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Post by inger on Feb 14, 2019 21:29:09 GMT -5
I’m going to assume these are grasshoppers that have been poisoned vs. poisonous grasshoppers. To the best of my knowledge there are no grasshoppers that carry any toxins that would kill a horse. I don’t believe they have the mechanism to manufacture toxins, nor the mechanisms to deliver a toxin (other than being eaten, and by that time what good would the toxin do?).
I understand there is a grasshopper with a slight toxicity in the southeast US, predominantly in Florida, but that scarcely even made a small animal I’ll much less to kill a horse.
Anyway, if no one else finds this interesting, please blame Johnny Cueto, not me...And please don’t blame poor old Popeye...
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Post by greatfatness on Mar 6, 2019 11:21:13 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Mar 6, 2019 12:21:39 GMT -5
Harper proves that he’s still not a completely mature and responsible adult by circumventing a rule when he should know better. I will say that I believe this to be a stupid rule. Talk is cheap, and players should be able to talk to their friends and advise them or collaborate with them all they want. But...rules are rules. Smart people either obey them or at least know how to evade them. I’m sure if he was smart enough to speak privately, not in the press nothing would happen. Now, he may get an admonishment or a small fine. Is either one going to hurt him? Nah. He doesn’t care about things like image or setting an example... |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 6, 2019 20:18:16 GMT -5
Boston's Wright suspended 80 games for PEDs
Boston Red Sox knuckleballer Steven Wright was suspended 80 games on Wednesday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.
Major League Baseball said Wright tested positive for growth-hormone-releasing peptide 2 (GHRP-2).
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Post by inger on Mar 6, 2019 20:23:54 GMT -5
Boston's Wright suspended 80 games for PEDs
Boston Red Sox knuckleballer Steven Wright was suspended 80 games on Wednesday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.
Major League Baseball said Wright tested positive for growth-hormone-releasing peptide 2 (GHRP-2).
Knuckleball = Low effort pitch Need for PEDs?... Perhaps he’s doing a “Pettitte” here and looking for help to return from off-season surgery... |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 6, 2019 20:42:30 GMT -5
Boston's Wright suspended 80 games for PEDs
Boston Red Sox knuckleballer Steven Wright was suspended 80 games on Wednesday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.
Major League Baseball said Wright tested positive for growth-hormone-releasing peptide 2 (GHRP-2).
Knuckleball = Low effort pitch Need for PEDs?... Perhaps he’s doing a “Pettitte” here and looking for help to return from off-season surgery... Red Sox thin bullpen gets thinner. Let's hope they don't surprise us and sign Kimbrel or something. |
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Post by inger on Mar 6, 2019 20:45:33 GMT -5
Knuckleball = Low effort pitch Need for PEDs?... Perhaps he’s doing a “Pettitte” here and looking for help to return from off-season surgery... Red Sox thin bullpen gets thinner. Let's hope they don't surprise us and sign Kimbrel or something. I dunno. In a way I hope they sign him on an overpay. Seems to me he gets the heebie-jeebies when he pitches against us and isn’t near as good...And he has seemed to be trending down, likely two reasons Cash didn’t chase his ugly troll-ass... |
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Post by inger on Mar 6, 2019 20:59:22 GMT -5
Kimbrel’s 3.98 career ERA vs. the Yankees is the 3rd worst ERA of his career vs. any opponent. While he’s fanned a remarkable 45Yankees in 20.1 innings, there are definitely signs of max-effort and /or over-throwing vs. the Bombers as well in that he’s walked 11. His stats are especially ugly st Yankee Stadium, once again indicating he may have some issues dealing with the extra pressure of facing the Yanks, or even pitching in NY.
In an odd twist, I noted that the projections on Baseball Reference he is only projected to save 25 games in 2019. I’d like to understand the reasoning behind that projection, since he’s only going to be 31 years of age. His secondary stats and innings pitched are not projected to fall, though his ERA is projected at 3.14...
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Post by chiyankee on Mar 6, 2019 22:12:49 GMT -5
Boston's Wright suspended 80 games for PEDs
Boston Red Sox knuckleballer Steven Wright was suspended 80 games on Wednesday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.
Major League Baseball said Wright tested positive for growth-hormone-releasing peptide 2 (GHRP-2).
Knuckleball = Low effort pitch Need for PEDs?... Perhaps he’s doing a “Pettitte” here and looking for help to return from off-season surgery... I think he was looking for a little help with his return from knee surgery. |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 7, 2019 23:57:27 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Mar 8, 2019 1:39:33 GMT -5
As I have stated elsewhere on this forum, and I believe Greatfatness has stated same, one Mr. Keuchel has no understanding of his market value...He should have signed... I suppose that’s one of the problems with today’s sport. These guys think they’re being ripped off during their arbitration years, but if the perform well as young players by the time they reach free-agency they already have go to hell money. In his 7 MLB seasons, one of which was a superb Cy-Young Award winning season, 3 have been good and three were below average, he’s accumulated a career ERA+ of 108. That’s pretty good, but it’s not like he’s a long term stalwart. He gets over rated by many because he’s had some strong late-season and post season performances vs. the Yankees when the whole world was watching. For those efforts, he’s already made $30.66M in just 5 years of work. That was surely buoyed by his arbitration ask and get after that 2015 act Young performance, a performance he has not been able to repeat as yet. So, I guess he may be able to afford to take his ball and go home. If he does, a year later no one will miss him... |
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Post by greatfatness on Mar 8, 2019 9:53:12 GMT -5
As I have stated elsewhere on this forum, and I believe Greatfatness has stated same, one Mr. Keuchel has no understanding of his market value...He should have signed... I suppose that’s one of the problems with today’s sport. These guys think they’re being ripped off during their arbitration years, but if the perform well as young players by the time they reach free-agency they already have go to hell money. In his 7 MLB seasons, one of which was a superb Cy-Young Award winning season, 3 have been good and three were below average, he’s accumulated a career ERA+ of 108. That’s pretty good, but it’s not like he’s a long term stalwart. He gets over rated by many because he’s had some strong late-season and post season performances vs. the Yankees when the whole world was watching. For those efforts, he’s already made $30.66M in just 5 years of work. That was surely buoyed by his arbitration ask and get after that 2015 act Young performance, a performance he has not been able to repeat as yet. So, I guess he may be able to afford to take his ball and go home. If he does, a year later no one will miss him... They made him a qualifying offer and he turned it down. He should have known from recent history that teams actually do care about that compensatory draft pick. We have one playing RF and batting on the middle of our lineup right now. So for a team like the Yanks or Sox, they’d be looking at coughing up that pick plus paying a tax on top of his salary. His market just isn’t as wide open as he thinks it is. He should have accepted the QO and negotiated an extension off of that. Those two offers from Houston might be the best he will get. |
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Post by inger on Mar 8, 2019 10:12:09 GMT -5
As I have stated elsewhere on this forum, and I believe Greatfatness has stated same, one Mr. Keuchel has no understanding of his market value...He should have signed... I suppose that’s one of the problems with today’s sport. These guys think they’re being ripped off during their arbitration years, but if the perform well as young players by the time they reach free-agency they already have go to hell money. In his 7 MLB seasons, one of which was a superb Cy-Young Award winning season, 3 have been good and three were below average, he’s accumulated a career ERA+ of 108. That’s pretty good, but it’s not like he’s a long term stalwart. He gets over rated by many because he’s had some strong late-season and post season performances vs. the Yankees when the whole world was watching. For those efforts, he’s already made $30.66M in just 5 years of work. That was surely buoyed by his arbitration ask and get after that 2015 act Young performance, a performance he has not been able to repeat as yet. So, I guess he may be able to afford to take his ball and go home. If he does, a year later no one will miss him... They made him a qualifying offer and he turned it down. He should have known from recent history that teams actually do care about that compensatory draft pick. We have one playing RF and batting on the middle of our lineup right now. So for a team like the Yanks or Sox, they’d be looking at coughing up that pick plus paying a tax on top of his salary. His market just isn’t as wide open as he thinks it is. He should have accepted the QO and negotiated an extension off of that. Those two offers from Houston might be the best he will get. maybe if he shaves that nutty looking beard off he can get a contract from Norelco or Schick so his kids don’t starve... |
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Post by inger on Mar 8, 2019 10:17:35 GMT -5
His aggregate for the past three years is 35-28; 3.77. That ERA + is 106. He’s a decent pitcher who is apparently going to go down in history as a one year wonder. When you consider the strength of the team he’s been on for those seasons, you might expect better than 12 wins per season on the average if he were truly the force he believes he is...
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Post by kaybli on Mar 9, 2019 8:54:32 GMT -5
Loaiza gets 3-year prison sentence for cocaine
Former All-Star pitcher Esteban Loaiza was sentenced to three years in prison for cocaine possession Friday.
Loaiza pleaded guilty in August to possessing about 20 kilograms, or 44 pounds, of cocaine with intent to distribute. He was arrested in February 2018.
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of nearly five years, while Loaiza's attorney had pushed for 18 to 24 months before U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino issued her sentence in San Diego federal court.
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