StephenCurry30

Its a fun game me and my buddies play to talk about Joe Kelly. Basically the game is where we pick things we'd rather do then watch Joe Kelly pitch, painful things, boring things,, stupid things. Ill start I would rather get raped by a horse than watch Joe Kelly pitch.

BALTIMORE -- The Baltimore Orioles have placed backup catcher Caleb Joseph on the 15-day disabled list with a testicular injury. Joseph was struck by a foul ball in the eighth inning of Monday's game against the Boston Red Sox. He was taken to the hospital after the game and placed on the DL on Tuesday. Second on the depth chart behind Matt Wieters, Joseph was batting .182 in 23 games. He broke a 0-for-19 skid Monday before suffering the injury. Baltimore recalled catcher Francisco Pena from Triple-A Norfolk to replace Joseph on the 25-man roster. Pena was batting .200 in 24 games with the Tides. Pena has nine games of major league experience, all with Kansas City. He went 1 for 7 in eight games with the Royals last season.\ http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/15857825/baltimore-orioles-catcher-caleb-joseph-placed-dl-testicular-injury Hope he was wearing a cup..

And what do you do with guys who are being payed an ass load of money but are so awful and killing the team and aren't tradable. For example, Ryan Howard, Prince Fielder and Carl Crawford. All three of these guys suck and are stealing AB's from young players

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Pujols was also very young when he got his contract, I feel like it would be different if these guys were that age when they hit free agency. For example, if Xander hit FA and got 6 years 120 million right now.. I think that would be okay, luckily we don't have to commit that money at the moment, but a lot of guys hit Fa around age 28-30, and get big money. One thing I've noticed is a lot of the guys who rely on speed don't pan out when they sign for big money.. Chone Figgins, Carl Crawford, Jacoby Ellsbury being the poster boys. Also don't understand teams freaking out and overpaying random role player level players. Guys like Gary Matthews Jr for example, why on earth would a team think he is worth 10 million a year?

Manny was worth it, but for every Manny it seems like there is 10 Pablo Sandovals, Prince Fielders,Vernon Wells, Barry Zitos.. etc, etc. These bad contracts just don't result in you having a s***** player, it results in the s***** player blocking a good player. Imagine if Pablo blocked Travis Shaw this year.. Like Prince Fielder is blocking Joey Gallo.

Do you guys think that giving an absurd amount of money to a guy for an absurd amount of years is worth it? It seems like for whatever reason, this never works out.. Sure you might get a few good years, but the end of these contracts is killer. Or in some cases, the whole contract is a killer (Ellsbury, Pujols, Crawford, Vernon Wells). Newest guy who got a huge deal is Jason Heyward (8 years $184 million) in year 1 of the deal, he is hitting .226, with no power (1 home run, .293 slg% and .617 OPS). This just reminds me of the other colossal deals that have failed. I am a big fan of the J-Hey kid and think he has to improve some, and to be fair, he is still an outstanding outfielder. But this begs the questions, are you for or against these lucrative long term deals. if you had the chance to sign, say Mike Trout for 10 years 320 million, would you? I am really starting to think its better/smarter to build within and make small level free agent signings, like Napoli/Koji level signings.. or low risk high reward signings (Ortiz/Andrew Miller). these deals just KILL you. We had to give up one of the best 1B in baseball just to get rid of the cancerous contract of Carl Crawford.. Hopefully David Price doesn't make this another name in the list of failed long term deals.

I think you can make it like for example the rotoworld.com forums use a system where you can like posts, but can't "dislike", I feel like not having dislike is a fine idea, as people will often just dislike people they don't like and be a dick. I mean in the end, it doesnt' really mean anything but I feel like its a cool feature for forums to use.

Would it be possible for this site to adapt a reputation system? A lot of other forums have a feature where you can either give reputation for a good post, or like a post, and the more posts that you have liked and so on, you will get a higher rep, it will usually separate the elite posters from the others. its a little fun thing other forums have and I like and feel like could be well used on this site.

I said usually, obviously every race has slow guys. Prince Fielder, Ryan Howard, David Ortiz wouldn't be typical lead off guys, but I also said its mostly quick outfielders. Mo Vaughn was a fat DH.

Ichiro is a great player, and obviously not EVERY lead off hitter is black, but its just interesting to notice a lot of them are and its usually the quality of a lead off hitter. Mookie is not an exception.

Never mind, you edited it.. But I'm just saying, blackness is usually related to speed, speed = batting lead off. Not to be racist, but this is pretty factual. If you have a black OF with speed, he will usually bat lead off, steal and be good defensively. Again, not being racist.

Julio Lugo was white as wonderbread? Ummm... http://thegoldensombrero.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/juliolugogoldensombrero.jpg

When you think of a typical lead off guy you think of guys like Ricky Henderson.. Juan Pierre.. Jose Reyes...Curtis Granderson, Mookie, Rajai Davis, Jimmy Rollins, Hanley Ramirez (Marlins version),Crawford, Chone Figgins, Coco Crisp, Denard Span, Lou Brock. I mean its true.

But there is no reason to move The Mookster from the lead off spot. He can hit for power, is black, has speed, and can create runs and get himself in scoring position better than other guys. Today for example, he scored from 2nd on a groundball in front of home plate, he is always running, always hustling and is going to be around a 6 WAR player again. Why is Mookie even a worry? Every team in the league would kill to have him and have him bat lead off.

Mookie is a RF, and he is 17th among RF in OPS.

He said its arguable Papelbon was ARGUABLY the best closer in baseball during his prime, that 4 year stretch WAS HIS PRIME. No one has argued that Rivera isn't the best closer of all time, yet you keep trying to insinuate someone has. I don't get why you are arguing if something is arguable, the fact you are arguing it, has in fact proved his point that he was arguably the best closer in baseball during his prime (THAT 4 YEAR STRETCH). I am going to say its arguable you suck at trolling.

Currently right now - I think the two best athletes are Russell Wilson and Lebron.. I know this is a somewhat older thread but it was only on page 2 and is a debate I like having

The amount of hatred we all share for Buchholz is beautiful. I'm Proud to be a fellow Buchholz hater with you all.

Hopefully Clay smokes some pot, has a domestic dispute (where the women isn't seriously injured) or does something to get suspended so he doesn't have to play anymore. Cmon Clay, hit up Jose Reyes and Chapman and get some tips!

ACTIVATE E-ROD. Buchholz is the worst thing in Boston sports history. Watching him pitch is somehow more painful then not winning a world series for 86 years. He makes me want to witness the Steelers winning super bowls, Yankees winning world series and Lakers winning NBA finals, in order not to see him pitch ever again. GOD, WHATEVER IT TAKES MAKE BUTTHOLZ GO AWAY.

Gay Buttholz continues to be a bum. excuse my nicknames, but this one is suitable. f*** you buchholz you bum

Ortiz didn't hustle on that ground ball to the pitcher, John Farrell needs to have a long talk with Papi and bench him! We cant have that unethical behavior in baseball, it ruins the sport!!

Wins at this day in age are more-so about longevity then actually skill. Obvious if you pitch good, you will more then likely get a win, but look at guys like Felix Hernandez who have been screwed by being on a s***** team for a majority of is career and should have a much more dominant W/L record. On my perfect example. pedro Martinez - 219 career wins. Jamie Moyer 269 career wins. Pedro was one of most dominant pitchers of all time in his prime, Jamie Moyer was an average pitcher who somehow stuck around for literally 25 seasons. That being said, yes, I think Big Schill is a hall of famer, he was a key cog on two world series teams that were amazing wins. Diamondbacks beat a yankees team in a crazy series and got their first and only championship, and obviously he was a HUGE part of 04 red sox.

Is it that hard to just talk about the Red Sox without being *******s to each other?? I love the Sox and gave up talking about buttholes and penises to be a more mature person, those who know me and know what vulgar things I post on other sites know that was a hard transition for me, not talking about buttholes is like Hanley Ramirez moving from SS to LF, only difference is I've excelled, Hanley.. errr didn't.