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formermav43

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  1. He announced it in the fall. He’s not retiring from broadcasting in general, just from the tournament.
  2. I think he went in looking for a fight. It’s pretty shocking that a federal judge handled himself so poorly (though, as the tweet in the op suggested, that was probably the point). Otoh, the dean seems to be reading from prepared remarks at times-it looks like she went in intending to say her piece too. Basically, no one comes out looking particularly good from the whole fiasco. It’s probably why Stanford already issued that apology.
  3. Yeah, I dont buy that there’s only two options here. I want the team to win every game, and I want CDC to make the best hire possible. If he thinks that’s Terry, then so be it. I think it’s probably not, and I don’t believe he’ll just cave to pressure because of a couple of tournament wins. We’ll see.
  4. Ah yes, shinshi shinshi. Most lovers refuse on the grounds that it's unclean.
  5. We’re not hiring Dixon, and we shouldn’t. But compare their resumes, and Dixon is absolutely a step up from Terry. (Which is another indication of how considering Terry is absurd, but I digress.)
  6. You can win a World Series and be pushed out as GM too, as you should know. Didn’t seem to deter good candidates for that job.
  7. Those are two different jobs. Every sport has numerous examples of excellent assistants who were mediocrities (or worse) as head coaches.
  8. Pshaw. Look at the Astros winning it all and moving on from their GM. Embrace the hate.
  9. To be clear, no, that’s not the rule. I believe it’s just that 1) all 4 infielders have to have their feet in the dirt (which is now standardized in size at every park) and 2) 2 on each side of 2nd. They’re often lining up against lefties the way Huck described. Someone lined up against Joey Gallo with the LF in shallow RF, in fact. That wedge is something that’s been talked about, maybe even experimented with at some level in the minors.
  10. I agree with Dana. Look at the Astros model, and then look at the teams who routinely give out decade long deals, and tell me again why they “have” to do something.
  11. Then why did you bring it up? The whole tangent didn’t belong in this thread.
  12. “Essentially” is doing a lot of work in that statement. I mean, I think most observers would argue they were “essentially broken” just based on watching him try to catch.
  13. He’ll be coaching somewhere next season. That teams are already sniffing around shows there’s no heat to let die.
  14. 122/87 this evening before giving blood, ftr.
  15. Yeah, as stated, this has always been his issue. It’s why a lot of the prospect gurus thought (and some still think) he’ll end up in the bullpen.
  16. I never thought much about it either until it got really bad like that. Even back when I was at UT, I noticed at one point that I developed really bad tremors - it was first really noticeable one day when I was taking a test, my hand was shaking like crazy while I was trying to write. I went to the doctor because it freaked me out (you know, you're imagining the worst, like you have Parkinson's) - he said it was nothing major, essential tremor, and that stress could exacerbate it. He also noted my bp was a bit elevated (I don't remember how high, but not crazy at the time). So he gave me a beta blocker that would control the tremor--people use them for stage fright and such--and that would also help with my bp, but that way he wouldn't have to diagnose me with it, which would look better for a 22 year old. Anyway, after awhile, it didn't seem like I had those tremors anymore, I wasn't going for regular physicals, I let the prescription lapse. But in hindsight, that was probably a symptom of hypertension, not its own thing. So all that's to say, it had likely been steadily increasing for years, and I even had some symptoms, but they were easy to ignore. I'm fortunate that I actually had symptoms at all and that they finally became severe, because so many people don't have any, and I probably would have already had a stroke by now or something. So to your questions: 1. With the tests, they were just trying to rule out any underlying cause and that hypertension was primary. So much of it was what you'd expect - pretty extensive blood work, EKG, some various scans. They obviously wanted to make sure nothing was wrong with my heart or arteries. The one sort of unusual thing they did was an ultrasound to make sure I didn't have stenosis in my renal arteries, which is sometimes a cause of high blood pressure in someone so young. But everything was perfectly normal. And I have an uncle who had to get on bp meds around 30, so it seems to run in the genes. 2. I'm still only 39, so your situation might be a bit different at your age. But I've been taking this same medicine for 6 years now and it's kept it under control with no known side effects. It's consistently normal (if somewhat toward the high side of normal) - 120-135/70-85. No fluctuations to the point that I don't even check it routinely anymore, and I only go for a checkup once a year now because it's totally managed. I'm actually supposed to donate blood this evening, I'll report back what it reads then for accuracy.
  17. I’ve been on lisinopril/hctz for several years now because I had been feeling increasingly bad-headaches, dizzy, lightheaded. I was at my parents’ house after a funeral about to go home when I finally had my dad take me to the ER-he handed me a box of stuff that weighed maybe 10 pounds tops and I felt like I was about to pass out. My blood pressure was 210/115. I had probably been dealing with it for several years looking back, but I didn’t go to the doc regularly or really think anything about it until it got to that point and I couldn’t ignore it (I was only 33, most of us probably aren’t real great about getting checked out then.) I’ve never been overweight. I don’t got to the gym, but I stay pretty active. I don’t smoke, don’t drink. My diet could be better, I guess, but I don’t really eat fast food, eat plenty of vegetables. The point is, they ran a bunch of tests on me, and there was nothing else wrong. Like blacklab said, a lot of times it’s just genetic-I have hypertension and there’s nothing I can really do about it other than the meds. So all that’s to say, since I started taking it, there’s never been any side effects that I’ve noticed. It’s cheap, I take it once a day, and it keeps my bp normal. I wouldn’t sweat it if I were you.
  18. I just don’t understand this take, especially because it’s pretty common. He’s been an above average bat both seasons he’s been up-last year his wRC+ was 114. Compare that to other CFs, and he’s comfortably a top 10 player at the position if he played all his games there.
  19. You don’t think service time is the best way to make out a lineup? Technically you should flip Altuve and Brantley, but they’d be 1-2, so it’s close. I’m interested in seeing new #3 hitter Martin Maldonado in particular.
  20. I’m sure he doesn’t know what “top candidate” means.
  21. Because name candidates often get arrested for felonies. Happens all the time. It’s why you should avoid them at all costs.
  22. Obviously. Rejecting candidates who have built a name for themselves due to their success in favor of a guy with a decade-long track record of mediocrity is a surefire winning strategy.
  23. It wasn't meant to be a 3.5 hour adjustathon either.
  24. Maybe he should have had more than 2 great seasons.
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