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  1. 7 hours ago, mystikol87 said:

    Yes, most variety by far. I’m an impossible whopper fan boy, though, especially while the “impossible king” is still 2 for $6.

    Lol tell me about it. Sometimes I get it plain and order onion rings as the side then add a packet or two of BBQ sauce and put the onion rings in the sandwich and make it a DIY version of their “rodeo” burger. But I usually just do the Impossible king no cheese. 

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  2. 4 minutes ago, Michael said:

    I'm pretty sure it'll be fairly obvious if there's three infielders on one side of the field.

    Yeah and I think you have to have four on the infield at all times too which should help those big pull-heavy lefties big time. 

  3. 18 minutes ago, Michael said:

    If Yelich can get his stuff figured out and get somewhere back to his 18-19 numbers then, uh, might be another future HOF.

    Ehhh that’s a huge if though cause he wasn’t “that” before those years, and he hasn’t been that since. He had a bad back here too so I don’t buy that as the reason for the drop off. He was inflated by the launch angle craze before pitching adjusted to that whole movement and now he’s a power hitter stuck in a slap hitters body. 

  4. 1 minute ago, SilverBullet said:

    This is worse. Burke Badenhop was fine and at least Maybin and Miller eventually had good major league careers. Feels like the Yelich trade players won't ever see the majors again.

    Sure but dude we traded a future hall of famer for that. That has to go down as top 5 worst trades in history for any team!

  5. This organization would have been in such a different place if he and the other Yelich pieces had reached even some semblance of their potential. Isan was supposed to be the new Dan Uggla, Brinson was gonna be Yelich 2.0, and Harrison was gonna be the new Ozuna. Sigh.

  6. 1 minute ago, rmc523 said:

    Yeah, agree, that's definitely a concern.  It's not like we had a full, effective rotation healthy the whole season.

    Yup, and it’s not like it was some elite rotation either. It was borderline top 10 in ERA alone and even worse in some other important factors. So eliminating two-thirds of that is going to be rough. I don’t have much expectation for Garret, Meyer is out for the season, Eder won’t be available til the all star break at least (and that’s if he comes back anywhere near the level he was at before the injury). So then who do we have? Luzardo is a major wild card and the hope is Cueto can repeat what he did last year. But after that it’s Castańo? Garret? Who?

  7. 6 hours ago, ultimopain said:

    Just a thought but what if the "big move" is Pablo for Arraez and move Jazz to CF?

    C. Stallings
    1B. Cooper
    2B. Arraez
    3B. Segura
    SS. Wendle
    LF. Sanchez/Bleday
    CF. Jazz
    RF. Garcia
    DH. Soler

    Maybe they're not willing to meet the asking price for Reynolds, and so they manufacture a CF in Jazz.
     

    Uff, looking at it on paper really shows how far this team is from a good lineup lol TON of strikeouts in that bih

  8. 7 hours ago, Entendu said:

    Get someone like Arráez AND THEN trade for Reynolds, and I'm back in.

    Until this, this is all bullshit and this team still sucks

    Yeah as others have said I don’t think Pablo was ever being targeted by Pittsburgh so in theory they could make this trade and get Reynolds separately. However, I’m concerned that starts to push them to a point where they’re completely depleting the good rotation they have and then we’re stuck waiting 2-3 years for the Eder/Perez/Meyer group to develop and we’re back at square one. 

  9. This just furthers my point that they should have signed Longoria to play third. I’m in agreement on trading Miggy, but I find the return odd. If he is a good player that’s major league ready, why wouldn’t the dodgers just rely on him for next season? His stats look decent enough, but yeah, confused why either team felt the need to make the trade. 

  10. 2 hours ago, rmc523 said:

    From MLBTR:

    If the deal is finalized, Correa will receive an $8MM signing bonus (paid out between 2023 and 2024) and annual salaries of $36MM in 2023-25, $31.5MM in 2026, $30.5MM in 2027 and $30MM in 2028. The vesting options are valued at $25MM (2029), $20MM (2030), $15MM (2031) and $10MM (2032). Correa would vest his 2029 option by reaching 575 plate appearances the previous season; that number drops to 550 in 2029 (in order to vest his 2030 option), 525 in 2030 (to vest his 2031 option) and 502 in 2031 (to vest his 2032 option). The Twins can still choose to pick up any of the options if Correa doesn’t meet the prior year’s vesting threshold.

     

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    Don't all teams play each other the same amount now?

     

     

    1 hour ago, hovertical said:

    We play every team for at least one series per year but we play our own division rivals more still - I want to say division rivals still get four series a year so two home and two away series.

    There ya go lol 

  11. 16 hours ago, SilverBullet said:

    I would have easily looked the girl in the eye and smiled and said hello and see how she reacted.

    Yeah that’s easy for you to say, you look like Andy Bernard…

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  12. Also I know everyone keeps saying it hasn’t been an issue at the MLB level but technically it has and it happened so late in the season last year that we don’t really know the long term effect. But he hurt that leg sliding into second base about a week or two before the end of the season and had to lay on the ground because he said his leg was numb and vibrating from his ankle taking a direct hit with the second baseman’s shin.
     

    So 1.) we won’t know the extent to which that play knocked something “loose” in there. 2.) It proves that the leg is vulnerable and he is only one awkward slide, one hit by pitch, one cleat caught on the bag while rounding third, etc from a 13 year deal quickly becoming the worst contract ever signed (from a team perspective). So I fully understand the trepidation.

  13. 16 hours ago, rmc523 said:

     

    Yup, so with the bonus he’ll be at $40M in 2023 and 2024. I gotta say, Boras earned his reputation as a top dog agent on this one. Pedaled what could be a ticking time bomb into both incredible salaries in the short term and still a massive guarantee despite it being less than the absurd figures from the Giants and Mets. 
     

    With that said, they’re still the best team in the division, but at least this takes the Mets down a notch and hopefully takes some wind out of their sails. Glad he’s going back to a team we pretty much don’t play lol

  14. Just now, SonOfJack said:

    Let's open a casino together on it. @pollythewog can be our VP, he is a gambling addict so he knows how to run one of those.

    Nah he needs to prove himself to me first. Maybe when he evolves into pollytheWRATH we can revisit these talks. 

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  15. Just now, SonOfJack said:

     its even easier when you win the lotto

    Exactly lol I’m 33 in February and I own a sizable chunk of land in southwest Florida that I’m basically planning on doing that with and I’m by no stretch of the imagination “rich”. I just spent my twenties putting whatever little money I could make in the right places instead of driving a Porsche and eating at Komodo while living in an efficiency like every other miami Asshole lol

  16. I would take the lump sum, buy 40 acres of agricultural zoned land, split it in half, live on twenty with my food plot and livestock, then lease the other 20 acres to a citrus grower for $5k-$7k per month. That handles my current life since i would be mortgage free and funds my retirement with the passive land lease. It honestly isn’t difficult to provide for retirement. We just are taught that retirement means buying a condo on the beach with a $800 HOA payment and making zero income but it doesn’t have to be that way. 

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