TBayXXXVII

You ignored the fact that in the past, that I don't hold the Republican party as flawless. They're crap too, just not scum of the earth like the Democrat party.

Props to Martina Navratilova for trying to protect women's sports.

Today is a perfect example. Quinn Priester pitching, gives up 3 runs (2 ER), in 6 IP... the offense produced 3 hits so far and despite 3 errors by the A's, have not scored. You can't win games without scoring.

It's MSNBC, but still...

I don't really want him up soon. It's of no benefit to the Pirates. The longer he stays down (this year, the better). He won't help the ML team win this year, so I don't see a real urge to bring him up until he passed the Super 2 deadline (June 8th). Ignoring the second sentence (no jinx here).

Pirates fans were disgusted by that deal... for focking Chris Archer, of all people.

Neither has soccer... BUT, Rape-a-hoe is saying she thinks it would be good for women's soccer. Well, she says it now, after she retired. Shocking!!

Focking Neil Huntington.

Baz will probably be a super star.

I didn't draft him on my team because of this. LOL I know the Pirates front office (ownership really), does not want him up before June. The other thing is, last year he threw 130 innings between college and the minors. The Pirates have no intention of him pitching more than 150-160 this year. Well, he's at 23 now. If the ML team is still getting good pitching, they're not going to bring him up, so they're going to continue to throw him 6 IP's a start until they do. He could get 5 more starts before they bring him up, putting him over 50 innings, leaving him with only about 100 with the Pirates. At 6 IP's per start, you're talking what, 15 or so starts (if they even let him get to 6 IP)? There'll be an adjustment period, so he's not going to dominate at the ML level like the AAA level. They'll give him 5 IP's the first 3 or 4 outings and then see how it goes. They may even skip a start to make sure he can pitch the whole season. There'll be games where he leaves after 5, down 1-0 and the Pirates lose 7-2 and he gets a loss. Way too volatile of a situation to draft him where he went. (e was taken in the 10th round in my league). If Skenes were drafted by a team like the Yankees, Phillies, Mets, or someone like that... he may have pitched in the majors last year and started the season on the active roster.

It's possible. I just know that the Pirates have no interest in bringing him up early. If they can use the excuse that they can't use him on the ML staff, they'll use it. Priester is the wildcard. They brought him up after Gonzalez got hurt. Keller is locked in, but after him, Falter has only had 1 bad start out of 6, the other 5 were really good. Perez has 3 great starts, 2 good ones, and a bad one. Jones is pitching great. None of them are going anywhere. It's all on Priester right now. If he pitches good tonight, he's not losing his spot in the rotation for his next start. He'll pitch on May 6th (or 7th), against the Angels. If he pitches well again, ownership might bust a nut because that's 2 of their 3 top pitching prospects pitching great at the ML level. Also because, they still can legitimately claim that there's no spot for Skenes. It might take an injury for him to be up before June. Honestly, I can't say that I'm all that upset either. This team can't hit worth a sh!t!! Bringing up Skenes won't help them win games. They rank 12th in ERA and that's only because their closer and setup man are horrible. Take them away, they probably have a top 7 pitching staff in baseball.

Paul Skenes, possibly 2 bad Quinn Priester starts away from a MLB debut (my gut feeling). Paul Skenes' numbers in AAA this season, thus far: GS: 6 IP: 23 R: 2 ER: 1 ERA: 0.39 WHIP: 0.870 H: 14 2B: 3 3B: 1 HR: 0 K: 41 BB: 6 Hard to keep him down in the minors, but really, the only pitcher not doing well is Keller... and they're not going to bench him, especially after they made a big deal by giving him an extension this past off-season (which was a huge mistake). Priester has been pretty terrible in his 12 outings in the majors so far, dating back to last year. Of his 12 games (10 starts), 10 have been really, really bad. His saving grace is that last Friday against the Giants, he threw 6 shutout innings (3 hits, 1 BB, 6 K's). He gets the A's tonight which could be another good outing. If he stinks up the joint, I think there's a chance that Skenes takes his next scheduled start (which would be on 5 days rest), as he just pitched last night. That would give Skenes a chance to start in a home game against the Angles (without Trout), on Monday night. Imagine throwing so hard, that your changeup is 94 MPH.

Imagine a brain dead moron calling someone else stupid.

Weird that everyone is in on it, while Trump is not in office.... yet Trump was the one involved with Russia, right?

I think that was the same for me. If that's when they start teaching sex in school or anatomy/reproduction and whatnot, than that's fine with me if that's when this is made for the kids. I don't see a need to show it to 5 and 6 year olds.

To be fair, our President did put millions of black people in prison over smoking marijuana.

I actually did take your initial post as a joke. I should have put a smiley face after my response. Your post about not backing up my point kind of threw me off and thought you may have been serious.

You think farmers were holding off the 3rd greatest military power in the world?

Exactly! This "war" is 100% about getting money and nothing else.

If Communist in chief Biden, invaded New Zealand, for example... how many hours would it take to win the war? What... 3, 4? If every country in the world gave New Zealand $20B, it would take us what then... 5 or 6 hours? If you think this war is about anything other than getting money from Biden/DNC then you're off your rocker. Russia should've won that war on February 23rd. It's 2 years and nothing. Give me ONE REASON, why this war didn't finish in 24 to 48 hours. It's funny how you guys think Putin and Zelenskyy care one bit about their citizens.

It looks like all of them. This stuff shouldn't be shown to kids until they have sex ed class (if those still exist). I don't oppose allowing parents to opt out, but apparently the legislature said no.

Odd... Communist says one thing, board member says the opposite, and you believe the Communist. YET!!! You accuse Trump with being in cahoots with Communists.

With Russia's military, the whole thing should've been over before it ever hit our news cycle. Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022... the day we first voted to send aid, was 12 focking weeks later! That invasion should've been over 11 weeks prior to that vote. If you think otherwise, you're a fool. There was no strategic advantage for Russia, in this incursion, to allow it to last more than a week (2, tops). Once and the rest of the world gets involved, it becomes a clusterfock. So, ask yourself... why would Russia allow this war to last well more than 2 years? I'm curious to hear how many bullcrap reasons you come up with while denying the obvious answer (hint: the answer is money from the US going funneled from Ukraine, into Russia - because there's a 0.0% chance Ukraine has any hope of winning, if Russia actually tries).

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