MLB Daily Thread: 8/9/2017: Sale fans 13, Rangers sell reliever to Mariners for $1

[SlinkyRedfoot]

I'm circumcised, but I still have enough foreskin that I can tuck four or five skittles in there when I'm soft.

If I leave them up there for a little bit, it leaves this cool multi-colored ring around my schvanz and I get to whip it out, shake it at Mrs Redfoot and yell, "TASTE THE RAINBOW, BITCHES!!!"

Good times.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

I killed it!

 

[Rock Strongo]

@DirtDirtDirt

you know anyone who drives infinity? I'm looking at a GS35.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

@DirtDirtDirt

you know anyone who drives infinity? I'm looking at a GS35.

They're Nissans, right? Nissans are pretty good cars, I think. Mrs Redfoot is on her second Pathfinder and we haven't had any problems.

My best friend in HS had a Pathfinder and he literally never changed the oil and beat the fuck out of it and it always ran well.

 

[Rock Strongo]

They're Nissans, right? Nissans are pretty good cars, I think. Mrs Redfoot is on her second Pathfinder and we haven't had any problems.

My best friend in HS had a Pathfinder and he literally never changed the oil and beat the fuck out of it and it always ran well.

yeah, nissan...can swap nissan parts, like lexus and toyota. good bennfit.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

yeah, nissan...can swap nissan parts, like lexus and toyota. good bennfit.

Based on nothing other than the picture, I like that one better than the other one you were looking at.

 

[Rock Strongo]

Based on nothing other than the picture, I like that one better than the other one you were looking at.

yup, me too. different dealership...a buddy owns it. also checking out:

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

yup, me too. different dealership...a buddy owns it. also checking out:

Subarus are good. I had a WRX years ago. I didn't have it long enough to see how the maintenance was, but from what I hear, provided they're taken care of, they last forever.

Won't get the luxury feel/look of the infinity/lexus, though.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

That Subaru wagon is pretty lesbian hippy looking.

 

[Rock Strongo]

Subarus are good. I had a WRX years ago. I didn't have it long enough to see how the maintenance was, but from what I hear, provided they're taken care of, they last forever.

Won't get the luxury feel/look of the infinity/lexus, though.

yeah, i know...im all over the place on this new car. ive looked at everything lol.

 

[soxfan1468927]

They're Nissans, right? Nissans are pretty good cars, I think. Mrs Redfoot is on her second Pathfinder and we haven't had any problems.

My best friend in HS had a Pathfinder and he literally never changed the oil and beat the fuck out of it and it always ran well.

Mrs Soxfan is on her first Pathfinder, just bought it a couple months ago. Good vehicle.

 

[soxfan1468927]

I'm circumcised, but I still have enough foreskin that I can tuck four or five skittles in there when I'm soft.

Foreskin is not a genetic defect!

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Foreskin is not a genetic defect!

Are you in the "let's stop circumcising our kids" camp?

Good friend of mine is that way and was trying to talk me out of having Slink Jr cut. He said it was unnecessary based on today's hygiene standards, it's only for cosmetic reasons and claimed that it reduced sensation by like 60% or some such shit (no idea how that could be measured).

I had two things to say:

1) Have you ever said to yourself, 'man, I wish my dick was more sensitive so I wouldn't take so long to blow my loads.'

and

2) I'm going to teach my kid to call your kid Sunffleupagus.

 

[soxfan1468927]

Are you in the "let's stop circumcising our kids" camp?

Good friend of mine is that way and was trying to talk me out of having Slink Jr cut. He said it was unnecessary based on today's hygiene standards, it's only for cosmetic reasons and claimed that it reduced sensation by like 60% or some such shit (no idea how that could be measured).

I had two things to say:

1) Have you ever said to yourself, 'man, I wish my dick was more sensitive so I wouldn't take so long to blow my loads.'

and

2) I'm going to teach my kid to call your kid Sunffleupagus.

What I said was a joke. Snip, don't snip. I have no concern of what others do to their penises.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

I have no concern of what others do to their penises.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Completely liberated. I now feel safe to discuss the fact that I'm slamming mine in my desk drawer with my right hand while I type this with my left without being chastised.

 

[soxfan1468927]

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Completely liberated. I now feel safe to discuss the fact that I'm slamming mine in my desk drawer with my right hand while I type this with my left without being chastised.

 

[bksballer89]

Nicknames worn for MLB Players Weekend

 

[soxfan1468927]

Nicknames worn for MLB Players Weekend

Loving Ellsbury and Romine's nicknames

 

[Rock Strongo]

porcello on pace to join the infamous 20/20 club

Rick Porcello and the 20/20 club no pitcher wants to join

In that case, Porcello can’t deny that the 5-14 record he will drag into his start Wednesday night against the Tampa Bay Rays is an indictment of how he has pitched this season. The Red Sox have gotten shut out in five of his 23 starts, and opponents' batting average on balls in play -- a relevant statistic for a contact pitcher like Porcello -- is up from .269 last year to .333 (.300 is considered average). But the bottom line is Porcello has pitched only well enough to lose nearly three-quarters of his decisions.

And with Porcello set to make at least nine more starts, the right-hander isn't out of the woods when it comes to joining the ignominious 20/20 club. In the past 60 years, seven pitchers have lost 20 games one season after winning 20. Only one, Hall of Famer Steve Carlton, was a reigning Cy Young winner. None played for a winning team in the 20-loss year.

So what accounts for Porcello's reversal of fortune? Surely, it must be more than a lack of run support and balls being hit out of a defender's reach.

"The game has changed a lot. The hitters have changed a lot," Porcello said. "It's crazy to say, but the way we pitched five years ago is not the way we can pitch now. There's been a lot of adjustments since then."

And Porcello has been affected as much as any pitcher -- seemingly overnight.

Porcello is sinkerballer, his success rooted largely in his ability to pitch down in the strike zone and occasionally surprise a hitter by elevating a pitch. But the recent trend among hitters has been to swing in an uppercut fashion and lift more balls in the air to improve their chances of hitting a home run. With so much emphasis on "launch angle," or swinging underneath the ball, pitchers who thrive on keeping the ball down have been forced to either go even lower or reinvent themselves.

In his ninth big-league season and with a four-seam fastball that averages only 92.6 mph, Porcello isn't about to do the latter. But he also hasn't been particularly effective at the former, as evidenced by the career-high 26 home runs he has given up. Entering Wednesday, only five pitchers in the majors had allowed more, with Seattle's Ariel Miranda at the top of the list with 29.

 

[Rock Strongo]

my latest project...curve measuring nuclear reaction stability.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
NATIONAL LABORATORIES
THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY

LOCATION
Newport News, Virginia

RESEARCH
Experimental nuclear physics, computational and theoretical nuclear physics, accelerator science, cryogenics, superconducting radio frequency technologies, radiation detectors, medical imaging devices and free-electron lasers