Let the tears roll down, Craig.  She’s your little girl.

I know that there’s a Law of Conservation of Knuckleballers, but is there a Law of Conservation of Molinas?

This is nothing, Craig.  Wait until you drop your first kid off at college.

That’s a toughie, lemme tell you.

Long before spring turned to summer I made a conscious decision noit to comment to your morning posts on the Blue Network and hold my water until MMIE. This has served me well, except during recess for your legal mumbo-jumbo that sometimes lets the inmates take over with corned beef food fights, etc.
Well, this morning I relapsed and agreed with you about Mo, hero though he is in these quarters, who should not be a Cy Young contender.  No less than a couple of posts later, some Einstein (the saint) also agrees, then disparages you for lack of analytical skills and poor journalism, Hate to think of the diatribe if he disagreed.
So WTF, I won’t even bother to troll over there anymore and retain my love for intelligent discourse, Jeopsrdy!, Star Wars, Marx brothers and all. (Gives secret handshake)

Craig, do you guys have any power to ban/mod people at CTB?  The vitriole is bad enough, but Hotrod’s constantly posting in all caps is MAKING MY EYES BLEED.

I believe thats the first time I’ve ever heard the argument that the Cy Young needs to go to an inferior pitcher for a playoff team. Its remarkable really. I’m actually waiting for someone to argue that Joe Mauer’s batting average doesn’t count and the new batting champ will be determined by the highest average among playoff teams.

Thanks Craig, although maybe an ignore function would be nice

I don’t get all the hubbub over Rivera. [note, Yankee fan].  He’s having a phenomenal year, but considering Hughes is pitching just as well, if not better, how can you say one deserves the Cy (or ha, MVP) over the other?  Greinke is the best pitcher this year.  It’s not his fault the rest of the team is terrible.

Pitcher A: 55 G, 55.2 IP, 1.78 ERA, 41 H, 9 BB, 61 K, .199/.233/.316

Pitcher B: 31 G, 39.1 IP, 1.14 ERA, 22 H, 10 BB, 48 K, .162/.218/.204

A is Rivera, B is Hughes

I happen to enjoy the MVP/CY debates.  Yes, we must put up with some pretty nonsensical arguments, but I, for one, find it much better than just calculating VORP at the end of 162 games.

Afternoon all,
Just finished reading CTB…Is it a full moon? Boy, the knuckle scrapers are out in force today. It’s great for my self-esteem, though.  After reading it, I immediately feel superior.

Congratulations on ShysterDaughter’s first milestone.  Wait until the first day of college!  It’s really tough partially due to tuition sticker shock. But, then you think “Woo Hoo. He’s gone. I can have a life!”  Didn’t happen, though. My household adopted a Jewish tradition: Life does not begin until they graduate medical or law school and get the boxes out of the basement.

Re: The Rays:  No matter how hard you might try to spin it, “rightsizing” still means “layoffs” and “reallocating resources” still sounds a lot like “salary dump”.
Interestingly, Sternberg’s last comment in the article went right from defense to offense:
“But does he understand why some fans might be upset?
“People love Scott. He was a great Ray here, he did a lot of tremendous things. This is what we do. This is who we are and this is what we do. People better get used to it, because it’s going to continue.””
Almost sounds like a threat. With the rest of the article discussing declining attendance, I’m not sure that’s a great PR move, but I’ll leave it to the Rays fans to interpret.

@ Nigel Incubator-Jones

That’s where I got it from as i read RAB all the time, unfortunately my work chooses to use Internet Explorer and it ate the rest of my post.