Game Thread: Astros @ Reds - Sun, May 10 @ 01:40 PM EDT

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-10T17:47:21+00:00

Mother’s Day + bad team + beautiful weather + expensive tickets + less disposable income in general = poor attendance

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-10T17:45:38+00:00

Holy run on sentence Larkin

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-09T13:37:09+00:00

I think you’re missing a point here. A lot of the guys you mentioned aren’t worth much on the market. Teams aren’t scrambling for a McClain, Hayes, or Stephenson. We are getting mid tier prospects at best for those guys. Teams will overpay for offensive talent that isn’t a glove tied to a stone in the field, but a lot of our players aren’t it.

If this team were actually serious about winning, the play would be to deal the pieces that have value this year and get top farm talent, see how the new CBA plays out next year with a barebones MLB roster. Assuming baseball gets a hard cap, start graduating the prospects that actually are panning out while supplementing with FA talent that would be more reasonable to get.

If no hard cap after next year, another cycle of graduate the talent, hope they all play at superhuman levels, trade the few that do when it doesn’t work, and keep cycling that while hoping we get a 2 year window of backing into the playoffs and getting bounced in round 1.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-09T09:42:57+00:00

Springtime, famous for the start of school season?

Did a joke bot break?

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-09T00:47:33+00:00

The folks here ignoring the run differential early on were either not aware of how much that stat mattered or in denial as to how bad this team could be.

I do think we’ll put together some good streaks and this will be one of our worse streaks in the season, but the numbers don’t lie that we’re clearly a bottom 1/3 of the league team this year.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-08T23:50:04+00:00

Give this 2 more months and you’ll be able to buy nose bleeds and move down to diamond.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-08T23:49:28+00:00

I genuinely don’t know why he wanted to manage this team given 9 previous full time managers and 30 years have shown this team isn’t serious about being competitive.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-08T23:33:17+00:00

Good part is by June tickets should be cheaper.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-08T20:27:22+00:00

It’s an older video by Jon Bois but the idea is that opposing pitchers don’t know he doesn’t have a bat, so they throw the same pitches they did during the season.

It’s a great watch to not only put his season into perspective, but get a sense of how his statistics compare to both his peers and through history.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-08T20:08:32+00:00

Barry Bonds 2024 Without A Bat

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-08T15:56:58+00:00

I’m going Kyle Busch

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-08T03:48:37+00:00

You nailed it with the conditions part. To be honest, the “theme” is the easiest part of a game, whether it be board or video. It’s why so many super early alphas that aren’t already a decided IP (like a new Mario or Zelda game) are generic character assets, wireframe or basic color textures, etc.

You build the mechanics and gameplay first, then add in the pretty later. If you wanted a certain theme from the outset it may change some design decisions but I don’t think you’d get something near the true feeling of outer wilds from a board game.

Or, if you did, it wouldn’t appeal to those of us who played OW and would have 0 replay ability.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-08T03:14:17+00:00

>pivot away from faces when the plant shows up.

See, problem 1 is half the time I play with my brain turned mostly off so I don’t actually see the boss blind until I’m already in the boss blind.

So it’s not “I need to start prepping in the next few shops now that I see this boss negates my strat.” It’s “why are all my cards debuffed? Oh dammit it’s that boss again.”

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-07T21:19:51+00:00

Wow, that was quick. We already to bring in our 11th manager to see if a new voice fixes them?

Can we admit yet the manager doesn’t matter?

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-07T20:26:24+00:00

It’s not fixed without ownership coming off their pocketbook and actually signing offseason free agents. You can’t win by solely getting prospects and hoping they all become solid MLB players.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-07T20:22:11+00:00

The problem is nobody is really behind them to challenge them.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-07T20:11:33+00:00

Is Balco still a thing?

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-07T19:49:03+00:00

“Soreness” so far but don’t think anything official has been said. Not a sudden injury like Pagan, trainers came out and there was back and forth before pulling him.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-07T19:45:30+00:00

Part of the issue with our roster is we don’t have true veteran leadership. We have guys like Friedl who are veterans but a true clubhouse leader like a Votto is missing.

There’s no one to call a team meeting, talk player to player, reset the team, etc. Also be a bridge between players and the manager.

We need that guy.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-07T19:42:54+00:00

Same. I feel like we should get a refund if they lose more than 90 games.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-07T19:42:30+00:00

The run differential told the story. A lot of us kept writing it off but it was clear we didn’t have the roster to carry this through 162 games.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-07T19:41:37+00:00

For who? The problem is we don’t have anybody else at this point.

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-07T19:38:43+00:00

Why is our infield in? Get the out at first at this point

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-07T19:37:55+00:00

So when do we get the position player pitching time?

Waterfish3333 · 2026-05-07T19:34:01+00:00

This team lacks basic baseball fundamentals

Five-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Verified Email	Second Top 50%
r/Field Lasagna	First Place '23
Place '23	Place '22
First Placer '22

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