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South of Dayton has grown so much over the years that Dayton seems more and more like a suburb of Cincinnati.

I love trivia like this. This is up there with Reno being more west than Los Angeles. Huh, what? No way. Looks at map. Damn, its true.

To that point, are we naive enough to think that NIL has caused all moneys to be above table now?

On a more serious note about the salary scale, get lost with load management for non injured players.

Preach.

It has been an awful May, no question. I don't think Patricia was ever this bad in May, but I could be wrong about that. The pitching, mostly the bullpen, has faltered and we know the offense is on an intermittent fast. I heard on one of the daily pods that Lange chucked a ball at the backstop after he was yanked from his meltdown in Kansas City. Cameras didn't catch it, so believe what you will. Hinch seems to have gotten more surly lately. I don't expect a manager to go all Earl Weaver or Billy Martin, a certain level of emotion besides lying about 3 straight kicks in the ass being competitive might be a nice message to send.

Slow down, there are already enough drama queens around here.

A max salary of $72M? I got into the wrong line of work.

The 7 years of crappy baseball is indeed a factor. It’s something that Harris needs to be well aware of. He inherited a mess, this stretch isn’t all on him. But he inherited a disappointed fan base that might not have the patience that he hopes for.

If I remember correctly, it had been mentioned about Ilitch that sometimes he was too loyal to his employees. I have to think that was the case with Randy Smith.

Ahem, that’s “X, formerly known as Twitter”. I like how Twitter remains a part of the pervasive title.

I gotta be honest. I see POBO, and my brain thinks poor boy sandwich.

RIP Big Butter Jesus.

Has he ever been accused of thinking?

If they quit on the manager because a relief pitcher that is clearly in need of a demotion got a stern talking to from the manager, then what are we even doing here? Ship ‘em all out.

If there’s going to be a power outage, why can’t it be for a city connect jersey game?

Coming to Jesus = car ride south on I75 to Toledo. Amen.

Smith was probably not around as long as I think he was, but it sure seems like the tenure rhymes with broken mirror.

I thin it was more of a monologue than a dialogue. It was immediately shocking to see Hinch strolling to the mound given it was the first visit by a coach for Lange and he wasn't accompanied by a trainer. That first visit is always Fetter. Who knows what's going on behind the scenes. Maybe its purely mechanics. Maybe its more than just that. But I am reading into yesterday's visit and thinking the demotion is not purely mechanics.

"Randy Smith" should be asterisked on this site.

I don't know. I've never owned my own pizza corporation that I built from the ground up and two pro sports teams at the same time. It might be easy pay more attention to the one or two that are successful at the time and trust the third to those that I've hired to run it. Its not an excuse, but I'm just guessing how that mid 90s to mid 00s played out.

Well, there's also more pitcher availability to take Lange's place than there is shortstop availability to replace Baez. Baez isn't going to make it to the end of his contract. He'll be cut if this continues. It'll be a matter of when and not if.

Lange's BB% over the years. Women and children shouldn't have been exposed to this.

Have you seen Lange's walk rates over the years? That's a wow. And, who knows, it could be more than just on field performance.

As far as the "star" trades, we don't know what was offered. So, that part is just an unknown to me. But we do know this organization struggled to develop players. That aspect of the organization in general falls on Avila and others.