LouisEly

Shut up, Swanson. That's been a strike for Steele all stinking game.

Especially considering that for his career, Adames has significant reverse splits. .777 OPS vs RHP, .709 OPS vs LHP. That being said, once you get beyond Sanchez, the pickings are slim vs LHP. Ortiz has major reverse splits in his brief career of 180 PA's, .915 OPS vs RHP and .568 OPS vs LHP.

Sort of. The studio thought that Pryor's history of drug arrests made him uninsurable and they refused to finance the film with him as the star. The first person they offered the other leading role (Gene Wilder's character) was... John Wayne. He declined, feeling that it was a bit too controversial for his image. They gave it to Gig Young, who subsequently collapsed during his first scene from alcohol withdrawal. Which was a good thing, because five years later Young killed his wife in a murder-suicide. Gene Wilder was a "call to the bullpen". Brooks is also the only starring actor from the film still alive (some minor characters are still alive).

The Western Conference finals are a 3 seed and a 5 seed (and the 5 seed just won the first two games on the road). Eastern Conference is a 1 and a 6. Just need to get in.

I think it's more about the "severe" thunderstorm warnings. I don't live in a tent so I don't care. And if the skies start getting suspect, I'll check the weather radar on my phone and get the hell indoors.

He's not comparing them. He's simply giving Paredes' rankings.

This is not limited to baseball, and usually includes the same people who think that the Packers have a bad OL who miss too many blocks, the receivers drop too many passes, the Badgers can't recruit a good QB (neither can 85% of FBS schools), Greg Gard can't coach a team to the Sweet 16 (neither can 335 other FBS coaches) and needs to be fired, etc.

Make it 9-1

Signed: Wade Miley Joe Ross Jakob Junis Colin Rea (he technically was a FA on 11/1/23 and resigned on 11/2/23) Traded for: 5. DL Hall They literally signed or traded for an entire starting rotation.

Yep. For a while Anheuser-Busch only distributed Budweiser Select in the STL-area, and it said on the packaging "Brewed for The Lou".

At least the Thursday games are back-to-back so they get a week's rest between them, and at least both the game prior to Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving are at home. Could be a lot worse. The funny thing is that last night the Chicago Fox station's sports reporters were saying, "the season doesn't start until week 11, enough is enough!" They are so sick of getting their arses kicked...

"Show her the pictures of when he (crapped) his pants at Niagara Falls!"

Saw a tweet/X today that said that Turang has the second shortest swing in MLB.

Would love Boo Buie at #33.

Maybe, perhaps, Peralta was a bit distracted by his upcoming suspension.

Keep in mind, right now Yelich, Devin Williams (remember him), Miley, and Garrett Mitchell are on the DL (along with Junis, DL Hall, Bukaskas) and Sanchez is limited. It's no wonder they're struggling a bit now.

So this Assad guy was supposed to be not that good... Fun fact - Cubs still have more losses.

Three runs on one ball that left the infield. Just can't have that.

Did the Cubs offer have an NDA attached to it? Because pretty much all free agent contract offers do.

I think the disconnect is that it is extremely unlikely that any of us have made what a MLB player or manager makes. For us, a vast majority of us would take a 30% raise if a competitor offered it to us. Not all, but most. For most of us, that's probably not going to be a lot more than $30K per year, if that. For most of us, that $30K/year makes a big difference though. Significantly more than $30K/year, and it can be life-changing. But what if we already had made $30M in our career? Would an incremental couple of million make a big difference in our lives? Probably not, because we've already made $30M. Barring idiotic financial mismanagement, we (should be) set for life for several generations. Counsell made at least $20M in 15 years as a player and at least $10M as a manager with MKE for 9 years, maybe closer to $40M total. Does he really need an extra $3M/year? No, he's already made at least $30M. Will an extra $3M be life-changing for him? No, he's already made $30M. I think that's the point. If he hadn't played 15 years in the majors and had worked his way up through the minors as a manager and never had a big payday before, sure, I could understand this first big contract being life-changing. I think that most of us though, if we had already made $30M in our career, wouldn't jump to a competitor for a raise if our employer really wanted us to be there and offered us $5M/year to stay. We would have to really not like it there or want to stick it to our former employer for some reason to jump ship when we're already set for generations. Leaving for more money, when you've already made at least $30M in your career and have an offer of $5M/year to stick around, is either greed or revenge.

I hope they finish one game out of the playoffs every season so that not only do they not make the playoffs, but they get the worst possible draft position for not making the playoffs, and the Chicago media needles and questions every decision he made that could have cost them that one game that would have gotten them into the playoffs so that he realizes how good he had it in Milwaukee.

I don't remember seeing this mentioned here, but game 5 was the first time in the history of the NBA that a team won a playoff game with both of their top two scorers from the regular season out. This is not a bad team.

Not only that, but you see a lot more buyouts of players on non-contenders, creating free agents later in the season. That's how Miami did it last year, signing Kevin Love among others. That has come down a little with the play-in games for #9 and #10 seeds, but other sports don't have the free agents available late in the season like the NBA (started seeing it a little in MLB last year). Picking up Kevin Love as a FA and Duncan Robinson coming back from injury and missing 40 of their games was what did the Bucks in.

Just last year the Heat were an 8 seed and made the finals.

Oh, yeah. They just got blown out my a MKE team without Giannis or Lillard. And the game before the Bucks, without Giannis, Lillard, and Portis for most of the game and a turned ankle on Middleton were within 10 points with 8 minutes left at home. I think they got skidmarks in their britches.