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bawfuls posted:N: Why be angry? He can steal y'alls money for 3 years like Uribe did. Still A Good Giant  Poaching each other's players and/or guys signing with the opposite team late in their career out of spite/to prove they're not washed up yet is part of what makes this whole thing fun and is a tradition almost as old as the rivalry itself. Marichal became a Dodger. Duke Snider became a Giant. [Though Jackie Robinson actually retired a couple years early rather than sign with the Giants.] Besides, Romo grew up down there, and it's hard to be too mad at a guy wanting to wrap up a career on his childhood team if he gets the chance. [Also since the Dodgers still have Jansen there will be ZERO temptation to use Romo A) heavily B) in the 9th so he might actually work out down there, to my chagrin. His slider is all he has but it's a darn good one when he's healthy.]
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The only thing I'm going to say is that if you're going to become a Dodger fan in 2017, you're going to become a Dodger fan the year after Vin retired. That takes a lot of enjoyment out of the game. But if you also live in Seattle so you don't have to experience Dodger Stadium traffic ever. At least you have that. bawfuls posted:V: I am not sure that the anger this will cause among Giants fans is worth the disappointment of taking on yet another washed up Giant. Think I'd prefer Blanton. Everybody was furious at the entire bullpen save Derek Law, so nobody's going to be mad. It makes sense for Romo. His family are Dodger fans. He did a car commercial with his Dad in the background constantly trying to get him to go play for the Dodgers. ("Are you SURE you don't want to play for LA?" "You could have TWO of these if you played for LA.") The only way to make Giants fans mad about Romo is if he went to the Cardinals and inhaled the Magic Pitcher Dust and began missing left side hitters again. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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bawfuls posted:N: He wasn't that bad though? Also as far as I can tell he was the only Giant in the pen to not blow a save last year, so that's something! He did only pitch 30 innings I guess. That said I'm all for the Dodgers resigning Blanton so he can hang more sliders right over the plate to Cubs hitters 
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Joe Maddon dies a little inside as the Phils sign Chris Goghlan to a minor league deal. Woo. 
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mentholmoose posted:Joe Maddon dies a little inside as the Phils sign Chris Goghlan to a minor league deal. Don't worry, half-way through the season one of the Cubs lefty bats will slump for five minutes and they'll immediately trade the Phils a top prospect to get him back.
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Blanton was pretty clearly better than Romo last year but they both have the ability to hang one and get crushed at any moment.
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mentholmoose posted:Joe Maddon dies a little inside as the Phils sign Chris Goghlan to a minor league deal. God, I hope it sticks this time.
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ROCK THE HOUSE M.D. posted:I doubt he gets multiple years at this point, so he's gonna probably have to take a 1 year deal. Honestly, at this point Hammel's best hope might be a minor-league contract with a spring training invitation.
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#puigyourfather Happy for Yasiel. He's a great talent who needs to just focus his poo poo, maybe having a kid will help him calm down.
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Spoeank posted:#puigyourfather
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bawfuls posted:It's his second son, his oldest is about 3 I think. Then get your poo poo together Yasiel. I don't want you wasting all that natural talent because you're a brain case. (Yes you are a pipeline to Yasiel Puig in my mind)
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Spoeank posted:Then get your poo poo together Yasiel. I don't want you wasting all that natural talent because you're a brain case. It's like going to a foreign country and they ask you if you know Michael Jordan.
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Sydin posted:Don't worry, half-way through the season one of the Cubs lefty bats will slump for five minutes and they'll immediately trade the Phils a top prospect to get him back. Most of the AAA roster is position blocked for the next half decade and it gave us cool moments like the no-look double and the Where In The World Is Tommy La Stella home game so I welcome Cogs coming back in July for... let's say Jacob Hannemann.
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Drunk Canuck posted:https://twitter.com/VICESports/status/827517314480357377 This does not make the Cubs blameless in any way but  would it be so hard to say "We think he expressed sincere regrets for his actions"?
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I clicked through for the full quote, it's still pretty tone deaf but slightly better I guess?quote:"Quite frankly it was manageable the minute he got here last year,'' Steinbrenner said at the quarterly owners' meetings Thursday. "He was great. Look, he admitted he messed up. He paid the penalty. Sooner or later, we forget, right? That's the way we're supposed to be in life. He did everything right, and said everything right, when he was with us.''
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Hal later cleared it up by saying he meant forgive and forget, for whatever that's worth. Makes more sense in that context. Still a shithead comment though
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Carlosologist posted:Hal later cleared it up by saying he meant forgive and forget, for whatever that's worth. Makes more sense in that context. Still a shithead comment though Hal is a shithead so it makes sense.
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Drunk Canuck posted:https://twitter.com/VICESports/status/827517314480357377 ho-lee poo poo
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Spoeank posted:Then get your poo poo together Yasiel. I don't want you wasting all that natural talent because you're a brain case. 
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Rand alPaul posted:I don't get what the Twins are doing. They're adding a reliever (which they desperately need) and DFA-ing someone they can afford to lose, a 29-year old prospect at a position they have a logjam at that's owed several million more dollars. If he's claimed they're off the hook for the money owed. If he's not claimed, nothing with him changes because he was going to start in the minors this year anyways.
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IcePhoenix posted:They're adding a reliever (which they desperately need) and DFA-ing someone they can afford to lose, a 29-year old prospect at a position they have a logjam at that's owed several million more dollars. If he's claimed they're off the hook for the money owed. If he's not claimed, nothing with him changes because he was going to start in the minors this year anyways. Here's your ray of Byung Ho Sunshine http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dont-quit-on-byung-ho-park/ I still don't get what they're doing since they really really need pitching and this is only a half a step in the right direction. At least the outfield got some good projections.
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Popete posted:Sort of outside the realm of regular baseball books but can anyone here recommend any good reads on the mental game of playing baseball? I've been curious about the theory behind having a strong mental approach towards playing and theory/practical applications to improve an often overlooked element. I read The Mental ABC's of Pitching, the book Roy Halladay swore by, when I was pitching regularly, and I think it helped some. I also just finished The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. a while back, Is it just me, or did it have way too much loving for a book about a guy playing Strat-O-Matic in his kitchen?
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tinstaach posted:I also just finished The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. a while back, Is it just me, or did it have way too much loving for a book about a guy playing Strat-O-Matic in his kitchen?
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Oh I never even put that together, haha. But I did identify with playing a game so much that I don't care about missing work and getting fired. Endless Legend 
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N: https://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/827687326927106048 V: We'll always have 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQMXvMS42cI
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I'll always remember Romo for aiding in one of the biggest playoff meltdowns of all time. 
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I'll always remember Romo for aiding in one of the biggest playoff meltdowns of all time. I forgot where I was for a minute and was about to be all about using your quarterback to hold for kicks here.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I'll always remember Romo for aiding in one of the biggest playoff meltdowns of all time. For you, it was a shocking event. For people who watched the Giants all season, it was This poo poo Once Again. Later, Romo. They don't have a mascot in LA so your photobombs and Special Event Day outfits are necessary to bring joy into their soulless lives.
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My dad met Sergio Romo two months ago and he told him he'd only play for the Dodgers if they were the only team that wanted him. I'm kind of shocked he wasn't snagged sooner, he's still a good bullpen arm in this market of bullpen fetishism.
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