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  1. I'm still pissed about the suspension disparity. 

    I think it's asinine to make an example of a coach talking shit over the player who acts on it to the tune of charging at a team's dugout and said coach. I understand the argument that a coach should set examples and lead accordingly, but Ramon Laureano isn't a child either. These are both grown ass men in a competitive sport. He knows (or should know) right from wrong the same as Cintron, but in no way is Cintron's offense four times worse than Laureano. That's just idiotic. 

    If Laureano simply shut the fuck up and stood on first base and stopped gesturing at Castellanos, nothing said or done by Cintron ever gets noticed and the story ends there. Would Cintron have received any punishment from MLB for what he said and did? Not a chance. But because Laureano is a hothead who thinks talk (allegedly) about mothers is a greenlight for throwing hands, now all of a sudden Cintron's words are worth a 20 game suspension? 

    Fuck MLB and fuck Rob Manfred.

     

  2. 20 minutes ago, Scraps said:

    His downfall was when he made the "come get some" hand motion. If he just chirped and Laureano charged it would've been like a 3 game suspension....if that.

    This is true but the scope of Laureano's response isn't given accurate perspective imo. I watched the whole thing again on MLBTV from the A's telecast and you can see the distance he has to cover to get to the duguout and his raised fist when he gets there. He should have been suspended ten games at least. 

  3. 15 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

    Have you guys seen our offense?
    having Cintron away from the team for 3 weeks can only help 

    yeah I don't give af about Cintron but I care about the disproportionate punishment meted out by MLB to satisfy dumbass fans like the ones on r/baseball who won't shut the fuck up about "cheating" every player knows was routinely happening across MLB in 2017 and 2018.

  4. 24 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    Trying to be a neutral observer here:

    20 games for yelling from the dugout

    8 games for throwing at, but not hitting, a batter

    6 games for charging a dugout

    The MLB says it wants to deter physical confrontation, and the first two suspensions coincide with that.  They seem like they are trying to send a message, and I get it.  But the Laureano one is completely disproportionate and seems like an admission that the league was scared of receiving similar backlash to the Kelly suspension.  

     

    no way

  5. Man James sucked as hard as LMJ was awesome last night.

    If he doesn't soon improve his ability to consistently throw strikes that aren't right down the middle of the zone, you have to wonder how much leash he has left on the active roster. He's arguably the worst pitcher on the staff currently. He isn't pitching any better than Sneed or Rodriguez but he throws hard so there's that.

    This bullpen is a disaster right now.

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  6. I love watching guys like Javier, Urquidy, Paredes, and Valdez surprise everyone.  Javier was awesome last year in CC and Fayetteville and his stuff rocketed him up the minors in short time but the rest of them have kind of come out of nowhere. I follow milb boxscores for Astros prospects and get suckered into the Whitleys and Tuckers, but it's exciting to see the less-hyped players make the most of their opportunities and shoot their shot at the bigs.

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  7. 14 games played. This team is 3 games worse than the 2017 and 2019 teams with an entirely rookie bullpen, no Verlander, no Cole, no closer, no Alvarez, no Urquidy etc and their record in extra innings is 1-3. There's reason for gnashing of teeth given the impotent offense lately, but there are some surprising bright spots as well. The biggest blow to morale isn't their play as much as the injuries to Verlander and Osuna. 

  8. I agree that intentionally walking Grossman with two outs instead of pitching to him carefully at least was curious. I think Dusty probably wanted our AAAA reliever to pitch to their AAAA catcher instead of a ML hitter who has proven adept at reaching base. I also think Dusty was all-in on that inning and wanted to maximize the chances of it ending one way or another. Either Sneed was gonna get that out or he was gonna blow the game.


    Sigh.

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  9. This "season" reminds me of 2000. We lost our best starter (Hampton) in the offseason, Wagner was awful and then shut down for the year in the first couple of weeks, pitching staff was awful (particularly the pen), Biggio missed half the year, team lost 90 games despite a good offense. (Not that the 2020 offense has been particularly good yet, but they will probably be fine.)
    It was a bad season sandwiched between division titles and playoff appearances. 
    Epitome of 2000 was Jose Lima. He was an All Star in '99 and probably had his career year that season, followed by supreme suck in the inaugural season at MMPUS.

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