Recent content by 50PoundHead

Easier to set your beer on your head.

I appreciate that. I am a septuagenarian and I've been a few places. And I have some stories from some of those places that I will take to my grave.

The ghost of Don Shula disagrees. If nothing else, I have lived an interesting life and have some good stories. I knew a guy who played in the NFL for over a decade and his last stop was with the Dolphins. During Dolphins' training camp, Shula was a fitness nut and would force the team to run...

There are a few of us--like Henry the Fifth's Band of Brothers--who have been more balanced than some of the over-the-top Anthopoulos defenders who seem to blame everyone above him and below him for when things come up short. Add to that, I think there was more than one of the group (and I was...

He was part of the 2024 international class but older at 19 than other members of the class (maybe he was just being honest about his age). Just looking at the two-dimensionals his K numbers aren't eye-popping, but I will leave it to Deester (that should be a new baseball scouting show for...

That behavior is within the circle of old school baseball philosophy and I saw a ton of it up here in Minnesota when Andy McPhail and Terry Ryan were GMs and Tom Kelly, Ron Gardenhire, and Paul Molitor managed. They just felt it was unfair to the fans and the remaining team to not put a...

It's safe to say that they will be wearing name tags in the Padres' locker room tomorrow.

Is that the track workout where you funnell up and down the distances as in do a 100 yard, followed by a 220, followed by a 440, followed by an 880, followed by a 440, followed by a 220, followed by a 100? I was a quarter-miler (also ran the half a few times) and our track coach made us do that...

The drunk said "My head is spinning" and Anthopoulos asked "Is it at least 2500 rpm?"

Cease is an expiring contact, so it's plausible we could have him for two months to play out this year.

It depend on if Preller wants any value coming back. He could just send some salaries to us for negligible return.

Always a gamble when you are trading for 18-year-olds, but depending on which pitchers head to the A's, that's a decent deal for them. As I said above, there just wasn't a package we could have put together for Miller. I imagine Preller is playing spin-the-bottle to come up with some salary...

I thought of former Brave RHP Pat Jarvis and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman actor Graham Jarvis.

All true. My only point is that he may have reasons we are unaware of and we have to accept that. It might not make sense to us. I think from a baseball standpoint, he's crazy to not want to leave. He's not going to build up value playing half-time for the rest of the season.

Agree. All you do is cycle your young stars for prospects and if any of the prospects turn out, you end up trading them or another set of prospects, and so on and so on and so on. Pirates are a puzzler to some extent. Their drafts have gotten high marks. Their international signings have...