing the Americans have always been, it is xenophobic. The only thing we have been welcome of it more of our own types. English speaking white Europeans? Sure. Come on over. We have targeted so many different ethnic groups over the centuries, using the same language and the same phrases to do it. The Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese interment camps, The African Slave trade, No Irish allowed, on and on. All went back to the tried and true "safety" arguments that continue to get used here to this day. Go back and revisit the Zoot Suit riots where Mexicans were being accused of raping US women and were randomly murdered for essentially no reason other than hysteria. If you look at maps of our major cities, a large reason why you see places named Chinatown, Little Italy, Germantown, and the like was the forced segregation and the anti-immigrant sentiments of the periods of times for those ethic groups mass migrations. It is why barrios exist around the US exist today. And please don't pretend like there wasn't terrorism or immigrant violence in the 19th century or whenever our families came over. I mean can we start with the Mafia? Did we shutdown Italian immigration because of that? There has always been an element of trouble, but that is due to poverty and not due to ethnic lines. It isn't Mexicans that are more dangerous than other immigrant groups in the 21st century. That whole idea is just ridiculous. At the end of the day it is one thing to have a structured and legal immigration program in place. But this is a whole other level of humanity here. It also doesn't matter who started it or whatever other political points people want to gain here. For the modern superpower of the world to be acting in this manner is a disgrace. We would have a holy fit if American children were being held without legal representation in camps of this nature in another country. It would be a human rights crisis of the highest degree. And honestly this is something that hasn't been touched since Ronald Reagan was President. No one has had the guts to fix it. Now comes along Donald Trump to exploit it, and to gain from it. While other President turned a blind eye, including Democrats, there is no arguing that Trump has pushed this to another level. The evidence is all 100% clear there. Both are true.

Yeah they had guys spread all over the field yesterday.

Delmonico got his cast off, and Avi is going to play at least two more games in AAA. https://amp.mlb.com/281827118-eloy-jimenez-others-up-for-minors-promotion.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true

That is a really interesting line up.

Like the offense showing some signs of life, even if it took a while.

If you take away all of the top prospects, they aren't fun to watch. How deep.

Those people? This is awful.

I am sure the hitting coach told him to do that.

If the standard is that a President does something about immigration, the last president to have a conscious was actually Ronald Reagan. Every other President since has punted on the issue.

It is the Y2K squad. Crazy.

This is quite literally what I was going to post in a more sarcastic form. Thank you.

None of this post actually addresses the situation at hand. Mine at least provided context.

Wow with the SS's down there.

With the change in cap rules allowing no one to go over the caps at all anymore, it is hard to say exactly how the market place is adjusting to that. I think you got some big inflation from the old system because once you went over the incentive became to spend as much as possible because you knew you were out for 2 years. Now, you have to make everyone fit regardless. So if the top guys are still getting $3 to $4 million and taking up almost all of a teams allotment for the season, the guys in the middle are probably the ones getting squeezed. The pressure to keep costs down has to trickle down somewhere, and I would guess that is where it happens.

I think the general consensus is actually that it is way to early to be panicking.

So let's do some unpacking here. First off, let's quit pretending that these issues are new. Right off of the bat the last Presidential administration went to court to defend the idea that illegals could be held indefinitely and without contact of lawyers and loved ones in detention centers without any legal rights. People were held for years without hearings, or even the government acknowledging that these people were being held. Even if you don't want to buy into what the right wing machine is putting out there in these regards you can look up PBS Frontline episodes on immigration over the years, and you will see that this goes back a long way. That said, if Trump really wanted these policies changed, he would have. The man picked right up with the last President's frequent usage of the Executive Order as a means of fiat legislation making. He has not hesitated for a second to use EO's to do whatever he feels like. He has also not hesitated in making a public mockery of the law, the legal community, and its enforcements whenever it was against a belief he held, so I don't believe for a second the crap about it being a law and order thing. If he really felt the policies were unjust and needed to be changed, at the very least we'd be getting a twitter fit about them.

Nice. Glad to see the team getting back to work in LA.

Not sure. Could also be a deal where we take on a bad contract (specifically saw Darling mentioned) in exchange for Hossa's deal. Could also be something to get a team to the salary floor.

The number of ABs both players had before their major slumps is actually really close. The difference is that Moncadas were spread over multiple seasons, where Cano did his all at once.

Even better, the dude has just over 500 career PAs.

Robinson Cano you say? Check out his August of his rookie year, and that stellar .513 OPS he put up. Next. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=canoro01&year=2005&t=b