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I graduated Providence Catholic in 2002. My Uncle Jim went to high school and college with Pope Leo. He was on a couple news shows yesterday and is the "Jim Priestley" seen here with the Pope in a couple photos. Leo is the one with the checkered pants in the St Augustine photo. Pretty cool! Apparently he was over to my Grandparent's house in Tinley Park a few times growing up.

Respectfully disagree that a sprinter can barely run a mile in under 8 minutes, again, children can do it with ease.

I will ban myself for making this topic garner this many posts, I wish there was something better to talk about in the world of Soxdom.

Really didn't expect this to take off like it did. I think you guys are all sorely mistaken on what it takes to be a professional athlete. Middle school females run miles sub 8 minutes routinely. Anyone that takes fitness seriously runs sub 7 min miles with ease. You guys are acting like this is some absurd feat of physical fitness to expect a major league outfielder to be able to run a mile.

An 8 min mile might be pretty good for an average human, for an MLB outfielder it's pathetic. I would argue it's way more aerobic than you're making it out to be, the guy couldn't get to first base without pulling up lame, I'm simply trying to make the point that looking good with your shirt off and being "in shape" are two very different things.

For sure, the point of my post was if you saw me you'd think I was in shape, but if I was doing any taxing cardio stuff I would be gassed pretty quickly. Eloy looked the part, but his body couldn't handle the full rigors of a baseball season.

I'm 41 now, but in my 20's I was 6'5" and typically around 220-230. I lifted a few times a week for most of my 20's, but never took my cardio very seriously and if you asked me to run a mile without stopping it would probably take me 8 minutes, but I sure looked like I was in shape. It's easy to look the part if you're tall and have good genetics and still be in miserable cardio condition.

First of all, I don't care. Second, Andrew Vaughn is not by boy. Third, .699 is pretty close to .700. Fourth, they're way closer than you're making it out to be and Busch had the benefit of an unsustainable BABIP. Fifth, I don't care. Vaughn: Busch:

Yeah you blew it dude. A remarkably close season for two very unremarkable hitters.

Was hoping for a Basallo/Beavers based return, this is a nice alternative, perhaps better?

31 years old and playing in AA when you haven't played since HS, had 51 RBIs in 127 games, hit .252 in the Arizona fall league, he wasn't the embarrassment the media would have had you believe in my opinion. I think if he never quit baseball there's a better than zero chance he spends at least a couple seasons in the bigs, but at 31 even if he kept at it full time I doubt he ever spends any time in the bigs other than a publicity stunt. IIRC he really struggled with breaking balls, which one could understand even for probably the greatest team sport athlete to ever live.

Yeah that would limited it, but I still hate it. Forcing a manager to sit on his hands until after the implosion occurs. The beauty of baseball is/was there was no clock, the defense holds the ball, hitting is hard, strategy matters, amongst many other things. This is just forcing more offense into the league in a most egregious and ham handed way, there's got to be a more subtle solution.

This might be the worst idea I've ever heard. Imagine a rookie making his MLB debut and getting lit up and just having to take it up the ass for 6 innings because Manfred refuses to stop f*cking with the baseballs and has zero concern for the health of the pitchers in his league. Imagine being a paying fan at a game having to watch that bullsh!t. Excuse the blue language, I might hate Manfred as much as JR and this idea is anti-competitive and angers me to my core.

Yeah, that would be truly the bottom, I don't even want to think about it.

Man, I've been trying to remain positive with this franchise at least in the sense of "how could it get any worse?" "it's always darkest before the dawn" type mindset. This is truly the bottom and least hopeful I've been in my 40 years on this planet. Now to the point of apathy, which is quite sad. Ugh.