[2017 World Series Thread]

Raise your hand if you had Keuchel and Kershaw not making it out of the 5th.

 

What a great game.

 

Doubt I'll make it to the last out tonight, but glad that the Houston and LA markets have it easier.

 

Unsolicited prediction with the score 8-7 top 7 man on third two out: after being told he lost his role as closer, Giles gets the save tonight.

[Share some music thread]

 

First of all, what "fish reference"?

 

 

Let me ask you: Do you think all music is equal? Is it all good? Is all the music shared here, good, in your opinion?

 

 

 

 

Fish reference was to Sturgeon's Law.

 

Do you think all music is equal? No.

Is it all good? No. But to me that's a personal preference and subjective. My good isn't your good. The criteria used to decide what is good is equally personal and subjective.

Is all the music shared here, good, in your opinion? There's some music on this thread that I like and some that I don't like . I just don't classify the stuff I don't care for as crap.

[Share some music thread]

 

No, again, understandable, but wrong. There is plenty of music I know is of high quality---it just isn't for me. In those cases, I think I'd be better off if I could appreciate it, but I simply don't. I'm actually fairly self aware.

 

Keep in mind, for me, music is about that: MUSIC. Not image, genre, costumes, stage shows---all that extraneous stuff. In fact, most of that stuff turns me off, even to "quality" music. I suppose that's another thing I need to get over. But I tend to like music I think will be listened to for years. Not stuff that is "of the moment" and is likely to be forgotten in 10 years, if that helps. Quality music (even the stuff that isn't for me) stands the test of time.

 

I think you don't get yourself and the fish reference. You basically denigrated 95% of posters shared music choices based on the bolded.

 

Call me out if I missed it but I don't remember many (if any) "this band has a great stage show/image" comments.

 

WRT to the last bolded piece, what's the statute of limitations when we can determine a song is good enough to be considered "high quality"?

[2017 World Series Thread]

At least it is going back to La La Land!

 

I hate 2-3-2!

 

(WRT 2-3-2)

[Share some music thread]

 

No, that's not what I meant. But it's a good guess, as I am a well known music "snob". I actually thought this was going fairly well--well, you know, for the musical tastes of the hoi polloi, the "common man"---you know, morons.

 

 

But as thing progressed, the masses showed their usual lack of taste. That's really all I'm saying.

 

And, BTW, this isn't an "old music vs new music" thing. I think 95% of just about everything is crap. And, yes, I know I'm an !@#$.

 

Thanks for the explanation but I think I understood you all along. As you said yourself, you're a music snob, if it's not to your taste its in the 95%.

[Share some music thread]

Pointing the finger at nobody in particular, here. But the longer this thread goes, the more I'm reminded of Sturgeon's Revelation (sometimes called Sturgeon's Law):

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

 

Years before I ever heard of Sturgeon, I came to the same conclusion---but I wasn't as generous as Sturgeon.

 

Just so I understand: your posts were the 10% (or less generous) and everyone elses's shared music was crap?

 

I thought I was done with that crap argument when my father passed away.

[If the Buffalo Bills were a band, what name??]

Band names for these Bills

 

Pegs and the Wannabees.

 

The Letdowns

 

Close but No Cigar

 

The Beanpole Surfers

 

4th and 7

 

The Outcasts

 

The Beane Bags

 

Long Live Ralph

 

The Loss Boys

 

Pegula Bula

 

Fully Pregnant Half Aborted

 

Not a fan of the negativity but The Loss Boys?

[2018 draft would you be upset if]

not only that, the unlikelihood that Hunt will be much of a factor in 2 or 3 years is high.

 

RB's don't last long in this league. damnest thing. for every Adrian Peterson there are a dozen Alfred Morris' and to a point Zeke Elliot's (he's not exactly on fire this year)

 

That's a great point.

 

Amazing how the position has become devalued when you look back at the Herschel Walker mega-trade (1989) and Ricky Williams being traded for the Saints draft board (1999).

[2018 draft would you be upset if]

This is a serious question to you and everyone else.

 

Let's just say you are in charge of the Bills and the draft. We have the team we have now. Everyone including you knows we need a QB. You spend months and months scouting players live, watching film, meeting with your scouts, interviewing coaches and the quarterbacks, going to combine and pro days. Everything.

 

There are let's say two guys you think are clearly above the others. Those are the guys you want. Two guys you like a lot but have serious reservations about. And two guys you think are not as good as others think and probably overhyped.

 

I don't know this but I would bet this is BASICALLY true of every GM. Maybe they like three guys a lot, maybe only one. But you get the picture.

 

The question and point is, if both of the two guys you LOVE are gone already, no matter how hard you tried to trade up to get him, do you draft a QB at 15 or 20 that you are not completely sold on because you think you need a franchise QB, instead of a guy available you love at a position of need who was graded much higher than the QB. And just hope the QB works out?

 

Becaus that is the most likely scenario. We are not getting one of the top two guys. None of them are sure things. Everyone including them have questions. We have a bunch of holes to fill. Do you just draft the QB and hope?

 

In general terms I would not take the QB in that scenario.

 

The only thing I'd counter with is that this only takes into account one year. At some point I think you have to take a chance and reach for a QB. They did it with EJ and it didn't work out, but I had no problem with it. But I wouldn't want to do that every year.

[2017 World Series Thread]

It's interesting how differently the bullpens are being managed. HInch is giving his guys a chance to succeed, Roberts is managing his scared (of course it didn't help that Darvish was so bad).

 

That double play Houston turned early was a thing of beauty.

[Share some music thread]

 

That's a great one!

 

I actually linked to it a few pages back but for some reason the video didn't embed.

[2017 World Series Thread]

 

 

 

Let's change the subject. My balls hurt.

 

Murphy and Turner?

[2017 World Series Thread]

 

I never thought the mistake was letting Harvey go out for the ninth. The mistake was not being decisive about it -- Harvey had to lobby him hard and who knows what impact that had on a head case like Harvey.

 

And then he left him in too long.

 

That still pisses me off, should have been the Mets series but not for that and Familia and his idiotic 'slide step'.

Nailed it.

[Kaep will sit at table with Owners: What would you ask him?]

So he's allowed no interest in pursuing his own career in parallel?

 

You can acknowledge you are risking something but still be willing to fight for it, no? Or once you make the statement you just have to grin and watch those that oppose you bury you because you knew there was risk of backlash?

 

He can do as he pleases. I can think and express what I think.

 

I find it hypocritical that he acknowledged and accepted that his protest could jeopardize his career and then filed a lawsuit when it actually did.

[2017 World Series Thread]

Seemed like he broke his wrists on that one. Game should maybe be over...

I think Puig got the pitch he wanted there and just missed....

 

I think the Astros caught a similar break earlier, but yes thats a strike regular season

[2017 World Series Thread]

 

I really like Dave Roberts, but that's over-managing your bullpen.

 

You'd expect that from Joe Torre in an All Star game. Ironically I was explaining that debacle to my boys a few hours ago.

[2017 World Series Thread]

 

It's interesting when you get into one of these long games because you see relievers who would normally never get into a close playoff game.

 

Agreed. I like when the post season tests the full roster like the regular season.

[Kaep will sit at table with Owners: What would you ask him?]

(whether you agree with him and his view on the statistics or not - I think he genuinely sees a problem that he is trying to help fix at risk to his own well being)

 

Last year he openly acknowledged his protest could jeopardize his career. Seemed genuine until he lost his job and filed a law suit.

[2017 World Series Thread]

At this point, whose bullpen is worse? I'm guessing the Astros based on the closer and the next guy almost nutting the 2B umpire on a pickoff.

[Kaep will sit at table with Owners: What would you ask him?]

What I would ask:

 

Has your protest had the intended effect of placing focus on concerns you raised or have those concerns been overshadowed by a discussion about your form of protest or your NFL employability?

 

Has your lawsuit against the NFL put even more distance between you and your original intention?

[Cam Newton under fire for comment toward female reporter]

I remember defending him after the Super Bowl interview walk off.

 

I was wrong, he's a child.

[This offseason Quarterback options]

It seems like for many fans in-season the focus is on off-season and vice versa.

[The Song[s] You Sing Too Loud Every Time, Though Embarassing]

Careless Whisper

[How many classes did you fail in school?]

Always liked this line:

 

1987--Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a player who received four Fs and one D:

"Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject."

[2017 World Series Thread]

 

Verlander is due for an off start, but Rich Hill would concern me more. I think he will get lit up.

 

You are a complete dumb-a$$!!!!

 

What Hill did against Altuve was impressive. Made him swing like a girl on the 1st inning strike out and then had him over-swinging in a crucial 2nd at bat.