MLB 2025 Season

HesCalledDyer said:

Well I'm glad my Cubs picked up a 60 year old washed-up Cole Hamels and yet another mediocre reliever in Brandon Kinztler.  Meanwhile every other contender in the NL went and got All-Stars.  And Jacob deGrom is still in a Mets uniform.  Good job, Jed.

With Yu Darvish being a complete $180million headcase (who didn't see that disaster coming?!), Byrant & Rizzo not doing jack shit all season, Brandon Morrow not being able to stay off the DL (who didn't see that coming?!), and Maddon's completely baffling, almost-daily preference for Ian "0-5 w/ 4K" Happ over Albert Almora Jr... this team may as well book their vacations in October because the playoffs aren't happening.  If they do, it will be an early exit.

They fall behind EVERY game and fall behind EVERY series and have to play catch up.  60% of their wins are of the "come-from-behind" fashion.  And while that's great they've been able to pull it off up 'til now, you can't expect to do it that consistently against playoff caliber teams. Law of averages is bound to set in at some point and we're starting to see that now.  You can't give up runs in the first inning every game, never have your bats come alive until the 6th or 7th, lose game 1 of every series, and expect to accomplish much.

It seems like many of these guys' heads blew up after winning it all and just don't feel the need to perform at the levels they're well capable of.  If anyone, I would've thought Baez would be the biggest culprit of inflated ego, but it turns out he is one of the few that have elevated their level of play to MVP status (I'm talking team MVP, not league, although he certainly could be in that discussion).  He, Almora, Heyward (!!), & Lester are the only ones who seem to go out there and perform at their absolute best every day.  When a 37 y/o Ben Zobrist who doesn't even play daily is your 4th best offensive output player of the season, you've got problems that need to be addressed with urgency.

How about that performance by Jake Arrieta last night?!  Fuck you, Scott Boras!  That man would still be in a Cubs uniform if not for his greedy, arrogant ass!

HesCalledDyer said:

Cliffy6745 said:

Scott Boras' job is to literally be greedy and get his players as much money as possible

His job is to satisfy the desires of his clients. There was a mutual desire between the Cubs and Jake to work out a deal.  Boras failed to do that, all because of his ego full of greed and arrogance got in the way.  Boras had ZERO interest in getting Jake to stay in a Cubs uniform.  Fuck him.

HesCalledDyer said:

Cliffy6745 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Cliffy6745 said:

Scott Boras' job is to literally be greedy and get his players as much money as possible

His job is to satisfy the desires of his clients. There was a mutual desire between the Cubs and Jake to work out a deal.  Boras failed to do that, all because of his ego full of greed and arrogance got in the way.  Boras had ZERO interest in getting Jake to stay in a Cubs uniform.  Fuck him.

I don’t think boras gives half a shit what team his players play for so long as they get what they want. Jake didn’t stay in chicago because the cubs didn’t give him what he wanted.

Not how it went down at all.

HesCalledDyer said:

Well he got fewer years and less money in Philly, so there's that.  That's all I'm gonna say on it.  No need to incessantly argue about it because we have the great Yu Garbage now.

Wobbie said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Well he got fewer years and less money in Philly, so there's that.  That's all I'm gonna say on it.  No need to incessantly argue about it because we have the great Yu Garbage now.

As a Giants fan, I hate long term deals for pitchers...Zito, Cain, Cueto, Samardzija...they've all turned out bad. hell, I'm on the fence about giving Bum a long deal.

pjhawks said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Well I'm glad my Cubs picked up a 60 year old washed-up Cole Hamels and yet another mediocre reliever in Brandon Kinztler.  Meanwhile every other contender in the NL went and got All-Stars.  And Jacob deGrom is still in a Mets uniform.  Good job, Jed.

With Yu Darvish being a complete $180million headcase (who didn't see that disaster coming?!), Byrant & Rizzo not doing jack shit all season, Brandon Morrow not being able to stay off the DL (who didn't see that coming?!), and Maddon's completely baffling, almost-daily preference for Ian "0-5 w/ 4K" Happ over Albert Almora Jr... this team may as well book their vacations in October because the playoffs aren't happening.  If they do, it will be an early exit.

They fall behind EVERY game and fall behind EVERY series and have to play catch up.  60% of their wins are of the "come-from-behind" fashion.  And while that's great they've been able to pull it off up 'til now, you can't expect to do it that consistently against playoff caliber teams. Law of averages is bound to set in at some point and we're starting to see that now.  You can't give up runs in the first inning every game, never have your bats come alive until the 6th or 7th, lose game 1 of every series, and expect to accomplish much.

It seems like many of these guys' heads blew up after winning it all and just don't feel the need to perform at the levels they're well capable of.  If anyone, I would've thought Baez would be the biggest culprit of inflated ego, but it turns out he is one of the few that have elevated their level of play to MVP status (I'm talking team MVP, not league, although he certainly could be in that discussion).  He, Almora, Heyward (!!), & Lester are the only ones who seem to go out there and perform at their absolute best every day.  When a 37 y/o Ben Zobrist who doesn't even play daily is your 4th best offensive output player of the season, you've got problems that need to be addressed with urgency.

How about that performance by Jake Arrieta last night?!  Fuck you, Scott Boras!  That man would still be in a Cubs uniform if not for his greedy, arrogant ass!

uhh emm ... didn't looked washed up last night

Len & JD were talking during the game about how he historically does well when Joe Maddon is in the ballpark.  World Series MVP against the Rays, no-hitter at Wrigley against the Cubs.  Maybe it's just one of those things.

igotid88 said:

Scioscia stepping down as manager after this season

tempo_n_groove said:

I want to talk about throwing at batters.

So, my take is that batters do not fear about getting hit anymore.  They dig in every time before every pitch.  

If a batter gets brushed back then the ump gives the pitcher a warning and then the batter owns the box pretty much.

Brushing back the batter and hitting the batter are part of the game but when you have an idiot that throws at someones head then it ruins it.

I say hit em in the back or the thigh.