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QUOTE (iamshack @ May 12, 2016 -> 03:45 PM) I'm not going to disagree that it sounds like a large expense for him but I'll be honest, I don't think it's anyone's business to tell people how to spend their money unless you are one of their creditors or you are their family member. Some people love cars and justify spending more of their income on them than others. For whatever reason, a lot of people seem to want to opine on the topic of who should spend what on cars. You don't often hear anyone criticizing someone else's monthly entertainment budget, or how much they spend on their golf game. I suspect if Chili had some fanatical interest in comic books folks would think it was a great hobby. All that matters in my book is what makes the kid happy. So we should shut down this thread? Isn't this whole thread about how to spend someone's money? People have been asking what to buy, Jason offered his best heartfelt advice. People are free to ignore him.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 12, 2016 -> 03:34 PM) Psh, you also dont have snow We were in Lake Forest when our kids were born.

Oscar Robertson average a triple double 31 pts, 12 rebounds, and 12 assists per game the same season Chamberlain averaged over 50. They both lost out to Russell. Now any one of those seasons could have resulted in a unanimous MVP vote if they hadn't all happened the same year.

Personally, I preferred a two door for getting my kids in and out of the backseat car-seats. It is kind of going almost straight back instead of across and back. (If that makes sense to y'all).

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 12, 2016 -> 02:06 PM) These lawmakers really have a lot of bathroom encounters Maybe they should regulate wide stances.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 12, 2016 -> 12:44 PM) http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-wo...le76827092.html Now we seem to have a contest to see who can overreact the most.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 12, 2016 -> 11:47 AM) So I'm an ahole (or as I tell myself...a truth teller) when it comes to personal finances, so I'm just going to make this comment, but unless I'm mistaken, you work as a server at a Chili's. Now I have no idea what your longer term plans are and maybe you have lined up some wall street job with a big signing bonus (or already have a ton of money through inheritance or something...either way, I don't need to know), but unless one of my predefined scenarios fits, in no way shape or form is dropping $42K on a car a solid financial decision for someone just starting out. You don't need to take my advice and I'm not here to get into a big discussion about it, but seeing that you are buying one I find it in my internet heart that I need to give you what I feel is the advice I'd tell my kids (and the advice I'd want someone to tell me in that situation). Sadly, most people figure it out a little too late. One of the phrases I hear is a car is an investment. No it is an expense. Probably the largest expense you will make.

My travelling coach for baseball taught me so many lessons, many I use in my own coaching. Respect was #1. For the game, yourself, teammates, opponents. When I've had the unpleasant task of cutting kids I remember his method. Youth coaches like him are really rare. He also financed and ran the local youth football program until the park district was large enough to buy him out. We literally went to his parent's garage to pick up our equipment. For what it is worth, he was gay. No one really mentioned it. I learned the fact years later.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 11, 2016 -> 02:24 PM) My son has been playing for 5 years. Last fall was actually the first time I had any bad experience like that. That kid's mother was just a special kind of b****. Five years and hasn't mastered warm ups? He needs a new coach.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ May 12, 2016 -> 09:25 AM) The strike zone is not determined by the height of the batter. It is the area between the bottom of the knee cap and the middle of the torso while in their stance. If it went strictly by the batter's height a guy like Jeff Bagwell who hit in a crouched stance would have to be swinging at pitches eye level. They seemed to have removed the language about it being a "normal" or "usual" stance.

I would think for a jump that big fans of other teams are tuning in.

Interesting. That seems like a huge jump.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 12, 2016 -> 07:39 AM) Let's use a T to hit the ball. No more balls and limited( fouls and misses) strikes. Eliminates the need for the pitcher so drastically increases team profits. No more hit batters so less injuries and drastically reduces Tommy John surgery. Or a pitching machine could be a compromise for the old fashioned purists who want to preserve the traditions.

QUOTE (farmteam @ May 11, 2016 -> 06:13 PM) Tangent, but I was just thinking how great it'd be to see what greg would do in a gay bar. I'd sit back with the popcorn. He would be ignored at a much higher rate than here. He would also have to find a better toast than "bottoms up"!

QUOTE (GreenSox @ May 11, 2016 -> 05:05 PM) The umpire as part of the sport is far more part of the culture of baseball than referees are in football, hoops, et al. Pretty obviously. Umpires enforce rules like in every sport. They get some calls correct, others wrong, the same as other sports. As far as the culture, how many fans would recognize an umpire on the street? Who ever said "Let's go to the game tonight Jim Joyce is in the crew? Or "John Hirschbeck is behind the plate tonight, let's go to the game". But again, you are a good poster so I'm certain you must be thinking of this in a much different way than I am to reach that conclusion. I'd like to read your reasons.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 11, 2016 -> 12:42 PM) come on man, basically the entire pen besides Carroll pitched the night before. Albers came in and was out of gas, Robertson and Nate were basically not available. Did you want Jennings to come in? We are looking at Carroll as the only guy who didnt pitch the night before, everyone else was pretty much on fumes Baseball is a long grind and with only 25 roster spots everyone is going to get called on. RV didn't really have a choice. He did the most obvious move. He has to be able to use the 25th man in a five run game.

Where did you find the information that it is real accurate? I couldn't find anything.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 11, 2016 -> 11:40 AM) Bottom line...not a player on a big league roster should not be expected to be able to deal that (especially when you add in the fact that the pen was taxed). On a normal day, okay Carrol probably doesn't get the job, but there were so many things outside of the one matter that I would argue Robin was off on (he left Carrol in for one batter too many). Grand scheme, that wasn't why we lost the game. Defense didn't make plays that it could have and our pen (including Albers) let us down big time.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 11, 2016 -> 11:19 AM) Since when is a large lead a high leverage situation? His job was to not give up a billion runs and save the pen. Exactly what the last guy in the pen is supposed to do. WE've had less days off than every other team, and half the pen if not more was unavailable. Exactly.

So how many games will be played this season How many games will be decided by a wrong call over balls and strikes? Now we now how big of a problem it really is.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ May 11, 2016 -> 11:05 AM) Just because baseball managed to survive doesn't mean you shouldn't continually strive to improve the game wherever you can. Of course.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 11, 2016 -> 11:05 AM) Depends who is starting the next day, who pitched the nights before and how much rest they've had the last week or so. Agreed. The only reason to not put him in the 8th with a 5 run lead is it pisses off the other team to think you are so confident in the win

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 11, 2016 -> 10:57 AM) Even if umpires are right 95% of the time on pitch calls, do you realize how many missed calls that is? Over the course of one game, that's at least 10 missed calls. Over the course of one night with a full slate of games, that's 150 missed calls. Over the course of a whole season, that's ~24,000 missed calls. Based on your numbers you win. No disputing that. I wonder how baseball ever managed to survive with so many missed calls night after night.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 11, 2016 -> 10:59 AM) Thats literally exactly what he's on the roster for, especially when the team has less rest than every other team in the majors. When else would be pitch? Perhaps the third inning when you are down 5.

Yes, it is a brutal stretch coming up. What needed to happen was for the team to win a lot of games prior to this stretch. Mission accomplished. They could be hitting this stretch at .500. Or even a few games under.