Maestrobjwa

Hey personally while I love sustained cold, don't have to have it. The snow is the bigger thing for me. I just don't want a 72-73 or 97-98 1.2" snow total...it seems super niños are boom or bust where I am.

How was 2015-16 oriented?

I'd take that...I mean Dec is an automatic punt in a Nino where I am (except 2009). But isn't east-based historically warm all the way through most of the time? (Again, maybe that's just my region) What would be different in the 1/15-3/15 period?

And what would that result in, winter-wise?

I alreadt chalked that up as a loss on Sunday when as we heard who was involved, lol Soiled it! Soiled it! Soiled it!

Man I knew they were done the second that appeal to the FIFA president happened. Nothing good was gonna come from that, lol

Goooooood soaking rain now with some wind. Some rumbles of thunder as well!

Stuff like this makes me wish I lived in the surrounding counties sometimes, lol

FIFA just changed their minds on Balogun--He can play tomorrow! Sounds like a "yeah we messed up" lol

When's the last time we had heat indexes this high at this time of night? I mean...bruh, lol

"Alright it oughta get cooler at night, right?" *steps outside*

@donsutherland1 You've been summoned

I don't know much about soccer but that looked like some serious "you're not meant to win it this year" bad luck to lose what I understand is our best scorer for the next game from purely incidental contact that led to a red card. That is so dumb, smh

I meant that the intent coming into this season was to contend --and signing Helsly was supposed to be THE move to secure our closer. Before the second half of last season he was dominant--so it should have been s good signing. This was just unlucky, imo And tbh...I'm not sure we have any closers in the making among the arms in the bullpen. For a little while I thought Garcia may be, but obviously his start was a fluke. And we are in a worse position now because we don't even know if Bautista will even pitch again...meaning we gotta find another closer.

I don't know...that was just half a season, though. He was pretty dominant in the first half and in the seasons before. So that was more likely to be blip as opposed to evidence of regression. And here's what I always say about a closer: they are hard to raise and you need to get a little lucky. Relying on young arms to fill the role when you are trying to win is a risky proposition: to be a closer requires a different mentality than the other bullpen innings. Not just any arm with good stuff can do it.