This team is pretty much FINNISH
09/08/18 GDT Braves (Teheran) vs. D’Backs (Bucholz) Does anyone care at this point?
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As if his 2.6 bWAR wasn't enough
bravesfanMatt
Steve Harvey'd
Add the sleeping sissies who miss the excitement. Damnit.
50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
Swanson is a fundamentally sound baseball player who just has to make a few adjustments at the plate to really blossom. He is well schooled. As soon as he made the stop, he was up and throwing home.
bravesfanMatt
Steve Harvey'd
Let us not forget ender had a huge hit, Swanson cut down tying run and somewhere Blair and Miller having a beer laughing at Dave Stewart.
msstate7
Well-known member
And touki pitches today
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
big weekend for athletes of Haitian descent
WaitingFor2017
Well-known member
Bumping him back a day means he will miss Philadelphia again next week. He is, of course, in line to pitch against Atlanta in the last week of the year.
GeorgiaGirl
NL Rookie of the Year
Planned to scratch him if inclement weather was too much of a problem. Didn't want to have a rain shortened start and didn't want to risk their elite starter getting injured.
Thanks OP for proper GDT formatting. That was the difference maker in last night's game and probably the contributing reason as to why we won.
Shameful behavior by the crowd in Flushing yesterday though.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
what did you think of the chair umpire
CyYoung31
Shift Leader
OP has got to be in the running for MVP this year, right?
The first warning, could have been a soft warning. But thankfully Pam Shriver interviewed Serena's coach immediately after it happened and he admitted it was coaching. And not coincidentally the next few points Serena did exactly what he was motioning her to do (go to the net more).
The second violation was clear. There's no leeway for a soft warning when you clearly smash and abuse the racquet.
The third violation could have gone either way. Serena was already on thin ice with two warnings, but she kept going on and on. I think where the umpire drew the line was when she called him a thief. That's where you question the integrity and motives of the umpire. It's one thing to rant (and tennis umpires probably take more verbal abuse than any other referees in any pro sport) to the umpire, it's another to accuse the umpire of basically having an agenda.
Serena's behavior was shameful, and even more shameful was the crowd boo'ing Osaka and making her cry for no reason. This is a microcosm of why the US Open has fallen in prestige to the worst slam out of the 4. Because of how the event has been run. It's a metaphor for American greed.