not fair to say that. I mean even if we would have kept him and let him leave as a FA and got the 2 picks no guarantee they turn out as good as DeVall so thats not really fair for you to say that man. And we have no idea what type if any types of deals was out there with prospects comin back to the braves instead of a MLB ready 1B.

Your missin the point, Mahay was still in the Tex deal to us then we got DeVall out of it. My point is i was makin is at least we got somethin out of this instead of nothin. True we didn’t get nothin out of dealin Tex to the Angels except LaRoche so that is somethin and we may or may not be able to resign him but hopefully if we cant get him we can get a Type B for him so there you go we might still end up gettin a pick that COULD or could not turn out. So possibly resigning LaRoche or gettin a pick for him and then Devall still seems ok with me.

1st rounders bust, but we are gonna have better success in the 2nd round? Really?

And 90% may be tired of talking about it, but judging by the rants you’ve been going on it’s pretty clear you’re in the remaining 10%.

It’s more complicated than that. How you’re planning to follow through affects how you actually swing. If you plan to follow through properly you will naturally smack the ball than harder than the kind of slap hit where you’re already slowing it down to keep from wrapping it behind you. It’s not that what happens after you hit the ball has a retroactive effect on the moment of contact, it’s that the swing as a whole is affected by each of its parts, including the follow through.

Everyone knows that in postseason/tournament play anything can happen, predictions are fun and there will always be a favorite, but underdogs have won before and will continue to do so. Also, editorials are presented as such- speculation representing the opinion of one writer. There is a place for those, and I’d never jump on someone for aligning their opinion with an editorial piece (unless the ed. talks about the virtues of Hitler, then it’s open season on you…). But KRos did not write the article PWH brought up as an editorial, he REPORTED it as FACT based on the little voices in his head “major league sources,” only to have major league sources (i.e. the player himself as well as the beat writer covering teh front office) call him on it only hours later. No, there is no room for reports like this. If he writes an ed. piece saying in his opinion it would make sense for Huddy to leave and test the market, then you have to take that opinion with a grain of salt and draw your own conclusions. But when you start making up sources and reporting it as fact, you have shirked your duty as a journalist and failed your readers. And that is unacceptable, no matter who you are.

With the exception of late June and the month of July, yes, he was indeed that bad. like, worst LF in the majors bad, with only those 5 or 6 weeks where he really did much of anything. Not to mention a bowling ball could’ve covered more ground in LF. Defensively he was beyond awful.

Can’t blame him for Bobby’s slotting, but that doesn’t explain or excuse his piss poor performance, regardless.