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elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Touki looking solid so far. Not intimidated, for sure.

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elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Probably not realistic to expect Markakis to get back to what he was doing most of the year, but it'd be really nice if he could dial it in once in a while

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

The Pussy Boss posted:

wow, Touki is legit. cool to see another talented young pitcher coming up. also cool that arizona sold him out of the division haha

The Shelby Miller trade might yet be the second-worst deal the D-backs made with Atlanta.

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Looking back, maybe you pinch hit for Touki with the bases loaded, one out in the fourth. He'd be coming out before too long anyway, and you've got plenty of stretched-out arms that can take an inning or two.

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Downsby :(

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Apparently that was Suzuki’s first career oppo HR? https://twitter.com/mlbbowman/status/1037136047153573888?s=21

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

HOTLANTA MAN posted:

How the gently caress did Newcomb get out of that

My words verbatim

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Wasn’t going to work forever.

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Braves just getting completely outclassed. Not even against the good Red Sox pitchers.

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Multiple times this year now I'd forgotten the Braves had a day game till I saw a notification that Acuña hit another leadoff homer.

That's eight now, a franchise record.

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Freeman's sitting today, it'd be great if he could have a season where some lovely pitcher didn't break him halfway through
https://twitter.com/mlbbowman/status/1037380647545974784

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Thanks for turning down the out, Red Sox

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

tinaun posted:

don't worry they're gonna win tomorrows game like 10-1

...

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

Eltoasto posted:

lmao even in a blowout win, Duvall strikes out on 3 pitches.

at least he's been so bad they can't possibly put him on a postseason roster, right?

...right?

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Braves gonna lose this one still

Eltoasto posted:

Jesus christ, pull him from the loving field in the middle of an inning. It's bad enough that's he's loving useless at the plate, don't put him out in the field also to lumber around and misplay balls.

The whole point of him was supposedly that he would hit dingers and not be a liability in the field, and that would be worth the strikeouts and low OBP. Not seeing it.

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

HOTLANTA MAN posted:

Oh now you want to make lazy fly ball outs.

Duvall needs to go. Immediately.

honestly i thought the whole point of buying back Preston Tucker was that they could cut Duvall loose

this is not the time of year you can afford to lose a game that was in the bag just to figure out what you've got, you know drat well by now

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Watched the compressed game and, christ does Eddings need to be shipped off to a farm upstate.

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
If you imagine the whole baseball season as one long game, it’s pretty appropriate that the Braves are blowing it in the final inning or so.

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
do the Braves not have a single pitcher in the organization who can get three outs in an inning, christ almighty

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Back up to a 4 game lead, somehow. It's amazing the Phillies suck so much they can't gain any ground in all this.

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

Epic High Five posted:

The Phil's and Braves hot and cold streaks have been almost perfectly coordinated

Still 7 more games with them to go, including the final series of the year.

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Man I hope Touki is the real deal, he seems set up to be such a badass if nothing happens (but I thought this would be the year of Soroka/Gohara...)

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Haha Touki broke up the no hitter

If he puts L’Ouverture on a nickname weekend jersey I’m buying 10

Edit that took forever to post but yay Acuña

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
The radio feed is advertising something called Life University and it’s so obviously a scam at first I thought it was one of the folksy Christian ads where the Professor you’ll meet at Life U is Jesus Christ.

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Can we not just give Kyle Wright or someone else a chance, they can’t gently caress up worse

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
hey look at that, Sobotka came in and got three outs, think maybe he could've gotten one last inning when it mattered?

goddammit

edit: also they moved Sobotka down to AAA for a week and a half to save a contract year but I bet they win at least 2, maybe 3 of the games they pissed away during that time if he's on the roster.

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
oh gently caress why Sam Freeman, in a game that needs to stay close

what the hell

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
how is "Brad Boxberger" actually someone's name?

elentar fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Sep 10, 2018

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

Eltoasto posted:

ENDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank god the bunt attempts keep going foul

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

Epic High Five posted:

Dang, picked a good spot to come back to the game at

And apparently Sam Freeman pitched and didnt give up 8 runs?

the Dbacks ran themselves out of that inning, bad swing to cover for a runner stealing third and Flowers made the throw for once

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
haha Duda finally chipping in

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
Acuña, y'all, seriously

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
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elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

Epic High Five posted:

I've given it some thought and can confidently declare that "Boxberger" is a funny name indeed

ok now it's "Jimmie Sherfy" and i'm pretty sure my computer is auto-generating the Dbacks bullpen

elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
always a reasonable inning when the pinch runner gets an AB

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elentar
Aug 26, 2002

Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.
well, that's 4 1/2 games up now so even after getting swept at San Francisco and having an off day the Braves will still have a division lead when they get back to Atlanta.

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