jerichoholicninja

I had a job interview on Thursday February 28. They told me they want to fill the position immediately and would let me know by Friday or Monday. I had a different interview on March 5. They also told me they wanted to fill the position immediately and would let me know by the end of the week. I haven't heard from either of them. I assume I didn't get either position and I'm not disappointed because both interviews really turned me off to the jobs but if you tell me you're going to let me know by such a time is it really that difficult to actually follow through and send a form email or letter or give a phone call?

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Because Petco, LA and SF are the same as Hou, Chi, Cin right? If I had to pick the easiest division in baseball to pitch in I'd easily pick the NL West, it has a serious effect on how much belief I have in their pitching stats. Those are only 3 of the parks in the division. Coors and Chase are hitters parks.

If we get 2012 Carlos it's probably fair. If we get the Carlos from the rest of his career it stinks.

Not odd at all. Bearer's family supported it. Not to say there's anything good about a death but it was perfect timing for a feud that didn't have a reason to exist.

Did you miss the couple groups of guys that were pummeling each other on the ground? There was more actual fighting in that brawl in any MLB brawl in a long time.

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I like it because I'm unemployed and there's something worth watching on TV during the day.

Those would be the same people who said before last season started that it was a strength. You just have no clue with a bullpen what's going to happen.

I just heard that the bullpen phone will be no more and teams will use radios instead. Anyone else heard about this?

UPDATE: A few weeks ago I received a check for the money that was owed me. I contacted my case worker because I was told I would be paid interest and her response was basically, "You got paid, I don't care anymore." I was content since I really wasn't expecting to get any interest anyway. Well I got a check for a whopping $25 for interest about a week later. At that point I was thinking I got paid and got "interest" I might as well just let the whole thing go. Then I was working on my taxes and found that I am now owed an additional $260.00. When I was first hired I was considered an independent contractor for my probationary period and then became W-2 after about 2 months. Now I know there is no way I was an independent contractor (they hire everyone this way and almost none of them could be an independent contractor) but it was either this or no job. So because of this mis-classification I am owed the taxes I paid that they should have paid. Not only that, I was talking to my friend who's going through this too about the mis-classification and he gave me some interesting information. He asked for a 1099-MISC and was told that they don't do those because the owner "doesn't want to be a book keeper for the IRS." I looked up the ramifications of not providing a 1099-MISC and while I can't find it being illegal, it certainly isn't legal as there are fines for not doing it. So I guess what I'm wondering is how do I become a whistle blower? They are mis-classifying employees to avoid paying taxes and they aren't providing information they are required to by law. Do I contact the DA, a lawyer, the SEC? Anyone know?

My 2006 copy of the rulebook defines foul territory as 320 feet or more down the foul line and 400 feet or more to center field. I checked and you actually have them reversed but they are shorter than 400 feet so there must be some leeway in the rule. I think we can agree though that there is a big difference between 380 and 396.

It's rule 1.04 and note 'a' says it applies to fields built after June 1, 1958.

I remember that being brought up during a game sometime. They talked about how Yount thought it would produce more triples. Major League rules state that center field can be no shorter than 400 feet. That probably had more to do with it than anything Robin said.

I just noticed that the Brewer's Wikipedia page lists Tim Salmon as the first base coach but the Brewers website lists Garth Iorg. I don't remember hearing anything about Salmon being added to the staff but it might make sense since he played for Roenicke with the Angels.

That was one good year. He's been pretty bad for a first basemen the rest of his career. Gonzalez, Green, or Morris could probably put up the same numbers as him.

Axford for Porcello would be an overpay by the Brewers, and I am no fan of Axford. For some reason a lot of posters here don't want to see Estrada in the rotation. Porcello is a worse pitcher than Estrada. Porcello Career 1.417 WHIP (which has gotten worse every year of his career) 2.3 BB/9 5.0 K/9 94 ERA+ Estrada 2011-2012 (since becoming a ML regular and getting significant starts) 1.169 WHIP (1.227 career) 2.3 BB/9 (2.5 career) 9.0 K/9 (9.0 career) 106 ERA+ (95 career)

Unless Matt Vasgersian is in the booth I really don't care who it is. Brian is nothing special to me. He doesn't add anything to a game but more importantly he doesn't subtract from it either.

Kids aren't idiots. They don't use PEDs because some pro athlete does. They do it to gain muscle, beef up for football like their coach says to, make weight for wrestling, and in general to win. The fact a guy they root for uses has no part in the equation. Ha. That's laughable. I've never told any of my athletes to take PEDs. Why? Because I care about them. He's not saying that coaches are telling kids to take steroids but telling them the only way they will play is if they get bigger. I coach high school baseball and I'm surprised how openly the kids talk about who's taking "something" on the football team. I'm more surprised that nothing is ever done about it. It's probably because the coaches take a "don't ask, don't tell" approach. The less they know, the better.

Haha, that's rich. Makes you wonder if some announcers do any homework whatsoever. It was his own team's announcers too.

Seconding that I haven't heard anything about this being the final season of Community. The first 3 episodes haven't been as good as years past but it's the first 3 episodes of the season. Parks and Rec has been ok and The Office has been sometimes good and sometimes terrible. From the commercials I thought 1600 Penn would be terrible but I actually like it. It's not great but it's better than most other comedies.

Watching the Phillies and Blue Jays and Yuni just made a throwing error. The announcer said it was surprising because Betancourt is "known as a defensive shortstop." I'm curious as to when that happened.

Would someone with a good knowledge of pitching mechanics be willing to chime in as to whether or not Marcum's mechanics could be to blame? EDIT: A quick Google search yielded this Brewers Bar piece from 2011. Definitely worth the read, & it seems Marcum's mechanics could very well be to blame for his injury WOAHs. Call it the "inverted W" or whatever you want but Marcum puts unneeded stress on his shoulder and elbow by not having his arm in the proper place during footstrike.

Tried to get tickets online but says unable to process my request. So I call and they tell me tickets aren't available until 10am. Um...what?

I think I've posted this about 4 times in this thread but it needs to be said again. Kyle Lohse is a terrible pitcher. Forget the draft pick. Forget the money. Forget the years. Forget his age. He is a terrible pitcher. He was terrible his whole career and then put up two not terrible seasons in a row. Stay away from him. He is not worth anything to the Brewers at this point.