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live with fruit
Aug 15, 2010
Profar didn't use PED, he just trained with Tatis, Sr.

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live with fruit
Aug 15, 2010

bawfuls posted:

just all the best guys throwing poo poo at Roki right now

https://x.com/TheRealHos305/status/1906313477846630717

The best part is Hosmer responding to every single person calling him out in the replies. Seems like he's doing really well in retirement.

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Aug 15, 2010

Captain Log posted:

Also, Eric Hosmer always had a reputation as a clubhouse cancer. I wonder if they were correct?!

Actually, he didn't. Everyone in KC and San Diego loved him.

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Aug 15, 2010
It's hard to criticize Campbell too harshly when Merrill signed that contract after Witt got $280 and Tatis $340. The Padres should put a C on his chest.

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Aug 15, 2010

Cimber posted:

I'm a Mets fan and we are pretty tired of being the forgotten step-child in NY to the Yankees. They have a pretty long shadow in the area, and it annoys a lot of us to no end that they keep yapping about their 27 world series wins that 70 percent of the fan base was only alive for 1 of. Meanwhile we get shunted off to the side as an afterthought.

Seventy percent of Yankees fans are between 24 and 14?

live with fruit
Aug 15, 2010
I wonder if Ottavino still thinks he would strike out Babe Ruth.

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Aug 15, 2010

Isentropy posted:

You're from the city of the loving Rockies where they haven't hired any coach or GM outside the organization since 2000 and where other GMs get excited anytime they can trade with the village idiot

Speaking of money, I sometimes think about how Bud Black turned down the Nationals job over money and has been stuck in Colorado ever since.

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Aug 15, 2010

DeepDickPizza posted:

To be fair, the other job is the Nationals

Was the Nationals, when they had Harper and Turner and Scherzer. Though, in Black's defense, he did win a Wild Card game with Colorado.

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Aug 15, 2010

bawfuls posted:

would it? Or is that a thing you made up in your head to get mad at after your team beat the team you hate 16-0?

It definitely would.

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Aug 15, 2010

bawfuls posted:

The headlines on that MLB page sidebar someone posted aren't even about game results, aside from a the Dbacks 2-out 5-run comeback, which is more about the remarkable comeback than anything else. Those headlines on MLB.com are largely about highlighting noteworthy details from the day's games, not the game results themselves. Stuff like "top prospect gets first W" or "slumping player breaks out with big game" or "star lives up to hype on bobblehead night" etc. Roki having his best start so far, particularly with how rough his first two were, falls squarely into that category of story.

I'm sorry they did not sufficiently draw attention to the Cubs kicking the poo poo out of Ben Casparius.

"Team scores 16 runs" seems pretty noteworthy.

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Aug 15, 2010

Sydin posted:

https://twitter.com/RalphVacchiano/status/1912131257242116554

So apparently the Braves broadcast crew all teamed up to harass a female fan for her number during an interview, in order to "get us some more Braves fans."

Extremely normal and not all insane behavior, thank you Atlanta.

I haven't been on Twitter in a while and it's pretty clear reading the responses to this that it's become a (bigger) echo chamber for loving assholes. Everyone who doesn't respond to everything with "Lighten up" is long gone.

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Aug 15, 2010

Sydin posted:

The Dads closer Estrada is a former Cubs top prospect they unceremoniously dumped off their roster for nothing because he struggled for ~10 innings in 2023 and he immediately went on to figure it out and become one of the most dominant relievers in the game with tippy top shelf stuff.

I cannot stress enough how loving worthless our FO is, lmao.

Even better, he's their seventh inning reliever.

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Aug 15, 2010

exquisite tea posted:

All 97-whatever years of pitchers being forced to bat in the National League were worth it just to see Bartolo Colon hit a single home run for the Mets.

Especially because it led Tatis to the Padres.

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Aug 15, 2010

zoux posted:

Clevinger DFAd lol

Good. Couldn't have happened to a worse person.

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Aug 15, 2010

R.D. Mangles posted:

have we talked about how literally josh naylor attempted a straight steal of home yesterday

Naylor's a maniac and it's a gift and a curse.

live with fruit
Aug 15, 2010
Sounds like Padres fandom circa 2022 in here.

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Aug 15, 2010

explosivo posted:

So how long does Brandon Hyde last? The macro-view problems for the team aren't his fault but it really doesn't seem like anyone's giving him anything. He always sounds mildly disappointed in the post-game interviews. I'm just not getting the sense that he knows how to deal with this death spiral.

The Orioles are too milquetoast to fire him.

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