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He's probably really upset he took a shot in the arm at the very least

We all agree there should be no preseason polls... how about no week eight polls either? 😉 I agree that we will know more soon enough. No one's season is being defined by the coaches or AP right now.

Willi Castro. Can't draw a walk, can't find a position for him, finally goes to outfield but can't hit enough to be an outfielder.

Same. I'd go as far as to say the quality of the product on the field is higher than anything happening in the NFL right now (at least outside of Buffalo). And more than anything else *that* is why LA was knocked out.

And the Red Wings won too! 🙂

Hey, get the scots-irish name of our McQB correct.

I have to agree that there is a strong minority in the US Government of people who shuffle in from their West Virginia or Shenandoah Valley rural redoubts at 5:30-6:am listening to "Patriot" radio on Sirius and who are infected by this RW stuff. People who have the audacity to call themselves Libertarians even though they work inside the behemoth of the US Government. Orwell called it inside the Leviathan. Some of them have figured out how to navigate the wokiness of the USG and contractor corporate cultures. Others stand out and get slow-tracked as apolitical dinosaurs which further fuels their grievances. All these people need is evil leadership to empower them.

1B Carlos Pena 2B Warren Morris 3B Eric Munson SS Infantiago

Fair choice, but for me it was Niko. A player whose limitations were completely obvious to everyone *except* Al Avlia from pretty much day one. He encapsulated poor pre-acquisition scouting, inability to raise a player's level, refusal to honestly evaluate current talent, and commitment to looking for the wrong player profile in the first place - all in one.

Today's the kind of day you just LOVE if you're a sports fan. Great football to watch with Alabama and Tennessee followed up by two great baseball games. Michigan winning always helps too!

Wish there was a way that both the Yankees and Guardians could somehow lose.

All that plus a $100M to Jimbo gets you 1-2 in the conference....

thought we had made a strategic error in going to watch this game with friends - that is usually the kiss of death. Nice to have that curse lifted with an easy (relatively) win....

Realistically, we have maybe 3 position players that would find a position on any other existing MLB team. We are 6 to 8 position players shy from being a true MLB team. We are 3 starting pitchers short of being reliably mediocre. Forty percent of the 40 man is worthless cannon fodder. 2023 is a lost cause as is 2024 is most likely. We should be able to find 2 or 3 players that will contribute long term.

The perfect candidate for the most Al Avila position player brought in during his tenure would be a guy no one ever heard of before he came here, signed by Al at just beyond prospect age, and has tools that tantalize just often enough to fool him to believing good production is right around the corner. The candidate has homer pop but strikes out a ton and can’t take a walk; has an iron glove that balls just clank off of and a wild arm he can’t control; looks like he should fit in at any position but can’t actually play any of them; gets way more reps on the field in the hope he will prove out the signing than any other organization would ever dare give him; and once he leaves, never steps into a major league stadium ever again without having to buy a ticket. Ladies and gentleman, I present to you: Ronny Rodriguez.

Why can you not point out differences of opinion without coming off as an insolent 12 yr old?

Here's some dated humor 2022 was such a disaster....was Irwin Allen our GM?

After living out of the region for almost the last 50 years — before the Internet era hit in stride — my ability to follow the team in earnest was spotty. When I discovered MTS in 2004 I followed the team minute by minute day by day no matter what. This year for the first time in 19 seasons I stopped following them. The team was like bad heroin laced with battery acid instead of good heroin that helped me take flight. This team was like waking up every morning and peeing broken glass into the toilet. Frequently before bed I would go “oh hey there was a game and I totally forgot“ and instead of following it assiduously in real time as before I would just look at maybe the box score or perhaps not even that. It takes a lot to wear me out and this team wore me out this year. The idea of more years of rebuilding futility makes me sad. Since so much unaccountable bad stuff happened this year next year has to be better but other teams are going to be better too so it makes me wonder if it’ll just be treading water, if that, again. Sigh…