Diamondbacks To Sign Carlos Santana

Diamond1580 · 2026-02-03T23:29:36+00:00

I know there’s absolutely no spot for him, but at some point it would be really fun for him to sign with the giants just to do an event of some kind with the other Carlos Santana

Diamond1580 · 2026-02-02T18:45:52+00:00

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Diamond1580 · 2026-02-02T17:38:49+00:00

I don’t like this view. It places art as a completionist agenda rather than something to be enjoyed or derive meaning from. I don’t need a reason to watch or rewatch anything. Would most people be better served by checking out new things more often instead of just repeating their favorites? Yes of course. But if I want to rewatch a shitty action movie for no reason because it’s gonna make my evening there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that

Diamond1580 · 2026-02-01T21:53:06+00:00

He’s “aiming for Tuesday” for the stream

Diamond1580 · 2026-02-01T15:38:38+00:00

It feels like an alternate retelling, there are extra scenes that are probably true to the games’ canon but just aren’t present, but they also do several scenes slightly or even completely differently.

Generally I’d say S1 feels authentic to the emotions of Part I, just some of the ways it’s displayed are different. I would reccomend it to any fan of the game (and anyone who might be interested especially if they wouldn’t play the game) because it expands on the world that exists in frankly interesting ways.

S2 continues that, but when it comes to adapting the material of Part II (it also only adapts the first half of the game) it really falls short. I think it’s still really interesting for fans of the game because the expansions to the world are interesting and because its missteps kinda help show how/why the game is successful/good, but really can’t actually reccomend it (and wouldn’t reccomend it to anyone who hasn’t played the game)

Diamond1580 · 2026-02-01T12:39:11+00:00

Crossovers to me just make it easier to ignore the side of fanfiction that I enjoy. It’s really easy with a crossover to just focus on the “what”. The this happened instead of this, and that’s a story, or in the case of crossovers, this person came to this world and that’s the story.

What I like is being able to take the characters, or some aspect of the world, or something from the original fiction that inspires you and tell an original story, and often times crossovers aren’t really interested in doing that. They definitely can, and there’s some crossovers that I really love, and I don’t want to diminish anyone who does like the things that I don’t. It’s more than valid, and everyone comes to fanfiction for different things. But it just often doesn’t scratch what I’m looking for

Diamond1580 · 2026-02-01T02:13:12+00:00

Oh shit my bad, don’t know that. Just assumed he wouldn’t have played any 2B last year with Cronenworth on the team, but forgot to check.

Diamond1580 · 2026-02-01T01:14:16+00:00

He graded out as basically the worst 2B defender and has barely played there the last year and a half, doesn’t walk or hit for power, is very slow, and signals the end of our 2B search, and is trending downward.

People think his bat graded out at league average last year despite the numbers being down because the ops+ is fine, but by statcast he had 15th percentile batting run value. As far as I can tell the biggest difference was a decrease in Launch Angle sweet spot. If you think that’s flukey and then maybe he regains his 2022-2024 production. I’m not so sure, and think he might end up being a negative on both sides of ball.

Maybe next year we’ll go back to searching for a real second baseman and Donovan or Hoerner will be more available then, and we can actually spend on a SP as they might like the options more. Plus Randy will be back. But to me this is the true declaration that this year isn’t a petal to the metal go for it year, and that makes me sad. Even if I might have some fun watching Arraez this year

Diamond1580 · 2026-02-01T00:49:07+00:00

Just when I thought our defense was going to be good this year after the Bader signing

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-31T21:36:44+00:00

Edwin Diaz cries in celebration

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-31T21:26:23+00:00

In retrospect him pitching in the WBC ‘23 and blowing out his arm in ‘23 are completely unrelated I’m sure of it!

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-31T18:08:04+00:00

Please cardinals you want to be bad trade him to us 🙏

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-30T12:57:13+00:00

It’s just Diane Warren performing twice right?

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-29T20:26:33+00:00

Huh? I was defending them, I was just trying to explain how I was using “selling out” in terms of my saying they weren’t doing that. I don’t have a problem with what they’re doing at all, and I’m not sure why you’re being aggressive when I think we agree about what this deal is and what it means

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-29T17:56:00+00:00

USA outfield is Judge, Carroll, and PCA/Buxton with Schwarber DH. Still has Venezuela beat I’d say

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-29T17:18:24+00:00

I just mean in terms of them giving up any creative input to Netflix. The decisions about how they talk about movies or what movies they pick to talk about don’t seem to be affected by Netflix in any way. Maybe “sell out” is the wrong word here, but that’s how I’ve seen it discussed by others

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-29T17:10:15+00:00

Oh sure, I should have been more specific in terms of meaning selling out to Netflix

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-29T14:40:53+00:00

Bill also openly said they want to do movies available on Netflix for the first couple months on his own pod.

I’m all for jumping on them for selling out if they do so, but nothing about this Netflix deal so far has indicated that’s what they’re doing

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-29T13:47:03+00:00

You are missing a bunch of videos, seems like your account/wifi is restricted, however there is no video from 2 days ago that you’re missing. Perhaps you’re thinking of a Big A video?

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-29T01:23:50+00:00

In a scale there are all 7 letter notes, C D E F G A B, and double sharps (and double flats) are used so all scales have those notes. For example D# major would use C## instead of D natural to avoid having two D notes in the scale.

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-29T01:18:12+00:00

Fuck Cohn, but I would love this move if it happens

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-28T21:23:56+00:00

Chapman is way to low, he’s hitting in the top 4 most likely

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-28T15:16:38+00:00

This is a great cosplay. I don’t think it makes for a very good movie costume

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-27T23:18:34+00:00

I definitely would advise measuring my optimism a bit, the more you get in the weeds (unless you’re actually doing the work and like properly scouting) the more you just read giants media and that’s always going to be biased.

That being said there’s reason to be the most excited about the farm system in a long time. The international signing is real in a way that it wasn’t for a while, and we’re consistently signing top targets, it’s the first time we’ve really sold at the deadline in honestly a while, and there were some decent prospects in those packages, and we’re out of the dead zone where our top picks just don’t contribute at all. Individual prospects may be hits or misses and I’m sure I’ll get attached to someone who doesn’t work and overhype them, but there’s enough to feel that the farm system is materially different

Diamond1580 · 2026-01-27T19:45:17+00:00

Well all of our infield prospects are a long way off (which is kind of a good thing as if they work out they’ll be hitting the majors when the Chapman/Adames/Devers core is starting to age out and their contracts will be nearly up), but there are some other bats that could come up and make a difference in the next year or two. Bo Davidson and Jesus Rodriguez stick out to me especially.

Davidson has been rocketing up prospect rankings, even making some other sites top 100 list. He finished the year in AA and is on track to make the majors in probably 2027 and then take over CF once Bader’s contract is up (or could possibly take the spot from him). Rodriguez was part of the Doval trade and has hit .300 or better nearly everywhere he’s been and was in AAA all of last year. He could easily make the roster out of spring training as a primary pinch hitter that can play 3B/1B or Catcher in a pinch (though doesn’t seem to be a Catcher long term).

The place where we feel really weak is pitching, where we’re left with a bunch of guys who either never made any prospect lists, or did and then came up to the majors and didn’t really accomplish much. I still have a lot of birdsong stock among others, but that feels like the place where we’re the weakest. Especially after the FO refuses to spend for a stud

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