AA: "We're still trying to sign a starter"

[8D]

Great Valentine's day thread guys.

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MwDfXW0sGpM/Ucs4wSTLJdI/AAAAAAAANgY/pSjyk6vUnlA/s1600/cringe.gif

 

name?

[GD]

Pics or GTFO!!!

 

Sweet jesus I hope you realize how age inappropriate that is

[GD]

A picture of her eyes

 

OMG PEDOPHILE!!!!!!!

 

Pretty sure asking for a pic of someone a full year younger than /I/ am (skipped a grade) is this regardless

 

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/2/25940/849054-pedo_bear_seal_of_approva.png

I approve of the inappropriateness though

[fatcowxlive]

I imagine I'd get on with the guy pretty well, to be honest. He seems like a man's man. Being able to get f***ed up with your girl's dad who happens to be a millionaire and has a reputation as a good-time kind of guy...........so long as I don't beat her up or play her out hard, what do you have to worry about? Sounds like he'd be a blast to know if you stay on his good side.

 

Easy for you to say! LOL

[TheHurl]

name?

one of the girls from Big Brother named Britney

[Fearthedoc]

lol, I have no idea

 

WTF BTS. Rule one of this thead is DO NOT talk about the hot pic thread. Rule two is DO NOT talk about the hot pic thread. But Rule three is do not tease us with a hot pic if you do not have a name to go with it. I would de-thank you if possible.

[Angrioter]

What did she say?.............Don't even care, I just want see his ( . Y . )

[GD]

Middle school problems

 

But at least I have friends

 

#KingProblems

[AngryBird]

What did she say?.............Don't even care, I just want see his ( . Y . )

 

Wow. Those are.....wonderful.

[Angrioter]

She has a penis

 

I don't care. I can get a deal with Her or He.

[dineke]

Sweet jesus I hope you realize how age inappropriate that is

 

I didn't know you we're a child!!! This is an r-rated thread.

[admin]

Has Bruce Chen signed yet? Damnit just checked, he has. I had a feeling it was going to be home thanks to ECJF.

[AngryBird]

She has a penis

 

S/he can keep her pants on. Not a problem.

[John_Havok]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]537[/ATTACH]

 

Best eyes ever

 

She has eyes?

[8D]

one of the girls from Big Brother named Britney

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Big_Bang_Theory_characters#Character_appearance_summary

 

I don't see her, lol.

[flafson]

Wow. Those are.....fake.

 

Fixed it for you.

[eastcoastjaysfan]

Hold on

 

Chick in that gif has a dick?

[awsomest]

There was a pretty hot girl pic that I remember fapping to only later to learn it was a guy..... no regrets

[Doc]

He's Riccardi's boy, what did you expect? Success?

 

Exactly bud, I wish more people would've realized this years ago instead of hoping for lighting in a bottle.

[AngryBird]

If you had tried years ago to present evidence of AA as a poor GM you would have failed miserably.

 

No, he would have been attacked. No one had any evidence back then that he would be a good GM or not. All we had to go by was what his mentor in Riccardi did, and the fact that Riccardi was an abysmal failure and literally anyone would have been an upgrade over him.

[jays4life19]

AA really did an incredible job early in his tenure. He turned a god awful farm into a top system in literally no time. Got rid of some terrible contracts. Turned players like Alex Gonzales into assets. Creatively acquired draft picks ( Olivo). He had a nice young core and a top farm and things were looking better then we could have ever hoped in the time frame he took over.

 

It just went down hill since the JA Happ trade. Down hill might be an understatement. Crash and burn since then.

[glory]

Ricciardi, at least towards the latter part of his tenure, focused on pitching and defense, and he always valued OBP. He just wasn't a good drafter. He was a terrible drafter, actually.

 

Alex focuses on power, practically ignores OBP/defense, and so far has produced (at least on paper) a much better asset base in terms of players he has drafted (whether they pan out is another question).

 

I think if you combined JP as a GM with Alex's drafting, the finished product would have been better. I can't recall a single prospect, other than Jayson Werth, that Ricciardi traded that ended up amounting to much, while Alex in a span of six months traded many that have the potential to really come back and bite the Jays in the butt (TDA, Syndergaard, etc).

 

I mean, I'd prefer neither as GM, but between the two, JP was probably the better/smarter one.

[GeorgiaPeach]

What an *******s the Canadians are................They prefer faces instead asses or boobs!!

 

Don't care how tight a girls body is, if her face looks like a can of smashed *******s.....I wouldn't give her a second look or even care to bang.

[glory]

What's the team's payroll right now, top-5? I know they were 8th or 9th last year. I think that if JPR had been allowed to take payroll to that level he could have fielded a playoff team or two. The man assembled the best pitching staff in baseball over a 3-year stretch, and put together teams that won 87 games, and 86 games (with a 93-win pythag). Those were good teams. Almost good enough, but not quite. With the same ownership commitment that AA has enjoyed he could have done it.

 

Yeah the JP teams from 2006-08 were pretty good. Even the 2005 team that had like a $48M payroll won 80 games despite Halladay missing half the year (88 win pythag). I thought his MLB moves, for the most part, were always pretty solid, especially in the last three years of his run (before Beeston set him up to fail in 2009). His drafting was just really, really bad. If he drafted a little better, and had assets to play with in trades (like Alex does with his drafting), he may have been able to trade some prospects for better vets. Unfortunately he was drafting older guys with limited upside, so his trade options were not very plentiful.

[GeorgiaPeach]

With the exception of King, who seems to grasp the term "age appropriate", you should all be ashamed of yourselves.

 

Disagree. You gotta start somewhere and there's nothing wrong with early 20's.

 

And I'm not gonna be like most guys where as they age its like a sliding age scale, the women they like do as well.

[GeorgiaPeach]

Well since this thread is completely derailed and was never relevant to begin with.how f***ing cute is Miranda Cosgrove..that's wifey material

 

Ugh.....she went downhill from her appearance on School of Rock.

[GeorgiaPeach]

name?

 

Britney Haynes....from Big Brother.

 

Jordan Lloyd is way better though.

[vic city]

Don't care how tight a girls body is, if her face looks like a can of smashed *******s.....I wouldn't give her a second look or even care to bang.

 

2 words:

 

Doggy Style

[GD]

Dogg

 

Ban

[glory]

Yeah, the drafting didn't work out very well for him. I always assumed he tried to lean heavily on statistics in drafting, and trusted college numbers more than highschool numbers, and it just didn't work out very well. For me that's a manageable shortcoming for a GM though - the draft is mostly a crapshoot, and you'll stumble on the odd gem even if your process is poor. I think JPR was above-average at evaluating the value of major league players, and that's the most important thing for a GM IMO.

 

Yeah Ricciardi was pretty good at player evaluation at the big league level.

 

He sold high on Hudson to get Glaus, and later sold high on Glaus to buy low on Rolen (who went on to have WAR's of 2.8, 4.1 and 4.5 through the remainder of his contract as opposed to Glaus who fell off the face of the earth after 2008). He got great value at the catching position seemingly every year (Myers, Zaun, Molina, and even Barajas wasn't terrible). He got Scutaro prior to his breakout. He believed in Rios even though his bat took a couple of years to catch up to his potential. He was able to identify Catalanotto's platoon splits and exploit them. And so on. Heck, one of the criticisms that I remember about his run early in his career was that he didn't value the Gord Ash guys, but if you look at the inherited players that he kept (Wells, Rios, McGowan, League, Johnson, Hudson until Hill was ready, etc) vs. the players he let go (Phelps, Lopez, Gross, Izturis, Lyon, Werth, etc), he was pretty spot on in terms of the players that would end up panning out (except Werth, though it took him a few years to reach his potential).

 

He wasn't perfect by any means, but I can't recall a MLB move that I can look back on and say "damn what the heck was he thinking?". He was almost cautious to a fault with his trades. Again, it all goes back to the drafting. Tulo over Romero would have helped him greatly, for starters. Striking out on Adams, Purcey, Snider (in hindsight), Cooper, and Jenkins looks pretty darn awful. He may not deserve that much blame for later round picks, but I'm assuming he'd at least have an idea of the first round guys. Outside of Hill, and a couple of Romero seasons, he was terrible in that regard.