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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 20, 2013 -> 02:41 PM) Just to note...MLB may discipline or advise or issue statements to umpires but they do not make umpire disciplines public knowledge. And rightly so. There are enough forces out there that make fans doubt umpires. Might as well not add fuel to the fire.

Rienzo and Snodgress would probably be about the right price for Headley

Let's be clear about something - 150 more homers for Dunn is hardly a given. He's been fairly consistent throughout his career (extreme consistency, then a horrid year, then decent years) and relatively healthy, but things change fast...especially when you're drug free in your mid-30s. It looked like ARod was going to demolish the HR record and he even had the drugs. Very important to emphasize that Dunn's HoF chances are highly hypothetical.

He's been really good. If he keeps it up long enough to hit 600 bombs, I don't know how you could deny him entry. I don't think he'll hit 600.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 20, 2013 -> 10:14 AM) ~5.75" Which is actually quite hilarious and a highlight of how flawed and bad the BMI scale is...it thinks I'm "overweight" with a BMI of 25.4 (overweight category), which is laughable. 5.75 inches????

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 20, 2013 -> 08:44 AM) It's food you're paying 5-10x more than what the ingredients are worth. I didn't say any of those things were bad for you, I said they were a waste of money. The price of a Quest bar isn't obscene for a food with 20g protein and a ton of fiber -- in this case, customer is willing to pay more for having it come in a package as well. A decently priced protein powder will be a dollar or less per serving, which brings you to the point where it is cheaper than an equivalent amount of meat...especially when whey is higher in leucine content than something like chicken and is thus more efficient in terms of how much protein it takes to maximize muscle protein synthesis. Everything has its use. Can't underrate convenience in particular

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 20, 2013 -> 08:41 AM) Meh. All of these bars, powders, drinks, and vitamins are a waste of money. It's just food. Nothing magic about it short of the fact the macronutrient profile is ... magical. To me, food is the worth the money

Quest bars > all

Dunn leads the White Sox in HR, RBI, wRC+. and is 2nd in OBP. f*** him!!!!!!

ARod is no saint, but I've been angered quite a bit more by the Braun revelations.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 19, 2013 -> 09:32 PM) Then why is this coming up now? If he's supposed to pull everything and that's the smart approach, and the one recommended by hitting coaches, then why change now ... after the Sox are 30 games out of first place or whatever they are? Perhaps he changed. The approach may be fine but it may be the case that the 33 year old Dunn doesn't have all the same strengths and weaknesses that the one that earned that shift did.

I don't know many real statheads that think highly of bWAR.

Most guys like Dunn are encouraged to not try to hit through the shift by their coaching staffs

You can't factor defense too heavily. Plays are assessed for their run value. You cost/save enough runs, you cost/save wins

Somebody has to tell the two rookies on the right side who to block

I get the feeling that while he isn't the worst lineman, he's not good enough to make up for the fact that nobody in the locker room likes him.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 12:40 PM) Seriously? He walks a little, has declining power and is on the verge of being fat. Everything about him screams roids. He's also ugly and has a stupid haircut. He is left handed though. sold

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 18, 2013 -> 11:22 AM) If you can get him for less then by all means yu do it. What did you think of the return for Alex Rios? to be determined

Marty, that would be a horrendous overpay for LoMo. His price would be more like Dayan, which I'm sure you would be all for.

Basically, I was unexpectedly pulled away from my work. I only save when I'm done with work normally because I have autosave set up to automatically save every 10 minutes. I was able to find a corrupted autosave file with about 10% of my work in it, broken up with symbols and other random BS with huge chunks missing. I was able to recreate things, but yeah it's frustrating. One of those times I miss my Mac. Yes, there are times when I would miss Windows on Mac too. Don't mean to start a war here too. I will say I'd probably buy a Mac if price wasn't a question or if I simply had a grand or so lying around.

f***ing windows was working on a very important proposal on which I was already past due...had left my computer open for a nap... computer updated by itself and I lost all changes I had made (pretty much an entire day of work) because the autorecover apparently f***ed up

You still retain team control like any other non-MLB player on these guys unless you explicitly release the player from that team control

Unless you explicitly release the player from team control early (like in Cespedes deal), the years on the deal don't mean much

QUOTE (ptatc @ Aug 14, 2013 -> 09:34 PM) Keith Law said today that Abreu is worth no where near what Cepedes and Puig were because he is not an athlete like they are. This line of thinking is usually borne out in the draft process as well. How often do you see 1B picked in the first round?

I think teams are sometimes just careless with the waiver process