Six early games with FOUR of them being west coast games
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WEATHER
No issues
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I am making a stand with just two guys today. There’s viable options beyond these two and that’s nice and all, but you don’t come out on a 6 game early slate and write up 5 pitchers and then act l ike you are actually saying something for the readers.
If you want to know who else is pitching, then pay attention when you set your lineup or go read some implied run total horse crap.
I’m not actually yelling at any of you, you are all great. I’m just yelling.
LOGAN WEBB
This is straight up comical at this point. I need someone who has less of a life than me to go out and figure if Logan Webb is breaking the record for most day starts in a season this year. This will be his 26th start of the season and I am pretty sure that 15 of them have been day games.
At any rate, Webb is too good of a pitcher to not do well against a 1 man team in the Detroit Tigers. That one man is Riley Greene beating the shift in the first PA of the game and then doing nothing else.
COLE IRVIN
A battle of lefties is likely to be a chalky SP2 spot today and on the other end you have Jesus Luzardo making his return to Oakland.
My first instinct was to beware of the day game impact in Oakland as it gives a big boost for offense generally but there’s very little in the Marlins lineup that I can buy into doing well against Irvin who does great at home.
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I think the year was 2016, it was definitely 2015 or 2016 that much I know. It was a random Wednesday in August and the Rockies had a home game. I honestly don’t recall who they were playing and I’m sure if I look it up I can find it but it wound up being one of those 14-11 type Coors games.
Ah, yes, I found the game. Wednesday, August 17th, Rockies 12 Nationals 10. It was Gray vs Strasburg who gave up a touchdown to Emmanuel Sanders in the first inning.
Funny thing about that game? Gerrardo Parra, who would later become a Nationals folk hero in their World Series season was batting 5th for the Rockies and drove in 4 runs.
If you can guess the Rockies shortstop I’ll give you a million Ambush Crowns.
Nope. Not Troy Tulowitzki.
Nope. Not Trevor Story.
He was the only Rockie starter who had 0 hits, 0 runs and 0 RBI.
He spent 10 years in the big leagues playing for two NL Central teams and 2 NL West teams.
He hit 48 career home runs.
His initials are the same letter.
You’re running out of clues.
He was a lefty hitter.
He has a World Series ring
He made an appearance as a pitcher in 2014
Oh for fucks sake
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It’s Daniel Descalso
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Oh wait… I didn’t actually recommend any stacks here.
Shit.
RANGERS
Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Adolis Garcia is going to hit a grand slam and yes, Kole Calhoun
ROCKIES
You think Jose Urena gets beat up? Wait until you see Martin Perez’s stat line today.
Connor Joe, CJ Cron, Randal Grichuk
NEXT BEST TEAMS
- Pirates
- Athletics
Like I said, just play Coors.
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CATCHER
- Austin Hedges
- Sean Murphy
- Jonah Heim
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FIRST BASE
- CJ Cron
- Connor Joe
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SECOND BASE
- Marcus Semien
- Brendan Rodgers
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THIRD BASE
- KeBryan Hayes
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SHORTSTOP
- Corey Seager
- Oneil Cruz
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OUTFIELD – Mt. Rushmore
- Adolis Garcia
- Randal Grichuk
- Kole Calhoun
- Bryan Reynolds
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- KeBryan Hayes – 3B – Pirates – Chairman of The Dongers Club
- Austin Hedges – C – Guardians
- Adolis Garcia – OF – Rangers
- Kole Calhoun – OF – Rangers
- CJ Cron – 1B – Rockies
- Brendan Rodgers – 2B – Rockies
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GAME PICKS
ATL @ PIT – Pirates win this game, Keller pitches well, Braves disappoint and Pirates put up a 5 spot on Kyle Wright
SF @ DET – Game puts us all to sleep, just listen to Kirk Gibson tell old stories by the 5th inning
TEX @ COL – 15-12 final score
MIA @ OAK – Oakland wins, somehow they score 6 runs too
CLE @ SD – I have no read on this game. Its just there. Lean on the under but I would only do it on an alt line.
WSH @ SEA – Kirby pitches decently but at 9k I’m not using him.
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CORE PLAYS
Austin Hedges
KeBryan Hayes
Adolis Garcia
CJ Cron
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BETTING PLAYS
Rangers/Rockies OVER 11
Rangers/Rockies OVER 1.5 runs first inning
Pirates ML
Athletics ML