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They had a 3B!

Maton would not clear waivers and won't get DFA'ed.

I’m a bit disappointed that Yzerman didn’t specifically tell Tater and me by name to chill out.

You can't just magically say..."do better" when you have no understanding of what doing better would actually cost to the extent that "doing better" is even possible

Sure - maybe just a moonshoot there, but then again, you can't give Harris a pass for not putting a better 3b on the field (or in the near pipeline) by saying he knew the guys he picked up as possible replacements couldn't play there in the first place. >Was there, in your opinion? Not my job man! If you have a working knowledge of league personal and you know you aren't going to find a 3b, why do you let Candelario go? And of you say Ilitch didn't give him a choice I'm going to say he may have already failed as a GM if his relationship with his owner is such that he can't move him on a $7M decision. That's my angle on it. I was fine with letting JC go because my assumption was Harris was going to competently fill the hole. Now in retrospect, my hindsight view definitely swings 180 because he didn't. Now that's not to say I'm grabbing a pitchfork. As posted above, I've liked most of his personnel moves other than 3b - nobody's going to bat 1000. But I'm not going to give him a pass and blame 3B on some forces outside Harris' control either.

Rogers will never hit for a high average because he strikes out too much. He's good enough as is- strong defense and good power. That's fine for a catcher.

They looked at his .203 BA and said: "Nah, we can't do that." Overlooking everything else that you just posted. Aside from that... I would still like to see him get up to at least .230-.240-ish and .800-.850-ish OPS. With his defense, that's a damn fine starting Catcher. And I don't care what the All-Stars says...

Traditional triple crown categories for Ohtani 10th in wins, although 4 wins from first 2nd in SOs, 12 behind 8th in ERA, 0.52 behind 4th in AVG, .006 behind 1st in HR, 6 ahead 1st in RBI, 1 ahead If he stays healthy this will be the greatest season of all time for a baseball player.

I don't know if this has been discussed, but isn't it strange for the MLB Draft to start on Sunday?

Someone is going to get a call from his agent about gum during interviews. Excited about this guy.

That deal is 1 year and $5M too much.

I'd like to see 225 PA's in the second half, that would get him to about 400.

The $$$ getting paid out this offseason are insane....

I can't believe I bought a Zadina jersey

It's not that we should just make a trade for the sake of it. My initial ideal of offering both first round picks to get Debrincat was off-base and ridiculous. But so where the deals that said we should just offer up a 2nd and Zadina and somehow that would get it done. It's somewhere in the middle of that. The same thing goes for William Nylander, who is a superior player to Debrincat. We can't sell the entire farm to get Nylander. If we aren't on his list of teams he won't play for, the call should certainly be placed and if he's the guy Toronto is moving to get under the cap, I think an offer should be made as he fits both need and timeline. We need goal scoring in the worst way possible. We have an up-and-coming defense that should be good enough to carry us into the playoffs and beyond. Outside of Raymond, who is already on the roster, and possibly Nate Danielson, who do we have in the pipeline that is any kind of serious scoring threat? Who is a guy that is going to be on this roster in the next 2-4 years that will be a 30+ goal scorer and 60+ point a season guy? As @lordstanley said, we don't just pay Yzerman to find average NHL players who can score 15 goals, get you 20 assists, and sign them to 3x$3.5 type of deals. We want him to be prudent and smart about signing those types of players who we need to round out our roster's depth. But we also need him to be bold and smartly aggressive. We need him to make impact, franchise changing moves that will improve this team and accelerate our timeline to being a contender. In our case, we need those moves made to add scoring and goal totals to our roster. If we had gotten any amount of lottery luck and landed ourselves a Connor Bedard, Quinton Byfield, Jack Hughes type of player in the draft this conversation would be different. But we didn't, and alas here we are talking about making a bold trade for an Alex Debrincat or William Nylander type of player. I don't want to mortgage the farm and future for one guy. I also don't want to make the playoffs just for the sake of it. Kenny did that and I hated it and wanted him fired for it. I wanted a complete tank job and rebuild after Kenny left and I got it. That said, I also don't want to be sitting her 2-3 years from now in year 7 of a rebuild having not made any significant progress to being a Cup-contending team, with an over 30 year old Dylan Larkin on the roster and trying to build around that. We pay Yzerman to be both smart and bold as needed. Adding a Nylander or Debrincat can both and accelerate the timeline of our rebuild.

So yeah @Crazy Cat Gentleman the synth bug has begun to bite me. I bought a roland ds 61 on marketplace and have checked out 2 synthetic from the local library (Korg Minilogue and Arturia Microfreak). I also added a boss sy200 to my guitar rig. I really love arpeggiators on the synths. So far my fav one is that Microfreak.

Yes we always stop at that lookout too. I was last there in 2021 for a wedding in Petosky. We figured we were already going that way so we spent a few hours in that area before heading over.

The whole Superior coast. It's best to do this not too long after the spring thaw when water levels are high and the wildflowers are peaking, but if you start at the WI border and work east on the Superior shore you can spend two days just stopping and hiking into all the waterfalls. Awesome

Oh, you're assuming that E-Rod or Skubal won't get Lyme Disease or have a piece of the space station land on them by Tuesday? I think you're asking a lot.

Yep, Bertuzzi and Domi are good at offense but neither are particularly tough or physical. The Leafs signed Tyler and Max, not Todd and Tie.

I count Manning, Rodriguez, Skubal, Lorenzen.....and Olson. At least until Faedo is activated, and right now I would rank Olson ahead of Faedo anyway, though maybe the team will see it otherwise.

In fairness you don't expect to get any value from a 19th round pick. DH or not the guys is providing incredible value for a 19th rounder.

The Supreme Court should be like NASCAR, with all their sponsors and billionaire giftgivers listed. I wonder if Coke would be willing to sponsor Clarence Thomas?

"Rickey ain't playing in some independent league. Why would Rickey want to do that?" -Rickey Henderson.

He may have just had the greatest month in the history of baseball. For June he slashed .394/492/952 with 15 HRs. There's been about 20 different occasions of times where guys topped his 1.444 OPS(11 of which were by Ruth and Bonds) but of course Ohtani didn't just put up the offensive numbers. He chipped in with a 3.26 ERA over 30 innings as well so factoring that in I think it's enough to put him over the top.

i'm just here to watch chas type and pat himself on the back at the same time.

i'm seeking a date with salma hayek.

I enjoyed the great lakes shipwreck museum at Whitefish Point. That was over 10 years ago. If you hate Gordon Lightfoot you might not like it though. I really liked it up there and would love to make it back. Life is different in the UP. I see the attraction.