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Oof, questionable call and he's out. Leaves bases loaded.

Damn good pitch to hit fouled off. Decent AB at least.

Big chance for Stassi here.

That's Burdic's ball but DeJong takes it. That's something a good manager would be correcting right now, no matter who is in LF.

You can see why Shuster struggled last year. He doesn't have much room for error at his velocity. He's lost his breaking ball this inning and is getting hit hard.

Max looked pretty slow to get out of his crouch there, that said, would have been a close play even if he got to it, he couldn't have rolled it out there much better.

OF defense not exactly showing out this inning. Another ball that a good defender probably catches.

Shuster getting lit up now. Oof. Sometimes working too much in the zone turns into just lobbing BP.

What an absolutely awful play by Burdick. Plays a ball that might have been caught by a good defender into a triple and a line drive single drives him in. It was hit hard but you gotta at least hold him to a double.

Shuster is at 93 according to broadcast. He's dealing. Third K, of the looking variety, to start the inning. He seems like he's gonna be tough on LHB.

Burdick has gotten three good pitches to hit and done nothing with them. And that's what happens when you foul off meatballs at the MLB level. Aced at 97 on the outside corner for the K.

Writeup on him from a Braves site. Seems like he's gonna need to feature a good changeup. No velo reports so far but if he's just around 92-93 can see why he struggled last year. https://www.batterypower.com/2023/11/21/23969435/jared-shuster-2023-atlanta-braves-season-in-review

Wow, impressive half inning. He appears to have a smooth 3/4 delivery that hides the ball well.

I've watched 5 pitches from Schuster. He looks good. Pounding the edges of the zone. Nice crowd on hand on a beautiful day.

f***, it's 2024, put a hologram JR dunk tank on the concourse. For 5 bucks you get 5 throws to try and dunk the punk.

Now I'm hungry. I have a big greek church near my office. in the summer they do a "taste of greece" thing and for like $20 in tickets you can try a few things. I used most of my tickets on a lamb sandwich. the greeks know their lamb, that's for sure.

"We're celebrating ethnic yts day at the park, today is Dutch heritage night, free tulip with every ticket! Next week is Greek night featuring $5 Gyros!"

I'd make a reasoned guess that in aggregate it's easier to project than at the individual level. The Sox will probably have an above average defense, cool. But defense is downstream of pitching and our pitching is probably going to suck. Hard to make a lot of plays when the ball is rifling over your head out of the ballpark or rattling into the corner. It's ironic the Sox finally recognize defense now that the pitching and hitting are awful enough for it to make little difference.

Hear me out here, you know how nobody really uses physical media anymore? What if they had something like "CD and DVD demolition night"? Basically you'd encourage fans to bring in some old CDs and DVDs and then (this is where it gets good) blow them at some point during the game, maybe around the 7th inning or so after the fans have had a little time to get good and lathered up? You could have someone collect the things earlier and then blow them up on the field. It's bound to draw a good crowd.

You're missing the forest for the trees here: the point isn't that grifol is or isn't a good manager or even how he should talk about his players -- it's that not a SINGLE person has acknowledged to the fans that this is a reset year. If they have, they sure haven't done it very publicly.

Coach speak is fine but Grifol has talked like a clueless and out of touch moron pretty much since day 1 here.

We should have a new banner right?

If you were Shane Gillis level funny you could get away with this one. But you ain't, so imma boooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Trust me ur the zach lavine of this board we should have traded you last summer…