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Yeah, if you don't like it after the first book you aren't going to like it I'd imagine. I'd at least give it the full book though.

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where if the owners and player union can't come to an agreement for there to be a 27 season, I actually won't give a shite

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I think we can pretty much count on a major stoppage. The owners are going to get a salary cap after the stuff the Dodgers have been doing, it's just a matter of how much bleeding happens before the players give in. I'd be pretty surprised if this CBA passed without a salary cap, salary floor, and a closing of the salary deferring loopholes.

Yeah, but the starting pitching has at least been average over the past month and a half, the offense has been bottom five in baseball bad over that period of time.

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I'm wrong on the pitching being average, from a tweet:
Since May, 18th Braves have been hitting .232/.296/.377 w/ a wOBA of .306. That’s the 3rd worst offense in baseball.

Braves rotation has produced an ERA of 5.20 & a FIP of 4.64. Both of those numbers are near the bottom of the MLB.

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but I come to the Book Board to ask if the rest of the Stormlight Archive series follows a similar path of a very slow burn leading up to tons of action the last 15% of the book. 

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Definitely something that continues throughout. Books 2 and 3 are probably the best books, it falls off a bit in the 4th.

I personally thought the 5th sucked and was a drag to read, but opinions vary on it (though pretty much everyone agrees it's the worst book and a dropoff). It made me not particularly interested in reading the next/last 5 when he writes them unless I hear they end much better.

Sanderson is in bad need of better editing and to be reigned in, and it shows. The last two books of Stormlight had way too many pointless chapters, particularly book 5.

When he's reigned in a bit and writes tighter stuff he can produce great stuff like Warbreaker and the era 2 Mistborn series, but when he's not he produces huge bloat like Stormlight 5.

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Might need to bring Farmer back and DFA HSK down the stretch.

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We would need to trade for an actual LF before we can dump HSK, in order to clear up Dubon to start at SS the majority of the time.

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Silo is great.

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This, Silo is a very good series. Much better than Wayward Pines, which is solid but doesn't exactly blow your doors off.

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You’re complaining about buying out arb years

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Ozzie's deal wasn't good because it bought out arb years, it was good because it gave us option years at a reasonable rate, same as Acuna's deal. If you are taking the risk on buying out arb years you need to actually get something from it.

Strider's extension gave us nothing in return, which is why it was stupid. We basically got one market value option year for overpaying his arb years. Which is dumb. The Harris extension is an example of a worthwhile risk, even if he flopped and fell off we got two cheap extension years and two reasonable option years, which is worth the assumed risk. Strider was not, particularly when you throw in his injury problems in college and his previous TJ surgery.

The problem with the Riley deal was that massive 10 year type deals pretty much never work out, and while the Dodgers have the endless payroll to make such mistakes, we don't. Particularly when AA overspends on relievers like it's going out of style.

And while the Olson deal has worked out well, losing Freddie because he refused to give him 6 years, then signing Olson to an 8 year deal was nonsensical given they are three years apart in age, and Freddie had a swing/bat that would likely age much better.

If AA had just signed Freddie we would have Contreras and Langeliers as our catchers and Drake as DH, and had way more money to fill our giant gaping hole in LF.

As mentioned, AA is a solid GM overall, but not an amazing one. For every great move he's had he's also made too many knee jerk responses that have hurt the team.

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shite on Riley all you want, but his defense isn’t a problem.

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I mean, compared to his offense sure, it's not remotely an issue. But when a guy who can't hit is playing subpar defense too, it becomes more of an issue. There is a big difference between being a slightly above replacement level player like Riley was when he was on the field in 24 and 25, to being barely replacement level or below replacement level like he is now.

Either way, we all are in the same boat of hoping he gets his crap together, cause eating 22 mil for the next six years would suck.

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Bright side, Karinchek looks like he will improve the pen even further.

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Hopefully Kinley isn't down for a long time, if he's able to come back strong Lopez would be the only real weakness in the bullpen, and he can just be the mop up guy at that point unless he turns it around.

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Even though he plays every day, I still miss Austin Riley very much

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:lol: It's amazing how we are paying Riley and Kim 42 mil to produce negative WAR. And we get 6 more years of Riley. Super long contracts like that are always dumb.

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imagine Karinchak in AAA had more to do with the 40 man roster and players with and without option

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That would be an all fine and dandy reason if we didn't have garbage pitchers like Carrasco and the other Suarez taking up 40 man and roster spots throughout the year. But we did, so it never made much sense. As soon as Suarez got jettisoned from the team Karinchak should have been brought up.