Atlanta Braves Thread VI

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NochNoch said:
Just saw something on the crawl that said J.R. Smith got a fine for flopping today, per our discussion from a few days ago. Only $5k though.
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Five thousand bucks to a guy making JR Smith's $2.8 million salary is like $100 to a guy making $100,000. Ie, an insufficient deterrent. Flopping won't stop until the risk becomes worse than the obviously tangible reward.

The Caps' Ovechkin drew a critical penalty the other night by embellishing a hit. I am not proud, I wasn't happy, but damn if he didn't draw a huge penalty by doing it. If you ain't cheatin you ain't tryin.
 
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You have to make a move to try to stop this while it's still a 3-4 run deficit. If Hudson gives up another hit then you might as well say F it and let him throw 130 pitches to give the bullpen a night off.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Five thousand bucks to a guy making JR Smith's $2.8 million salary is like $100 to a guy making $100,000. Ie, an insufficient deterrent. Flopping won't stop until the risk becomes worse than the obviously tangible reward.

The Caps' Ovechkin drew a critical penalty the other night by embellishing a hit. I am not proud, I wasn't happy, but damn if he didn't draw a huge penalty by doing it. If you ain't cheatin you ain't tryin.
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Agree on both accounts for the most part but I will say that Ovie flopping looks like Lebron flopping, they're both way too big and way too strong to react like they do from time to time.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
You have to make a move to try to stop this while it's still a 3-4 run deficit. If Hudson gives up another hit then you might as well say F it and let him throw 130 pitches to give the bullpen a night off.
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Fredi didn't text Tosca back in time...
 
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Vercingetorix said:
You have to make a move to try to stop this while it's still a 3-4 run deficit. If Hudson gives up another hit then you might as well say F it and let him throw 130 pitches to give the bullpen a night off.
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Agree with this. And not enough (zero) managers do it.
 
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005 said:
Agree with this. And not enough (zero) managers do it.
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I don't know damn about the mechanics of pitching, but I feel like I could manage the hell out of a pitching staff. Just from the sense of maximizing available resources. There's so much waste they way they all do it.
 
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Braves announcers letting us know that multi-run home runs are preferred while on the comeback trail.
 
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Regulator said:
Huddy dealing early.
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005 said:
Braves announcers letting us know that multi-run home runs are preferred while on the comeback trail.
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Joe Simpson is as much a cliche machine as Joe Morgan ever was. I almost always mute the TV and go with the radio guys until it gets interesting and the out-of-sync part gets annoying.
 
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You guys catch that?

Home plate ump called a strike on the Pence check-swing. Brian asked for help from first... first-base ump said no, home plate ump had to fix his count clicker. lol
 
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