Masterbather

I was trying to read between the lines on their comments also but I'm not sure yet if that's what they meant. Buck sure sounded disappointed that he hasn't been pitching, which I agree with, but that may have just been a soft shot at management. There needs to be a plan here. If he is refusing assignment he should have been suspended by now.

You knew that day it was first written that those words would live on in infamy.

The Rangers are still in play, Tampa Bay is still in play for teams that could end up missing the playoffs, that's the level of competition. And there was some people who actually thought the path to the playoffs would be relatively easy this year, and this is with the Yankees all but out of it, though Boston is hanging tough also.

Ryu doing Ryu things

Merciless for Schneider to upgrade our offense in a 9 to 2 game.

Puppy Chow. They're feasting.

Well it did look like our most offensive lineup in a while and it is producing.

Gave up five runs in plus of an inning actually.

Needed this win.

If we're encouraging pointless threads I have plenty that I can make.

f*** that, bring in Cito to teach these *******s how to pull a ball. The point of working the count is not to see a lot of pitches, it's to get a pitch that you can pull the f*** out of, even if it's the first pitch.

Sometimes I wonder if Kirk understands pitch calling to the game situation. On to the next one...

What's wrong with this? There have been several players that have skipped the minor leagues all together. Granted it doesn't happpen often anymore, but it doesn't necessarily make them a s***** organization for doing it.

I thought Biggio was the best of our young players when he first came up (I didn't trust Bo's approach and over aggressiveness, and I just never really loved the way Vladdy looked like as a hitter either and hated the shape he was in despite everybody glowing about him, also don't like his clown antics). I loved Cavan's eye at the plate, seemed to have good line drive swing, seemed serious about the game. Enjoyed watching him hit. Well, OBVIOUSLY wrong about Bo, it works for him, still wish he would show a LITTLE more patience but can't really complain much about his production. Looked like I could be wrong about Vlad, but outside of one breakout partial season based perhaps on playing in Buffalo, he really hasn't looked like anything special. Maybe if he finally gets serious about his conditioning. Started to feel really stupid about how much I liked Biggio initially though LOL. He looked absolutely lost for a while, looked like he just couldn't catch up to fastballs, and I completely gave up on him. I held on through last year, but I was pretty much over him early on this year. I hope this is real. We need a bat like his from the left side. He could still stand to benefit by cutting down the K's, but that's also a byproduct of his approach and getting routinely f***ed by umpires, but maybe he could learn to spoil close pitches better as he goes forward. I'm rooting for him, back on the bandwagon, don't hurt me twice Cavan.

Well that was less than ideal.

Maybe DeJong just didn't want to be traded? Looks like he left his heart in St. Louis. That or he's just utter s***.

That's my boy Varsho right there!

You have a high opinion of yourself for somebody who's always wrong about this team.

We obviously have different definitions of legit. I like Berrios, but in a playoff rotation he's miscast as a number two. Really good number three though. Pen is deep and very good, but nobody elite in there. Funny enough Kikuchi actually has the chops to be a legit number two, he's showing that recently, but this could just be a blip.

Well we keep expecting it to change and it's getting pretty late now and it hasn't changed. So at this point I'm not expecting it anymore. I think we're going to struggle mightily the score against good teams with good arms in the postseason.

Yes we all know that anything can happen if you make the postseason. But the pitfalls with this team are obvious. The offense is a big problem. Might that miraculously change? Sure but at this point we can't really expect it to.

It's not just about that. It's one of the deepest for sure. Our bullpen was pitching pretty well at the end of last season, it wasn't near the top throughout the season but it was pitching well towards the end, but it lacked elite arms and so when we got into trouble we didn't have a shutdown option. We still don't. We will see what Green has to offer but the best we have is probably still Romano. He's not elite. We have a higher floor now, which is good, more depth, but we may not really have a higher ceiling.

Unless this version of Kikuchi is suddenly the real deal, we still have a number 1, a couple of 3's and a 4 as our starters. You still need somebody to pair with Gausman to form a legit one-two punch. This version of Kikuchi would do it, but is this real or just a good run? The bullpen will be very deep and very very good, definitely a strength, but we still don't have a truly elite pitcher in the pen. This offense though, against elite pitching, it's going to be putrid. They give the pitching no margin for error.

Ward was filth. One of the filthiest we ever had. Short career though. From 1989-93, he was fun to watch.

I wouldn't bet the house on it that's for sure