4/27/15 MLB GAME THREAD Braves/Nats: Markakis still at the top - Peterson batting 7th

[sturg33]

I'm just doing what people have done this year with a much smaller sample. I thought those were the rules.

And you are still making the same mistake in not realizing that at least 1 of Upton/Heyward would not have been here after next year and Gattis couldn't play catcher anymore.

I'm not making the mistake of anything... The team needed to invest in one of them, period. If they did - you could make the case to trade the other.

In fact - I think our team could have been set up much differently if they had the EXACT same offseason, without making 2 of the trades. The trades they shouldn't have made were the Upton and Banuelos deals. If everything else happened exactly the same - I'd actually think we had a decent shot at wild card this year...

1. Maybin
2. Markakis
3. Upton
4. Freeman
5. CJ/KJ
6. Pierzinski/Bethancourt
7. Simmons
8. Callaspo

We'd have the same pitching staff, and the bullpen would have Carpenter and Shreve. We'd have the money to afford JUpton. We would have replenished the farm with Gattis and Kimbrel trades, along with the smaller ones. And we'd be in much better shape for the future.

And that's with the dumb signing of Markakis included

 

[thewupk]

lol @ desmond.

 

[Julio3000]

Why are they throwing at Simmons--because of the slide at third?

 

[TDlxANDER]

Lulz

 

[UNCBlue012]

HAHAHAHA that defense

 

[rico43]

It's the UGGLA EFFECT!

Where them owl eyes???

 

[Braves1976]

Haha, way to play that DP ball Nats!

 

[Hawk]

Washington looks horrible. Schadenfreude to the max right now.

 

[TDlxANDER]

I need a mic drop bomb from the asshole

 

[CrimsonCowboy]

Washington Nationals defense:

 

[Braves1976]

Thanks for the gift run Nats, lol.

 

[Julio3000]

AJBC baseball

 

[Tapate50]

Jesus Desmond. Here is a little instructional :[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ccUDrB_8jQ[/video]

 

[thewupk]

lol Chris Johnson with a steal

 

[chopdrew]

dont start a beanball war the first game of a million youre gonna play this team...

 

[Dalyn]

FISH DICKS stealing like a pro.

 

[Braves1976]

lol Chris Johnson with a steal

Speed never sleeps, lol.

 

[jimsnores]

I don't see the slide by Simmons as being dirty. Hard, yes. Yunel tagged him on the shin and there was no spike contact. Feet went to the base. That being said, Tron took the bean butt ball like a man and that should end it unless Williams is a much bigger jerk than I think. Poetic justice that Simmons scores, too.

 

[rico43]

 

[Dalyn]

I don't see the slide by Simmons as being dirty. Hard, yes. Yunel tagged him on the shin and there was no spike contact. Feet went to the base. That being said, Tron took the bean butt ball like a man and that should end it unless Williams is a much bigger jerk than I think. Poetic justice that Simmons scores, too.

His foot was off the ground and directly at the glove, not base. It was straight up dirty.