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On my biggest/first file I stopped playing in like summer of year 3. But I've had two other characters as well.

Because I watched YuGiOh.

Joe Panik's theme song

The fact that Greg Amsinger on MLB Network is griping about how we need to "fix" extra innings tells me that MLB is going to implement some moronic rule like automatically putting a guy on second or whatever. Who the hell has a problem with extra innings?

I jinxed it.

Cueto's throwing a perfect game through 6

Hmm. Sounds like you guys love to move.

You guys must love to move.

Moving into a new apartment tomorrow. God there is just no end of shit you have to do to move somewhere. It's the biggest mistake of my life.

Wrigley Field is awful too. We paid $100 to sit in the last row and there was a pole obstructing our view. Also it's fucking impossible to find your seats there.

All of these emergency goalie things are fascinating. MNTwins, yes your assumption about what an emergency catcher is is correct, though I of course can't say whether or not Joe Mauer would be the Twins choice in that scenario. It's typically a utility infielder who plays like 3rd and 2nd whenever someone needs to be filled in for, but Mauer is a unique case and if they aren't worried about his health back there for just a few innings it would make sense to have him as the emergency backup.

That's cool and all but it's so weird to me that NHL teams do this instead of just having a guy on the team who can play goalie in a pinch. That's what MLB does with emergency catchers.

He sang it for a few seconds and then played dumb like "that's how it goes right?"

He is all but begging for Ross to give him anything.

He was on the right team at the right time, and had a bunch of young teammates who were strangely committed to building up that fake myth status. It was a very obnoxious set of circumstances.

Right after I posted that he compared getting a hit in your first AB of the year to winning the lottery, which seems like a little much.

Oh my god David Ross is such a bad commentator

I'm not sure which of those is weirder. I guess I lean McCutchen. I think he really meant a lot to the city of Pittsburgh and they pretty much just gave him away.

I wonder if you adjusted Stanton's hitting at Marlins Stadium last year to Yankee Stadium how many more homers he would have hit.

Molina took him deep, but Syndergaard has 7 strikeouts through 3 innings against the Cardinals.

I can't believe I didn't give AL ROY to Ohtani even though I mentioned him earlier in the post. I am a perfect fool.

Looks like the Cards are going to sign former Rockies great Greg Holland. That's exciting. They need a closer.

There's probably still hope for Cueto to be good again at least. Hell, Samardzija too. Anyway here are my standings:

AL West:

1. Astros
2. Angels - WC2 (believe in Ohtani)
3. Mariners
4. Athletics
5. Rangers

AL Central:

1. Indians
2. Twins
3. White Sox
4. Royals
5. Tigers

AL East:

1. Yankees
2. Red Sox - WC1
3. Blue Jays
4. Rays
5. Orioles

NL West:

1. Dodgers
2. Diamondbacks - WC2
3. Rockies
4. Giants
5. Padres

NL Central:

1. Cubs
2. Cardinals - WC1
3. Brewers
4. Reds
5. Pirates

NL East:

1. Nationals
2. Mets
3. Phillies
4. Braves
5. Marlins

Best record: Dodgers
Worst record: Marlins

AL MVP: Mike Trout
NL MVP: Bryce Harper

AL Cy Young: Chris Sale
NL Cy Young: Clayton Kershaw

And now I'm really flying blind but I'll give Rookie of the Year a shot

AL ROY: Gleyber Torres, Yankees
NL ROY: Ronald Acuna, Braves

Well fellas we survived another off-season. Good luck to all of our favoritest teams!

Please separate all sports by race in your rankings.

NFL players have gotta be at the top. No other sport can compare with the amount of off the field violence that NFL players have perpetrated over the years.

Logan Morrison's twitter handle is @CupOfLomo. Is that a pun? Anyway please regard his twitter bio, which will never not be horrifying:

To know me is to Tweet with me! Seattle Mariners OF. Twittaholic. I'm not a licensed physician but I'm always down for a game of doctor. I love lamp...

I bet he enlisted the help of comedy genius Logan Morrison for that one.

As an old man I've become far more interested in the actual Poll of the Day here than I ever was as a legit PotDer. As of this writing, 98 poll respondents said they are browsing gamefaqs using a home game console. Love to hop on the PS4 and use the web browser to read my forums.

MNTwins1991 posted...

STLCards1991 posted...

I'm looking at ESPN's all important power rankings. It occurs to me that with how loaded the best teams are now, we would all have pretty much identical division winner predictions. Unless you're going with your gut, there isn't really a strong argument against the Astros, Indians, Dodgers, Cubs and Nationals atop their divisions. The only one I see any good chance of fluidity is the AL East between the Yankees and Red Sox.

I mean, I guess you can imagine a world where the Twins did enough to sneak past the Indians, but that's pretty much it. The Cubs adding Darvish made the Cards or Brewers passing them really unlikely.

The league is rigged in favor of Cleveland this season so Chief Wahoo can have one last glorious season

Only 90s kids remember Chief Wahoo

I'm looking at ESPN's all important power rankings. It occurs to me that with how loaded the best teams are now, we would all have pretty much identical division winner predictions. Unless you're going with your gut, there isn't really a strong argument against the Astros, Indians, Dodgers, Cubs and Nationals atop their divisions. The only one I see any good chance of fluidity is the AL East between the Yankees and Red Sox.

I mean, I guess you can imagine a world where the Twins did enough to sneak past the Indians, but that's pretty much it. The Cubs adding Darvish made the Cards or Brewers passing them really unlikely.

Yes, there is a character named Mr. Poopybutthole who says "ooooo weee" on Rick and Morty. I promise it's actually funny in context.

Noice. Which one? Awakening?

What's really weird is that there isn't even one of those games before the rest of the teams get started to kick off the season. All 30 teams play on Thursday.

30 for 30: Bartolo Rides the Bus

Have you gotten to the best character yet

After a Spring Training in which he collected one hit and struck out 11 times in 19 plate appearances, Tim Tebow has been promoted to AA to start the season. Congratulations Tim.

You are not a real gamer if you pick anything but the top option in today's poll.

Good luck to all remaining contenders.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Olson hit 40+. The power is legit. It just depends on how well the rest of his hitting profile can support it.

How many teams? 12?

Loyola is gonna make the Final Four.

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

That's like saying, "You need to check out this shoe brand!" on an NBA forum and it's a picture of Jordans.

Soooo, anyway, Bumgarner was hit on his pitching hand with a baseball and he's missing 2 months. Baseball already sucks.

Those spring training freak injuries are the worst. If it had happened in a real game it would of course still be awful but not quite as galling because at least he would have had a real reason to be out there.

The best thing about posting from work is the good "From the Web" stuff you see on gfaqs that I've blocked at home. This one says

"If you're over 25 and own a computer, this game is a must-have!" and it has a picture of Cloud.

MNTwins is in the 96.5 percentile as of now. His PPR isn't great, but that might not matter. 3 of my Final Four are still alive but Duke and Purdue could both lose today and obviously UVA was a catastrophic champion pick for me.

Congrats to the Wildcats on defeating the Wildcats.

I've listened to We are the Marlins at least 100 times.

I think they could do a cool futuristic Zelda using time travel. Like half the game (and half the map) is more traditional Zelda setting and the other half is thousands of years in the future. It would be interesting to see the mechanics of BotW applied to a city with skyscrapers and such. The New Donk City of Hyrule.

I'm sure we will get Odyssey 2 but after that I don't know. It was too much of a smash hit to not build on it and it came out in the first year of the Switch so they're probably already working on the sequel. Cappy is such an ingenious design choice that it is hard to think about what could come next. But let us capture Boos in Odyssey 2 at least.

"Pretty good" is a good descriptor of Golf Story. Worth playing if you have a Switch but not something that would have moved the needle for me much if it wasn't an exclusive.