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If this ends in a one and done, who gets fired?

Nobody?

Nobody.

Nobody.

Somebody.

Wait.  I mean nobody.

Nobody.

Hopefully a good number of somebodies...starting with Joe retiring.  Then the hitting and pitching coaches.  Burn it to the ground.

Young talent outside of Baez and Almora is regressing, or at best, not progressing.  Schwarber is a huge missed opportunity to deal to the AL (which is the only place he will ever have value).  In the NL he's a LH Mark Bellhorn that plays LF.  Happ is a lost cause.  KB certainly doesn't look like a HOF player - expectations of legit power from him should be revised down.  Russell is a wife beater and overrated.  There are no young arms anywhere close to the bigs.  How the fuck can this vaunted front office not have a Miles Mikolas equivalent to show for their efforts?

This team isn't getting better from within.  And there's way too much dead weight going into the offseason.  The NL was trash this year, and this team would have been lucky to win 84 in the AL East or West. 

Machado or bust this offseason.

Are you drug-tested at work?

If not, have you thought about picking up a drug habit?

Has he met Coke Hamels?

I think Oleg would recommend Guillermo Mota.

Joaquin is the only person under 70 who is dead but who also pitched in a World Series Game 7 (Mike Cuellar is the other).

But, really, I was going for this.

And, incidentally, the Spanish slang term (or, at least one of them) for cocaine is "Nieve" which is, literally, "snow".

I learn something new everyday.

I'll bet you don't.

You clearly don't understand just how little I know.

Don't sell yourself short.

Oleg and I see eye to eye on this.  And everything else.

I remember the time you two were outside my house and my neighbors complained about the ugly lawn jockeys.

A couple of red cone hats and the problem is solved.

Quote from: Oleg on October 04, 2018, 11:35:06 AM

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Quote from: Canadouche on October 01, 2018, 08:07:39 PM
If this ends in a one and done, who gets fired?

Nobody?

Nobody.

Nobody.

Somebody.

Wait.  I mean nobody.

Nobody.

Hopefully a good number of somebodies...starting with Joe retiring.  Then the hitting and pitching coaches.  Burn it to the ground.

Young talent outside of Baez and Almora is regressing, or at best, not progressing.  Schwarber is a huge missed opportunity to deal to the AL (which is the only place he will ever have value).  In the NL he's a LH Mark Bellhorn that plays LF.  Happ is a lost cause.  KB certainly doesn't look like a HOF player - expectations of legit power from him should be revised down.  Russell is a wife beater and overrated.  There are no young arms anywhere close to the bigs.  How the fuck can this vaunted front office not have a Miles Mikolas equivalent to show for their efforts?

This team isn't getting better from within.  And there's way too much dead weight going into the offseason.  The NL was trash this year, and this team would have been lucky to win 84 in the AL East or West. 

Machado or bust this offseason.

Are you drug-tested at work?

If not, have you thought about picking up a drug habit?

Has he met Coke Hamels?

I think Oleg would recommend Guillermo Mota.

Joaquin is the only person under 70 who is dead but who also pitched in a World Series Game 7 (Mike Cuellar is the other).

But, really, I was going for this.

And, incidentally, the Spanish slang term (or, at least one of them) for cocaine is "Nieve" which is, literally, "snow".

I learn something new everyday.

I'll bet you don't.

You clearly don't understand just how little I know.

Don't sell yourself short.

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on October 03, 2018, 12:59:24 PM
Donna Ludwig outlasts another one.

Whither Judy Bowles?

Dirt Nap in the Imperial Bedroom

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Quote from: SKO on September 24, 2018, 03:35:02 PM

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Quote from: Canadouche on September 24, 2018, 09:37:26 AM
the World Series broke my fandom a little bit. I just don't get worked up anymore like I used to.

This happened to me.  I was disappointed after game 7 in 1945.  But I assumed that we would win the Series in the following year.  When we didn't I then assumed we would win the next year.  As you know, things went downhill from there, especially in 1969.  But 2016 changed everything.  I was off the hook.  When they won the Series in 2016 my feeling was more one of relief than elation.  I assume that the Cubs will be a winning team, but the world will keep turning...one way or the other.

Winning in 2016 has made me far less angsty about the playoffs. It is so much easier to accept the cold, random, cruel luck of October when your team already won that lottery once. Weirdly enough I'd get more pissed about the Cubs flat out not winning the division than not winning a division series. I can accept weird shit happening and losing even to those fucking Brewers in a best 3/5 situation, I could not have tolerated fucking away the division over 162 games to either of the two inferior teams chasing them. Losing that NLCS last year didn't even remotely phase me.

Weird, I know, but true.

I think I'm the same? Losing the division to the other slapdicks in this division would piss me off royally, but playoffs are a crapshoot. Last year sucked, but didn't crush me.

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Quote from: Canadouche on September 24, 2018, 07:00:22 AM
Since August 21, they're 19-11. Not bad for a run of daily baseball and no rest. I hope they have something left in the tank next month.

If they lose it won't be because they're gassed.  They'll have the division wrapped up by Friday and will have until the following Friday before playing meaningful baseball again.  It's a down a year in the National League so they have as good a shot as anyone at the pennant.  In my view, one of the following three cold players needs to step it up in the playoffs, otherwise they're going to struggle to advance:  Happ, Almora and Contreras.  If one of those guys picks up his game in the playoffs, it'll bode well.

I swaw what you did there.

Heh.  Would like to take credit, but no--at least not consciously.

Sometimes the PANKboard works in your favor.

Suck it, Harrelson.

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Quote from: World's #1 Astros Fan on September 20, 2018, 10:35:46 AMI see Thrill's mellowed in his old  age.

I know, give the guy a break right? He only administered a few decades of systematic torture, false confessions and wrongful imprisonment.

Yeah. I wanted to come up with a good joke thread title, but I just want Satan to be putting this dude's dick in a meat grinder.

Quote from: Oleg on September 18, 2018, 11:40:13 AM

Quote from: Bort on September 18, 2018, 11:37:36 AM
Y'all, I don't even want to think about Huey fucking OR eating.

I think this belongs in the 'I admit it...' thread.

I should be ashamed of this?

Y'all, I don't even want to think about Huey fucking OR eating.

Quote from: Wheezer on September 15, 2018, 12:33:13 AM
Don't get me started about Hummels, much less Lladro.

Any opinions on Limoges? Nambé?

I almost put a Dead Pool post up for Johnny Strike of the band Crime JUST so I could make the "Strike Out" pun.

Instead I made it here.

I don't have a cool pun, but as a kid who watched a ton of syndicated sitcoms in the 80s, he was always a familiar face.

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