Dick Allen

QUOTE (fathom @ May 22, 2017 -> 08:51 PM) Good post, not too worried about him yet. All along, willie has been saying he's great on defense but has a ton to learn offensively I always worry about guys that have a hard time with the Mendoza line. There aren't a lot of really good players that overcame that in the lower levels. There are a few. But it's early, guys slump, and when you are in your slump this early, you numbers look bad, but if he hits .220 or something with a s*** load of strikeouts when the season is done, I'll never count on him to be anything but maybe a 4th or 5th outfielder at best considering the rebuild is supposed to lead to a pretty stacked team for a long time.

On a terroist's list of things to bomb, and Ariana Grande concert can't be very high. She is 23, probably 90% of her audience isn't even that old. So chances are the victims are almost all relatively kids. Sickening. I don't understand the world anymore.

QUOTE (shipps @ May 23, 2017 -> 08:12 AM) Is he really? To where and why? He resigned to "pursue other opportunities".

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ May 23, 2017 -> 07:25 AM) It's definitely a Trumpism, but I don't mind it. Trump calls everyone who disagrees with him a loser. It loses a bit of it's luster. Here's a 2 year old list of people Trump considered losers. http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/the-defi...called-a-loser/

Rodion news is great, now someome ask Hahn about Tilson. I am betting he is back in a boot.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ May 22, 2017 -> 06:24 PM) Well that was unexpected. Luis Robber? If he is a bust, JR will think it is an appropriate pronunciation.

QUOTE (Sockin @ May 22, 2017 -> 04:29 PM) FWIW Law was just on ESPN and said he hasn't seen him in person but the scouts he's talked to that has have given him mixed reviews. He said every scout said he can run and the power is there but no one is sure he's going to be able to hit. He said is he were in this year's draft he'd be picked in the teens. You should see some of the young bats Law and company passed on when he was with Toronto to take guys like dDavid Purcey and Ricky Romero. Tulo, Ellbury, Adam Jones...the list goes on and on. For a guy so many take as top opinion, he sure comes up empty a lot. 19 year olds who have never played in the US are going to be hard to project. 17 or 18 year old HS hitters...the same. A lot of people didn't even bother with Mike Trout. Theo Epstein, who didn't pass on him, admitted he would have passed had Trout been on the board when he picked. There were questions about Manny Machado. There were questions about Jose Abreu. If the kid comes in, works hard, he has all the talent to be a star. Remember those old leaked scouting reports about Frank Thomas? Said he wouldn't hit .250. There are going to be scouts that love guys, and scouts that question the same guy, and the guy they love, the other scout might not like. There are very few guys all of them are sold on. KW and the Sox people watched him. And liked him enough JR is going to spend $50 million on him. They are obviously sold.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 22, 2017 -> 03:11 PM) It was actually biblically justified at the time. Real progress on the issue of slavery really didn't actually get made because the North ignored the South. In fact the constitution tried exactly that by punting the issue forward a couple of decades, and then just ignoring some more. How did that work out? It took a four year war to fix. Andrew Jackson would have avoided the war.

QUOTE (2005thxfrthmmrs @ May 22, 2017 -> 02:51 PM) In this case, it's just Robert, as in the English name. He should change his first name to Lewis.

If you are this good for 40 games, you would think you may be over a hump. But then again, the curious case of Michael Saunders. Avi is going to have to be some sort of horrific not to have earned his $3 million this year. Most of us are already wrong. Go check out the thread where the Sox tendered Avi. A lot of amateur scouts don't look so good.

In his world the difference between good and evil is what you think about Trump. I really wonder what he would do if ISIS came out with a video in support of him.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ May 22, 2017 -> 01:27 PM) But when a Spanish word ends in a t, it's generally not pronounced There are very few Spanish words that end in T. There is a town in Mexico named Nayarit. The t is pronounced.

At least posters won't be upset with other posters spelling his name wrong like with Burhle, and Samardga, and Birdy.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 22, 2017 -> 01:20 PM) With my elementary spanish background, I thought it should be RO- BEAR- T That would have my guess.

The t is pronounced for everyone named Roberto.

I don't think this was a big deal at all. It's their graduation. If they don't want to listen to Mike Pence speak, and considering ND is in Indiana, they have heard him speak a lot more than most, and/or are protesting his views, walking away silently is actually pretty polite. Many parents left as well.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ May 22, 2017 -> 11:13 AM) Chuck Garfien said it's pronounced like "Robert" in David Robertson, but others are saying "Ro-bare", so I still don't know how it's supposed to be pronounced. Back when the Sox got Ozzie, I guess the real pronouncation of his last name was Ge Jen or something like that. They asked Ozzie and he said he didn't care, just as long as they spelled it correctly on the paycheck.

Shawn Abner, a guy who was signed after he was released by another team and has less than 10 HR in 900 MLB plate appearances, and Anthony Webster, a 15th round draft pick who hit 6 HR in the White Sox organization were 5 tool guys?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 22, 2017 -> 10:11 AM) I dont think his backers are smart enough to realize his change in policy to be honest. God, guns, white people is good enough. I don't think it is necessarily a change in policy, just a bully too scared for his normal Muslin talk while visiting a Muslim country.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 22, 2017 -> 09:19 AM) Its pretty hilarious that given some money he can turn a blind eye to everything he hated prior to becoming president. Also really interesting that The Secretary of State thinks Judaism was founded in Tel Aviv app-facebook Donald J. Trump about 11 months ago Saudi Arabia and many of the countries that gave vast amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation want women as slaves and to kill gays. Hillary must return all money from such countries! He also ripped Michelle Obama for not wearing a head scarf when going to Saudi Arabia. Melania and Ivanka weren't wearing them either. He may be putting some nails in his coffin. His softer stance, no doubt an effort for personal gain, has to have some of his backers scratching their heads.

BTW, the columnist doesn't come up with the photos. If it's wrong, it's not on him. I disagree with his column, but I also disagree with the notion Robert is the best player on the planet. It's almost as absurd as Schwarber is the reincarnation of Babe Ruth. But he didn't write about that. You know where he stands.

If this guy was guaranteed to be Mike Trout, I wonder how high teams would be able to go with him considering the penalty.

Matt Abbatacola, he gone.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 21, 2017 -> 07:03 PM) I'm thrilled that Avi is off to a hot start. However, he's not really doing ANYTHING differently. He's still swinging at the same insane amount of pitches out of the zone (RIGHT on line with his career number), he's just made more contact with those pitches. As a result, his strikeout rate is down a couple notches, but so is his walk rate. Now, I'm not saying more contact might not be a good thing. The best possible explanation is that he's cut down his swing to focus more on contact and allowed his natural strength to carry the ball. I hope that's it. But when you break down his peripherals and see nothing changed but the contact rate and then see that he's still somehow running a .409 BABIP, it looks very dangerous. The HR/FB rate is up too, but do we have any evidence of swing changes to suggest that it's sustainable? Asking for real. It doesn't LOOK different to me, but it might be. I'm still not sold. I know, I know, I'm always the Avi hater. But by all indications, this LOOKS like a nice long hot streak that may have been inevitable given enough PAs to such an athletically gifted player. As always, I hope I'm wrong. It very well could be, but if a bad player can be this good for 40 games, he is worth keeping around. To me getting the ball in the air can make all the difference. his BABIP is due to come down, but his is usually pretty high. He isn't going to hit .350, and his walk rate never was Tim Anderson, but I am starting to think he isn't going to hit .255 with 15 homers like Fangraphs said he would even after his hot start. The more success he has, the more confident he gets, and he probably starts laying off more pitches, thinking he is good enough to take a strike or two. Maybe he falls apart. We have seen it before. I hope he makes it. He works hard, he plays hard. He didn't deserve the hatred thrown his way in the past. Most guys suck. It is a hard game. You look at JD Martinez. His walk rate his k rate didn't change much after he went to Detroit, but in Houston his numbers were a lot like Avi's, and they suddenly changed with more hits and power. maybe the same thing.

When you start to see the new stories and the truth, you start to realize just how much BS is out there, and even insiders get fed a lot of it. The way Hahn mentioned his some playing a 2018 season with Robert and how he also admitted interest which when have they ever admitted they were going to bid on a guy that would penalize them? I am starting to think he knew he had this guy locked up all along.