Will Machado hit for power?

[Fired-Up]

Wow. I came on here. Asked a legitamte question and got a pretty frosty reception. It's all good. We'll just have to see if Machado can pick up the power.

[Orioles4Life21]

The point is that he's 20 and just played his first game so you can't just expect him to come out hitting bombs left and right.

[furryburres]

Wow. I came on here. Asked a legitamte question and got a pretty frosty reception. It's all good. We'll just have to see if Machado can pick up the power.

It wasn't the question that got people hostile toward you - it was the follow-up.

[Spoonless]

I didn't watch any of his minor league games, so his first 4 MLB at-bats aren't really going to give me enough information to form an opinion either way.

[mark_beckens]

Like I said. Men are done growing anywhere from age 21-25. Players get better due to experience not physical development.

I wasn't going to but now I have to. From this post, it's obvious you have never played the game.

[Pickles]

I don't know what's sadder and more pathetic:

The OP's need to make outlandish statements to draw attention, or a certain group of posters who can't resist giving it to him merely to display (mainly to themselves) their own intellectual superiority.

It's really an intricate dance of fragile and wounded egos.

[mark_beckens]

Wow. I came on here. Asked a legitamte question and got a pretty frosty reception. It's all good. We'll just have to see if Machado can pick up the power.

Looks into his crystal ball. Asks the question, will Manny Machado ever be a power hitter? Sorry Dionne Warwick was busy!

[SrMeowMeow]

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[Malike]

I don't know what's sadder and more pathetic:

The OP's need to make outlandish statements to draw attention, or a certain group of posters who can't resist giving it to him merely to display (mainly to themselves) their own intellectual superiority.

It's really an intricate dance of fragile and wounded egos.

#winner

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[Icterus galbula]

I don't know what's sadder and more pathetic:

The OP's need to make outlandish statements to draw attention, or a certain group of posters who can't resist giving it to him merely to display (mainly to themselves) their own intellectual superiority.

It's really an intricate dance of fragile and wounded egos.

Thank God you are here to make posts like these to set us all straight and add to the discourse. I'm just amazed you can see my fragile ego from way up on that high horse. If only I could be like you and NEVER get into a petty, ego-driven argument, right?

[SrMeowMeow]

I don't know what's sadder and more pathetic:

The OP's need to make outlandish statements to draw attention, or a certain group of posters who can't resist giving it to him merely to display (mainly to themselves) their own intellectual superiority.

It's really an intricate dance of fragile and wounded egos.

Ooh! Ooh! Can I nominate "guy who hangs back and tries to drily put down both sides of an argument in a veritable symphony of passive-aggression because he's been burned too many times before to actually try to stake out a legitimate position and thinks that it's easier to be too cool for school than to engage in honest debate but ends up looking like some sort of poser whose ultimate aspiration is to condescend" as a write-in?

I know everyone talks up their candidates - it is awards season, after all - but I really think my guy has a good shot.

[Flash- bd]

I don't know what's sadder and more pathetic:

The OP's need to make outlandish statements to draw attention, or a certain group of posters who can't resist giving it to him merely to display (mainly to themselves) their own intellectual superiority.

It's really an intricate dance of fragile and wounded egos.

Yeah, except this very post is a sad attempt to demonstrate your intellectual superiority to the people who constantly call you out on your nonsense.

In the twitter-speak format of Malike:

#actor-observer bias#hypocrisy#your own insecurity clothed in sententiousness

I'm not even a part of the "group of [those] posters" you speak--as it was totally pointless to engage, and as I said, indulge him (I know myself how useless it is from my experiencing arguing with you)--but I know those posters' reasons for going after him were more down to lack of self-restraint and the compulsion to point out asinine comments for what they are. Your comment is the only one that's quite clearly our of insecurity and hope to placate your wounded ego, and done in bad faith.

If anything, the posters who were attacking Fired-Up's impotent, absurd assertions were paying him a compliment in doing so. The only people who are really d***s in this whole thing are you, and yes, myself, who stood on the outside and commented on it (but in my defense I'm pretty sure Fired-Up doesn't read my posts, and I'm also not sure if he understands them...particularly the "extinction" one).

[Pickles]

Thank God you are here to make posts like these to set us all straight and add to the discourse. I'm just amazed you can see my fragile ego from way up on that high horse. If only I could be like you and NEVER get into a petty, ego-driven argument, right?

I didn't say any names. Wear the shoe as you see it fits.

And it's not about engaging in an ego-driven argument. It's about assuring us the whole time you're above the argument, and yet, engaging in it nonetheless.

And to be clear, you weren't on my mind when I made that post.

[Pickles]

Yeah, except this very post is a sad attempt to demonstrate your intellectual superiority to the people who constantly call you out on your nonsense.

In the twitter-speak format of Malike:

#actor-observer bias#hypocrisy#your own insecurity clothed in sententiousness

I'm not even a part of the "group of [those] posters" you speak--as it was totally pointless to engage, and as I said, indulge him (I know myself how useless it is from my experiencing arguing with you)--but I know those posters' reasons for going after him were more down to lack of self-restraint and the compulsion to point out asinine comments for what they are. Your comment is the only one that's quite clearly our of insecurity and hope to placate your wounded ego, and done in bad faith.

If anything, the posters who were attacking Fired-Up's impotent, absurd assertions were paying him a compliment in doing so. The only people who are really d***s in this whole thing are you, and yes, myself, who stood on the outside and commented on it (but in my defense I'm pretty sure Fired-Up doesn't read my posts, and I'm also not sure if he understands them...particularly the "extinction" one).

If it's nonsense w no basis, both myself and this fired up guy, why go through so much trouble to respond?

[Icterus galbula]

I didn't say any names. Wear the shoe as you see it fits.

And it's not about engaging in an ego-driven argument. It's about assuring us the whole time you're above the argument, and yet, engaging in it nonetheless.

And to be clear, you weren't on my mind when I made that post.

I didn't know if I was who you had in mind or not, but that wasn't the point. Your post was dripping with hypocrisy.