Dan Gilmore

Did Quintana have a NTC?

Everyone? Name two.

Viña, it was all about Viña. 😎

Thanks for the snippets.

It certainly worked with Stan. What a dolt.

Maybe the boat had an open window.

Agreed, one solid SP (not a flawed one) is all I think is reasonable to hope/expect for that part of the team. A BP arm or two. Getting a RH RF with power (not easy to find) would be high on my list. And moving Meadows to a DH role primarily. If they can really limit Miggy to no more than 300 ABs, maybe he’s slightly healthier and not an empty SLG hole for months at a time. Other than that, roll with Kreidler, hope Turnbull is back, and generally better team health. Oh, yeah and a good GM.

I have a Ministry of Silly Walks teeshirt from the seventies. 🥸

I think it’s fine to admire QE, and think the rest of the family are duds. And not pay much attention to them, while respecting her.

Oye como va

Happy Hutchday.

While it doesn’t really explain the widespread failure of most of the current teams hitters, I think minor or chronic injuries account for some of it. Candy had his wrist injury a few years ago, and couldn’t hit until it got better. Is it back, in a lesser form? We know about Miggy. Do enough of the other players experiencing power outages have lingering issues that account for down years? Schoop is one we have talked about-the thought was that he is still fielding well, so he’s okay. Hitting is different. Since athletes tend to want to keep playing and “work through it” coupled with a long season, getting them to let things heal isn’t going to happen that often. We had the reduced Spring Training this year, and maybe poorer conditioning/more injury as a result. A good team with depth could overcome much of that. A poor team without depth…

I remember thinking the same thing, back in the brief Spring Training, when they rolled out a series of photos of the players. Who? Read a little about him and thought, he’s not worth keeping an eye on. Good for him, though.

I have seen a number of comments, here and elsewhere, that start out with “I didn’t watch the speech, but…” and then proceed to bring up all sorts of outrage and some dire warnings. Maybe those folks could spend a few minutes to find out what was said before jumping to some pretty radical conclusions. Maybe the outrage is the goal. Maybe the speech never included them in any condemnations.

Not speaking of you, Ed, but if the hood fits…

I don’t think anyone called him untouchable. There was mention of how good he was pitching and that the team had control over him for years, with a preference to trade off the older guys unless you got a really strong offer. And there was acknowledgment that bullpens are fickle, so it’s hard to assume current success will apply later.

I see it’s from the Toledo CL, not AA. Road trip! https://toledo.craigslist.org/msg/d/toledo-1984-greco-js55/7512256422.html You already have the BB ones covered, though.

There’s a Greco custom on the AA Craigslist right now.

Biff, so you use Buyee? I have heard of problems with them and have a Zenmarket account, and check FromJapan too. That one isn’t my cup of tea for several reasons, have been jonesing for a decent Edwards with flametop.

Righteous fuzz tone.

Elmon

Wasn’t it also a difference in pitch types- the more breaking balls vs fastballs, when looked at as a whole?

Yes, the President’s Own, they just came back from a tour to Prague, Innsbruck and Holland. It is a good gig. And yes too, lots of practice for any musician/band to excel.

My eldest is a clarinet player too. Was thinking CM or Romad may have seen him in DC with the Marine Band.

The irony of all these MAGA whackjobs going nuts about the FBI is that the FBI announcement of the investigation about Hillary’s emails in Oct. 2016 likely tilted the election to their orange idol.