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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Plus, it gives more flexibility to play Yuli and hopefully he gets right throughout the rest of the season and the playoffs.
  2. Siri was expendable. Good trade.
  3. Now lets get Vasquez.
  4. I like it. He can play both OF and 1B. Basically, Chas, Jake, Siri, Yuli - death match for playing time/playoff roster. Kick ass or die. Pretty big motivation.
  5. I don't understand how the platoon thing works. You can only play one guy at a time. The trendlines make this trading deadline crazy. I was ready to say Yuli was done, then he goes out and has a really good month. Playing for his life? Regardless, makes it hard to give up a bunch of value to replace a guy who is showing signs of life. Same for CF. Meyers sucking, but Chas making a bid to be the every day guy. Based on today, assuming Brantley is out, I'd get an OF bat, Ian Happ maybe, and a backup catcher - Contreras or Vasquez - so we can pinch hit for Maldy when we really need a run in the playoffs. Just for morale's sake, I hope the FO does something, anything to upgrade the roster at least a little bit.
  6. Fucking Toro.
  7. Is Brantley done for the year?
  8. I wasn't clear that Trump's "plan" required forcing them there. Obviously it would be exactly an internment camp if they were forced and that's bad, m'kay. But a simple designated area with services and facilities for the homeless? I could get behind that.
  9. NSIS. I didn't want to admit it, but I didn't think it was such a bad idea. Giant homeless camp with facilities and services. Controlled environment. Other than forcing homeless people inside the walls possibly against their will, what's so wrong with this concept?
  10. I feel like these 12 games after the All Star break are the most important of the season. Playing the team with the best record in the AL in a double header and then 7 out of 10 against the second place team in the division. A group of important games at an important point in the season. I doubt management or the players look at it like that, or at least they would say they don't. To me these games tell you really where you are as a team. We're off to a great start beating the Yankees twice. As far as the trade stuff goes, obviously we're getting pretty weak production from the 1B and CF spots. I hate to see Yuli's decline, if that is what this is. I do recall that he lost a lot of weight from last season and was supposedly in better physical condition. That's a big change and maybe not a good one for his power. Regardless, he's not getting it done. As far as who to trade, we seem to have a lot of guys who are not in the starting lineup every day or they are back end starters who would be upgrades on most teams. It's those guys who seem ideal to trade since they are not the core of the team now and don't figure to be the core of the team in the future.
  11. I wonder how he fit his giant balls into that wetsuit.
  12. True. What we need are people of integrity in politics, who have the best interests of the country front of mind at all times, who are driven and dedicated public servants. It's possible we've never had that and the mere idea is naïve and fantastical; we CERTAINLY do not have that now.
  13. Selective killing is about the only thing that would be effective. And that is generally frowned upon here.
  14. Similar to female relationship accounting. On the credits/debits system, if I do one hundred good things and one bad thing I have a negative balance. The good things were never deposited. It's fucked.
  15. Yeah, I think a big part of the problem is that we ended up getting a dog that I liked and not one that she liked. She has a thing where she thinks I always get my way, which is not true. To her, this was just another instance. I think she wanted a smaller dog. I made it known that I wanted a medium sized dog like a lab or a golden. She looked at a bunch of breeds and decided that the ideal dog for us was a goldador. We got the dog at a shelter so we didn't have a lot of choice of breed, but we ended up getting a dog that is almost 100% yellow lab. Her resenting me is part of my punishment for getting what I wanted I guess.
  16. My kids begged for a dog for a couple of years. We resisted. We just didn't want to take on another thing. Earlier this year we felt like the kids were older and more manageable and we started thinking that our oldest is already 11 and if we were going to have a family dog it was now or never. So we agreed. But we also wanted to use it to our advantage and also teach our kids a valuable lesson. So my wife made up this system where each of our kids could earn a "puppy sticker" each day and when they got to 30 we could get a dog. When they got close I started researching types of dogs and where to get them. I looked at a lot of dogs online and would send photos and information to my wife, who always provided feedback. When it came time to actually go see dogs my wife came with and participated fully. When we finally found the right dog for us, my wife claimed that she is the one who saw the dog first. My wife was 100% fully on board with getting this dog and participated in every step of the process. We're fighting right now and I got a text from her earlier today that said, "I told you, please no dog. I am worried about another huge thing and the timing is not good. We get a dog anyway." Basically blaming me because we got a dog when she supposedly told me she didn't want to. Narrator: She never told me that. Also narrator: She participated in the entire process of getting the dog.
  17. I'm fascinated by this, even though it's sad. I guess I just hate change because now I'm an old. I prefer the regional conferences. If I were the Czar of college football, I'd have 8 regional conferences and a 16 team playoff. There is no Czar. The NCAA has no authority over the individual schools or conferences and where they go or what they do. There is no centralized authority. Certainly there is nobody out there trying to do what's best for the fans like us. Each school is attempting to act in their own best interest. I don't know the calculus here, but it seems like the only thing that really matters is how much money a school can contribute to the conference for larger payouts to the members. And that number is driven almost entirely by media rights. It should be a known variable for each school: School X is worth Y dollars per year and so on. That would dictate whether the school was a net contributor or not. You would think any conference would want any net contributor. Maybe that number is harder to know than I think. Maybe it's subjective because it is essentially determined by market forces, i.e. what someone is willing to pay for it. To me, it would seem to make sense for the remainder of the Pac 12 and Big 12 to merge. Then there would be 4 top conferences. 4 champions; 4 playoff spots. More or less divided by region. But again, this is just my opinion from an organizational standpoint, without factoring in the most important factor - the money. It must be that more is not better. You water down the payout for each school by bringing in schools with media rights worth less than the payout figure.
  18. Breggy hates that. Make them pay! Edit: Wonk, wonk.
  19. Yeah, but there are only so many roster spots. You can't carry both diminished older players like Diaz, Yuli, Brantley and Castro and also their low-ceiling replacements - JJ, Jones, Chaz, Siri and Lee. What I'm suggesting is that while we have this winning window with the current roster, let's unload that tier of players who are pretty good, but not good enough to make our team, in exchange for more and younger guys who are 3-4 years away instead of 0-2 years away.
  20. This statement is indicative of one of the key differences between R's and D's. R's believe that the rights of individuals are more important than the needs of the group. I can understand why people would think that way. The reason I don't think that way is that I believe the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Sometimes, preserving rights for individuals is bad for the collective. There are many, many examples of this. Pumping mercury into our bay systems instead of disposing of it responsibly and at greater cost is good for Alcoa, but bad for anyone who likes to fish or eat seafood from that bay. Having lower security at airports is good for people who want to put bombs in their shoes or underwear, but bad for the people in the planes they blow up. Driving 100 mph is good for people who like to drive fast, but bad for all the people killed in high speed crashes. Having easy access to high powered guns is good for people who like owning guns (for whatever reason), but bad for all of the people who are killed because high powered guns are so easy to get and so effective at killing lots of people in a short amount of time. This is a public policy and public health issue. We (you) have to understand, really understand, that what we do as individuals affects other people and has broader effects on the group. The cause and effect is sometimes attenuated; it's not a single relationship connection (like, "The mass shooter didn't use MY gun, so I should still be allowed to own MY gun." I have to take off my shoes and go through a whole body scanner at the airport, I can only drive 75 mph max, I'm not allowed to pour mercury in the bay, all for very good reasons that affect the public at large. Yet we have a major public health crisis - deaths causes by firearms - and I can still go to a gun store right now and buy a high powered, high capacity firearm. We sacrifice certain rights for the greater good all the time. Most we don't even notice. Guns needs to fall into this category sooner rather than later. If there was some huge individual benefit that could offset the public good argument I might be persuaded, but there isn't.
  21. Instead of moves at the MLB level, seems like we have a bunch of older fringy MLB guys on the AAA roster. No idea how feasible it would be, but might be nice to flip some of those guys for some younger, higher ceiling guys if our AAAA players are never going to make our roster.
  22. Does this team need to make any moves at all? Very few holes. When LMJ comes back we're going to have 7 legit starters (counting Odo). Bullpen is nails and we've got guys down (Bielak, Paredes) that provide depth if someone goes down. Would like to see better numbers from Yuli, but would the team honestly go out and get a 1B and replace him at this point? He might have a better second half and playoffs, or he might be done. Who knows?
  23. The best thing that could happen to the country is for Trump to start a third party. That would divide the conservative vote and Biden would win another term. Alas, Trump is politically savvy enough to know this would happen. Even though it's a battle between his lust for power (served by controlling his own party) and his lust for money (served by winning the presidency), I think the lust for money wins out and he stays under the Republican tent.
  24. I don't know about naive. It could be that he just thought, like many of us did, that Hilary was going to run away with it. It was the only rational conclusion at the time. *I remember when rational conclusions actually came true. They were fun. Those were the days.
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