Category Archives: Weekly Discussion

General Discussion – Week of 7-30-14 – Thirty Thirty Thirty Four Hours To Go Edition

Weekly Discussion

Thirty thirty thirty-four hours to go // Let’s get some people traded.

Nothin to lose, so let them boys go // Let’s get some people traded.

Get Paps to the airport, put Byrd on a plane,

If you can’t move Bastardo, it would be a shame.

You can’t control the fact that you signed Ryan Howard to that enormous contract // how did you not see that one coming, dummy?

Oh oh oh oh oh ohhhhhhh…

Discuss. (note – upon further review, my math is bad – it was 32 hours when i came up with this idea, but I added 8 to 24 and got 34. Wow!)

General Discussion – Week of 7-28-2014 – This Trade Deadline’s Really Dragging On Edition

Weekly Discussion

Mets series and Trade Deadline this week. Seems like waiting on the trade deadline gets harder and harder the more we hear that Amaro may not be looking to move pieces as liberally as many of us would like. I start thinking it’s going to be like the boring year we had last year and I get a case of the sads. Why Rube? *sobs* Why won’t you move veterans for the good of the future? Eat the money, Rube! *wipes nose* Come on and make some trades already *takes pacifier, sits in corner, refreshing MLBTR*.

General Discussion – Weekend of 7-24-2014 – Fire Ryne/Trade Deadline Edition

Weekly Discussion

Here’s a fresh open thread for general discussion. And here’s my #HotTake for the day – Ryne Sandberg should be fired for allowing Burnett to throw that many pitches with a rain delay in the middle when the club is trying to trade him. Six innings of shut-out ball proved the point. Seven was ridiculous. Eight was borderline negligent. Phillippe Aumont was fresh in the bullpen to give you two innings, and the game was meaningless to the season.

In general, I don’t care for Sandberg’s managerial style. Last night with two men on he had Darin Ruf bunt so that Andres Blanco could take a crack at Madison Bumgarner. The guy’s barely allowing any baserunners all night, and you want to give him an out against one of your “better” bats so a guy who until two weeks ago hadn’t seen the big leagues since 2011 can take his chance? No. Bad. Also, there’s this, from Jim Salisbury this spring, partially quoting Sandberg’s book: Continue reading General Discussion – Weekend of 7-24-2014 – Fire Ryne/Trade Deadline Edition →

General Discussion – Week of 7-21-2014 – Ten Days To Deal Edition

Weekly Discussion

I’m going to guess some teams will make trades in the next ten days. Just a hunch.

Discuss.

General Discussion – Weekend of 7-18-2014 – Trade Talk Edition

Weekly Discussion

Since I know there’s a lot of trade talk going around and will be for a while, I will try to get a couple open threads per week through the end of the month so we can keep at least the features a little bit free of general discussion. I try not to be a jerk about this, but today I just want to be able to read everyone’s comments on the draft thread without the rest of the daily back and forth. Please bring that stuff here.

Discuss.

General Discussion – Week of 7-14-2014 – THIS TIME IT COUNTS Edition

Weekly Discussion

Very important for the Phillies that the NL wins the All-Star Game on Tuesday because otherwise they won’t have home field advantage in the World Series.

Gosh, I’m funny.

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General Discussion – Week of 7-7-2014 – You Be The GM Edition

Weekly Discussion

With the A’s/Cubs trade in the books, it’s just about “hug watch” time around the bigs. So let’s all talk about the trades we think could happen for the Phils. I will have a tweet opened to @BadMLB just in case any of you go off the rails, so watch out.

Discuss.

General Discussion – Week of 6-30-2014 – Nautical Edition

Weekly Discussion

On the road with the Marlins and Pirates this week.

Here’s a question: Do Pirates fish? I mean, they probably do, right? Plunder is one thing, but fishing means never having to steal food from someone, and instead focusing on all the treasure. Imagine being the pirate left behind when the gang leaves because you were in the kitchen looking for a snack. That’d be super embarrassing.

Also, I wonder if Barkhad Abdi likes baseball. Strikes me as a soccer fan, but maybe that’s just me stereotyping.

Discuss.

General Discussion – Week of 6-23-2014 – Sixth Starter Edition

Weekly Discussion

The Marlins comes to town tonight for four in a row at 7:05, and the Braves are in on Friday for a four-gamer that includes a day/night double header on Saturday (2:05pm and 7:15pm start times). Seems as though they have Brad Lincoln lined up to pitch that day if they want. I would assume that Lincoln not being the guy means it’s Sean O’Sullivan on an extra day of rest. Greg Smith is set to throw Wednesday, so he’d be way off turn if they held him out until Saturday.

There is no one on the full 40-man roster right now who would make sense as the starter, so anyone will need a roster spot. Who goes? Jon Pettibone to the 60-day DL seems easiest, as he has had or is about to have exploratory shoulder surgery, which would put him well off of a return.

Discuss.

General Discussion – Week of 6-16-2014 – I Dislike The Braves Edition

Weekly Discussion

Yeah, not a huge fan of The Braves. And I’m posting this on a Tuesday instead of a Thursday this week. Not too bad.

Also, my piece about the Lakewood position players went up this morning at Crashburn Alley. Give it a read, if you like.

Discuss.