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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.

KICK BAMA KICK posted:

My take is that if there was in the past some friction between Freeman and Acuña that is no longer my problem so play ball baby

this should by all rights be Acuña's (and Albies') team now,

don't want to hear any bullshit just time to have fun

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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.
https://twitter.com/based_ball/status/1512535450312871936?s=21&t=XjLE0QdFKWrAV6Ky-xcYdA

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 getting their gaudy-rear end rings tonight

the pearl is a nice touch though

https://twitter.com/Braves/status/1512932778148511748?s=20&t=MDMtN_I_MqOhIIkPH2DGKA

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.
https://twitter.com/CiaranRH93/status/1512822653039435780?s=20&t=6sKN8M2O7JsxKH5Y9aonnQ

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.
It’s pathetic considering what $1.2 billion could do in Maryland or just in areas within blocks of Camden Yards but instead it’s going to the Angelos family & friends.

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.

Popete posted:

The nobility of Europe finally getting their dues in the wayward colonies.

If you go within the area of the Camden Yards Sports Complex while engaged or newly married Peter Angelos or his heir gets to claim droit du seigneur.

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.
what https://twitter.com/mlbbowman/status/1513665491340087300?s=21&t=604YLm3PGeEXPGzhJ0yHWQ

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.
https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1513686823855435781?s=21&t=604YLm3PGeEXPGzhJ0yHWQ

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.

get hosed Smoltz you embittered piece of poo poo

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.

Tatsuta Age posted:

can't be worse than ynoa right

Ynoa was pretty drat good till he broke his hand like an idiot last year but then again breaking your pitching hand out of frustration isn't exactly a great indicator for future success

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.
Machado cannot stop owning the Braves.

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.
https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/1515896391658205186?s=20&t=QkVED4a5eWpigVUR1GagEw

Tanner Houck can't pitch in Toronto because he's unvaccinated, I guess we'll find out which other Red Sox are idiots too

the Blue Jays should just get to play every single team at home this year so we get a comprehensive dumbass list

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.

elentar posted:

the Blue Jays should just get to play every single team at home this year so we get a comprehensive dumbass list

so obviously they get everyone from the AL at some point but their home interleague series are with the Reds, Phillies, Cardinals, and Cubs

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.

Salvor_Hardin posted:

My sister and her friend were at the Mariners game yesterday and apparently they post player interests on the jumbotron between innings or something. The friend is a marine biologist who works on whales in Seattle and apparently JP Crawford is really into whales and wants to go whale watching.

They're trying to get something on the books and JP seems really into it.

Pity he’s probably pretty busy in July & August when all you have to do to see whales is take the ferry to the San Juan islands and back.

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.
Enjoying purposefully misreading (and arguing with) the chart to be about the stuff and location of each city, irrespective of team performance or even the existence of a team

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.

euphronius posted:



It’s the Mets year

I would like to get Acuña back before completely waving the white flag

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.

euphronius posted:

He’s good but not that good

counterjinxes only work when you don’t have a direct interest in the opposite happening

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.
Yeah Newcomb really needed a change of scenery, good luck to him. It’s possible there’s still a major league pitcher, maybe even a decent one, in there somewhere.

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.
Travis Demeritte finally getting a start for the Braves after being traded in and out of their org a couple times.

Seems like strictly an AAAA player but he can't do much worse than Dickerson or Rosario or lately Duvall (who's out now tending to a family matter) have been.

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.
Ozzie Albies is tied for the MLB league in homers with 6

obviously that will change but he's got a chance at least to get atop the short king list: https://twitter.com/mlbbowman/status/1518271219853897728?s=20&t=4ThIJ_8ATtoG-7igm2ZK6A

also nice formatting Bowman

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.

No Safe Word posted:

why is the GLP press box practically on the roof :wtc:

The Braves announcers always comment on it, it’s so high up it’s apparently uncomfortably close to some flight routes into National.

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.

good day to bust out, given the Rosario news and how pathetic the entire outfield has been so far

at least Eddie had an excuse

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.
Sounds like Acuña will be back for the Mets then. https://twitter.com/mlbbowman/status/1519413764550017024?s=21&t=qW55_uU3bUk51xQp0mSlVw

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.
Bowman update in plans to ease Acuña back into the lineup and outfield

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.
I WANT TO BELIEVE

https://twitter.com/mlbbowman/status/1522709395666259968?s=21&t=DITUvL2e2GUo1DujjhaFjQ

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.

god i’ve missed him

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.
https://twitter.com/jrfegan/status/1524438261929852934?s=21&t=PqLIiQ0v3kKEtd3SGtZ11w

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.

KICK BAMA KICK posted:

gently caress, he wasn't crushing it but he was there for a reason and fulfilling that reason
https://twitter.com/mlbbowman/status/1524486012801622018

well poo poo I guess Contreras has to stick at this point?

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.
Mets have been pretty great so far but not like the other teams are really making it hard on them https://twitter.com/snytv/status/1524818098020306945?s=21&t=Uv1U32nUCVeg2ufQr2fBEw

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.

yeah totally ready to write this season off, or at least just sit back with no expectations or particular care about results to see what Anthopoulos figures out in the next month 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.
also for posterity
https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1526021992272605188?s=20&t=4TDOhkxdRQVJ_7vvQ8sAaw

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.

KICK BAMA KICK posted:

Acuña sitting again tonight

as eager as I am to see him in the lineup you'd think they might just retroactively DL him and bring up Waters or anyone who can actually fill the bench spot.

elentar fucked around with this message at 21:29 on May 16, 2022

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 he definitely hasn't been right this year, not too big a surprise
https://twitter.com/mlbbowman/status/1526389356428201984?s=20&t=3MAvar8yOhYD2-24hqxTMA

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.

bewbies posted:

man how are the braves so bad?

few things, mostly that they were basically the definition of mediocre last year till they hit august, then suddenly the bullpen was untouchable and every bit player started making major contributions. not really things to depend on at the best of times, but has really burned them this year, when instead it's like each game features a different player loving up to piss away a win.

also they are built around homers so not only does it harm them pretty substantially, it also means it's way harder to disguise their lovely outfield defense. between Acuña not being 100% quite yet and Rosario's eye problems they are stuck running Duvall out there every day plus two of Ozuna, Demeritte, and Heredia. (really wondering what it means for Drew Waters that they're not giving him some innings/ABs during this time, he's already on the 40-man.) even apart from that every regular seems to be in some degree of funk.

anyway other than Waters any offensive prospects are at least a year, year and a half away, so they're kinda just in a holding pattern to see if they can survive long enough to get hot again.

KICK BAMA KICK posted:

As I understand it the offensive inputs and expectations aren't bad, but the outputs don't match; the outfield defense is genuinely abysmal and the bullpen is not getting what they need out of anyone but Jansen really (and really missing Luke Jackson, for real). Rotation is also a mixed bag of over- and under-performance.

also Matzek probably used up his arm last year, wonder if we'll ever see him back to anything

the starters I think have been generally pretty solid, April Charlie Morton aside, but when that's only keeping you competitive the first 5-6 innings something else has to come through

especially when you are always going to lose in stupid extras

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.
I imagine just between the money (for the big leaguers at least) and the highly itinerant lifestyle, baseballers’ romantic lives tend to be more fraught than the average.

then again, lotta average everyday perverts, sex pests, & assholes around.

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.
This seems like settings for a classic Acuña Spite Game, though I’d just be happy for him to come out of it uninjured

https://twitter.com/paige_leckie/status/1527746046167765003?s=21&t=tITbeH5hfxKa5HiMXFcHsA

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.

mentholmoose posted:

Phillies just made what I think is one of the worst defensive plays I’ve ever seen.

https://twitter.com/braves/status/1529634531560628226?s=21&t=xPbWqxrCXHZaMIlUUvSM_Q

this is an almost perfect clip because so there are so many little fuckups of the kind where you're usually like, ok, whatever, but they all just build onto each other and lead to just the great ultimate fuckup, great rhythm, great punchline.

(i say almost the perfect clip because it involves chip caray, that's a mandatory deduction)

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 Braves are bringing up Michael Harris II, skipping him past AAA (and Drew Waters, for that matter). Not much for him to prove down in Mississippi still, for sure.

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.

KICK BAMA KICK posted:

Like always, no idea if this is a good move, but will never pass up the opportunity to See Some New Guy just out of boredom

moving Duvall over to right can only help, and even breaking his slump yesterday Demeritte has long outlasted his roster-filling usefulness

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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.
that sinking feeling when you realize someone let the exact wrong person into the group chat and you have to start it all over again without either of them

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