2019 MLB Season Thread [ARCHIVED] Baseball • Page 1030

A's have shut the Red Sox out for 22 straight innings, wtf is baseball even

 

That road trip has to be brutal, but that's another level.

 

I'm an A's fan now

 

best jersey in baseball

 

wtf happened today in texas

 

I'm getting pretty sick of this ump show bullshit, seems like we have a couple cases of it a day now

 

Chapman is so good, he even gets to errant throws from the 2nd baseman.

 

I love players diving into 1B and slowing themselves down lol

 

Ugh. What a power thirsty asshole.

 

we are the same

i stan

 

the game's been over for 2 hours yet the twitter trends continue to be fraught with ppl expressing their ire

 

Theo is receiving a heavy dose, eh?

 

Kolten Wong currently has a higher OPS than Christian Yelich

 

Yeah, there's something to be said about the current roster construction and moves made over the years. He's forever a legend for bringing a WS, of course, and he's been handcuffed by the ownership insofar as new spending goes, but he and the front office bear the blame for the moves that got us into this place where the bullpen is so bad and minor league pitching depth seems barren. There's some names, like Adbert Alzolay, but for the most part there's not a lot happening with minor league pitcher development. And that made sense during the rebuild when they were aggressive on great college hitters like Kris Bryant, Kyle Schwarber, but the rebuild has been over for years now and there's been no real movement with developing pitchers.

And there's some questions about the front office misreading the trade values of players like Ian Happ. It's all in hindsight, of course, but there's definitely some relatively justifiable fodder for those who are disenchanted or at least presently displeased with Theo.

For the most part, I blame the ownership for not opening the pursestrings and being aggressive during this era of contention which is also the best era of Cubs baseball ever

 

Shh! Not to loud. Drew might hear you.

 

I feel like if the owners let Theo run loose, the Cubs would be perform a whole lot better, IMO. He has the track record for it, at least.

 

I, for one, hope the Cubs ownership continues to stymie Theo and he gets frustrated and takes his talents back to the AL

 

this has nothing to do with that but sometimes I think twitter hashtags are broken

for a week I had one for the emmys and I was convinced it couldn't still be that popular in my area

 

You'd think, right? Let the smart front office people do smart front office things with a bit of the megamillions made off the world series win

But the Ricketts just want to keep it all

 

i'd be much angrier if the cubs hadn't won and i was still the ultra fanboy that i was. now it's just exhausting but luckily there's so much other baseball to watch. and i can still appreciate kris bryant and javy before the bullpen ruins it all

 

but you live in Cali, no?

 

It's like they planned out how years 2017-2021 were gonna go in November 2016 based on how the NLC looked then and didn't readjust when the Brewers became world-dominant, the Reds said "nah we ain't tanking" this offseason, and we (hopefully) added the 2-3 wins we've needed to make the playoffs the last three years just by adding Goldy

 

with no lockout, you can be sure to have those guys for a long time while ripping them off