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Everything posted by notin
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It still would be umpired by humans. This is not about replacing anyone. Track and field has used automated timers for decades. Do you think that sport has been overrun with automation? And that’s one sport where the automation actually replaced the human officials. MLB is not going to replace anyone
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Unless you count tennis, track and field, and horse racing. Also, MLB will still be officiated by human umpires…
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The one thing I do appreciate about Little Caesar's is the price. At least they are not pretending they have quality stuff and are charging accordingly. They should drop the "Pan pan" crap and change their slogan to "It's $5. What did you expect?"
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Google refuses to help me convert Che-Hsuan Lins to acres. Just another flaw with Google...
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I would say the worst is Pizza Hut, just because their abominable product development team once put hot dogs in the crust. If the US is going to continue to use the death penalty, it absolutely needs to be applied right there. I have never had Cici's, despite there being one of those dumps just two blocks from my house...
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Everyone hopes to find the next Juan Soto in A ball. Maybe one of these A ball guys can actually make the leap, but I wouldn't base the 40 man roster on it. If the Sox do protect him, his option years start counting, which can create an even worse situation down the road when they expire and he has to either play in MLB or become a free agent. No way he gets protected, and if he actually gets taken, the Sox and the selecting team might be better off just working out a fair trade for a high risk/high reward prospect...
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I just said I'm not sure it was not related to his grandfather's health!!! And I don't even know if he has any living grandparents!!
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If Vazquez is not back next year, it will be 100% related to his option just not fitting the budget. But if I had to put money down on the situation, I'd be betting on his return...
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Over a brief stretch a couple weeks along, anythng could be a factor. Maybe Castro had the sniffles or a tummyache, while Maldonado was perfectly healthy? Maybe Castro missed too many meetings? Maybe Maldonado worked out better game plans. Maybe Castro couldn't focus because his niece wasn't feeling well or his grandfather was sick. It could be something completely unrelated to baseball...
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I think a lot of it might be comfort factor. Hey, if you know the guy back there can catch your nastiest slider, you thorw your nastiest slider. If you find yourself watching him chase it to the backstop a couple times, maybe you dial it back a bit. Also there is the possibilty that it is all prep work. Maybe Catcher A sticks to the game plan better for certain hitters. If the guy at the plate struggles up and in, maybe he executes a better plan to set up an up and in out pitcher better than catcher B. Those are my theories, and probably not ones I explained very well. It might be easier to give examples of the first, but I can't think of any. For the second, straight up conjecture on my part...
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Although worth pointing out, a team could select Jimenez and then make a trade (or agree on a cash settlement) in order to keep him and play him every day in the minors...
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And there will be an abundance of unprotected minor leaguers viewed as more intriguing than Jimenez...
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A lot of these guys missed all of 2020. Not so sure many teams will be willing to take that type of risk and have a player effectively sit out 2 years of a 3 year stretch. That puts their future in even greater question, all while bringing them a year closer to arbitration and free agency. Players will certainly be taken via Rule 5 draft. But I doubt many A ball types get the chance unless the selecting team has faith that they can play immediately in needed. For some low budget teams like Pitt and KC that do not plan on being competitive anyway, maybe. But even then they are more likely to be able to find better options than Jimenez on one of the other 28 teams out there...
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and bear in mind, being "too technical" with me is an occupational hazard. If you think kilograms vs pounds is too much, then you will probably lose it if you ever realize where the "25,689 acres away" comment came from. (Hint: It's actually based on you living near Tampa and that all acres are square acres.)
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Well, CERA does carry little value unless the same pitchers are facing the same lineups with the two different catchers. I get just about every baseball stat carries similar inconsistency flaws, but with CERA they get magnified because pitchers make so few starts that fit the criteria...
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And like I said, it's a pet peeve of mine. I know a lot of people like to live in ignorance about this kind of thing...
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No. It's lower than Little Caesar's. Just behind raw sewage...
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I'd slap you if you weren't 25,689 acres away...
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A kilogram is a measure of mass. A pound is a measure of force. Mass is the amount of matter you have, but force is a measure of push or pull one object has on another, and,according to Isaaac Newton, is measured by the expression F=ma or "Force = Mass times acceleration". Weight is a force that needs to fit that expression. To make it worse, some dope somewhere conceived of the "kilogram-force" and somehow made it so it does not fit into F=ma.
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You're trying to argue with a guy who definitively said all metric heights should be expressed in either Angstroms or hectometers...
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They should have played Plawecki to add more team speed...
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No one ever does that right. I have a pet peeve with scales that display your weight in both pounds and kilograms. Those two units do NOT measure the same thing...
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Next time you get Domino's, once you're done, eat the box. THAT is like eating Little Caesar's...
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An acre is a measurement of area, not distance. The guy might as well have said the neighbor was 2,500 gallons away...
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So after previewing the various Red Sox off-season plans from a variety of talking heads aound the Internet, here is what I have learned. C: Vazquez - universally determined to be returning. So we should probably bid him adieu. 1B: The Sox are going to re-sign Schwarber. Or not, as he will clearly be testing the market and the Sox are satisified with Dalbec and his second half. Except that they view it as fluky. 2B: Everyone agrees Arroyo is too fragile. Will it be Kike or Iglesias or another? 3B: Devers. And here I agree. SS: Bogaerts. The sox will deal with his inevitable opt out after the season. Again, I can see that. LF: Verdugo. CF: Kike or Duran, assuming Kike moves to 2B. RF: Renfroe DH: JD, although there is no consensus at all about whether or not he opts out. Apparently he either definitely is or definitely isn't. It's all very educational. I hope that clarifies this for everyone...
