See Alvarez, Yordan. Who else saw that? The Dodgers even thought they wanted the ‘other’ one.
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Ok, Walt. I give up. Believe whatever you want about me. I have been as nice as I can be to OWA folks I know personally off the board, and if people I have met and know said unflattering things about me, I am more than surprised. I do not care at all what posters who do not know me say or think.
FWIW.
There have been many times that I have felt personally attacked by Jim for my comments or questions.
There are times I have reacted defensively and been thin skinned.
I often find Jim to be crotchety " get off my lawn" guy.
But I don’t recall him ever being profaine or disrespectful in his comments towards me.
I enjoy the content and insight the members here provide( especially Jim) so when that happens I just take a breath, back off for a day or so.
I try to remember that any single confrontation or viewpoint is not the sum of any person.
Then I forget it happened and moved on.
Nobody has ever given me further problems or held it against me.
I have always felt welcome and 90% of the time am happy here.
Thats my philosophy about being here.
If thats not helpful or welcome- Sorry I’ll wait for the backlash and be back in a couple of days LOL.
This is ridiculous. I do not know how long I have been posting here, but it has been a very long time. I enjoy close friendships with several current and former posters. I do not think I am “crotchety” or “get off my lawn”, but I do not suffer fools gladly. I despise attacks on current players. If I am considered to be unflattering things, so be it. There is an obvious solution.
I suggest everyone take a step back, read the thread just posted in the TZ, and hit the reset button.
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Button reset.
Like everyone else on here I respect Jim’s baseball acumen. And when he talks about a Gordon Lakey or a Roosevelt Leaks I think it is just cool as hell.
I like his stories about Moses too.
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I babysat him.
I feel like this is all my fault for posting that tweet in this thread instead of the Astros Prospect Rankings thread. My bad.
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You’re really not that much older than me. But I didn’t know him until he was a teen.
Good kid. I knew he’d go far.
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Butterfly effect
I apologize Jim.
I did not mean that to be insulting.
It was actually supposed to be a bit of a defense of you but went off the rails.
Many times I have not agreed with your responses to me but they hsve never been unacceptable or disrespectful.
Thats all I meant.
So YOU’RE the one that left him out in the river?
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The little guy wanted to swim.
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between an injury and his bat it was somewhat iffy on pena. His glove was never in doubt. Last year he showed a lot in AAA with the bat. We have been blessed that it has carried with him.
I completely missed Baltimore pulling within 3 of the WC.
They’ve been playing respectably of late.
If they can manage a WC in that division, Elias and the manager deserve lifetime extensions.
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Chris Sale returned tonight for Boston. Tossed 5 scoreless innings against the Rays but TB still ended up winning 3-2.
This play ranks up there with some of the ridiculous Astros fails from 2013:
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