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  1. a700hitter
    Any thoughts on this?
  2. a700hitter
    I didn't say that. It isn't going to help the 2016 team if we pick up 2 pitchers this winter either. Obviously, he needs to fix the problem sooner than later. I already posted that if he can't get it done, they are toast. It will not matter what Price or the Offense does. You can't carry 2 black holes in the rotation for the duration of the season. But the problem is the back end of the rotation.
  3. a700hitter
    LOL!! People from Bay Ridge are much nicer.
  4. a700hitter
    That he is our best pitcher who would give us the best chance of winning the game. I am not going to let 63 innings condemn him.
  5. a700hitter
    Sure the ship has sailed, but that doesn't mean that it is not the cause of this team's problems. I am not going to point fingers at the strong aspects of the team. That would not be fair. They are doing their job. The offense will ebb and flow over the course of a season, but this is a high performing offense. The glaring weakness of the rotation is the problem. If DD can't fix it, he can't fix it, but it is still the problem. The offense is not going to score double digits every game. No offense can. Any success that this team has had has been due to the high octane offense. We have lost games where they have scored 8, 9 and 10 games much too often. No, the problem is the pitching just as it was last year. last year the problem was the entire staff. This year the problem is a couple of rotation spots. Fix those and this team is a strong contender imo.
  6. a700hitter
    I would still hand him the ball.
  7. a700hitter
    What part of Brooklyn did you grow up in and what years did you live there? It is obvious that it was in one of the terrible school districts.
  8. a700hitter
    So did I. Lived there until 1989 (age 30). My whole family is from Brooklyn. So save your BS.
  9. a700hitter
    You are an idiot and a fool. The ballpark was built in the slum in 1912 because the land was cheap. You don't build a ballpark on Madison avenue. A funny thing happened when the ballpark was built. Commerce came into the area and the slum disappeared. The Fens were a pile of s*** before Fenway Park was built. Ebbetts was within a short walking distance from Prospect Park and was a very safe area for many years. The area did start to decline in the 1950's, but the real death blow to the area came when the Dodgers left town. I'll take the word of the people that lived there instead of a jackass Yankee fan troll.
  10. a700hitter
    So you would hand the ball to Wright instead of Price? I am a big believer in riding the hot hand, but I don't know if I would do that.
  11. a700hitter
    I am sure that he is trying to fix it. The bad decision was putting reliance in Buch and Kelly to start the season. The problem should have been addressed in the off season.
  12. a700hitter
    Fix Buchholz and the #5 slot and you fix this team. That is right. You are down on every aspect of the team. I guess you will boo Papi if he strikes out over the weekend.
  13. a700hitter
    Which is why post game press conferences are just a waste of time.
  14. a700hitter
    You are an idiot. My mother as a young girl walked to and from Ebbetts Field -- all 98 fearless lbs of her. That part of Brooklyn became a slum when they knocked down Ebbetts Field and put up the Ebbetts Field houses- the Projects.
  15. a700hitter
    Do you think he will end the season with a 4.74 ERA? If he does, the team will not be in the Wild Card game. Are you more confident that Buch will turn things around than Price? What would you base that on?
  16. a700hitter
    You didn't blame the offense last year for the team not being in first place? You didn't blame the offense today for our June swoon? You don't defend Buch ad nauseum? You didn't jump all over Price for 6 1/3 innings with 4 runs and 10 k's yesterday? You could have fooled me.
  17. a700hitter
    Okay, you have convinced me. Give the ball to Buch in the Wild card game if we get there.
  18. a700hitter
    Who would you hand the ball to?
  19. a700hitter
    He should have aggressively pursued another pitcher in the off season. Once we started the season with this staff, the whining about the cost of adding a pitcher during the season was as predictable as a sunrise.
  20. a700hitter
    We are not going to win every one of his starts. Three of the 8 losses in Price games were by scores of 2-1, 3-2 and 3-2, and Price got the loss in only 2 of those games.
  21. a700hitter
    The problem can be stated so clearly and so simply, but there will be reams of posts that the problem is Price and the offense. Blaming the offense is completely perplexing to me. As for blaming Price, I guess his salary really bothers some people, and his performance could never please them. I still think that Porcello's extension was a budgetary mistake, but you don't see me posting that he is the problem on this roster. I wish that we had 2 clones of Porcello to drop into the rotation. The dogshit problem at the end of the rotation couldn't be any more clear -- unless Papi goes 0-4 today-- then he is to blame. There is no obvious solution to this problem in our system. Waiting and hoping for Buch and Kelly probably will guarantee that we will be fighting the Yankees and the Rays for last place in September. What do you think about stretching out Hembree to see if he can give us some quality starts? He seems to have the stuff.
  22. a700hitter
    Price loses a game when he gives up 4 runs in 6 1/3 innings with 10 k's and you and others are posting negative about him like he blew up on the mound. It really wasn't that terrible of a start. It wasn't up to Price's standards, but let's get a little perspective.
  23. a700hitter
    Maybe sooner for Buch.
  24. a700hitter
    You defend Buchhholz ad nauseum, but you never miss an opportunity to criticize Price. We all realize that he is not pitching to his norms, but he is not the problem with this roster. So you are back to blaming the offense. That argument may be more absurd than it was last year when you blamed the offense for the team not being in first place. The offense in 2015 and this year s the strength of this team. Hitting is cyclical. It is not going to score double digit runs every game or get double digit hits every game. Good teams need to win 3-2 and 4-3 games. That is when the pitching needs to step up. Our pitching did not step up last year. It was either the worst or in the bottom 3 for the season. The offense was at the top. You are a stats person, right? The same pattern is emerging this year. But go ahead blame the offense if it makes you happy. Lat year you blamed Papi. Who is your victim this year?
  25. a700hitter
    Do you watch baseball with a financial spreadsheet of salaries? Here is my view on salaries... they are all overpaid. Price is the best pitcher on our roster for my ticket price. He is not what needs fixing on the 2016 roster.
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