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Started by The Minsky Moment, January 23, 2017, 05:42:40 PM

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Grey Fox

#15
January 26, 2017, 08:35:57 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 24, 2017, 07:16:36 PM
Tough shit.  Everybody gets grief for performance enhancing drugs, yet guys like Raines get a pass for doing more coke than Tony Montana.  Fuck that.


Amalie Benjamin has the best answer to this. How do you put someone in the Hall that was suspended by Baseball for PEDs over someone who wasn't?
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The Minsky Moment

#16
January 26, 2017, 10:08:53 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on January 26, 2017, 08:35:57 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 24, 2017, 07:16:36 PM
Tough shit.  Everybody gets grief for performance enhancing drugs, yet guys like Raines get a pass for doing more coke than Tony Montana.  Fuck that.


Amalie Benjamin has the best answer to this. How do you put someone in the Hall that was suspended by Baseball for PEDs over someone who wasn't?

For the same reason one person is always put in over another - they were a better player.
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derspiess

#17
March 30, 2017, 11:38:38 AM
So Grapefruit & Cactus Leagues are wrapping up.  I plan to continue my tradition of partaking in Opening Day festivities but not going to the game. 

Cardinals had an excellent Spring Training but that means exactly jack squat; my prediction is for them to give the Cubs a run for their money but fade down the stretch and not win the division.  I'm signed up for another year of mlb.tv so they better not nosedive.  I promise to deliver fresh weekly offerings to the Cards Pitcher Health Shrine I have set up in my office.

Tommy moved up to the next Little League level where it's 100% kid pitch and the mound is moved back a little.  His regular team is the Brewers, which I think means I can bring beer to his games.  They had their first practice yesterday and the team looked a little rough.  Unless there's significant improvement he may be stuck on another losing team.  Wish he had let me put him on the select team I had lined up for him.
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Valmy

#18
March 30, 2017, 01:45:12 PM
I am so excited for yet another decent season for Baltimore. We're not so bad! We're not so bad!
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Barrister

#19
March 30, 2017, 01:58:14 PM
It's two years removed from the World Series win, but I still like Kansas City's chances to at least make it into the dance again.
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Sophie Scholl

#20
March 30, 2017, 05:23:10 PM
Quote from: derspiess on March 30, 2017, 11:38:38 AM
Tommy moved up to the next Little League level where it's 100% kid pitch and the mound is moved back a little.  His regular team is the Brewers, which I think means I can bring beer to his games.  They had their first practice yesterday and the team looked a little rough.  Unless there's significant improvement he may be stuck on another losing team.  Wish he had let me put him on the select team I had lined up for him.

Booo!  He should be on the Indians again!
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CountDeMoney

#21
March 30, 2017, 05:44:09 PM
Quote from: Valmy on March 30, 2017, 01:45:12 PM
I am so excited for yet another decent season for Baltimore. We're not so bad! We're not so bad!

:glare:

derspiess

#22
March 31, 2017, 10:39:35 AM
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on March 30, 2017, 05:23:10 PM
Booo!  He should be on the Indians again!

He moved up.  The 7-8 year old level has AL teams, and now the 9-10 level has NL, plus an extra "Dragons" team for the kids not lucky enough to get on a team with an MLB name.

That said, I'm looking into possibly getting up to Cleveland for a game or two.  Are you making a pilgrimage this year?
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Valmy

#23
March 31, 2017, 10:41:28 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 30, 2017, 05:44:09 PM
Quote from: Valmy on March 30, 2017, 01:45:12 PM
I am so excited for yet another decent season for Baltimore. We're not so bad! We're not so bad!

:glare:

What?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Sophie Scholl

#24
March 31, 2017, 07:27:22 PM
Quote from: derspiess on March 31, 2017, 10:39:35 AM
He moved up.  The 7-8 year old level has AL teams, and now the 9-10 level has NL, plus an extra "Dragons" team for the kids not lucky enough to get on a team with an MLB name.

That said, I'm looking into possibly getting up to Cleveland for a game or two.  Are you making a pilgrimage this year?
Yeah, I plan on making at least one jaunt out to see a block of games.  I'm still working out when exactly.  I'll let you know.

You should enroll him in the Tribe Kids Club, aka TribeTown MVP's.  It'll save you money and give the potential for some awesome events if you go to a game with him.  http://mlb.mlb.com/cle/kids/tribetown_mvps/
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

Admiral Yi

#25
April 02, 2017, 10:22:44 PM
Kinda amusing bit I read in the NYT Book Review.

Commissioner Happy Chandler asked Leo Durocher if he was friends with Bugsy Siegel.  Leo replied they were nodding acquaintances.  To which Happy responded, "Stop nodding."

derspiess

#26
April 06, 2017, 12:40:31 PM
Tommy at bat last Sunday.  He swung at the first pitch and then walked the next couple times, so this is my only pic of him swinging.  He looks so tiny next to that catcher.  He's playing up a year on a 10U team and I think the other team may have been 11U.

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Admiral Yi

#27
April 06, 2017, 01:11:31 PM
He looks tiny in comparison to the ball.  :D

derspiess

#28
April 06, 2017, 04:37:43 PM
:lol:  He is average height for his age, I swear.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

CountDeMoney

#29
April 06, 2017, 05:02:52 PM
Maybe you should hold him back so he can be more competitive with the bigger kids, for like 4 years or so.
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