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08-04-2019, 06:52 PM | #1411 | |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
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I get that it takes more than just money; the Angels are proof of that. Trout's a generational talent who is going to waste his entire career playing for those clowns. But there will never come a day when the Dodgers helplessly watch other teams pilfer multiple star players, and that's just a reality for the little guys. |
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08-04-2019, 07:26 PM | #1412 |
21st Century Schizoid Fan
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08-05-2019, 09:04 AM | #1413 |
Politically Incorrect
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08-05-2019, 09:13 AM | #1414 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
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Meadows was an extremely high pedigree kid who just couldn't pick a lane. They seemed to be content letting him fail trying to go out there like Ken Griffey Jr and overswing. He wouldn't have been this guy in Pittsburgh, IMO. Glasnow had been spinning his wheels there for a couple years. He was slowly turning the corner but it probably took a new set of eyes to really get him figured out (before he broke down). I still can't believe how much they gave up for that !@#$ing clown, especially when Baz was the 'throw in' as a first round pick the year prior who had been developing on schedule. |
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08-05-2019, 05:08 PM | #1415 | |
Politically Incorrect
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08-05-2019, 09:16 PM | #1416 |
Has a particular set of skills
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Giving Wacha another start. Who could have seen this coming? He just had an off night. He was tough out there. Didn’t get down. He fought like a warrior out there on the mound. You’ll see him mow them down in his next start in 5 days. We have complete trust in him to get us a win next time.
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08-05-2019, 09:31 PM | #1417 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
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But - he tried. And that's what's important. |
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08-05-2019, 09:46 PM | #1418 | |
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08-05-2019, 09:51 PM | #1419 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
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Wacha's fried. You know he's fried, I know he's fried and HE knows he's fried. Guy has no business being out there and he's just trying to be a good soldier because they asked him to. They sent that poor kid out there to fail knowing full well he would. Why? Because of organizational malpractice. John Mozeliak has to be fired. He just has to be. This team has gotten older, more expensive, less flexible and WORSE every year for the last 5 years. Look at the damn payroll structure lads - this is your team next year as well. They're not adding Cole. They're not adding a real 3b. They're probably going to be worse because they'll let Ozuna go, put Bader in CF and Martinez full time in LF. And they'll find some schlub like Wade Miley or something to 'replace' Wacha. This team is going to continue to get worse and will take 3-4 years after firing Mozeliak to get better. They're irrelevant until 2023 at the very least. It's staggering what a piss-poor job John Mozeliak has done. |
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08-05-2019, 10:12 PM | #1420 |
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08-05-2019, 10:46 PM | #1421 |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
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Wacha versus the Dodgers. Sounds like the student-faculty rugby game from Meaning of Life.
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08-06-2019, 01:15 AM | #1422 |
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08-06-2019, 05:21 AM | #1423 |
Hung off the Night Train
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I turned that shit off after the bellinger 3 run jack.
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08-06-2019, 08:57 AM | #1424 |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
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I waited until DeJong had to snare a 100 mph 1-hopper and Goldschmidt had to make a diving snag on 105 at his backhand to get out of the inning.
The HR wasn't even the most ominous part of that inning, it was that the outs were ****ing missiles. And of course the offense had gone down with nary a whimper already. So it occurred to me that I was watching a Michael Wacha start against a no-name opponent pitching for the best team in the league while Matt Carpenter led off, Marcel Ozuna murdered rallies and Fowler patrolled CF. I mean jesus tits, how many times can I watch the same shit team against clearly superior opponents? So instead I watched a couple episodes of season 1 of The Grand Tour. Forgot how badly they struggled out of the gates but it was still better than watching Michael ****ing Wacha pitch... |
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08-06-2019, 12:10 PM | #1425 |
Diablo Negro
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I've never seen a worse team with a winning record and on top of it Shildt apparently is moonlighting for the Onion in his press conferences. Fire his ass with the rest of them he isn't the reason for the winning record, dumb luck and playing shitty teams is.
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