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dkp993
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Fair. But when you’re expected to be a top 3 team in the league and a serious contender for the chip a late season slid like this is extremely concerning.
ChiefD
Footballguy
fred_1_15301
Footballguy
Padres don't have the pitching to make any noise this year. Darvish was an ace most of the year but he's been pretty bad since the crackdown. He's either injured or seriously having issues without the sticky stuff (or both). Beyond him, can they really trust guys like Snell and Musgrove in the playoffs? The offense is very good (especially if/when Tatis is healthy) but pitching will ultimately be their downfall.
Osaurus
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I saw Paddack pitch a few weeks ago and he has like 2 pitches. That’s it. He got out of a lot of jams, but no way he could get this team into the playoffs.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
fred_1_15301 said:
Larry Rothschild was a bad choice for that staff. He spent the teens turning Yankee fireballin prospects into relievers and rejects incapable of surviving anyone's 3rd atbat. hope he'll be gone before he has a chance @ Mackenzie Gore
Dickies
Footballguy
Went to the A’s/Giants game in Oakland last night. The A’s are an absolute amateur operation and it was borderline criminal how they staffed the stadium.
Got there over an hour before the game planning on a little tailgating with friends. Sat in over two hours of traffic because they had a single person running the parking lot. Created complete traffic gridlock in the city and slowed the freeway to a crawl for 20 miles. Ended up missing 3 innings.
Concession stands are only staffed with a single person to pour beers, move food and process payments, leading to 45+ minute waits. Of course the Colosseum has almost no TVs in these areas so you’re literally missing the game if you want a drink. By the 7th inning the concession stands were running out of food.
The women’s restrooms were missing toilet seats, creating huge lines for them.
They’ve been demanding taxpayers fund their new stadium for years, but after yesterday I don’t think they are competent enough to manage it. Absolute #### show.
Got there over an hour before the game planning on a little tailgating with friends. Sat in over two hours of traffic because they had a single person running the parking lot. Created complete traffic gridlock in the city and slowed the freeway to a crawl for 20 miles. Ended up missing 3 innings.
Concession stands are only staffed with a single person to pour beers, move food and process payments, leading to 45+ minute waits. Of course the Colosseum has almost no TVs in these areas so you’re literally missing the game if you want a drink. By the 7th inning the concession stands were running out of food.
The women’s restrooms were missing toilet seats, creating huge lines for them.
They’ve been demanding taxpayers fund their new stadium for years, but after yesterday I don’t think they are competent enough to manage it. Absolute #### show.
Joe Mammy
Footballguy
Wow. That is disheartening. I only have 10 mlb parks left to hit and that is one of them.
Dickies
Footballguy
I mean I’ve been to plenty of games there, but never against a team that filled the seats. The place is a dump and has been for years. Not worth going out of your way to visit, but if you haven’t been to a game in SF yet, make sure the A’s are playing a team nobody wants to watch.
I also realize there are staffing issues going on across multiple industries, but having been to a Giants game a few weeks ago they were fully staffed and operating like normal. I’m guessing the A’s treat their employees like garbage.
FairWarning
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FairWarning
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I like the A’s, but they have always run their franchise like this, going back to Finley. I feel for their fans, it’s amazing that anyone goes to see them. The Midwest League South Bend cubs run a more competent organization.
Leroy Hoard
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Just got done watching the little league World Series. Loved the pace of the games, kids stay in the batters box and the pitchers get the ball and throw it. Much less boring than the turtle pace of MLB games.
I grew up playing for Taylor South Little League, and we played Taylor North on occasion, back when it was Taylor Northeast. If I had lived on the other side of Goddard Road, I’d have been in that league instead, but I’m glad that my childhood hometown won the championship. Taylor South hosts the Junior League World Series, or at least they did.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
I played when they still had Taylor North Central (pretty sure that was different from Taylor North). It was the one where Pardee dead ends after Ecorse edit: so looks like TNC became Taylor North at some point
also went to high school with the coach, he was a year behind me
was nice seeing them win
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RUSF18
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JaxBill
Footballguy
lolz
@StevenACohen2: I miss the days when the biggest controversy was the black jerseys
@OldHossRadbourn: https://twitter.com/OldHossRadbourn/status/1432175730155266055/photo/1
@StevenACohen2: I miss the days when the biggest controversy was the black jerseys
@OldHossRadbourn: https://twitter.com/OldHossRadbourn/status/1432175730155266055/photo/1
ChiefD
Footballguy
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
With two out in the 9th inning of the Cle-Bos game, the local Red Sox broadcast flashed a graphic saying that new closer Adam Ottavino had gone longer without giving up a home run than any Boston hurler since 1895. Indian OF Franmil Reyes cleared the Monstah with a game-tying homer on the very next pitch.
fred_1_15301
Footballguy
Amazing team. They don't even have their ace and they just keep winning. I'm rooting for them (and especially Wander).
woodstock
Footballguy
Mets players boo their fans. Somehow when you're shelling out a bunch of disposable income that could be otherwise spent to have players boo you and basically point to their unit, you're just...I don't know.
Yes, it would be nice and contrarian and very Gawkerish or whatever player-friendly labor-friendly idiocy one requires these days to be truly hip and to take the schmoozy players' side and be player-friendly, but do they really ####in' deserve it? Can't you just shut your mouth at that salary, or vent in other ways? Like, address the media, and say that you're sorry you're having a ####ty year and that you're trying everything to make it right, it just isn't going that way and for the fans to boo if they feel so obliged.
How ####### hard is humility at 300 million a contract? Lindor can eat me, really. That's from all the fans. These guys aren't labor. They're all mini-corporations with PR departments and brands.
From me to them:
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. You guys suck.
Yes, it would be nice and contrarian and very Gawkerish or whatever player-friendly labor-friendly idiocy one requires these days to be truly hip and to take the schmoozy players' side and be player-friendly, but do they really ####in' deserve it? Can't you just shut your mouth at that salary, or vent in other ways? Like, address the media, and say that you're sorry you're having a ####ty year and that you're trying everything to make it right, it just isn't going that way and for the fans to boo if they feel so obliged.
How ####### hard is humility at 300 million a contract? Lindor can eat me, really. That's from all the fans. These guys aren't labor. They're all mini-corporations with PR departments and brands.
From me to them:
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. You guys suck.
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irish eyes
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And getting ready to watch college football pregame but no, a useless, boring, mind numbing baseball game that started probably 8 hours ago STILL going on. Who do they think watches this garbage. Watch paint dry or baseball, grass growing or baseball. I'll take paint and grass every time.
facook
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JaxBill
Footballguy
@Cut4: Therapist: The Giant Cinnamon Toast Crunch isn’t real. It can’t hurt you.
The Giant Cinnamon Toast Crunch: https://twitter.com/Cut4/status/1435384758452715528/photo/1
The Giant Cinnamon Toast Crunch: https://twitter.com/Cut4/status/1435384758452715528/photo/1
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
Manager Craig Counsel pulls Corbin Burnes with a no hitter going after 8 innings. 117 pitches, 14 ko’s 1 walk: 3-0 lead.
Runkle
Footballguy
KingPrawn
Footballguy
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
I’m OK with it, but odd to see reporters calling it a “combined no hitter” or “the second no hitter in franchise history.” That’s dumb IMO.
trader jake
Footballguy
Postgame Burnes said he had to fight just to go in for the 8th.
Brew Crew 1st no-hitter thrown by Nieves: Last out w/Yount
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Runkle
Footballguy
If he gives up one hit, pull him. 3 run lead, they could hold that. It's not like one swing could lose the game.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
I don’t think the decision was about losing the game. It’s about the pitcher being healthy in October.
KingPrawn
Footballguy
Its not the win he was worried about. It was the pitch count. Most pitches Burnes has thrown in his career. Want him healthy and fresh for the playoffs.
snellman
Footballguy
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
KingPrawn
Footballguy
Its not the win he was worried about. It was the pitch count. Most pitches Burnes has thrown in his career. Want him healthy and fresh for the playoffs.
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
I realize I’m old, but I can’t see how throwing another 10- 20 pitches would prevent him from being healthy and fresh a month from now
KingPrawn
Footballguy
I'm old fashioned too and like the old school baseball when I guy could throw a complete game and 120-130 pitches. But Burnes talked Counsell in to letting him go out for the 8th. No way he was going to let him go out for the 9th. From the very beginning of the season the Brewers have talked about managing pitch counts, especially this year coming off last year when pitchers threw half the pitches they normally throw. It was also the most pitches Burnes has thrown in a start in his career. With the big division lead the Brewers have been very conservative in sitting players who have minor injuries as well. They are lazer focused on the post-season.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
Imagine winning 105 or so games, finishing second in the NL West, and having to play a one game playoff against the Cardinals who have won 17 straight games.
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