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It's one of those things with birmingham. As long as his k:bb rate is fine, it is worth seeing him with the mlb ball in AAA before I write him off. The stuff that 'birmingham' shouldn't cause is 35% k rates. That's the tremendous AA stuff.

Again this is fine as a wikipedia page. But your last line, meh. She also put her dragons in a cave because they burned a little girl. She also tried to tell the dothraki to stop raping and murdering indiscriminantly. She was quite murderous to those in power but had been merciful to those not, until that moment. "Because she lost missandei" - someone she'd barely spoken to on screen in 4 seasons. We just had to fill in the rest with our heads. A wikipedia page.

I thought Arya's was good, she's been getting more of her humanity back throughout the season, one of the better jobs at thoughtful character development. It's one of the limitations of tv/movies though, at least with arya they really have to beat you down with visual storytelling of her wandering in the city to show her the other side of violence again, as well as effectively propel her to her next beat and make it understandable. I could see Arya both let the violence propel her to fight against Dany, or decide to leave fighting behind after feeling its impact again. And both I'd understand more.

Ah, I thought it was before. That makes sense. So yeah, just slight differences could have signaled something different. War is hell just...it's important but to do it in the penultimate episode is a little strange for a choice.

Right, my critiques are more specifically how they setup that narrative not the story arc itself. It just needed more time to show. It would be fine as a wikipedia page, it just didn't work within thrones where there has been such dedicated character and world building.

This is a good question, and let me be more clear. I do think the groundwork was laid for Danaerys to become if not mad, overly violent and despotic. And what gets me isn't the overall arc its the narrative beats to describe it. For me the issue was they have a scene of her perched on the dragon above the city. The bells are ringing. She won. All that she fought for is finally hers. She then decides to burn the city down. Is she thinking "i've lost everything, they've done this to me, they hate me?" Why did in that moment, in which she made a choice, did she choose that. They don't really give us anything that says in that moment it spurred her anger. It all came prior. So if it came prior that means it was premeditated. They, I believe, tried to show this in greyworm throwing the spear into the surrendering army. If it was premeditated, we needed to have that feeling that we all know she was about to make the bad choice but didn't want her to anyway. Instead they went for more shock - she's going to make the good choice but turned bad. That's my main issue. Narratively I agree that losing the dragon in that moment would sell the turn more effectively to me. Another is a godfather-esque moment, where the camera shows her perched above the city, bells ringing, her tired and sad. Cut to greyworm giving orders to slaughter the retreating army. Cut to a group of unsullied arresting tyrion. Cut back to Dany, she is defiant/angry and takes off and starts laying flame. She planned it. While her former advisers thought she wasn't talking to anyone, she had been planning with the only person she trusts to lay waste to the city. I think ultimately that's what the show runners were trying to show, among other more effective lessons on violence will never be triumphant - and that stuff was good. But I don't think they came close to selling that in the moment. And because htey showed the moment dany made that choice, it seemed unbelievable to me, despite being someone who was bought into that arc.

A lot of people lose people and don’t start randomly killing innocents. It did not explain why she did it, and “well she’s crazy now! With rage!” Isn’t good enough.

I was a supporter of Dany turning bad but I have zero clue why she started indiscriminately flaming people. They can’t just expect a dramatic look to do that work. Her wanting to rule through fear doesn’t cut it.

This is at this point a very bad player development group and that getting players with great tools and luck is a better plan with that then we’ll rounded players who need to improve incrementally with a group that cannot maximize talent.

I was highly confident that Madrigal will do what he needs to to be great. But it’s clear the Sox will not help him and may be feeding his worst impulses.

“Because the Sox player development is bad” should disqualify all of these players then. The Sox have fucked up advanced college bats too. They’ve selected very little high school talent to say anything about it but I’ll say that just I’ve seen enough college bats not improve through higher competition while high school bats surpass them that I don’t care. You aren’t going to be able to hedge against the white Sox bad development in drafting.

Amen. People are also using “raw” in dumb ways here.

He's technically part of the 2018 class, so I don't know that they would anticipate him in the 2019 list.

http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2019?list=int Sox on none, but there are a few yet announced to teams that we can dream on lol just kidding we'll just get the 21 year old from cuba and tatis brother.

I don't disagree, but I don't know that she has to "go mad" as in actually insane. Again, part of her thing was being a better ruler. She has a right to user her military might to just take over and whatever happens to those in the way so be it. But many wanted an end to that, and I think that she's talked so little of it is their way of doing it. But the show runners have absolutely rushed a lot. And I guess I am just sympathetic to the real-life issues they have to deal with. This show is one of the few that absolutely probably required at least 10 seasons but at the same pace of the first 4 - likely 12-14. But you can't keep everyone on contract that long, and you'd end up in that terrible late series issue where you are killing people off because they want out of the show rather than based on plot. It had to wrap up, there was a lot to cover, but the beauty of the show at its peak was how detailed and how it didn't condescend to the viewer. But it just doesn't have a lot of time, and I think if people feel that dani is rightfully rational in losing everyone around her and responding by just crushing shit with her dragon, that's not a bad thing.

no Presidents.

He wasn't a failed mascot. He was perfect. Everyone else failed. We failed him.

Honestly feels like he thinks there is a minimum weight for the 5 hole hitter. "No, not anderson, he is not fat enough"

The 2020 class is supposedly good...if you feel that way and you are texas would you consider drafting a guy and purposely tanking the negotiation just to double up then?

My name is bmags, and I have found lineup complaining to largely be disproportionate to its impact. But the last two lineups are so frustrating, and I am so sick of this employment of the L-R matchups as the uber strategy in baseball. Today's lineup.

what...just what.

He'll want to stay NL, but his AL market will probably be better. ATL maybe best suitor in NL.

Just to further my point, his only explicit sox reference was also discussing taking Vaughn.

This is what I'm thinking. Not Kershaw/Greinke money but maybe between the 23-26 mill and 6 year range

You never know, I bet every fan of a team in the top ten would think its them. Could just as well be orioles.