Do work, son!

Ichiro when he went to NYY

Did Rickey Henderson get much love from the As fans after he left (for the 3rd or 4th time...lol)?

Do Mariner fans like Dipoto and his "million monkeys in a room writing Shakespeare eventually a roster through a million trades will work" approach or do they think he should go. Kapler will probably be the first big name to go this season, maybe Dipoto will be the next. Or that dip**** Mets guy.

Calloway should be toast already but it's surprising to this play out. Squandering that rotation predictable as well.

I like Dipoto. Making stuff happen. Give him a chance to let it play out imo.

So Yoan is who we thought he was. OPS around .900 13hrs. I am rooting for the WSox to get good just so it will be that more crushing when they get stomped by the Astros in the playoffs.

I'm sure big hurt and Ozzie Guillen got some love when they went back to Comiskey wearing different jerseys. Was there any bad blood when the Sox didn't give him a contract? He put up 2 big years after he left, but that was probably due to the nugenix.

Is that Jimmy Rollins in the Phillie's booth? What a homer.

Greg Maddux won 3 Cy Young awards and the Braves in 10 seasons with Maddux (excluding the 1994 season which was aborted due to a strike), won the division all 10 times, along with 6 100-game win seasons (and another at above 100-win pace, but was strike-shortened) 3 pennants and 1 World Series. Maddux was easily the team's best and most recognizable player over this period, before leaving to join the Cubs. This also happens to be by far the most successful stretch in franchise history. The St Louis Cardinals with Pujols won one more title but overall they've been much less consistently successful (keep in mind baseball playoffs is a variance-fest unlike, say, basketball) and the Cardinals have historically been a much more successful franchise.

Greinke HR off of Kershaw

Maddux isn't as good of a hometown favorite as Poohole though. Braves had Chipper, Smoltz, Glavine, etc. during that 14 straight division pennants or whatever. There are probably a lot of people that think a lot of people think of Maddux as a mycubbie, just like it may be split between the Mets and Dodgers for Pizza. Being on WGN and TBS for his whole career should have made Maddux a bigger star, but he looked like and pitched like a dork. Also, chicks love the long ball.

Speaking of which, I forgot that Smoltz didn't finish his career with the Braves either. If you're going by sentimental value, etc, I guess he's up there. Either way, that's not the question I answered:

Greg Maddux is obviously a huge impact, generational type player that left.

The Smoltz non Braves career was pretty sad. He was coming off a huge surgery and was ineffective, got cut, and then picked up by STL, and was still pretty bad and then disappeared.

What about Josh Hamilton? Developed hardcore drug problem with the Rangers, left and found sobriety, returned to Rangers and relapsed. Huge impact because they counted on him and locked up tons of salary on him both times and he just left. but he was good and made a huge impact with the Rangers

The whole point was homegrown player.

Smoltz and Larry Jones are more iconic to the Braves than Maddux was my point. imo.

But also Hurt is correct that the convo started with mostly homegrown players

Wtf is going on here. Smoltz played for Boston, Josh Hamilton was a Rays prospect, played for the Reds before being traded to Texas for Volquez. His big drug problem he developed in Texas is what caused the Angels to give him a big contract?

His drug problem also affected Ron Washington and caused him to leave baseball.

Only once in a generation can a players drug problem destroy a franchise.

Ron Washington was doing coke before Hamilton was born, leaving baseball has nothing to do with the original comment.

If so, it's probably Willie Mays.

Lol ok. Pretty sure Wash is the Braves 3B coach.

Not to mention, the Rangers had won I think ONE ****ING PLAYOFF GAME in club history before Josh Hamilton was hitting extra inning homers in potential WS clinching games.

Really wrecked the team.

….and then Ron Washington was too coked out to move his RFer like 3 steps farther back and then David Freese happened

Its pretty nuts to be a strike away from champs on two separate occasions and lose. Ouch.


I can't imagine the pain of the Sox or Ms doing that.

Holy **** Tyler Flowers is a massive butthurt crybaby, so so cringe.

https://twitter.com/m_i_c_ah/status/1143517938147876865

DJ LeMahieu is the best FA signing of the year so far.

He's hitting .331/.380/.495 with 97 hits, and looks like prime Derek Jeter at the plate with his hit-to-all-fields approach.

especially for a team that hasn't won a title yet.

And it was so simple, 95% of managers are playing no doubles there, and if they are, rangers WS champs

Old friend alert