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Good job adopting. Ronny will probably see time at other positions this season. Teams tend to delay moving a guy off of shortstop until the issue is forced.

My wife's position was that the film could have used more of the titular cat. But I was all, "Baby, there's only so much you can train a kitten to do!"

"Trump called your wife ugly, you ugly fuck." Well, that's some shaky high ground.

Mild-mannered down-on-his-luck dork gets his beloved kitten kidnapped by gangstas, and his dorkier, mild-mannered cousin joins him in infiltrating lowlife LA gang to secure the kitten's return. The jinks that ensue are of the hi variety. [fimg=450]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTUwODA0NzQxMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNzUyMjY3ODE@._V1_.jpg[/fimg]

LoL.

I picked the Phillies, and then I read the pros and cons and I quickly defected to the Astros. I can't root for Bryce Harper, and it just felt gross pretending to for a minute there.

All I mean to suggest is that only so much time should be indulged to a foolish idea. Graciousness toward a minority view — even a majority view that you find to be insupportable — is always important. But when there comes a point where you realize your interlocutor has exposed him- or herself as working in bad faith — clinging to an ideology that assures him or her of some shadowy worth, or is just a contrarian who finds worth in being disputed — it's time to move on. So if "people would always disagree as to whether that team is truly the best," I, in my fake role as fake king of baseball rules can only indulge that line of reasoning for so long. Let's advocate for the best, and let folks who would always disagree anyhow piss into the wind. A short series is a far less accurate indicator of who the better team is than a season-long round-robin. As you seem to suggest, this is self evident. We agree. If I were somehow able to personally prune playoff rounds from MLB, I would, and there is only so much time I could give to anybody who argued that this crowns a less-credible champion. Eventually, the best answer is, "If hockey is so great, feel free to watch hockey." Being jerked around by bad faith arguments is no way to go through life. Elevating playoffs over league play is a bad idea, institutionalized and backed by money though it may be. I can understand it being kept alive by greed and zealotry and power and apathy and powerlessness and culture and conservative dispositions, but not by bad faith.

MY BLAME LIST FOR THAT GAME 1. Roger Clemens (obviously) 2. Umpy Crew (put your heads together, men) 3. Timo (run) 4. Frank Robinson (not a particularly rational blame, as his on-field authority would seemingly be more or less nil, but that the whole thing went down with the dean of discipline in the front row is kinda surreal) 5. Valentine 6. Hampton 7. Torre 8. Piazza 9. Bordick 10. Jeter

That said, it was an unfortunate choice for Piazza to use as a name for his memoir. https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/memoir.jpg>

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=111800 time=1666490210 user_id=68]Maybe you've had a change of heart on your position but you'd rather not admit that. Who knows?

Also fine.

I think you get it. You just disagree with it. That's fine.

The reason that there is little offered by saberbetricians for or against the benefits of byes is mostly because there is no data beyond what we've just witnessed.

A reason they wouldn't present written offers is that they would thereafter be expected to, and they couldn't bluff. Or puff. Of help a story get in the papers that the Rockies are looking to go big on their client and are believed to already have a significant offer on the table.

Do you really think they present written offers they've gotten from other teams? Maybe, but that doesn't seem like the way its done to me.

There are probably a billion links out there on a search for Tom Seaver's obituary, and probably dozens of obituaries carried by hundreds or thousands of outlets, but you have something closer to the corner of the market on the John Milner obit.

Yeah, matching an offer is usually an act of faith. I imagine a front office can call their colleagues at the other team to try to confirm. But (a) that other team has motivation to be cagey also, and ( that could amount to collusion, so I would guess that doesn't happen too often. A lot of gamesmanship is at play, and an agent kind of has the right to bluff.

I hope it's worth what it costs the Rangers in necessitating an addition to their available hat sizes. I like that this adds some insurance behind the continuity of ex-Mets in the managerial ranks. I think we were down to Alex Cora.

=Ceetar post_id=111692 time=1666358841 user_id=102] if you can't tell the difference between those things, which btw, was something I _responded to_.

What you actually wrote is that ... every single postseason in every sport in the history of sport has awarded the team that performs the best the title. But now... there is no system that even approaches an indicative test of who's the "Best team", I don't know what you think you're writing "again" to. The notion that "every single postseason in every sport in the history of sport has awarded the team that performs the best the title" and the notion that "there is no system that even approaches an indicative test of who's the 'Best team'" are inherently contradictory. So it doesn't really matter. I would prefer that we award a title to the team who has best proven itself to be the best — I hope I've made that clear — and you either don't want that because every postseason ever already does that, or you don't want that, because no system whatsoever does that. And the dogs bark, and the river runs, and the rich oppress the poor, and nothing means anything, for what are words? And is our struggle not merely lengthening our long defeat? And what happens to all the yesterdays? And who knows to whom the rain returns, and which of our secrets it knows?

=Ceetar post_id=111673 time=1666304258 user_id=102] that's NOT what's being discussed.

I'm not. You can have all the tournaments that the market can bear. Nobody has advocated for tournament play more than I have. Post-season, in-season, pre-season, international. Bring it on. My imagination is a-swim with the conception of various iterations of tournament play. What is being discussed is the nature of a post-season tournament superseding the longer and more demanding 162-game regular season in declaring someone the MLB champion for the year.

I too want the regular season to be as meaningful as possible. But here's something that can satisfy both meaningful-regular-season and big-playoff perspectives. Thirty teams make the playoffs, the regular season is bypassed as the utterly pointless exercise that it subsequently becomes, and the playoff champion is the winner of a 162-game round robin tournament that begins at the start of April and comes to an exciting conclusion at the end of September.

=Ceetar post_id=111661 time=1666298317 user_id=102] I mean, i described how.

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