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Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Barves get Preston Tucker back from Reds for a player with a funny name, Cash Considerations, must be like an old school puritan name like Telling Goodfellow or something

Abel Wingnut posted:

dear god :stare:

https://twitter.com/adamdberry/status/1036364711896465408

had no idea the pirates' offense was that awful

Acuna is also molten loving hot right now and has the sort of insane effortless power that means that "really hot" = "lots of dingers"

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Jun 5, 2004



Abel Wingnut posted:

with acuna i don't think this is hot for him. this seems to be his steady-state. it's just so loving effortless with him

"Breaking pitch outside huh? Oh well time to send it 500 loving feet with barely a bat movement, no biggie"

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Jun 5, 2004




I still think about that "deGrom to DL with Stockholm Syndrome" post from when he said he wanted to stick with the Mets and have a sensible chuckle sometimes

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Jun 5, 2004




most or all of this is just since the all-start break iirc

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Jun 5, 2004




havin a nice chuckle at this

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Jun 5, 2004



imagine working at the Dodgers help line and having to explain just what the gently caress any of that means to olds who enjoy collecting baseball stuff

that's like, the portrait of hell

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Jun 5, 2004



elentar posted:

Acuña hit his 25th homer today. Previous major leaguers to hit 25 in a season before their 21st birthday: Eddie Mathews, Orlando Cepeda, Al Kaline, Frank Robinson, Mel Ott, Alex Rodriguez.

Acuna's also only had like 350 at bats, compared to Freddie Freeman, as he was brought up late and he missed time

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Jun 5, 2004



Acuna gonna crush 2 dingers and dance with mascots

I hope he isn't the one who tragically has some terrible injury during an ultimately meaningless promotional game


edit - oh 7 game series? then 14 dingers

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Jun 5, 2004




in only 358 at bats, even :getin:

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Jun 5, 2004



iospace posted:

Brandon McCarthy retires with 69 wins and 4.20 ERA.

Also Brandon McCarthy:
https://twitter.com/BMcCarthy32/status/245603427315486721
(it's his pinned tweet :psyduck:)

we were all hoping he'd retire with those stats

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Jun 5, 2004



Der Meister posted:

The World Series should be every ten years after 1000 games.

No playoffs, two best records. Let's say it's this year, what two teams play?

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Jun 5, 2004



Your Taint posted:

There was a fire in the Wrigley Field press box today. Extent of the damage is unknown.

https://twitter.com/NBCSCubs/status/1042869012139597830

somebody hunt down McGriff


Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

The mets are a biblical plague

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Jun 5, 2004



Abel Wingnut posted:

https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1043192625208025088

what exactly does 'administrative leave' mean?

and are tweets not unfurling?

hopefully it means "as cut as we can cut him without talking to the union first"

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Jun 5, 2004



if he gets cut, but the Cubs win the world series, does he still get a ring?

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Jun 5, 2004



I think the union is legally mandated to represent all employees no matter what and so if they sat it out the owners would probably sue in an attempt to undermine or destroy it

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Jun 5, 2004



the Braves just clinched the NL East and I am forced to eat my hat, as my prediction early on that the Nats would fight us to the very last day turned out to be insanely dumb and stupid as hell, inshallah

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Jun 5, 2004



KICK BAMA KICK posted:

Weird how soft this division turned out. Probably into May everyone was surprised by the Braves and Phillies and still expected Washington to pull it together and maybe there was an outside chance the Mets could get healthy and restart that hot steak they opened with. Then everyone but Atlanta just collapsed.

My hope now is that we end up with 2nd best record so that we face the Dodgers instead of the Brewers

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Jun 5, 2004



elentar posted:

:toot:



I don't see the Braves catching the Cubs (or Brewers for that matter), but then I also don't see the Braves beating any other playoff team in a best of 5. Who cares, it's all icing from here.

playoffs are a coinflip, always, I like our odds against the Dodgers more than any others but we've shown we're able to beat any of the rest except the Cards

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Jun 5, 2004



what about that Orioles player, did he end up having the worst season in history?

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Jun 5, 2004



Pancakes posted:

They pulled Chris Davis so he wouldn’t qualify, I think.

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Jun 5, 2004




this could also be a big ol' gently caress you because I'd rather face the Dodgers than whatever wildcard comes out of the NL Central lol

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Jun 5, 2004



Sucks about Dansby, the depth would be nice but at least it's not like Acuna or Freeman

Maybe an extending break healing will have him coming back on a hot streak

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Jun 5, 2004



if we get swept or lose it's gonna be because of pitching, not because Duvall can't stop grounding out

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Jun 5, 2004




as a socialist I can't actually say that he was probalbly a good person, but I appreciated the Braves being on TBS for so much of my life so I could always see them despite my moving around

no doubt he owns 12 trillion swuare miles of land in the west that he has set up a bunch of eternal youth torture labs on, but I got to see my home team on OTA channels soooooooooo

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