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The worst part is they didnt even try anything to shake things up. A firing A trade A callup of Thole or Negrych Nothing. AA just sat around and proclaimed this roster would eventually figure it out. AA needs to go and this is coming from someone who used to be his biggest fan.

They looked good against the Giants because the Giants played just about as bad as you possibly can and the 2 pitchers they faced arent that good.

So true. It should be obvious that the Rays continue to beat us because there just much smarter and well coached.

Not like it wasnt already over but season is done. No chance they get back into it. We need to start to see what Bautista can get on the trade market.

The Toronto Blue Jays do.

Honestly what is Jose doing? Bunting first inning? Getting thrown out trying to advance? Now that dumb move?

Bautista told him too

Haha I watched a game with my mother a few weeks ago and she said the same thing. Said that he looked like he lost a ton of weight and looked so skinny.

I think the organization deserves a little blame. When he came up he has amazing pitch recognition and would hardly ever chase anything or swing at junk. Now hes up there swinging at basically everything and he's way too hyper. This is when Lawries attitude prolly becomes a bad thing. He prolly has people speaking to him and telling him how to make adjustements but he just doesnt seem like the type who would take advice very well.

Dude needs to get on some OCD meds

Prolly not when we have the dumbest FO in the division.

Not necessarily. They happened under Farrell as well. We just have a collection of extremely dumb baseball players.

Meh theres never any consequences to this awful play. Nothing will change. AA is a big puss and afraid to make changes.

Not giving Negrych at least a audition is looking laughable right now

Dude is a mess at the plate.

This team is so stupid honestly and Bautista is one of the biggest culprits.

I'm pretty sure it was The Hurl who said last year that this team has too many old school/ex player voices speaking when they shouldnt. Either that or AA has problems overriding some of the more senior management people.

To me this biggest issues with whats going on with this organization are 2 things. -They have created a culture where you can act out, be disrespectful, whine and show a total lack of regard for team play and its tolerated. They have built a workplace where you can show up late, jerk off during work hours, totally underperform and there will be no consequences. If you create a culture where you can slack off and take shortcuts, most humans will always take that and run especially when you continue to be rewarded by the company. This org has shown a real lack of professionalism on the field the past 2 seasons and it doesnt seem like its going to change anytime soon. We have a bunch of egomaniacs, self absorbed, dumb or just uncaring types. Egomaniacs (Bautista, Lawrie, JPA) Dumb (Lind, Rasmus, Davis, Boni) Disinterested (Lind Rasmus,Izturis) Add in the fact Melky has been rumoured to be a underwhelming teammate and the bad apples or all about themselves types are all over the roster. To me this rosters overall baseball IQ is laughable and its getting exposed routinely the past 100 games or so. It doesnt look like any of our young players are getting better. It doesnt look like any of our players are making the necessary adjustments (maybe besides Lind). Maybe having a team full of misfits would work if you had a lead dogg who could keep all these guys in order and put them in there place but we dont and whats worse is our supposed "leader" is one of the culprits and doesnt set a good example by constant whining and making silly selfish mistakes in the field. Good organizations get the most out of players while bad organizations get mediocre to awful performance. We currently look like a organization that has no clue how to develop prospects or even ML talent.

Ya man these post game threads are good

Agreed. I'm not even mad about the final strike call. The fact we continue to run out JP and hes such a brutal player is more annoying.

Lobanton framed that nicely. Pulled it back over smoothly. No way that should be called a strike but good job by him. Not a chance JP gets that called for a strike.

How is this team going to put together a winning streak? You need to have good pitching and a consistant offense to do that.

To me this is a massive issue. We have a collection of either dumb, selfish or just not giving a damn types. This is even worse when you have a organization and coaching staff that has shown zero ability to maximize players abilities. This team badly needs a really good player whos a lead dogg and can put some of these headcase's in there place (Lawrie, JP, Bautista, Boni).

Gotta love this teams offense One night score 7 runs, the next get totally shutdown.

BC traded a first round pick for James Johnson. Then a season later traded him for a second round pick.