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My ex wife would add a "you always have to be right" after that, and that's a big reason she's my ex.

Diaz is 24 and in great physical shape. Maldy is, well, not. He has shown he is better at every facet of actually playing the position. At the very least he should do 3/5, but really should be at 4/5 with Maldy getting spot starts with any of the guys (except for Hunter because he has no idea what to call for him). Framber and Javier really need a change of scenery with catcher more than the other guys. Maldy's a wonderful game planner and researcher of hitter tendencies. He's shown this year that he has very little feel for what his pitcher can actually execute in the moment, something he was great at previously. He can do all the things is good at from the bench with Diaz and the pitchers pre-game and in between innings. He should be a coach of ours next year and I'd be very happy with that. Asking aging players in any sport to admit they don't have it is just not happening. It's been proven over and over again. They know what to do, but physically can't do it. Part of being a great player is having irrational confidence. And that never goes away, no matter what your physical ability devolves to.

I run an office of tech consultants. We have been having tests on coding to hire new people but the test doesn't allow you to go to another site or cut and paste. I contend that it's idiotic because I expect people to give me solid, working code. Not to have said code memorized to the nth detail. So if you can write the code from scratch in 2 hours, but find it and use open source in 10 minutes, shouldn't I prefer option 2 as long as you can also explain what that code does and why?

If I could pinpoint one thing in my life that makes me the most upset, this is almost it. Which to be fair means I have a pretty good life. The only reason this isn't 1 is because my wife asks me these every day, multiple times a day. She comes to me because I know things, or know how to find them and she doesn't. However, if I just give a random piece of info that I happen to know, I'm being a know it all. So which is it, do you think I know enough to have answers to your questions only, but not to stuff I actually do know?? The amount of times she asks me for something and I give her the answer, that she then asks me "how can you possibly know that" is incredible. And if she meant it rudely or mean it would be a problem. But she really is just asking me to explain my info. Which just annoys me, because then that gets questioned too. So either I know shit or I don't. But don't bombard me to cite my sources lol

The Dusty situation reminds me so much of the Cowboys Switzer years. Jimmy had that team made in his image and set up for a long future with some smart moves. Barry won with his talent then drove it into the ground. Now Barry was an asshole that cheated every step of the way but had some coaching smarts, as opposed to Dusty who is a wonderful human being that simply has never been a good manager, but has had bursts of decent at times. Don't get me wrong, I'd much rather have Dusty than a Barry type, but it still has many of the same team altering effects. The right move for the Astros was to tell the league to fuck off and keep Luhnow and Hinch after their suspensions. Of course they were never going to do that. It's one reason I was happy about the Click to Brown move. I think Brown has way more ability to be a great GM than Click did. Time will tell. But this Dusty/Switzer shit has to stop.

Respect the anonymous shot haha That's actually a really good point. But if it's an arena like said before, I'm assuming it's not a huge one and assuming they all have to fight. Lots of assumptions here since the parameters aren't set. No trees, and a very large arena, I think you might be right. A real world environment and I think advantage goes back to cougars, same if there are trees and hiding areas for the cougars to go.

I'll take that bet. He won't be back. Dana says what he needs to say, but he isn't re-signing him.

Except it's not an overpay. It's one of the more reasonable trades done this season so far. Helps both teams pretty equally. And being the best team in baseball and having some luck is how you win a WS. Plenty of teams (see Miami Marlins) won WS with one seasons worth of performance.

But both were done, we've lost Springer, Correa and all but Altuve and Bregman from 2017 and kept the window open. It can't stay open forever (I guess unless you are the Dodgers with endless money). Even the Yankees have found that out.

Yep, everyone is so focused on "keep the window open" that they forget the goal isn't the window, it's the WS. The window is great, but not if it's not going to result in a WS. Ideally both happen

That's because our farm system is way, way down. Korey Lee isn't a good player. He's not likely to ever be one. The fact he's a top 10 guy in our system is because we traded other guys away already. This isn't the Dodgers or Rays trading a top 10 guy away.

Say what? You trade him because they agreed to give you someone that you want for someone you don’t.

Some of y'all act like y'all haven't seen Korey Lee play in the majors. He hasn't been good in admittedly limited at bats. He was the heir apparent and couldn't do it, so got passed by Yanier. He has some potential still, but his trade value wasn't super high.

Wolves won with people voting. In the real world absolutely not. 2.5 inch claws and 650 pounds of biting pressure, plus the wolf has to bite to win. The cougar can slice it up. A few wolves on one cougar sure. But 2 to 1 where the advantage goes down with every wolf killed? Nah

The cost is the cost. Everyone agreed upfront. No you are not wrong. If someone had to cancel would you be eating their part alone? Yep. So they should be splitting it too

Easily Cougars. The strength discrepancies is off the charts. So is jumping and climbing ability

He took BP in Colorado and has been running bases and the like. I think he'll be on rehab assignment in the next week.

100% me too, I'm very capable and handy, but I can't hold onto tools when I need to no matter what

Lady in the middle is probably 55, but women aged different back then

This is how I view it. If you snatch your glove like that, you didn't think it was a strike, so I'm not calling it. Catcher knows better than anyone if a ball is a strike or not. When I used to umpire HS and below I would warn the catcher : "All you are telling me is that you don't think I know where the zone is AND you probably didn't think it was a strike. So if it's borderline and you pull that shit it's getting called a ball." Framing is catching the ball and sticking it. This isn't framing, it's moving the ball into the zone. And Huckleberry is right, this is flopping, and I'd be fine if it was punished accordingly. Just don't know how to accurately do that.

You are absolutely right. More was talking in the playoffs, but honestly that was more a fake memory. They were bad in Sept 11-16 that year. I guess I remembered it differently. How about the 2023 Phillies then

It was really nice to see Kyle dive for a ball. I think it's like the third time all season he's done it for real. He has been supremely risk adverse all season and it's why his defense has gone from GG to bottom half guy. More of this and it would make a big difference for the season. He's always going to hit

I simply do not believe that the non Seager/Semien/Lowe part of the Rangers is really this good. I think regression is coming. Especially to Heim, Duran and Taveras, with Jung to have a rookie drop off at some point. I do think it's a really well constructed roster and they have done great things in FA with Seager and Semien especially. I could be wrong though, lots of "we just got hot" young teams keep it together for a season. 2015 Astros were like that, then came back to earth in 16. More callups and FA signings put it fully together in 17. Rangers are going to be good for a while. And they still have money to spend. Their pitching is going to be the big issue. I'm still upset they signed Eovaldi and we didn't and he's going to be fine if he doesn't get injured. What's really crazy is the Astros have dealt with enough injuries that most teams would be 10 games under .500, but the heart of a champ has turned that 20 games the other way. Altuve and Yordan healthy along with Urquidy would make this a real race. Frankly having the time off for all of them could be really good given the miles put on their bodies since most of them joined the league. The biggest change is going to need to be lineup construction. I get exactly what Dusty is trying to do, see who actually can contribute in the playoffs. But we're not leading the division by 10 games like usual, so costing us wins to do so is not the way to go.

A number of adult men could kill a German shepherd (much much more couldn't) A chimp would fuck one up basically immediately, even if the dog bit down. It can crush the skull of one

Not really. We won the fucking World Series last year and have been 4 times and to 6 straight ALCS's. The Astros could fuck my dead grandpa right now and I'd still love them