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3 minutes ago, Baseball fandom said:

This sucks too because the Orioles can't beat the Royals and the Ravens can't beat the Chiefs. Kansas City is definitely Baltimore's daddy 

I get the Chiefs part. But who can beat them? Or should I say who has beaten them consistently w Patty Mahomes?

The 2024 Royals?? Uh no. They are absolutely NOTHING special! Do you think we would have fared ANY better against Skubal and the Tigers? Skubal might have thrown a no hitter against us today.

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Corbin Burnes did his best to keep us in the game for whatever that is worth. But looks like it wouldn't have mattered no matter what he did with this offense.

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23 minutes ago, Bemorewins said:

Nothing. But the construction and lack of additions speaks to the philosophy of actually having a championship bar or a "good enough" bar. 

The guy closing for KC could have easily been ours. Yet we chose reclamation projects or other teams 🗑

We could have tried to acquire an experienced RHH bat knowing how vulnerable we have been against even decent LHP. But we did what we did.

This hits it on the head.

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8 minutes ago, Bemorewins said:

Are you going to make me dig the all of the roster moves from the offseason and deadline? lol

Off the top of my head Justin Turner/JD Martinez were experienced RH bats that could have been acquired. They are nowhere near what they once were. But they have playoff experience and usually hit LHP. 

No I dont you want you to dig up the trade deadline. You said yourself those 2 were past their best. Could they have made a differnce, maybe. What i want to do is surrender to  an old Track axiom, when youre not going to win youre not going to win.And you can move all the pieces around the chess baord that you want. They were not going to win today. They did not score.

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13 minutes ago, Bemorewins said:

I get the Chiefs part. But who can beat them? Or should I say who has beaten them consistently w Patty Mahomes?

The 2024 Royals?? Uh no. They are absolutely NOTHING special! Do you think we would have fared ANY better against Skubal and the Tigers? Skubal might have thrown a no hitter against us today.

No my reference is that the Royals knocked the Orioles out in 2014 and will probably do so again tomorrow and the Chiefs have the Ravens number since Mahomes came into the league. Bottom line Baltimore teams have not fared well at all against KC teams especially in big games and thus my daddy reference.

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26 minutes ago, spiritof66 said:

That's what Holliday, Henderson, Kjerstadt, Mayo, Basallo (sp?), Westburg and Adley are supposed to be. That's the principle on which the team was built -- add them to Santander and MC and you've got a potent offense. My understanding/impression, anyway.

Except that hasn’t happened.. yet.  We hit home runs.  Except in playoffs when we don’t 

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14 minutes ago, Bemorewins said:

I get the Chiefs part. But who can beat them? Or should I say who has beaten them consistently w Patty Mahomes?

The 2024 Royals?? Uh no. They are absolutely NOTHING special! Do you think we would have fared ANY better against Skubal and the Tigers? Skubal might have thrown a no hitter against us today.

Ps.... Tom Brady did well against Mahomes and Burrow has held his own. 

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29 minutes ago, Bemorewins said:

Nothing. But the construction and lack of additions speaks to the philosophy of actually having a championship bar or a "good enough" bar. 

The guy closing for KC could have easily been ours. Yet we chose reclamation projects or other teams 🗑

We could have tried to acquire an experienced RHH bat knowing how vulnerable we have been against even decent LHP. But we did what we did.

This is so correct. I agree 1000 percent. But I truly don't think JD Martinez was available at the deadline as the Mets were making their run too. The time to have gotten him was the off season when he sat out there for awhile but too many people including Elias gets fixated on just having home grown talent. 

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25 minutes ago, Yossarian said:

Exactly.  These guys were supposed to be our reward for so much bad baseball.   These are dlsupposed to be the studs, the knights in shining armour, the superstars that put up crazy numbers in the minor leagues, that bring this franchise back to glory.   So far,  the start of this window of opportunity looks like it's all hat and no cattle.

Yeah I thought they had a chance to be the next Astros but Instead this is all I think we will get out of that 

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8 minutes ago, Safelykept said:

No I dont you want you to dig up the trade deadline. You said yourself those 2 were past their best. Could they have made a differnce, maybe. What i want to do is surrender to  an old Track axiom, when youre not going to win youre not going to win.And you can move all the pieces around the chess baord that you want. They were not going to win today. They did not score.

Let me put it this way. I would rather have Justin Turner batting at his advanced age with a runner in scoring position against a LHP than James McCann (and to be honest even Adley Rutschman right now). Those 2 horrid ABs by McCann (with RISP) were the difference in us scoring today or not.

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42 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Adley was the problem on the stolen base that led to the run too. 

He was framing a pitch vs popping up to throw the runner out. Then he throws on the wrong side of the base.

Everything about that was embarrassingly bad.

When you add in his turd at bats, and he was absolute chokingly bad. 

Well let's not pretend that  he probably keeps an eye on Witt throughout the season and thinks oh ..t this guy is embarrassing me . Which he has done this year. 

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5 minutes ago, Baseball fandom said:

This is so correct. I agree 1000 percent. But I truly don't think JD Martinez was available at the deadline as the Mets were making their run too. The time to have gotten him was the off season when he sat out there for awhile but too many people including Elias gets fixated on just having home grown talent. 

I agree! 

This series isn't over yet (though I am not confident at all). But I don't see a scenario where we are going to "homegrown" our way to a championship. We have some serious holes to fill in the offseason.

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30 minutes ago, foxfield said:

Just totally painful to watch.  This team can pitch, field and hit but somehow has an ability to have a total void of one if another is strong.  My prediction tomorrow is a 12-8 loss trailing by 3 early.  

Gotta maintain that massive 4 rpg average.

GOD XXXX IT.

You could be right but I think they go down meaky again 4-1

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