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5 hours ago, Second Base said:

I'd rather make it to the World Series every year and lose than make it only once in fifty-something years and only win one. 

And you would still have less championships

42 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

Arod: “Hey Papi why are you holding Mookie like he’s your son?”

LMAO

Arod can’t say s**t 

Good OBP, bad defense. Ianettea 2.0 at best? Maybe he'll surprise us but this move is super whatever 

1 hour ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

I dont count the tracy ulman years. But valid point. 

I used to make the joke about the soviets, but were kind of back in the cold war. And not a lot of people are going to get my alf and scott baio jokes.

The wonder years didnt show as much of a throwback age gap as the time between dodger rings.

Haha I totally hear ya brutha, maybe I'm being nitpicky lol. It's just this is what they gave us on the crew at the 29th season premiere party last year:

and this is what they gave at Comic con:

I always thought 1989 was the first "official" year too but it's out there that 1987 is the first year. Just want to help you at all costs against your Dodger friends lol.

On 10/23/2018 at 8:44 AM, ten ocho recon scout said:

I already had to give up my "hahaha, every other NL west team has been to the series in the last 20 years, you guys suck" trolling last year. I cant give up my "you guys havent won since before the simpsons" argument, too.

I like your style, however, Simpsons began in 1987  would hate for that to get flipped on you haha

no Upton? Lol.

Would be cool if the guy from SLC that fixed Calhoun got a look. Seemed like he had a good approach. How great would it be if somehow he's onto something and we can be a team that's known for identifying and fixing problems in guys on multiple occassions

18 hours ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

I gave him 9. Not every move has worked, but most have. He quickly rebuilt the worst farm system in baseball into one that is very respectable. He brought in Simmons, and he got value back for Kinsler. He makes shrewd moves within the confines of his allowed budget. Now he will have his own field manager.

I will like every single one of your posts for your sig.

But I also agree with you. I give him an 8 for rebuilding the worst farm known to man in less time than a lot assumed (I remember "experts" saying it would take 5+ years to rebuild the farm). I also don't know what any other GM could do to have brought us closer to a playoff berth and a rebuilt farm in less time than he has. When he took over, many thought with our farm and our payroll, it would be 10 years before we would make the playoffs. There's a decent chance he could do it in half that time. I like his savvy moves and getting Ohtani and his ability to maximize his resources.

However he loses some points for MLB guys he not only brought in but gave way too long a leash to like Valshitty, Espinosa. Cozart potentially too. I understand his resources being limited in the higher levels of the minors and so guys like Young and Blash are a result of that but Billy brought them in and man they f***ing suck haha

37 minutes ago, IIIII said:

I would be so disgusted. The only time I would have to root for the Red Sox. Dodgers fans act like the team is the greatest thing since sliced bread even though they haven't won anything for 30 years. Imagine if they do end up winning, ugh. The only positive is that I don't live in LA anymore and people from San Diego don't care about anything. 

this x1000. Even when we were contending every year and they were mediocre they would hype up their team. A large number of them are also Raider fans and they do the same thing for them

4 hours ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dodgers-were-told-player-sexually-assaulted-a-maid-they-kept-quiet-he-stayed-in-baseball?ref=scroll

The email from the manager of a Hampton Inn in Glendale, Arizona, stunned the Los Angeles Dodgers. A minor-league player recently signed by the team had been accused of harassing and then sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper. The situation, the manager wrote, was “unacceptable.”

“I guess for a few weeks now [the player] has been making remarks and asking her to go out with him,” the manager wrote in an email to a team official that was obtained by The Daily Beast. “She keeps telling him that she has a boyfriend and is not interested but he still keeps making comments.”

The ballplayer, the manager wrote, would not take no for an answer.

“On Sunday things elevated where she was cleaning another room and he came up behind her and grabbed her,” the email continued. “She pushed him back and he came back and grabbed her yet again. She told him that she wasn’t interested and that he needed to leave and he did.”

As news of the 2015 incident spread throughout the Dodgers’ player-development staff, the club appeared to have little doubt about the housekeeper’s credibility or the severity of the incident, the email chain shows.

The team quickly sent the player back to Latin America and released him from the Dodgers a few months later. But there is no evidence that the Dodgers notified Major League Baseball about the allegations.

And just a month after the Dodgers cut ties with him, he was back in baseball again, with a minor-league contract for another MLB team.

JMF huh 

48 minutes ago, Lou said:

kj, can you get me Disco Stu's autograph? 

Sure let me just go over to table 5

3 minutes ago, Blarg said:

In high school I did hand drawn animation with another friend and we prided ourselves at running 2 frames per cell instead of Hanna Barbaric's crappy stuff. That still was only 9 frames per second on Super 8 but it looked fairly smooth. 

We created our own cell framing by using punched white paper and three dowels in a piece of plywood but that was only for shooting. We just lined up the paper square and used a light box to overlay one page over the other to line up the drawings. 

I had to pencil sketch everything before final ink, my friend was embarrassingly good at using pen without guidelines. 

Our final movies were about 30 seconds without credits which made them about 270 or more hand drawn images. A lot of work for a couple of guys that had to do yard work to raise enough money for film and developing. If we could have afforded actual plastic sheets it would have been a hell of a lot less time consuming only animating the characters. 

Years later one of my employers had their office in the same building as the Warner Animation future projects and we had to walk through their offices to get to ours and saw a lot of guys doing what you do but without any specific project parameters just a bunch of test cells. I was a little bit envious. 

That's really cool man! Pretty much all traditional animation is rendered as 2 frames per drawing (or as we say, on 2s), just as you did in your projects, unless there's a camera move- in which case it would be handled on 1s because more drawings are required such as to prevent any stuttering/strobing. Were hanna Barbara shows animated on 3s and 4s or something? Haha I didn't realize.

Doing projects without parameters can be a really scary thing because if something in the script changes or the concept changes at all, literally weeks worth of work can go straight into the trash. Which is very frustrating after it happens a few times. Animators and artists at Groening's new show on Netflix had this very problem; the show kept changing and artists were having to start over constantly. Just trying to save you that little bit of envy

Since Simpsons memes and pics get posted on here all the time, maybe this random fact about how we make the show would be of interest as I sit here at the studio taking a break: Simpsons is pretty much the only show on TV still drawn traditionally. Yes there are other cartoons that are drawn by hand still, but Simpsons is practically the only one still doing it on paper in any way. We don't do the full animation here in the states; we do the storyboards, key drawings of animation (so for example, frames 1,4, 7 and 10 of an animation that is 10 frames long) and any CGI (I'm a CG artist) in Burbank and then outsource to Korea to finish the animation and color. We, and every studio doing 2D animation, draw everything on big tablet like things called syntiques in a drawing software; when we ship everything we've drawn out, Korea actually prints it out and draws it on paper with pencil and then scans back in for cleanup.

Just thought I'd share

I say we bring the egregious behavior chart to AW

14 hours ago, Dtwncbad said:

I don't ever see his name mentioned but I thought potentially Bengie Molina might become a manager candidate at some point.  Obviously being a former catcher and he did coach at the major league level. . . 

David Ross also would perfectly fit the recent trend of younger former players stepping straight into a manager job.  Ross played for about ten high quality managers and is well respected.  I think this guy would be legit.

Maybe even Jose Molina would be good down the line ? I was at the spring training for a weekend this year and he seemed to work well with the guys 

7 hours ago, Jay said:

Agree with some of this.

That’s cool. I don’t think we’re looked at as a team that could potentially reach the post season (if everything went right) these past couple years without Trout and his 10 wins. And I’m not trying to knock the team or anything-Eppler is doing a great job. Just trying to say year in and year out, Trout elevates his team like nobody else can

As has been mentioned on this board, this guy is the difference every year between us being thought of as a near playoff team and a tanking team. For a sport where usually no one guy can truly carry a team, it's pretty amazing how good he can make a bad team look. Absolute pleasure to watch and class act! 

Luke Walton as next manager? Pretty outside the box...I like it!

1 hour ago, Stradling said:

Luke Walton was still on the side line of GSW to finish their playoff run after being hired to coach the Lakers the following season.   Or am i misremembering that?

Sure did:

"He'll assume his responsibilities once the Warriors' current playoff run is over."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2016/04/29/lakers-hire-luke-walton-next-head-coach/83735158/

Well since I think they could have competed this year, I'll say they can contend next year. Baseball is a sport where things can just click for a team and all of a sudden they're playoff contenders. Although I do believe teams largely play a hand in deciding their own luck with savvy moves and patience, bad luck and being hamstrung with resources has really held us back even if we hit on every transaction. I think next year could certainly play out different.

1 hour ago, ettin said:

Madison Bumgarner will not cost us one of those two. He is not worth that much in trade. More likely to send one guy from our Top 8-20 or two guys even further back than that. This assumes the Giants are going to retool their roster, they may not and just continue trying to compete. Also they may extend him too although I doubt it.

Yeah I figured him being an expiring and recent injuries took those guys off the table. If they're trying to compete or rebuild, I think an offer of Suarez/Ward/Calhoun would make sense for them if they don't plan to keep him after next year. Or instead of Suarez, a couple guys from the back end of the Top 30 like you said. Calhoun is a good one year option so they can decide to blow it up at the deadline if they suck again. I think it would be worth Eppler exploring.

If we can try to get MadBum without trading Adell/Canning (big if), we match up pretty well with them trade wise. Their system appears thin in LHP and IF prospects, which we would have to offer. Calhoun would be a good stopgap on an expiring deal for them while their OF prospects develop more (their MLB OF going forward looks bad). Probably over-simplifying it however. Based on Eppler's comments, seems like a target if nothing else.

Aw he loved being an Angel, cool to see him be emotional in the press conference. I’m sure he’ll manage again, probably the dodgers

Good time to start fresh for both sides 

Just announced that scioscia won’t be back 

I’ll give this a try!

#1. Extend Trout

#2. Trade Suarez, Ward, Jam Jones, Calhoun for Bumgarner. 

He has a year left on his deal and SF is pretty weak in the OF, and Calhoun could be a good one year stop gap while their minor league OF talent comes through the ranks. They’re also thin on middle IF/3B depth in their system and LHP. Although we are thin with pitching and 3B depth so this could be risky, and they may ask for an Adell/Canning/Maitan to which I’d say no unless he’s willing to sign an extension with the trade  

#3. Sign Nick Markakis 

Good 1-2 year stop gap until Adell is ready. Good on base skills and would be exactly the kind of bat we need to add to the power of Trout/Ohtani/Upton

#4. Sign Grandal

Arcia/Briceno are both good backups, Maldonado is familiar with the staff but seeing him in the everyday lineup just doesn’t seem like a winning move. I don’t know if Catcher is a position Eppler views like relief pitching, where solid defensive stop gaps are better value than a big signing, but this is an area with no long term solution in house and actually makes our lineup look respectable 

#5. Sign Ottavino

We have a good crop of cheap relievers, I think Eppler can afford to sign a semi- high priced veteran while we sort through all of our pitching depth next year 

i think Eppler goes internally for the rest of the infield and bench, lots of solid and cheap in house options that will already be an improvement over Valbuena/Marte/early 2018 Kinsler

C Grandal/Briceno/Arcia 

1B Fernandez/Pujols/Thaiss 

2B Fletcher/Rengifo/Cozart

3B Cozart/Fletcher

SS Simmons/Cozart/Fletcher

LF Upton

CF Trout 

RF Markakis 

DH Ohtani/ pujols

Bumgarner/Skaggs/Heaney/Barria/Pena with Canning in the mix

Shoemaker/Cole/Bedrosian/Alvarez/Robles/Anderson/Parker/Middleton (eventually)/Ottavino

I think with Calhoun’s contract going out and Bumgarmers going in, we could still afford these moves.