Big Bad Brad: 5 bb in 4 IP. Season FIP 4.36 (4.21 for career)


Yeah looks encouraging. New pitching coach fixed Keller for sure. And best of allno BIBLE STUDY

Somebody got his feelings hurt.

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Depends on the FA, if someone is hitting FA that is young and you think will still be a player when you are expecting to contend then it makes sense.

Should the Padres not have signed Machado?

You don’t hassle the Hoz.

But he might be done. Age 33, 10-44 .227. Has two XBH (lulz) , both doubles. As a 1B DH. Starting to get benched and likely to get cut soon


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Babble study is more like it amirite????

I want the report on how these young guys are doing as fathers and brothers and sons and uncles and men of faith. That’s the only thing they can cheer me up after this dismal baseball. Knowing that these are some tremendous young men in the clubhouse.

You’re in the ballpark. But the official story from the BFIBS was: Matheny gives playing time to guys in his Bible Study. They had heard these stories and wanted to relay the vital info on to us.


And we were very fortunate these insiders blessed us so.

All I know is

Royals baseball = bad
Bible = bad

Time for the new manager to set up a Quran study and turn this shit around. Or maybe just a good ol fashioned book club where they read off Oprah’s book list??

Quran might work. The Shermanator hasn’t proven he can fix it, so why not?

If the owner would do the Shermanator line from American Pie that would fix it.

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Just give him some time. And a downtown ballpark and it’s all gonna fall in place

I was pretty sure. After talking to someone who had seen the police report, and spoken to one of the detectives, and seen the pictures submitted.

In DV cases, instances of the accuser completely fabricating everything are very rare. That sure looks like one of them, in hindsight. Like I said, it forced me to reevaluate my reaction in situations like that, letting more time pass and information come out.

That's a lot of words to say "My reaction was based on talking to people who had seen the documentation on the legal side of things, but that was wrong because Crystal lied, which made me wrong, and made me reevaluate and change my reaction in cases like that."

My issues with the Matheny staff were always far more broad than the religiosity of the staff. That was a secondary component to the tactical issues, the issues developing young players effectively, and the inability to keep the clubhouse healthy and loose.

I don't think I was anywhere close to the primary complainer about the religious component. But remember it however you want.

Re: the stories in St. Louis and Matheny's Bible study, that's an urban legend that happens to be supported by a friend of mine who covers baseball for a national publication and who witnessed it first-hand in the clubhouse.

I don't expect this to change your opinion of me (honestly don't care), and honestly I don't expect you to even read the whole thing. If you want to hate me forever or whatever, you do you, man.

I won't be responding about this again. Back to baseball talk in the thread, for me at least.

Totally could be. For me, it depends on the drivers of the bad results to a degree.

If your pitching staff sucks overall and it's random bullpen guys driving a lot of it, but you have some points of improvement (say, Keller continues to have a pretty good year, and some other pitchers continue to do well). If everybody sucks save for a single success story (ie Eldred and Brad Keller), that's really a bad sign.

That's very interesting. I wonder if we could see a Garcia/Massey swap.

He got that nickname for ruthlessly gobbling up little rural propane companies. But MLB is a diff “ballgame” (get it?). Full of sophisticated people, owners are all much richer than he, with a closed system of zero-sum results (there are only 81 wins per team)



TLDR: he hasn’t earned The Shermanator as owner. All he’s done is put out cheap, shitty teams and demand a new ballpark