Metaloctopus

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You're coming off as someone who likes to hear themselves talk. VADawg and Broski laid it out for you but you don't want to say this offense is lacking a lot for some reason and then respond by filibustering with a long post that says the same thing over and over again.

The Braves offense had ample opportunity to put the game away today and failed to do so by stranding a boatload of runners on base with less than 2 outs. It's a problem that has been plaguing this team for multiple years now,

This isn't 2023 anymore, the home run defense doesn't fly anymore, literally.

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If you can read a thread involving the person I was talking to and conclude that I come off as someone who likes to hear himself talk, then you aren't paying attention. My point was clear. I at no point avoided saying what YOU want me to say about this offense. I "laid it out" for both of those posters what this offense is, and one of them wants to argue till he's blue in the face that I somehow defended the offense, when all I said is that those other teams were lucky to get good matchups, and that a lot of these teams have the same offensive problems.

Saying other teams have problems is not equal to saying "we're good, nothing to see here". But somehow, a couple of you seem to take it that way. Ok, friend. You want to pile on and argue with me that we're the only struggling offense who relies on home runs? How did the Phillies win the game yesterday?

Welcome to modern day offense. I don't like it any more than you do. But here we are, and I am somehow being controversial for pointing it out.

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Then you should understand why living and dying on the home run and only the home run is a recipe for a short postseason.

Again, there is no better statistic to qualify an offense than wOBA, and ours is bad... our offense is bad.

Sorry to tell you.

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Your entire problem is that you are so bent on being a contrarian, that you can almost never see the point that people are making. I never said this was a "good" offense. I just finished telling you that I have said for years that it's not a good playoff formula. But it's a formula that works enough when you aren't facing elite pitching all the time, which is WHY I said that those other teams were lucky with their matchups. We're not getting those kind of matchups. and don't figure to get them the rest of the way, either.

You totally let my point blow right over your head, and went straight into beating a strawman point that I never argued.

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A toddler that understands the nuance of advanced metrics.


Sorry that you don't.

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I understand metrics. Those help you understand variances over smaller and longer sample sizes. We're talking about an entire season. Advanced metrics don't say that this team is anything other than what their runs scored say they are.

They are weighed down by a low on base percentage, but held up by a high slugging percentage. It's not a good formula for playoff baseball, and I've said that for years. But we won game 1 by doing what we've done all year

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You brought a chopstick (runs) to a bazooka fight.

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A bazooka fight? Arguing with you is like arguing with a toddler. You are a self absorbed, know-nothing, blow hard. Only you think you ever "win" an argument.

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Oh my goodness

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And there he goes, ladies and gentlemen. Ignoring statistical facts that show what ignorant narrative he's pushing at a given moment to be either completely false, or highly exaggerated, and he responds with a laughing emoji.

You're a child.

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Again... one of the worst wOBA's in the league.

You're way overvaluing this offense. It's the worst of the teams left in the postseason.

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I'm not overvaluing them, I'm stating a fact. It's a lineup built for slug, and if they slug, they score, if they don't, well, they don't.

Was Riley's homer a can of corn yesterday? It doesn't matter how runs or scored, it matters that you score them, and you don't give games away late. Harper drops a fly ball, but Olson also hits a rocket that should have cleared the bases, but finds a glove. We can play the "luck" game all day.

Dude, I don't recall saying the Braves offense was some amazing force of nature. I said those teams got lucky with matchups. And that is simply the truth. Those teams, most times, struggle to score just like the Braves do. They wouldn't have put up those runs if they were facing decent pitching.

Our offense is the same way. They can suck against a bad pitcher, or they can score 15 runs. The whole lineup is streaky. But they won't hit good pitching. You had a lead in this game. and you blew it with a bad decision.

Well Texas doesn't look impressive on offense, so I think our defense will give us plenty of chance to win that game.

Some of us called a spade a spade. We said he gets happy feet and gives up on his progressions too soon. He got injured and had to stay in the pocket, started to show some patience, and made the throws. Go figure.

And who also commented on Leavitt's injury making him stop running around and actually make some throws? None other than Lane Kiffin. Is he also a "retard"? Or else, who are you calling retards?

My gosh, this post is ate up with complete gibberish.

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"killed in war"

Yeah, you use the government to carry out your sins because you think it means you didn't do it.

You murder them. Using the government to carry out your sins is no different than how the pharisees killed Jesus.

You want to kill them because you claim they want to kill you.

But you are the one that is supporting the "war" over there to kill them.

How are you different? Because you have a government to kill for you?

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Who have I murdered? When did the government carry out my sins? I have already addressed this, and yet you repeat the same lies. I don't "claim" they want to kill us. THEY outright declare their intention to carry out the killing of all non-Muslims, but especially Christians and Jews.

No different than the pharisees? They killed the Messiah, because they didn't believe and were ate up with pride, and angered that Jesus called them out on all of their hypocrisy. Going to war against Muslim terrorists for carrying out senseless attacks on civilians is justified. There is no comparison.

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Self defense is a God given right.

And that includes them no matter if you like it or not.

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Of course it is a right for all. But those Muslims aren't acting in self defense. They are always the aggressor.

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I served, I said nothing of people in military being cowards, nor did I remotely suggest it. You are the one with the fear who wants to sacrifice their lives and the resources of your fellow citizens.

Those countries ignorantly invited them because they have shitty leadership. Not because they didn't go to the middle east and kill them first.

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This is incoherent. You are still being obtuse over that point that I made. I didn't say that you called them cowards, I simply posed a question to you, based on your own logic. If "fear" of being overthrown by an enemy is seen as a negative in your eyes, then logically, you are implying that anyone who acts on that "fear" is a coward. So I asked you a very simple question: Are our soldiers cowards? Are we cowards for every war we've fought in? Or is it only cowardice if it involves killing people of a specific religion?

You keep saying I'm "afraid" because I want to defend my country and my family. You can't male up your mind. you say that self-defense is a God given right, but then you immediately flip and say that a person who wants to defend himself is just afraid and wants to sacrifice lives. Did you ever read the Old Testament? There's a lot of commanded killing in there. Would you like to argue with God over those killings?

And you last point in that paragraph doesn't even make sense. It's just random words thrown together with no truth.

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The only ones that can take your freedoms are your own government. Which they do often and are working full time to take more.

Among the reasons they cite for attacking, religion and culture is not among them. Having troops in their holy lands, bases in the middle east, attacking their countries - those are the actual reasons.

They had a US puppet before. He was a brutal dictator who imprisoned and killed his opponents and so forth. That was the reason they rebeled. If we were over there for "freedom" that wouldn't have happened. We are over there for the petro dollar and that Iran will sell it's oil in Yuan, which is bad for the western banking cartel. It gets support because of people like you.

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This is wrong on so many levels. That you are naive enough to believe that "Only your own government" can take our freedom, you know nothing about world history.

Why do you keep talking about this war? This conversation was about a proposed modern day crusade. The war isn't a crusade. It is a response to multiple actions by our enemies. First was the attack on October 7th. That's the Israel-Hamas side of the wars in the Middle East. Then, Iran was warned to shut down operations on it's nuclear weapons production. They were given 60 days. 60 days went by, Iran did not comply, and bombing ensued. Then the Iranian regime killed thousands of civilian protesters, which brought further action on our part.

A crusade would be an all-out pursuit by Christians, specifically, against these tyrannical Muslims. It's something I don't believe will ever happen, but that was the hypothetical, and you keep talking about the war, of which, you don't even have your facts straight. You have liberal/Muslim talking points that you spit out with no effort to back any of it with data.

As for having troops in their "holy lands", there is nothing holy about Islam. We don't owe them respect because they call something holy. Their religion is evil, and their repeated acts of terror or why our troops are there. We didn't invade a peaceful people.

Who is this US puppet you speak of, and where is the evidence that he was acting on our behalf? They didn't rebel against a puppet, they rebelled against the terrorist regime who runs that country, not the pseudo government that is entirely toothless. So there you go again, not knowing your facts.

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I'm sure most Christians are not like that. However at the same time most Muslims aren't like that either.

But you judge them on the extremists, then ask not to be judged on Christian extremists.

Do you kill your neighbor based on how they plant your crops even though it's in the bible?

You still use government to do it. You just don't put your name on it anymore. The reasons behind it aren't really changing though.

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Most of this is once again incoherent. But the part about judging "extremists" is a tired leftist tactic. Have you ever read any part of the Quran? The terrorists aren't the "extremists", they are the true followers of the false prophet Muhammad. Everything they do is commanded in their "holy" scriptures. And they are not in the minority. They are not the entirety of all Muslims, but they are certainly the majority. They hate us, they hate western culture, and they want us dead, and have murdered countless Christians where they are. And make no mistake, this infiltration into our government has and end game where they do in this country what they have done for centuries in their native lands.

I don't care if you don't believe that, or claim that you "aren't afraid". What you are is ignorant and passive, which is not courage. It's easy not to fear what you are too blind to see coming. I don't fear in any sort of way that disrupts my daily life. That kind of fear, the fear that controls, is cowardice. Healthy fear is not cowardice. You don't walk out into traffic because you know certain awaits. It's common sense. And when danger lurks from abroad, likewise, we should have the foresight to recognize it and act accordingly, if and when it becomes necessary.

I'm not here to bash Landen Clark, but all these takes about Clark being better all stem from late game, vs backups, performances that they've seen from him. He hasn't been tested at all.