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Has anything Rube done improve the club beside resigning some dudes. I guess bringing in Lee? One thing.
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Their last draft wasn't completely terrible. Which is a step up for a barren minors.
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Four Aces was 2011. Hopefully the Pence trade disabused you of that belief before the end of the year. Whatever you make of Amaro, you have to at least credit him with getting rid of Worley, Happ, and Blanton before they messily exploded. Sometimes even for an approximation of a return!
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May 1, 2014 23:06
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Goddammit, Dan Straily, pitch better so I can a make a dumb joke about the true 4 Aces being you, Sonny Gray, Jesse Chavez, and Scott Kazmir.
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May 1, 2014 23:41
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The Merry Marauder posted:Four Aces was 2011. Hopefully the Pence trade disabused you of that belief before the end of the year. Oh god was it really that recent? And yeah the Pence trade was when I went "welp." I still to this day have no loving clue what he was thinking. The good things RAJ did: -Trading for Cliff Lee -Dumping The Bad Pitchers The bad things RAJ did: -$125 million dollars for Ryan Howard two years before his contract ended  -Trading Cliff Lee to get Halladay and the signing him again the next year  -Papelbon -The entire 2012 offseason And I'm probably forgetting a ton more.
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Braves radio claims Ken Rosenthal is reporting a three year extension for Chris Johnson with a club option for a fourth. No word on money, however.
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May 2, 2014 00:29
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Well that sounds dumb as hell. Braves dumb.
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May 2, 2014 00:40
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He's going to be 30 this year. What the hell
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Pershing posted:Braves radio claims Ken Rosenthal is reporting a three year extension for Chris Johnson with a club option for a fourth.
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Hank Steinbrenner himself said in 2007 "We’re going to have three No. 1’s three years from now" referring to Hughes, Chamberlain, and Kennedy if that's what people were talking about earlier. Yankees prospects will always get hyped because of the team (same goes for any big market team, really)
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May 2, 2014 01:31
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Ok, finally got my MLB.tv account and I've found out that I'm woefully behind on what's been going on since the end of the 2013 season. I'd appreciate some recommended resources written by people who aren't complete idiots to get me somewhat caught up, especially on the Jays and Pirates.
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May 2, 2014 01:34
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Just to be clear: Under contract past 2015 Chris Johnson Not under contract past 2015 Justin Upton Jason Heyward
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Also in the Yankee pitching hype wasn't there Jeff Marquez?
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May 2, 2014 01:39
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tadashi posted:Just to be clear: you forgot an important one
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May 2, 2014 01:39
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gently caress Tyler Clippard forever.
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tadashi posted:Just to be clear: yeah jason heyward sucks anyways so i dont know whats keeping them from giving him 5 years
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Thauros posted:I'd appreciate some recommended resources written by people who aren't complete idiots to get me somewhat caught up, especially on the Jays... JPA thankfully signed elsewhere, and the Jays signed Dioner Navarro to replace him. He's been respectable at the plate, hitting for an empty average, yet not striking out. He has a 100 wRC+ so he's been the definition of average. Watching him attempt to throw out base runners may drive you to the drink, however. You've (lamentably) missed nothing else of significance, since the Jays were aching for a free agent 2B and SP. e: forgot the resource part, I don't follow a lot of them but Drunk Jays Fans can be entertaining and Bluebird Banter is another. SilvergunSuperman fucked around with this message at 01:50 on May 2, 2014 |
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May 2, 2014 01:44
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I have this feeling that weekly N/V threads for the rest of the season could just be titled "The Diamondbacks made a big push for victory this year" and it would still be funny every time. Maybe that's just me. With a savvier GM, we could have had Tyler Skaggs in the rotation and Adam Eaton in left field. Hell, with a really savvy GM Doug Fister might be a Diamondback this season (good luck Robbie Ray!) or even Julio Teheran, if we flash back to the Justin Upton deal. Eaton/Pollock/Parra in the outfield, Prado/Owings/Hill/Goldschmidt in the infield, Montero waking his bat back up behind the dish, enough Actual Good Pitchers to avoid the recent implosion... Excuse me, I need to go wash the couldawouldashoulda out of my mouth.
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Did Kevin Towers facilitate the Scherzer trade too? And I'm pretty sure I remember him trading a few good, young pieces to Oakland too. Those wouldn't have hurt matters.
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Abel Wingnut posted:Did Kevin Towers facilitate the Scherzer trade too? And I'm pretty sure I remember him trading a few good, young pieces to Oakland too. Those wouldn't have hurt matters. nah, that was the year before he was hired he dealt Jarrod Parker to Oakland for Trevor Cahill. Parker blew out his elbow (for the second time), and Cahill looks broken, so that's a bit of a wash right now
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bluh posted:nah, that was the year before he was hired Cahill and Parker, sure. But the other pieces were Collin Cowgill and Ryan Cook to the A's for Craig Breslow and cash. Breslow's long gone and not extended, Cowgill is an Angel, and Cook is still under Athletics control through the 2017 season. Never trade with Billy Beane.
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Janana posted:Never trade with Billy Beane. Unless you're the Rockies that one time. E: Or maybe I should expand it to, "Unless the trade involves Matt Holliday."
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MourningView posted:No no, the grandma wanted to hit the guy who crossed the mound. I miss the whole Braden family. It's sad to realize he's already retired.
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Janana posted:Never trade with Billy Beane. milton bradley and antonio perez for ethier was pretty good
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Thauros posted:Ok, finally got my MLB.tv account and I've found out that I'm woefully behind on what's been going on since the end of the 2013 season. I'd appreciate some recommended resources written by people who aren't complete idiots to get me somewhat caught up, especially on the Jays and Pirates. 
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Janana posted:Never trade with Billy Beane. That Hudson trade wasn't too hot.
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achillesforever6 posted:Pirates are back to being the Pirates, 2013 was just like when Orpheus came over to the underworld where his singing stopped all the punishments happening in Tartarus, and now in 2014 Orpheus is gone and the furies to deliver punishment for us Pirates fans for the crime of probably being Steelers fans. Okay maybe that's a little overdramatic to explain that Pirates suck again and I'm sad This was me last season when I realized the 2012 Nats were just a fluke. Sometimes you just need to appreciate flukes. Wish I had while it was still happening though 
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Sweeney Tom posted:This was me last season when I realized the 2012 Nats were just a fluke. God I hate Bob Nutting; let Mario and Ron buy the team you rear end in a top hat 
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Laderhan posted:That Hudson trade wasn't too hot. It looked fine at the time but then Dan Meyer's arm blew up and Hudson turned out to be a cyborg. The Mulder trade made up for it though. Pumpkin McPastry posted:Unless you're the Rockies that one time. Gonzalez would not be the same guy playing half his games in Oakland, but yeah. MourningView fucked around with this message at 06:22 on May 2, 2014 |
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Sweeney Tom posted:This was me last season when I realized the 2012 Nats were just a fluke. The Nats have a bunch of good, young players. They're closer to 2012 For Real than they are to 2013, with standard health disclaimer.
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If you sit there and admire your posts I will bean you
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I'm on my phone so I can't imbed the picture but here have a picture of Jose Reyes phone after being repeatedly drunk dialed by his teammates http://instagram.com/p/mxXRuEzVXh/
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The Red Sox had a five aces meme for a bit, that year they tried to make Papelbon into a starter in Spring Training.
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Der Meister posted:the dodgers-twins second game of the day took 5 goddamn hours. is there a single person on earth who sat through the whole thing? also kenley jansen is broken. he is coming off the flu or whatever everyone else has been having
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Sweeney Tom posted:This was me last season when I realized the 2012 Nats were just a fluke. The Nationals are a good team that would probably be leading the NLEast if not for the untimely demise of 3 of their 4 best offensive players. And Doug Fister.
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The whole league is playing such mediocre baseball at the moment, I don't know if I could really feel confident in saying that any team has risen above the pack yet. Seems like there's a red flag no matter where you look. Oakland and LA have the best run differential by a lot, but the rest of the league looks even, or not too far in one direction to make any statement (except Arizona, they're bad).
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DannoMack posted:I'm on my phone so I can't imbed the picture but here have a picture of Jose Reyes phone after being repeatedly drunk dialed by his teammates http://instagram.com/p/mxXRuEzVXh/ Who might El Lembo be?
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tadashi posted:Who might El Lembo be? Moises Sierra, which may actually not answer your question.
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