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Is Ernest Jones gonna take the podium defending Sam again?

Hey where have you been??? Haven't seen you since they missed the playoffs after starting 4-9. Fucking crazy how that works out isn't it??? :lol: But they easily could have made the playoffs if they hadn't vomited all over themselves in the final two months. Because of a division winner that had th...

Obviously not impossible to make the playoffs after a 4-9 start but it is more unlikely than if a teams starts 9-4 or even 7-6 for two reasons. 1. A team has to make up for being 5 games under .500 2. A team that goes 4-9 to start the season probably isn't very good And lo and behold that is EXACTL...

Another negative from this game was #57 got ejected early for the 9ers and the announcers said he was a key piece. Hawks unable to take advantage of that and win the game. "The fumble" was bad. Jobe was getting worked over by Mike Evans. Seahawks still seem like a good team. Certainly they were capa...

Good points. I agree with all of that. Of course with a double header, they would make everyone leave and have to return to double the attendance revenue and the players union would respond that players should be paid triple for gulag like work conditions..... The doubleheader wouldn't work though,...

Hey where have you been??? Haven't seen you since they missed the playoffs after starting 4-9. Fucking crazy how that works out isn't it??? :lol: 4-9 is meaningless. I stand by that. And IIRC you dropped a stat that was "4-9 or worse" meaning the stat included 3-10, 2-11, 1-12, and 0-13. It was one...

Also proposed increasing the divisional series to 7 games which is fine but why in the hell would you leave the WC series at 3 with the absurd set up of not letting the lower seed have a single home game. With 8 fewer games they can make it 5, 7, 7, 7 but if you are only going to lengthen one of th...

bpj wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 23, 2026 3:27 pm

Spin your defense however you want.

Clearly, when the Mariners are #8 in wins and #19 in payroll, the obvious factor isn't replacing the GM. It's spending more money. Duh. Not a whole lot of spin required.

You're ignoring that every offseason Jerry has 3-5 vacancies on the roster and every offseason he WHIFFS. Dipoto sucks. I'm not ignoring anything. I'm considering the whole process and all the variables. I already detailed the assumptions that you're making with that rhetoric. Polanco was one of th...

bpj wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 23, 2026 3:37 pm

54%!

Amirite?

Yessir. #8 in wins while #19 in payroll. Objective and factual.