Malike

Not Bochy, lol. He's riding his starters to stay out of the pen.

No, it was a player talking trash, carry on with your elite comprehension skills.

Looks like a rain forecast for Sat. We shall see.

I'm sure they'll put the best on the mound for the first three games. Gibby will be in the pen I'd guess.

He's a walking injury, not even just the TJ. Would have been a bad contract I believe for any team.

I would have been furious if we signed deGrom for 185M dollars. I also never complain that they don't spend money. It would be nice if they'd lock up some of the young guys, but that's not a thing for this team.

I don't agree with the Scrooge thing either, but I've never been a fan of the Yankee way of buying championships, it rarely works, so we have that going for us I guess, which is nice.

I'd rather we played the Rays too. At least they didn't spend half a billion dollars in the off-season or whatever.

They lost 3/4 to Seattle coming into the playoffs, they were dominated, and they lost the chance to win the division. That's how hot they were. They got hot in the last two games, I guess.

Was listening to the post game for the Rangers on the radio. Marcus seems to think they have the advantage as we've been "sitting around for a week, waiting to play baseball" and they are tuned up.

They sell a subscription for that.

I'll be splurging and going to the WS if they make it that far.

Yeah, NY'ers have been moving to Florida for decades. That's the main problem, so many people moving there and keeping their teams and not adopting the Rays. Being from NY it's one of the reasons I don't want to live in Florida, I don't want to be around NY'ers when I leave here.

Doesn't matter where the team is, Florida is a horrible baseball state.

The big knock about why the people don't go to games is the location, so what do they do? Well, build a new stadium, of course. In the same location. You all wanted Texas? Be careful what you wish for.

Probably? Moose just turned 20, and his balls have barely dropped!

Apparently, the metadata in the video had proven this was not the case. I've been around women who were legitimately sexually assaulted, I can assure you not one of them was smiling afterward, or even capable of making eye contact after the incident. I have never seen someone legitimately sexually assaulted lying comfortably in the bed next to the monster who did it to her taking videos of herself and him. I have no information about the other incidents, but this case was thrown out by the Judge, and due to the lack of evidence, it was the right decision by the Judge.

There are a lot of variables so I'll leave out ones like statutory and familial as they are by far the most common offenses and result in the most convictions. If we're discussing random assaults, I'd estimate about 10% were actual, legitimate offenses and I believe that is because the the vast majority of offenses that are legitimate are not reported unless there is real bodily harm and someone starts asking questions in the ER or they actually call the Police. Straight-up fabrication is more common but mostly by younger persons or people in the "business". I've had many cases with women who weren't paid and filed a report that they were sexually assaulted. I'm honestly shocked myself how many times someone has reported a sexual assault when their partner found out they had cheated on them and actually went through the process of making a formal complaint. There are many college-age kids who report sexual assault and they are very hard to make an arrest due to circumstances between the parties. The boyfriend cheated on his girlfriend and the girlfriend reports the drunk boyfriend has sexually assaulted her is pretty common as well. We do treat every single complaint as if it's legitimate and do our due diligence, but the lion's share is usually unfounded or outright fabricated once you put people into interview rooms and start asking questions over the course of several hours. There are plenty of young men who have recorded their encounters and have proven they had not sexually assaulted anyone, although, that's creepy in itself, but it's the day and age we live in and I suppose a class E felony which would get plead down to a misdemeanor is a much better outcome, for illegally recording the act than it would be to be convicted of sexual assault. It's an extremely difficult thing for someone who is legitimately sexually assaulted, not just for them and their families/loved ones, but for me, as both an investigator and a father of young women. I understand how hard it is for people to file these reports and I wish there were better systems in place to support them and help them to report legitimate offenses, they often go unreported and it's sad. I'll be glad when I retire in January after 27 years of this.

I'm not defending any ideas, defend the facts. Facts don't care if you're a good guy or a bad guy, nor do they care about anyone's feelings. In regard to *this* situation, the facts show he was done dirty. Is your hill that "bad guys" should get whatever comes their way, despite it being justified or not, and therefore shouldn't be treated fairly?

You weren't crucified. Now you are playing the victim in this thread too.

I'm not sure if you've watched the video, she's literally in bed with him while he sleeps and she's taking a selfie video of him and her and she's smiling, this is the morning after she alleged she was beaten, she had no marks on her face or body and was smirking into the camera. That is what ended this whole thing, the judge said nothing she alleged happened. I'm not interested in the rest of the stuff, but being an investigator I am interested in the facts. I've investigated over a hundred alleged sexual assaults and if most people knew how many allegations are easily proven false percentage wise, they would be pretty shocked. I had a case with a girl alleging she was viciously raped by 3 guys in college. We spent a ton of resources to protect this girl and make a good case so these animals went to prison for a long time. Turns out one of them filmed it on his phone, it was completely consensual from the video, her boyfriend found out that she cheated and she took the I was raped route. She was charged herself for reporting a false incident. It happens more than people would ever realize and the lives of 3 young men were not drastically changed forever because someone said something.

Tampa, because I prefer the harder test.

I certainly wasn't trying to judge you. You literally asked for people to tell you what you could possibly be missing and when they did, you got mad. You even made a snarky comment to me about being concerned about your well-being after I simply told you, that you watching the games doesn't make the team lose after you literally said they lose when you watch them so you don't watch them. I personally think you shouldn't ask people for suggestions on things when you are not prepared for some of the answers that you might not like.

I read this as you only like them when they are good. Like I said, fan how you want to, but if you don't want the bad with the good then maybe baseball isn't really your thing anymore after 50 years of watching and playing it.

Sure, 20 rWAR isn't a star over a career, and I think a lot of people just assume because a guy is highly ranked on the top 100 lists they are going to be a star. I'm not suggesting you think this, just stating the obvious, most guys on a top 100 list are more likely to fade into oblivion than become an everyday MLB regular.