Shout - takingnotes - June 10 2014 6:14 pm EDT
Maybe it's a thing in #Japan? #Singles #takingnotes #newyork-single.com
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Fandango! 5.10.14
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I think ZZ does tour Japan, right? Like pancakes with corned beef hash and eggs on top. Which I plan to assimilate shortly...
Segue'ing off from a cute ZZ promo into a particularly egregious rant, even by my standards. Dr. D has a real peeve going, modern 'net rats talk about tolerating people who think differently (and then invoke TOS at the slightest irritation).
At SSI we walk the talk, bab-eh. Bring it! No whiners. You think different, type it in. The response will be tennis volley'ing, not punishment.
Ahhhhh ... just skip on to the next paragraph. Dr. D is just cranky because of too much time in the Field Gulls comments the last coupla draft days. You get 18,000 kinds of really angry treatment towards those who aren't part of the GroupThink ... then somebody posts a .jpg of a rainbow pony, or mentions something spiritual we are talking three words, and five guys simultaneously call for a lifetime ban. Inconsiderate to other commenters, don'cha know.
Ah well. Remind me to stick to the lead authors. Do you think those guys bring more Seahawk game than SSI brings Mariner game? :: shudder ::
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MtGrizzly, fellow F-500 denizen
Blengino on Miller and the M's: Brad Miller appears to be engulfed in the team-wide offensive malaise sweeping through the Mariner clubhouse. Player after player has abandoned the approach that allowed them to graduate from the Seattle farm system, becoming overly aggressive in a single-minded pursuit of pull-side power at the major league level. Miller’s walk rate has cratered, and he has become one of the most pull-oriented hitters in the game. His K and grounder rates are up, though he should see some positive regression in his line drive rate. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/some-hitters-to-start-worrying-about/ - See more at: http://seattlesportsinsider.com/article/state-mr-magic-closer#comment-14...
1) Dr. D loves Tony's work. And, it's a bit of a window into MLB(TM) processes.
2) Isn't this pretty well against "baseball code," for him to be --- > jockeying with his old org like this on a national site? I thought radio silence was supposed to be the route to your next gig. Maybe times have changed.
He's really gentle about it, picks his spots, but I thought he was supposed to be studiously ignoring his old gang. Well, it's extremely info-taining, no doubts there.
3) Blengino is senior to the SSI Think Tank in terms of saber tools available to him ... not so as to say, necessarily senior to the Tank in terms of conceptual thinking and getting from point A to B on an individual conclusion.
He's got plenty 'nuff light bulbs on we don't, but I wonder if the reverse is not also true. Your thoughts?
Baseball Prospectus: WBC-San
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Q. What says the jemanjinator? Big $$ to extend Iwakuma?
A. It says here that Mojician has the right opening argument on this one: Iwakuma to play out his current deal, and then see if he can finally get that $100M deal he deserved in the first place.
The M's underpay him this year and next, and that's more than enough exploitation for my (increasingly queasy) stomach.
But, naturally, if Iwakuma would go a 3/$50 extension, you're all over it. (If he wants more, he's got the problem that you can easily wait until next year to talk about it.)
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Q. Is he a "legit number 2"?
A. We get into semantics here real quick.
For some guys, Pedro and the Unit are the only "legit Number Ones" since Tom Seaver. Then you have maybe six or eight "number twos." Those semantics drive Dr. D batty.
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Here's the thing. Stats are backwards-looking. We're talking about what a guy WILL do, not what he did done. Iwakuma has 50 starts, not many, so:
2014 Draft Preview, part deux
The hitters are a weird group, and I don't like the college bats for our selection AT ALL. The arms, OTOH, are good from both the prep and college ranks - and nobody knows how they slot out. They're all of a piece, and many of them have TOR potential. That's good for us, and more likely a selection to boot. They are laid out in order of my current preference (as the previous hitters were).
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Little Passports: China
Poor Wood Sprite took her eraser collection to Girl Scouts tonight for her show and tell time and completely forgot the bean bun eraser she loves so much at home! It was actually my own fault; I had packed it back into her Little Passports luggage box, pictured here, before we left. Each month Sprite receives a new package in the mail from another country through the subscription, and the little souvenirs are her favorite part.
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Box office shake up: Which movie debut took the top spot?
Late last week, I wondered whether others loved a good Liam Neeson action-thriller movie as much as I did. I’ve got my answer now, and that answer is a resounding “yes.” Neeson’s latest film, Non-Stop, took the number one spot at the weekend box office, finally knocking The Lego Movie out of first place.
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Video: Bunny stampede!
Watch as a woman feeding rabbits on an island in Japan causes a bunny stampede! I bet that stampede was really quiet. Just the pitter patter of dozens of tiny, soft little rabbit feet. Eee!
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Robinson Cano Is Ours and You Can't Have Him, you feeb$
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Q. How is Cano taking this slop-storm?
A. Smiling like a Cheshire cat, that he'll never have to spend one more lousy minute in front of a New York media crowd. If New York wanted to really rub his nose in the fact that he's about to be a much happier man, they couldn't have found a better way.
Edgar didn't bust it down the line; he took care of his legs. Junior trotted out a ground ball or ten. In Seattle, we don't take out our frustrations on our best players. Also, we don't grab every possible opportunity to knee our best player in the man region, just because of our morbid fascination with love-hate relationships.
I mean it in a good way.
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Q. Do PLAYERS care about a teammate's trot down to first?
Spend a Fun Date Visiting a Houston Festival
While many may curse the heat of
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Is Trash Talk "Ethical"?
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