Al Bundy

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On Jul 17, 2019:

  • Al Bundy replied to "Tigers @ Tribe (Series Thread)" at 07:21 pm

  • Twins lost this afternoon. We have a chance to cut their lead down to 4 games.

    Mercado misplayed another fly ball tonight. We got out of the inning without any damage, but I'd much rather see him at a corner position. Play Allen in center.

  • Al Bundy replied to "Tigers @ Tribe (Series Thread)" at 10:34 am
  • posted by Laley23

    Prior to last night, he went 5 for his previous 15. With 3 2Bs and a HR. 

    Hes struggling, but you can see the power potential. Unfortunately I think he needs to learn to hit the offspeed pitches in the bigs. Don’t see how mashing AAA pitching more will help. He won’t see enough, and they won’t be as high of quality. 

    I think that he can also use work defensively at AAA. There have been cases where he struggles to make what should be routine plays for a major league first baseman (fielding grounders, digging out low throws to first, footwork, making correct decisions on cutting off throws from the outfield, etc. ) I get that we are counting on him mostly for his bat, but I'd hate to have a guy that young who can only play DH.

On Jul 16, 2019:

  • Al Bundy replied to "Tigers @ Tribe (Series Thread)" at 01:20 pm
  • posted by BRF

    I feel the same way and it’s going to be Bauer.  I’m going to be pissed if we deal Hand.

    Go Tribe.

    Go cat_lover!

    (to Al Bundy: I apologize for calling you a troll and I hope you keep posting here)

     

    No problem, I've been called worse. I'll also be pissed if they trade Hand. I'm not opposed to trading Bauer if we get value in return, but I am opposed to trading him to the Yankees or Astros. If we can't get value from an NL team, keep him.

On Jul 15, 2019:

  • Al Bundy replied to "Tigers @ Tribe (Series Thread)" at 11:46 am

  • Over the past 6 weeks, we have done a great job of beating up on the bad teams (with the exception of the Baltimore series). We have 7 games left on this homestand against 2 horrible teams. We need to continue to dominate the bad teams.

On Jul 14, 2019:

  • Al Bundy replied to "Twins at Tribe (Series Thread)" at 09:22 pm
  • posted by vball10set

    What the fuck are you cutting that for, Santana?!?

    It was a horrible cut, but it was Bradley. Santana was DH today. I hate to question Tito, but I would like us to see our best defensive players against the Twins. We can't give them extra outs/runs. 

On Jul 13, 2019:

  • Al Bundy replied to "Twins at Tribe (Series Thread)" at 04:48 pm
  • posted by Ironman92

    Michael Brantley ?

    I may be mixing up my years, but I think Brantley struggled his rookie year and was sent down to the minors a few times.

  • Al Bundy replied to "Twins at Tribe (Series Thread)" at 02:16 pm
  • posted by Gardens35

    The last major league ready rookie center fielder/outfielder for the Tribe was Rick Manning.

    Discuss.

     

    Kenny Lofton

On Jul 10, 2019:

  • Al Bundy replied to "MLB All-Star Thread" at 10:16 pm
  • posted by BRF

    Start a new thread. 

     

    Troll

    GFY. I'm talking about the ASG and Indians history. I have forgotten more about the Indians history than you will ever know.

  • Al Bundy replied to "MLB All-Star Thread" at 10:11 pm
  • posted by Laley23

    It was a win win, because while Cleveland won’t be allowed to sell/license him...the fans will never let him die.

    It’s a completely racist and out of touch mascot, but I’m nostalgic and can’t let him go. I acknowledge how wrong it is, I just don’t care lol.

    Cleveland still does sell/license Chief Wahoo. He is sold at the gift shop and many booths throughout Progressive Field. If they decide to quit selling him, they give up the trademark.

     

    They cut a deal with MLB where they would take him off of the uniform in exchange for hosting the ASG.

  • Al Bundy replied to "MLB All-Star Thread" at 04:27 pm

  • There were some great moments the past few days, but was it worth killing Chief Wahoo to make it happen?

On May 15, 2019:

  • Al Bundy replied to "Browns Offseason 2019" at 05:58 am
  • posted by BR1986FB

    Luxury to have Duke. I'm indifferent on him. On 3rd downs I'd rather see them go 5 wide with OBJ, Landry, Higgins, Callaway & Njoku then have Duke in the mix. Just wondering where he's going to get touches. Unless Chubb gets dinged up, I don't see him getting the ball much.

    I agree with your assessment, but if we can only get a 6th or 7th round pick, I'd rather keep him as insurance. If a team gets into injury problems and wants to overpay, I'd be happy with a trade.

On Feb 12, 2019:

  • Al Bundy replied to "Browns Offseason 2019" at 12:10 am

  • I like it. It's a low risk, high reward move. We got him for nothing. If things don't work out, we just cut him. If things go well, he's a restricted free agent, so we should be able to keep him. 

On Feb 10, 2019:

On Jan 15, 2019:

  • Al Bundy replied to "Parks to Massillon" at 04:35 am
  • posted by chiefy jones

    Marquael Parks will finish his career at Massillon. 

    You heard it here first. 

    I like the addition. The kid saw that we won the Harbin Points State title and wanted to be part of our greatness. Cue BRF getting upset with me because we once again have taken their best player.

     

    On a related noted, our annual combine will be on March 31. https://www.theopening.com/regionals Many kids are expected to try out for our Harbin Points championship team. We will continue to dominate the combine era.

On Jan 9, 2019:

  • Al Bundy replied to "Browns Offseason 2019" at 08:41 pm
  • posted by Ironman92

    Was Kitchens being looked at by any other team?

    Browns didn't let him interview with other teams.

On Jan 7, 2019:

On Jan 1, 2019:

  • Al Bundy replied to "OSU Football 2018" at 09:38 pm
  • posted by slingshot4ever

    13-1 - Big Ten Champs and win the Rose Bowl.  That is a great year!

    Historically, it will look like a great season, but we didn't beat a good team all season and lost to a terrible team. Michigan got destroyed by an average Florida team. Penn State lost to Kentucky. What is our best win? Washington? Northwestern? 

On Dec 19, 2018:

  • Al Bundy replied to "Tribe Offseason Thread" at 04:36 pm
  • posted by BR1986FB

    Not so sure about the last part. The Dolan's ponied up to pay for Andrew Miller & Encarnacion. Even had a deal in place for Lucroy. I've previously railed on them for being "cheap" but this one's on the players, imo. They had their "window" in 2016 and choked it away due to a selfish freak playing with his drone....made the staff do double duty and Kluber finally hit the wall. After that season, teams knew what to expect and the Tribe couldn't sneak up on them.

    I'd love to see them fork out $200m+ to keep Lindor but it's just not feasible when you have 10,000 people showing up to games, if that.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/7sq2j1/mlb_payroll_as_a_percentage_of_revenue_for_all_30/#ampf=undefined

    Tribe was 14th in payroll/revenue ratio. That was middle of the road. The Dolans made plenty of money. We were not competitive at all against good teams. We will probably win a very bad division, but we have done nothing to match up better with the Astros, Yankees, Red Sox, etc. We have given away our top hitting prospects. Why did we give away the top catching prospect in baseball forfor very little if we planned on dumping Gomes?

  • Al Bundy replied to "Tribe Offseason Thread" at 06:48 am
  • posted by Laley23

    Shedding all the payroll means the Tribe is no longer shopping it’s starters. If they are blown away with a can’t refuse it kinda offer they will jump. But sounds like they are going to head into the season with the same SP staff as 2018.

    We keep the starting pitching the same, but we got worse or stayed the same at most other positions. First base is the only position where we got better. We weren't even close to competing with the good teams last year, and we have a worse team this year. It would be nice to have owners who care about winning. Every move that has been made has been about making the Dolans richer.