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IDK, that seems like a better question to ask your guild/your raiders. If you're noticing some attendance problems, then it may be a good idea to just switch over to 10m. If not, and your raiders are happy doing/attending raids for 25m content, then I wouldn't see a problem in continuing it.
Basically, it's better to ask your guild what they wanna do(or maybe the guild/raid leadership forums). When you come to the realm forums and mention anything about death of anything on the server/game, it usually turns into a flame war, bacon spam, etc. as you have seen. IDK, I don't think Dalaran people handle death too well. This thread (I haven't read it yet) will probably help answer some of your questions: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3279038583
If you're worried about recruitment for 25m on Dal, I don't think you'll see good results. The majority play 10s over 25s and I don't think people will be switching to this server for 25m. IMO, 25m is dead for the majority of the server, but that doesn't matter as long as your raiders are fine with continuing. Legitimate is a good example of one of the few remaining 25m guilds that still stands strong (I'm not completely sure how Gaia is doing which is why I didn't use them as an example, but maybe they're doing just as well. I only singled out Legitimate because I know from experience.)
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Edit #2: I thought you were GM of Black Death when I made this post and I'm not gonna bother editing the post as it still has some good points. lol
Edited by Coolstorybro on 12/2/2011 8:30 AM PST
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May as well give my take on the 25 man issue now. For me, the demise of 25 is a combination of factors. It is just more difficult to field a full raid group of 25 people from a scheduling perspective. LFR , loot simplification, server xfers and even consumables nerfing hasn't helped 25 man or overall server community stability in the long run. Now there are even less reasons to organize large groups to achieve common goals.
The game really doesn't promote any guild activities outside of scheduled raid or rated BG times anymore and there are increasing options to satisfy that need without dealing with herding 24 or even 9 other people around. It is clear the majority of the players don't want to spend any time in game that doesn't involve instant fighting/loot so Blizzard has slowly removed all those requirements. Many guilds have evolved into groups of people playing more than WoW together and often spending the minority of their gaming time actually playing this game. It has reached the point where they aren't really WoW guilds at all, but Ventrilo/Mumble buddies who play WoW a few hours a week together.
Maybe this is why Blizzard is focusing on lobby games like SC2 and Diablo3 where you don't have any persistent world to interact with others. At this point most of Azeroth and especially Orgrimmar and Stormwind are nothing but glorified game lobbies where people idle before selecting some LFR/LFG/BG queue. I have to wonder if "Titan" will be a lobby game too.
Interest in high-end raiding and the game in general is waning and it has been evident for a long time that anything else worth playing drains the attention span of the player base. Honestly how many of you were just hoping your current raid would end so you could go back to playing Skyrim, BF3, LoL , SWTOR or whatever instead of focusing on completing Dragon Soul.
Those are many of the reasons I am moving away from 25 man raiding in WoW after 7 years and according to population numbers it seems I am not alone. It is amusing that some people and apparently Blizzard developers think many of us were playing for loot. Now that we have tons of ways to easily obtain it, the game isn't as interesting.
Maybe the most fun I had this xpac was participating in the guild fishing achieve since it reminded me of the old WoW where we needed to do things outside of raiding. I actually used to enjoy late night consumable farming and helping people get geared or keyed to do content. Now there is nothing left to do in WoW except twink someones 48th alt when I am not raiding. Hell at this point I would even enjoy a gate opening event for the server to increase the community. Who knew we would be playing a MMO that was working to devalue nteraction with the game world and other players?
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Wait..... What?! I must have refreshed this thread for nearly 30 minutes before going to bed and it took you six hours to write all this?!?! GAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!
I was there for nearly 6 months, when I left it was due to falling behind on school work and a girlfriend. I wasn't even planning on returning to raiding until I saw legitimate's raid recruitment thread. I did know one thing though, Doom wasn't the right fit for me as an individual and Legitimate had something different.
The people were not the problem, but above all loa, shunjal, and pravox are the only people I really talked with and there lied the problem. Think about it this way. You say you knew every member of your guild in the past year? I'll take that, but instead describe each member and one hobby that each does beyond WOW. That may not seem like a huge difference, but it is the difference between knowing someone's name and knowing someone. Legitimate actually can tell when each member is having a bad day just on how they sound on vent.
At the end of the day, the only thing I thought was wrong with Doom was that you guys were too serious, but that is your selling point. You guys were a great guild, but as I mentioned there was no one you could connect with leaving the only motivation for showing up to raids (for me) was a sense of honor that I owed Shunjal for taking me on. I am still grateful that he allowed me to raid with him and that he took my departure the same way. Still I think it needed to be said, because if you are like me, it took me 5 guilds to realize that I had guild hoped so many times and didn't have a single friend to show for it. If epics and being server first are the only motivation, then what is the point of friends? Guilds? Community? It's all relative and someone is always going to be better then the other.
I left Doom because I couldn't find community, I know this experience was different for you because you were always talking with someone in the pvp channel after raid. If you were lucky, your name might be mentioned in vent. Otherwise, most of your raiders were shadows. I am telling you this from my prospective because I know I am not the only one that felt this way. Which is also why not even 10 mans worked out.
I didn't write this to make fun of doom, but as a warning. That if the only motivation for raiding is epics and fast boss kills, then your guild will break apart. Community is the most important aspect in a guild. Legitimate was the only one that actually finally "got it". If you do decide to start 25 mans again, I hope you heed my warning. Because I hate reruns.
I was there for nearly 6 months, when I left it was due to falling behind on school work and a girlfriend. I wasn't even planning on returning to raiding until I saw legitimate's raid recruitment thread. I did know one thing though, Doom wasn't the right fit for me as an individual and Legitimate had something different.
And there's nothing wrong with that. What I'm saying is, you aren't in a position to speak about the close-knitedness of Doom.
I could do that for the vast majority of those that were there for upwards of a year. And I can definitely tell when someones having a bad day by the sound of their voice in Vent, just like I can tell that about people in real-life. You don't even have to know someone well to be able to do that.
When it comes to socializing you get out what you put in. You said you only talked to a handful of people, well maybe therein lies your problem. I think anyone thats ever raided with Doom, you included, can acknowledge that vent isn't just used for mechanics. People were constantly chatting about their days, their hobbies, and pretty much anything in it.
I am still grateful that he allowed me to raid with him and that he took my departure the same way. Still I think it needed to be said, because if you are like me, it took me 5 guilds to realize that I had guild hoped so many times and didn't have a single friend to show for it. If epics and being server first are the only motivation, then what is the point of friends? Guilds? Community? It's all relative and someone is always going to be better then the other.
The fallacy here is that 'epics and server first' isn't what Doom was even about when you were there. I don't know why people keep going back to that argument about Doom. If that were the case, we'd have still been raiding far more days a week, no?
It *was* about the community, you just weren't a fit for it. There's nothing wrong with that at all, but don't paint pictures that aren't there.
Doom didn't have a pvp channel. I would have been talking in guild chat. ;)
You really don't seem to understand the situation on 10 mans. It wasn't a matter of them working or not working out. When we were no longer able to do 25s, we downsized to 10 temporarily while figuring out what everyones plans were. It was never intended to 'last' or 'work out,' because there were more than 10 people that wanted to raid.
And that's fine and well, but *that's not what Doom was about.* And it's not like Doom was a short-lived flash-in-the-pan or something...it lasted as long as it did as a raiding guild *because* it did have community. It wasn't just about 'epics and fast boss kills', and saying it was is just completely dismissive of the friendships many members had and still have.
Correction: Legitimate was the only one that finally "got it" in regards to you. That's fine that they're a good match for you, but again, it's very dismissive to think that they're the only guild thats members are close.
Leitka when your own members get on alts to talk crap about other members....then the community sucks. There is NOTHING you can say that changes that, it is simple fact.
When Brillak apped, I had multiple people from your guild tell me 1. He died in fires 2. He only cared about loot 3. He was always on the bottom of DPS meters. All of these couldn't be further from the truth. Hell Pravox called him a loot !@#$% in this very thread.
It's the same crap that ALWAYS happens when a Doom member leaves. There might have been a community between 10ish people in Doom, but that's it. Those bonds of community were not strong enough to endure bad content. This again is fact. If Brillak says vent was empty but for a few, then it is him I will be believing, as my sense of trust with you basically doesn't exist.
This has been a brutal xpac for raiding 25 mans. However instead of putting your head down and just doing it as a guild, your people stopped logging in. They WoW quit. They got kicked. These are again, all true. You yourself have admitted this. If I can keep a healthy group 6 and 7 on this backwater server, then Doom could have as well. Their name goes much further then ours. That is how you endure bad content. You recruit. Shunjal didn't. Or at least didn't in the numbers he needed to so that that he could field a raid. Doom played for the content, this is what the events say. If Doom played to just play together, then raids would still be happening, even 10 mans.
You yourself might have been tight knit with people in Doom, but all 25+ of you? Not a chance. If your group sense was so strong, you would still be raiding. That is what the difference is between us, and what epeeners like you will never understand. There is a hellava lot more to this game then numbers. If you have numbers but no social aspects for the ENTIRE guild, then the guild will not survive bad numbers.
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Edited by Alshar on 12/2/2011 2:48 PM PST
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Even me?!
Looks like I have to work on my depressed monotone voice a bit before next week's raid.
Wow I can't find the post anymore. Oh hay look, Pravox edited a bunch of his posts within 10 minutes of each other. Maybe after Brillak posted, you changed your story? Who knows, doesn't matter. I mention Brillak because he is the key witness testifying against all your lies and exaggerations. You're a drama queen, currently trying to bust up another guild on an alt. Wanna talk about that? Care to comment?
You obviously seem to have this impression that I hate your guild. Being critical=/=hate. You ain't Jesus, you can step off the cross now. Every post you make is indicative to how bad the community in your guild actually was. You're angry and filled with rage. I ain't sayin you mad brah, I'm saying I understand why Doom couldn't make it through bad content. With people like you to share the guild tag with, who wants to deal with a bad design?
Edited by Alshar on 12/2/2011 3:29 PM PST
Well I've said my peace, I hold no ill will against Doom even IF they did say that. But I allow the facts to speak for themselves. I doubt you could find two people on this server or any of the others that could claim I live for loot. Even in yours I rarely took an item that I thought another person needed/wanted. Though you could call me terrible.... >.> because I do suck XD
In any case, my message was about community is vital to a guild. That was it. If Doom truly had the community then why would people leave or stop logging on? You were far from being terrible, you were ahead of us. So why did Legitimate members stay while Doom's left? If I was a liar wouldn't that have been reversed? I'm just trying to get you guys to think about this concept.
Lastly, I joined as a substitute to Legitimate when I ended my 2 month break. There were a few days when someone didn't log on where I would be asked to come in. Otherwise, I did my own stuff and my plan was not to return to raiding, but I am a sucker for helping people out.
Once again, I don't think Doom was terrible, but it wasn't the right fit for me and I fear are going to repeat the same mistake again. You guys didn't have a community. Otherwise, I might have stayed
Leitka when your own members get on alts to talk crap about other members....then the community sucks. There is NOTHING you can say that changes that, it is simple fact.
You are really, really dense.
If people *don't want to play a video game anymore,* how is the decision to stop an indication of failure? Doom could have easily fronted two 10 mans if that had been the desire; but it wasn't. Think of it as retiring a jersey.
Also, should I point out that you once applied to Doom, the guild which you now have so much ire for? ;D
No one said anything bad about Brillak at all in this thread. What people may or may not have whispered you I don't know, but you keep 'referencing' things we've said about you in this thread that were never even said. Like how you keep going back to thinking that I'm 'talking bad' about your precious guild, when in reality I don't mind Legitimate and only have a problem with the chain smoking piece of trash that leads it. I wouldn't have such strong opinions against you if you didn't showcase the same remarkable ability to paint and pursue red herrings at *every single turn.*
Once again, there's a reason no ones really 'defending' your statements except for your little pet Gulmen. Even members from your own guild aren't outright agreeing or disagreeing with you, they're just...posting about other things. Because they're sensible people, and they can probably tell when you've made a fool of yourself.
Edited by Leitka on 12/2/2011 4:31 PM PST
You guys didn't have a community. Otherwise, I might have stayed
We did. You just weren't around long enough to really be pulled into it. You may have been a guild member for 6 months, but you weren't raiding with us for 6 months. Had you been around longer you'd have realized that a lot of Doom members do things with each other outside of WoW; because there *is* a sense of community. Doom is a group of mostly likeminded gamers and friends, not just a 'guild of mercs.'
I'm not sure if you're aware of this but I was looking through your armory and I saw something that really threw me off. It's nothing major and it won't cause you to wipe or anything, I think, but you might want to fix it because it could be a really big problem eventually, and I wouldn't want to see your performance hurt by it. You seem like a decent person but it's just really hard to not point it out.
There's a moon on your forehead.
You're way too angry. Obviously keeping cool in a debate is not your forte.
My application to Doom previous to Legitimate is no secret. It's something that's been discussed and brought up by me. You wouldn't have even known had I not brought it up. Who cares? I talked to Shunjal, and I talked to Gulthok. I chose Legitimate. Looks like I made the right choice. You have this complex that I hate you or your former guild tag. Why would I hate either? Both supply entertainment up to a point before they become broken records.
Honestly, wanna know what makes my side of the argument stronger? I answer almost every query or counter point. You guys just glance over crap and repeat the same tag lines used from Doom since TBH. I like to argue, even when I am wrong. It's fun, and it is how you learn. I'm sorry this irritates you, but don't expect my viewpoint on the matter to change anytime soon.
Edited by Alshar on 12/2/2011 4:40 PM PST
Alshar I have no real beef with you, in fact when I've talked to you in game I got along with you quite well, but you are flying off the handle and are completely wrong about this. Also Brillak; I don't really know you, but even here you seem like an alright guy; You are however wrong. Doom wasn't a fit for you, but it was for many. Doom was around for longer than most people on Dalaran have even been playing WoW (much longer) and not without reason. It wasn't a perfect guild nor was it the right place for many (as even you felt Brillak), but it was a place some of us called home in this game.
Was the guild perfect? Heh, far from it. People had problems, people talked !@#$, but not a single guild can claim otherwise about their own and I know that for an absolute fact. How? Because I talked to almost everyone while I was still playing the game, and still do talk to many of my former guildmates and outside of the game amongst many others still on or formerly on Dalaran. No guild is innocent of inner guild smack talk that leaks to the outside, the difference with Doom is we usually became aware of it soon after. Hell, I talked %^-* about a few I had a dislike for after I left as well, but the majority I thought of as my family and friends (even if I was mean as hell!).
When I quit, I could have joined almost anyone if I wanted to yet I opted to quit completely. Seemed like a good time to, but mostly it was because I didn't want to go anywhere after Doom. If I was leaving Doom I was leaving the game, and the was always my word. That was my loyalty and respect to friends. It was them or nothing. That is just an example of the strength in bonds many members that did find the right fit into the community had. Doom had a community and was very close knit, but it wasn't your cup of tea and that's perfectly alright.
There are various reasons for the fall of the guild, but lack of community and friendship is not on that list, I can guarantee you that. I think people get the Doom of vanilla WoW really mixed up with the Doom of the last like 4 years because that's what they want to remember. It is not the same thing.
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I thought we decided on Jackson Keith, then out of nowhere SO says he likes Jackson Carter...I love both so now I'm all confused lol.
Well I THOUGHT we decided on a name, but...
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I like either middle name. Jackson isnt my favorite name but it is pretty popular right now. You might put thought into his middle name in case he wants to go by it if there are other Jacksons in his class. My name is Heather at one point there were two other Heathers in my class (i was born in 1980) i tried to go by my middle name but it didnt stick. So i was Heather V a lot... :(
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The name Jackson is set in stone, I'm asking for opinions on MIDDLE names. Thanks for the input, but Jackson isn't popular at all in my area. I only know of one Jackson and he's my age. No matter how hard you try to come up with a name someone will have that name. I want my son to be called by his first name...because that's his name. I guess I should have said WHICH MIDDLE NAME SOUNDS BETTER, CARTER OR KEITH?
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I agree with pp about the possibility of him going by his middle name. I'm a Jessica, and went by my middle name from 3rd - 7th grade. I didn't mind it though, so I don't think you should change the Jackson part, just saying to make sure you love his middle name because he might decide to go by that instead. I thought I had settled on Avery for this baby, but then I met a man with a big beard who was named Avery, so that ruined it for me lol! I changed her name to Eden.
Sorry... kinda rambled there... back to your original point... I like Keith better than Carter.
Sorry... kinda rambled there... back to your original point... I like Keith better than Carter.
Posted 12/07/2012
Sorry, just saw that you wouldn't be okay with him choosing to go by his middle name. Disregard that part of my comment lol
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Lol country mom I LOVE the name Avery, Eden is nice also.
Posted 12/07/2012
A little background: Keith is SO's middle name, he always wanted to name his son Keith, but his brother named one of his twins Keith and one Kobe so we decided instead to go with J names since both of our names start with J's & that a boy would get his initials and a girl, mine. I want him to be named after his dad, but I feel like Keith will be associated with his nephew to their family. Well at least it has the same sound: Jordan Keith and Jackson Carter. :)
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I prefer Carter I think its very cute!
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I like carter better too I think it flows better than Keith
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My story "Baseball, Werewolves and Me" Included in Halloween 2014 Edition of Twilight Times E-Zine
Happy Halloween, folks!
Since it is Halloween, the time of tricks and/or treats, what say you to a little bit of both?
I'm discussing my story, "Baseball, Werewolves and Me," of course, as it's included in the Halloween edition of the Twilight Times e-zine. It's absolutely free to read, so in that sense it's definitely a treat. But there's at least a little bit of trickery in play, partly due to the nature of the story itself.
Arletta James is a psychic, and a good one. She's also a huge baseball fan. So when "Madame Arletta" is asked to help Hank Rayne, manager of the Brooklyn Knights, some pointers to try to get the Knights out of their twelve-game losing streak, Arletta agrees. (Of course, she is getting paid good money to do this, as Arletta is not a fool.) Once she talks with Hank Rayne, she realizes something else — something much worse — is going on that's caused the Knights to go into a tailspin. Will Arletta figure this out, or won't she? And what does her husband Fergus — a werewolf — have to do with it all?
"Baseball, Werewolves and Me" is a fun story that readers should enjoy, especially as it's about a subject that usually does not get covered overmuch in urban fantasy: baseball.
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Milwaukee Brewers Fire Two Coaches…But Not Manager Ron Roenicke
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. Which is why I find the Milwaukee Brewers' refusal to fire manager Ron Roenicke after the Brewers' historic collapse in September 2014 so troubling.
This past Friday, in a press release, Milwaukee fired two coaches: first base coach Garth Iorg and hitting coach Johnny Narron. Hitting was a major concern for the Brewers down the stretch, so firing Johnny Narron wasn't at all surprising. But firing Iorg made very little sense, as Iorg wasn't to blame for Milwaukee's players' brain freezes on the basepaths or Mark Reynolds' failure to remember how many outs there were in an inning or Carlos Gomez's inability to lay off bad pitches or even Ryan Braun's thumb injury.
While Roenicke wasn't directly to blame for any of those things, either, someone has to be held accountable.
I mean, really. The Brewers were in first place for 150 days of the season. Then they went 9-22 over the last 31 games to miss the playoffs and finish 82-80.
And the person who usually is held accountable is — wait for it — the manager. Not the piddly first base coach.
Of course, if the Brewers had fired Roenicke, it's very possible that every single one of the coaches on Roenicke's staff would be looking for work right now rather than only two of them getting their pink slips. But it still looks very strange that Roenicke stayed while Johnny Narron and Iorg had to go . . . especially when you consider that Johnny's brother Jerry Narron is still employed by the Brewers as their bench coach. (What sense is there in firing one brother but keeping the other?)
Overall, I am extremely disappointed that the Brewers retained Roenicke. But I am even more disappointed that the Brewers didn't even have the guts to call a press conference; instead, they sent out a milquetoast press release on a Friday afternoon in the hopes that no one would be paying attention to the fact that Brewers' owner Mark Attanasio has thus far refused to hold anyone significant accountable for the Brewers' historic collapse.
My view is simple: Roenicke should've been fired, and someone else — perhaps former Brewers pitching coach Mike Maddux — should've been hired instead.
But that's not what the Brewers did. Obviously, Milwaukee hopes that fans will forgive and forget the Brewers' historic collapse. But my gut feeling is this:
No. We won't.
Milwaukee Brewers 2014 End-of-the-Season Wrap-up
Folks, I waited a few extra days to post my end-of-the-season wrap-up for the 2014 Milwaukee Brewers, mostly to see if the Brewers would show some sense and fire manager Ron Roenicke. But as they haven't — yet — it's time to fish or cut bait.
Here's what I thought of my 82-80 2014 Milwaukee Brewers:
- Kyle Lohse (13-9, 3.54 ERA, 198 1/3 innings pitched) was robbed. He left with the lead six more times than he has wins; if the Brewers had won even three more of those games, he'd have had a 16-win season. Lohse was Milwaukee's most consistent starter, and threw a 2-hit shutout gem late in the season when the Brewers were still (barely) in Wild Card contention.
- Wily Peralta (17-11, 3.52 ERA, 198 2/3 innings pitched) was a bit overrated. Peralta improved in his second season, no lie, but unlike Lohse and the other starters, Peralta's games featured better offensive support and better relief pitching . . . so Peralta didn't have as many no decisions as Lohse.
These were the Brewers two best season-long starters.
"But what about Mike Fiers, Barb?" you ask. "Wasn't he great, too?"
Yes, he was.
Fiers was Milwaukee's best pitcher down the stretch and helped keep the Brewers in contention long past their sell-by date. But Fiers (6-5, 2.13 ERA, 71 2/3 innings pitched) wasn't brought up for good until August, which is why he's not listed above with the two best Brewers pitchers.
"What about Yovani Gallardo (8-11, 3.51 ERA, 192 1/3 innings pitched) and Matt Garza (8-8, 3.64 ERA, 163 1/3 innings pitched)?" you ask.
Mostly, Gallardo and Garza both had better seasons than their records indicated. Both, like Lohse, were victimized by poor run support throughout the season and hit-or-miss relief pitching that often wasted their quality starts.
These five pitchers should be in the starting rotation for 2015.
Now, as for the relievers?
- Francisco "K-Rod" Rodriguez (5-5, 3.04 ERA, 44 saves in 49 opportunities) was excellent at the start of the season, had an odd July, and a decent rest of the season. The home run ball was a bit of a concern at times, and K-Rod lived up to his nickname of "twenty minutes of terror," but he's a quality closer and at thirty-two is already tenth on the all-time save leaders list with 348.
- Will Smith (1-3, 3.70 ERA, 78 appearances, 30 holds) was overused; prior to his overuse, Smith was a legitimate All-Star candidate and was K-Rod's set-up man for the first three-fifths of the season.
Everyone else (with Rule 5 pick Wei-Chung Wang as a conspicuous exception) was competent and unexceptional over the long-term, though several (Zach Duke and Tyler Thornburg in particular) had some great stretches here and there that made me sit up and take notice.
Here, I'm going to break it into the good, the bad, and the ugly:
The good:
- Jonathan Lucroy (.301, 13 HR, 69 RBI, and a league-leading 53 doubles) had a breakout season. Deservedly a starting All-Star, Lucroy will garner some MVP votes; unlike most of the other Brewers hitters, Lucroy is willing to take a walk and patiently waits until he gets his pitch. Lucroy is not the world's fastest runner, but he also makes very few baserunning mistakes and is perhaps the smartest — and toughest — player on the team.
- Scooter Gennett (.289, 9 HR, 59 RBI) did very well against right-handers and exceptionally poorly against left-handers in his second season in the bigs. Gennett's main problem is that he strikes out way too much and takes far too few walks; he needs to learn some plate discipline from Lucroy.
- Carlos Gomez (.284, 23 HR, 73 RBI, 34 SBs) did reasonably well and was a deserving All-Star. However, he swung at everything and anything — especially toward the end of the season — refused to take walks, and made some bad outs on the basepaths down the stretch. The epitome of a "high risk, high reward" player, Gomez must learn to keep his head in the game.
The bad:
- Mark Reynolds (.196, 22 HR, 45 RBI) would've been acceptable if he'd just have kept hitting at his pre-All-Star levels (.205, 14, 33) because his defense at first and third was stellar. But his production fell off, his strikeouts mounted, and he had some odd mental lapses that contributed to the Brewers losing games down the stretch that they should've won. Reynolds should not be back in 2015.
- Jean Segura (.246, 5 HR, 31 RBI, 20 SBs) had a great final thirty days of the season, batting .327 during that stretch, or he'd have been in the "ugly" category. And his defense continues to be way above average. But considering Segura was an All-Star in 2013, his first full year in the bigs, 2014 was a step backward. (Mind, players are only human, and Segura lost his son right before the All-Star break. That assuredly accounts for why much of his second half was abysmal.) Let's hope in 2015, Segura gets back on track.
- Aramis Ramirez (.285, 15 HR, 66 RBI) has decent numbers, but they are somewhat deceptive. Down the stretch, Ramirez showed that he was tired, old, and slow — and while his defense at third was still adequate or better, he cost the team numerous runs because he simply could not run (possibly due to a lingering injury, possibly due to his age). He's due $14 million if the Brewers pick up his contract option next year, and I'm not at all sure Ramirez is deserving of such largesse — especially considering his anemic performance (.212, 1 HR, 5 RBI) down the stretch.
The ugly:
- Ryan Braun's thumb injury sapped him of his power stroke and caused Braun to alter his overall hitting mechanics. None of this helped Braun's overall numbers (.266, 19 HR, 81 RBI, 11 SBs). In addition, like Ramirez, Braun's final thirty-day performance was dreadful (.200, 1 HR, 3 RBI). Braun has had cutting-edge thumb surgery since the end of the season, and much is riding on it; only time will tell as to whether or not Braun can regain his power stroke.
- Khris Davis (.244, 22 HR, 69 RBI) was a major disappointment. He struck out way too much, walked too little, his defense remains a work in progress and his arm is quite weak. Ideally, Davis projects as a DH in the American League, though if he's willing to learn how to play first base and shows some aptitude for the position, Davis might be OK there instead.
Everyone else was either mediocre or competent in some ways but not others (for example, Lyle Overbay did quite nicely as a pinch hitter and can still field at first base, but otherwise showed that he's ready for retirement).
Simply put: The Brewers could not hit down the stretch, which cost them any chance at the playoffs. The pitching was competent and sometimes brilliant; the hitting was OK at the beginning of the season and dreadful at the end, while the fielding was for the most part steady and unspectacular.
To improve in 2015, the Brewers need a brand-new manager of the firebrand type — Ozzie Guillen, say. Or Mike Maddux, who definitely let it be known when he was upset with his pitchers during his stint as the Brewers pitching coach years ago. Or even Dale Sveum, who certainly mixed it up in his playing days and was willing to chew his players a new one in private . . .
Anything but Roenicke, who is too quiet and reserved to manage this bunch of huge, overpaid egos. He should've kicked some butts and taken some names during the Brewers woeful 1-13 stretch in September, and allowed at least some of his frustration to show through so fans understood he wasn't happy with how his team was playing.
As it stands, Milwaukee was not consistent in how it's handled Roenicke's tenure, either. Ned Yost was fired back in September 2008 because his team was on a losing streak. Yet Roenicke's Brewers were on a bigger losing streak, and the Brewers did not make a move.
But they had better. Because Roenicke, while a quality human being and a good baseball man, is not the right fit for this team.
Anyone who watched Milwaukee stumble down the stretch should know that.
Pitcher of the year: Francisco Rodriguez (Runners-up: Kyle Lohse and Wily Peralta)
Brewers MVP: Jonathan Lucroy (No one else was even close.)
Comeback Player of the Year: Mike Fiers (Runner-up: Zach Duke)
Rookie of the Year: No award.
Milwaukee Brewers win, 5-0, over Cincinnati — Still Alive (Barely) in WC Race
Folks, last night I wrote a blog about the Milwaukee Brewers being mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. But later on Wednesday, I found out that the Brewers had a very minimal shot at making the playoffs instead.
The way the Brewers can go to the playoffs is this:
- They must win all of their remaining games.
- The San Francisco Giants must lose all of their remaining games.
- Providing those two things occur, a one-game playoff would ensue between the Brewers and the Giants at the conclusion of the 162-game regular season. Whichever team won that one-game playoff would then play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the official one-game Wild Card playoff. (And whichever team won that game would proceed to play the #1 seed among the three division winners; as of today's date, that team is the Washington Nationals.)
So at the start of Wednesday night's action, Brewers starting pitcher Kyle Lohse knew it was all down to him. He's been pitching extremely well lately, though he hasn't picked up the wins to show for it due to Milwaukee's offensive woes, and he was by far the best pitcher to take the mound last night against the Cincinnati Reds.
What did Lohse do while under pressure? Why, toss a 2-hit complete game shutout, of course (shades of last year), helping the Brewers to a 5-0 win.
So the Brewers stayed alive another day in the playoff hunt, albeit on serious life-support. The Giants' magic number (of Brewers losses or their own wins) remains at one, which means the above scenario remains in force.
Thursday's afternoon game is the season finale against the Reds, and Yovani Gallardo will be going to the hill in the attempt to keep the Milwaukee's playoff dreams alive. (Is it just me, or is the ghost of Oakland Raiders' owner Al Davis — he of "Just win, baby" fame — hovering around the Brewers for some reason?)
Providing the Brewers beat Cincinnati, all eyes will be on San Francisco's evening game against the San Diego Padres.
Will the Padres play spoiler? Who knows?
All I know is that I hope Gallardo wins, because it's better by far for the Brewers to end their season with a bang instead of a whimper.
Thoughts on the Milwaukee Brewers Being Eliminated From Postseason Play in 2014
The Milwaukee Brewers have officially been eliminated from the playoffs.**
I knew this day would come, folks.
When the Brewers were not able to score hardly any runs in the second half of September, I knew this day would come.
But because hope springs eternal, I had considered some unusual possibilities that might lead to the Brewers making the playoffs anyway. Perhaps if they'd have won all their remaining games, and the Pirates had gone on a small losing streak . . . or if the Brewers had won all their games and the San Francisco Giants had gone on a small losing streak instead . . .
'Twas not to be.
Anyway, here are just a few of my thoughts as I ponder the fact that my favorite team has been eliminated from postseason play:
- The Brewers were at least one and possibly two hitters short in the second half of the season, and it's not always because of the same people (though Braun's injuries definitely didn't help). The biggest problem I saw, throughout, were the injuries; Aramis Ramirez can't run any longer (at all), Braun at times could barely run, Scooter Gennett could barely run, etc.But if we'd have had someone consistently mashing at first base — perhaps if Kendrys Morales had been signed in the offseason, as he was the best available first baseman, and had a full Spring Training behind him — I think the Brewers wouldn't have lost their lead in the NL Central and would still be going to the playoffs.
- What was Ron Roenicke thinking? Where was the urgency? He was always quiet, always understated, while the team sank and sank . . . in 2008, Ned Yost got fired when his 2008 squad did much less poorly than this one, yet Roenicke has thus far kept his job? What's the explanation for that going to be? (Oh, I can see it now — "No one else could've done any better. We're happy with Ron. See you in 2015." Yeah, right.)
I'm not too happy with Roenicke's managerial moves, either, to wit:
- He waited way too long to take some starting pitchers out, and he did this consistently. (Allowing Wily Peralta to get shelled back-to-back in August didn't help anything, to show just one bad managerial decision.)
- In addition, why did Roenicke leave reliever Jonathan Broxton in so long in the second of Broxton's back-to-back bad games? (When he did stuff like that, I couldn't help it; I Tweeted stuff like, "Fire him. Fire him now.")
Now, why did this team fall apart so precipitously? I blame injuries, mostly. But I also blame Roenicke's inexplicable managerial moves, mostly having to do with the pitching staff.
Injuries — well, they'll heal.
But will the team be any better this year if Roenicke stays? My guess is that it won't.
That's why I'm urging the Brewers to please, please, for the love of little green apples, fire Ron Roenicke and bring in someone who can instill a sense of urgency. (Much less pull the starting pitchers out a little faster when they obviously don't have it.)
**Edited to add: San Francisco lost last night, so the Brewers technically can still get in the playoffs if they win all five remaining games, while SF loses all five of theirs. At that point, there would be one of the one-game playoff scenarios I've discussed between SF and Milwaukee; if the Brewers won that, they'd then play Pittsburgh in the official one-game Wild Card playoff.
I think there's very little chance of this. But as Noah Jarosh of SB Nation says, it's like a lottery ticket — it could happen.
So keep your eyes peeled on the scoreboard tonight.
And, of course, I'll have an end-of-the-season wrap-up next week, as per usual, with my picks for Brewers' team MVP, pitching MVP(s), and rookie of the year. Don't miss it!
Milwaukee Brewers win, 1-0, in Pittsburgh after SP Matt Garza Ejected
The Milwaukee Brewers have had several heartbreaking losses lately. But tonight, in a must-win situation in Pittsburgh against the Pirates, the Brewers were able to pull out a needed 1-0 victory despite starting pitcher Matt Garza's ejection in the 5th inning.
The game was a nervous, tension-filled one from the start. Almost no one was getting on base for either team, and when someone did, he didn't score. Brewers and Pirates kept trying to get on; two Pirates (both in the form of center fielder Andrew McCutchen, in different innings) managed to reach after being hit by a pitch. (More on that in a bit.)
Let's put it this way. Logan Schafer's sacrifice fly in the 9th inning was by far the biggest hit in the game, as it scored the only run for either team.
So it was a pitcher's duel throughout. But it wasn't a usual type of pitcher's duel at all due to the fact that Brewers starting pitcher Matt Garza got thrown out in the fifth inning after hitting McCutchen for the second time.
Here was the situation. There were two outs. No one was on base. Garza had a 1-2 count, and pitched inside to get McCutchen — who's famous for leaning over the plate — to step off the plate a bit. (As Garza said later on in the after-game press conference, you can't take chances with McCutchen as he's a dangerous hitter — my best paraphrase here, as I don't have a transcript.)
Now, there is no way in the world that Garza wanted to throw at McCutchen, OK? This is a playoff game of sorts for the Brewers, as they know they must win if they're to have any chance of overtaking the Pirates for the second and final Wild Card slot. No runs at all had been scored, the reigning National League Most Valuable Player was at the plate in McCutchen, and he'd already been hit once by Garza so Garza knew he had to be careful not to hit him again.
That said, it's not because Garza hit McCutchen that Garza ended up getting thrown out. Instead, it's because Pirates starting pitcher Edinson Volquez threw inside twice — two purpose-pitches — to Ryan Braun that both benches were warned. And once the benches are warned, even if a pitcher isn't intentionally trying to hit another batter, the umpires basically have no choice whatsoever: They have to throw out whatever pitcher actually hit someone.
So we go back to Garza in the 5th inning. It's a tie game, nothing to nothing. McCutchen is, as usual, standing right on top of home plate. McCutchen is one of the best hitters in the NL, and Garza can't give him anything, so probably the best outcome for Garza if you can't get McCutchen off the plate would've been a walk.
But McCutchen also is a very fast runner. So if you put him on, you risk him stealing a base or two and creating a run. Which is the main reason Garza was trying to get McCutchen to back off a bit from the plate — that's the only way Garza has, as a pitcher, to force McCutchen to hit Garza's pitch. (I know all this "inside baseball" stuff may throw some of you. If it does, don't worry; just skip to the next paragraph or so down.)
Anyway, because of Volquez's actions in nearly hitting Braun twice (and throwing in the same place both times), when Garza hit McCutchen twice (albeit in two different innings), tempers would've flared and the benches might've cleared if the umpires hadn't thrown Garza out. That's the main reason the umpires don't have much discretion in those cases; they are trying to prevent brawls where people get hurt, then the league office ends up fining people and issuing suspensions. And when both teams are still in the playoff hunt (no matter how tenuous it might be for the Brewers), the last thing you want is for someone's season to end via injury because of a bench-clearing brawl.
So Garza was out, and so was Brewers manager Ron Roenicke (as that's what the rule is; both must be ejected). The game could've turned ugly fast for the Brewers . . .
Except that every relief pitcher who was brought in subsequent to Garza's ejection, starting with Marco Estrada, put up goose eggs.
Look. I'm a Brewers fan, but I'm also a baseball fan. I understand that McCutchen was hit badly in Arizona on August 2 due to a stupid, intentional action. That nearly ended McCutchen's season right then and there.
I also understand that the Pirates don't especially like the Brewers, because for years the Brewers would go into Pittsburgh and wipe the floor with the Pirates. Even when the Brewers had horrible teams that seemingly couldn't beat anyone else, the Brewers just had the Pirates number, and it showed.
But I also know this: There's no way, in a playoff hunt, that Garza wants to hit McCutchen right there. It would be a stupid act. More to the point, it would be a senseless one, as he has to know that McCutchen is still upset over the August 2 HBP that nearly ended his season . . . Garza's job was to get McCutchen out, not to hurt McCutchen.
And Garza said as much in the postgame press conference. He wasn't necessarily kind about it, as he said, in essence, that McCutchen "isn't his guy" and that Garza pays attention to what's happening right now, not what happened to McCutchen back on August 2. But as Garza said, you would have to be "an idiot" to believe Garza was intentionally trying to hit McCutchen under the circumstances — especially as Garza had no way to know at the time that his bullpen would step up and that the Brewers would actually find a way to win this game after losing three heartbreakers.
Anyway, the Brewers 1-0 win has kept their playoff hopes alive. My hope now is that Wily Peralta can come out on Sunday and pitch as well as the rest of the Milwaukee starters have done for the past two weeks, and shut the Pirates right down . . . and that the Brewers offense wakes up enough to win another game.
Brewers Beat Marlins, 4-2, After Giancarlo Stanton Gets Hit in the Face
The Milwaukee Brewers haven't been playing well lately, to put it mildly. After losing more than they've won since the All-Star Break (with a record of 22-28 starting tonight's action), the Brewers have needed wins in the worst way.
Enter starting pitcher Mike Fiers. Fiers has been brilliant since being brought up from AAA Nashville a month ago; he's now won six games and lost only one, with an ERA of 1.74. More importantly still, Fiers has struck out 54 while walking only 10, and before tonight's game had hit no batters. None.
What a difference one game makes.
With the Brewers up, 4-0, in the top of the 5th, Miami's RF Giancarlo Stanton came up to the plate in a high-pressure situation. There were two outs and a runner stood on first; as Stanton leads the National League in both HRs (37) and RBI (105), he's obviously someone Milwaukee — and Fiers — took very seriously.
Fiers was in an 0-1 count before he threw a pitch up and in to Stanton — the pitch that hit Stanton in the face, causing a nasty, gruesome injury with a great deal of facial bleeding. After several long, tension-filled minutes, Stanton was taken off the field in an ambulance cart, and the game resumed with an 0-2 count to emergency pinch hitter Reed Johnson.
Now, I'm a Brewers fan, but I honestly don't understand why Stanton wasn't awarded first base after getting hit in the face. Yes, he swung — a defensive swing, because his body was already in motion, trying to avoid the ball coming at his face — but the most important thing was that Stanton got hit in the face.
Everyone in the ballpark, much less every fan watching the Marlins-Brewers game, knows that.
Anyway, Johnson stepped into the batter's box, and he, too, was hit by a pitch — this time on the hand. Again, there's a defensive swing . . . again, the umps call a strike, and this time call it a strikeout due to a dead ball (the ball hitting Johnson's hand, that is).
So even though the box score will not show that Fiers actually hit two batters, anyone with eyes knows good and well that Fiers first hit Stanton, a genuine MVP candidate for the NL, in the face. (Was it intentional? Of course not. But the fact remains that Fiers hit him.) Then, after the umps did not award Stanton first base as they should've, Johnson stood in there against Fiers and Fiers threw it in more or less the same place — up and in — this time grazing Johnson on the hand.
The benches cleared after the second hit batsman, which is somewhat sensible. Former Brewer Casey McGehee, who knows Fiers, came out and yelled — either at the umps for not sending Stanton's replacement to first base right off the bat, or for the umps perhaps crediting Fiers with the oddest "strikeout" I've ever seen . . . or maybe at Fiers**, who is known for being a control pitcher as his fastball tops out around 88 mph (which is very slow for MLB, these days). McGehee was ejected, as was Miami's manager Mike Redmond, and everyone else was sent back to their respective dugouts to cool off.
I reiterate: I don't believe Fiers was trying to hit Stanton. Nor, for the record, do I think Fiers was trying to hit Reed Johnson, either.
But the fact of the matter is, Fiers hit two guys on two successive pitches, one right after the other. And the umps didn't send either one of them to first base.
Instead, both benches were warned that if anyone else was hit, the manager and pitcher would be concurrently ejected.
The Marlins did retaliate, of course, despite the umpire's warning.
With two outs and no one on in the sixth, reliever Anthony DeSclafani promptly hit CF Carlos Gomez on the left elbow on the first pitch. And as expected, DeSclafani was immediately ejected, along with acting manager/bench coach Rob Leary.
The rest of the game was an afterthought, as it was obvious both teams were far more worried about Stanton's injury than they were in finishing this game out. So while the Brewers did "win" this game, it didn't really feel like one.
As for postgame reaction?
Both Brewers manager Ron Roenicke and Fiers said during comments to the media as shown by Fox Sports Wisconsin during their "Brewers Live" postgame telecast that they both hope Stanton will be all right — and of course Fiers wasn't trying to throw at Stanton (or Johnson, either).
Marlins manager Mike Redmond's postgame comments were also shown by Fox Sports Wisconsin. Redmond said that anyone being upset at the Marlins for being angry that their MVP Stanton's season has probably ended due to terrible hit to the face isn't being honest with themselves, because any team would be upset under these circumstances. And that he, personally, was very upset that Fiers hit two guys in a row with two pitches, but neither Marlin was awarded first base.
I think Redmond's comments are understandable. I hope he knows that Fiers would not hit Stanton in the face intentionally, because Fiers isn't that type of guy at all — he's worked too long and too hard to get back to the major leagues after his mother's untimely passing last year due to complications from lupus. But losing your MVP to a freak thing like that? I'd be upset, too, especially considering how Fiers hit Johnson on the next pitch in the hand, with neither of them being called a HBP by home plate umpire Jeff Kellogg.
Anyway, that was a very weird game, and a very odd victory that doesn't at all feel like something the Brewers should celebrate.
Before I go, here's the most current update on Stanton's condition from MLB's Joe Frisaro, one of the beat writers for the Miami Marlins. Frisaro Tweeted this in regards to Stanton's injuries just a few minutes ago:
#Marlins Giancarlo Stanton suffered a facial laceration requiring stitches, multiple facial fractures and dental damage
Obviously this is terrible news . . . certainly not the news I'd hoped to hear, especially considering the early news from the Marlins only said "facial laceration." (Which, admittedly, seemed ludicrous. I suspected a broken orbital bone or possibly a broken cheekbone, considering, and "facial laceration" seemed remarkably light.) This will end Stanton's season in a truly freakish way, something no one — not Mike Fiers, not the Brewers faithful, not anyone affiliated with the Marlins and certainly no one around MLB itself — wanted.
My hope now is that Stanton will make a quick recovery and be ready to go during Spring Training 2015.
**Fiers looked wild all game. Perhaps the colder-than-average weather didn't help, as it was 50 degrees at game time . . . yes, the Brewers have a domed stadium, and the roof was closed, but that damp cold still seeps in and it does affect the pitchers.
##A personal update: I am recovering from surgery, and posts have been few and far between for the past week because of that. But I couldn't let this one go by . . . really hope Stanton will be OK down the road, and had hoped that somehow he would escape serious injury.


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In the latest results for the period ended Dec. 31, DTI's aftertax operating profits of $44 million compared favorably with year-ago losses of $1 million. Before special items related to the firm's restructuring initiatives, DTI's aftertax operating income rose to $36 million against a loss of $11 million a year ago.
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US exports have been relatively robust in a backdrop of a moribund global economy, but slowing growth means that President Obama's ambitious plan to double outbound trade in five years will fall short.
In his first State of the Union speech in January 2010, President Barack Obama set out an ambitious goal to double exports over the next five years to support 2 million new jobs.
Following an initial burst that made that target look a realistic possibility, a slowdown in 2012 means that at just past the half-way stage Obama will have to settle for considerably less than he was hoping for.
US exports of goods and services increased by 17% in 2010, but that rate fell to 14.5% in 2011 and dropped even further to 4.6% in 2012. The most recent trade data shows that after five months of 2013 the speed of growth is slowing further at just 1.9% with falling exports to the ailing EU27 the major sore point. The US exports reviewed here include all types of goods and services (including oil and energy products) and all types of transport modes (including surface transport, liquid bulk shipping, container shipping and air freight).
At the current pace, President Obama's target of $3.15 trillion exports by the end of 2014 will not be reached until 2032, an overshoot of nearly two decades.
Despite its commonly held image as the world's great consumer of other countries' products, America is no slouch in shifting its own stuff to the world. It is ranked by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as the world's second largest exporter behind China, overtaking Germany in 2010.
Between 2009 and 2012 exports of US goods increased by 46% with the biggest gains coming from the automotive (79%) and industrial supplies (69%) sectors, the latter including petroleum and related products. During this time, the fastest growing markets for US goods were Brazil and Mexico (both 68%) while China (now America's third-largest market after Canada and Mexico) grew by 59%. In contrast, export growth to Europe floundered at below 20%.
The National Export Initiative (NEI), the agency tasked with facilitating Obama's target, was set up to assist the small- and medium-sized enterprises who make up the vast majority of all US exporters by offering advocacy, improving access to credit and upholding international trade laws.
There has been some success on that front with the Census Bureau reporting that number of US firms exporting goods in 2011 reached a new record of 302,260 (98% of which being SMEs), an increase of 9% since 2009. While the big companies such as Boeing and Caterpillar continue to dominate in dollar terms, SMEs were responsible for a third of all US goods exports with revenues in 2011 of $440.1 billion, some 42% up on 2009.
While the overall trend for US export sales is certainly not to be sniffed at and suggests that Obama's export initiative has spurred some additional growth, America's 2009-12 export growth of 46% was only on par with the global trend and was way down on China, which at the same time grew its exports by 70.5%.
The real success story of US exports over the last few years has been in services, which make up around 30% of total US exports. Between 2009 and 2012 the growth rate has been much higher than for goods at 78%, boosted by so-called private services such as in the science, digital technology and engineering sectors. It seems therefore that what the rest of the world, and in particular emerging economies, really craves is American knowledge rather than its goods.
Of course, services do not need to be moved in containers and US container export traffic to its main trading bloc partners in Asia and Europe has not set the pulse racing, growing considerably slower than imports.
According to Drewry research, exports to Asia between 2009 and 2012 rose by 12%, compared with 19% for the opposite direction, while exports to North Europe gained 13.5% as opposed to westbound growth of 36%. In container terms, therefore, the National Export Initiative has done nothing to rebalance trade.
When President Obama delivered his 2010 State of the Union address, US politicians were listening to the grievances of US exporters who felt they were being short changed by container lines in terms of equipment and ship availability.
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In the immediate term, a strengthening dollar will also put a break on US exports, while more generally the weak global economy will dilute the purchasing power of its trading partners.
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I'd say Corki is the best all around carry. He has good burst, poke, escape, and damage.
But since you didn't mention him, try Graves. He is slightly more durable in lane, has an escape/steroid and good burst. The smoke bombs are op as well.
I personally Enjoy MF the most, and shes one of my mains, but I'm not arrogant enough to claims she the best and only AD I play. I especially enjoy the healing reduction on her W, and I use her as a counterpick for any Soraka botcomp. Her e is a little underwhelming, but works as a good zoning tool during the lane phase, and the slow allows you to get more time for your passive to kick in during escapes or chases. Her Q gives her a good amount of burst potential, as her auto>q>auto does a lot of quick damage that has a harass-y feel to it. And then her ult can do some OK damage in the right situation, and it does a ton of damage, but its a channeling skill shot interruptable DoT that leaves her very open to attack when she could just auto.
Her biggest flaw though is her sketchy escape. She has a slow she can lay down and a passive that makes her faster, but nothing like Vayne's tumble or Graves' Quickdraw. Shes much more reliant on positioning right to get her damage out (and gets a third active in return). I've had times where I would flash over a wall during a 1v3 engagement in river when 2 buddies showed up behind me and I was suddenly vulnerable, because once I had damage on me my passive was gone and I was committed to that fight.
Vayne's tumble can hardly be considered an escape. Best escape skill Vayne has is Condemn, but it can only be used vs 1 target.. Tristana and Corki have the best escapes, followed by Ezreal, Graves and Caitlyn, then Sivir and maybe Vayne and Kogmaw at the bottom.
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Due to his tankiness, burst + aoe damage, and having both of those qualities while not falling off late game, Graves is generally the easiest AD carry to be successful with.
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