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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Long John Silver's
« on: December 21, 2014, 03:46:31 AM »
LJS was my first job ~17 years ago in Newton. This is bringing back a lot of memories.
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I'll be honest, I think Ned does plenty of dumbfuck things but I haven't been irate with him like everyone else.
I think that I wouldn't normally be this frustrated but this is supposedly "the year". Now, I know that's been thrown around a lot the past 20 years but this seems like "it" more than any I can remember. We don't have hoards of talent (but enough), which means if we want to make this playoff thing happen, we have to be nails in the "little things" department.
A manager's job is to put his team in the best position to win at any given time. From what I've seen in these first two game, he hasn't. Even Detroit's announcers were question his decisions today. If he pinch hits, let's say, Maxwell for Esky, and Maxwell grounds out, I'm okay with that. At least we played the odds and gave it a shot. But Ned's too concerned about some kind of psyche in Esky's head. If we want to win, we can't be making these boneheaded decisions.
good post, and quicker than me. shootah.
Who plays short if Escobar isn't in? Thought we'd already used the utility guy to run for Infante?
Ciriaco could've been substituted for Escobar in the 8th. He ended up pinch running for Infante in the 9th. Just seemed odd to take your only player who had done anything offensively (Salvy) out for a PR, but then do nothing when the worst hitter in the majors last year comes up against the best pitcher in the majors. I guess it would've messed up Escobar's head too much.
I definitely am not a fan of Salvy ever being out of a game, with a few obvious exceptions. Yost does appear to be stuck in a perpetual rebuild mode. That's all well and good for a season or two, but eventually you do have to start treating them as ballplayers and not worry about their egos. I hate to say it because I love Escobar but, if his psyche is really that fragile, he probably isn't the long term solution at short I had previously thought he was.
I'll be honest, I think Ned does plenty of dumbfuck things but I haven't been irate with him like everyone else.
I think that I wouldn't normally be this frustrated but this is supposedly "the year". Now, I know that's been thrown around a lot the past 20 years but this seems like "it" more than any I can remember. We don't have hoards of talent (but enough), which means if we want to make this playoff thing happen, we have to be nails in the "little things" department.
A manager's job is to put his team in the best position to win at any given time. From what I've seen in these first two game, he hasn't. Even Detroit's announcers were question his decisions today. If he pinch hits, let's say, Maxwell for Esky, and Maxwell grounds out, I'm okay with that. At least we played the odds and gave it a shot. But Ned's too concerned about some kind of psyche in Esky's head. If we want to win, we can't be making these boneheaded decisions.
good post, and quicker than me. shootah.
Who plays short if Escobar isn't in? Thought we'd already used the utility guy to run for Infante?
I'll be honest, I think Ned does plenty of dumbfuck things but I haven't been irate with him like everyone else.
I enjoyed this twitter exchangeQuoteDeepFriedButtleavins ?@fugularity 24m
@jazayerli why did they use Tim Collins and not Greg Holland anyways?QuoteExpand
Rany Jazayerli ?@jazayerli 11m
Holland was tired from facing one batter on Monday. RT @fugularity Why did they use Tim Collins and not Greg Holland anyways?QuoteExpand
robneyer ?@robneyer 10m
@jazayerli @fugularity also there's a decent chance that tomorrow's game will include save situation
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QuoteRany Jazayerli ?@jazayerli 8m
@robneyer @fugularity Though it's less than the chance that today's game will feature a tie score in extra innings.
I was at that game too, Boom. Good to see gE representing. Donald looked impressive. I'm interested to see what his future looks like here. Trout stroked that one off of Chen to dead center. I'm not sure if the kids on the lawn ended up finding it. Moose at second was... interesting. I sat next to a die hard Nebraska fan who kept going on and on about how they were going to take it to Baylor. Had a good lol.
I went to the split squad game yesterday against the Angels as well. I had heard decent things about Aaron Brooks. He looked good in the first but got roughed up in the second. Granted, it was against the Angels starters. Butler was simply horrendous at first. Booted one that ended up in right field and fumbled one that should have been a fairly routine double play. Thankfully we won't see much, if any, of him over there. Gordon continues to be sexy in every way. Had some good strokes at the plate and a nice little snag in left.
Overall, excited for this season. We have a chance to make a run. Whether we actually do it or not remains to be seen.
I feel like Valencia can play first if needed. I guess we could elect to start Butler at first in NL stadiums but I feel like Hos is past that point...
I think Hos is definitely past that point.
My thoughts on the Kansas "big 3" BBall schools and how they have prepared their teams for the tourney. My analogy will relate to something all guys (and some girls) did during their youthful years... video games.
When you were went out and bought a new video game, you wanted to get good at the video game before playing against real people... So you started on computer level easy. Then when you started beating the game consistently, you moved up to moderate. It took you a while to master the level, but you got it. After that you really wanted to make your claim to the game so you cranked up the level to difficult. It took a long time to perfect this level, but by the time you were beating the game on a consistent basis (losing occasionally) you were a bad ass and could beat 99.9% of your friends except the ones that did the same as you. Once you started playing against these friends that were as good as, you won and lost all the time, but became very very good at the video game.
I love WSU and KU dearly... In my fantasy world they both meet in the championship game... that being said, I fear that WSU never got the chance to move their competition past the moderate/difficult this year (not entirely their fault)... this will make it very difficult to make a large jump to very good competition.
KU dropped some games. All but one up to this point in difficult environments. But they played the game on at least difficult or better all season.
So without bias, which team's season would you rather have before entering the tourney against the most difficult of teams?
Congrats to KSU... you already won your championship. #stormthecourtandmaketshirts
in the wake of Marcus "not so" Smart pushing a fan because he called him a piece of crop. is this any different by a whole crowd then what a single fan says? let's class it KSU. I would be proud of my school if they cheered that, and it's also on national TV too.
Way to keep it classy KSU, it's like they won the national championship or something. Smh.
All for congratulating the players, but storming the court? Congrats for apparently winning a title.
i would never, ever, go to phoenix to watch the royals in spring training
I'm going this year. Lots of golfing and watching the boys in blue. Whats not to like?
anyone ever date a vegetarian? how'd it go?
I've wondered for a long time if this works.
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Kersaw's new deal means we are mumped for Shields negotiations.
Hell and no on Morales. Older, lower projected WAR and more expensive.
He killed Billy's WAR this year?