http://www.sbnation.com/2017/5/8/155...plague-locusts
11-23 record, already 10 games out of first. Worst record in baseball.
http://www.sbnation.com/2017/5/8/155...plague-locusts
11-23 record, already 10 games out of first. Worst record in baseball.
Honorable mentions:
Blue Jays
Royals
Rangers
Giants down 1 in the 9th now up by 3. I wonder if they go on a hot streak after you made this post? What price did you sell Bitcoin at $250?
Originally Posted by simpdog
Giants, Royals, and the .500 Cubs won the last 3 WS.......
It's hilarious that we as a society think everyone can be a dr, a lawyer, an engineer. Some people are just fucking stupid. Why can't we just accept that?
I sold one BTC very low. The majority I sold were in the high $400s, at a time when no one (not even the very pro-BTC crowd) thought we would see prices like today. (These were coin I got from cashing out of Bovada, btw.)
Anyway, Giants do go on streaks. They have been a very streaky team for the entire 2010s. The 2014 World Series team ranged between unstoppably hot and horrendously bad. They actually had 3 losing months!
However, the second half 2016 Giants were the worst in baseball, and they are continuing that in 2017. They just suck, even though they do still have enough talent to put together some hot streaks and maybe approach .500.
But this will overall be a bad year for them.
10 games out in may, lol. Get real with your life, todgers.
10 games out without your best pitcher (and lol hitter) til...july?
meanwhile, the hottest team in baseball is the cardinals which means (i REALLY shouldn't say it, but) i may be spending plop dollars by the end of the season
Giants Padres Pirates and now Druff is feeling some swagger. Dodgers RPI is a joke.
Dodgers next few series against some iron. We'll find out who they are.
Let's update your thread in a couple of days.
Fangraphs had Dodgers starting pitching the best in baseball - I howled.
Giants won 4 out of 5 since you posted this. Playing Todgers next.
Jays 5 in a row too here. They must all read PFA
Giants are a streaky team. This win streak doesn't surprise me. But they still won't be good this year, and will finish below .500.
Dodgers don't have great starting pitching, but Rich Hill is coming back. If he can get over these blister issues, things might look better again. Also, Alex Wood has actually looked good so far, and so did McCarthy before his inevitable injury.
Ryu has nothing left. Time to give up on him.
Urias finally had a bad start, but it was in Colorado, so I can forgive that.
But the Dodgers don't need stellar pitching to win this year. They really do have a good offense. 4th in baseball in runs scored, despite playing half their games in a park where the ball dies at night.
I expect they will pick up a pitcher before the trade deadline.
Dodgers are winning the NL West again this year. That's happening. It's the playoffs where they need to break out.
Probably going to my first Dodgers game this year on Friday. Taking Benjamin.
It will be a reunion with Don Mattingly, AJ Ellis, and Dee Gordon.
Kirk Gibson will be 60 in 2 weeks.
Cosby was the #1 television show in 1988. He's 80
Funny Dodger trivia
Dodgers have retired 10 numbers.
6 World Series rings
Giants have retired only 9.
8 World Series rings
1) Win what? Another regular season ticket to the playoffs?
Playoff tournament is about pitching.
2) oops. I see your problem now. Deep pockets? Not so sure about that
How many of the current Dodgers pitchers were signed by the present nerd trust?The Dodgers are engaged in an ongoing process with Major League Baseball regarding the team’s compliance with the league’s debt-service rule, according to reports from Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times and ESPN.com’s Doug Padilla. The organization is said to be carrying hundreds of millions in debt as it nears the conclusion of a five-year waiver from those debt requirements, which went into effect when the current ownership group purchased the club.
I honestly don't know. But I have a hunch. I choose to delay gratification & lulz for later.
The current nerd trust has been mostly fail with the pitchers it has signed.
Mat Latos & Alex Wood were acquired in a trade (along with reliever Luis Avilan), but to be fair, the Dodgers gave up total shit. Latos was a huge fail, Wood has been highly inconsistent, but is off to a good start this year. He does have some upside.
Their free agents signings were Brandon McCarthy, Brett Anderson (now gone), Scott Kazmir, and Rich Hill. None of these have worked out all that well, though McCarthy was looking good before he went down with injury, and Hill is a guy who is good when he doesn't have blisters.
The best that can be said for the current front office is that they have been good about resisting trading away likely impact players for the future.
There were attempts by other teams to dangle the World Series carrot to the Dodgers in order to get guys like Urias, Seager, and Bellinger. All three of these players are already contributing big time and are the future of the organization.
Once the dead and semi-dead money falls off from the old regime (Ethier, Crawford, Gonzalez, Ryu), the team will have a lot more flexibility, and the gargantuan salary will come down to something a lot more reasonable.
Here's a bit of trivia for you:
Despite the team's $245m salary this year, the only guy on the active roster making more than $13m this year is Kershaw.
So the Dodgers are winning with most of its big salary players sitting on the bench and elsewhere.
If there's anything this front office needs to learn, it's to realize they're running a big market team, and signing $10m-$16m per year middling pitchers isn't very smart. Either sign the big arms or speculate with low-salary starters, but stay out of that ugly middle range.
Kenta Maeda was a much smarter signing, because it was almost all incentivized.
Funny Dodger trivia
Dodgers have retired 10 numbers.
6 World Series rings
Giants have retired only 9.
8 World Series rings
cards rings 11
12 coming soon:
Royals won 6 of 7. PFA reverse curse obvJays 5 in a row too here. They must all read PFA
It's hilarious that we as a society think everyone can be a dr, a lawyer, an engineer. Some people are just fucking stupid. Why can't we just accept that?
Dodgers raped by the Giants. If the Giants can sweep em, they are back in business.
Giants win again. 5 wins a row and they will beat Kershaw tomorrow by a score of 4-3.
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