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Maybe I’m missing something but I’m only really seeing one person calling for AJ to be fired.

Best news I've heard all weekend!

Everyone knows he’s moving to 3B

Greene needs to bat clean up because he always hits home runs.

This is so, so good.

its a .500 team and they'll be some hot and cold streaks and will dive us crazy

I was at the first London Series game in 2019, when they announced the Umpires, everybody booed Hernandez, it was brilliant! You know its bad when people 3000 miles away know how bad you are.

Max says F U, Pat Caputo. It is nice to see him doing well in his first full season. I think more power will come as he matures, but he profiles to be a top of the order guy that we’ve been lacking since Kinsler.

I don't think it was small talk. I think she was genuinely annoyed and genuinely wanted me to know that. To what end, I can't be sure.

20th seems generous—assuming the slight drop is based on the Royals massacre. Sad that we are debating either 19th or 20th slot. I miss 2006 - 2014. Probably took that era for granted.

Clark and McGonigle make it onto the Hot Sheet this week

They should totally hire him to be the guy who gives opinions on challenged calls and what the league will do.

Credit to this poster over on reddit: The short version is this: IF we're guessing the tie breakers properly, the Panthers would have to win next week by more than 22 points to get first place in the USFL conference. Again I don't believe that the UFL has published the tie breaker rules yet so people are guessing based on what the USFL and/or XFL have used in the past. Very unlikely but possible I guess... so it's a bummer that if it happened the game wouldn't be at Ford Field.

Our long national pastime nightmare is over.

Sounds like they had to pay him to go away. No matter - a good investment for the league even if they did.

IIRC, Sparky wouldn't play and quickly unloaded Howard Johnson because pretty much because he didn't like his conduct. If Hinch had simply benched say - Correa - or who ever the player leader was, I think he would have gotten the other players' attention. The one unassailable power a manager has is turning in the lineup card. He could have put Cora at 1b or 3b where he couldn't be part of it in the dugout. And if the GM tells him to play a guy and you tell your GM "either I control this team or you can fire me and I will blow the franchise up when they ask me why" Or even just fire me and you can have your cheating. But if he's fired from a successful team he is pretty well protected in term of getting another gig - owners don't hold each other's caprice against the guys that it falls on. Sure that would still take a lot of balls, but it's not beyond what a man *could* do if felt up against the wall. Granted it's a lot to ask of a guy who is old enough not to want to have to have start over and ambitious enough to try to navigate through.

Tork woulda run through a brick wall for Dan Campbell.

Growing up in the '70s and subscribing to Sports Illustrated as well having back issues handed down to me from my uncles, seemed like Walton was always on the cover. I looked it up and here are 14 covers in an under 8-year span. https://www.si.com/nba/2009/01/16/16bill-waltons-si-covers

true. But I will say that having Baez as next hitter with a DP in order should get consideration as a mitigating factor. If he has a well above normal probability of hitting into a DP compared to the average player, and Perez had a high probability of bunting successfully, it does moves the calculation. But both those things need to be true.

Only cops and bad acid ruined more Dead shows than being stuck behind Bill Walton. Fare thee well, Legend. May the four winds blow you safely home.

2/10/1967 SP-4 Thomas Manning,from Chesterton IN, 21 years old, was killed when the fuel truck he was driving was involved in a “traffic accident”. In Viet Nam .He was 21 and pulling extra duty. He was my first cousin. Donald Trump received 5 deferments because of “bone spurs”. How many boys died because of his cowardice? His sons have never held real jobs in their lives . Am I bitter, hell yes.

there is a definite contrast between baseball and football on one hand and hockey and basketball on the other in terms how the games change in the playoffs. In baseball and football, if you build a team to win the most regular season games, you have probably built a playoff winner. Not nearly as true in basketball and hockey.

I see Stormy Daniels got one vote. 😁 Didn't realize Ben Dover was still alive.