JoeC

Part of me wishes to say "well no s%*#, sherlock." But I completely empathize with you.

For how long?

You must be at least my age (40) if you consider Brian Anderson to be “recent.” …but yes - this team sucks at player development

You forgot the quotes around “baseball.”

If your goal is to win, sure.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

For some reason I thought we had lost 17 in a row in May / June.

Source?

Reminds me of the old joke… “you drop an accordion, a recorder, and an alto sax out of a 20th story window. Which one lands first?” ”Who cares?”

…and then you just have to develop them.

Even if you removed our two longest losing streaks of the season (17 and 14), our record of 27-50 (.351) would still be the worst in the MLB as of today (next worst - Colorado at 38-69 for a .355 winning percentage)

To some, that is the same thing.

“He’s too hurt to play and may have suffered long term damage, but he’s feeling good.” Did I get that right?

Or did he make some sort of transaction on the team that reset his cost basis to be super high a couple of years ago? So now he can tank the club’s value and capture a massive loss when he sells?

There's science to back up what you say:

I really wish I could make some JR joke there, but it would be at the expense of the elderly.

Does “not getting ejected” count?

Fun fact: the studio wanted to cut that scene from the movie. It's all in Ron Shelton's book The Church of Baseball: the Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit. Would highly recommend.

G.E.T.Z. system.... What does it stand for?

Like, Doc Ellis style?

…have you met Nick Senzel? I think we may see more 2-year reclamation projects like him in some cases.

See? If JR would have hired from outside the org, we would have had to wait until next year for this fun.

Numbers don't lie.

He seems like a good candidate to go to Japan or some place to rebuild his value