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ReasonablySober wrote:Watch Preller give up Ethan Salas (only half-joking, who knows with that idiot).
Bucks4005 wrote:Padres all in it seems. Didn’t realize they were only 3 games back from the Dodgers though, them dropping 6 against us kinda screwed them. Maybe they think they can take advantage of the Dodgers pitching injury woes and steal a bye with the Mets and the Phillies and us and the Cubs ready to duke it out.
coolhandluke121 wrote:Bucks4005 wrote:Padres all in it seems. Didn’t realize they were only 3 games back from the Dodgers though, them dropping 6 against us kinda screwed them. Maybe they think they can take advantage of the Dodgers pitching injury woes and steal a bye with the Mets and the Phillies and us and the Cubs ready to duke it out.
They always do stuff like this, and it always backfires hilariously. They're more likely to miss the playoffs completely than they are to get a top-2 seed, although the most likely outcome is a wild card berth of course.
I'm almost starting to think that a short-sighted team-building strategy affects player motivation somehow. Maybe the laziness/incompetence of the front office just sort of trickles down throughout the organization somehow.
ETA: Maybe players start to see front offices like that as gullible suckers who they don't have to play hard for, so they mail it in. Or maybe they just don't respect those organizations, even though they're happy to take their money.
Bucks4005 wrote:coolhandluke121 wrote:Bucks4005 wrote:Padres all in it seems. Didn’t realize they were only 3 games back from the Dodgers though, them dropping 6 against us kinda screwed them. Maybe they think they can take advantage of the Dodgers pitching injury woes and steal a bye with the Mets and the Phillies and us and the Cubs ready to duke it out.
They always do stuff like this, and it always backfires hilariously. They're more likely to miss the playoffs completely than they are to get a top-2 seed, although the most likely outcome is a wild card berth of course.
I'm almost starting to think that a short-sighted team-building strategy affects player motivation somehow. Maybe the laziness/incompetence of the front office just sort of trickles down throughout the organization somehow.
ETA: Maybe players start to see front offices like that as gullible suckers who they don't have to play hard for, so they mail it in. Or maybe they just don't respect those organizations, even though they're happy to take their money.
Does it? They’ve made the playoffs twice in the last 4 years in a division that basically has a team that just kinda screws all of baseball with their payroll and made an NLCS one of those years. I mean, you kinda have to make aggressive moves because otherwise, you’re basically ceding the division to the Dodgers every year. I mean, before they adopted this aggressive mentality, they hadn’t made the playoffs since 2006, so them changing it up hardly seems like it “backfired” in comparison.
In a sense, since the Padres have won playoff series, you could argue they’re more successful than us the least 5 years. I mean, I’m pretty sure they suck’s for a while, it’s kinda weird to say it backfires every time when they’re basically a contender for the playoffs every year. I mean, yes, we do it more cheaply fir similar results, but hard to say their results backfired and ours fir example succeed just looking at results.
MVP2110 wrote:Caballero also let a ball go through his legs lmao
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