Jack Parkman

IIRC, Tatis Jr. only played for the Sox DSL team.

IIRC yes, but he got traded shortly before the draft and AZL doesn't start until mid June.

WTF Castillo???

I haven't seen 99 from Herrera in a long time.

The Astros don't strike out. Their pitching staff has the highest K% and their offense has the lowest K% in baseball.

Oh shit, Herrera. Let's see if he's healthy.

Ding ding ding. I'd love that job even if it paid 35K per year. I'd be more than happy and it would be a massive upgrade to my income.

You know how to make something like this work? Hire people like me with a BS from a tech school, and are on the autism spectrum. It's so hard for us to obtain and keep jobs. They could pay us going rates in the industry and we'd be more than happy to do it, especially if sports is a special interest for that person. I'm planning on going to the Careers in Baseball day this year and making my pitch. The pay isn't a huge issue, I love baseball and anything is better than what I have now, which is nothing.

The Aussies are like WTF??? If that's not obvious just get rid of replay.

@ron883 where u at?

That's the biggest misconception about Greg Maddux. He was probably averaging 92-93 mph when he was winning Cy Young awards. That means he had to be touching mid 90s.

The Astros lineup is the hardest to strike out in Baseball.

I don't think Collins is either, though he has a bit more of a chance than he did before.

He was blocking the plate! I thought that you couldn't do that anymore.

Abreu and Robert don't really count(big money Cubans are a different animal) and they traded Tatis Jr. Before he got to the States.

Their international program is a joke. The only thing that can save them is an international draft.

A lot of us think they're going to trade for Nomar Mazara. The only question is what will it cost?

Idk what made them blow $2m on that guy. He can't even hit in the DSL.

To be fair, the Bears have had shitty quarterbacks for 70 years. It isn't that much of a stretch to assume that they'll always be shitty. The Bears are going to have to develop a HOFer at the position in order to change the narrative. Until that happens, the national media will always assume that the Bears QB sucks. The sky is blue, water is wet, and the Bears QB sucks. That is what the national media thinks. Quite frankly, I can't blame them.

Intellectual disability

I went to industry meetings for 3 years post-graduation, met a bunch of people, had a group advocating on my behalf and still couldn't get even an interview. I got my first and only engineering interview in 2017, and I didn't get the job. I got a personal rejection letter, they said they liked me but needed someone with industry experience. It had been 6 years since I graduated at that point and I figured that it just wasn't going to happen. I have completely switched gears since then. About your second point, I don't even know if I can get an interview anymore. Idk how to overcome that objection.

That wasn't my intention and I'm sorry if it came off that way. I realize that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who have it worse than me in this country. I don't know what you've dealt with, it might have been worse. I won't deny I've had a rough go of it. That wasn't the point of that post though. The point was that I overcame all of that bullshit , did everything that I was supposed to do and it apparently has no value to employers. Frustrating beyond belief.

Absolutely. Working on it as we speak.

Way to completely miss the fucking point. I shared all of that not to gain sympathy, but to say that I've overcome all of this shit, got a BS in Chemical engineering from a top tech school, and yet, none of it matters. Nobody cares. My backstory means nothing, my background means nothing. Nothing has value to anyone.

Eh, you can believe that if you want. Am I bitter? Absolutely. I fell like I've been conned. I don't consider myself a victim of anything other that shitty timing. I don't really blame anyone for what happened. It just did. It's my job to move forward from here. I'm not trying to play the victim card. I'm just bitter. I'm not happy about what happened, and I felt like I didn't have all of the information necessary to make an informed decision as a young man. When I did gain access to the information, I was pretty upset. For a long time. Like I've said, I've decided to move on and make the best out of my current situation. The bitter/anger stuff is accurate. But it's nobody's fault. It's a constant struggle to put that behind me and move forward. Occasionally, I get mad and lash out. So be it. I have a lot of time on my hands right now and I'm getting stuck in my head a bit. I really don't want to rehash old wounds anymore. Everyone needs to take a look in the mirror and examine themselves. We have a huge cultural problem here. Apparently it's too much to ask to acknowledge that cultural biases exist and to expect to actively try to change them. Instead, let's shift the blame onto the individuals that have to deal with the biases. Maybe I don't have the attitude problem. Maybe YOU do. Let's perpetuate cultural biases indefinitely! A true meritocracy only exists in the absence of bias. Because human nature involves biases, a meritocracy does not and never will exist. Our goal should be to get as close as possible. But go on living in fantasy land. Whatever makes you sleep at night. I'm done talking about this. I've been pretty open for a while on here about my situation and I no longer feel comfortable doing so. Congratulations.