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Shane made Wood, a very good hitter, look silly

anotha one. moonshot that is.

also why do they do this "let's sing the insurance song!" "no i don't want to" every fucking game. while I'm complaining about this, I guess Brooks hit a homer...he crushed that

I love how John was about to start talking about the playoff implications, mentioned the Blue Jays then just kinda stopped talking. The guy is so weird.

glad Shane is getting a last start

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking forum mods are actually an elaborate group of ex-Stasi agents who gang stalk posters with contradictory opinions. you might be a "targeted individual".

I still feel like Brooks could be our version of Ben Zobrist...maybe not as good...or half as good...but that AAAA kind of player who figures it out in his mid 20s and plays every position. Zobrist gave the Devil Rays -0.6 WAR and -1.1 WAR in his first MLB seasons at age 25 and 26. His defense is very puzzling but he has some surprising power and pretty much came out of no where. 15th rounder who OPS'd .548 as a 21-year-old in rookie/a ball...then made massive strides in A/A+ and AA/AAA. His path to MLB is an impressive one to me and I bet he could continue to get better. That dog in him or whatever. I don't think he's gonna produce a 9 WAR season like Zobrist did, but I think he could be a pretty good regular. I bet he keeps improving.

It's about prediction, innit. Ken had an illustrious career in my view, but refused to adapt to the modern game. This is true of a lot of industries. re Stearns: literally yes. He has an unlimited budget, this .500 team costs 400 million dollars, and the team is no better than when he took over despite signing a future Hall of Famer in his prime to a massive contract. The only other good players on that team were acquired by the previous regime. We've already discussed this. The Mets would comfortably be in the postseason if they made the pitching moves that Getz did. They could've simply kept Vasil and Orze. Adrian Houser was available to them. Martin Perez could've given them 50+ innings of 3.5 ERA baseball. Dan Altavilla 29 innings at 2.5 ERA. This Mets team has the most pitching staff churn of any team in history, it's their biggest weakness, so why didn't the wunderkind address it? He actually made it worse. 'What would Stearns have done with the White Sox and what would Getz have done with the Mets?' is a fun hypothetical to ponder. Sox Stearns isn't signing Juan Soto. Getz Metz might've kept Vasil around at the very least. Stearns has done nothing for the Mets which is quite funny. The Brewers are clearly better off without him. Imagine spending 400 million dollars on an MLB team and the Reds are better than you. The Dodgers spend a similar amount and they actually look like it now that all their high-priced are healthy. They won the division. They took a risk on high-priced, injury-prone players, and it appears to be working. They are, to me, the WS favorite yet again. Very little internal talent outside of Pages who is fuckin awesome.

he gone! soon enough. we'll see if the new guy is any different.

I love what Ken accomplished. But he never seemed to get with the modern times. Hahn had his moments too. It was time to move on from garpax too. Although it appears to me that garpax was better at the job than AK and it seems to me that Getz is better than Kenny/hahn. Just my impression. Yet to be proven right?

Just a well run franchise. I hope the Sox can be like them with a Chicago budget.

Truly. I didn’t know that’s how they walked it off lol I just got the notification on my phone. Love it. Now hopefully the reds can wrap things up.

See ya!!!

Why have you not magicked away Jerry by now 😡

Reds are in in the process of a big inning. 6 runs so far. Most of them came on 2 outs. I gotta step out, but mega lul, gg mets.

OOF

let's go Chase!!

he's actually 120 OPS points worse vs lefties this season than righties... .558* OPS.

on cue. why bring Mead in for the guy who's hit a home run today?

Has it worked once this season when Venable "played the match up" with a pinch hitter or relief pitcher? The guy really needs to learn how to be a better in game manager imo. Still like him better than Grifool and think he has a bright future. But the calls to the bullpen this season have been headscratchers. Doesn't help that every left-handed pitcher is unreliable.

oh god not this guy

does anyone ever actually get banned from this forum? seems like a good thing to me. it's all in good fun.

they should delay this mess

I think he's gotta be above 3 now

beer league championship next week