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Mockery. You do a lot of this. Plan on contributing anything else?
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Now? Not really. The 2004 Keith Foulke was better than, or at least as good as, the current Papelbon. He's walking the world. He can't keep it up.
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The current acceptance of Papelbon walking has a lot to do with the current Papelbon resembling closers from the pre-Papelbon days. If there was a confidence level that the Papelbon of two years ago is who we'd get moving forward, then I'd agree they keep with little attention to cost. The reality is that there's been some transition in his performance, and that is shaking the confidence level. It's not that there's not appreciaton for how good he has been. It's that there's concern that the guy who was that good isn't what we'd be getting.
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So your comment was meant to do what, then?
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I'm perfectly calm. Don't go down trite internet road of, "You disagree with me, so you must be irrationally upset". Clearly you didn't. I was very explicit in stating that it wasn't about the name, and you proceeded to portray it as though I were pining for a connection with him. If you meant something different, I'd suggest rephrasing.
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You clearly stuggled with what I posted, so I'll try again. I don't give one s*** about JD Drew. I don't care if he doesn't know my name or ever will. Remove the assumption that I'm only defending him because of his name. My point still stands. JD Drew has become a baseball litmus test. What's your PH?
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I didn't see the play. Was what Teixeira did OK by the current standards of acceptable play and sportsmanshp, diony? You mock the injury of a young player, this suggests you are OK with that. Please expand on your "commentary".
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It has nothing to do with Drew. It has everything to do with lazy, ignorant lack of appreciation for a productive player. The name is immaterial. Players who contribute to the winning of the team deserve appreciation. I admit, right now, Drew isn't contributing. Criticisms of his play right now are warranted. They should also be accompanied by and understanding that he has been a worthwhile contributor in the past and further understanding that he's likely to continue that this year. If he doesn't, have at him, but prior to the beginning of this season, he didn't deserve to be treated like an anchor holding this team back.
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Diony did his part to man the douchebag defense squad. Another fine example of why it was such a good idea to let him back. His contributions to the board are limitless.
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Yes, because it is commonly known that law offices are the only places where people concern themselves with accuracy when it comes to baseball discussion. Hear that Yeszir, you'll need to add a Biddleman, Schumer, and Taft to the name of the board to make this a place where we can talk about baseball and be concerned with accuracy.
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Lavarnway. Another homer with another walk. Ho hum.
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You know what's conjecture, the use of conjecture on this board. For instance, Dipre really meant "speculation" when he used conjecture, and YeAuld's usage would probably find a better fit with "debate". Conjecture is something that appears to be correct but is unproven. Any attempt to determine Drew's level of care is speculation, and some measures of player performance are confirmed, through statistical analysis, to be more relevant to the overall objective of the game, ie scoring and preventing runs.
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Beelzebub just put on a light jacket, for the drop in temperature, you know.
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We're in luck. An massive cosmic body will strike this planet before that happens, which will, unfortunately, be the end of the world (as we know it).
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Ortiz homers, Beltre walks, Drew has an RBI, sure signs of the end of days.
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Great, I had two of those inside of a week when I got diagnosed with sarcoid near my lungs. I went to a doc in a box, he sent me to an imaging place, the radiologist thought cancer, I admit myself to MD Anderson in Orlando, they can't get film from the imaging place, so I got another at the hospital.
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Wiki had it. A full body scan is equivalent to being 2.4 miles from ground zero. That's a full body scan. Aren't most CT's done in a localized region of the body?
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He got squeezed a little with Mongo (Wiggington), but the walks need to go away.
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Wha, wha, what?
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Wow, must really be under you skin to have you comment about me personally without entering the discussion. I like it.
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Jacko, what is the source of the claim about the ionizing radition similar to being present at a nuclear explosion? CT uses x-ray technology, and high frequency EM radiation is nowhere near as damaging as alpha radiation. I know iodine dye is used, and idodine is slightly radioactive through decay. Is it the ionizing high freq radiation or the idodine that is the source of the carcinogenic effect?
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While the definition is true, since you want to pick nits, that assumption isn't necessarily true. It could be the acceleration vector caused by the magnus force that is a bit off. Or it could be the position equation, with the velocity vector being correct, but the initial starting position (release point) being incorrect. All that said, it's probably easiest to just accept the lexicon being used, where velocity refers to the magnitude of the velocity vector (ie speed), and command refers to the direction. However you want to approach this is fine with me, just let me know.
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Command, yes. Velocity, no. Look at his fangraphs page. He's throwing the ball as hard as he was the last two years. He's throwing less curves, in exchange for more changeups. I recall them experimenting with his change early last year, where he also had an abnormally high HR/FB rate (like he does now) and a low LOB rate (like he does now). He needs to back off the change and go to the curve more, like he did last year. Oh, and throw more strikes.
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Lars went yard.