mermaids are androgynous

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Dolphins belong in tuna nets.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

He will barely be a .500 pitcher for the Cubs if at all before it's over. Of course I'll take it if they win a WS while he's here but we wil see.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Doesn't seem like money well spent in my opinion. He's paid to be great. Up until this point, he has been average to good.

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It's all relative . He goes 3-0 in a post season WS winning year and it'll have been worth it. Now that he has the bats ( as if that were an excuse) he really should rip off a great year. If he's going to go 11-9 with a mid 3 ERA and a bad post season he's Jose Quintana at 4x the price. We wil see.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I wish Quintana would go 11-9.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

No run support .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I look at it as opportunity cost. What other assets could you have had with that money? Price, Zimmerman, Cueto, etc? I would like a guy that could throw over to first....

But sure, if he is a playoff hero, then the price is well worth it. Until such time, I will remain a skeptic. At least the Cubs are trying.

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I got into it with some dumb kid in a Sox group on Facebook the other day because I was bored when the Board was down. He couldn't make any arguments and just kept insulting me and linking articles from Hardball Times and Fangraphs with the popular modern narrative that "W/L record is meaningless". I asked him if he really thought I hadn't read all those articles before. "Does it seem like this is the first time I've had this argument?" I can make his argument better than he can if I want to. I asked him if he thought Javier Vazquez was better than Mark Buehrle. He started ridiculing me and a micromob chimed in. Sox fans have irrational hatred of Vazquez. They said a comparison of the two was ridiculous. I agree, but only based on W/L record. On all the numbers that are considered things a "pitcher can control" Vazquez kicks the shit out of Buehrle. Most people don't even know what the fuck they're arguing.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Then how do they reproduce?

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You are not the first to ask this



They are eternal so their numbers are static

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Lester doesn't have good enough stuff to miss his spots, that's the main problem. He also only works the bottom half of the zone so everyone is looking for it down there. If he doesn't paint the corners, he gets hit hard. Arrieta can get away with it more.

I don't think he threw an amazing ball game but he only gave up 5 hits and 2 BB in six innings. A couple balls were squared up...but the run scoring hit in the first was one of those seeing eye singles.

I'm not too upset by the way he pitched. It was made worse by the fact the Cubs were no hit through six.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Man, Cubs fans a fickle. Lester pitched just fine. He is off to a good start, which is great news for the Cubs.

You think Cub fans are bad? There were Sox fans in my Facebook group that wanted to cut Frazier after he went 0fer in the first game.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Yes Lester is fine, average to good. But his body of work with the Cubs does not justify the money spent on him. That is my concern.

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I never wanted Lester, they got cheap and wouldn't buck up for Scherzer.

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Barring the first few months of last season, Scherezer has been worse than Lester.

David Ross has a .417 OBP

Few months is half a season, Scherzer had a better year than Lester last year and he will again this year.

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Max had a 2.79 ERA and sub 1 whip last year...276 k's. It's not that close based on raw numbers.

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I've been kind of down on Sale since a little after the ASB. I don't feel he is dominating like he should and giving up a lot of cheap runs. I also think his response to every adverse situation is only to try to throw the ball harder.

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I agree. Sale obviously has the tools to be a great pitcher. But this isn't the steroid era where you can expect your team to pound the shit out of the other guy. These games are often decided by one run off a tight spot in the sixth or seventh. The Sox seem to have a lot of guys that make a bad pitch in those big spots much more often than one would like, including Sale.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

We'll take Sale.

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He's locked up for awhile. Maybe we'll take Arrieta.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

I'm willing to offer fair value for what you've identified as a pitcher that makes bad pitches in important situations.

McKinney, Johnson, Sands and another Not-Top-30 Prospect of your choice.

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Rocky Marriage there. Divorce?

I would be willing to trade Baez for Sale.

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Save him for the Trout deal.

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.