1984Echoes

You've decided to join the ranks of American Crackpot Conspiracy Theorists? Why?

We're talking Meadows FYI, not Pacheco... Unless there are two convo's going on and I'm missing who you are actually responding to...

"Bogo Markovic" has a nice ring to it... I feel like we're getting something extra... For free...

I wouldn't go that far... But I am nervous or apprehensive that it is... ("Please be real, please be real, please be real...!")

If a couple kiddies from GR could make the jump, or they trade for a top-4 D... That could push Chiarot & Holl down to 3rd pair only, or Holl to 7th D... And I think that would be perfect for the Wings. Petry is UFA... leaving only Gustafsson sitting in the box as a "break-in-case-of-DIRE-emergency" 8th D'man. I'd love to see Buium or Wallinder go crazy and take 1st pair with Seider... not that I'm counting on that or anything like that... 😉 I think Compher can come back. Uncertain how much... I just think he has better in him... Maybe paired with Danielson on a 3rd line? Speaking of which... who needs to move to make room for Nate? Berggren? Tarasenko? Rasmussen? All of the above? (getting a power forward or two back in various trades or signings...) Just a couple of thoughts I was thinking...

Not much different from Mantha. I was hoping for better from Ras...

Which is why I said a 3rd team would have to be involved and I just WAG'd that it would cost a 3rd and 4th to dump Tarasenko. You may have missed that...

Someone (probably AI) proposed Berggren and a 2nd for Marchment. But I'm thinking this would need to be a 3-teamer with a salary going out the door plus a 3rd and 4th (we have an extra pick in each round... Something like Berggren and a 2nd to the Stars for Marchment and Tarasenko (or...?) plus the extra 3rd and 4th to (?) whichever team wants an extra 3rd and 4th... I mean, those could be two separate trades...

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I'd be interested. I'd also be interested in Mason Marchment who the Stars might move for cap purposes (just a rumor... to chase FA's?)

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Oakland A's: 23-32. Prognosis: Sell at the deadline. Or before. Target: Mason Miller, 26 y.o. Righty. 6'5" 200#'s. Career... K/9 13.7; WHIP 1.05; ERA 3.38. My first, preferred choice. Toronto Blue Jays: 26-28. Prognosis: Most likely sell at the deadline. Target(s): Brendan Little, 28 y.o. Lefty. 6'2" 195#'s. Career... K/9 9.1; WHIP 1.26; ERA 3.33. Yimi Garcia, 34 y.o. Righty. 6'1" 230#'s. Career... K/9 9.8; WHIP 1.05; ERA 3.57. Mason Fluharty, 23 y.o. (rookie) Lefty. 6'2" 215#'s. Career... K/9 8.6; WHIP 0.90; ERA 3.86. Jeff Hoffman, 32 y.o. Righty. 6'5" 235#'s. Career... K/9 9.4; WHIP 1.40 (0.96-ish the past 3 years...); ERA 4.86 (2.45-ish the past 3 years...). But I wouldn't mind a lefty-righty combo from the Blue Jays either. Preferred choice here would be Hoffman-Fluharty. Just my 2 cents.

I thought the rumor was that we were trying to trade up for Shemar Stewart...

I'm not arguing his personality. I'm taking ewsieg's hope and pointing it in a specific, corrected, direction. Nothing to do with Trump's many malignancies...

If you're looking for a "successful" outcome in Trump's Tariff War... It's not in the path you are trying to follow. In which Trump is a "closet Democrat". If you want to follow the "path of success" with these tariffs... you need to follow Trump as the "closet Establishment Republican". To whit: What does Trump immediately state after he talks about his beautiful tariffs? It's not the MAGA "Everyone needs to BUY AMERICAN!!!" No... it's the Establishment Republican battle cry: "I want to make DEALS!!! I want these countries to remove their unfair trade BARRIERS and UNFAIR TARIFF LEVELS! I want LOWER TARIFFS!"... and other such. He also wants other countries to invest more into the United States. This is what he has done with his deals with the U.K., Saudi Arabia, etc... Guess what? That's ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN!!! I told my dad when Trump's Tariffs were starting to cause economic disaster: "1) He needs to back off these tariffs because he's not going to win. 2) They're going to cause a Recession or a Depression. 3) No, he does NOT have the same adviser's as in his first admin and therefore the guardrails are off and he's showing his maximum stupidity. (PS: My MAGA Dad LOVES my explicit commentary about DJT... Haha, (NO!)) I have to wait until Maga Mom leaves the room though she doesn't appreciate how blunt and honest and not holding back when I talk Trump (hint: not different then how I type here...). "Chris, wait a sec, Mom's just heading out the door...". 4) "Dad the ONLY way he wins any of these is to start IMMEDIATELY cutting deals! And he's going to have to move FAST because this is causing IMMEDIATE turmoil... so how exactly is he going to move faster than "immediate" dad? 5) And he's certainly not going to get good advice from the sycophants, "yes-men", or boot-lickers that he's put into this admin." My MAGA cousins love me so much. But if Trump is cutting big beautiful deals in all these tariff wars... He's not a "closet Dem". He's a "closet Establishment Republican". IMO. And I wish him well with these "deals". It works for me.

That's called "having a bad game." So long as this is not an often recurring issue...

Wow... the Twiniaks are on a 10-game winning streak...

Would a 26 y.o. Mason Miller work well enough?

Clark. Thank you very much.

I want Carter Bryant or Rasheer Fleming but they're out of range unless we can somehow trade for a mid 1st rounder... At 37... in the second round I'm just looking for any forward who can space the floor... If they come with "D" or any other helpful skills... bonus. Lendeborg? Toohey? Cedric Coward? (awesome name! ... "Call me Coward and them's is FIGHTIN' words!" "But that's your name.") Alex Condon? Andrew Carr?

I know this implicitly and explicitly... All too well.

****ing Morons. And not just Trump at the top. From top to bottom this Admin is filled with egregious stupidity.

Also... Heard a suggestion of a rehabilitation target for Fetters to work on: Sandy Alcantara from the Marlins. He only costs $11M/year this & next plus a club option in 2027. It'd take a couple of mid-level prospects (just a guess), not much, I would think. I'd love to see what Fetters could do with him.

Can always use extra pitching down the stretch, especially another arm for the playoffs. Reliever's I am looking at (on teams doing poorly... and the A's...): Jeff Hoffman with the Blue Jays and Mason Miller with the A's are on the top of my list. If the Guardians run out of gas... maybe Hunter Gaddis?

Hopefully he or Frazier can become the new Glasgow. If I was a bettin' man I'd put that on Frazier. They're both being cross-trained at Center. I like the idea of Mahogany at LG and Ratledge at RG better anyways. Push Glasgow to first backup at the 3 interior positions. And Frazier the "heir-apparent" to Glasgow. IMO.