I already have it, Except Mine is better. Real leather and Cubic Zirconia's.
Just need those side plates!!
I already have it, Except Mine is better. Real leather and Cubic Zirconia's.
Just need those side plates!!
Bryant is wearing the wwe title as we speak.
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Kdest is a huge cardinals fan so anything to do with the cubs is always going to be negative towards them.
That is not saying anything bad btw. Huge rivalry between cubs and cards so you stand by your fucking team and go.
Ps: GO CUBS GO
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Some thoughts since I was gone when the Series ended:
Excellent series. I'm glad to hear they did 40 million viewers for game 7. That's a huge number given how much baseball has fallen out of popularity lately. Some people have gone overboard in saying game 7 was the best baseball game ever- it wasn't, but it was one of the best of this century. Sports theater at its finest. Some bad managing by Maddon, though - he was lucky they got the W or else would be blamed like crazy.
Theo Epstein is an all time legend. Everyone already said it beforehand, that if he did it with the Cubs after doing it with the Red Sox and broke the 2 biggest curses in American sports he'd be an all timer, and now it's reality. He made it look easy both times. He's a 1st ballot hall of famer (not sure how that works with executives in terms of eligibility) and a living legend. He's dropping F-bombs on TV and spraying champagne with Bill Murray. What a guy.
It's funny how Cleveland came back from 3-1 in the NBA Finals and blew a 3-1 lead in the World Series. Fitting turn.
Lester is a legend now too with his 3 rings and 2.63 playoff ERA but his deficiency when it comes to fielding and throwing to bases is hysterical. It's preposterous to be that good at throwing a ball to home plate and that bad doing anything else with the same ball.
For the sports theater aspect, I look at game seven like a Taker Streak match. Let's use Taker/Trips in the cell. It's got everything: crazy false finishes that make no sense to kick out of (superkick into pedigree ffs), the drama of how long the streak has lasted, finishers all over the place and for some reason a hairless Taker. It couldn't have been designed to be more entertaining and engaging. Hell, the year before Taker was carted off like the Cubs were in the playoffs against the Mets. It all made the drama of the comeback so sweet. Then it ends with Shawn in Bill Murray's place and everyone leaving happy.
Bill Murray/Taker was still a better match, but the drama was so perfect that it goes among the all time greats.
Hell, the Trips tombstone from the year before even feels like the Rajai Davis bomb.
Nerd
Kate Upton really standing up for her man not getting the Cy.
It is a good question though how two people leave him completely off the ballot. (Not that I think them putting him on would be enough for him to win)
Rick Porcello AL Cy Young. Who would have thunk it. You could have given me 1,000 to 1 odds at the beginning of the season and I wouldn't have taken it.
I suppose making the playoffs was the main factor that put Porcello over the top, plus the 22 wins.
The crazy thing about Verlander's year is he had two games where he gave up 7 earned runs and one with 8 earned runs. And he still finished with a 3.04 ERA and 1.00 WHIP.
It's not fair to put it this way at all, but take those out and he's at a 2.31 ERA and right in line with his MVP year and the follow up year when he should have beaten Price.
Interestingly, Cleveland accounted for two of those three games and have for some reason always hit him over his career.
Great year for Porcello, though. Nice to see it all come together after following him for so long.
It isn't fair because you would have to take away every pitcher's two worst starts out of their ERA but I see your point nonetheless. And no he shouldn't have beaten Price that year.
Porcello won from having a whole bunch of second place votes which is interesting. He is deserving but the fact that we seem to have gone backwards and having wins count for so much in this award is not great. Kluber and Justin were just as good if not better.
Verlander shouldn't have beaten Ellsbury for the MVP. And now if he's giving up 7 or 8 runs in single games, it's easy to see why he wasn't Cy Young caliber.
And he still had a lower era with more innings, strikeouts and a better whip than Rick with those games included.
If, for example, Rick had those games, his era goes over 4.
Verlander didn't inspire his offense to score runs the same way Porcello did. Intangibles like that don't show up on the stat sheet.
And the differences in innings pitches (4 more innings for Verlander) and WHIP (.01 difference) were essentially zero. ERA 3.15 vs 3.04 also negligible. I would have voted for the guy with 6 more wins and 5 fewer losses who led his team to a division title.
^^^ So much this ^^^
"Inspired his offense to score runs?"
why don't you change your avatar back to kate upton since you and her have the same baseball IQ
and you're both adept at sucking Verlander's dick
If only he'd let me.
lol
I will say that I love Kate Upton sticking up for her man. Having her as wifey is as good as it gets. That's why Verlander doesn't need any more awards, his life is already good enough. Plus he won MVP as a pitcher when guys like Pedro never were allowed to so he can't complain. A championship ring is the only thing he needs to make his life complete.
If Dombrowski were still there, that would be possible.
And Trout rightfully wins. I was worried it was going to be Betts, which more would have been annoying to have the MVP in the division.
What's even more annoying is the Toronto fans.
We have gotten pretty annoying I won't lie.
But as a Sox fan you really can't talk about annoying fans.
Yeah you sox and blue jay fans are pretty annoying.
No lockout... the players and owners reached a deal on a new 5-year CBA. Some details:
All Star game will no longer determine World Series home field advantage (hooray).
Smokeless tobacco will be banned for all new big leaguers (this is a weird one... so existing players and I assume managers will still be able to chew but rookies will be punished for chewing? that's very strange and difficult to enforce).
The regular season will lengthen from 183 days to 187 starting in 2018, creating four more scheduled off days during the regular season. (ugh. I assume this means the World Series will be even later in the year. nothing like playing a sport in warm weather for 95% of the season then having the championship determined in freezing temps)
My hope is they start earlier and use Domed and southern teams to host the first week. That is they way they used to do it and it worked great because they did not lose games in the first month. The problem is the northern teams started to complain about not getting opening day at home. I dont get that argument though because I think the home opener sells no matter if it is April 1 or April 10.
Agreed. 1 more thing: the DL will be lowered to a minimum of 10 days instead of 15. I like that.
Jon Lester with the tweet of the day:
While my efforts to eliminate pitchers from having to throw to 1B didnt pass, I'm proud of the PA & Owners for coming together on a new CBA!
Hot stove season is upon us. The Chris Sale sweepstakes is heating up. Reports that the National and Red Sox are both trying to get deals done. I would love to have an ace like him but I'm a little frightened by what we might give up.
I also read a report that the Nationals are preparing to move on from Bryce Harper when his contract is up in 2 years because he's seeking 10 years/$400 million. Yeesh. It's very possible though since a lot of guys are already over the $30 million threshold.
Fuck me. Sale to the Red Sox.
Fuccccckkkkkk. Sure it was a big deal going the other way. But that doesn't matter for next season. Easy AL favourites now.
WHEWWWWWWW
love it. Sale is under contract for the next 3 years at only $12, 12.5 and 15 million. the kid Moncada we're giving up is supposed to be really good but I'll gladly deal some top prospects for an ace.
Sale, Porcello, Price. That's a championship caliber starting rotation. plus they also traded for RP Tyler Thornburg to shore up the back of the bullpen. they still need another bat but they don't need to go all out for Edwin Encarnacion. although I wouldn't hate it.
good work by Davey Dombrowski on this one. maybe one day we'll look back on it when Moncada is the next Manny Machado and say he did it again (dealing away prospects to win now) but I think he did good on this one.
one more thing. the Red Sox of late seem to be great at developing position players but very poor at developing pitchers. so this deal where you're trading an elite positional prospect for Sale is the type of trade they need to make to balance out their drafting deficiency.
You mean Sale and Porcello in the playoffs. Price has been pretty useless in the postseason.
Agreed but I'll take him as my #3 starter in the playoffs. I think he can still buck that trend. my bigger concern is that he was utterly mediocre during the regular season last year.
He just needs that 1 decent playoff start. he just never seems to get out of the first couple innings without a problem
Against the Royals in 2015 he started off very well. Got through 6 only giving up 1 single, no walks. Then came the botched pop-up in the 7th and things turned. Real quick.
Fuck the Red Sox
The David Price playoff thing I think is him being victim to the playoff's small sample sizes. He isn't suddenly morphing into a 5+ ERA pitcher soley because the calendar turns to October. He has been unlucky, he has been hurt by an inflated HR/FB rate, and as natural for baseball fans having literally a handful of poor playoff outings gets you branded as a horrible postseason pitcher. Also in 2013 he pitched an complete game gem vs Texas in what was basically a playoff game (Game 163) but that doesn't get added to his stats or mentioned.
WELCOME BACK AROLDIS!
Now Miami will back up the truck for Jensen.
have fun with that contract
I'm not paying it.
But the team you like are and it's going to hurt them.
There's an opt out after year three. That should help.
I assume it's a player opt out though. So it doesn't really help the club.
It's a lot of money for a reliever but given that players are making $30 million now, it's not the worst deal ever.
Oh yeah it's not the worst but I think that money is better spent getting a couple starters. Also, I don't think a big reliever contract ever worked out.
Looks like St Louis will end up with Fowler.
I'm fine with that.
Awfully nice of cardinal fans to wake him up on an airplane to find out if he signed with them or not.
He is a hot commodity this off season.
At least it's not Jon Jay
The point is....what dickheads they are. Show some respect.
Pot, kettle, and all that
Well in retrospect I guess them just disturbing a man out of a peaceful sleep is better than the racial tirade a bunch of the fans had towards Hayward last year.
Cardinals getting better
Speaking of which, I'll take Fowler. You enjoy Jason.
Generalizing some fans to be like the rest sounds about right for you too. Keep aiming low virm
Unfortunately it's not aiming low when you look at what fans have said about choo, oh, the Ferguson deal and Hayward.
That aside how do you feel about Fowler inheriting Big Mac's number? A few peeps seem to be getting into a tizzy over that. I figured it might get retired but I'm sure the steroid thing ruined it.
I'm fine with it.
You seem to be confusing me with some. I'm not the bottom of the barrel like you are. I don't try to be insufferable.
How am I being insufferable? It's a hot topic right now.
Like I said, I always thought big Mac would have his number retired. He brought back millions of eyes to baseball and in my opinion is a hell of a guy. Sosa on the other hand got to be a bit of an ass.
Losing Fowler is huge. Cubs definitely are not winning ever again.
Oh no, it's the other stuff that was insufferable
As long as we got heyward to keep batting .200 along with his late inning pep talk we will repeat.
I'm sad to lose Fowler but the outfield is heavy. More future stars on the way as well.
Cubs fans will be giving him a standing O when he comes back to Wrigley.
I highly doubt he gets standing O at Wrigley after signing with the Cardinals.
No, but after helping them to a title there is a chance
Promise they will give him a standing o in his first bat at Wrigley.
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