We start one? If not, does anyone remember how to do the thing?
23 thoughts on “April 4, 2019: Prediction Contest”
1. "Who's going to the playoffs and who's winning awards?"
2. *furtively submit wild-ass prognostications*
3. Profit!
Here’s a few:
- Twins’ end-of-season WAR leaders for position players & pitchers
- greatest WAR jump from 2018 totals for position players & pitchers who qualified last year
- Twins’ minor league player of the year
- Twins’ 2020 draft position
- dates Dallas Keuchel & Craig Kimbrel sign
- first managerial change in 2019
- first front office shake-up in 2019
- any/all of Michael Baumann’s prop bet questions from The Ringer MLB Show
Man, Man, your time is sand
Your ways are leaves upon the sea
I am the eyes of Nostradamus
All your ways are known to me
Working on a post. Admittedly, won't have many of these things...
Let's see... for most teams the season started a week ago so... negative 7 days?
I'm only picking people on the DL
IL
Also can we get a link to the EPL contest standings. Only 4-5 games left of the season and two teams are already slated to be relegated.
AMR, nice to see you yesterday.
Your mom made you say that, didn't she?
I really dislike having so many off days in the first weeks of the season. Especially when the Twins are winning regularly.
I don’t know about you all, but I’m just itching to tell a co-worker “I can do whatever I want” today.
Ron Kulpa’s act last night was a disgrace. It’s not even about balls and strikes, really, no one who has that much difficulty interacting peaceably with other humans should choose that profession.
I hope when the commissioner calls him today, he tells Kulpa "I can do anything I want."
This isn't the first time something like this has happened with Kulpa. And Kulpa will continue to do Kulpa things as long as MLB allows him to.
I'm particularly confused by the "Kulpa thing" of walking in front of the plate during pitcher warmups. That was just... odd. (I mean, he was obviously looking for a scrap, but what an odd way to go about it. Leaves no room for interpretation who was being the jerk.)
At one point he clearly pushed the Astros catcher toward his dugout. Homie didn’t react, but if a player did that to an ump it’d be an immediate ejection at the very least.
How long does it take you to name the two ballplayers from the 2006 Twins squad that are still in baseball?
Jonah Keri likes Twins' chances. This was written awhile ago but I hadn't seen it before today. Keri said in a chat at The Athletic today that he is predicting this year for the Twins to win the Central.
1. "Who's going to the playoffs and who's winning awards?"
2. *furtively submit wild-ass prognostications*
3. Profit!
Here’s a few:
- Twins’ end-of-season WAR leaders for position players & pitchers
- greatest WAR jump from 2018 totals for position players & pitchers who qualified last year
- Twins’ minor league player of the year
- Twins’ 2020 draft position
- dates Dallas Keuchel & Craig Kimbrel sign
- first managerial change in 2019
- first front office shake-up in 2019
- any/all of Michael Baumann’s prop bet questions from The Ringer MLB Show
Man, Man, your time is sand
Your ways are leaves upon the sea
I am the eyes of Nostradamus
All your ways are known to me
Working on a post. Admittedly, won't have many of these things...
And here is the post:
How long do I have to predict the future?
Let's see... for most teams the season started a week ago so... negative 7 days?
I'm only picking people on the DL
IL
Also can we get a link to the EPL contest standings. Only 4-5 games left of the season and two teams are already slated to be relegated.
AMR, nice to see you yesterday.
Your mom made you say that, didn't she?
I really dislike having so many off days in the first weeks of the season. Especially when the Twins are winning regularly.
I don’t know about you all, but I’m just itching to tell a co-worker “I can do whatever I want” today.
Ron Kulpa’s act last night was a disgrace. It’s not even about balls and strikes, really, no one who has that much difficulty interacting peaceably with other humans should choose that profession.
I hope when the commissioner calls him today, he tells Kulpa "I can do anything I want."
This isn't the first time something like this has happened with Kulpa. And Kulpa will continue to do Kulpa things as long as MLB allows him to.
I'm particularly confused by the "Kulpa thing" of walking in front of the plate during pitcher warmups. That was just... odd. (I mean, he was obviously looking for a scrap, but what an odd way to go about it. Leaves no room for interpretation who was being the jerk.)
At one point he clearly pushed the Astros catcher toward his dugout. Homie didn’t react, but if a player did that to an ump it’d be an immediate ejection at the very least.
How long does it take you to name the two ballplayers from the 2006 Twins squad that are still in baseball?
Ja!
Jonah Keri likes Twins' chances. This was written awhile ago but I hadn't seen it before today. Keri said in a chat at The Athletic today that he is predicting this year for the Twins to win the Central.