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  1. squally1313
    Yeah, wasn't criticizing you obviously. As someone else mentioned...defining pitchers by the their spot in the rotation is dumb. If Shark puts up 200 innings and 200 Ks, he'll be a really good pitcher. But I don't think it's something we should expect.
  2. squally1313
    I hate how so many people just have no clue what constitutes a quality ace/#2/#3/etc. There were 14 pitchers in all of baseball last year that threw 200 innings and had 200 strikeouts. Outside of James Shields, every one of them had a WAR over 4, and outside of Shields and Hamels, every one had a WAR of at least 5. There is no way anyone should be expecting Shark to put up those numbers, but if he does, then he's either not our #3 for 2016, or he's the best #3 in a long time.
  3. squally1313
    At the same time, it's hard for me to criticize the trade too much at this point. Anisimov has been really good, playing a position that we don't really have anyone else to put there. Yeah I wish he was 22 instead of 28 or whatever, but that's a problem for down the road. And I'm just hoping Q gives Dano a long enough leash to settle into that lower scoring line role ("bum-slaying") that got Teuvo going last year. Kid definitely has the talent.
  4. squally1313
    It's unbelievable really that the Hawks were able to pluck this kid up. I mean I know he wasn't unknown, so it wasn't like superior scouting or anything. But to keep adding talent like this as the established talent is forced to leave...crazy stuff. Losing Saad and Sharp hurt like hell but replenishing with Panarin and Anisimov (and Dano) is not a bad consolation prize, although I do worry about how we are going to be able to afford Panarin after next year when he is a UFA (right?). Hope we can extend him early at a discount., According to CapFriendly.com (no idea how reliable), but he's a RFA after next year, so in theory it'll just be another Saad situation then. That's also the year Teuvo is up for RFA (and Dano too, being optimistic that he reaches his potential), so there might need to be some decisions made. We'll be getting out the Bickell and Daley deals at that point at the latest (hopefully before then). I assume Stan is betting on the Canadian dollar rebounding.
  5. squally1313
    Bread Man quietly moves up to a tie for 4th in points in the whole league. That line has been unreal, especially considering the (relative) early season struggles of the top line. Stay healthy and find a way to slot in another reliable D-man and this 'rebuild year' could be more 2014 than 2011.
  6. squally1313
    Unless Newcomb is way better than his walk rate shows, this seems pretty underwhelming from the braves side, given that they were apparently asking for degrom or Harvey earlier today and then fangraphs was discussing a Simmons/puig trade.
  7. squally1313
    Haha of course [expletive] this
  8. squally1313
    Love you dex
  9. squally1313
    Make those McFadden d-bags wait
  10. squally1313
    Beating the Cards was pretty cool Just have to believe that these things are crap shoots and we just need to make the playoffs every damn year to breakthrough Yeah that was cool, but I don't get the logic of being satisfied showing our asses in the LCS just because they had a nice regular season. Nobody's going to feel satisfied with the memory of beating Cincinatti in June. There is no satisfaction to be had in the last four games. But, and I'm not feeling it now, there is plenty to be had for this season. Hell, we've got 38 games against the Pirates and the cardinals next year, and every single one of them I'm going to be able to think back on how we sent them home on the backs of massive dongs. That's pretty satisfying to me.
  11. squally1313
    Sulley flips a slightly uneven quarter four times, then recoils in horror as it lands on tails each time, convinced the coin is cursed.
  12. squally1313
    Hammel bitching about getting pulled early from games back in like July and then having the second half that he had will be funny at some point in the future. Not quite there yet for me right now though...
  13. squally1313
    Welp. I'll admit I'll never be able to win that argument. Of course maybe if we get David Price we somehow miss the playoffs all together. So in that case, great move not getting one. I mean, sure, maybe that happens. In all likelihood, we still make the playoffs, probably. You can't say that the playoffs would have unfolded the same way, though. Chaos theory is tricky business. Yeah but the issue with that is that you can substitute literally any other possible action in the universe for "acquiring a pitcher at the deadline" and the rest of your argument wouldn't change.
  14. squally1313
    I know everyone who called them out for their effort got (rightfully) ripped on, but....holy [expletive] Soler and Bryant.
  15. squally1313
    Hammel's first inning thing has to be mental at this point because you know he's going to go 1-2-3 next inning.
  16. squally1313
    Yea, because one [expletive] pitcher would have turned this whole series around. It wouldn't have hurt? But that complaint went out the window when every single SP acquired except Happ and Price were not good. We were in talks for Ross but SD wanted the moon for him Cole Hamels says hello, but yeah....I'm looking more at the 6 runs or whatever we've scored so far this series.
  17. squally1313
    Can't wait for Bryant and Rizzo to go back to back in the bottom of the 8th to put us down 7-3
  18. squally1313
    HAHAHAHAHAHA
  19. squally1313
    This is fun guys, I'm having fun
  20. squally1313
    Small cheval down, beer cracked. Fowler lead off shot and we roll from there.
  21. squally1313
    Its TBS. Game is probably over in real life. I was at Game 1 against the Cardinals and I noticed that clock that goes between innings started at 3:00 instead of 2:30, I assume for longer commercial purposes. Not sure if you were talking specifically about this series though.
  22. squally1313
    Can this please not be the Bryant at bat where he takes like 3 fastballs right down the middle?
  23. squally1313
    this mets team is basically the 03 cubs Yeah I didn't realize it at the time because I was like 14, but it must have been pretty frustrating for a Braves fan (or whoever else was good) to watch us and the cobbled together Florida Marlins in the NLCS.
  24. squally1313
    I was fully prepared for us to lose a series somewhere along the line here. But I was at least expecting some respectable team to be the one to get there if it wasn't us, not this random assortment of veteran hitters and a bunch of young pitchers all peaking at the right time. Not saying it's over...I just felt like we still had something to prove against St. Louis, and was so happy that we went out and did that. Would have been the same against the Dodgers, or hell even Washington if you gave me the hypothetical in April. It sucks that out of all this, right now the Mets are somehow the heavy favorite to be the one to come out all of this.
  25. squally1313
    Snydergaard went 133 last year, 179 this year. When Jake was 46 innings past his 2014 mark he was looking pretty nasty too. Unfortunately that was about a month ago.
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