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yay moogy

You are a certified wordsmith, my friend.

It didn't have to be this way. thx for Correa btw. How's Kuroda doing?

See my last comment directed your way

I GET IT IM A MORON CAN WE MOVE ON PLEASE thx

Coupled with the fact that there's a 99% chance it will go poof anyway.

How do you figure..

Mark Appel tonight: 3.2 ip, 8 h, 7 r, 1 bb, 2 k im dumn

Pollock

Are you aware that Pillar was hitting very well for the first couple weeks of the season?

I hate you Min

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/816862/images/o-DUSTY-BAKER-facebook.jpg

They choose to use them though, so there both dumn

Why not just replace Walker with Baker altogether? Then all of our pitchers can be relievers.

#FantasyAdvice

I can't imagine how out of the loop you'd have to be to want Dusty B. over Gibby.

Here we go

I wrote it down somewhere. Give me a sec

Some rivals believe a "spark" is needed and espouse change for them, with just-fired Marlins manager Mike Redmond and three-time Manager of the Year Dusty Baker, who is close to Jays legend Cito Gaston, speculated as replacement possibilities. But Gibbons gets high marks for his strategy, and Anthopoulos, who sees the issue as one that's roster related, apparently is a believer. Oh my god

I honestly hate whoever writes those little blurbs. 100% of the time they are completely useless, like "Corey Kluber struck out 15 across 8 innings. It was a spectacular performance." <- no s*** "Steve Pearce has a low BATING AVRIGE. Disregard him for fantasy purposes." <- poor and potentially harmful "advice" based on a very small sample. Not even to mention he gained 2B and could potentially become a top player at the position. I remember when Bryce had an OBP over .400 and Yahoo's blurb cites it as a "disappointing" line. 2 days later (and after a homer or two) of course the slugging goes up and then he'd been having a phenomenal year. If they aren't going to add anything aside from the plainly obvious current category stats and not bother examining underlying luck factors, what's the point of writing anything at all?

That's dedication right there.

I mean, I think you have to have a guy who can keep the players together and working hard, but it's not a simple case of "if we had Joe Torre, we'd be leading the East right now!" I think you can have a toxic management situation that can negatively affect the team's performance. Look at Bobby Valentine with Boston, I would buy in to believing he negatively affected his team's play because all the players hated his guts. To what extent? Who knows. I'm not advocating that Gibbons is some great manager who needs to stay no matter what, my argument is that giving AA a scapegoat means another year of doing f*** all. If losing Gibbons meant AA and Beeston are gone too, I'm all for it. To actually mention Cito in a positive light is a joke (referring to glory) as is citing Farrell. I'd really question whether or not you watched the games. I know John Gibbons would not drive a 6 WAR OF who hits 40 bombs per year out of town because he has a natural all fields swing and refuses to try and pull everything, or keep benching a 4-6 WAR 1B in favour of f***ing Joe Carter. I also feel like Gibbons would not peform a late innings bunt with Travis Snider in a close game to set up a situation for Mike McCoy and John McDonald. Yeah, Cito had great teams in the early 90s. If you actually watched the infuriating things he did, you'd see his success is purely based on luck in managing an already great team. If you'll remember, he had a mutiny near the end of his second tenure and who knows how long the players hated him before they felt the need to do something about it. Hmm, writing that makes me really glad we have Gibbons. It could be so much worse.

Yeah, here's rotoworld: "Bryce Harper was ejected from Wednesday's game against the Yankees for arguing balls and strikes. This one wasn't even a called third strike, as Harper was tossed by home plate umpire Marvin Hudson on a first-pitch strike. The ejection was Harper's second in the past week, as he was tossed from last Wednesday's game for arguing as well. He's super talented, but his attitude can obviously still get him in trouble at times. May 20 - 7:55 PM" I really am curious as to why people jump at the chance to vilify Bryce Harper. Here's a young kid with generational talent, who also cares nothing for personal stats. He doesn't care about his HR totals or batting average, all he wants is to win the WS, which is kind of admirable and something you figure most people would praise him for. He is the definition of hustle as well, never takes a play off. Instead, he is ejected because an ump went on a power trip and Rotoworld (and others) act like it was Bryce's s***** attitude that got him in trouble. It's all just so dumb.

Just as recently as 2011, Showalter lost 93 games as manager of the Orioles. Dude is 59 years old, do you really think he's all of a sudden figured something out? It's not like he's the Orioles long time manager, he's led 4 different teams. Here's the real shocker: when he had a good team, he won more than he lost. When he didn't, he didn't. That snark was not pointed at you btw, but I am tired of people acting like firing Gibbons is some kind of solution. All it serves is to buy AA more time to f*** the team up and leave us with yet another year of failure. Joe Torre, hall of fame manager, never managed a team to 90 wins pre-Yankee dynasty. Watching him in game, he made a lot of terrible strategic decisions. Again, quality of the manager is really not important unless he's consistently benching a good player, which hardly ever happens. But Torre will get loads of undeserved credit for being there at the right place and right time.

Everyone being the people responsible for supplying him with terrible players. My stance is that Gibbons does not meaningfully contribute to wins or losses and if I had to guess, he's probably an above average manager. Ned Yost is one of the worst in the majors but his team is doing well, would you prefer to have him? And my not acting like a reactionary dipshit doesn't seem to match up with your assertion.