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Breaking up via a text message

I once knew a young couple. Their relationship seemed nice and stable. So it was a shock when she not only broke up with him, but broke up with him via a text message; that's right, a text message.

 

That is not a good way to end a romantic relationship, my friends; not ever. Not only are such stunts shallow and petty, it also is a free ticket to Drama City (which is hardly good for someone's emotional health I might add.)

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Talking Points: Angel Pagan

Talking points, as opposed to a POTD.  If we had any sort of confident conclusion about a player, we'd have a POTD.  Instead, you get a chat board post.  Ah, the memories.

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1) The Mariners have two CF's who play approximately as well as Pagan does.  They've got one who will hit 32 homers :- ) for peanuts, and they are paying the other one $7M next season.  

G-Money says:

Buster Olney name-checked us in an Angel Pagan post, in which he said we might help drive up the price to 4/50 or more. We'd better not actually pay that for Pagan. I would be seriously irked to add him to a club that's already paying Guti in CF and with Saunders able to play the position.

Dr. D's memo:  If the M's were going to spend $10M+ per year on a player, you'd think that they would want to emphasize the delta that such an incoming player would give them over their current options.  

On that note, you'd have people arguing that Saunders isn't actually a viable center fielder.  Those people, to swipe Mark Twain's line, would Not be Me.

Capps to the Rotation?

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Dr. D wonders how much trouble he'd get in for adopting a Euro soccer style headline trend.  You know, "TOM BRADY TO SEAHAWKS?" and article text starts with "There may not be much to suggest this, but here's why I feel it could be a good idea."  Traffic that is disgusted with you is still traffic...

Actually our little joke might be forgiven by some, since James (speaking here as Red Sox brass) addresses the issue of:  does an org owe it to its players to deploy them as they wish to be deployed?

Mojician on NFL Violence

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As a True Believer in the values of the Founding Fathers, I'm not quick to hand the government control over the personal choices of individuals.  However, there is a point at which choice crosses the line.  Society doesn't permit ritual duels on a reality show - sign a contract, both agree to a life-or-death manhunt, survivor gets five million.  We think that Mojician will confirm that if two men voluntarily enter into a duel, the survivor is chargeable with first-degree murder.

It's hard for some young folks to get ahold of the idea that you can be committed to a cause (e.g. the government is there to punish evil, not to parent the citizens) while still applying those principles in nuanced ways.  My takeaway from Matt's post was that --- > he believes that the NFL is over the line as it pertains to the damage in inflicts on its players.  Sure, some things are over the line.  I don't believe that riding a motorcycle without a helmet is even close to that line, but I believe that ritual duels are, and it's possible that the NFL is.  

I always wonder about intent-to-injure ... a Saints defender trying to take out a QB's ACL ... and whether it should be charged as a crime off-field.  Wonder whether Mojician would go for a law that allowed prosecution for this specific behavior.

Mojiician - if you just joined us, he's a trial lawyer - with a sparkling post on the subject.  Kibitzing in italics...

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Shrill vs Chill, Coaches

Mike Schmidt, for about the first ten years of his career, got a boatload of boo'ing in Philadelphia:  "They just want to spank me so I'll try harder and do better," Schmitty said with a wan smile one day.  Y'ever notice, when an athlete is performing badly, our flinch reaction is to go get a hickory switch and give him a good lickin'.  Bear down out there, you little pansy.  

We don't always grab hickory switches, throw AA batteries onto the field, or jeer.  Sometimes we're more civilized about our bitterness and we indulge only in

  • Booooo'ing, Chone Figgins for striking out (think about it)
  • Yowling, for Ichiro to be moved down in the order
  • Pounding our spoons on the table, demanding that Justin Smoak be sent to AAA
  • Blogging our little alter egos out, calling for Brendan Ryan to catch some splinters in his gluteus maximus

Of course there are times that our calls for a player's demotion are rational, such as whenever Dr. D does it .... Justin Smoak was getting to be a serious issue.  But you know whutuhmean.

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