OT: Pirates Talk: Lets Play Ball

[WickedWrister]

absolutely atrocious call on Davis. going to robo ump can eliminate this but alas. always have that lingering feeling that the bucs never get those calls because we are small market.

Per ump scorecards, we are the 8th least favored team in baseball, being favored about 42% of the time.

Least favored:

Most favored:

 

[ChaosAgent]

Omg fire Rabelo TONIGHT.

Thankfully Cruz ignored him. This is a basic judgment that a 3rd base coach needs to have. Extrapolate speed quickly.

 

[WickedWrister]

 

[Factorial]

Cruz again seen eating Uncrustables on the bench between innings.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Probably too little, too late, but nice to see some good baseball on the west coast. Seems like basically any of the non-Rockies NL West teams are usually a house of horrors for us, so hopefully we can at least keep the ball rolling.

I wonder how long we are going to push it with Chandler... it's pretty obvious manipulation at this point, but the Pirates have some cover in the sense that Burrows and Ashcraft have pitched well enough to warrant looks. I think there's legitimately an aspect of it where you don't want to just yank Burrows around entirely, so that probably buys another couple of starts. The NL ROY field is extremely wide open, so I think they are going to be extremely cautious.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Hell yeah

 

[Factorial]

Probably too little, too late, but nice to see some good baseball on the west coast. Seems like basically any of the non-Rockies NL West teams are usually a house of horrors for us, so hopefully we can at least keep the ball rolling.

I wonder how long we are going to push it with Chandler... it's pretty obvious manipulation at this point, but the Pirates have some cover in the sense that Burrows and Ashcraft have pitched well enough to warrant looks. I think there's legitimately an aspect of it where you don't want to just yank Burrows around entirely, so that probably buys another couple of starts. The NL ROY field is extremely wide open, so I think they are going to be extremely cautious.

Bubba will be freed this month.

 

[Booker T]

Absolutely amazing collapse lol

 

[metalan2]

Ferguson blindly tries to knock a sure out down and costs them another run.

 

[metalan2]

Absolutely amazing collapse lol

How is it amazing?

 

[ImporterExporter]

The BP alone has cost this team 8-10 wins without even looking back at the results.

 

[Booker T]

How is it amazing?

Amazingly bad.

 

[metalan2]

Amazingly bad.

It is. But it's always amazingly bad.

 

[Booker T]

Wild that 60 games into the season, the Pirates have already lost 18 games that they were leading in. That’s almost a 1/3 of games. Just insanely bad.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Amazingly bad.

Wild that 60 games into the season, the Pirates have already lost 18 games that they were leading in. That’s almost a 1/3 of games. Just insanely bad.

Welcome to the show, guy

Bullpen and unable to hit=not gonna hold on for 2-1 wins often

Ain't nothing new

 

[Factorial]

Welcome to the show, guy

Bullpen and unable to hit=not gonna hold on for 2-1 wins often

Ain't nothing new

The bullpen has been much better this year but still has issues.

 

[ImporterExporter]

The Rockies are 9-50.

 

[Pens1566]

I would say, usually the truth is somewhere in the middle, except, I'm certain the truth is not on DK's side

I wouldn't believe DK on anything except maybe what the password is for the local Sewickley "Eyes Wide Shut" party.

 

[BusinessGoose]

The Rockies are 9-50.

It is insane. Not even ten wins yet. They need to get to 21 to avoid being the worst 162 game era team.

They might not make it

 

[cookthebooks]

really starting to think that based on what we have seen from skenes in terms of utter commitment to craft that the sooner chandler gets called up and seated in the clubhouse next to skenes the better for him developing a plus complementary breaking pitch

 

[BusinessGoose]

really starting to think that based on what we have seen from skenes in terms of utter commitment to craft that the sooner chandler gets called up and seated in the clubhouse next to skenes the better for him developing a plus complementary breaking pitch

Imagine getting a 30HR guy and two more who can hit over .225

Would legit fight in NL Central, at least...