Barney DFA, Traded to Dodgers

[MWV]

If you are the GM of a franchise that wins 90+ games, you immediately become suave, debonair and above ridicule.

For example, present day Jim Hendry is overweight and unattractive.

2008 Jim Hendry = Sex Bomb.

[abuck1220]

my most sincere apologies. i'll post any other such thoughts in the "WTF are the dodgers doing thread."

[Guest]

abuck is basically a younger and angrier b2b at this point, only he started out as a good poster

[Guest]

my most sincere apologies. i'll post any other such thoughts in the "WTF are the dodgers doing thread."

 

Congrats to them on being able to have a 90 win team (and a 2 game lead) on a $230M payroll, I guess

Edited July 29, 2014 by David

[abuck1220]

abuck is basically a younger and angrier b2b at this point, only he started out as a good poster

 

says the guy who started the "WTF are the dodgers doing" thread the offseason before they won the NL west.

 

NAILED IT

[Guest]

abuck is basically a younger and angrier b2b at this point, only he started out as a good poster

 

says the guy who started the "WTF are the dodgers doing" thread the offseason before they won the NL west.

 

NAILED IT

 

yeah that brandon league contract (which i'm pretty sure was the reason for that thread) was totally awesome

Edited July 29, 2014 by David

[ConstableRabbit]

The "WTF are the Dodgers doing?" thread was started after LA signed Brandon League to a 3 year, $21.5M deal. That was absolutely a "WTF" signing/contract that deserved to be ridiculed.

 

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[abuck1220]

my most sincere apologies. i'll post any other such thoughts in the "WTF are the dodgers doing thread."

 

Congrats to them on being able to have a 90 win team (and a 2 game lead) on a $230M payroll, I guess

 

fortunately for them, playoff berths aren't handed out on a win per $ basis.

[abuck1220]

abuck is basically a younger and angrier b2b at this point, only he started out as a good poster

 

says the guy who started the "WTF are the dodgers doing" thread the offseason before they won the NL west.

 

NAILED IT

 

yeah that brandon league contract (which i'm pretty sure was the reason for that thread) was totally awesome

 

yeah he's been so terrible this year.

[Guest]

my most sincere apologies. i'll post any other such thoughts in the "WTF are the dodgers doing thread."

 

Congrats to them on being able to have a 90 win team (and a 2 game lead) on a $230M payroll, I guess

 

fortunately for them, playoff berths aren't handed out on a win per $ basis.

 

No, but that doesn't mean the GM is actually good nor does it mean we can't laugh at him

[SouthSideRyan]

my most sincere apologies. i'll post any other such thoughts in the "WTF are the dodgers doing thread."

 

Congrats to them on being able to have a 90 win team (and a 2 game lead) on a $230M payroll, I guess

 

See, this is stupid.

[Guest]

abuck is basically a younger and angrier b2b at this point, only he started out as a good poster

 

says the guy who started the "WTF are the dodgers doing" thread the offseason before they won the NL west.

 

NAILED IT

 

yeah that brandon league contract (which i'm pretty sure was the reason for that thread) was totally awesome

 

yeah he's been so terrible this year.

 

yeah last year being [expletive] terrible doesnt matter

 

yeah his 40 innings this year in his "good" year are totally worth $8M or whatever the hell too

[Guest]

my most sincere apologies. i'll post any other such thoughts in the "WTF are the dodgers doing thread."

 

Congrats to them on being able to have a 90 win team (and a 2 game lead) on a $230M payroll, I guess

 

See, this is stupid.

 

No, it's not. I can make fun of Ned Colletti despite the Dodgers being good.

[XZero771679666304]

my most sincere apologies. i'll post any other such thoughts in the "WTF are the dodgers doing thread."

 

Congrats to them on being able to have a 90 win team (and a 2 game lead) on a $230M payroll, I guess

 

fortunately for them, playoff berths aren't handed out on a win per $ basis.

 

And earning a playoff berth doesn't make you above ridicule. Ned Coletti is a moron. He's just a moron with a titanic payroll.

 

But apparently as long as the Cubs stink, no one is allowed to say anything that could possibly be construed as derogatory about any team or employee of a team that is winning more games than the Cubs.

[ScrubMD]

Step 1: Pretend like people are laughing at the Dodgers for trading for Barney.

 

Step 2: Coax someone into pointing out that Colletti isn't that great, and pretend like that proves your point.

 

Step 3: Drink alone.

[abuck1220]

Step 1: Pretend like people are laughing at the Dodgers for trading for Barney.

 

Step 2: Coax someone into pointing out that Colletti isn't that great, and pretend like that proves your point.

 

Step 3: Drink alone.

 

step 1: watch your favorite major league team finish in last again but pretend it doesn't matter

 

step 2: make lame ass chuck norris style quips about javier baez, gifs about albert almora going 2-4 or some dumb [expletive], jokes about how stupid the GM of the best team in the NL is.

 

step 3: drink alone

[ScrubMD]

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[Careless]

So nothing remotely resembling that sort of thing, right?

 

not for nothing but the original post also noted how there are several threads on this board where people have ridiculed the Dodgers for their stupidity while just winning and winning.

 

But the important thing is making sure nobody criticizes the Cubs for losing all the time.

How many of your 60,000 posts do you think criticize the Cubs for doing that? Why, in your opinion, haven't you been stopped?

[sneakypower]

you see, we all lose the right to have any opinions of other teams' actions because we like a team that is bad at the moment

[abuck1220]

you see, we all lose the right to have any opinions of other teams' actions because we like a team that is bad at the moment

 

not at all.

 

it's just kind of funny to see people snickering at the gm of the best team in baseball while singing the praises of the cubs' front office that has presided over multiple years of garbage. i mean, you really don't see how that seems ridiculous?

[Guest]

you see, we all lose the right to have any opinions of other teams' actions because we like a team that is bad at the moment

 

not at all.

 

it's just kind of funny to see people snickering at the gm of the best team in baseball while singing the praises of the cubs' front office that has presided over multiple years of garbage. i mean, you really don't see how that seems ridiculous?

 

if we're going to use awful logic like this, then give me a ring count

[abuck1220]

you see, we all lose the right to have any opinions of other teams' actions because we like a team that is bad at the moment

 

not at all.

 

it's just kind of funny to see people snickering at the gm of the best team in baseball while singing the praises of the cubs' front office that has presided over multiple years of garbage. i mean, you really don't see how that seems ridiculous?

 

if we're going to use awful logic like this, then give me a ring count

 

how is that awful logic?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

you see, we all lose the right to have any opinions of other teams' actions because we like a team that is bad at the moment

 

not at all.

 

it's just kind of funny to see people snickering at the gm of the best team in baseball while singing the praises of the cubs' front office that has presided over multiple years of garbage. i mean, you really don't see how that seems ridiculous?

 

if we're going to use awful logic like this, then give me a ring count

 

how is that awful logic?

 

You didn't reference farm-system rankings

[abuck1220]

man, I am REALLY pulling for an angels/dodgers world series so we can all laugh about how bad all those contracts are in the world series thread...

[Guest]

No one was snickering at Colletti for making this move, nor was anyone singing the praises of the Cubs front office for doing the same. It's completely baffling that you took the thread to be doing so unless simply the mention of the word Dodgers triggered some sort of Pavlovian freakout.