2016 MLB thread. THE CUBS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE! Chicago Cubs are your 2016 World Series champions

jumpmanfromdabay · Mar 10, 2016

dland24 said:
Cant wait for him to be a Giant!

JCMojica24 · Mar 10, 2016

Harper is that dude i'm glad to see that he has finally come into his own.

johnnyredstorm · Mar 10, 2016

Wilpons are gonna pay him Matt Harvey's money

nick. · Mar 10, 2016

Hal gonna hand Bryce a blank check & let him keep his beard

nick. · Mar 10, 2016

oh man....

"Bautista is a f---ing disgrace to the game," Goose Gossage told ESPN. "He's embarrassing to all the Latin players, whoever played before him. Throwing his bat and acting like a fool, like all those guys in Toronto. [Yoenis] Cespedes, same thing."

"It is a joke," Gossage said. "The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it.

"I'll tell you what has happened, these guys played Rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the f--- they went and they thought they figured the f---ing game out. They don't know s---.

"A bunch of f---ing nerds running the game. You can't slide into second base. You can't take out the f---ing catcher because [Buster] Posey was in the wrong position and they are going to change all the rules. You can't pitch inside anymore. I'd like to knock some of these f---ers on their *** and see how they would do against pitchers in the old days."

"Ryan Braun is a f---ing steroid user. He gets a standing ovation on Opening Day in Milwaukee. How do you explain that to your kid after throwing people under the bus and lying through his f---ing teeth? They don't have anyone passing the f---ing torch to these people.

"If I had acted like that, you don't go in that f---ing dugout. There are going to be 20 f---ing guys waiting for you."

http://es.pn/1TxaMeT

Hahahaha · Mar 10, 2016

I love Goose's comments about nerds ruining baseball. He's right, it's not just baseball. Some of these new stats over the last few years in sports or so ****** ridiculous. I don't **** with Charles Barkley but he's said it about basketball a few times too. These ****** nerds.

I actually like pretty much everything he said except for the latin players stuff. The Buster Posey rule is weak as **** and a dumb *** rule.

madj55 · Mar 10, 2016

Another old man complaining about the game changing :lol

jumpmanfromdabay · Mar 10, 2016

johnnyredstorm · Mar 10, 2016

Nerds in baseball actually make sense. There's stuff that can't be quantified by the naked eye sometimes.

jewbacca2 · Mar 10, 2016

Get off my lawn.

macbk · Mar 10, 2016

I wanna be a nerd for the league in their offices

. Interview went really well yesterday. Mix of talking the position and personal convo, which is what you want from the person you are meeting with.

EddieDoyers · Mar 10, 2016

Goose is right about Ryan Braun doe, **** him

dmxfury · Mar 10, 2016

And the Buster rule

Harper's comments :hat

dland24 · Mar 10, 2016

Even as a Giants fan, I was and am completely against the changing of the contact rule at home plate. Its BS. If Posey caught the ball, this wouldnt even have been an issue. It would have been like any normal collision at home plate. I hate when rules are changed because a superstar got hurt.

rell lauren · Mar 10, 2016

Ballerific703 said:
I love Goose's comments about nerds ruining baseball. He's right, it's not just baseball. Some of these new stats over the last few years in sports or so ****** ridiculous. I don't **** with Charles Barkley but he's said it about basketball a few times too. These ****** nerds.

I actually like pretty much everything he said except for the latin players stuff. The Buster Posey rule is weak as **** and a dumb *** rule.

It isn't just baseball or basketball. It has even taken over hockey with people using ******** stats like Corsi to rate how effective a player has been. You know your stat is wrong when it rates Dan Girardi as an effective D-Man when I can see for myself he's anything but.

Stat nerds have ruined sports. They've created niches for themselves to get placement in an industry by over analyzing and making up **** then justifying with numbers that most people can't understand so they get a pass. Sports isn't a difficult thing to follow if you actually sit and watch.

celticspride34 · Mar 10, 2016

I feel as though baseball is the sport that benefits most from "nerd stats"...

jewbacca2 · Mar 10, 2016

The nerd revolution is just starting. With the info becoming available from tracking batted balls and pitched balls, it's going to be easier and easier to identify desirable players.

johnnyredstorm · Mar 10, 2016

CelticsPride34 said:
I feel as though baseball is the sport that benefits most from "nerd stats"...

It is. Nerds are a necessity in today's age.

Jewbacca2 said:
The nerd revolution is just starting. With the info becoming available from tracking batted balls and pitched balls, it's going to be easier and easier to identify desirable players.

exactly. Tons of valuable info becoming known.

rook · Mar 10, 2016

madj55 said:
Another old man complaining about the game changing

His comments were so cringe. Coming at Jose and Ces, man sit your old *** down.

Reminds me of the old dudes in the NBA

nomnom · Mar 10, 2016

(7-1) x (2x2) :hat

Grats on the teaching job!

celticspride34 · Mar 10, 2016

The one thing that "nerd stats" can't account for is character though... And that's HUGE for any sport, but baseball the most IMO... Baseball is a sport you play basically every single day :lol

... You're with you're team mates more than your family during the season... I always compare the 04/07 and '11 Red Sox... The '11 had TONS more talent, but they never, ever got it together and is one of the worst teams I've ever seen... The 04/07 teams, while having Manny/Papi, were mostly loaded with average to good players all having great years... The difference was the character and make up of the teams...

Little thing I always bring up... Remember Curt Leskanic?... He was a middle reliever on the 04 Sox... He blew his arm out in the post season and kept pitching through it because the team needed a guy to eat innings... He never pitched again after that post season... Every single player pm a team will take notice of that and it will rile them up... It'll make them want to do better because it's a family...

Unless you're Manny... Then you're just oblivious yo the world :lol