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This article just makes me fear that a Kris Bryant career-derailing injury is imminent. http://www.si.com/mlb/2017/03/21/kris-bryant-chicago-cubs-born-win
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tadashi posted:This article just makes me fear that a Kris Bryant career-derailing injury is imminent. This article only serves to remind me how much of an utter failure I am next to KB.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:37
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Ice To Meet You posted:https://twitter.com/sung_minkim/status/845250587612536832 What ever happened to accusations of him drugging and raping a woman in Chicago last season? Last I heard the woman had a rape kit done but then wasn't cooperating with the police and I can't find any stories more recent than last July.
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Mar 24, 2017 18:09
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I actually have legitimate worries about MLB getting bonus baby players into the country from the DR if the immigration is going to tighten their buttholes about every little details.
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Mar 24, 2017 18:32
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Popete posted:This article only serves to remind me how much of an utter failure I am next to KB. Hell, there are plenty of baseball MVPs with all kinds of things going for them that are utter failures next to KB. He's like the Tom Brady of baseball (not in terms of championships obviously).
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Mar 24, 2017 18:34
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I agree, he's a real piece of poo poo.
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Nail Rat posted:Hell, there are plenty of baseball MVPs with all kinds of things going for them that are utter failures next to KB. He's like the Tom Brady of baseball (not in terms of championships obviously). Not YET...
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Mar 24, 2017 19:04
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The Pussy Boss posted:Heyman's saying Sandoval won the 3rd base job. I assumed this was a given when they sent Shaw packing.
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Mar 24, 2017 19:38
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Turns out Coghlan was a hero
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Mar 24, 2017 19:49
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I thought the funniest outcome would be that he finds out he LOVES alcohol after that sip then becomes a fat rear end in a top hat with mediocre skills (seriously everyone is a failure compared to him;he'll probably end up being president after he retires)
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I assumed this was a given when they sent Shaw packing. There was always the fall back position of a Holt/Rutledge platoon.
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Mar 24, 2017 21:06
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I'm in sunny West Palm Beach and just watched the Nats lose to the Cards. Matt Adams is svelte. I swear he lost 60 pounds. He looked incredible and played LF well.
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Mar 24, 2017 21:15
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https://twitter.com/beckjason/status/845367039715938304
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Soul Glo posted:Fat guys are good in/for baseball imo 
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tadashi posted:I actually have legitimate worries about MLB getting bonus baby players into the country from the DR if the immigration is going to tighten their buttholes about every little details. OTOH, Kang seems less like "little details" and more "has some real issues"
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Mar 24, 2017 22:51
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Especially if they're also old. Keep the dream alive for the rest of us!
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Mar 24, 2017 23:05
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Intruder posted:Turns out Coghlan was a hero
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achillesforever6 posted:Or maybe ending Kang's season and loving over the Pirates in the playoffs allowed Kang go down the dark path he has chosen I'd say that's a reasonable defense of drunk driving.
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achillesforever6 posted:Or maybe ending Kang's season and loving over the Pirates in the playoffs allowed Kang go down the dark path he has chosen If nothing else the sports documentary would be interesting.
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Popete posted:I'd say that's a reasonable defense of drunk driving.
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Maybe its my Canadian upbringing which might be more European family style view towards drinking, but the fact Bryant hadn't ever had a drink even as a 20+ year old MLB pro seems really dorky and possibly creepy religious or sheltered. It would be very weird for a high school senior to not have an occasional drink or two here in Canada, even the nerds or dorks. I hope he's not saving himself for marriage too, haha. edit : Is he Mormon or Jehovas' Witness?
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patonthebach posted:Maybe its my Canadian upbringing which might be more European family style view towards drinking, but the fact Bryant hadn't ever had a drink even as a 20+ year old MLB pro seems really dorky and possibly creepy religious or sheltered. It would be very weird for a high school senior to not have an occasional drink or two here in Canada, even the nerds or dorks. I hope he's not saving himself for marriage too, haha. America's drinking age is 21 and while most high school students start drinking, not all of them do. There are even some of us who don't drink at all, baffling as that might be.
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Mar 25, 2017 03:13
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Lol the Angels just no-hit the Mariners in a spring training game.
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Mar 25, 2017 03:39
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It's weird to have never so much as tasted alcohol, yeah, anime man edit: that article is about drinking in the last week, not ever The Walrus fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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Mar 25, 2017 03:53
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30% of adults in the US don't drink at all. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think-you-drink-a-lot-this-chart-will-tell-you/ Bryant not drinking isn't any kind of deal.
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Mar 25, 2017 03:54
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Your physical health is pretty important as a professional athlete and alcohol tends to degrade your physical health.
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Mar 25, 2017 03:55
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for every drink that Bryant forgoes, Kang drinks two
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Mar 25, 2017 03:56
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it's just that it's weird that he seems to fetishize it so much it's like "man when we win the world series I'm gonna have a drink!!!" like he's going all the way after prom. But then he chickens out even after having won a world series because for some reason taking a drink would literally change who he is as a person. I do drink sometimes and it seems to have less of a bearing on who I am as a person than this guy who doesnt drink
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The Walrus posted:it's just that it's weird that he seems to fetishize it so much it's like "man when we win the world series I'm gonna have a drink!!!" like he's going all the way after prom. But then he chickens out even after having won a world series because for some reason taking a drink would literally change who he is as a person. I do drink sometimes and it seems to have less of a bearing on who I am as a person than this guy who doesnt drink This. Like I said, maybe the culture you guys have in USA is different where its so much more hammered drunk vs stone cold sober. In Canada its not a big deal for a 17 year old (or 20 or whatever) to have 1 or 3 beers at a social gathering. The same people who don't have a single beer by the time they are 20 are likely 1- super religious 2- super awkward (or autismo) or 3 - some combination of the above or possibly grew up with alcoholic parents or something. Its the same way I'd assume a bit about someone if they told me they were a virgin at 21 or 25... 30% of americans not drinking probably includes like 5% of former alcoholics, 5% medical / old, 10% super religious, etc. edit : That being said, of all the people to forgoe alcohol completely, a pro athlete is the one that has the most money riding on it , and makes the most sense. Just hard to imagine an average guy not having a single drink in college or whatever.
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patonthebach posted:That being said, of all the people to forgoe alcohol completely, a pro athlete is the one that has the most money riding on it , and makes the most sense. Just hard to imagine an average guy not having a single drink in college or whatever. I've tried alcohol and I haven't found any type of alcoholic drink that I like the taste of, so I don't drink at all. Even in college.
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Mar 25, 2017 04:16
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my god what a weirdo *continues to cheer everything colby rasmus does*
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Psssh, if it was good enough for Jimmie Foxx it's good enough for me. *destroys life with booze but is happy while doing it*
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Some Numbers posted:I've tried alcohol and I haven't found any type of alcoholic drink that I like the taste of, so I don't drink at all. I think they're more startled that he has never had a drink ever . You have tried it
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The article mentions that his parents drank a little bit when he was growing up so I don't think it's a weirdo religious thing it's just something he chose not to do probably because he was too busy winning every award related to baseball. I had a good friend in college who had never tried alcohol and he constantly got ribbed for it since we were in Wisconsin were everyone grows up drinking, but eventually we gave up trying to get him to try it and just accepted that he doesn't drink. I bet his teammates give him poo poo for it all the time so it just became a joke that he would do it.
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I think it's weirder to look down on somebody just because they choose not to drink. That says more about you than him. And that's coming from someone who is no stranger to a fifth or two
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Care Bear Stairs posted:I think it's weirder to look down on somebody just because they choose not to drink. That says more about you than him. And that's coming from someone who is no stranger to a fifth or two People get super offended sometimes when I tell them I don't drink or do any drugs and haven't ever in my life (age 33). They take it as a judgment thing, like I think I'm better than they are. I just qualify it now by making sure they know it's because of the Olympic-level addiction in my family history and my own issues with impulse control. Once it's clear to them that it's a problem with me, not them, most people calm down. To get back to baseball, Puerto Rico and Team USA are still throwing shade at one another: http://deadspin.com/the-wbc-is-over-but-the-trash-talk-isnt-1793600279 Americans? Being upset at another country for having fun? Why, I never!
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People that young are just weird. My boss' kid is getting married this weekend (he's 23 or 24) and he almost had a meltdown when his parents told him he needed to have alcohol at the wedding or people would hate it. It's apparently going to be dry. I'm not going.
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IMB posted:People that young are just weird. My boss' kid is getting married this weekend (he's 23 or 24) and he almost had a meltdown when his parents told him he needed to have alcohol at the wedding or people would hate it. It's apparently going to be dry. I'm not going. Well yeah, that's a dick move. Don't push your lifestyle on someone else. No alcohol, caffeine, meat or dessert for me. I still serve drinks, coffee, desserts and meat when I have people over for dinner. That's just manners, plus fried chicken skins or stewed blackberries, gin and bay leaf custard are just fun to make. I assume Kris Bryant doesn't judge his teammates for drinking. If he did I figure John Lackey would have killed him by now.
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