stevestevens

7 hours ago, Tank said:

once you were selected, how much did you have to pay for the tickets? or did you have to pay at all? 

Tickets were like $90. Really cheap

23 hours ago, Tank said:

practice round tickets are easier to get than tournament tickets, but still hard as hell to find. i put my name on a waiting list about three years ago but don't ever expect to get notified that i've won.

a friend of mine won the ticket lottery about 3 or 4 years ago and won two tickets for one day of the practice rounds. she and her son flew to atlanta for a two day trip just so she could see jordan speith. but hey, it was still augusta, and i'd probably do the same.

IIRC, @stevestevens went to the masters a few years ago. dude, got any stories to share?

I drew out for Sunday once and practice tickets twice. Don’t know how I have been so lucky. I never expect to draw out again. All my brothers put in every year and have never won. 
 

it is an amazing experience. I would go every year if I could.  

Marsh in left and Adell in right.....time to prove yourself is NOW.  

12 minutes ago, Second Base said:

Let's not lower our standards too far. I mean, I know some here are content with a decent looking woman making eye contact with them, but there's gotta be a drunk prom queen with daddy issues out there somewhere. Right place, right time. 

Ugh, I feel dirty even typing that garbage. Disregard. 

Bauer?

"Who do you think wins the internal SS battle?"

The other 29 mlb clubs are the true winners in an internal SS battle....especially the teams in the AL West that get to play us more.  

I was at the game today. His bat speed is sooooo slow. He will have an injury and some time in the season so he does not get benched and then be done. 

Over on the average, under on everything else. 
 

I am torn that we just notched a 5 game winning streak that will most likely take us out of the running for the first pick in the kumar rocker sweepstakes. 

3 minutes ago, HaloRed said:

Got to trust Epp.  He knows his pitching, knows something about the Red's organization after Jose Ramirez picked up a few seasons back from there.  

I trust Epp to put together a bunch of #4's and #5's and maybe one #3.  

6 runs on 12 BB’s, 8 H, and 1 error

28 minutes ago, rafibomb said:

It means he’ll pitch two games in ‘20 and then two games in ‘21 after his comeback. 

I wonder if this news will make Arte less angry with the Dodgers.

Thaiss had a higher WAR than Pujols last year.

Hopefully he gets some more consistent AB's this year and his norm can be closer to his .906 OPS (july) and .877 OPS (September) than his .477 August OPS.

I wonder if this news will make Arte less outraged towards the Dodgers so we can get Stripling back?

Arte nixed the deal once he heard Pederson was going to take DH at bats away from pujols.

Why not include negative WAR Upton in this conversation? That dude needs a fire pit under his ass and shouldn't see the outfield after his last AB of the game

3 minutes ago, Tank said:

wow, @ELEVEN and @stevestevens posting in the same thread on the same day. 

i'm feeling a bit nostalgic this afternoon.

We were out to lunch together

Just now, SlappyUtilityMIF said:

Or, this allows him to be trade bait?

Upton isn't trade bait....he is "we can eat his contract" bait for a low level prospect.

Upton was terrible last year.  Hopefully this trade lights a fire under his ass because Adell wants to play in the big leagues and Trout and Joc are way better than Upton.  Joc should not be the platoon guy, Upton is the platoon guy if we want to have one.  He sucks in the field and he was awful at the plate last year. -0.9 WAR last year....Joc was way better. 

Guy is having fun on Twitter right now... He would come in hating the Astros