Blocking a trade your front office made and personally asking for a trade are two different things. My view was that Longoria always liked Tampa, and knew the financial constraints the Rays would perpetually be working with, when he originally made the decision to sign the extension. But I see your point.

I don’t think it’s foolish. Bradley’s peak was when he was being challenged for (and succeeding in getting) playing time with Roma, which coincided with his best performances for the USMNT. Altidore had the same opportunity at Sunderland, yet squandered it. If he hadn’t, who knows what type of player he could’ve been,…

Good to know Brian McCann is still alive, still staring people down unnecessarily.

I want to be fair to Souza, but (to me, at least) his form on that slide (particularly the way he tucked his right leg behind him) looks awkward/bad, which makes me wonder if the surface itself really made that much of a difference. It feels like a league-wide problem, too, guys just having terrible sliding…

As a group, yes. But there are a few of us good ones out there. Though we end up having to apologize for the rest. At least we’re not Cardinals fans, though.

As a fellow Braves fan, I feel like half the time I’m having to make sure people know that it doesn’t also mean I’m a right-wing, racist asshole. About the only consolation in that regard is that at least we’re not Cardinals fans. Fuck the Cardinals.

You’re proving his point, D20887.

He wasn’t even the most thrilling detestable player in their middle infield. FTFY.

Actually, any GM with half a brain (and the budget to do so) makes that deal, because it was (at the time) for an ace pitcher with 5+ years of very good statistical track record, who had virtually no prior serious injury history to speak of.

Better than Kaminsky, at least.

+1 Tourrette’s

“Like a dude hit me” = slapped in the face. Seems about right.

He would’ve if he’d used my tried-and-true “hot ice” method of after-game therapy. You see, you heat up the ice cubes! It’s the best of both worlds!

The biggest part of the problem, for me, is how we teach and coach the game of football, and by extension, how we legislate it. Basic (legal) tackling, to me, should always involve two things: (1) your head being up, and (2) using your arms to wrap up the opponent. Doing the former, in my mind, without fail always…

+1 Go Deacs! Fellow alumnus (graduate school), still a Dash resident.

Let’s hear some chatter out there, guys. “Eeeeeeeasssy out, Eeeeeeassy out...”

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