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Beau Vine

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  1. But it's only happening to the brown people!
  2. UTRGV is on the clock.
  3. It is so depressing. They have no idea what makes players good. They thought Nolan Jones was going to be a star after his rookie year even though he had the worst chase rate and the highest BABIP in MLB. Then they were just baffled that he sucked last season. Now they think Tovar is their next star even though he has a .290 OBP and 50 BB and 375 Ks in his career. And they keep promoting dudes through the front office, while hanging onto Bud Black for no apparent reason. Adding Charlie Blackmon to the front office will hurt more than help if they're employing him to do anything more than shake hands. And nevertheless, I just bought a partial season ticket package, because hanging out in the upper deck of Coors Field watching the sunset and drinking beer on a warm summer evening is one of the best things I know.
  4. NAU is an NAIA school in Houston. They emailed me a couple of years ago out-of-the-blue and asked me to apply for an administration/faculty job there, so their academics must be complete shit.
  5. What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
  6. Why don't the Pirates have a hat? That Astros hat is horrible. The Mets is the only one I really like.
  7. I was watching the Ottawa@Nashville game last night, and some people started booing when Oh Canada started, but it died out very quickly.
  8. * Strong and free
  9. Vancouver is way more similar to San Francisco than it is to the rest of Canada.
  10. What the fuck took you so long?
  11. OK, this is the 2nd time today that you've posted a facebook link, so I feel compelled to say:
  12. You're known for saying a lot of unfathomably stupid shit. This one is way up there on the list.
  13. JoePos: Vincent was not Commissioner for very long, but in his short time, he tried to get a pension and health insurance for Negro Leagues players. He also used his position to let people know just how good those Negro Leagues players were. Three decades later, when MLB officially classified the Negro Leagues as “Major League,” well, that was a process started by Fay Vincent. Even after he was run out of the game, he never fully stopped loving baseball. Yes, he felt bitterness. Yes, he readily admitted that in the years after the owners fired him, “I lost my capacity to think of baseball in the sweet terms the game deserves.” Yes, he titled his book “The Last Commissioner,” because he felt that in the years since he was pushed, “I don’t think we’ve had a real commissioner.” But in time, he was a baseball fan again. He wrote a series of oral history books where he conducted interviews with players from different eras … The Only Game in Town (Baseball of the 1930s and 1940s) We Would Have Played for Nothing (Baseball stars of the 1950s and 1960s) It’s What’s Inside the Line That Counts (Baseball Stars of the 1970s and 1980s) In the first of those books, he interviewed Buck O’Neil, and that reminds me of a call I got from Vincent way back in 2007. This was shortly after a Special Committee voted in 17 Negro Leaguers into the Hall of Fame but did not vote in Buck. Vincent was a non-voting member of that committee. He called to say that he had pleaded with the other members to reconsider Buck’s whole life as a baseball player, manager, scout, and spokesperson for the game. They still did not vote him in. “If Buck O’Neil is not a Hall of Famer, I don’t know who is,” Vincent told me. And then he told me about a call he’d had with Buck after the vote. Vincent found himself trying to apologize, but Buck wouldn’t hear of it. “He told me, ‘Fay, you’re my friend,’” Vincent said, and I thought I heard his voice crack a little. “What an honor that is — to be Buck O’Neil’s friend.”
  14. We've already kicked the shit out them in the last 2 World Junior championships; that's honestly about the worst thing we can do to Canada.
  15. Michigan instituted helmet stickers 50 or so years ago, so that's some impressive endurance.
  16. Leopards eating faces and all that.
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