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Jeff Zimmerman

9:30

Under

I see too much Tyson in him

CaptainPeanutbutter

9:31

" After the cookies are baked to a fabulous finish, they’re crushed into a fine powder and mixed with magical ingredients (read: vegetable oils) and turned into a smooth, spreadable substance we call Cookie Butter." Gross

Paul Swydan

9:31

Yeah, not a fan. But there you go - well north of cookie dough.

Yorba

9:31

What's your earliest baseball memory? I remember being at a Yankees-Orioles game and seeing Thurman Munson hit one out.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:32

Like the "baked and crush". Sounds like they tried to find a use for the broken cookies

Paul Swydan

9:32

Well, that's uplifting, I guess. But it still tastes terrible.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:33

Royals games with a Willie Wilson out-of-the-park home run. I saw Willie hit another one out soon after that. He usually didn't hit many HR's

Paul Swydan

9:33

My earliest memory is going to Fenway for the first time. It was a night game in '85. My dad bought me a program - I still had it until a couple of years ago. Seeing the lights reflect off the infield grass was the most perfect thing I had ever seen. I couldn't tell you much about the game, but my dad let me stay home from school the next day, which was pretty awesome of him.

9:34

I didn't really FOLLOW baseball though until late in '87. My first poster was a Mark McGwire poster, followed closely by Mike Greenwell and Roger Clemens.

As such, I wasn't scarred by the '86 World Series. Lucky me.

Erik

9:35

Why not 80 FB, 50 offspeed, 70 command? Is that better or worse that 80 FB, 70 offspeed, 50 command (basically Chapman)?

Paul Swydan

9:35

Well, I was thinking starting pitcher, so I wanted three pitches. But sure, the Chapman route is pretty good too.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:36

I'd rather have an average starter than a great closer

Morris Buttermaker

9:36

When you say too much Tyson do you mean you worry about injury or you doubt the ability?

Jeff Zimmerman

9:37

This cat at Marlin's Stadium is pretty cool.

9:38

All fastball - slider, no command. Very much like Pineda. Sometimes great, most of the time not.

Forsyth

9:38

Paul's impression of Pomeranz's outing tonight?

Jeff Zimmerman

9:38

All yours Paul

Paul Swydan

9:39

I thought he was very good. I thought Farrell predictably stuck with him for longer than he should have. He gave you six innings of shutout ball. Be happy. Give your reliever a clean inning. But ole Johnny Farrell just couldn't help himself.

9:40

The Orioles are booting/muffing play after play in this inning. I'd be a lot more embarrassed for them if I was paying closer attention.

Marcus Banks

9:40

Why are the Yankees off on a Tuesday?

Jeff Zimmerman

9:40

Home opener yesterday

Royals the same way

Paul Swydan

9:40

Yup.

There's always a day off after the home opener in case the opener is rained out.

9:41

At least for teams that have to worry about rain. Not all teams do, obviously.

CaptainPeanutbutter

9:41

is chicken/tuna salad a spread?

Paul Swydan

9:41

I guess if you want to get technical, sure, but that's not really where I was going with the question.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:41

Paul?

Von Schloss

9:41

Autobots or Decepticons?

Paul Swydan

9:42

Autobots, obviously. How could you align yourself with that cheatin' ass Starscream?

Jeff Zimmerman

9:42

Autobots, I could not stand Star Scream

Paul Swydan

9:42

AGREEMENTS!

Woodrow the Impaler

9:42

So I stopped taking my meds and I've noticed that if I squint real hard I can see Jose Martinez of the Cardinals turning into Joey Bats 2.0... please tell me that this isn't just one of my psychotic hallucinations again because my 10 team NL keeper league team begs it to be true.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:43

Not happening

Paul Swydan

9:43

He seems like he could be a league-average player, which is saying a lot for a guy who only tallied 18 MLB PAs through his age-27 season. But the next Bautista? No, can't go that far, sorry.

CaptainPeanutbutter

9:45

what? the deceptions were the best! They can fly!

Paul Swydan

9:46

Yeah, they could, and that was cool. But I still vote Autobots.

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