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if he pitched yesterday we might've won a ball game. this series pisses me off. -3 run differential resulting in 3 losses, this is where the manager is supposed to help by making appropriate personnel decisions.

boy I think I could've hit that one for a home run.

100 million Dominican pesos = $1.6mil USD. That seems fair.

Maldonado's Curse. He only exists in baseball to stand in the way of young, talented catchers getting playing time.

Wow what a slide.

I wonder if we could've traded Vaughn for Eder instead. Burger had a big first series, .545 average, 1.175 OPS, 5 RBIs. (Tim looked OK too). Marlins infield defense is tragic though.

walked a guy, hit a guy, 5 runs later he's out of the game. you love to see it.

you beat me to the edit. "And the rest of us". At least 15,000 of those people got a sweatshirt.

The real loser of this game is Steve Stone.

Vaughn has made two great plays. Gold Glove campaign begins today. if he can't hit he might as well do something.

A lot of really good, out of character bats from Luis. How many pitches has he seen today? Is this his best game as a pro?

I love the idea of subbing out Maldonado right after he bats.

it's a good thing Javy Baez is the worst player in the MLB.

I didn't even realize that guy made the major league roster. why not kopech?

blame Stacey King.

throw more fastballs.

$15 is a steal for something that size at a ballpark. Yeah it's 30 cents worth of ingredients, but, hey "it's such a value" I'm gonna buy it!

it actually worked. are they 13-year-olds?

I haven't seen him run that fast in years

what an AB

"I have a FOID card but I've never owned a firearm" ok sure. Now that we've gotten a look at this woman, at least a shadowy version of her upper half, I'm even less compelled by her version of events. That's a big shadow. She clearly had the means to sneak the gun in. This story is incredible.

Berroa exits the game with a 135 ERA.

Berroa gives up a home run to his first batter, meatball fastball. two home runs...

Colas doubled off a left-handed pitcher ?

I watched an "interview" of Chris Getz with AJ Pierzynski and friends last night. They asked him about Pedro and he sounded pretty frank that Pedro would be out of a job if he doesn't get good years out of Eloy, Moncada, Vaughn, Robert -- "the core". That the manager's only job is to get the best out of his players (duh) and that will be reflected on how those players perform. At least that's how I interpreted it. Seems like a reasonable barometer anyway. I don't know how much of last season's dumpster fire can be pinned on Grifol. He certainly didn't help. I think he was the wrong hire to begin with but I don't see what it hurts giving him another year, maybe he can actually be good at his job under appropriate working conditions. Beyond potentially being good at his job (I don't believe this), keeping him around another year might signal to his replacement that there's some job security in this manager position. haven't exactly shown a strong track record there recently. probably scares away proper candidates.