Agony and Ivy

RD game time.

Funny how you were one of the guys who said not to blame struggles on Mallee but you're pounding the Chili blame drum every game. Rizzo is his own worst enemy right now. He refuses to swing at outside pitches and has like 2 quadrants he's looking for pitches in. Pitchers know this and get ahead in the count with low and away pitches he just stares at instead of hammering oppo. He gets into non-favorable counts constantly. He's had an abysmal approach at the plate. You say Chili is pressing our guys to become oppo singles hitters and Rizzo is most definitely not trying to do that at all. Once again, you have no idea what you are talking about. Rizzo's BB% is incredibly fluky. His First-pitch strike % is 58%. Career average? 58%. He's swinging at 66% of pitches in the zone. Career average? 66%. He's even being more discerning than usual, swinging at 26% of pitches out of the zone, which is well lower than it's ever been. And it has nothing to do with him taking pitches on the outside. From 2015 through 2017, he swung at 65.5% of pitches on the outer third. This year, he's swung at 71.8%. You don't have to create some dumb narrative for everything. Sometimes guys just struggle. He's changed nothing about his approach. He's the same guy. He's just hitting it like horsefeathers. I don’t actually think Chili is the problem. I have questions about why he’s a viable MLB hitting coach but he doesn’t have the power to make guys suck 30 games into a season. There were fire chili Davis but jobs on twitter in like the 5th game of th season. I’ll let you know when I’m being tongue in cheek from now on.

I’m really excited to see Herbie though.

Starlin for sure did that on purpose.

I don't want to trade Russell for 90 games of Machado. That would be idiotic.

Good lord. Challenge this though.

Bote and Caratini for everyday AB’s. Send Rizzo to horsefeathering Myrtle Beach.

Didn’t realize just how much of an aborted fetus this lineup was tonight.

Homeboy has a sizzlin' 3.7% walk rate so far this season. Good god, he’s been miserable. Did Joe start Caratini because Tseng is familiar? I feel like maybe you should have an ERA under 10 before getting a personal catcher. Lol Brent Suter just hit a tape measure shot off Kluber.

Has Rizzo walked in the last 3 weeks? He’s become Heyward. Good job chili.

Do something Anthony.

This is going to be the most frustrating shutout of the season.

You were saying?

Throw a horsefeathering breaking ball you loser.

We shouldn’t have started the 12 year old Taiwanese kid

horsefeathers off Bour.

I bet the under tonight so it’ll be fun when Caratini hits a homer to make it 9-1 and cost me money.

Incorrect. It sucks and we were right to hate it.

Dear Javy, Please don’t be dead. I’m not ready for the Mike Freeman experience.

This is way more fun. Bring on the bad teams.

is the guy that they tried to trade for while Dempster was napping still around? He's an average middle reliever in Arizona. Currentlyhurt though.

Stupid autocorrect changed donghitter to ole' Buzzkill.

Here comes ole' Buzzkill Happ.

horsefeathers YES JAVY LETS PLAY THE MARLINS EVERY GAME

If Bryant dongs here we'll probably win this game.