RammyFanny

1 game playoff Yeah, it sucks. Sucks that we'll have to rip their hearts out quickly and can't give them a slow, painful death over multiple games.

Lol

I am in an 18 team survivor league and if the Colts win tonight some dude wins it all ($900). Everybody else had the Saints, Ravens, or Dolphins.

The latter. That's what I assumed too, but some people were trying to claim otherwise.

I'm an idiot. Does the whole Maddon quote about not starting it but ending it imply they would "retaliate" if it continued or that they would "end it" by not doing anything back?

http://s30.postimg.org/r89omatzl/image.jpg Not only does this look like the picture for some trashy "You won't believe what happens next!" ad, but it's hilarious that the Cardinals website felt the need to post a 29 second highlight video of Lynn telling umpire he's a [expletive] piece of [expletive] and that he wants to fight him after the game. AND before this, the Cardinals posted this video title http://s13.postimg.org/60e5k1pc7/image.jpg except the video is literally 50 seconds of Len and JD talking about how Molina needed a day off because of how he is struggling so badly and just K'd 4 times. Looks like they changed the title name this morning. http://m.cardinals.mlb.com/stl/video/?query=Molina

[tweet] [/tweet] Gonna make me teary eyed.

Video of Maddon is up and it lives up to the hype imo. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20150918/sports/150918657/

Yeah, I always kind of gave Hammel a mulligan that first month since he had to deal with being traded and working with a new catcher out of nowhere. Obviously that has no bearing on this year though.

not the best time to defend Hammel, but off the top of my head I remember him being pretty lights out for Oakland after July.

It's been hard to keep up so it may have been posted elsewhere, but there's been a few articles popping up he last few days noting that Baez does everything in life left-handed but play baseball. Pretty cool.

Any easy way to find out his WAR since the ASB this year? Not that I'm aware of. 1st half-8.2%walk rate, 31.1%K rate, 243AB, .226/.296/.364, 5HR 26RBI 2nd half-6.1%walk rate, 25.7%K rate, 164AB, .268/.315/.476, 8HR 26RBI http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2015&month=31&season1=2015&ind=0&team=17&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0

Any easy way to find out his WAR since the ASB this year? 1.4 fWAR post-ASB (48 games). .268/.315/.476

It was extremely risky and relied on making perfect draft picks and not [expletive] up any major trades. During the time it was going on, it was absolutely fine to disagree with "The Plan" because the plan itself had a strong chance of blowing up in our faces if we didn't make the correct picks. That being said, it appears they completely nailed it so it was absolutely worth it. I do applaud the fact that they didn't half ass it and continue adding middling pieces so we'd have a prayer of going .500 once in awhile. Although, they could have been financially handicapped so who knows if that was even an option. I was competely all for it, but I won't deny that a small part of me loved it because I was really obsessed with following amatuer baseball prospects and the minors at the time, so I was still having fun even when we were losing. I can see how it would be torture for someone who doesn't give a damn about following that stuff. In hindsight, could you have probably built a somewhat similar team through free agency a little earlier? Sure. But that would have been even more risky than what we did if it failed, and we wouldn't be taking about still having the ability to add a ton to this already-awesome team through free agency. I've got to say, we're pretty lucky that all of these guys are this good this early. I mean, we really haven't had anyone major completely fall on their face (unless you count 2 months of Baez in a meaningless year. Maybe Soler but it's not like he's helpless out there) and sometimes that just happens. But maybe it's a testament to the profile of player that we target.

Wouldn't have minded this being one of the days we move Russell up and just go traditional.

If Baez can clean up some of the routine stuff (basing this moreso off of minor league sample size), I still wonder if we might be better with him at short and Russell at 2nd in the future. Russell's definitely good at short (and the best option at the current moment), but every once in awhile the arm looks a little too average and I remember how it was hidden perfectly at 2nd. Then again it looks like Javy has a chance to be just as valuable playing all over the place, so that's fun too.

they better get this in.

damn you Fred. But yes, I didn't flinch. A group of my friends use dong as much as NSBB and I always forget when new people are in the convo. Although I will say we used it at Wrigley yesterday and no one flinched, so maybe it's spreading like wildfire.

Reminder to self: people look at you weird when you use the word "dong" in public conversation.

Dude's allowed to be a bit nervous. Pretty sure I remember him saying he was extremely nervous in his first spring training start, so I could only imagine today (even if it's a blowout).

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i hate you. just kidding. sort of.

The Cubs are great. My friend has season tickets and they called him to let him know this morning we could use the CF suite because a company cancelled. They didn't have the usual buffet since it was late notice, so instead they have us all autographed Javy Baez baseballs. It's blazing hot outside and it feels amazing sitting in air conditioning right now.

Somebody pointed out on Twitter that Javy's career BA has gone up by 11 points after today.

Nice dong from the would-be-not-top-50 prospect according to Kyle. I don't forgetttt.