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At least you acknowledge that the problem you don't like are more of an issue for MLB. Of course to each their own, but man to suffer through the garbage years and then to not watch once they become one of the best teams and have an all time great doesn't seem like a great move, haha. Also, it's not like they don't try and play D. It's that the league intentionally made the rules advantageous to O and the players have becomes such good shooters that there's nothing you can do

No one wants to come out and say it but by culture he simply means the racial implications of the NBA. Everyone is trying to avoid saying and getting into the conversation, no need to discuss it further but that's what they're saying. And IMO, I think they're right as I spend a lot of time in rural areas. Also, almost anyone who comes with the how t hey prefer NCAAB vs NBA are usually really saying that as well. That and they usually just don't actually watch either one. I don't need to comment any further as I'm merely saying I agree with and get what those posters are getting at. Millennials stuff, I think I've said it in here already but I agree. But I'd move that age down to under 30, not the millenial cut off in the upper 30s. Everyone's circles are different, but in my experience around younger people NBA is much bigger than MLB

Try convincing the Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cubs, etc. who believe that they carry the entire league (and really, they do) to go for that. Especially considering they basically fund the A's/Rays/Marlins as those teams just sit on their pile of revenue sharing and if the rules changed, they'd maybe have to spend some of their money... Well that's where I said the majority vote should be easy and really 2/3 should be easy too. There's like 5-6 megamarket teams that would have that attitude but the rest should be all together on balancing. If it requires unanimous vote then yea it's dead in the water, but I can't imagine it would. Every other league has mega markets too and they all agreed to or made to balance out for the betterment of the league and game. All I'm saying is it really shouldn't be difficult to get 20 teams to vote in favor of a more balanced system like the NFL and NBA.

I'd be all over that if I was one of their rivals. I have no sympathy for those players who regularly pulled that crap and are going to skate off scot free. Obviously Bregman and Altuve are mentioned the most (along with Beltran), but have their been others accused of the cheating? There's a lot of options for mocking songs. Ace of Base, The Sign is another one.

Quick reminder that the Phillies have improved 15 games over the last two seasons at a time when Atl and NYM also improved 15ish games. And Was pretty much stayed flat and won a WS. Mia terrible throughout.

Division is going to be brutal. Season Win Totals for gambling came out recently and every team but Pit's number was above .500. If the Reds are only getting 4th best payout for the division and it's noticeably more than the other 4 teams it seems like a good bet to me. On paper I think they have the best team in the division.

If I was Borland I would've tried to milk SF for more money rather than walking. Come in the next year and be 'hurt' the whole year and you get paid, stuff like that. Essentially, his body already took the toll while playing for free in HS and college, he was finally about to get the payout on it and then he quit. I wanna say pension starts after 3 years too. Basically play but take any opportunity you can to be out injured. Next thing you know two more seasons have gone by and you've only played like 8 total games but you have a few mil in the bank and pension. They're basically not allowed to hit in practice anymore. Of course, easy to say when its not your body on the line. And if you're a guy who's played so hard, tough, and agressively it can't be easy to basically halfass it. I guess I'm just saying I wouldn't blame or rip on him for taking any money he could from them, he'd earned it over the years.

Kent is probably not getting many votes because he's a turd person. And factor in being a teammate of Barry Bonds so OMG he did PED's!!! That's another dumb part of it all, it gets held against you if you're just not friendly with the media. I mean the guy has never really been in any real trouble or scandal. Kind of a prickly guy with your teammates and the media though and now you're considered trash or a turd. There's probably dozens of people in that are worse people than him. And he and Bonds actually hated each other, it was even mentioned on his wiki that he was one calling for blood tests for HGH. Statswise specific to 2B he probably should be in for sure. The PEDs go to what I was getting at yesterday. This guy is not going to make it with a factor being that he was a Bonds teammate therefore he used, with no other info against him. A guy like Ortiz not only has that with Manny, but also failed a test and everyone is going to overlook it. I agree with Plush's main point too. nothing has changed on Walkers career from last year til now, but I'm sure several people voted for him now that didn't last year, what changed? This applies to dozens of guys over the years. The whole voting process is flawed imo and should've been changed years ago.

At some point they really do just have to buckle down and level the economics much close to what the NFL and NBA have done. It's kind of surprising it's gone on this long. The tax and all that is progress but they need to take one more big step at some point. IMO it shouldn't be that difficult assuming major changes don't need a unanimous approval (I don't the rules) but assuming majority or 2/3 vote only is needed it shouldn't be too hard to get the remaining 23ish teams to vote together to limit the power of the mega markets.

Joe Thomas vouches for the intermittent fasting. Essentially, it's just a fancy word for skipping breakfast. But, he says he'll sometimes go over 24 hours after some kind of binge or cheat meal. I've been doing this for years before it was ever a 'thing'. I do it the most on weekends, which is aided by sleeping late and then just not eating until dinner type time, next thing you know you might've gone over 24 hours without eating. In general I think it works or at least has for me. Combine this with Louis' steps 1 and 2 and your basically guaranteed to lose weight and fat. He's basically describing a keto lite diet (also a Joe Thomas thing) where you basically keep the Keto principles in mind without being crazy about it. If you're crazy about it and do it non stop it'll create other negative effects. But the principles of low or massively reduced carbs and sugar are simple ways to cut calories and weight. As he also says in 4, eating protein heavy foods instead of those things will make you feel fuller longer. Even focusing on it for a week you'll drop 5-7 lbs no problem (well I guess relative to current weight). Sure, you are going to get hungry but after you do this often you'll learn that once you get over the initial hunger urge that it goes away and then you can go several more hours. Plus, your stomach shrinks and your body adjusts to needing less food. I've also seen plenty of people say Louis' number 3 also works for them. For me, seems if I start eating a small snack it's too easy just to eat more of it. I've also found that eating something small gets the metabolism rolling and gets me hungrier than just not eating at all. You see the small snack diet strategy a ton with fit women especially. To each their own. But count me as one who vouches for it keto-ish emphasis combined with IF. Check out Joe Thomas' twitter sometime if you're interested in his takes. he just was talking a ton about this about 5 days ago.

Yea but that's not enough and don't let them tell you it is (summary of the article)!!!

The new 26 man roster will not effect what the Brewers plan to do with the bullpen, as they ran 13 pitchers basically all last year. However, the new 15 days being down will affect shuttling. So I think less planned shuttling will be the hope out of camp. But, really the roster and how many pitchers actually have options to be sent down will dictate more than anything. Also the new September rules will definitely affect them though. It's like the rule was put in specifically to hurt MKE.

Scott Rolen is a sleeper that off the top of most people's heads you wouldn't think is a HOFer. But if you dig into it a bit and factor in that he was a clearly elite defender at a tough position it's really a heck of a lot closer than people think. I'd probably still lean against but it's closer than the average person realizes and there is a totally a legit case for making it. I think I hold off on Vasquel too, if he'd have gotten to 3000 I guess you have to but i think without it you can use that as an excuse not too put in. Another in this area is Jeff Kent. One of the best hitting 2Bs off all time and he's only 27% of the vote and already in his 7th year. So he's likely not making it. He's another one that my gut says No (I'd guess I'm a bit on the high standards side) but I do think I'd end up putting in once I compare his stats to other 2Bs. This is someone with no known PED issues yet he's being lumped into it and assumed to be a user and is being held out for it. Kind of an example of what I was getting at yesterday.

The unanimous thing is just a dumb thing of the HOF over years in how they don't do it. Then they do it for the first time on a relief pitcher but not a SS with 3500 hits or whatever he had. There should be like 50 unanimous guys so being up in arms specifically over Jeter is dumb to me or acting like it's insulting. Well, what about other recents like Griffey and other just clear cut no brainers like a Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson, etc. This has been the way it is forever.

I think he would take that but I also think that's too much for us to give 3/150 more. If there isn't a discount (in this scenario you're actually paying more than open market) then it doesn't really make sense. I just don't think there's a solution here unless he really wants to find a way to make it work and hates injury risk. It has to be on him to help. Financially he should play it out and take the 7/8 for 300 mil that he gets when he hits FA. ETA: See the Yeli thread now so let this get back to Arenado.

According to reports, the steroid found on the mass test was a cataboic steroid, not an anabolic. Ortiz was prescribed the steroids for muscle inflamation in his back. From that time on he was tested hundreds of times and never missed a test or failed a test. Almost all these guys passed tons of tests, including Braun. Almost all guys who fail come with a similar story about how they didn't know whatever thing they were doing for good reasons was actually illegal. Some probably telling the truth and plenty of others have found to just be lying. You can believe his story if you want and I don't care either way but he failed the test. Combine that with not being all that good, then all of a sudden being a superstar once he partners up with Manny and the storyline and circumstantial looks bad too. Plenty of other guys have been tried guilty by the public purely on circumstantial stuff like that and won't get in the hall. Another circumstantial on him is that he started to fall apart late in his career for a couple years and looked done, then all of a sudden he's back to dominating again in his upper 30s. He has that plus a failed test. I also don't know and don't want to know the difference between anabolic and catabolic, that goes back to previous posts in the Stros thread that where do you draw the line. Why is one guy garbage and the other not because they drew the line here instead of there, etc. ETA: And I'm not saying he shouldn't be in. I'm saying this trial by public stuff is impossible and ripe for biases and hypocrisy. He's going to skate by while superior players aren't let in due to this.

Yea that's almost blasphemy to say around WI at this point with how good he's been. But it's honestly probably the right course of action in order to maintain long term competitiveness (assume trading before his last year or at that deadline if we're not in it). It's a tough balance but I think if I was them I'd be trying to work out an early extension now that he could put some big money in the bank but we also don't have to commit beyond say 34-35ish years old. he'd have to give a discount on it since he's 3 years away from FA or it's not worth it for us (if it's for 35 mil a year then what's the point for us). But if he's 31 and straight FA our market can't give him a 7-8 year mega deal. Unfortunately, I think he will want to hit straight up FA and not meet in the middle in the way I said and I think financially that's the right thing for him to do. Unless he got scared with that injury and would rather just put more money in the bank now than he'll ever be able to spend and not have to worry about it. I doubt it though.

Of course it will likely never match the Packers level. But if Giannis stays in MKE and things go as well as they could (he doesn't get hurt, multiple titles) a whole generation of kids in WI will grow up their home team being a top level team and having the best player in the world on their team. That could make things much different 20 years from now. And if anyone spends much time around people say 30ish or younger, the NBA is much bigger for them. In a way, you could go back and think about how things could be different here if KAJ didn't leave and they won like 5-6 titles. Would WI have become a big basketball state and the Bucks kind of the Spurs of the NBA or one of the more storied franchises as they'd have been a top team for 20 years at the time of the NBA boom.

I suppose that makes sense. I guess the different I could see is that Bonds, Arod, Clemons were the elite of the elite of their era if not the best, and likely were before they started this stuff. those others are not.

Ortiz failed the mass test they did that was supposed to be anonymous but got leaked. Don't think it's a coincidence he got with known juicer Manny and then got good. Pudge was in the middle of the TX Rangers stuff with all those guys. Named in Canseco's book. Lost like 20 lbs once testing went in I really don't care about it, I'm merely pointing out the hypocrisy and two sidedness of it all. Let in the best of that era and move on.

My two cents on the steroid guys is Pudge Rodriguez is already in so how are you going to keep the rest out? David Ortiz is going to walk in on the first ballot because he's a beloved Red Sock. For whatever reason those two just fly under the radar. But Bonds and Arod can't? I'd generally put in just the elite guys and move along. ETA: Oh and Tony LaRussa is in.

I know the Cardinals are the big rumor and been mentioned the whole time here. But with how LAD were in on Rendon why would they not be all in on this? They have more to trade than anyone.

Turning on your blinker as you're turning rather than beforehand in order to let people know you will be turning/slowing.

True. But the years preceding it were a home loss to SF, the blowout loss at SF, then the blowing the 15-1 season losing in a home game in the 2nd round. So it was kind of an accumulation with the icing on the cake being that Seattle collapse. The hindsight thing is that they probably should've canned Capers 3-4 years earlier, who knows how things go then. The points they've given up in their playoff eliminations during Rodgers prime is ridiculous.

would've also been the long awaited Rodgers/Brady Super Bowl showdown that would've been great for the league. I generally agree with your sentiment here, ever since then it seems the vibe is most people expecting GB to blow it somehow.