Good for Mondesi. He isn’t Vlad. I can’t say with impunity that he does not have immaturity within him, but this fella saying he does with zero context, reference, citation, is talking out his ass. Mondesi ≠ Vlad because they happened to both be young at point. 

Cody Brock. Glad one of us can answer a question directly.

soooo, you were talking out your ass?

can you please cite your examples of emotional fragility?

That oppo taco was very Harper-esque. I’d have to go back and look at them side by side, but Harper hit a carbon copy of that jack last season in the top of the first on a visit to Anaheim. Mike Trout went deep to the same spot in the bottom half.

Yes even as a Yankees fan I have to give him his due. He showed a lot of GRIT last night to pull that start together and keep his team in it.

Do you want steroids in baseball? Because that’s how you get steroids in baseball.

P.S.

it’s funny because I can.

this is not good.

Joe Rogan: “You can see Mantella drawing on his experience in MMA here. The swan was sticking out his neck, like he was begging for the choke. Mantella didn’t take the bait and delivered a really nice kick to the head. Really well done.”

As a proud Canadian, I’ve been on BlackBerry since high school, and am still rocking them to this day. On my secnd BlackBerry Priv. My sister has the KeyOne and loves it.

I guess this is one of those times it sucks to be a Canadian.

yeah the arm snapping back is cause for caution for sure, I know, because I used to do that too and lost a year to arm injuries. I cleaned that up. I just wanted to make sure that you weren’t basing it off that alone, I wasn’t being snarky.

I don’t know if you’ve watched one of his starts yet, but his 95-99mph number one looks nothing like what you’re seeing in that .gif, if that is in fact what you’re basing your opinion off of. He throws 97mph like it’s nothing.

I wanted LBJ to head to the Knicks when he opted to take his talents to South Beach. It just doesn’t sit well with me that the Knicks have been as bad as they have for as long as they have. This is the supposed MECCA of hoops. I have no horse in the race, but that should be a thing. He’s not the hero their fanbase…

I took similar exception to the vast overuse of the word ‘epic’ in it’s rise to commonality. Keep fighting the good fight, Neil.

AND got a knock off Cody Allen

An NL team would only be able to play him once a week without the DH. Being in the AL gets him a few DH appearances a week and a start. As another commenter mentioned, he makes a rookie salary and was entitled to a signing bonus of the singing teams international free agent pool money.

Go check out any ESPN article chronicling his ST performances. The comment threads are chock full of it.

haha, right? He/she envisions anchor positions like the general populous thinks of intelligence assets as James Bond types.