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7D485F5F546D5F5F54535F3A0 wrote: Guys who score cost money.  Doesn't matter how many outs there are.  Guys who score cost money.



Guys who prevent the guys from other teams from scoring cost money.



Guys who get teammates to score cost money.  Doesn't matter how many outs there are.  Guys who get teammates to score cost money.



Even if a guy prevents guys from the other team fro scoring, they'd better score runs themselves or do things to make teammates score.  Otherwise, you go into extra innings 0-0, and you wind up losing.



Guys who are good in the clubhouse don't cost a whole lot of money, unless they, themselves are guys who score or prevent guys from the other team to score.



Guys who are good in the clubhouse, but don't score, don't help teammates to score, and don't do anything to prevent guys from the other teams from scoring?  Those guys are called "Pirates."
Just what are you getting at? Do you approve of how the Pirates are run or not?

As always, I have NO IDEA what I'm getting at! ))))

6D404D5C5B4A5D1D1E2F0 wrote: Why is Polanco being paid to play baseball? Maybe when they let fans back in the park he can get on with his life's work (as the Emperor would say) and sell popcorn.


Probably "good in the clubhouse," would be my guess.



Either that, or BOB would rather pay a guy to play bad baseball than to pay him for not playing at all.



After all, it's not like fans are so upset over Polanco that they're staying home.

251007070C3507070C0B07620 wrote: Why is Polanco being paid to play baseball? Maybe when they let fans back in the park he can get on with his life's work (as the Emperor would say) and sell popcorn.


Probably "good in the clubhouse," would be my guess.



Either that, or BOB would rather pay a guy to play bad baseball than to pay him for not playing at all. 



After all, it's not like fans are so upset over Polanco that they're staying home. 
Well when fans come back they can always throw batteries at him

I wouldn't waste the energy. Oooh, that's bad. Carry on.

Polanco's due $11.5 million next year plus a $3 million buyout for 2022, so he's not likely to go anywhere until his cost-benefit for an acquiring team changes pretty drastically.



For us, that money's a sunk cost. You have to ask yourself, if someone else cut Polanco, would you take a flyer on him? He's not old, he's had a couple decent seasons, you have no outfielders. He's exactly the kind of guy we should be trying to reclaim.

675245454E7745454E4945200 wrote: Not for his money.


Doesn't, doesn't, and doesn't.



The Three D's.

In talking about two slumping guys in particular, Polanco and also Reynolds, is it possible that they're needing to get their eyes checked? I remember as a teenaged player a mild glasses perscription improved my ability to see the ball tremendously.

Anything's possible...could be so many things.  When it comes to eye exams or any other exams, I would think that they get checked for certain things every once in a while.  I'd expect the team doctors to be on those kinds of things....and, of course, the player's personal doctors.  I wouldn't be surprised if the team has an eye doctor on retention. 



BOB won't pay for Pearle Vision Center.  Probably uses Cubic Ziconia Eye Center.  They're like my doctor.  Uses the same eye chart every year.  I have it memorized.  ECDOGF.  "Your eyes are pretty good!"   

7A4F5858536A58585354583D0 wrote: Anything's possible...could be so many things.  When it comes to eye exams or any other exams, I would think that they get checked for certain things every once in a while.  I'd expect the team doctors to be on those kinds of things....and, of course, the player's personal doctors.  I wouldn't be surprised if the team has an eye doctor on retention. 



BOB won't pay for Pearle Vision Center.  Probably uses Cubic Zirconia Eye Center.  They're like my doctor.  Uses the same eye chart every year.  I have it memorized.  ECDOGF.  "Your eyes are pretty good!"   


GW if you have those letters memorized you have to be blind. The proper letters for 20/15 eyesight which I have and do not have memorized are LEFODPCT! That tells me that your eye doctor is an out of work MLB Umpire!