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brood550
Really LA, you are that worried of the Mets? The rest of us ion the NL east don’t do that. Grow a pair you damn wannabes or miss the playoffs to the Giants, because the world know the wild card isn’t coming out of that division. Come tell me when the Nl west has a second team that is worthy.
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paulslc
This is the dumbest rip I’ve read all week. Congrats.
halos101
That was the most mad comment I’ve read all week. Congrats
Cam
Geez brood550, all I did was ask you how your day was..
Thronson5
Lol someone is mad they got their behinds handed to them today by the Dodgers. What’s 4 out of 5 this season now? What a complete poor sport!! I am positive the Dodgers and Giants will both make the playoffs actually. But as of right now nobody can say for sure since it’s so early in the season so calm down and quit acting like you know anything for sure and learn to take a beating like a true fan
stormie
They do it all the time. They said that they also let other teams do it in their park, so why do you act like this is something they only pulled against the Mets, as if they’re scared of them?
BlueSkyLA
Tribal logic.
baseballfan 3
All of the sudden, Andrew McCutchen is the Pirates’ third best outfielder.
Kang Ho Polanco
No, trust me, Pirates fans who watch closely enough will tell you Marte was already better going into last season–at the latest–and for Polanco, it was just a matter of time until he broke out (relatively speaking) this season.
People on a national level generally see only the homers and such insiders want them to see. But McCutchen’s game has significant flaws, and anyone being honest with himself knows Cutch is a prima donna on the diamond. He swings for the fences way, way too often, and his swing-and-miss and swinging strike and similar rates are up only because he has mediocre plate discipline at best–he gets impatient and starts swinging at clearly bad pitches. His throwing was well below average a couple of years ago, but it seems he has worked on that to get it to average. Still, his decisions on the bases and in the outfield are frequently stupid. He thinks he is mostly too good to have to do a peasant’s work of stealing bases now, but even when he does try, his lead and jump are just bad, so he gets thrown out at a significant rate. But the worst of all is in the outfield, where he sometimes will take a great route but other times a loop that makes no sense, and the kicker that drives me nuts more than anything is when he slides for no reason, frequently missing practically routine liners or even flies that turn into three bases and can cost outs, pitches, runs and games.
MVP talent, for sure, but not an MVP mindset, as seen when–like the prima donna he truly is–he berated a scorekeeper for calling a liner almost right at him an error, to the point he said the scorekeeper should be fired. He apologized and blamed it on frustrations with losing and performance, but to me, that was a glimpse at the true Cutch. I cannot wait for the day the Pirates sucker someone along the lines of the Dodgers, Yankees, etc. into giving up a massive haul for him.
baseballfan 3
Be sure to grab an IC Light to wash dahn all dem hot takes an’at.
JT19
While I’m not going to argue with your opinion, it’s possible his plate discipline and mindset were more a result of having a relatively average lineup around him. Maybe he felt he had to do more (i.e. try to carry the team) to help them win. I could definetly be wrong and we might never know but he could be trying to do too much.
2B15Lopes
Karma. Last night was the baseball gods confirming who is on the right side of the whole slide argument.
BlueSkyLA
I have to believe that Syndergaard was taking matters into his own hands or something would have happened in Friday’s game or any one of the previous games in LA. Kind of a bush league move on his part especially if it wasn’t called from the dugout. We have to know that Utley would have taken any pitch not aimed at his head because that’s just the way he plays the game. Dunno about karma or anything like that, but for sure Utley got in the last word. The last five of them.