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mystikol87

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  1. They need to win games where they score 5+ runs, especially against not-great teams. Those 2 double plays are UGH.
  2. But you’re usually so positive!
  3. I would imagine it’s this SI article. After reading it, I don’t see misery or complaining, just trying to follow the veterans’ advice but coming to realize he’s best when he’s being himself. ——- “But for the most part, his reactions are joyful. He plays "lavishly," Coakley says. For a while, he tried to hide that part of him. In 2017, as a 19-year-old shortstop for the Class A Kane County (Geneva, Ill.) Cougars in the Diamondbacks’ system, he pimped groundballs and stuck out his tongue after stolen bases and generally had the time of his life. His peers delighted in his energy, he says. Young stars such as reliever Archie Bradley, shortstop Nick Ahmed and second baseman Ketel Marte told him they would love to have a teammate with his passion. But many older players did not agree. So Chisholm desaturated the bright colors of his personality. The only way for him not to celebrate a stolen base was not to steal it. So he stopped running. "I tried to change and be in my corner and not be as fun," he says. "The veteran guys, you know, the guys that are older and always telling me, 'Hey, you shouldn't do this' and 'You shouldn't do that'—I was trying to do it for them. And then I was struggling and then I would go back to being me for a minute, and then the veterans would say something, and then I’d go back to [being quiet] again and then the whole season is already over by the time I just realized: Just be myself.”
  4. Can you show any evidence of this? I cannot find anything like it. There’s an The Athletic article from after the trade where he says only positive things about the AZ D’backs org. He does say he’s having the worst year of his career, but he means performance-wise.
  5. I’m pretty sure only old farts say “those guys were built different” 🤣
  6. 2 legit chuckles in a row from these posts. Here’s to you, @SilverBullet
  7. It’s so that they alternate…lefties…with…lefties 🤦‍♂️
  8. I imagine if guys tore their rotator cuff in the past, they just disappeared from the game, so there’s a survivorship bias at play. Look at Koufax. He basically had to just retire from his elbow issues.
  9. @Admin on a roll with the funnies today
  10. I actually used to play the tuba. No joke.
  11. Me. My self-righteous anger was worth more than his expected 0.7 WAR.
  12. Does that make Mel the key master and Skip the gate keeper?
  13. “He LOOKS LIKE, TO THIS POINT, that he’s grown up a LITTLE BIT and that he’s shown SOME signs from a BULLPEN standpoint that MAYBE he’s overcome a FEW things.” If Mel hedged any more, he’d be a gardener. Or a hedge fund owner. Either way, yike-a-ronis.
  14. If we sign someone to a 15-year for an average of $66,666/year, that would be pretty miraculous.
  15. Why would the artist formerly known as Twitter be on a baseball roster?
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