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Nonsense and wisdom. Can you spot the difference?

Oh, and #BlueJays baseball

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@DanClarkSports Is that a Canadians thing? Or a Twitter thing?

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@NajGerard72925 @DanClarkSports “Swear legions”?

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@Mr_Husky1 You stopped to take a picture and then posted the evidence of your callous disregard for other shoppers. Good for you. Yay. What if everyone was just like you? What would the world be like?

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

I’m about as far left as you can get… but we do have problems with MAiD in Canada.

How do I know? It was “offered” to me in lieu of care.

I’m disabled, I was alone, my conditions expensive.

Yes I was allowed to say “No”, but no alternative care was offered.

That’s coercion.

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@amishescapee Do you know why?

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@GigaBasedDad Feel your feelings. Don't be led by them.

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@Dea_rMen Genetics, laziness, healthy spirituality, good reading habits, musical skills.

In other words—I have the time; I use it for other things.

But even with the time, that's not happening without drugs.

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@BenVerlander It's the FIRST GAME of the preseason!

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@ITheSpace @MarshaIIZach You might be right. You might not be. "What ifs."

Deep dive and compare the scores for those 32 games. Tight? Blowouts? (I don't care enough to do that.)

Any games that a Bichette defensive error cost a run?

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@TalkinBaseball_ He'll never be great, but he'll be better than that. Give him a chance.

He's determined, a hard worker, and his bat is stellar.

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Let's go Blue Jays! Playing for the whole...Golden Grapefruit!

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@rankdog23 @baseball_cards @JJBlackin17 Apparent anomalies can reveal that a player has "unlocked something." But the anomaly means take a closer look. It doesn't mean "BA is useless."

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@ITheSpace @MarshaIIZach Don't get me wrong...I'm a big Bichette fan...but it's not like "they make it with him, they don't make it without him." It's not that simple.

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@ITheSpace @MarshaIIZach I was talking about "that one game."

Santander is a net negative because he's a slow starter and was gone almost all season. So...2 slow starts...never got up to speed. Bichette played just over half the season games "after July," 2024. So...1.000 OPS in 32 games. 0 OPS in 20.

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@ITheSpace @MarshaIIZach Yeah, well, if Bichette wasn't in the lineup that "one fewer game," somebody else would have been. You could say the same of any team.

Just imagine if Varsho was available the whole season and Santander played long enough to hit his stride.

It's all "what ifs."

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@ITheSpace @MarshaIIZach How many games did Bichette play "from July onward"?

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@baseball_cards @JJBlackin17 That is exactly the purpose of stats. As fans, we can look at and celebrate performance through stats. But the decision-makers must make predictions...and stats inform (not determine) future performance. A .190 BA player is most likely not hitting .320 next year.

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@baseball_cards Moneyball was never "about .OBP." It was always about discovering and leveraging undervalued potential.

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@armathior @shane_pruitt78 I wouldn’t disagree with your statement but I’m not sure we are thinking the same thing. I’m curious to hear more of your viewpoint.