Thursday a.m. Rangers things

But his uniform’s all baggy.

You can never tell how fat someone one is when they bust a sag.

You think it’s plausible that RWash is gonna put sane lineups out there.

Really, does anyone at this point? Isn’t this the same guy who hits Murphy in reverse split platoons? Who let Arias lead off? Who DH’d Laird, for chrissakes?

why does him looking like Grady Little make a difference. Ron sometimes makes stupid baseball decisions.

I don’t think he’ll hit against RHPs and not against LHPs.

in 1000 major league PA’s, he’s had a 70-30 split righties vs lefties.

He’s hit 50 points better in slugging and 10 points better in OBP and 20 points better in BA vs right handers.

In ~1500 minor league PA’s, he’s had about a 3-1 split righties vs lefties.

He’s hit 8 points better in slugging but 50 points worse in OBP and 45 points worse in BA vs right handed pitchers than left.

What does that mean? it means to me that he has no discernable platoon split.
It means that the 150 PA’s vs lefties in 2009 mean as little as the 42 PA’s vs lefties he had in 2008. (He hit .419/.514/.774).

So Adam Morris, your answer could easily be, “2008”

Good thing the Rangers divulged them selves of the two guys on their team with worse OBA’s. You know: Pudge and Blalock

>jab

We’re just going to take it one day at a time.

You wanna play good. You hope you play good. I think we played pretty good tonight.

Of when they let Jose Canseco pitch, saying, “Whats the worst thing that can happen” and then he blew out his arm and missed 6 months with TJ surgery.

Did he pay the family off yet?

A good lawyer will get you that kind of plea agreement.

Also, the family of the man he ran over wasn’t really asking for the book to be thrown at him…

I was talking about being fine with Vick’s sentence once and someone spazzed out on me, saying “Oh, so Vick has to go to jail for killing dogs but Stallworth only kills a dude so he doesn’t?” And I followed that up by wondering when I ever said I was fine with Stallworth’s sentence.

I feel like we as a society are too lenient on drunk driving. Goddam.

that one is still a bit up in the air, but I’ve been told that there’s no way he’ll go. Probably some short time in county with a trillion year suspended.

that “intent to distribute” means that it looks like you may do some trafficking, but there’s not hard evidence of it. Where “trafficking” means they probably have proof that you have already in fact distributed.

Though again, that’s just a guess. I really don’t know.

but in Oklahoma, there is a weight associated with a trafficking charge. I don’t remember off the top of my head for all of them, but I think the min. weight for meth trafficking is 30 grams. Intent to Distribute is more applicable to how you find the drugs. For example, if I get a guy with 25 grams of weed and it’s all in one baggie, an argument can be made that it’s all for personal use. But if the same 25 grams are all packaged seperately in smaller baggies of similar weight (5 baggies each weighing 5 grams) and he’s got a bunch of $10s or $20s with him, you can infer that he is possessing the drugs with the intent to distribute them.

In the being honest part, even fess up when he asks how fast you think you were going. I was doing 85 in a 60 when a HiPo pulled me over. He asked what I thought I was going and said told him, “Probably 85”. He said yup, and told me since I was being honest and not lieing about how fast I was going, he’d let me off with a warning. I was pleased.

And about the driving on the left side of the road, just tell him what my grandpa always used to say: “I pay taxes for both sides of the road!”

You were getting a ticket anyways right?

In fact, once I pulled a guy over for 20ish over the limit (which is when I start thinking it might be time to think about possibly writing a ticket…but I’d still probably reduce it), and when I asked him if he always went that fast, he replied with “that’s what she said.” It was a very Michael Scott type of moment…you could tell it was just a reflex for him to make that joke and as soon as it came out, he knew he had screwed up royally. But that was my big laugh for the day and he went away with a smile and a wave.

Don’t get me wrong…the world needs the cop who is somewhat heavy handed on traffic enforcement. If every cop was like me, no one would fear punishment for crazy-ass driving and they would just do whatever they wanted to and there’d be a lot of fatality crashes. But the world also needs cops like me to balance out the Buford T. Justices of the world.

just another dude giving vague references to having insider knowledge with an uppity tone. Cool, good for us.

That seems to be the main sticking point here. We’ve actually linked a page that shows someone claiming a higher amount. All you’ve brought to the table is “I know for a fact”. While I too am having a hard time finding a definite number on how much either Greenberg or Nolan have invested, I wasn’t the one stating a certain amount. The burden of proof is on you to back up your claim of “I know for a fact the number is $3 million”.

That’s really all we are asking you to do. We have the word of a “solid journalist” as you put it who said off-handed that it was over $5 mil, and you saying it is $3 mil. Forgive us for chastising you for your inablility or neglect of backing up your statement with evidence supporting it.

See: Torre, Joe.

The dude could roll up to the plate, swing at grapes in the dirt, and still hit .300

what do we care how fragile he is in the field.

In which case they should have signed him.

The “fantasy baseball” meme is a bit old, though. I was mocking it more than I was mocking Randy.

is downright foolish.