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Post by greatfatness on Feb 11, 2018 8:29:34 GMT -5
Good gamble for the Cubs who seem to have hit a dry spell in terms of developing their own pitching. Would not have been a deal the Yankees should have made, regardless of whether they're trying to get under the cap or not. This is the benefit of developing homegrown arms as they've done recently. |
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Post by kaybli on Feb 12, 2018 13:15:57 GMT -5
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Post by sierchio on Feb 12, 2018 16:31:37 GMT -5
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Post by kaybli on Feb 12, 2018 17:39:52 GMT -5
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Post by desousa on Feb 12, 2018 19:09:22 GMT -5
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Post by michcusejoe5 on Feb 12, 2018 19:28:26 GMT -5
It was a good week to start watching Narcos...very topical. |
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Post by kaybli on Feb 12, 2018 19:39:05 GMT -5
It was a good week to start watching Narcos...very topical.  Love that show. My favorite season was actually the third. |
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Post by chiyankee on Feb 12, 2018 21:45:38 GMT -5
[img alt="  " src="//storage.proboards.com/6828121/images/fcnNQOhDRpAUbgaHxUdZ.gif" class="smile"] This Goose might be cooked!!! |
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Post by inger on Feb 12, 2018 23:36:16 GMT -5
Ahhh, Goose is just being Goose. That's the only way he can see his name in the national papers anymore...I agree with him about Rivera or Chapman. You can't compare them to Gossage. It was a different era. There is no way to know how their bodies would have responded to pitching 2-3 innings with occasional longer stints through the years...Or pitching 130-140 innings in a season...We also have no idea how much more effective Gossage would have been if he had pitched an inning at a time in a high strikeout era...Nor, if the steroid-bulked HR hitters in ever-smaller ballparks would have given him fits with fastball after fastball coming out of his hand...
It just is what it is. That's why in baseball the best comparisons are to players within the same era, and next best is ERA+, OPS+, etc. The stats that measure versus peers within the same seasons...It's just a fact...
He seems to be pretty well liked around Colorado Springs. Of course when you have the money and fame to donate baseball, softball, biking and skate-boarding parks to the community, there is really no guarantee if the love is genuine... You hope it is...He seems to care about the community...I assume the ranch he owns as well as the burger joint he owns in Parker, about 1/2 way between Colorado Springs and Denver are profitable enough to keep the money rolling in...I've met a few people that have worked on the ranch, and they had nothing bad to say about him...
Who knows, maybe I'll call him up and sell him some solar power... (: I have so little fear of situations, it's amazing I haven't been shot at in my career. Yet. Did have a .45 stuck in my face once. The guy was a friend, but he was drunk. Nothing worse than a loaded .45 pointed at your nose and the guy holding is laughing as hard as he can...I'd rather have had him be angry...He had no legs, and used to honk the horn when he came to our place of business for me to come out and help him. Lost his legs in battle, but only because he got drunk and laid out in the snow...
The day I met old Harry he had come into the store in wheel chair and was looking at the coveralls. Like I said, we didn't know each other, and he used to love to intimidate people. He hollered out to me (the new kid) that he wanted half price on the coveralls because he didn't need the legs on them. I hollered back over and told him that if he could find me somebody to buy only the legs, I'd give them both a half price deal. Got him to laugh, and he loved me after that day...
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Post by domeplease on Feb 13, 2018 8:18:19 GMT -5
Ahhh, Goose is just being Goose. That's the only way he can see his name in the national papers anymore...I agree with him about Rivera or Chapman. You can't compare them to Gossage. It was a different era. There is no way to know how their bodies would have responded to pitching 2-3 innings with occasional longer stints through the years...Or pitching 130-140 innings in a season...We also have no idea how much more effective Gossage would have been if he had pitched an inning at a time in a high strikeout era...Nor, if the steroid-bulked HR hitters in ever-smaller ballparks would have given him fits with fastball after fastball coming out of his hand... It just is what it is. That's why in baseball the best comparisons are to players within the same era, and next best is ERA+, OPS+, etc. The stats that measure versus peers within the same seasons...It's just a fact... He seems to be pretty well liked around Colorado Springs. Of course when you have the money and fame to donate baseball, softball, biking and skate-boarding parks to the community, there is really no guarantee if the love is genuine... You hope it is...He seems to care about the community...I assume the ranch he owns as well as the burger joint he owns in Parker, about 1/2 way between Colorado Springs and Denver are profitable enough to keep the money rolling in...I've met a few people that have worked on the ranch, and they had nothing bad to say about him... Who knows, maybe I'll call him up and sell him some solar power... (: I have so little fear of situations, it's amazing I haven't been shot at in my career. Yet. Did have a .45 stuck in my face once. The guy was a friend, but he was drunk. Nothing worse than a loaded .45 pointed at your nose and the guy holding is laughing as hard as he can...I'd rather have had him be angry...He had no legs, and used to honk the horn when he came to our place of business for me to come out and help him. Lost his legs in battle, but only because he got drunk and laid out in the snow... The day I met old Harry he had come into the store in wheel chair and was looking at the coveralls. Like I said, we didn't know each other, and he used to love to intimidate people. He hollered out to me (the new kid) that he wanted half price on the coveralls because he didn't need the legs on them. I hollered back over and told him that if he could find me somebody to buy only the legs, I'd give them both a half price deal. Got him to laugh, and he loved me after that day... I hear you INGER about the GUN thing...I have been shot at once and four times had guns pointed at me. These events qualifies me for a show on the Discovery Channel...
Discovery has had shows in the past such as : Mega Tsunamis, Mega Earthquakes, Mega Volcanos, etc.
They could do a show on me in regards to being shot at and guns pointed at me : MEGA DIARRHEA!!!
The funny part is that I was carrying a .38Caliber/9MM all four times a gun was pointed at me and could have used them. But instead I used my Brain and my TALK to get me out of these dangerous situations.
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Post by inger on Feb 13, 2018 12:39:59 GMT -5
Hey, Dome...Harry was such a nut. Now that I think about him, he also lost one of his hands above the wrist a few years after that, but he kept on driving. He finally succumbed to brain cancer. No one was neutral about Harry, because he was loud and raunchy and would never shut up. He'd get drunk and challenge people to fight him in bars. Sometimes he got punched, sometimes not. I'd say 98% of people would say they hated him. I was one of the 2% that loved him. He was different, that's for certain.
I remember another time that I was waiting on someone else when Harry pulled up to the back of the store and started honking the horn. When I got outside he told me when he honked that horn I'd better get my ass out there in two minutes or less. I asked him "Harry, did you ever stop to think I might be taking a sh*t? Next time, I'll bring it out in a bag for you". That was how you had to handle him. Give it back to him. IF you did, he'd love you for it.
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Post by greatfatness on Feb 13, 2018 14:02:53 GMT -5
Gossage is an insecure douche. It is too bad because I enjoyed him as a ballplayer but everything about him is douche. At this point, you have to conclude it isn't just a guy havinga bad day or being misquoted, he really is this much of an asshole. |
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Post by sierchio on Feb 13, 2018 18:40:53 GMT -5
Hey, Dome...Harry was such a nut. Now that I think about him, he also lost one of his hands above the wrist a few years after that, but he kept on driving. He finally succumbed to brain cancer. No one was neutral about Harry, because he was loud and raunchy and would never shut up. He'd get drunk and challenge people to fight him in bars. Sometimes he got punched, sometimes not. I'd say 98% of people would say they hated him. I was one of the 2% that loved him. He was different, that's for certain. I remember another time that I was waiting on someone else when Harry pulled up to the back of the store and started honking the horn. When I got outside he told me when he honked that horn I'd better get my ass out there in two minutes or less. I asked him "Harry, did you ever stop to think I might be taking a sh*t? Next time, I'll bring it out in a bag for you". That was how you had to handle him. Give it back to him. IF you did, he'd love you for it. Fucking love those stories inger. Most people like that will respect you if you give the shit right back to them... I've noticed if you can't think of anything to say... just give them a weird stare.. and when they ask you wtf is wrong with you, just tell them you've never seen an uglier mother fucker in your life... you just had to take it all in.. LOL |
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Post by greatfatness on Feb 15, 2018 9:13:10 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Feb 15, 2018 11:28:28 GMT -5
Looks like a good read, but it's a long one. I have to go out, but I'll get back to this one. Once again, Roger Clemens has come into a pitcher's life and suggested something appalling. "Icy Hot" on your balls on the day you pitch? And yet, Peavy did it. I wonder if Pettitte did that, too? Only once, of course. Clemens is a very perverted individual. I wonder if he put that shit on his balls on the day he misremembered a few things??? |
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Love that show. My favorite season was actually the third. 
