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ATLLonghorn

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  1. The most disheartening thing to me is how there isn't one position group that has gotten better this year. Herb Hand is some purported offensive line guru, but the offensive line has been bad all month long. the running back room is cursed, but Ingram is getting out played by a freshman quarterback Duvernay and CJ are good, but the rest of the receivers are inconsistent the defensive line is a disaster the linebackers are a disaster the secondary is a disaster The special teams units are horrible as well there isn't a coach on the staff earning their paycheck
  2. an Okie bringing me sports joy on a day Texas football shits the bed. The sports gods are a special kind of cruel.
  3. The last three MLS Cup winners and the best regular season team in MLS history are your final four. Not bad if you're the league.
  4. Matarrita with one of the dumbest fouls in MLS history and Pozuelo goes Panenka on the PK in the 90th minute to win it for Toronto. Atlanta-Philly winner hosts Eastern Conference Final
  5. Banged up Atlanta vs a Philly team that spent a lot of energy to comeback, played 120 minutes and gets one fewer day of rest. Toronto vs NYCFC Wanderers at a different baseball stadium. El Trafico playoff edition also Seattle and Salt Lake play I guess.
  6. Aspiring to be the second best team in CONCACAF is a really low bar to aspire to, but do you. Also, you named three.
  7. Give me your starting XI and 7 substitutes of American born players right now.
  8. There was a reason why Klinsmann did everything he could to find dual-national players because the American-born player pool is shallow. It's ok though, US Soccer doesn't give a shit about youth development and are doing everything they can to alienate dual national players, particularly Mexican-American ones.
  9. In 2018, 13 points from ten games got the third spot from CONCACAF (and the 4th play off spot) in the World Cup. Presuming Canada moves into the top six, right now what is your confidence the USMNT could get 13 points from ten games in a Hex with Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Honduras and Canada?
  10. US Soccer COO Jay Berhalter hired Earnie Stewart to be the GM of US Soccer. Earnie Stewart hired Jay's brother to be USMNT coach. Now Jay may become the CEO of US Soccer. The systemic rot has killed US Soccer and it's not getting fixed any time soon. We're in the early stages of the real dark age of American soccer.
  11. Look on the bright side, only San Jose State, Florida and Oregon have more interceptions than we do this year and that is something that is totally and completely sustainable!
  12. Markakis and McCann are cooked. Playing Freeman 158 games and Donaldson 155 during the regular season was really dumb.
  13. "legend" is a bit strong. Braves very good player.
  14. Roll with Pache or Waters in the outfield. Go get Gerrit Cole. Sentence one may happen. With corporate ownership that doesn't give a fuck about the team the second sentence has zero chance of ever happening. The Braves ability to win a World Series is going to rely on the continued development of Mike Soroka and hoping that Ian Anderson, Kyle Wright and Kyle Muller develop into major league starters. Ownership has shown they're only willing to take on short-term money and you aren't going to sign a front line starting pitcher to a one year deal. I think there's enough data out there to suggest Folty and Fried are going to be maddeningly inconsistent pitchers at the big league level capable of brilliance and capable of melting down. I don't know that you can expect either guy to be a pitcher to carry a team when it matters. Snitker is so in over his head at this level. He has no idea how to manage a roster or a pitching staff. Pitching your best pitcher once in a division series is a stroke of genius. He ran Freddie and Donaldson into the ground playing them practically every day. And Freddie...for a guy who was the face of the franchise through dark days and saw us come out the other side I will always have an appreciation for that, but this series puts a serious black mark on his legacy until he can get another shot to fix it. He was absolutely brutal in every phase in this series.
  15. they won as many titles in two years as the other slap dick teams have won combined in 150 combined seasons. Don't lump them in with the other turds in the city.
  16. Starting Duvall today would be the easiest choice ever and I'm not sure Snitker's smart enough to do it. Mark Bowman outlined it in a tweet yesterday. Since coming off the DL Markakis has a .490 OPS against right handed pitchers. Joyce has a .922 OPS against righties since he began platooning. The smart move is benching Markakis, but Snit won't do it. If he starts Duvall over Joyce he has to hit him 5th. Hitting Markakis 5th again is managerial malpractice.
  17. Joke went over my head d'oh
  18. There's a zero percent chance Freeman sits. There's a slightly higher, but not very high, chance Markakis sits.
  19. Martin out, Julio in and starting a game four (if we get there) so to recap: To win the series the Braves are going to have to: 1) beat the best pitcher in the National League since the all-star break or 2) Win a Julio Teheran start on the road. It's over and done.
  20. Acuna was a stud. Freddie's last two months were an anomaly, Donaldson was healthy, Ozzie was more consistent, Mac and Markakis provided leadership. The talent from Soroka and Fried was apparent. They'd run through a wall for Snit. The most fun thing is just about everyone else had big moments even if they were bad for long stretches. Riley's first couple of weeks helped jump start the team in June. Ortega's grand slam against the Dodgers was massive. Culberson had some big hits early and had that game saving throw in July. Hechavarria provided some good defense and some hits. Matt Joyce has been consistently good. Julio and Keuchel had good stretches. Jackson and Swarzak had a couple of stretches where they kept the bullpen afloat until AA brought in the reinforcements. They're just a fun team to root for. The big question mark and most fascinating thing to watch in the playoffs is going to be the starting rotation in the playoffs. Soroka has earned the game one start, but he has no playoff experience. They didn't sign Keuchel to not pitch him in October particularly given his experience. Folty has been great since he came back. I don't think Snit would bench Julio and Fried is a major wild card. Soroka, Folty and Fried have the best stuff and in October I think that matters, but I think Fried is the long reliever/rescue guy. I hope Folty's final stretch has moved him into the game 3 start ahead of Teheran, but Snit is loyal to a fault.
  21. And Josef
  22. Gorgeous stuff from Atlanta United
  23. bitch move by Dave Martinez to have the umpires check if it was a strike or not while Culberson was lying in a pool of his own blood, but he got fucked by karma leaving Rodney in after that and the Braves blowing the doors off them. The division is basically over.
  24. Hey, a total garbage goal still counts.
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