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It is very normal in baseball for a manager to stick with a veteran through at least a few months of not hitting, waiting for him to turn it around. To dispassionate observers like ourselves it is crystal clear that Abreu is finished, but it looks different and quite distorted from inside the clubhouse. A brand new manager who is replacing a managerial legend, managing in the Show for the very first time, and managing one of the oldest teams in baseball, is going to be especially slow to bench a struggling vet. The front office really should be taking the decision out of his hands by just releasing Abreu. But ehhhhhh he's still owed another $40M so let's see if his bat heats up, etc.
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AndrewP posted:the loving audacity of Yankees fans to boo Aaron Judge If he doesn’t want to get booed, all he has to do is exceed our unrealistic expectations.
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AndrewP posted:the loving audacity of Yankees fans to boo Aaron Judge He should have 10 home runs by now the loving bum
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Unrealistic to expect that of him without the special rocket balls
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The Pussy Boss posted:Patrick Bailey went 4 for 4 on his bobblehead day, including the first kayak shot that I've ever seen you have gottttt to get the authenticator to get this one. baseball is full of dumb oddities like this, the splash hit that didn't. weird junk like that is what makes it baseball man
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https://x.com/josecanseco/status/1781859174759973245?s=46 why not
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Eric the Mauve posted:It is very normal in baseball for a manager to stick with a veteran through at least a few months of not hitting, waiting for him to turn it around. To dispassionate observers like ourselves it is crystal clear that Abreu is finished, but it looks different and quite distorted from inside the clubhouse. Plus, it's not like they have a good replacement. Singleton is replacement level and won't get any better, Diaz and Kessenger are fill ins who normally play other positions. May as well play him and hope he can turn it around. I assume after another month they will either trade for somebody, call somebody up, or just run Kessenger/Singleton out there regardless.
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N: Travis V: d'Arnaud should be player of the week
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LOL, he probably just cosmic karma-jinxed it so they never go to Vegas because *reasons*. ...and that is how 'American League Baseball Team®' was founded.
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Konstantin posted:Plus, it's not like they have a good replacement. Singleton is replacement level and won't get any better, Diaz and Kessenger are fill ins who normally play other positions. May as well play him and hope he can turn it around. I assume after another month they will either trade for somebody, call somebody up, or just run Kessenger/Singleton out there regardless. Joey Loperfido seems to be doing good right now.
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frank schwindel is playing for the long island ducks, but it's possible he might be interested in playing for the astros
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R.D. Mangles posted:frank schwindel is playing for the long island ducks, but it's possible he might be interested in playing for the astros Crane eyeing the Eric Hosmer button and sweating
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GOMS is back and better than ever!
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Its Rinaldo posted:GOMS is back and better than ever! First team they've played who is under .500 and they did exactly what they should. Good to see.
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Red Sox Gen-Z pitchers seem to be pretty good. It sucks rooting for guys named Kutter and Tanner though.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Red Sox Gen-Z pitchers seem to be pretty good. It sucks rooting for guys named Kutter and Tanner though. How's his cut fastball?
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It's the 2023 yankees + Soto. They probably make the playoffs but they aren't winning the division and they will most likely eat poo poo early in the playoffs. Too many zeros in the lineup. What a loving disgrace that was today.
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Mustached Demon posted:How's his cut fastball? Out of the three pitches he primarily throws, Kutter's cutter is arguably the worst one in terms of Whiff% and Put Away%
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Mustached Demon posted:How's his cut fastball? I'm not sure how to parse this histogram exactly but whatever it is, its working so far this year.  e: I guess it means its slower than average but effective
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I have listened to this so you don't have to. My verdict: Don't ever listen to this. You know how celebrities will grab a coauthor or ghostwriter for their autobiographies and it just sounds like a really uninteresting recollection of things that happened, rather than having any real story or interesting hook beyond "book by famous person"? It's that, but with all the formulaic trappings of horribly slick post-9/11 country. It's Mad Libs in a verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus-fadeout structure. It hits all the high spots: God (repeatedly, unsurprising since the album is in a deep Christian label/corporate structure), good ol' family upbringing, My First Car, My Grandpa's Car, a little more God, we're country so we're better, we're American so we're better, Are Troops, and My Wife is Hot and We gently caress a Lot (it's not that blatant but there is a strong undercurrent of being fruitful and multiplying across a few tracks.) The main standout, subject-wise, is "If You Would've Stayed", which is a 42-year-old man singing about his daddy issues. It is by far the most personal track on the album, but it's a bummer about how crap the lyrics themselves are. Waino's lil marketing blurb for the album mentions he grabbed veteran Nashville producer and songwriter Gary Baker to work on the album, and... yeah. Baker is probably most famous for writing John Michael Montgomery's hit "I Swear", which was later covered by All-4-One to much greater success. Some of the songs are... okay. The musicianship for the most part is top-notch even if the production is a little too overdone, both of which are factors of being part of the Nashville modern country machine. The other thing Baker is famous for is Christian music, and that, as I mentioned, shows up in spades here. Wainwright himself seems to be a capable enough vocalist to be in a competent cover band, but he's just too dang generic-sounding overall, all the little male country singer tics seem forced, and in general there's just no dynamic or emotional weight to anything. And the lyrics are just... so bad. The rhymes are terrible and predictable, the vocabulary itself is maybe 4th-grade reading level, and it pulls so many punches. It's just not good, y'all. I'd rather listen to Creed over and over than listen to this even one more time, and I hope I forget this ever happened.
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That is an impressively in depth write-up for what I assumed was, and appears to be, a totally unremarkable text.
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now do the cowboy joe west album
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rickiep00h posted:I have listened to this so you don't have to. My verdict:  Thank you for your service
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mcmagic posted:It's the 2023 yankees + Soto. They probably make the playoffs but they aren't winning the division and they will most likely eat poo poo early in the playoffs. Too many zeros in the lineup. What a loving disgrace that was today. I'm still upset Nestor's glorious performance went to waste. Seven shutout innings, no walks, 9 K's? Pretty drat shiny.
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Captain Log posted:I'm still upset Nestor's glorious performance went to waste. Yeah, disappointing. I was saying all offseason that while getting Soto was obviously great, they didn't do enough to turn over the rest of the lineup and trying to rely on players like Torres, Rizzo, Stanton and LeMahieu who just aren't good was doing the same kind of poo poo that has killed their chances of winning a world series since 17. mcmagic fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Apr 21, 2024 |
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I just listened to 10 seconds of Adam Wainwright. There are dozens of guys currently singing in Broadway bars in Nashville that have a better voice than him.
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davecrazy posted:Mets might not be total poo poo? These wins haven’t even seemed flukey—we might just be kinda sorta good?
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more falafel please posted:now do the cowboy joe west album 
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https://www.nj.com/yankees/2024/04/ex-yankees-mets-coach-under-investigation-after-deeply-disturbing-instagram-post.html?outputType=amp The Rockies hitting coach joined the pilots in the flight deck and pretended to fly the plane.
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Waffles Inc. posted:These wins haven’t even seemed flukey—we might just be kinda sorta good? Not going to approach good. I draw my line at “not poo poo” and “total poo poo” was my expectations going in.
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davecrazy posted:Mets might not be total poo poo? Waffles Inc. posted:These wins haven’t even seemed flukey—we might just be kinda sorta good? I've been saying they're gonna be the second wildcard for weeks now! Weeks! Well, maybe a week and a half. They're not beating total jabronis, either. They've taken a series from the Dodgers and a series from the Braves. If Kodai Senga isn't dead maybe they have enough pitching to keep them in it, though I'm not expecting more than one of Manaea, Severino, and Houser to be Taijuan Walker level actually good. The lineup should hit, tho, especially if Baty is actually a MLB quality bat.
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R.D. Mangles posted:how long is alvarez going to be out Few months
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