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I’ll politely pass on the early 80s nut cruncher shorts, thank you.

Keith might be an everyday guy. I guess now that I think about it, he was one of the LH bats that seemed to get more time vs LHP than others. Whether that’s by design or necessity is debatable.

Yeah, it has that sort of feel to it right now, doesn’t it?

If Keith is the primary 1B, I find it hard to see he, Torkleson, Carpenter, and Malloy on the roster at the same time. I don’t think the roster flexibility is there unless they employ an everyday 3B. I know the theory is that Hinch loves to platoon and mix and match. I don’t know if he really loves it or just realized that he had to do it last season as his best chance to win games. And he was pretty darn successful with it. But I suspect he’d rather have 6 or 7 legit everyday starters in the lineup. If there are too many platoons on the roster, that’s going to weaken the lineup on a day in day out basis. I’d say Greene and Meadows are everyday players. Vierling could probably do so as well, but I’m not as sold on that. Is Torres an everyday 2B? 13 position players, disregard C as an everyday spot, and now you’ve got 11 roster spots for 8 lineup spots. Let’s be generous and say the 4 mentioned above are everyday players. The leaves 7 roster spots for 3 lineup spots. I guess that could work, but how does the rest of the roster get populated? I don’t know, I think there’s another free agent move and a couple of trades coming that will affect what popular opinion might suggest this team’s clubhouse looks like now.

Wow. I just watched him coaching after he was fired. That’s kind of weird.

I recorded the game per usual. Worked from home today, never really had a chance to watch it and didn’t just want it on in the background. Finally able to flip it on around 7:30pm next night. I was pretty stealthy with avoiding the final score, I usually screw it up and accidentally pull into an app that reveals the score to me. Wanted to give in and call it off at 18 down. I mean, they’ve already beaten the Suns and Lakers on this trip, what are the odds they go 3-0? But, no, I’m just a lot bit stubborn sometimes and decided to stick with it for no really good reason. Such a good comeback. Now, I’ll record the Nuggets game. But if they fall behind by double digits, I’m not so sure I stick with it. I think all the magic pixie dust has been used up on this trip.

It appears 1B is going to be below average at this point in time. I’m not a fan of Keith at 1B. But he was a rookie last season and he did have a bit of a good streak in there at one point. And to oblong’s point, who knows what other moves are in store for the team. Did anyone think signing Torres to a one year deal was likely or even remotely possible? There’s plenty of time for trades of some sort.

I kind of like the maths nerdery in here.

None of these should cost much in terms of years and annual salary and draft compensation. Kim is probably looking at a shorter term deal given his injury recovery. I would think 2 seasons would work. He may not be ready for opening day, and that’s fine. Something likely occurs by the time he’s ready to return. Injury, demotion, trade, something will happen. Yates fits because he’s an end of game option and won’t command many years either. Maybe a couple of seasons here as well? Walks are a smidge high for me, but maybe the pitching brain trust has the salve for that. Sasaki still seems like a pipe dream. But, anyone please correct me if I’m wrong, the Tigers are in position to offer him towards the higher end right off of the bat? Maybe that means he’d take that as a shorter term deal at highest possible in order to build his MLB resume for a higher payoff later? I don’t know. I suppose of the trio, Kim and Yates seem most valuable. While I think signing Sasaki would be great, I think the Tigers have proven they can create some SP value out of a reclaimed arm.

Yeah, now that I think of it, maybe they were Fleer rather than Topps. But that was the time frame.

Could you imagine if they used that for the in season pool games? Neat-o!

To @Betrayer’s point, they’re still a young team that has to learn this process.

We’re witnessing Cunningham warp into his next dimension. So fun to see it. It’s too bad he had a few injuries to plow through in previous seasons. Hey, better late than never. The turnovers are still an issue. And I didn’t like his final shot, I’d have preferred he drove to the basket. But, he wasn’t exactly getting the calls last night either, so maybe the result is still a missed basket that is rebounded by the Lakers with enough time to get a shot off.

Reading the transactions for players on basketball reference can be quite interesting with regard to tracking how many times a draft pick has been moved before it was used on a player. For example, the pick used to draft Klintman was traded 4 times before it was used to pick Klintman. Then he was traded about 10 days later.

No wonder Davis is questionable.

Well, I was gonna text him, but I don’t have his number.

Maybe Buehler just digs the UCLA Red Sox jerseys?

He’s starting to get good at harmless looking drives into the lane that end in a dunk. He had that one finished off with a lefty dunk a couple of games ago. He had a somewhat similar righty dunk in this game. Just looks like he’s going to lay it up or float it and all of a sudden he hammers it home.

You just have to put more peanut butter or jelly on the toast. But I don’t think that will work with either Goldschmidt or Rizzo.

Oh, those sticker books from Topps? Those must have come to be due to the more broad sticker collecting craze of the time. Yeah, I think I’d have enough money to buy the annual book and then maybe a few packs and that’d be it. I should have just stuck with the traditional baseball cards (which, ok, I don’t have those anymore either).

The Twitters were jammed I bet.

That’s a lot of pregame drinking.

Of the three, I’d’of preferred Santana.

Goldschmidt is toast. How do you like your toast?

As for the TV ratings, I don’t know how much of a factor, if at all, that today’s FCS games were on ABC whereas the FBS playoff games in the same window were on TBS or TNT. I suppose the FCS games were already contractual before the FBS playoffs were born, so, OK, I understand that part. I guess TNT/TBS is probably basic on all services, but maybe not.