Intentional Fallacy

In Comics by josh65 Comments

The trade deadline is three weeks away. Three long, looong weeks.

 

Share this Post

Comments

  1. WaLi

    I would like to welcome my wife who now reads this blog and loves the comics. She is trying to learn sabermetrics, which is awesome. I figure it’s better to point her here and share our misery than try to teach her myself. I don’t think she is commenting, just lurking. Be nice and try to limit the forest.gif (dying laughing)

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  2. bubblesdachimp

    Jim Callis ‏@jimcallisBA
    #Cubs agree w/1st-rder Albert Almora on $3.9 mil (pick value=$3.25 mil). Florida HS OF w/lots of tools & polish. #mlbdraft

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  3. WaLi

    @ bubblesdachimp:
    He got the most money he could (with our remaining allotted $) and we got our 1st round pick. Glad to see both sides come to an agreement.

    Does that mean we signed all of our top 10 picks?

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  4. bubblesdachimp

    Castro Rizzo, Soler, Baez, Almora, Jackson, Vitters, Lake, Candelario, Vogelbach

    some interesting bats that are pretty young.

    Pitchers?

    None

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  5. GW

    @ Rice Cube:

    I don’t. Brett said the guy didn’t go into details, so I find it very plausible that they offered more money at less per annum. Would that really surprise anyone? Clearly the FO decided to dig a money pit in Cuba and kidnap everyone who fell in it.

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  6. mb21

    @ GW:
    Yeah, it’s not hard to believe. Did he sign for something like 7/42? Cubs could have offered 8/43 and that’s technically more money.

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  7. josh

    Keith was certain last night that the CBA would be tweaked after this draft, because so many #1 picks were still unsigned. I tend to think the agents are just holding out until the lower order picks sign, so they can claim every single loose penny the teams have.

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  8. mb21

    Any word on where the Cubs are sending Almora? I assume he needs to get back into playing condition so a few weeks in Mesa and then what?

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  9. Rizzo the Rat

    I know it’s fashionable to trash the All-Star Game (especially in these parts), but I decided to give it a try in 2010 for the first time in many years, and I was surprised to find I enjoyed it quite a bit. Marlon Byrd’s contributions actually made me temporarily proud to be a Cub fan. I’ll be watching it this year, at least in part. There’s no other game going on for four days, I’ll see good players I rarely see, and (who knows?) the game just might surprise me like it did in 2010.

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  10. Berselius

    I’m enjoying all of the ZOMG AL Team X is playing its next 40 games against teams with .500 or better records!!! …when only three AL teams have a losing record

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  11. Brett

    Berselius wrote:

    I’m enjoying all of the ZOMG AL Team X is playing its next 40 games against teams with .500 or better records!!! …when only three AL teams have a losing record

    Not only did I do a double-take, I’ll confess I was all, “Dude, there’s no way that’s true,” in my head. So I had to look.

    Holy crap. That’s kind of crazy.

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  12. Rizzo the Rat

    @ Rice Cube:
    The entire league’s record is .513. Also, there are 3 teams at .500, a few teams just above .500, and now teams slightly below .500 (though no teams quite so bad as the worst 4 teams in the NL, interestingly). It is a really odd set of circumstances.

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  13. josh

    @ Rizzo the Rat:
    I hate all the theatrics and the lineup changes every other inning. It’s stimulus overdose to me. To me, half the fun of baseball is seeing if your favorite player X can get a hit after two hard lineouts earlier in the game. Without those mini tensions, it’s just dudes I wouldn’t want to hang out with running around in the grass.

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  14. Rice Cube

    @ Rizzo the Rat:
    I’m not that good at math anymore but I think it has to do with teams playing a different number of games (due to off days and rainouts that have yet to be made up) plus unbalanced schedules allowing one set of teams to beat up on the NL’s crap and the Twins and Mariners so far.

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  15. BubbaBiscuit

    @ EnricoPallazzo:
    To get to finals, they add the 1st two round totals.

    Side note, apparently Jamie Moyer and Casey Coleman were asked to be HR Derby pitchers but declined. No telling who would have won if they did pitch for whoever asked for them.

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  16. Suburban kid

    I just learned there is a new album out called “Negative for Fun” by the Don’t Fucking Cares. It reminded me of ACB.

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0
  17. Suburban kid

    The Don’t Fucking Cares put up an event on Facebook for their album launch. Only one person is going and one is a maybe. (dying laughing)

      Quote  Reply

    0

    0

Leave a Comment