SinceThe70s

He made a highlight reel catch when his LF was already settled under the ball a few games back (might have been against the Yanks). Over aggressive on the ball tonight, either over aggressive or crowd noise on the earlier one.

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.

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.

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"?

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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%.

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.

Not a fan of the negativity but The Loss Boys?

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).

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.

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.

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

Murphy and Turner?

Nailed it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

I remember defending him after the Super Bowl interview walk off. I was wrong, he's a child.

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

Careless Whisper

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."