Dagagad

I think generally the abyss looks back at you.

f*** those little fans lol. I have my own problems.

Even 9 games back, for example?

Also, I feel like we’ve outhit them every game lol.

How many games back at the deadline would be enough for us to sell? Teo, Jansen and Lourdes are obvious candidates.

I majored in history and did a lot of Byzantine religious stuff and I had only heard that word in that context. So, until I looked it up I thought you meant Bo was going into churches and f***ing s*** up lol.

Actually I think two went through and in another the glove just broke.

We specialize in can’t throw gas but also can’t throw strikes. It’s a market inefficiency.

They need to keep a lead here. The seattle pen will be tough to score on.

I thought there was three. One where it went through and another where it broke but the ball stayed in front on the ground. And today. The second one wasn’t super consequential. I remember him replacing his glove twice.

I think that’s three times in 80 odd games. Might be genuine questions lol.

Almost all longish losing streaks have terrible sequence luck. Just the right amount of bad thing happen to make you lose every game by a run or two. It f***ing sucks to watch lol.

I can’t watch the game right now, but if one went through vlad’s gloves … I’m pretty sure that’s the third time this season.

They did protect Jiminez who was in high A last year.

Awesome, thanks. I’ll check it out.

Where did you hear that? I’d like to listen to it. He’s rule 5 eligible this off-season so it will be interesting to see how quickly he gets pushed up.

We are going the other way (BC to NS) and we are putting it off until Jan for this exact reason.

Moved mid year? You are going to get a massive tax refund lol.

Agreed.

He’s supposed to be a hard worker and this stuff is hard. I’m not going to give up on him yet.

Come on Castillo, if you can be good it would help immensely.

This might be what Bo needs long term. He need to find out that that approach can’t work forever.

I think to be really good at it, you need a ton of synergy between scouting, analytics and development and you need to be good at all three. There are indicators that we were never taking it that seriously. Like, for example, we brought over a front office from Cleveland who arguably were (and are judging from what is close to the majors in their farm) one of the best teams in the league at pitching dev. Their choice for pitching coach at the major league level was the same guy as before. Pete walker is a fantastic pitching coach but it seems super improbable that he would align perfectly philosophically with what the new front office wanted to do. Especially as they are coming from an ELITE pitch dev org. You really don’t want a guy with as much respect and clout as walker in there even if he is really good at his job if you want to overhaul the entire philosophy of the org. Was that ownership pressure? Did they mandate that they keep walker? Otherwise, I really don’t get that decision on a long term scale. Stuff like that has always made me doubt that we were aligned like we are supposed to be to be good at this. In terms of time scale, you can see pretty quick turnarounds/improvements in other organizations. Like 3 or so years usually. If the talent isn’t in the org, then that’s a front office failure. There are mitigating reasons… but still this is a zero sum game. Let’s say it takes 4 years and we did overhaul this behind the scenes a year or two ago, then you still potentially wasted two/three years of the window. That’s not great. I get that this is partially unfair because this is the AL east. But, that’s the division we are in. We can’t change that.

Holy f***ing s***. Please do.

The game threads will be pretty light if everyone who spends every thread bitching about Montoyo just puts it in their signature instead. Why don’t you go get a start on policing that. Police all the whiny bitches, please. Not just this one. Of course I f***ing understand that Shapiro will decide if atkins is doing a good job. Thank you for pointing that out.