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  1. Masterbather
    We have no idea if Mattingly is any good as a coach. Great players don't necessarily make for great coaches. But I'm beyond blaming coaches and expecting players to suddenly change. We all knew this wasn't going to be a great team coming into this year and we all knew that we were going to struggle offensively and here we are.
  2. Masterbather
    Just you wait until Vlad gets hot again!
  3. Masterbather
    Interesting the people who are convinced they are so right are the ones that need to lash out when they are so wrong.
  4. Masterbather
    Nope, I didn't say it after 2020 and I didn't say it after 2021, I was pretty optimistic after both seasons actually, just felt we needed some important tweaks. I did feel like this front office wasted 2021 that's for sure, and I'm not wrong about that. Unfortunately some s*** has gone wrong since 2022 and it's been pretty clear where the path is going. The team is progressively getting worse. A big part of it, although not all of it, is a superstar that unfortunately is fraudulent. This core clearly has a low ceiling as a contender and a lousy floor. Time to restock and try again with different management; better management. We still have enough assets that we can rebuild fairly quickly if we wanted to.
  5. Masterbather
    I said a couple of offseasons ago, 2023 was the last off season, 2022 was a couple. Pretty simple math, even for you. You keep trying so hard and failing so miserably. You're out of your depth.
  6. Masterbather
    After the 2022 season.
  7. Masterbather
    Are these memes and gifs some sort of ego defense mechanism? I seriously worry about you sometimes?
  8. Masterbather
    I feel mostly the same, low expectations. I'm mainly displeased because it's supposed to be our competitive window but clearly we're not competitive with the best teams, I'd rather be rebuilding than to spin our wheels. I would have accepted starting to rebuild a couple of off-seasons ago because I could see where this was going. I think the Royals are a fascinating team, I don't think they're this good, but then again their division is not all that great so who knows what they can do? Dollar for dollar they absolutely are better.
  9. Masterbather
    Exactly, okay. This conversation is going to happen eventually, I think the idea of seven inning games being permanent in the future isn't pie in the sky either, there was some conversation about this during the doubleheaders a couple of years ago. These aren't outlandish ideas by any stretch of the imagination. If baseball is truly interested in making the game as entertaining as possible, as competitive as possible and holding interest as long as they can, these are the types of conversations they have had and will continue to have. The more people actually talk about it the more people will come around to these ideas.
  10. Masterbather
    Inclement weather and seven inning games are professional baseball. There's literally no evidence to suggest people would have a problem with this, none. Baseball has proven in recent years that it can make dramatic changes and people are fine with it as long as it makes sense. This makes sense, especially with the way pitchers get hurt these days. The idea of forcing teams to continue to throw guys on to the mound in virtually no win scenarios is archaic. Most people tune out anyway.
  11. Masterbather
    What do you think the ratings are like in blowout games? You're trying to use extremist arguments that don't make any sense. The idea that television and media money would suddenly plummet is theoretical and speculative. Again, inclement weather has not plummeted media value, shortened world baseball classic games has not plummeted media value, seven inning double header games did not plummet media value. Where's the evidence that that actually would happen? It's in the same place as the evidence of fans revolting is, purely in the realm of theoretical and unproven speculation. All the evidence suggests everyone would be fine and life would go on.
  12. Masterbather
    Ticket holders would not revolt, that's a purely theoretical argument and the world baseball classic proves that. Most fans leave the ballpark in blow out games, nobody wants to sit there through that. As long as it makes sense, fans completely understand, there would be no revolt. I think we would all gladly have saved our bullets in the bullpen in this game. Besides how did you like IKF pitching in the 9th inning for us? I know some people find it cute to watch that stuff, but if a guy who has actually been pretty good for us this year gets hurt doing that is it really worth it? What if anybody else from either team gets hurt in a blowout game? I just don't think it makes sense in the modern era to be doing this anymore.
  13. Masterbather
    How many teams come back from 10 run deficits in the last couple of innings? The fact that it could happen once in awhile does not compare to the times it actually never happens and the way it could f*** your bullpen for several days. How many games could a compromised bullpen cost you? I bet there's a lot more losses from that than there are wins from great comebacks. Besides you could always leave it to manager's discretion. You think if we didn't have the option to end this game after 6th or 7th we wouldn't have taken it? Of course we would have.
  14. Masterbather
    I see you skipped over my counter arguments, which are completely reasonable and legitimate. The fact of the matter is in 2024 there is no reason to continue to do this stupid crap. If we value player value and player safety, forfeiture should be part of major league baseball games and people need to start having that discussion more seriously whether you like me or not.
  15. Masterbather
    Now we get to waste Swanson. Awesome! You enjoying this Spanky?
  16. Masterbather
    Richards, Pearson, Mayza. Wasted innings. Who's next?
  17. Masterbather
    Nope, completely sound and it's been proven that it can work in baseball already. Fans wouldn't revolt just like they already don't revolt when games are shortened for inclement weather or at the baseball classic. The visceral response is purely based on the fact that people aren't used to it. Probably need a more clever team than ours to start the trend though, like Tampa.
  18. Masterbather
    Well we do it for rain shortening games, it's only cuz people aren't used to it. They do it at the world baseball classic precisely to protect players. People only have a visceral response to it because they're not used to seeing it but if it became commonplace nobody would care anymore. The logic is completely sound, why are you risking injuries and hurting your future ability to win in a game that is 99.9% decided?
  19. Masterbather
    I have mentioned before how major league teams should really considered the idea of forfeiting games instead of killing their bullpen or risking injury to position players because this is just stupid and actively hurts our ability to win future games. Traditionalists get really angry at that idea though. I would do it until MLB stopped me.
  20. Masterbather
    Short of injuries the one guy I'm not worried about is him.
  21. Masterbather
    Oh stop it, every fan base does the same thing, it's fun, players don't care, people make too much of it. I'm much more concerned about the fact that, you know, we're getting assf***ed by a real team.
  22. Masterbather
    Well it's only the first couple of innings of the very first game so it's going to be a story you know?
  23. Masterbather
    That's probably The most disheartening case scenario. At least it wasn't a two-run shot. Silver linings.
  24. Masterbather
    That's because you're an idiot.
  25. Masterbather
    This ought to be good.
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