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You heard it here first: Kiké Hernandez is so back 🤩

Also I know it’s the Oakland A’s but uhhhhhhh, Lynn through 5 innings, 2 h’s, 0 runs, 5 so’s, 1 bb. Feels good

yankees are cooked. directionless, unserious franchise.
Smells like . . . victory.

Even better that the same can be said of the Mets.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, August 1, 2023 7:09 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

great time to be a fan of another team that listens to WFAN for daily humor.

The Mets lose on a balk-off from a pitcher who hadn’t even thrown his first pitch yet the day after their fire sale. Talk about committing to the tank

Guys you literally do not have to analyse the Giants not wanting Pham on their team, the policy is probably called assault and dv or something & Baggarly paraphrased.

Xps to HP: good luck with that prize u speak of
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Also I know it’s the Oakland A’s but uhhhhhhh, Lynn through 5 innings, 2 h’s, 0 runs, 5 so’s, 1 bb. Feels good

Really feel for Alcantara seeing this, good Lord
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Real anatomy of a disaster stuff
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Conveniently cut off august where he already has a whole 1 (ONE) more rbi than his last month. Stats nerds will never get the joy of Kiké. And Lynn went pretty good, till the next inning, good place to start from for his dodgers stint

Don’t have to talk about anything tbh, weird to bring up what we have to/don’t have to talk about on an online message board 🤷🏼‍♂️

Yeah I mean I only watched Kiké kill rally after rally with his constant grounding out to short and sulking after getting benched despite Cora giving him a million chances over guys who were actually hitting - but sure. Stats nerd.

I’m not sure Lynn giving up 3 ER to the 2023 Oakland A’s is what they were looking for with that trade but I guess a body is a body. The point is you don’t have to pretend bad players are good just because they’re on your team.

Oh, the semi-sardonic tone didn’t come across….

Yet again, no one has to do anything, yet we do. Let me know if I’m wrong about that though and I can check all my thoughts and posts in with you first

>>The point is you don’t have to pretend bad players are good just because they’re on your team.

New board description

Btw I had a look at the AB to see how dramatically Kiké has improved and noticed that the guy Kiké hit that double off is the South African reliever the Sox called up to eat some innings in early July. He came into a blowout against the Cubs and melted down so badly that they had to warm up Kenley (🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻) to get the last few outs and save the game. He finished it in literally three pitches. I don’t think they even waited five minutes after the end of the game to DFA him. Anyway nice that he’s still in the big leagues!

Oh, the semi-sardonic tone didn’t come across….

Yet again, no one has to do anything, yet we do. Let me know if I’m wrong about that though and I can check all my thoughts and posts in with you first

I have opinions on that, as well as a number of other things. Just send me an email about what it is I have to/and what it is we’ll agree to not so we can get things all in order. Thanks! ☺️

Thanks for checking out that Kiké pitcher as well! But we don’t have to go that deep into analysis over a jokey comment.

xp I’d rather not, I’m sure your wife doesn’t need to be bothered any more with this stuff

No, though i and the rest of the board would love to hear you post about us getting divorced. Thanks! ☺️

And no honestly not trying to analyse that any more than, huh, Tayler Scott?! I was just genuinely shocked someone picked him up. I think Tracer Hand & I were actually texting the 🫣🫣🫣 emoji back and forth when he loaded the bases in the bottom ninth of an 8-3 game. The point is, I would have said he was too bad even for the A’s.

Weren’t you told off recently about being the unofficial board cop and the intimidating bully? Nice return you’ve made here gyac, a real changed woman!

That’s cool 🤙🏼

My man, it’s absolutely ok to make fun of the idea Kiké & Lynn being good players. Some people would call that banter.

Okay, I don’t want to banter with you because you’re a cop and a bully. Thanks! ☺️

Damn I forgot my “cue gyac reversing who initiated an aggressive argument as soon as she gets some push back” post! Must have got lost somewhere in the midst of this

I’d say it’s interesting how you took a comment that applied to jimbeaux and mookieproof exactly as much as you, two of my favourites on this whole board, and went off but you know. Draw your line, idc.

My bad I didn’t see jimbeaux and mookieproof post about lance lynn and i think I remember you directly xp’ing me? But I dunno you’re the one that’s better at screencapping literally everything that happens on this website to prove that we are all wrong about you being an aggressive bully. Reckon you might be able to scroll up and screen cap for me where I got this wrong?

You were complaining that I said that “we don’t have to talk about” the Giants dv thing re Tommy Pham, did you not? Both those guys were talking about that. I was only separately xping you about Kiké that’s why that came after that part of my post.

Oh sorry I didn’t realise we were talking about 1/3rd of my posts, my apologies.

Here’s something that might come across in a way you will understand: you do not have to keep trying to explain yourself 🫣

I kind of do if you were pretending you got upset because I think Lance Lynn is bad.

Okay gyac 😃

I did not realise why I got upset, thanks for clarifying

great time to be a fan of another team that listens to WFAN for daily humor.

Who, me? I live in Atlanta, and if I have ever listened to WFAN it was while I was living in NYC in the early 90s, and then only by chance. I was mostly being a smartass, but seriously, the New York teams are so easy to hate. They (and especially the Yankees) are like the Duke of major league baseball.

Top of the 1st, White Sox about to batt around on *checks notes* Max Scherzer

That's a shame.

He’s recovered last two innings but that had to be the worst first inning I’ve seen from an SP in forever. He shut out a far better Dodgers lineup in 7 like two weeks ago!

smh ken

No winners after Eduardo Rodriguez’s blocked trade to the Dodgers. Column, with fresh details on why the deal fell apart and how the teams tried to put it back together: https://t.co/tg2ZnMoGvA

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) August 3, 2023

you weren't kidding gyac, Scherzer hung in for a QS and is in line for the win

Helps that the Rangers are a much better bet to pull back a load of runs than the Mets. If you’re going to melt down do it early. Hilarious if he ends up getting the W.

new team (uni/catcher/defenders/stadium) jitters

I'm just looking at the boxscore, wasn't following the game, but to me that's a good snapshot of why Scherzer's so great: there's dominant Scherzer (and Verlander, and Kershaw), but there's also the guy who has games where he doesn't have much, and he'll (and they'll) go out and still get you to the sixth inning with a chance to win. Not to get all Jack Morris about it...I wish the guy the best--wildly overpaid, of course, but one of the best reasons to watch baseball the past decade.

I like Scherzer too!

So this White Sox start was interesting - he gave up two hits right away to pitches well outside the zone and then seemed to come unmoored really quick after giving up an eight pitch walk. Meltdown ensued. However in his next few innings he made pretty quick work of the lineup after settling.

Scherzer is really interesting to watch as a character cos all pitchers are intense on the mound but he takes it to another level. I know everyone knows this but he is something else.

I actually watched his start against the Red Sox last week. He was fascinatingly erratic, getting good hitters like Devers and Turner out without much effort. When he decides to go hard after a hitter in the zone, it can be great to watch. He gave up three homers that game, two to Casas, and the second homer was kind of a classic Scherzer battle. He’d previously given up a walk and a hr to Casas in 2/2 and then on the third he started off throwing outside, came in to challenge, threw the exact same pitch in almost the exact same location twice and…I’m not sure what he expected to happen.
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But that’s what makes a great a great, he would probably consider it an insult to walk a guy. Tim Lincecum always pitched to Paul Goldschmidt even though Goldschmidt absolutely killed him at the plate. Pitching is a mental game above all, and Scherzer wouldn’t be Scherzer if he didn’t step on the mound and believe that he could get anyone out on the day.

QS & W, lol
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I saw Rangers fans floating the idea that he wouldn't come to Texas because of politics - obviously bullshit but Scherzer being a lib was a surprise. Dude has Resting Conservative Face.

I reckon he’s a “lib” in the same way most “liberal” MLB players are - ie still pretty right wing on economic issues, but yeah, by the low standards of professional baseball players? Probably doesn’t hurt that he pays a lot less tax there though.

If there's one thing I don't get it's why a guy making tens of millions a year would care about how much tax he pays.

the tax situation for pro athletes is mildly interesting, since they have to pay taxes in each city/state they play in (certainly still benefits for no-income tax home states for 81 games). The paperwork required to do 25 states of income tax!

The greatest baseball close-up shots all come from this AB with chase Utley in the 7th inning of a 14 strikeout game for Scherzer. The man is absolutely unhinged. Some of my favourite 2 minutes of baseball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Rjy2mBPaw

I’m not sure if that time stamped that properly or not, but if not the ab happens at 2:13:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXm2HJZB6hk