David

more like tanking for picks only works (as far as becoming a championship contender) if you happen to do it the year there is a once a decade super-duper-star available. otherwise, making the right picks will just get you into a place similar to where the bulls were (not that they got there entirely this way)...which is a very good team that wins a bunch of games with little to no shot at a title.

Ok. I'm going to reply defensively about every robot joke that I deem to fall flat too.

clueless about baseball mojo is a meme like robot david on this board at this point. relax. it's a much funnier and more accurate one too.

Holy crap this is so mojo That I don't know the pre-majors career path of Ben Zobrist? Come on. the whole late bloomer thing is pretty much common knowledge at this point...or at least you'd think among people with 10's of thousands of posts on a baseball message board. i mean i don't follow the rest of the league that closely either and i'm pretty sure i was curious enough to look him up when he led baseball in WAR through those 3-4 years or whatever it was.

Holy crap this is so mojo

I don't know how he can suck most of the time but then put together stretches like the playoffs last year where he looks amazing It's often what the development of a really talented player looks like when he's not named Kris Bryant.

the semi-permanent structures they're putting up outside the gate for the metal detectors are one hell of an eyesore. i had hoped they could keep that stuff inside.

I'm ready for GarPax to be gone. I don't trust them to do anything at this point. Sign FA's, draft picks, hire/fire coaches...none of it. That's where it's gotta start for me. the thing is they've had some pretty good hits in the middle and back end of the draft. i know there've been some busts too but overall i can't really complain with that end of it. they did a good job putting together decent teams over the years (even the high end of that took the insane luck that got them rose), but in the nba you just aren't going to contend unless you get insanely lucky and land a real legit superstar. especially in a capped league where the best of the best are capped at way less than they deserve (not that i necessarily trust that the bulls would win an uncapped bidding war, but when miami or cleveland can offer the best player in the league the same amount we can, it's definitely not helping us). the nba/basketball sucks to build teams in. i don't even know how you fix this. tank to get what? even then you have to be lucky enough to get a top pick in a year with an actual superstar at the top of the draft. if you just get a good player there, you max out at what we've been for the past few years. you need a lebron. or you need to luck into someone becoming steph curry. without stuff like that going just right, you really aren't going to contend for a title, with the exception of what the spurs have managed to do, i guess, but even they had duncan be a big part of their run over the years. i'm not saying garpax have done an exceptionally good job and haven't fucked up a lot of stuff, i'm just not sure how you actually can set out to build an nba championship contender without having a ton of luck. feel free to pick apart my stream of consciousness ramblings/rant also, all that said, i would have no problem with a garpax firing (not that i think there's any way reinsdorf does it).

I'll admit I was fine with the coaching change as the Thibs situation with the team had grown stale and seemingly a bit contentious as it was. Obviously, it hasn't gotten any better in that regard. I'm far more mad about what they did at the trade deadline. Obviously, hindsight only make it look worse, but it already looked like a terrible WTF? decision at the time to not trade Gasol. Stuff like that that completely defies logic makes me more mad.

i know maddon likes the lefty/righty stuff but i'd swap russell and montero

yess please i'm secretly hoping for almora to rake like crazy for a couple months and then we get our super defensive OF (assuming almora can actually hit decently up here obviously). or at least throw him into the mix depending on where we're playing and who is pitching and stuff.

I miss del negro over this guy. I have to say hoiberg is the worst thing I've ever had to experience. were you not a fan in the cartwright or floyd eras?

did ANYONE on the team know the game would end on a run scored? ross was trying to gun down celebrating tomas yeah it looked really bizarre

Except he's actually a pretty good player. no the funny thing is ahmed is the one who is actually a pretty good player

segura is this year's ahmed isnt he

so i went to shower with 2 on and no out and hammel coming up...what happened?

Hammel looked nasty that inning

horsefeathers this park so much

did segura do anything before this series?

hell yess fowler

lol anyone get a load of creepy dad busted staring at that cheerleader?

wow braves are just giving the lead away with 2 outs...what the hell is going on

ha i thought exactly the same

4-0 braves now this is glorious 4 game lead by tonight please?

Braves up 2-0 and still have 2 on with 2 out