(Edit: Orioles get 1st pick after walkoff homer by Diamondbacks)

[vab]

It's one thing to lose but to lose at losing is a whole different level of suck. All they had to do was keep losing and they can't manage it. If they were down 12-0 with two outs in the bottom of the 9th, nobody on and needing one more loss for the 1st pick they'd somehow score 13 runs. 

[Getz]

I feel like Elias is not trying to lose games like he did in previous seasons, I remember that even after a win Hyde would act very unenthusiastic and now he looks much more excited. What do you think?

[Can_of_corn]

4 minutes ago, Getz said:

I feel like Elias is not trying to lose games like he did in previous seasons, I remember that even after a win Hyde would act very unenthusiastic and now he looks much more excited. What do you think?

I think you don't build this roster if your goal is to win games.

[Getz]

7 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I think you don't build this roster if your goal is to win games.

I'm sorry, I don't follow.

Are you saying they should be trying to lose to get the first pick?

[Can_of_corn]

7 minutes ago, Getz said:

I'm sorry, I don't follow.

Are you saying they should be trying to lose to get the first pick?

I'm saying Elias didn't put this team together to win games.

[Getz]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

I'm saying Elias didn't put this team together to win games.

I know that, but I remember a lot of people saying that Elias was making the calls and Hyde would do everything he said.

[Can_of_corn]

11 minutes ago, Getz said:

I know that, but I remember a lot of people saying that Elias was making the calls and Hyde would do everything he said.

I'm sure Hyde is doing what he's told.

That doesn't mean he can't be pleased when his team wins a game.
 

Winning a game against a Red Sox team trying to make the playoffs is a bit more exciting than a random game in May.

[Getz]

37 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I'm sure Hyde is doing what he's told.

That doesn't mean he can't be pleased when his team wins a game.
 

Winning a game against a Red Sox team trying to make the playoffs is a bit more exciting than a random game in May.

This has been going for a couple of weeks now, I wasn't saying it was yesterday.

But as I said I don't remember seeing him this excited in previous years, maybe it's just me.

[Frobby]

I’ve always thought Hyde was trying to win, while at the same time putting his players in positions to test themselves as opposed to only considering who had the best chance that moment to win the game.   And I think that’s what Elias and he both want, and should want.   

[owknows]

14 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I’ve always thought Hyde was trying to win, while at the same time putting his players in positions to test themselves as opposed to only considering who had the best chance that moment to win the game.   And I think that’s what Elias and he both want, and should want.   

I’ve always thought Hyde was trying to win (with the Major League Roster equivalent of a box of pencil shavings, rusty paper clips, and toe nail clippings), while at the same time putting his players in positions to test themselves as opposed to only considering who had the best chance that moment to win the game.   And I think that’s what Elias and he both want, and should want.  

And that all of this is an exercise in marking time until the first bolus of new age players matriculates...

 

[Bahama O's Fan]

We just better not lose enough to keep the Sox in and win enough to not get the #1 pick.

[sportsfan8703]

Bye Bye to the #1 pick. Are we finally at the place where Elias will select a Pitcher with our 1:2 pick

[Moose Milligan]

Hard to believe there's a team out there worse than us.  But there is.

Congrats to the Diamondbacks.  

[vab]

Yeah, looks like it's over. Let's just hope it's not another Mark Teixiera, Chris Smith situation., Good God 107 losses and we still can't get the 1st pick. 

[Sports Guy]

1 hour ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Bye Bye to the #1 pick. Are we finally at the place where Elias will select a Pitcher with our 1:2 pick

Nope..not this draft.