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Next time that happens, tell the person in the cashier window that you are paying it forward and want to pay for the car behind you. When you get to the pickup window tell them you ordered both and leave with their food.

Just kind of eyeballing his age vs AAA and AA competition, Paredes is around 4-6 years younger. I would say if Avila acquired this resume off of the scrap heap, we would be pretty happy with it. I can understand the desire to keep a plyare like this. But I think you rewind to when the trade was made, and thinking about having a pair of rookies playing everyday, Cabrera's bat in decline, questionable offense at best behind the plate, streaky bats up the middle infield,.... I understand why Avila was looking for another bat for the lineup. I can understand why he thought Paredes was expendable. Its baseball. Sometimes things don't work out as expected. Avila is at fault for many things. I don't think that this is one of those.

Signifies that his is working on his 1st level outfielding. If he is studious, he should reach "paint the fence" soon.

relying on goodwill and people to just "figure it out on their own" is a lost cause now. Either go when you can, like if the other car is still at the window, or just alternate like normal human beings would think to do. "Take turns". Remember that in kindegarden?

safe to assume the set back is Al's fault

This is pretty great. I'm not sure this is where to post it but we've been talking about Trump and LIV here so...

"Thank you for your service, no GFU" Signen Ted Cruz

I don’t want Andujar nearly as much as the Yankees want something anything for Andujar.

I feel like we need that here or MCS is going to see me on Youtube in court

Trump's wall is a waste of money, and it won't work. I won't bother explaining it any further, since you don't do nuance, anyway.

Plus Konerko played in the PCL which is notorious for having inflated numbers, the stadiums are all like a bunch of Coors Fields.

I don't think you can really make a comparison after just 555 minor league plate appearances for Torkelson and it's not like a .916 OPS is bad. He probably should have spent another season in the minors.

This is great!

If Okudah can come back and even be a solid starting CB then the Lions have the makings of a really good set of corners with him, Oru and Jacobs who says he plans to be ready by the start of the season. Also despite having a rough rookie season I have high hopes for Melinfowu whether it's at db or safety. I think his physical tools are too good to not have some success in the league, particularly with this coaching staff.

They should announce it the same day they announce the punishment for Bridges.

Not that it matters now, but I don’t believe we gave Paredes as much of a shot to make it here in Detroit as we should have. We didn’t even give him as much of a chance as we gave Travis Demeritte. Then again, the front office was desperate to make the Shane Greene deal with the Braves look like it was going to pay off. They’ll do the same with Joey Wentz, and we’ll all keep our fingers crossed for that. If he can become at least a serviceable back-of-the-rotation piece for at least a little while—which was supposed to be his ceiling given Mize-Manning-Skubal slotted in above him—that’ll be considered a success. I think the front office had already written off Paredes’s future here, so they were finna deal him at the first reasonable opportunity.

In general, one can believe Al Avila has been a terrible GM while acknowledging a few of the deals that overall have worked out for the better (ie. Candy/Paredes for Avila/Wilson, Olson for Norris) or acknowledging the logic behind some deals that haven't worked out up until this point (Meadows for Paredes/Draft Pick). Al's big mistakes were years in the making, particularly with getting little for JD or JV and waiting until last August to actually do a major revamp/reorganization of player development. And he should pay the price for those mistakes and for the lack of results that have resulted from them.

Objectively, one would have to be thrilled if Tork turned out to be similar to Paul Konerko

I love 3YearLetterman..... a friend and I try to do that kind of thing with each other but that guy nails it. One of my favorite twitter accounts.

Tedeschi Odenkirk Band - Live at Wrigley

I think going into this season, there was a sense that Candelario was a solid enough 3B. Certainly not an all star, but definitely he should have been better than what we've seen in 2022. I think there was an avenue for a modest extension beyond next season, but that opportunity should be gone now. Paredes was a man without a position in that case. His weight has been suspect to many, and this is at a young age. I do question whether or not he was undervalued because of that. But at the same time, the Tigers did try him out for a few games up the middle last season. Maybe that was out of desperation because of the alternative options, but they gave him a look (same in Toledo). I do think people would be surprised if they looked at his minor league stats. He was a pretty effective hitter given his age vs competition. And you mention his strike zone judgement, so a review of his BB/SO and OBP lends to that. It should be a deal that both sides win for different reasons. Tampa got an undervalued player and a pick. Detroit got a lefty bat to stick in the middle of the order. But here we are now, Paredes is struggling a bit and Meadows has had a fluke set of injuries/ailments to date. Its probably worked out better for Tampa so far, but I don't think what has happened to Meadows could have been reasonably assumed.

Every time I read that Tweet I find something else wrong with it.

Are we really debating whether Willi is a good OF? 🤔

I assume you’re in Detroit area? If you can pause your directv like a dvr, you might be able to pair it up with a smartphone app like Audacy, which I believe you can also pause.

Yeah, Paredes had a super-hot 126 PA from May 18 - July 5th, has utterly sucked otherwise this year, Meadows has had a set of freak injuries, and that = the Tigers got fleeced. It's a super-lazy analysis. I think Avila sucks but the Meadows trade is not at all an indication of that. The trade was a good one that still has a long way to go evaluation-wise. Meadows could be done due to unforeseen health issues, but Paredes might be the next Chris Shelton.

Is this a good catch or just Willi doing Willi?

The fact that Herschel Walker is considered a "toss-up" is so beyond frightening and it's defeating. He is a liar, an exceptionally bad one - and he's profoundly stupid. I thought there couldn't be anyone dumber than Louie Gohmert Then Tommy Tuberville came along I thought there couldn't be anyone dumber than Tommy Tuberville Hello Herschel Walker. I can't even imagine what's next.

Love this burn

Not to worry Sue, I'm sure Chuck and Joe have learned their lesson and it won't happen again.

Mike Schmidt's early career (not suggesting Tork will be a HOF'er, but that even some of the greats struggled):

If they're not trading for impact bats first, they are continuing to do it all wrong.

We used a pop-up for a long time and camped all around the state, made it down to WV once too. Then everything went to shit in the pop-up and it started to leak so we sold it. A couple weeks ago we rented an RV and had it delivered to a campsite right on the edge of the Porcupine mountains. That camper was super nice, I really liked it, but renting was pretty expensive relative to just even getting a cabin or something like that for lodging. I think our next destination will be down in the Smokeys... but don't sleep on the UP, it's really awesome. Just make sure you don't get stuck miles away from gas stations b/c there aren't many. Pictured Rocks rules.

You mean hitting .194 for July Paredes? Also no one could know that all this would happen to Meadows this year and if he comes back next year and hits 25 HR and a solid BA it'll be interesting to hear all the back peddling people will do. He could also never regain his former performance but I am willing to take the more optimistic look and see this as the outlier.