Recent content by VORP Speed

  1. VORP Speed

    If You Want Big Air, Pull My Finger - Ski and Ride 23-24

    Heading out today to catch the last 5 days of the season in Park City. Should be sunny and in the 50’s. Have my shades and sunscreen!
  2. VORP Speed

    The Frailty of the Modern Pitcher

    It doesn’t matter how lively the balls are. At any given level of liveliness, pitchers will get better results by maxing out spin and velocity and therefore they will do so. If you want pitchers to throw more innings it will have to be legislated by limiting roster spots for pitchers or limiting...
  3. VORP Speed

    March/April 2024 MLB Gamethread

    Snell looked like a slapdick prospect in the Trop today. Got shelled for 7 runs in 4 IP. Giants career isn’t off to a great start.
  4. VORP Speed

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Ippei should make restitution by selling the Hollywood rights to his life. This thing will make a great true crime story. He’s like Keyser Soze to pull this off for 5 years.
  5. VORP Speed

    2023-24 NHL Game Thread

    Lightning have been on fire since the trade deadline. Vasy back in form, Kuch pushing for the Hart, deadline acquisitions have been outstanding. Going to be a great series.
  6. VORP Speed

    The Tommy John Epidemic

    It’s not really just about max effort. “Max effort” is a shorthand for max effort enabled by driveline style training techniques that are causing velocity and spin rates to increase to levels that weren’t previously achievable by a given player. Guys who would have thrown 91 twenty years ago are...
  7. VORP Speed

    2023-24 NHL Game Thread

    Hockey is truly the best sport. Can’t wait for the playoffs.
  8. VORP Speed

    Jordan Montgomery signs with Arizona

    This is a horrific deal for Montgomery and seems like borderline agent malpractice. Boras went thru his whole bag of tricks….now it’s the Mets, the Yankees, the Astros, a mystery team, he’s now considering Glasnow type deals, etc etc and the whole league called him on his BS.
  9. VORP Speed

    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    If Shohei truly didn’t know about the betting, then Ippei must have convinced the bookie that he was placing bets on behalf of Shohei, right? How else would the bookie extend that kind of credit? And it tracks with the bookie telling people he had Shohei as a client. Ippei loses some bets, wires...
  10. VORP Speed

    2024 Rays: Junior Caminero, come on down!!

    I’ll let MLB trade rumors do the work on the offseason rundown. Cash and Neander going into their 10th seasons after Friedman and Maddon left. Cash now the longest tenured manager in MLB. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/03/offseason-in-review-tampa-bay-rays-16.html
  11. VORP Speed

    Baseball Is Broken (on the field, proposed rule changes, attendance, etc.)

    Stealing bases is fun and exciting.
  12. VORP Speed

    Blake Snell to the Giants

    He doesn’t want to crack that. Boras is perfectly happy to funnel a larger and larger slice of the pie to a small number of players, because he has a dominant market position and gets an outsized cut of that money. The median mlb salary is 1.5m and the average career is under 4 years. The median...
  13. VORP Speed

    Blake Snell to the Giants

    He hasn't made millions and millions for ALL players. The money flows massively to the elite few while the majority get to be "cost-controlled" and then cast aside. Boras' influence has pushed the union to prioritize the needs of the elites over the average ballplayers.
  14. VORP Speed

    NCAA Tournament First Four and Thursday Game Thread

    I don’t know whether to be happy UVa squeaked into the tourney or humiliated to have to watch a pseudo March madness game on a Tuesday.
  15. VORP Speed

    Lucas Giolito has an elbow issue.

    The risk of messing up your elbow is totally worth it to potentially play Major League Baseball. It’s as simple as that. This isn’t like CTE and football. It’s not really the end of the world if you shred your UCL, just means you have to go get a real job, which you will have to do anyway if you...
See more
Top Bottom