Tracer Bullet

we still need 1 more manager. Butters?

the coach that assures quality, obv

Go home, you're drunk. Heyward had the lowest strikeout rate of his career last year. It was his best OBP since his rookie year. He was one off his career high in SB while posting his best success rate so far. And he's the best defensive right fielder in baseball, by a pretty hefty margin. He's a great player. This trade is pretty simple though. Heyward has one year left on his contract and seems determined to test free agency. The Braves aren't really contenders next year. So it's better to get something for him than nothing. The Cardinals gave up a combined 10 years of cost controlled young pitching, each with #2 potential. It's a pretty big haul for the Braves for a guy they couldn't keep. John Hart is a schmuck, though. If he's really Baseball Jesus and you are so sure that you aren't going to be able to keep him why not wait until the FA market thins-out or until the season starts to deal him? Wouldn't you be in a better position to get more for him? BTW, he slugged .384 last season and posted his lowest OPS+ since his brutal 2011. I get that he's an excellent defensive RF'er, but that seems to be where the majority of his value is based. He's not a good enough hitter to be considered "one of the best players in baseball" by any stretch. So I'd suggest it is you who is drunk. you asked if a 22-year-old rookie would outperform a guy coming off his best OBP, with true GG defense, who averaged over 5-war the last 3 seasons. Might Taveras have been Mike Trout? Um, sure, maybe?

wait is this a serious question?

Heyward and we're all square.

um, maybe you missed the Tom Star deal. We got our LH bat. We don't need no stinkin' Heyward.

Well, [expletive] opening night is easter sunday? lol

too late. tree is interested.

make that 2 new managers. I reached out to tree. I think he's shunned us in the past, but he deserves another chance. any other options?

best part of that threat is still laurens acting like big [expletive] for knowing franz ferdinand. LOOK AT THE BIG BRAIN ON LAURENS!

Looks like option 3 wins. Anyone interested in buying a full slate of season tix for 2015? My slot is 9am Pacific on Tuesday.

You know how many employees in this day and age would love to hear this from their boss/employer?

[expletive] the renovations. Players should pay us to play for this guy.

Oh this is gonna be good... what'd he ask? Accountability for Castro? He basically asked how Dusty and Lou (who he presumably thinks are on the same level as Maddon) couldn't get it done and why Maddon was gonna be different and topped it off with "do you know what the hell you've gotten yourself into?" Theo, Jed, a [expletive] of better players, and I'm Joe MOTHERFUCKING Maddon

Presumably spoken before the peanut gallery started asking questions. his new plan is to find out where kaplan lives and move as far away from there as possible why not find out where kaplan lives and then run him over in his RV on his way home?

Presumably spoken before the peanut gallery started asking questions.

Trying to decide if I (1) get a pair of 500s that no one will want b/c it's cheap in hopes that I can sell some playoff tix to pay for this, (2) get a single combo pack bleacher ticket and just try to sell it every game b/c that's the cheapest, or (3) say [expletive] it, when am I ever really going to use season tix to Wrigley?

Apparently you got grandfathered in for the combo plan? It's only available for bleachers now. If you want seats, you have to get the full season.

You round first hard regardless of whether that is a single or not. I haven't seen a replay focused on Gordon the whole way around, I'm just spitballing You're spitballing that he jogged around 1B on a well-struck single as the final out in the WS? My feelings about Derwood's propensity for talking out of his ass are pretty well known, but he's right. From an article linked in that Fangraphs article TT posted on the last page: http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/heat-index/2014/10/30/alex-gordons-late-start-costs-the-royals-in-9th-inning/18176123/.

http://www.bleachernation.com/2014/10/29/away-we-go-chicago-cubs-reportedly-set-to-hire-joe-maddon/ lol, Brett edited it to: I guess his "sources" changed their tune once his other "sources" on Twitter say it wasn't quite done yet. Eh, I believe Brett has sources. He's been at it long enough and probably has a good enough reputation as a writer/blogger to meet people who know things. Now Loxas on the other hand, he's full of [expletive]. I don't believe he has much more than the twin doofuses Loxas and Arguello. And he's being totally intellectually dishonest as he's edited his original message again but now has this listed up top. The way he keeps making ninja edits doesn't help his credibility. ETA: made worse by the UPDATES he keeps making, which implies that the rest of the text is unchanged.

http://img.pixtale.net/imager/w_327/h_225/crop/9ea88c1e3b1f9208ae4b249ccfc974e3.jpg I thought it was spelled N-A-V-I-N? I knew I wouldn't be the only one to think this

Gin Blossoms rule

and the Bum will think he mis-typed "BBB" Can we fast forward to this point where DB is Fd? yeah that's never going to happen

and the Bum will think he mis-typed "BBB"

And with those words the Great War of Dick Pics began. i already screwed up by commenting on the surprising change in maturity level of the board which resulted in a bitch-fest and TT locking a thread. What's the worst that could happen here?