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If the Braves think the price is too high for his value, why not allow somebody like the Brewers, a rebuilding team the Braves might see as their peers or competitors, to potentially make a deal they believe to be a mistake? All Sun Tzu style.
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Rand alPaul posted:Glory to Puig. Why haven't we seen Puig with a Type 56 and a bell? This stands out as his biggest character flaw imo
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Popete posted:But it blocks any other team from making a possible trade. I'm not sure why the Braves wouldn't claim him. To lower the chances of the Dodgers spite-blocking a trade they might try to make in the future
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Popete posted:But it blocks any other team from making a possible trade. I'm not sure why the Braves wouldn't claim him. Why would the Braves give any shits at all about blocking him?
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MassaShowtime posted:Why would the Braves give any shits at all about blocking him? Perhaps they don't want a division rival to acquire Puig? Obviously Atlanta isn't really close to competing but if Puig sticks around.
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The Braves beat writer and announcing team both said the day Puig went on waivers that Coppolella just laughed when they asked about a possible Braves claim. I.E. the Braves are rebuilding OK but still have loving stupid ideas about team building that will probably doom them in the end.
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I think someone said it earlier, but maybe Coppy knew the asking price for Puig already. What if they were asking for Freeman and Teheran? (With the idea of flipping Freeman to a different team after receiving him)
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Dingleberry Jones posted:I think someone said it earlier, but maybe Coppy knew the asking price for Puig already. LOL i love trade speculation because it gets ridiculous. I know you just threw those names out with no real thought behind it, but please! Those two are the best Braves by far, it's not even close. Rumor has it the Dodgers wanted pitching with Newcomb and Foltynewicz being the main targets. The Braves have some bad recent history trading with Friedman but i'm sure they talked. Anyhow, it was unlikely for a non contending team to get a deal completed for Puig, no real incentive or leverage in-season.
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Popete posted:Perhaps they don't want a division rival to acquire Puig? Obviously Atlanta isn't really close to competing but if Puig sticks around. Again, it doesn't make any sense. All it would serve to do is piss off the Dodgers and maybe other general managers and Puig just gets traded to that rival in December. So what exactly would be the point?
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Poque posted:If any Brewer Goons are going to the game on Wednesday, hit me up, I'll be up there screaming at Matt Garza Scream at Ryan Braun for all of us who voted for him in the Most Hated Player list, please.
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N: Chad Green has a strained UCL and flexor tendon V: it's not a tear? I guess that's good news of a sort
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-education-of-yoan-moncada-201005541.html Nothing brought Yoan Moncada, a teenage boy stuck inside a man’s body, quite the satisfaction of a Twinkie. He never could limit himself to one. Or two. He wolfed them down like a snake eating its prey whole. This may sound like an exaggeration, and it may be apocryphal, but those closest to Moncada swear it’s true: One time, over the course of one week, he ate 225 Twinkies. Moncada will eat just about anything. On Thanksgiving in 2014, the Hastingses hosted a party for about 100 people. On the island in their kitchen sat cookies, candy, cakes, all sorts of sweets, and to keep ants away, they set bright-colored boric-acid traps. Moncada thought it was liquid candy and tried to eat it before screams of “No!” caused him to drop it. This wasn’t the first time Moncada mistook a household item for food. He once tried to ingest a berry-scented liquid air freshener, too.
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Pox posted:http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-education-of-yoan-moncada-201005541.html This sounds like me before I started psychotically restricting my diet after law school. I once bought what I figured would be a week's worth of Cadbury Cream Eggs, 6 packages of 4 full-size eggs. Then I went home and turned on the television. 30 minutes later of just idle snacking they were all gone. I didn't even notice I was eating them until I noticed all the foil wrappers in the garbage can. An oral fixation plus being hungry from training all the time is a dangerous combination.
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Isn't that an issue for a lot of Cubans? I could swear I remember hearing a story in the last couple years about one of them constantly gorging himself on sugar-filled milk or something like that, though I don't remember which one it was
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:Isn't that an issue for a lot of Cubans? I could swear I remember hearing a story in the last couple years about one of them constantly gorging himself on sugar-filled milk or something like that, though I don't remember which one it was Welcome to freedom
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:Isn't that an issue for a lot of Cubans? I could swear I remember hearing a story in the last couple years about one of them constantly gorging himself on sugar-filled milk or something like that, though I don't remember which one it was It was Chapman eating like 100 Porto's guava cheese rolls when he was in LA and was unable to pitch.
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I think Puig packed on a bunch of weight in his first off season, too, right? So much good food in LA.
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Found a shirt at a thrift store in Columbus: "Bean Brawl. August 12, 1984." Absolutely amazing. (Braves/Padres brawl) It was even the correct size.
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:Isn't that an issue for a lot of Cubans? I could swear I remember hearing a story in the last couple years about one of them constantly gorging himself on sugar-filled milk or something like that, though I don't remember which one it was Ariel Prieto had to tell Yoenis Cespedes to stop eating steak for every meal, and apparently his favorite treat was a huge glass of whole milk with spoons full of sugar in it. It makes sense, a lot of that stuff is expensive in Cuba, and most of the players are like 18-25 and have insane metabolisms. I used to drink like 6 Dr. Peppers a day and just eat whatever the hell I wanted until I was like 24.
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bawfuls posted:N: In unsurprising news, Kershaw domnated A-ball hitters in a 3 inning rehab start tonight. 
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Rand alPaul posted:Ariel Prieto had to tell Yoenis Cespedes to stop eating steak for every meal, and apparently his favorite treat was a huge glass of whole milk with spoons full of sugar in it. Yeah, this is the story I'm thinking of. Sugar is addictive as gently caress and we put it in everything, so it's not a shock that guys who have grown up without it pig out when there's nothing stopping them Good Dog posted:It was Chapman eating like 100 Porto's guava cheese rolls when he was in LA and was unable to pitch. Holy moly, never heard this one. Making sure someone was there to contain that would be my first order of business if I were a GM signing a Cuban player now
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I don't really post much anymore but I wanted to post this funny quote about Moncado getting his first hit against A's starter Danny Mengdon:quote:"Tommy [Mclaughlin] gave me the ball. He said, 'Here, take this ball you hit off the guy with the funny mustache.'" -- Moncada, on the Red Sox's club I am really psyched about both Moncado AND Benintendi getting called up, given that I live about a 5 minute drive from Hadlock Field, the baseball park of the Sea Dogs (AA affiliate of the Red Sox). Been watching those two all summer, have a signed baseball from each of them, too! Hell, we'd see players at the bars/clubs in the Old Port getting wasted with everyone else, fitting right in. But that's pretty normal. Dunno if I ever saw Moncado but I definitely saw Benintendi a few times. I saw him play a lot more, really, because I went to more games in April and May and Moncado wasn't here yet. I only saw him play twice. Anyway, it's just really awesome to see these guys who I've seen over the summer show up on the national stage and do so freaking well and get so much attention. It was REALLY special watching Moncado because he was so HUGE out there compared to your average AA journeyman, and was an impressive bad-ball hitter. Like that pitch he golfed for a double last night was NOT a fluke, Moncado is a really good bad-ball hitter when he gets into tough counts, and can just put amazing swings on any kinda pitch, at least from what I saw. Hard not to echo the scouting reports when he lives up to them. Benintendi was just amazing because he had this perfect approach at the plate and could just spray line drives everywhere onto the field. Oh, and Moncado's arm at third base is so good it scared the poo poo out of me the one time I was sitting in this flat seating area along the first base line where you're sorta behind the first baseman. More than once I was scared shitless because it felt like as he was throwing the ball if he went off-target or threw wild it could maybe possibly re-arrange my face - even though a net was protecting me I couldn't stop thinking that! He's just got a cannon. And he even steals freakin' bases. Too bad he can't pitch a clean 8th inning. edit: A random note... I have just noticed that in this season, David Ortiz leads the MLB in *both* GIDP with 22, and in 2Bs with 44! I admit it seems rather incongruous for someone to lead the league in both, but I suppose it's rather an extreme example of the Fenway effect vis-a-vis doubles - as I recall Fenway is like the most doubles-friendly park in the MLB. And sure enough, 32 of those doubles were hit at Fenway, and 12 on the road. That's a helluva split. Mookie has the same thing going on - of his 37 doubles, only *9* were hit on the road! 28 at home and 9 on the road, which is like almost the same ratio as Ortiz. kaworu fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Sep 4, 2016 |
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If guava cheese rolls are the danish things with filling and cream cheese they are drat delicious. There's a mexican bakery here that sells them and I could probably eat 100 tbh. Of course then I would die, but I would die happy.
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https://twitter.com/thorn_john/status/772496977246445568 I'm a fan of their interpretation of the Cincinnati Reds.
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Legs Benedict posted:Kershaw pitching Friday against the Marlins bawfuls fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Sep 4, 2016 |
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bawfuls posted:If he hits the ground running he'll end up with 5 more starts before the season ends. I believe he'd need more than 8 IP on average to qualify for the ERA title. Guessing he won't be allowed to throw 8+ innings on Friday, but if he does manage to qualify I'd bet he wins the Cy Young. He won't get there because they won't let him, but he could get pretty close. I suppose he could win it (CYA) on narrative if he gets 5 starts, is dominant in all 5, and two of them are against the Giants which help secure the divisional win. Still super unlikely though
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Legs Benedict posted:I suppose he could win it (CYA) on narrative if he gets 5 starts, is dominant in all 5, and two of them are against the Giants which help secure the divisional win.
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