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Think I'll concentrate on this board and stay out of politics for awhile. That board is too irrational. Their is plenty to chat about on this board and it doesn't get too nasty. I'll start it off with 2 of my pet peeves Honny batting 4th and strikeouts. Both came to fruition in Honny's first AB. He swings at a pitch 3 inches off the plate and down around his ankles to end the inning. Any kind of batted ball would have been better. Oh there was a runner on 3b. Did I mention this is the smallest of sample sizes.:cool:

Happy baseball season!!!
Go Birds:D
 
vbsideout said:
Think I'll concentrate on this board and stay out of politics for awhile. That board is too irrational. Their is plenty to chat about on this board and it doesn't get too nasty. I'll start it off with 2 of my pet peeves Honny batting 4th and strikeouts. Both came to fruition in Honny's first AB. He swings at a pitch 3 inches off the plate and down around his ankles to end the inning. Any kind of batted ball would have been better. Oh there was a runner on 3b. Did I mention this is the smallest of sample sizes.:cool:

Happy baseball season!!!
Go Birds:D
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Jhonny swung at three balls.
That is YOUR 2017 clean up man.
But hey at least he swung. Mr Exit Velocity Grichuk was in a critical situation and didn't care enough about the team to protect the plate and go the other way. Great start.
 
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The sad thing is I love these guys and still complain. 0-5 RISP and Wong is probably sitting in the corner crying. So easy to nit pick:cool::cool:
I think I would rather see Ducky bat 4th than Honny:(:eek:
 
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Two men on two innings in a row and our "young stud" outfielders take called third strikes. The only thing more annoying is the female announcer telling us how great Lesters command is as he throws his 70th pitch in the third inning.
 
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Duck_walk said:
Two men on two innings in a row and our "young stud" outfielders take called third strikes. The only thing more annoying is the female announcer telling us how great Lesters command is as he throws his 70th pitch in the third inning.
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These announcers are ruining the game. I'm going to mute and put on some music
 
Let's be jhonest. Watching Jhonny bat clean up is jhideous. I can live with the young K boys if we had a raker in the four hole. And Yadi at five? We have more holes than a bowling ball.
 
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I don't know about you but I didn't even know Kris Bryant was good at baseball until they told me he has the highest launch angle in the whole league. What important info. Thank you math majors for ruining baseball.
 
Duck_walk said:
I don't know about you but I didn't even know Kris Bryant was good at baseball until they told me he has the highest launch angle in the whole league. What important info. Thank you math majors for ruining baseball.
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LOL Martinez should have struck out what a dummy. He could have used a little launch angle
 
That was really not that close. PH was pretty obvious with the off day tomorrow

Good to see he delivered in the seventh but I'd rather have another run

If they want a slow IF with power to hit fourth why not use the one who hit 30 HR last year instead of the one who looked pretty done?
 
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Neutron Monster said:
That was really not that close. PH was pretty obvious with the off day tomorrow

Good to see he delivered in the seventh but I'd rather have another run

If they want a slow IF with power to hit fourth why not use the one who hit 30 HR last year instead of the one who looked pretty done?
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I knew I liked this board more than the crap board
 
my logic is your top of the lineup is your three best obp guys. I'm picking my fourth hitter based on slugging. Gyorko has more power than Johnny.
 
This is when I go back and point out why you had to pinch hit for Martinez.

Also I dunno why we signed a lefty to a 30 M dollar contract if we aren't using him to get to Oh. Why do you need to get to the closer already? Could have used Cecil for Baez and Schwarber. Or at least Schwarber
 
Oh coming in isn't a terrible choice once you let Carlos pitch to Baez. Let's be clear. It just seemed odd to not put Cecil in there for two guys.
 
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Oh coming in isn't a terrible choice once you let Carlos pitch to Baez. Let's be clear. It just seemed odd to not put Cecil in there for two guys.
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Spent a lot of money on that guy to get lefties out. Poor OH his arm will falloff by July at this rate
 
So much for Matt carpenter being soooo much better than Adams at first. Awful.
 
Twice tonight piscotty took called third strikes with two men on. No aggressiveness whatsoever.
 
First game of the year and all the arm chair managers are crying already
 
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yep gotta play Wong not Honny Jed needs to be our 3rd bagger. Good night boys
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I don't mind benching Wong against a lefty and with your best strikeout pitcher on the mound. It felt like the best scenario to play Honny and Gyorko.

Infield defense matters more when leake is pitching. He needs to play those games.
 
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First game of the year and all the arm chair managers are crying already
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Problem is, those guys are more qualified to manage during the game than MM. Beat my head against a wall when they kept referencing that Oh could go two innings because of the off day today. Seriously??? It's the FIRST FREAKING GAME OF THE YEAR. And your nitwit manager doesn't trust ANYONE in the pen to bridge the 8th to Oh. First. Freaking. Game. With a roster of 12 pitchers, six of which are relievers that didn't pitch in the game. One could assume there were options...Thank goodness "Jake" Grichuk bailed them out.
 
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At least someone convinced matheny to play Randal.

(Whispers) that Wong walk was pretty huge too.
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This. JHoney whiffs at changeups down and away. Still. Shocker. And Jake still hits fastball REALLY hard. Another shocker. Sarcasm aside, Wong actually worked an AB. That was impressive.
 
Yes yes we win and MM did everything he could to keep us from winning. We get it!
 
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So much for Matt carpenter being soooo much better than Adams at first. Awful.
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In what universe was the easy hopper hit to Carp a base hit? :eek: He bobbled a perfect hop to scrub the out at 2nd then lobbed the ball like slow pitch to Wong covering 1st.Had the tossed straight and hard they would have least the got the out at 1st and the tying run would not have been at the plate.
 
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