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So are we going to fix the keeper situation?

Salvador Perez 7
Jake Lamb 11
Mike Trout 3
George Springer 12
Nelson Cruz 15
Justin Smoak 12
Aaron Judge 13
Ryan Zimmerman 11
ALex Colome  19
Brandon Maurer 16
Alex Cobb 20

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Tyler Chatwood. A Cub.

Slam.

Guy doesn't get his own thread?

"Tyler" is almost as bad a first name as "Chipper".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohXn8WKpYaA

One of my favorite Carlin clips, mainly because most every Todd I've come across is a dick-weed of the first order.

Hi

Quote from: Andy on February 22, 2017, 06:44:31 AM
I'm cool with whatever categories, I just want to make my annual plea to dump the LF-RF-CF designations so you can just play outfielders. 

I find it to be more of a pain in the ass than some sort of interesting strategy.

Quote from: PenFoe on January 30, 2017, 06:00:12 PM
League has been renewed.

In an effort to keep things fresh, we're going to dress up and role play change a few categories for 2017.

Here's how it's currently set-up - would love some feedback.  

Goal here (for pitchers) is to have the best to balance between starters and relievers, while also increasing the overall pool of players from waivers that are rosterable.

Pitchers:  
Previous            New
Wins                 Wins
Ks                     Ks
ERA                  ERA
WHIP                WHIP
Saves                Saves + Holds (combined category)
Holds                Quality Starts
                      K/9

Other realistic options - either to add or replace:
Innings Pitched
Total Based Allowed
On-Base Percentage Against (this is probably my favorite option, but it's not that different from WHIP, so I'd think one or the other.)  

Hitters (adding one since we added one for pitchers):
Previous            New
Runs                 Runs
HR                    HR
RBI                   RBI
SB                    SB
AVG.                 AVG.
OPS                  OPS
                      Total Bases

Other realistic options - either to add or replace:
Basically nothing.

If we want to go back to 6 categories, then we can remove Total Bases and remove one of either Quality Starts or K/9 for pitchers.
Another option is to replace Wins with Quality starts, but then it's a category only for starters (whereas relievers can pick up wins.)  

Would love thoughts.  

Other information:
Keepers Due: 3/24
Draft Date: 3/26 (Sunday before Opening Day, per tradition.  Currently set for 8pm Central Time)

You should have received an invite, but let me know if you didn't.

I'm expecting some turnover this year (Simmer, Thrill...) so if you're interested and have no played in the past, post here.  
Or we can play with 10.

I too think the OF assignments are dumb and vote to have three OF only.
also where is the keeper spreadsheet to know what round we can keep them in?

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Quote from: Oleg on October 12, 2016, 10:44:49 AM
...I just really don't understand the public fatalism about your favorite team.  Like, what's the point?  I get the annoying 'have faith' Tweets, etc but why the rush to call your favorite team dead?  Do you think it makes you look smarter when they lose?  Do you think you'll get to point to your Tweets as some sort of a 'told you so' moment that, literally, no one will care about?  Is this some weird race to scoop all other fans?

I'm not talking about the fact based criticism...that's all cool.  It's the absolutist nature of "they're done...forever" mentality about a team you've spent teh past 6 months (and a lifetime) rooting for puzzles the shit out of me.  Like will it be so much more painful to just see how it plays out?  Are you just preparing yourself for the scars of disappointment? Does victory feel better once you've written them off?

I'm serious...what's up with that?
Also, asking for a friend.

Because people feel various emotions about sports and sometimes they like to talk about what they're feeling and how they're processing.

But why project the fatalism?  "I feel angry because of a base hit" seems different than "fuck this team they're done."

I consider myself more of group A than group B in this scenario as I tend to hope to the last while bitching relentlessly anyway (I could not imagine being one of those people who just turned off the game before the 9th, for instance) but I think the public projection of fatalism is kind of a defense mechanism, where if they just say aloud "they're done" they can kind of start to remove themselves emotionally from a stressful situation they can't really handle?

I have no idea who's in what camp.  I'm not angry about any of it...anyone can do whatever they want with their fandom whether I understand it or not.  It's just weird.  I was stressed AF last night.  The panic was set in deeply and nicely in the pit of my stomach.  But to be so public about any declaration that the team is done...man, I don't know.

Quote from: SKO on October 12, 2016, 10:56:44 AM
....I resent being lumped in entirely with the Fatalists. Hell I went back and reviewed my entire stream of gameday tweets and not once did I say they were done, god dammit. The most fatalistic thing I said was "this offense is so fucked right now". The rest were the aforementioned "expressing emotions in real time".

Yeah...this is true.  I think I was assuming things that weren't there and annoyed at a strawman.

It is splitting small, angry hairs but while I am definitely a Rage Tweeter I try to avoid public declarations of 1) THERE DOOMEDDDD 2)I SEEN IT TOO MANY TIMES 3)GOATS SAME OLD CUBS ETC. I prefer to just focus my overreactions on specific plays/players/managerial decisions rather than Generic Cubs Fatalism.

Oh fuck off
@StartKyleOrton: Fuck everything
@StartKyleOrton: Just fucking kill me
@StartKyleOrton: He's out. Let's just all end this Jonestown style
@StartKyleOrton: I'm sure the Cubs patient ABs will result in a gritty run against Moore before they get shut out by the Giants pen
@StartKyleOrton: This offense is so fucking fucked.
@StartKyleOrton: The real heroes are the people who have been scolding everyone for being downers since the 8th inning last night
@StartKyleOrton: IT'S OUR EVEN YEAR NOW


All that complete horseshit rageahol tweeting like an 11 year old, then an IT'S OUR EVEN YEAR NOW.  Unplug your tv, throw away your phone, delete your account, go do your RA duties, and stop watching the games if hate everything that much.  Not sure what's worse, the horrid tweeting or after the cubs come back and win then giving the ol' "tee-hee j/k everybody we win and forget all that i sent out into the world wide webbing over the last 3 hours".  Grow up. 

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Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on September 29, 2016, 08:37:04 AM
Anyone win the ticket lottery?

I did.

What the fuck dude.
I thought you and Kerm both died.

Mrs. Butthead was asking about Pre a week or so ago. One of two Desipiot clients we had. I said he disappeared and maybe he died or something.

Saw her and Frank the Tank on Milwaukee the other day while walking to dinner.  Had a pleasant convo about the raccoon walking along the curb mere feet away at 5:30pm in broad daylight.  What at time to live in the suburbs!

Quote from: ChuckD on March 22, 2016, 08:22:55 PM
I believe we're waiting on keeper picks from:

Fernando's New Jeans
Gitles N' Bits
Health Connection

Did mine get posted on the site?  I didn't put them here but thought I filled it out correctly on yahoo

concordiasucks@yahoo.com

Quote from: Tonker on February 02, 2016, 12:49:25 AM
The point about Twitter is a) not everybody's from the Shoutbox is on there, b) it lacks the same immediacy and isn't really suited to group discussions, and c) there are real people on there from our actual lives so we can't have... erm... the type of conversations... that we sometimes have in the Shoutbox.  I think you know what I'm saying.

In conclusion: Twitter is a cunt.

#TEAMSHOUTBOX

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Quote from: SKO on January 26, 2016, 11:52:52 AM
That's kind of a shitty thing to do, Pen. Pay for your fucking content. MLB At Bat is 2.99 a month. Good god.

I don't even know what MLB At Bat is.

I just used Yeti's log-in to listen to a Cubs game on the radio once and then I found another source.  

Thief.

No worse than you stealing oxygen from people who actually possess the ability for cognitive thought.

Do you borrow Yeti's desipio premium subscription, too? Must be a pain in the ass having to update the profile info based on which of you is logged on.

I have to say I never thought you could sink lower in my estimation but to find out you steal from Yeti's hard earned shine money is a new low. All so you can listen to a measly baseball game to keep yourself from getting bored when you're not defending Roethlisberger from rape allegations.

YAASSSSSSSSSSSS QUUUUUEEEENNNNNNNNNN

holy shit

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Quote from: Yeti on December 15, 2015, 09:06:21 AM
Any of you cool people get with the times and try a standing desk? Opinions, if so? I'll welcome opinions of those who haven't tried them as well

Half my office uses one. 

I don't, because I'm lazy.

What I gather from people who use them - they seem to use them a lot in the morning and then as the day passes, they convert them back to sitting desks. 
But, as long as you have that option, they seem pretty positive about them for 4 hours/day or so.

I'm in a cube, which means I couldn't easily convert from one to the other. It could maybe be done, but it would be tough. That's my worry: I wouldn't want to just go from sitting my fat ass in a chair then to 9 hours a day standing

Yeah, you'll definitely want one that can convert between the two modes. If you go directly from sitting 9 hours a day right to standing 9 hours a day, you're going to have a really bad time.

I built a standing desk in to my home office, but have a drafting stool I sit on when I need to give my legs a rest.

I converted the full cubicle to a standing desk, and I'm looking at the route of a drafting stool. Best part of this project is that it didn't cost $600 for the desk like the 6 that our director's office purchased in the last year. Most of those are people new to the state and will be gone within 4 year because that's the nature of their jobs. So, fuck the notion that state workers are wasteful.

PICS

But, of course

Nice that you could time-share your cubicle with Oleg, Shorty.

Seriously - this is PRE-standing desk, correct?

If Yeti "building a standing desk" literally consisted of him removing a chair and calling it a day I will laugh forever.

What would you expect from a guy who has a calculator sitting next to a computer?

Accountants don't do that?

The desk was raised about 18 inches.

This is an absolute joke, correct?  Were you sitting on a lounge chair?  Did you shrink to 4'10" and that's how you can stand at that?  I honestly do not understand any of this.

And I also have an adding machine next to my computer.

Yettoe's guy makes an appearance!!  And Peoria! 

http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/10/the-daily-show-peoria-mayor-twitter-parody/

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Guys I posted here about a decade ago (and once in the late 2000s, or so, who the fuck cares) as RockTheIvy. You guys commiserated with me in 2004. What a clusterfuck. This was amazing. When the Cubs made the postseason, I realized I needed to come back here. Where the fuck else could a long time loser spend his time? With fucking Yellon? Of course. This is fucking special. I hope you're all well. I'll stick around here this time.

And fuck Matt Carpenter/Dickface Holiday/Pudding-brain Matheny. They can play the game the right way in hell.

Speaking as a semi-active poster, unlike you crazy people that don't seem to ever have to do work all day and have thousands of posts, I love seeing some old accounts active again. This team, man. This is fun.

I concur. Bring all the old posters back, except for Paul and Earl Cunningham

What about me?

hi again

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He and I (and Huey) wrote for GROTA together a few years back.  I lobbied Kurt Evans hard to have Sloth removed from the roster because what he was writing was completely fucking embarrassing, and when he wouldn't do it, I left instead.

Weird, I have no recollection of those Emails. Was that an exchange on Gmail?

Search me, it was ten years ago now.  There were two or three occasions when he posted stuff that was downright embarrassing and I told you it had no place on the site.  I had no desire whatsoever to be associated in any way with his bollocks: at one point, I thought I was going to have to get my arse cheeks surgically unclenched.  If you don't remember that, there's not much I can do about it, but I've never made a secret of my disdain for what Sloth was writing back then: it was absolute fucking mince.

Well, I went back into my email and searched, both your gmail and siemens email addresses. The conversation never happened. To be fair, I 100% believe you when you say that that was your opinion, and if you'd brought it to my attention at the time with a "him-or-me" ultimatum I probably would've told you to pack sand anyway, because I don't like it when people make ultimatums. So, take it for what you will, I guess. As far as I can tell, you never even Emailed us a resignation -- I think you just posted about it on the site and moved over to HJE sometime soon after. Maybe it was then that you called out the Sloth.

The last few exchanges I ever had with you were when I paid you a few bucks for your writing contributions to the site and when I posted something on Facebook about not being impressed by the Stone Roses (or it might have been the Smiths) and you were so offended by my opinion that you lit into me and basically called me a moron. I decided at that point that I didn't really care to know you. That said, I'm sure you're a really great guy and I still think you're way more talented and funny a writer than many, especially including myself. I can't blame you for misremembering something that happened nearly a decade ago.

Fuck me.  Nobody said anything about an ultimatum, either.  I said I lobbied you to remove Sloth from the roster and when you didn't, I left.  Twat.

Sorry, I misread what you'd written. But it's really a moot point. It's the past and there's no point in dwelling on it. I hope you're enjoying your vacation, you've picked an excellent time to be in Chicago.

There was only one of us dwelling on it, but thank you for your kind wishes.

I'm only in this thread because you were talking about it and I was quite surprised. You had lots of good reasons for leaving GROTA, and I think everyone's happy by how it worked out.

Ever since you said that you turned down SBNation's offer to run BCB, before they offered it to Al, you've been dead to me.  The way I see it, that Al exists is your fault.

Just think of all the Mitch Hill photoshops we would have had the chance to enjoy.  Damn it, Kurt.

You may make your fun, but years from now people will still be talking about Mitch Hill and his villainous mustache. Search your heart - you know it's true.

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