FloydBannister1983

It’s two wild card teams. I don’t know that that has happened before. Not very encouraging. Why play 162 games? Cut it to 144 if the regular season doesn’t mean much.

That's ok. The Score and NBC forgot about 2005 after a few years.

I could easily root for the Rays or Astros. I always had the Astros as my favorite NL team and the Rays are close enough April and May.

These Chris Getz memes will continue to be hilarious. He just has a face you have to laugh at.

And like a week later Getz said he had to do a “deep dive” into the organization to discover what he had.

And that one had an ERA close to 5. (Though his FIP wasn’t too bad.)

He retained the buffoon Grifol. That’s a majorly screw up. He hasn’t had time to screw up much but that’s a start.

Well Fisk was an established perennial All Star and Joey Belle as well. The only, maybe, comparable signing in 40+ years was Adam Dunn who failed bigly.

Nah, they refuse to get good free agents. When they paid for the psychopath Belle he was very productive. Problem is they pay for a good free agent only once every 15 plus years. There was Fisk, then there was Belle, then …

I will never forget that game. Might be the most exciting World Series game I've ever seen.

If you just want the best teams why have the postseason at all? Sounds like the people who like the upsets early in the NCAA tournament and then complain the top teams aren't in the Final Four. You can't have the excitement of playoffs and then complain when the top teams lose in the playoffs.

Of course it would never happen but I wouldn't mind seeing 1 and 2 have to win 2 games while 7 and 8 have to win 3 to advance. 3-6 all have to win the same amount.

I am convinced a bye is not an advantage in baseball like it would be in football. You can’t be off for a week and pick up where you left off in baseball.

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You referenced Mariotti in a positive light. That’s funny.

This.

I think this is right if they let young guys play. Let young guys who care and give some effort and they will be improved over this year. If they actually try to compete I think they end up worse.

Yeah, At least the Hawks have Bedard to look forward to.

It was more than just don’t panic … it was more “You’re an idiot if you don’t think the rebuild was a success and you just don’t understand baseball. We are your baseball betters. And Hahn is our Theo.”

Grifol will be here for the rest of his contract. Next year will still be piling on Hahn.

They can still blame Hahn for a couple years. Also Getz said it’s going to take a while because he has to do a deep dive after they hired him because they didn’t want to spend time doing any deep dives.

They sealed their fate a while ago when they failed to have good off seasons in 2019 and 2020. I don’t think they could have a good off season. Not until Reinsdorf and Getz and the entire front office is gone. They may be in Nashville by then.

You have to be the most entertaining game thread poster on this site!

Yeah, I should have given Parkman more credit for this post, except for overrating the Sox pitchers.

Mighty Mite said they wouldn't get to 70 wins. Ergo the "Nailed it". By "nailed it" that means it was about bringing up people being right. Also by choosing pain you too win. Congrats.