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I think a good rule of thumb is if you're getting pissed at truck drivers you're probably a bad driver considering that's what they do for a living. I mean everyone makes mistakes even truckers, but if this is a consistent problem Hawk is probably a terrible driver.
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Truckers are good. Sometimes they sit in the passing lane but rarely
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euphronius posted:I'm retracting and saying now the cubs. They gave Zambrano a $90MM extension during a season where he ended up leading the league in most walks allowed following a season where he led the league in most walks allowed.
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euphronius posted:They have to be the worst run major market team in the modern era. Come on. The Phillies play in a division with Wilpon and Loria
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Dex will be getting his ring today: https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/870688683996860416 I love the sign in the last photo.
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Dex with the subtle "W" on his shoes, I feel like a certain Twitter feed is going to be a gold mine this afternoon. Maybe he'll decide to just stay here?
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Popete posted:Dex with the subtle "W" on his shoes, I feel like a certain Twitter feed is going to be a gold mine this afternoon. Which one, so we all know what to watch for.
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iospace posted:Which one, so we all know what to watch for. #BestFansStLouis
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Popete posted:Dex with the subtle "W" on his shoes, I feel like a certain Twitter feed is going to be a gold mine this afternoon. Pretty sure it says something down the tongue of his shoe, but not sure what. There is a T at the top and an S at the bottom, or that's what it looks like.  E: lol its TWO3, jordans number. Not a Cubs W. 
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Everything is always about the Cubs though so Fly The W
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Mike_V posted:Everything is always about the Cubs though so Fly The W the jordan is flying, followed by T W the math checks out
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It's clearly just plausible deniability on Dex part, he strategically put the laces over the other letters.
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I think the worst modern run baseball team was the Pittsburgh Pirates from 94 until recently. I don't think there's ever been a worse GM in baseball history than Dave Littlefield, especially after that rule 5 fiasco.
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seiferguy posted:I think the worst modern run baseball team was the Pittsburgh Pirates from 94 until recently. I don't think there's ever been a worse GM in baseball history than Dave Littlefield, especially after that rule 5 fiasco. I'm sad, because there was a period where the Brewers made the Pirates their bitch.
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seiferguy posted:I think the worst modern run baseball team was the Pittsburgh Pirates from 94 until recently. I don't think there's ever been a worse GM in baseball history than Dave Littlefield, especially after that rule 5 fiasco. I don't know how bad of a GM he would have been with proper support but I'll put Allard Baird up against him.
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Inspector_666 posted:Dex will be getting his ring today:  He's gonna hit a lead-off homer, and I won't even be mad.
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Grittybeard posted:I don't know how bad of a GM he would have been with proper support but I'll put Allard Baird up against him. If you want to look at a GM who got support in the same time frame as Littlefield, look at Bill Bavasi. First GM ever to lose 100 games with a $100m payroll. Fucker ruined the farm system in the process too.
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I always wonder if the J. P. Ricciardi led Blue Jays would have made the playoffs at least a few times if they weren't in the AL East. Not only did they have to deal with the Yankees and Red Sox, but he also caught the beginning of the Rays' run at the end of his tenure in Toronto.
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tadashi posted:They gave Zambrano a $90MM extension during a season where he ended up leading the league in most walks allowed following a season where he led the league in most walks allowed. Every now and again Hendry would pull off an amazing trade (although Maddux for Izturis,  ), but, my God, when he decided to open up the checkbook, he did it in the most mind-boggling ways possible.
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Derreck Lee for Hee Seop Choi lol
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Intruder posted:Derreck Lee for Hee Seop Choi lol Jose Hernandez and Bobby Hill for Kenny Lofton and Aramis Ramirez.
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Speaking of painful trades, Freddy Garcia and Jose Guillen for 3 months of utterly dominant Randy Johnson BUT no playoff wins and he left immediately 
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I like the Tigers guy who sent his entire farm system away for aging broken Juan Gonzalez and then offered to pay him far and away the most of any player in the league, which Juan declined, which was as funny as the trade itself. In related news is there any other player who you thought was absolutely amazing when you were a kid but then turns out kind of sucked more than Juan Gonzalez? edit: This is a great read "The Tigers will move walls for Gonzalez, which is what they told him they will do with the one in leftfield at Comerica Park, where the power alley is 398 feet from home plate. "It's too big," Gonzalez says. "I've already hit a lot of balls that would be easy home runs in lots of other parks. They told me the fences are coming in next year." He must not be interested in a big-screen TV because another one has yet to appear in the clubhouse. But the Tigers are perfectly willing to make Gonzalez the highest-paid player in the game by a margin of more than 25% over what the Dodgers are paying righthander Kevin Brown, who is getting $15 million per year. Detroit offered Gonzalez $151.5 million over eight years shortly after the Nov. 2 trade with Texas, according to a source familiar with the proposal." bewbies fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Intruder posted:Speaking of painful trades, Freddy Garcia and Jose Guillen for 3 months of utterly dominant Randy Johnson BUT no playoff wins and he left immediately Wouldn't that have been Carlos Guillen?
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Is the reason they posted an otherwise unremarkable shot of Dex's Jordans really because they thought it was a Cubs W? Jesus.
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tadashi posted:I always wonder if the J. P. Ricciardi led Blue Jays would have made the playoffs at least a few times if they weren't in the AL East. Not only did they have to deal with the Yankees and Red Sox, but he also caught the beginning of the Rays' run at the end of his tenure in Toronto. Do you have to wonder? Can't you just look at record and then figure that the jays probably would have won even more games if they were playing a division other than the thresher that was the 2000s al east
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Timby posted:Wouldn't that have been Carlos Guillen? Yeah you're right I mixed up my Guillens
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using this extremely scientific methodology, the 2008 blue jays might have made the playoffs (in a division title berth) if they were in the AL central and won 4 more games, which they probably would have done. edit: but maybe not as they beat up on the orioles a lot that year
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The Walrus posted:using this extremely scientific methodology, the 2008 blue jays might have made the playoffs (in a division title berth) if they were in the AL central and won 4 more games, which they probably would have done. Wasn't that during the time when the Orioles had their two-headed GM experiment going on? Like, they had both Mike Flanagan and someone else -- Beattie, maybe? -- calling the shots, and both of them hated each other?
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The Angels signed Gary Matthews Jr. to a massive contract, and then traded Mike Napoli for Vernon Wells, and then signed Josh Hamilton to a massive contract. This was 3 different GMs doing this poo poo, but likely all ordered by Scioscia/Moreno. The Angels have had to spend their way out of making lovely decisions for the last decade, if they didn't have the money that they do they'd be just as inept as the Pirates. I think they thought that Dexter's shoes had a W flag shoutout on them. Thats Cubs.
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Good Dog posted:The Angels signed Gary Matthews Jr. to a massive contract, and then traded Mike Napoli for Vernon Wells, and then signed Josh Hamilton to a massive contract. This was 3 different GMs doing this poo poo, but likely all ordered by Scioscia/Moreno. The Angels have had to spend their way out of making lovely decisions for the last decade, if they didn't have the money that they do they'd be just as inept as the Pirates. The way the Angels tried to get out of Hamilton's contract was loving disgusting.
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Intruder posted:Speaking of painful trades, Freddy Garcia and Jose Guillen for 3 months of utterly dominant Randy Johnson BUT no playoff wins and he left immediately lmao i totally forgot about 1998 playoff randy johnson, i'm so glad he got a ring.
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no, nobody here actually thought he was shouting out the symbol of his old team's victory, don't be idiotic. it's a blue W in almost exactly the same font and made for a good photo.
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Poque posted:no, nobody here actually thought he was shouting out the symbol of his old team's victory, don't be idiotic. it's a blue W in almost exactly the same font and made for a good photo. people absolutely thought that though, lol Sydin posted:
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Thom P. Tiers posted:people absolutely thought that though, lol by 'here' I mean the front office, not SAS or twitter
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Poque posted:by 'here' I mean the front office, not SAS or twitter Ahhhhhhh I forgot you work there. Yea, I would hope not, haha. Good way to troll the twitter feed though, I like it.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:lmao i totally forgot about 1998 playoff randy johnson, i'm so glad he got a ring. Without looking it up iirc he got zero runs in support in his two starts. gently caress Kevin Brown e: I was wrong he had one run each game
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